/vr/ - Retro Games

You know, this might not be an opinion many would share. But I've caught myself times and times thinking this, so here goes.

I think Mega Man could actually pull off a "gritty" 3D makeover. Heck, the whole MMX story was already was bordering on apocalypse, if you didn't remember that you were fighting animal robots. The underlying conflict of reploids VS humans was already at full scale, and MMX4 took the series' story to an even more dramatic direction.

But then MM Zero advanced it to the point of post-apocalyptic antiutopia. You have a clone of X, the beacon of light, becoming a dictator; Mother Elf, initially planned as a savior of mankind, killing millions; and then Weil basically winning and driving the mankind to near extinction. It's a "good die young, evil live forever" story at this point.

So not only MM could go grittier—IMO it should have. Because all those animals and such barely fit in at this point.