Giga Girl

A better Mega Man clone than Mighty No. 9

45 minute quick impressions: This is a simple jump-and-shoot platformer. You start with a boomerang and get another weapon after beating the first boss. + Graphics are simple, but decent for the style and price of the game. + Music is good, but a bit repetitive. + Controls are good enough. + The boomerang is fast and fun to use. + It's three bucks. - The levels are long, including 2 mini-boss (?) fights, with no checkpoints that I can tell until right before the main boss of the level. - There are many places where enemies unavoidably hit you, unless you know they are coming, or inch ahead slowly. ~ The one boss I got to was pretty easy. ~ You only have 3 lives to finish a level. There is 1 extra life on the first level that is always there after dying, so you effectively have infinite lives on level 1, up until the boss. ~ Escape insta-quits the game. I only see 5 levels on the map. The first level took me about 15 minutes to learn and beat. I assume the others will take longer....

I don’t think this game was playtested at all before release. Giga Girl screams retro nostalgia. It promotes itself as a game inspired by classic Mega Man games. It looked retro, it looked spunky and it had no reviews when I first discovered it. I figured why not? I love Mega Man games, and I missed playing them. After spending a good amount of time trying Giga Girl I am left disappointed. Giga Girl, while inspired by Mega Man, doesn’t have the gameplay to back it up. At first I thought it was retro hard. I laughed it off and kept trying. Then I thought, it may be be one of those really retro games that demanded you memorize level layouts. After discovering enemies are somewhat spawn and act somewhat randomly I ruled that out. Then it set in. Giga Girl is just a bad game. Giga Girl is just a frustrating and cheap experience wrapped in a nostalgic package. Expect unavoidable projectiles or enemies jumping in from different angles off screen. Think about this. Enemies do not behav...

[h1] Faithful Mega Man Clone [/h1] Giga Girl is a lot of fun and plays similarly to the original Mega Man series. The difficulty feels balanced, as the levels aren’t too long and are packed with some secrets. For a game that costs $3, it sure feels worth more than that. The sound track is really energetic and memorable. Pros -Responsive Controls -Fun levels -Secrets and refrences to other games -Faithful mega man clone -Tough bosses -Costs $3 Cons -Doesn't have some of the later features of the Mega Man series like slide -Not enough weapon energy for the boss weapons Check out part 1 of my gameplay to see the game in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpJd4ppK56Q

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Recently cleared! Not only 100%'d in terms of achievements but also sought out all the hidden items in the stages. Most of the playtime listed was spent doing that, for what its worth. So, I am someone who is basically connected at the hip to the Mega Man franchise in terms of fandom, and have spent a rather unhealthy amount of time in said fandom. Giga Girl is "Mega Man with serial numbers filed off", complete with stage selects and "Bosses directly drop weapons". Unlike other MM-likes on steam, which often give a priority to graphics, I'd say Giga Girl struggles with first impressions. The screenshots and key art isn't all that enticing. And that's a shame, as it's a pretty solid, if with a few bits of jank in places, Mega Man-Like. I had fun, and I am actually giving it a recommend! If you're coming in from Mega Man - here's the key comparisons with Mega Man: I'd say in terms of complexity, the stage layouts are on par with Mega Man 2. She lacks the movement and charge options o...

A very cute Mega Man clone. It's stupidly difficult, as many Mega Man fan games tend to be, with some less than useful weapons and questionable stage design decisions. Using a boomerang as the base weapon is a really interesting concept, though. If you've got someone in your life who would like to see more action games with female heroines, here's one!

A fun Mega Man style clone. It pays homage through gameplay and frustration. The gameplay feels like classic Mega Man. Borrowing some concepts of classic Mega Man games and putting its own twist on the concepts. The default weapon Boomerang is your go to weapon. It's the weapon I used the most through my entire playthrough and outside of opening up a few secret areas with the other weapons, you can basically progress with just the boomerang. The frustration comes from some areas where enemies are placed in such a way that you can easily be pushed into an instant death pit or spike ball. In some cases, this requires a little trial and error before you'll successfully progress. Having played the Mega Man games extensively before playing Giga Girl, I was better prepared for these instances and had a basic idea beforehand on how to tackle these scenarios. Now for someone who never has played a Mega Man game before playing this, they might rage quit before advancing very far. Difficulty...

THE BEST SPIRITUAL SUCCESSOR TO THE NES MEGAMAN character differences: combat has a new feel with the boomerang its very powerful single attack adn comes back to you, character cannot jump as high, a lot of enemies are planned for your advance so be careful moving forward fixed many annoyances experienced in the orignal megaman 1-6 such as: -enemies killing you without warning over death pits -birds dropping bombs infintely for some sections -invisible blocks are now regulated to sections you can fuckin see so you can figure out the pattern from a safe location -some enemies being only vulnerable to boss items you may or may not have yet The creator really worked on removing the annoyances of the original series while not just outright removing them.