The toughest no-hit moment I experienced in MM1 was the fireman fire-machine thing. Especially the second burner you got to go through is tough to visualize.
Yeah, for years I didn't know you were supposed to be able to pass those things safely without just taking a shortcut off to the side with the Magnet Beam. But then I saw a demo in Rockman Complete Works do it, and I talked to someone else about it, who said you're supposed to watch the pattern of flames for the longest gap between waves. And I didn't even noticed the timing varied! The flame waves just looked so FAST!
I'm not sure if the Genesis port realized that, though, so it may have really been too fast to just walk past. At least you could slide past in the Wily Tower.
He IS easy, you can just chase the guy around the room, he'll only attack whenever you do.
I remember when I tried to beat FireMan without getting hit, TAS-style even, and I was all "THE FLAMES! THEY WON'T STOP COMING!" So I had to learn to back off a little, but it still wasn't easy.
look, if you have to figure out a trick to make him so easy, he's not easy.
Ah, agreed.
Posted on: June 12, 2009, 19:59:45
I remember my strategy for FireMan was "Shoot him faster than he shoots you," and that works, if you start with full energy and have no other bosses to fight after him. But you have to NOT shoot a whole bunch. For the refight, I might jump once in a while, but still mostly concentrate on shooting a lot and facing the right direction.