Why did I put this in the block?

Next up on the Summer Games Done Quick 2025 block, for some fucking reason I play Mega Man 3. I was never good at Mega Man games. If you go back at my NES-A-Thon streams I think you will see. Sure I played Mega Man Maker and was good at those levels. But how would I tackle real Mega Man levels?

I decide to start with Top Man. And how little would I know this would be the easiest level I play of the night. And I'm sorry does Top Man enjoy getting high? I swear there's weed all around the level. Or maybe Mega Man is the high one because one of the first enemies I come across is... some nuts? Like... screw nut thingies? Robo... frogs? Screw nuts and Robo frogs filling the screen as the game tries to make me take them down all at once? Fuck that. And then there's this dude spitting out... well I assume they're spinning tops because the boss at the end of this level is... well Top Man. There's some health pellets just out of reach. Not like I need them anyway. So I head down, avoid the deadly spikes, and now there's these little helmet dudes driving construction plows. A big health boost and extra life are just out of reach. Yeah okay fuck you too game. Then there's just the helmet dudes. Yeah I see why people hate these guys. And then there's this big cat who spits balls at me in this tiny ass area which makes them HARD to avoid. And I end up dying here. Emphasis on... I am bad at Mega Man games. The next go around, this time I do beat the cat but I have very little health left. Cool. And spinning top man is back and I am fucking dead! At least I hit a checkpoint. Though I don't have any lives left. After taking down another big cat who also seems to spit out tiny little frogs who torment me, I climb up blocks of frozen weed, grab a big health boost, and make my way up. Where... oh for fucks sake... another spinning top dude, And I am forced to slide through narrow passages and just sacrifice myself to his tops. And then there's these ridable tops that spin me around. Trying to jump off them for the first time just leads in no damn dice and I fucking die.

Now having had game overed and having to restart the whole stage, I actually get back to the ridable tops without dying. Cool! Being more careful this time, I hop between them and find myself against boss dude himself! He chucks homing tops at me and also spin charges towards me. Even with several lives, I find myself wasting them very quickly. Thankfully though on my last life, I recognize his pattern of attack and take the dude down and take his power, the top spin! I get my continue code and carry on my way! And yes I do test the code and it does seem to work. Albeit I put it in slightly wrong. When the game showed me the code, it was 2 pink dots on 3A and 5C. Though when I put in, I put down pink at 3A and blue at 5C. I don't know what difference this made. It still showed Top Man was defeated. But I'm sure there's a small difference now as to what I got. Next up, I try Needle Man's stage. Right off the bat there's these robo porcupines. And no they are not at all friendly. Their spikes very much do hurt. And you start to attack them and they just roll up into balls and charge at you. Yeah it ain't worth it trying to defeat them. Heading downward... too far downward... there's like this... 3 layered little area. The bottom layer goes to a dead end so I have to go to the 2nd layer. Where this cannon shoots pink cannon balls at me. Again, homing. I can't just stay in a static location and shoot. Otherwise, I'll get hit. After dying to Mr. Helmet or whatever the fuck its name is, I get past the cannons and move further down the level. Where of course I am assaulted by mechanical spikes. Leaving me at ONE health. And no you are not safe standing on the edge of a platform that is right below mechanical spikes. I learned that the hard way.

I get past that section and I am met with another robo porcupine. Cool. And it really seems like there is no way to get past that dude. Cooler. And there's an energy tank out of reach. Coolest. Heading up, there's these dudes whipping... half nunchucks at me. Thankfully I get past them with minimal damage to myself. Heading up there is this... big dude... looks like a ball with a rocket with plungers for feet. Plunger head I'll call it. I have to respawn the dude because eventually it just gets right above the ladder and I know it'll be hard to get past it at that point. But of course sliding under it does next to nothing. I still get hit. At least it's time for the boss fight! Right of the bat this dude is way harder than Top Man. Its spikes are fast and homing. Fucker moves so fast that by the time I try to get out of the way, I just die. So I have to go through the stage again because I game overed. I try my Top Spin ability but that doesn't seem to be an attack ability. All it does is let me spin in the air. I'm sorry how the fuck is this supposed to be useful? Either way, I can't beat this dude. Call it giving up too quickly but I need a boss I can tolerate. Maybe Shadow man has a... doable stage. Seems like we're under a sewer here. So more of those robo frogs are jumping out at me. More helmets on plows. Then suddenly a whistle blows and we have a mini-boss? That's a first. This dude in red is jumping around, shooting at me. Of course my ability to dodge to this dude is next to zilch. No actually it is zilch. I mean yeah I do eventually take them down but I lose a lot of health in the process. Then there's these... eyes on legs... well that's just creepy. Then the lights go dark and I am in fucking space. Not knowing where I can go? MY FAVORITE!

Then there's these fucking walking grenades. That I horribly fail to shoot. And die to. Seems like the level goes dark when this thing up top is above me. It's like an anti-lightbulb. Then there's these parachute dudes. I can get past the first one. Barely the 2nd. Not lucky with the 3rd. And no I don't do any better against them my 2nd go around. I'm sorry is the mini boss getting harder? Because that's what it fucking feels like. I can't get past those parachute dudes. Is Snake Man's stage any easier? It is filled with snakes I must say. And these... jumpy dudes (different from snakes) who are... not impossible but a challenge to shoot down. And holy fuck this stage is just... LITTERED with snakes. And yes... there are big ass snakes too. Who love shooting deadly orbs at me. And don't try to attack on the wavy platform like I tried to do the first time. That was a bad idea. But even after I did that, I still died to small snake pellet attack. A lot. Nice that there's a convenient gap right after the first giant snake. Yes. The first. Thankfully if you get past the 2 little snakes after the first big one, there are not one but TWO big energy refill orbs. I will take those! After being attacked by pole vaulters, the half nunchuckers, 2 ladders to choose from, one leads to a mystery box room... those boxes filled with boring ass shit, the other ladder going up to the 2nd giant snake... see I told you there were multiple giant snakes. More pole vaulters, and a long jump where I have to slide first... didn't realize that... at first... after I did... I now find myself out in the sky! There are these floating platforms that are spit out of these buildings. Pretty easy to jump across those and the platforms. And then there's this cloud enemy and when you shoot it... it turns into a bullet... is this a Mega Man game or some fever dream?... no it is a mega man game... On and then the fucker respawns in 3 seconds and sends me to a falling death.

Remember when I said it was easy to jump across the flying platforms and buildings that spit them out? I lied. Oh yeah cloud bullet murders me again... that or I never fucking learn. Oh yeah and then there's 1 block jumps. With each block being 2 blocks apart. No you are not safe just standing on them and doing nothing. Thankfully that's the last section of the map before the boss fight. Fucking finally. Snake Man is between Top Man and Needle Man. Tougher than Top Man but easier than Needle Man. Dude goes back and forth and spits out little snakes who hurt more really. Yes Snake Man killed me the first time but I took that slithering bitch down the 2nd time and got the Search Snake ability! See? I told you this game was easy!