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Message: [QUOTE="Gorse, post: 10485, member: 73"] Awesome find, fake! I love learning about the philosophy behind updating classic legacy franchises like these. The thing that I always loved about Rockman.EXE, especially in the anime series, was how it so eagerly adopted that early-2000s sense of both wonder and fear surrounding digital technology and the internet. I adore stuff like that* — Serial Experiments Lain, Digimon Tamers, Code Lyoko, The Matrix, etc. etc. — and it’s a genre we’ll probably never see again. I think it was a smart way to evolve Mega Man for the 21st century. In the original series, he was a physical robot that battled other machines in the “real world”, and in the 2000s, he was a computer program that battle viruses in the digital world. It’s an upgrade! Having Mega Man as the embodiment of a debug program, and thinking about him crawling around inside a computer to destroy bad programs, is just a cool concept. I also really love how MMBN1 is structured exactly like a classic Mega Man game — you fight all the same bosses and go through a skull-shaped fortress to defeat Dr. Wily, just like in Mega Man 1. It’s the same… but new! (Mega Man Network Transmission carried a lot of these themes, too.) It was smart for the series to develop past that point and become its own thing, of course, but for a call back to the original one time, I think it really worked. (*I specifically avoided using the word “denpa” here, because there is literally a later Mega Man series that’s about radio waves.) [/QUOTE]

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