{"id":2237,"date":"2020-08-21T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T21:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2020-06-19T21:01:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T03:01:21","slug":"video-game-mega-man-star-force-pegasus-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/21\/video-game-mega-man-star-force-pegasus-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO GAME: Mega Man Star Force – Pegasus (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MegaMega Man Star Force: Pegasus
\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2007
\nRating: E
\nTime Played: 17.30 hours<\/p>\n

I have fond memories of playing the Mega Man Battle Network<\/em> games in high school. I liked the RPG\/Action\/Card mechanics of this series and always wanted more. When the pseudo-spin-off series, Mega Man Star Force<\/em>, arrived on the Nintendo DS, it seemed like a good evolution of the formula. However, I resisted buying a DS for so long that eventually, I had to come back and play these games a decade after they came out. With this amount of hindsight, I don\u2019t know if I was viewing a series I never played through nostalgia or the evolved gaming landscape of today.<\/p>\n

Since I had watched the anime based on these games, I was already familiar with the basic story and plot structure. Additionally, not much had changed since the Battle Network<\/em> games, other than a slight perspective shift and some modifications to the chip system. Even with this familiarity, I found myself stuck and backtracking through areas far more often than I would have liked. Perhaps I wasn\u2019t paying attention to the cues the NPCs were giving me, but plenty of moments didn\u2019t feel intuitive or were just plain tedious to accomplish.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also unfortunate that certain aspects of the chip system from Battle Network<\/em> didn\u2019t transfer over into the Star Force<\/em> games. One of the strategies of building a strong chip deck was to factor in which chips could trigger combination attacks, which were powerful game-changing techniques that often saw me through plenty of fierce battles. Star Force<\/em> didn\u2019t have this combo potential, so there wasn\u2019t much strategy other than including whatever most powerful chips I had at my disposal. Despite all this, Star Force<\/em> still satisfied my itch for another Battle Network<\/em>-like game even if it felt like a step backward.<\/p>\n

A slight step backward from the Battle Network<\/em> games, I give Mega Man Star Force: Pegasus<\/em> 3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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