#burner man

[jellyjynx]

Day 20: Fire A bit behind, and I think honestly that's okay. I'm really happy with how this turned out :]

[mekkanicalsol]

freaky propane guy

[wari-os]

just learned the author of one of my favorite mangas, the big o.

is not ONLY a character designer for pokemon who designed ALL OF THESE

and not ONLY designed dynamo man and burner man from rockman and bass

but on top of that. is a full on VTUBER!

shout out to hitoshi ariga for living the dream.

[cendrilloncd]

oh yeah out of all the robot masters from the classic series these are the best ones btw

[popopoyata]

水彩。

[caninediedofcocaine]

Unfinished.

And never will be finished.

Bananas.

[scottathann]

The YouTubers don't want you know that MM&B is actually one of the best classic series games and is the better of the 2 snes games between it and 7. It's not really that hard of a hard game either. People who act like it's one of the most unforgiving games in the franchise are just bad at Mega Man games.

Each character has their pros and cons (although Bass is definitely easy mode overall), and you can buy upgrades over time to decrease the difficulty. Even a game over doesn't mean all is lost since you can spend the bolts you got in the level you died in to get upgrades. Playing as Mega Man makes bosses easier to defeat because his shots do more damage and the slide is a great and quick way to dodge attacks, but levels are more difficult because he can't double jump or skip entire sections with giant leaps. Bass can, which is why levels are piss easy when you play as him, but bosses are initially tough because his buster does shit damage until you get an upgrade for it. Bass also has Treble boost which lets him fly over entire screens. And people say this game is brutal?

The level design is actually pretty good I think, more fun than half the games in the classic series and far more stimulating than most X series levels. Bosses actually force you to use your brain, even when you have their weaknesses (excluding a few). For the longest time I thought Astro Man was unreasonable for a starter boss but now that I don't totally suck at Mega Man games it was actually possible for me to beat him buster-only within a few tries, and it was satisfying to learn how.

There's no e-tanks, but you do have:

-An ability to increase how much you gain from health and ammo pickups

-An ability to receive less damage

-An ability to increase damage output when you're low on health (very good against bosses)

-Rush search which digs up ammo and health

Which is quite frankly way more forgiving than Mega Man 1, while still not giving you the ability to bypass challenge with a stock of health refills. I think this is great.

The biggest problem with the game is that the King Mechs are very tedious, and sometimes enemy placement is cheap (which is not unique to this game at all lol).

The soundtrack is one of my favorite game osts, the graphics are in mm8's arstyle which is great cause I love how 8 looks, the special weapons are all pretty useful and fun to mess around with, and the robot master designs are totally sick.

I don't give a fuck about the gba version btw as there's literally no reason to play that version. If you use that port as a complaint against this game then you're stupid.

Anyway nobody gives a shit probably but I feel like this game has always been kinda overhated, and its difficulty is way overblown. I would choose this game over 1-3, 5-8, 10, all of the gameboy titles including V, X3, and X5-8. I haven't beaten 11 yet and I don't think it's fair to compare the ZX or Legends games here.

[madisonthetimewalker]

Hey let me just go on a rant about all the mega man robot master fun facts I know real quick

Wind man can’t ride bikes but loves kung fo movies and can cook like a champ

Wind man has a rivalry with air man

Quick man can (technically) out run the space police

Flash is bald

Bubble man is a money spender (he’s love cash)

Burner man gets jealous easily

Magic man is a attention seeker

Astro man is shy

So is Yamato man he is shy as well but he also hates the English language but he admires knight man who is I believe from the UK

plant man gets easily depressed and is very emotional and can talk to plants he also HATES honey bee’s

Wood man loves hiking

Junk man eats well junk

Dust man has horrible bad breath

Fire man is said to be country

Centaur man loves gambling

Guts man is amazing at karaoke

Pharaoh man is afraid of women (not really afraid more just anxious)

Dive man has sea sickness

Crash man is actually quite clumsy because of his no hands and has extreme emotional mood swings

Freeze man is a huge fan of ice man and he also reads mystery novels in his free time

Flame man HATES cheap oil and changes it 3 times a day

Napalm man is actually shy and is friends with cut man

Splash Woman is the only female robot master in the original mega man games

Hard man hates his name because people make fun of him for it

Knight man is one-track minded

Blizzard man has a short temper and a shady personality but has won 3 Olympic gold medals in skiing and is a great meteorologist

Ground man is a deep thinker and not much of a talker

Fuse man is said to have a pet rabbit (although I don’t know if this is canon or not)

Blast man actually has an amusement park

Turbo man is made of wilys car

Half of the robot masters aren’t even wilys he just took them

Gernade man doesn’t like love (he hates Valentine’s Day)

Star man is very romantic and wish he could take his lover to see the stars (if he ever gets one)

Gemini man hates snakes

Toad man hates snake man

Snake man enjoys toad man’s company and hates slugs

That’s all I can remember you guys use this info for stuff idk what to do with it

[fickleportfolio]

I hate my internet connection on the train. Anyway, here’s a late day 10 picture featuring our favourite (maybe) forest hater, Burner Man!

He lives in a volcano.

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[jellyjynx]

I like drawing sharp teeth, sjshs, don't worry abt it mmmhaha

Expressions by @/spudinacup

[mekkanicalsol]

playing around with colors and stuff

[ehlnactila-journal]

Burner Man!

[beezs-art-blog]

Burner man I drew for my friends project! I absolutely love him, he is so unhinged, and he has such a awesome design!!

[popopoyata]

ワンドロ。

[cloudycrisps7]

So! I’ve officially beaten every single classic Megaman game! Yep all 1 through 11, every single one… absolutely all of them… the marathon is over… definitely not trying to avoid one… no sir I’ve done em all…

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This one… doesn’t count… does it?

[you-cant-fuck-megaman]

king is one of my favorite characters in classic. dude's cool. he's really goddamn cool. he also gets shafted really fucking hard

i made a bit of a fuck-up in the burner man post, originally, joking about how king gaslit him. this was partially a pun off of burnerman being based off bunsen gas-lit burners, and partially a joke based on how fucking horribly both burner man and king got shafted. i was messaged about it and i figured “yeah actually gaslighting is kind of a serious deal and i shouldn’t really go for that angle”, apologized to the messenger, and reworded the joke.

but that joke didn’t come out of nowhere, there’s a REALLY ACTUALLY SUPER FUCKED UP relationship between burner man, king, and dr. wily

king’s entire deal is that, spoiler alert i suppose, wily made him to lead a robot revolution. however, king succeeds too well and wants to make a peaceful robot-nation to the point where wily has to reprogram him again right after programming him.

see, he gets reprogrammed offscreen before the game even fucking begins. wily apparently released a Day 1 Patch just to make EvilBadGuy.bat function. has to rewire his thought processes so that he can lead a revolution under the impression that robot violence will solve robot violence.

now, you might be saying “wait, this is probably referring to when you reach king at the end of king’s tower and he gets reprogrammed”. the kicker is when you eventually reach king at the end of king’s tower and he gets reprogrammed. see, you fight him, and it turns out he’s actually a decent guy! outside of the murders and mass collateral damage and attempted racial segregation. he’s just misguided and thinks that it’s bad for robots to serve humans because

anyway, so wily appears and he says

which means that King was already being brainwashed and now he’s beiNG BRAINWASHED EVEN FURTHER. HIJACKED ONCE AGAIN FOR THE PLAN FOR SUPER ROBOT FIGHTING BUT THIS TIME WE’RE USING 1.21 JIGGAWATTS, MARTY. WHEN THIS BABY HITS 88 MPH, YOU’RE GOING TO SEE SOME SERIOUS SHIT

there’s a lot to take away from Wily destroying his free will to become a blind puppet, when he was about to give up and become a good guy. again.

first off, the fact that he has FUCKING FREE WILL IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!! wily actively suppresses king’s morals again to make sure king does bad stuff properly this time and just erases king’s code_of_honor.sys entirely to make doubly sure, but King actively rebelling against his programming and going his own way demonstrates something which was supposed to be reserved for reploids! king is a brand new species of robot, he’s fucking incredible and powerful, able to do things that shouldn’t actually be possible among the classic roster! or wily is Actually That Goddamn Bad at coding, which probably explains why 90% of “””his””” Robot Masters are stolen but with his signature put on them. maybe he’s a designer more adherent to the aesthetic (look at all those skulls everywhere) while light’s the genius braincoder.

second off, holy shit wily. he’s done emotional manipulation before, he’s done lying before, he’s done a lot of heinous shit, and i’m pretty sure he whizzled in rush’s puppy food before, but forceful mind control of your own children is pretty fucking bad! and it has descended consequences! it continues on with king to burner man. it’s specified that king both actively “takes advantage of” burner man’s trust in him and also the supposed bomb within him to get him to do his bidding.

given the fact that none of the robot masters have dialogue we don’t exactly get to see much of the relationship between burner man and king, but even with the established information of “robot revolution for a peaceful world” + “set fire to a forest every day” + “this will lead to our peaceful world” + “you will die if you do not” + “trust me and I will lead you”, we’re potentially reaching actual gaslighting. i know my entire deal is making mountains out of molehills with regards to character scraps, but it doesn’t take a lot of extrapolation to get to some pretty goddamn dark territory.

and the thing is, why? why write this like this? i can guaran-damn-tee you nobody on bob capcom’s writing team actually thought about the implications of this! they just shrugged and tossed it in to make the bad guy more bad of a guy! but WHY? it’s completely unnecessary! if it’s just a matter of making king into a robot terrorist, he’s already fighting robots with other robots! if it’s a matter of making king seem SUPER evil bad, he’s already proclaimed he hates humans! if it’s a matter of making wily seem worse than super evil bad, he’s already had 8+ games of doing awful shit! given the generally-optimistic tone of the Classic timeline compared to X and Zero, it seems wildly out of character for even someone like wily to do his creation(s) dirty like so. it’s not just completely unnecessary, it’s tonally inconsistent!

i’ve mentioned before that king got a really goddamn raw deal, and he really, really has! this shit kept me up at night as a kid! it still keeps me up sometimes! i could be worrying about my future! my taxes! i could be worrying about fifty other more pertinent things in life! i could be WORRYING ABOUT SHIT THAT MATTERS

but KING DESERVED BETTER GOD DAMN IT

oh yeah and burner man deserves not being lied to i guess