Mega Man & Bass: A Review
I look at Mega Man & Bass, the game that didn’t come to the US until 2003 for the Game Boy Advance. It was at one point considered Mega Man 9 but that’s no longer the case with it becoming a reality finally.
Mega Man & Bass was at one point considered in a way Mega Man 9 though that was never really the case. This game was originally made on the Super Nintendo but did not arrive probably due to the year it was made. In 1998, North America had all ready moved on and was in the middle of the next generation console war with PlayStation and Sega Saturn with the Nintendo 64. No SNES game was made and thus it never came to light. To get that version, you would need to get a Super Famicom and get that game called Rockman & Forte, it’s Japanese name probably through Ebay.
Anyhow, it did however make it to the Game Boy Advance in 2003. It would be considered a port from the Japanese game but for some of us in North America, this was the first time we ever really got our hands on it. I can tell you that I bought this game and actually wanted to play the game. The screen itself can view just about anything but sometimes it would be best to use the Game Boy Player as it comes in handy if you want to see it on the big screen and use the GameCube controller instead.
How is this game different from the others? Well, to be honest it’s real simple. You can choose who you want to play as in the game as either Mega Man or Bass. This is very similar to that of Mega Man X4 where you can pick between either X or Zero depending upon your preference. There are no animated cut scenes in this nor is there any voice acting so need to fret on that one. Bass is trying to prove he is the strongest and prove Wily wrong, which makes him honestly in the entire series more of a neutral character. While he hates Mega Man and wants to destroy him, if Wily gets in his way, he won’t hesitate to destroy his robot masters and of course defeat Dr. Wily himself.
With Mega Man however, he is out to do the right thing and stop Dr. Wily’s plans as always. He must face off with King, a robot that looks upon himself as the ruler of the robots and has six of his own robots plus returning robot masters Tengu Man and Astro Man. This is rare considering mostly the Game Boy Mega Man games had robot masters between respective games up until Mega Man V for the Game Boy.
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