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   ***//Rockman no Constancy//**
     *T.: A //[[game:mega_man_2|Rockman 2]]// hack that is IMO the best NES //[[game:mega_man_series|Mega Man]]// game. Entirely new levels/music/stage design and stupidly, wonderfully difficult.
+===== Mega Man 4 =====
+  ***//Rockman 4 Minus Infinity//**
+    * Rudie: There is only one Megaman/Rockman game in existence it is Rockman 4 Minus Infinity. All others are fragments of the master work. I've only played Pharaohman and watched Diveman. I had to keep pausing to go. You are kidding me right?
+    * Deets:  my god it is the best Megaman game ever and it's a romhack of Megaman 4 of all things. It's remarkably generous, particularly for a romhack. You start out with the weapon energy balancer and other convenient items you typically had to buy from the store in other games. The Rush weapon you start with has him scavenge for items, including E-Tanks and 1ups. When midbosses die, they stay dead, even if you restart from an earlier checkpoint. All of the weapons are powerful and useful, and when you die the game refills all of your weapons by about 50%. And the designers take the design space afforded by that generosity to put in crazy, crazy shit that you will not believe is coming from a romhack of an uninspired sequel megaman game. I don't want to spoil anything, but I will say the sense of place in the castle stages are the best in any game in the series, and the last half is almost Treasure-like in terms of how hard it keeps cranking the dial higher and higher, to the point where every time you think "okay, it's over, this is it, it can't get any crazier than this," there's one more turn, and you realize that yes, these guys are serious. They are not fucking around. And then you just have to laugh and wonder why no one's ever gone here with territory this well-worn. It feels a little like it was someone's dream to make this game, to make the Megaman 4 that could have, should have existed, but didn't. Until now. (the only caveat I have is that I wish they'd kept the music the same instead of turning it into a weird megamix of semi-garbled themes from other games, but oh well)
+    * spectralsound: Pharaoh Man sold me on the game, then i decided to check out the Cossack/Wily stages and i was saying, out loud, "HOLY FUCKING SHIT" about once every five seconds. and i'm not talking about the difficulty (it really isn't that hard (until the final boss)).
 ===== Neverwinter Nights =====