http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2014/07/05/the-anatomy-of-mega-man-2-xii-draconic/ Defunct, amateurish, game design analysis by Jeremy Parish Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:31:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.7 http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2014/07/05/the-anatomy-of-mega-man-2-xii-draconic/#comment-2745 Mon, 07 Jul 2014 10:52:03 +0000 http://www.anatomyofgames.com/?p=10849#comment-2745 I think using the top platform is worth the risk. While there is a risk of being instakilled if the dragon gets up close and personal, there’s more of a chance you’ll get instakilled by knockback sending you flying down into the bottomless void if you only stick to the other two platforms.

]]> http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2014/07/05/the-anatomy-of-mega-man-2-xii-draconic/#comment-2744 Mon, 07 Jul 2014 07:01:23 +0000 http://www.anatomyofgames.com/?p=10849#comment-2744 That dragon fight is actually pretty glitchy. If you jump up to the top platform and just start hammering away with the Quick Boomerang, you’ll get hit once and knocked back onto the middle platform. But if you jump back up and keep up the assault, the game bogs down a little, his breath will often phase right through you, and he’s toast before you know it.

]]> http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2014/07/05/the-anatomy-of-mega-man-2-xii-draconic/#comment-2743 Mon, 07 Jul 2014 04:39:13 +0000 http://www.anatomyofgames.com/?p=10849#comment-2743 The dragon made such a huge impression on me and my best friend growing up that after we reached it for the first time on a candy-and-Pepsi fueled midnight, we feverishly wrote down the code to reach the castle in the back of the rental manual (when those were still a phenomenon). We also drew a picture of the skull fortress and a dragon hovering over it, to encourage other renters of the game to experience this earth-shattering wonder for themselves.

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