Mega Man Legends 3 - Development Style

[Matthew126]

I wanted to bring this topic up in this forum for awhile now and I have finally taken the time to get back on here.  Through the beta footage I have seen from Mega Man Legends 3 when you are running around a town as Barrett, I was really surprised to see Sharukurusu's calmly walking about and patrolling the surface. Of course, it had me hyped for what the story would be about because that has always been what I thought to be a much more serious higher level Reavebot to only be found in very important areas with high security. (Colossus, Sub City, Larger Ruin Networks, etc.)  I cannot argue with other footage I have seen of how they moved and such. They charged at you fast as hell and even in some screenshots it seemed they crawl on all fours at you? Creepy stuff and definitely brings back to life the PTSD I have of this Reaverbot when I was very young. So.. So far so good. Everything looks good. Then I saw this... This is exactly why I made this thread.


There is a part where Barrett EASILY jogs/runs away from this Sharukurusu and it begins to do this attack after he has already removed himself from infront of the Reaverbot. It like... Jumped up in to the air and did this two swing slash movement and it showed these little 'white slash effect' things on the two swings it did and it landed back on the ground. Well now. I didn't know the 'big bad Sharukurusu' that I remember being a ruthless Reaverbot that just charged at you with all it had not really caring about anything besides just getting at you to now being a theatrical swordsman of its fancy claw fingers? I know I'm going pretty harsh on this but I do remember this game having a much more darker tone and more crude feeling to its design on how everything was. The Reaverbots never did anything 'fancy' in attacks that is what I would say 'overly animated' until I had seen this. I can't help but notice that many games, anime, and manga have taken this type of movement in how things once were in their series. I would really hope that things such as this would not be an often thing if Mega Man Legends 3 did ever finally come to fruition. If I had my way,  the Reaverbots would be just as single minded and simple with it's attacks to try and kill you and actually have that urgent fear that they had struck in you when you played this game as a child. I feel that is part of what made the first 3 titles so amazing with how I was hesitant and nervous to go through certain doors of ruins. I feel like I wouldn't have that feeling at all with Legends 3 if it had elements like this that were displayed in this Beta footage.  I do understand it was a Beta but I also do not think that the certain enemy animation and everything that I am talking about would be so easily decided upon to have removed. I think it was a feature that had full intentions on staying.


Here is the link to the video that I am referring to.

SKIP TO 4:10 on the video and just watch the 25 seconds that follow.  You'll see exactly what I am talking about.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE7cjN9Ffjw

I really hope I don't get burned at the stake for talking bad about a feature I have seen in Legends 3 but I want to see what everyone else thinks about this compared to the mechanics of the enemies in the earlier titles.

[Dashe]

Burned? Nah, you're just the first person to notice it, that's all. I don't think I'd have been nervous to go through any doors in Legends 3 simply out of "I've been waiting for this long enough. I'm going to burn through this like greased lightning." Maybe I'd have hangups on the last door, though. Just because once you go through the last one, you're done.

The sharukurusu in question does look painfully slow and sluggish. I'd like to say it was under the influence, but I'm pretty sure that's not what they intended.

[Rockman Striker]

I have the feeling that since God of War came out all the game enemies are just a distraction and not a thread anymore, most of them are programmed to run straight at your character, stand still for a few seconds and then attack, specially when they come in groups. Most of them are there just to fill your combo meter or life gauge.
I think that's why MML3 reaverbots seem so slow, there's a certain pattern in enemy attacks too, again, just like in GoW-like hack n' slash games there are a bunch of tiny, weak enemies, a couple of long range shooting enemies around the area, one slower but stronger enemy and the one which explodes once you beat it. Think about it.

[Trege]

I never noticed that either in the trailers until you mentioned it. I'll always remember running through the sub ruins with red life as a kid only to hear the bone chilling noise of a Sharukurusu's footsteps. As a kid I had two options risk the spinning traps again or fight it.

If they changed the way the Sharukurusu acted I'd have probably been a little sad. I prefer them to run at you as well instead of doing fancy tricks. The Sharukurusu in MML2 are far scarier than the ones in MML1, mainly because of their massive speed boost and even more ruthless behavior.