20 Best NES Games Of All Time
2. Mega Man 2
All six NES Mega Man games look near identical at first glance, and because of this, it's easy to look at them as one singular entity. The thing is, not all NES Mega Man games are created equally even if they do look the same.
The original Mega Man and Mega Man 3 have aged really poorly - fight me I'm right, Mega Man 6 is just kind of underwhelming, and Mega Man 4 and Mega Man 5 are great titles that few experienced because they were too busy playing their fancy new SNES. Oh, and Mega Man 2 is one of the best games on the entire system.
It has the best level design out of maybe the entire series, NES and beyond, it has some of the best boss battles seen on the entire system each of which manages to be tough but fair, and the abilities that Mega Man can acquire are so much fun here.
The Metal Blade is still the best special weapon in the entire series all these years later.
Yeah, Mega Man 2 still has some NES jank but it's a surprisingly fair game for the system, although the game is still incredibly hard.