Nadia & David’s Mega Man Mayhem: Mega Man 9 (Part 1)

Well, wasn’t planning to have another hiatus, never mind such a long one, but we’re finally back! …again!

New year, new world, new developments, new game. That comic I wrote, Mega Man Legends Timelines #1, finally came out last Wednesday, and the word is out that I’m also doing the Mega Man Battle Network back-up story for the Free Comic Book Day 2026 issue, Mega Man Showdown Special #1! Plus, we went to MAGFest, and among other things, saw The Protomen perform Act III live for the first time ever!

So, it’s in that spirit that we jump into Mega Man 9 with Proto Man Mode!

Okay, so that clearly didn’t work out as well as we had hoped. While we compensated for Proto Man taking double damage via the Extra Armor feature, we forgot he also has double knockback. Even so, something about him just felt… slightly off. A little different from using Mega Man.

Also, we forgot that he has no story in this one, so switching back to the Blue Bomber just seems like it was a good choice all around. As nice as the charge shot and slide are, something about using Mega Man here really does just feel right.

Doesn’t mean we won’t try again with him or Bass in Mega Man 10, though.

Next time on “Nadia & David’s Mega Man Mayhem”, we’re continuing with Mega Man 9! But before that, we’re doing another “Nadia & David Ruin Video Games”, but we haven’t decided on what yet (Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection is a possibility, as is the new Animal Crossing: New Horizons update. Or something else entirely). That’s probably happening around January 31st.

Of course, life happens, and while Mega Man plans, Dr. Wily laughs. So follow The Mega Man Network on Bluesky and Twitter, and we usually announce what we’re doing, if we’re doing it about a day out.

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“Nadia & David’s Mega Man Mayhem” is a 90-minute stream we’ll be doing about once a month, where the plan is to play through every Mega Man game we can in (mostly) chronological order, according to the timeline. We started with the first Mega Man, and after we finished that, started Mega Man 2, and so on. Next time, we’ll pick up where we left off, and go on like so.

Once Classic is done, we’ll move on to Mega Man X, then Mega Man Zero, and so on. (And with any luck, there will be a “Mega Man Legends Legacy Collection” or something by the time we get to that, but if not, we have a contingency or two in mind.)

And of course, we love interacting with the chat during these streams, so if you’ve got questions about the Mega Man Field Guides from UDON, Legends of the Halcyon Era, poutine recipes, or just want to chat and share the love of Mega Man, drop on in! We’d love to have you!

Keep an eye on our Twitter (or just the Twitter sidebar here) to find out when we’re streaming next! We usually announce it a day or so ahead of time.

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Thanks for reading!

LBD "Nytetrayn"

David Oxford, or “LBD ‘Nytetrayn’,” as he is sometimes also known, is a freelance writer of many varied interests who resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. If you’re interested in hiring him, please drop him a line at david.oxford (at) nyteworks.net.

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