Quint Stage

46th: Quint Stage Make a Good Mega Man Level 2

Maybe a little too faithful to the source material.

Overview Creator(s): Quintboi Composer(s): Kenji Yamazaki (original music) Tpcool (covers) Statistics Scores: 25 28 30 27 28 Total: 27.6 / 50 Rank: 46th Elements: 1 Enemies: Batton Fan Fiend Gremlin Hammer Joe Hari Harry Komasaburo Mechakkero Metall DX (walk) Neo Metall New Shotman Peterchy Pickelman Bull Pierobot Spring Head Telly Gimmicks: Air Tiki Conveyor (MM2) Crash Lift Magnet Machine Needle Press Press Reflect Block Top Lift Wanaan Yoku Block Sub-Bosses: Hot Dog Tama Bosses: Metal Man Top Man Quint

Theme Music Mega Man II - Title Screen Boss: Mega Man II - Boss Stage Order Location: Tier 5 Previous: Elec Dam Next: A Mega Man for All Seasons

"honk"

―Quint, the titular boss of the level.

Quint Stage is the 46th place level in Make a Good Mega Man Level 2. The level is based heavily on Mega Man II (while using tiles based on Wily Tower from Mega Man: The Wily Wars), and features gimmicks and enemies almost exclusively from the former game. Additionally, both Metal Man and Top Man from the same game are battled intermittently throughout the stage, with Quint serving as the ultimate boss.

Strategy

The level mostly focuses on fighting enemies and bosses, though a few gimmicks are given focus. Early in the stage is an underwater section with a low spiked ceiling and Crash Lifts, necessitating careful jumps. After Metal Man, who can be one-shot by reflecting his own weapon with Jewel Satellite, Mega Man needs to carefully ride up Top Lifts while ensuring he doesn't go past the edge of the top. He can get crushed to death if he is on the top and under the edge of a narrow vertical corridor. There are two Yoku Block sections near Magnets, which can be bypassed entirely with Super Arrow. Beyond these is a room where a Top Lift moving up can push Mega Man into a spiked ceiling, but falling down its path leads to a secret room with health, ammo, and tanks. Heading back up and to the left is one more Top Lift ride down, and then it's just a few rooms of mooks followed by Top Man, and finally Quint.

Judge Comments

Judge Comments
snoruntpyro  : 25 / 50
Design Fun Creativity Aesthetics Functionality Skip Teleporter? 6 / 15 5 / 10 6 / 15 4 / 5 4 / 5 No It's an okay level, but there are some rooms with very questionable design decisions which kind of bring the whole thing down for me. Mainly the part with the needles and ladders. It's fine until the New Shotman, which just cheap shots you sometimes if it feels like it and just keeps knocking you down over and over and gets you killed in an otherwise easy level. The other problem screen is the one with the double New Shotmen - I have no idea how to dodge anything there, and considering it's right after a miniboss fight you might be low on health and immediately die. Other than those two screens, the level isn't really anything special - it uses like every asset related to Mega Man II (the gameboy one) but I don't think they were used that interestingly, with the exception of the crash man lifts. It's just kind of a level that exists that's all like "hey remember what was in that one gameboy game"? I feel like more could have been done with this concept, really. Also the transition from Top Man to Quint is kind of broken? Idk what you did.
JupiHornet  : 28 / 50
Design Fun Creativity Aesthetics Functionality 7 / 15 5 / 10 10 / 15 3 / 5 3 / 5 This stage was...okay I guess? There was nothing particularly special about it, really, but it was kinda fun while it lasted. However, in the underwater section, it was a bit hard to tell what was a block and what wasn't, and the Crash Man platforms went out of sync really easily. The Yoku block puzzles would have been fine by themselves, but the fans sent them over the edge in difficulty compared to the rest of the level. The screen transition after the Top Man boss was really weird and I think you forgot to place tiles under the vertical boss doors :V
Enjl  : 30 / 50
Design Fun Creativity Aesthetics Functionality Skip Teleporter? 8 / 15 6 / 10 9 / 15 3 / 5 4 / 5 No A pretty good stage with some interesting ideas. While some rooms felt rather random, such as the 2nd room from the start, all the basic ideas this level has with its gimmicks are executed pretty well. Aside from the spike ladder climb as that part is just unexpected hits galore. The yoku block section, while intimidating, is nice, and I appreciate the safety net catching players who are learning to get used to the drag. Overall a pretty neat stage with cool ideas that sadly are quickly tossed away before they can get expanded upon.
Garirry  : 27 / 50
Design Fun Creativity Aesthetics Functionality 7 / 15 6 / 10 6 / 15 4 / 5 4 / 5 Not good enough. Often I ask myself why certain sections even need to be there. Like the exessive amount of Hot Dog rooms and the unnecessary Yoku and moving platform rooms, which can easily be skipped. Eh. It was boring. Nothing too bad, but it's not interesting at all. There's not a lot going on here. Nothing screams creativity here. It's alright. I found one major camera bug, but other than that it's okay. There's nothing interesting here. It's alright at best. I think certain sections of this level just feel unnecessary. The three Hot Dog minibosses in a row was pointless, and the sections with the Yoku Blocks didn't need to be there and could be skipped way too easily. Other than that, nothing here is particularly impressive. I think this level could be better.
ACESpark  : 28 / 50
Design Fun Creativity Aesthetics Functionality Skip Teleporter? 8 / 15 6 / 10 7 / 15 4 / 5 3 / 5 No Fairly generic level overall. There is nothing noteworthy and wrong with it, but equally no-where are the boundaries pushed enough to make it feel fresh. When your most interesting setups are replicating Magnet Man's Yoku Blocks (but worse) and sticking Hot Dogs underwater, you know you have a fairly generic level overall. In all fairness, you do offer a few new setups on some of the existing gimmicks, they just aren't that interesting. I get what you're going for - you're trying to make this feel like a Wily stage - fair enough. The problem with mimicking the WIly stages from the earlier Mega Man games is though, well, not to beat a dead horse - they're generic. There are a few problem spots though - I am not sure the Yoku Block segment was handled well - the way the Magnets are placed means the player is constantly swapping between polarities and Magnets having no effect - it's disorienting, and I feel after a couple of attempts, most people will just give up there and use Super Arrow. The second set of Yoku blocks is.. also incredibly pointless - seeing how you don't even start that area low enough to use half the blocks there, and basically just have to wait them out. Another issue is that pits are... not in any way made clear that they are, in fact, pits, which is always a major annoyance. Another issue is - you set up the odd interesting optional challenge, and your reward - is bolts. This will leave players feeling fairly jipped, since Bolts really are not enough of a reward for tackling these areas. This contest has Noble Nickels as a collectable, you really should've used them over bolts! There are also a few busted screen-transitions. One of which you come across very easily whilst playing, so not sure how that was missed. Last but not least, I have to say: Hello! Hello! Hello! Three dev-kit bosses for the price of one! What they add to the level is beyond me.... but they don't exactly hurt it either, so all is fair. They at least fit the stage's situation.

Notes

• This is one of only two stages in MaGMML2 that has a consistent camera glitch, possibly due to Top Man's exit boss door being several tiles above the bottom row. The other, ironically, is Quirky Unconsistent Incomprehensible Nonsensical Track, commonly abbreviated as "QUINT".