Skill Level: Unknown

If any of you read my "yes I totally know it's a social network craze" Twitter account, then you are most likely aware of my current forays into Mega Man 5, my all time favorite Mega Man game.

While my analysis of Mega Man 5 will surely come at some later date (or dates, I've got quite a lot to say when that time rolls around), today I'd like to share with you a small secret: I think I'm getting good at this game.

You may ask why I only think that I'm good at the game and that's a completely legitmate question. Now allow me to give you the answer even if you don't care. Cause you came to my blog, and you must pay the penalty.

You see, when I made my first attempt to display my talent to the interwebz in my now unfinished Let's Play of Mega Man 5, I thought I was good at MM5. But the reason I'm not giving you a hyper-link to these videos is because I have come under the realization that I was not, in fact, good at MM5 yet. (P.S. MM5= Mega Man 5). I had made very few ventures into the castle stages due to my nasty habit of playing the intial 8 over and over and over and come tumbling over...

Needless to say, once I hit the castle stages in my MM5 Let's Play things took a turn for the bitter as the failure became so immense that I gave up on Let's Plays for quite some time.

So what makes me even consider I am actually good now? Have I played through the castle stages more? (Yes) Am I more familiar with the weapons? (Yes and yes) Have I played the Robot Master stages more? (Yerp-a-derp). But the main reason, I got two words for you: Perfect Buster Runs.

Wait, that statement had two words when I thought it. Dang fickle brain, why do you torment me so?

Now, before you go singing my praises let me be clear: I can not perfect run MM5. I can only do individual runs of individual stages without getting hit, usually after some trial and error. I find this impressive, but MM5 is slightly notorious for being easy. Right now, I can beat Gravity, Gyro, and Star Man's stages without getting hit and using only the Mega Buster.

So what do you think? Am I skilled, or just full of myself?

Status Report Captin

Sorry about my lack of posts recently, I've been trying to work around with getting some other people to write somewhat regularly to make up for my lack of work. Anyways, I'll give you what is essentially two posts to hopefully make up for this.

The first is a link to what is the highlight of my week. The guest post I wrote for Exfanding Your Horizons, the blog that inspired me to actually try to get my crazy ramblings on the internet, is finally up! It's probably some of the best stuff I've ever written, so it should hold you over until I get my act together and stop posting every 3 or 4 days instead of every other day like I should.

Here's the link to the post

Another is a progress report on my Let's Plays and a bit of foreshadowing on their futures, as if I could foreshadow something else.

It seems that Mega Man 6 probably will last into late February early March. Mega Man 5 (my favorite Mega Man game), should follow directly after. This Mega Man Project of mine will probably be over in a year or so, but it's going to be fun while doing it.

Pokemon Blue is going to take a loooooooooooong time to finish, Pokemon Let's Plays can go upwards of 50 parts. Perhaps during the summer I'll post more the one a week, but things are about to get a little busy here, so I'd have to get a bit more of an idea of my time situation before commiting to 3+ videos a week. This project will probably be sad to leave, but I sure will feel like I accomplished something.

So that's what's what for now. I'll keep you posted.

Ha. Posted. Blog Pun.

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The first two episodes of my new Let's Plays. There'll probably be a post about the making/my experience with these series, but for now they are for your entertainment.

Mega Man 6

Pokemon Blue