"Where's the entrance?"

this one actually kinda works because graphic design online in the mid 2000s was on a similar level to this, and on the lowest resolution available

this is what the official nintendo spain's guides website looked like back in 2007 (barring all of the missing assets)

This article suggests that an occult & UFO boom was going on in Japan and this creature just happened to get attention at the right time, and then Japanese people started reporting their own sightings, leading to excitement, merchandise, and entertainment references

ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%...

Literally already watched while looking these up lol

- "Hey, fellas, 'optic blast'. Ooh, la-di-da, Mr. French man."

- "What do you call it?"

- "Beam attack."

Japan in general has a sort of fixation for it

Actually looking further into it I wonder if this game wasn't made exclusively to recycle all of Yuji Natsume's worst rejected design ideas 🤨

like surely inti could secure to include all of the franchises they don't fully own rights to (bloodstained, blaster master, dragon marked for death, mighty no. 9) in CeC expansion pass (not sure if price has been disclosed) as long they were willing to pay licensing to the IP owners like in LAiX2 🤔

Don't know how they got away with ripping off P.P. Hammer.
As for the character swaps, it has to do with what characters they have licenses for in different regions. On the NES, Capcom had the rights to Disney characters, so Kemco swapped out Roger Rabbit and Donald Duck for Bugs Bunny and Snoopy.

weird it never came to pc

That on top that some players might not be able to put 2 and 2 together and realise that Rock boss making a cameo in Scissor boss stage means Scissor boss is weak to Rock weapon

Also, the game is still replayable because of the non-linear progression & Hard mode gives you all weapons from the start

That Game Soup video is full of shit and made in bad faith

Particularly the part where it claims that the game giving obvious hints to which weapon a Mighty Number is weak to "kills replayability" since it's a big fallacy to think Mega Man players ever actually tried to figure it out for themselves

we don't need no education