/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8945443
>only three of the eight main robot stages are fully normal platforming stages without dipping heavily into puzzles/forced weapon tutorials/becoming a minigame
When you break it down like that, 8 really is gimmicky as fuck.

>Intro: normal
>Clown: normal? the ending does have the pick-a-box-and-pray puzzle section
>Grenade: normal
>Frost: minigame, snowboarding autoscroller
>Tengu: minigame, shmup

>Midstage: normal
>Sword: forced weapon tutorial, for the previous 4 weapons
>Search: forced weapon tutorial, for Thunder Claw grappling
>Astro: puzzle, two infinitely looping mazes with the button gates
>Aqua: normal

>Wily 1: minigame, snowboarding autoscroller
>Wily 2: minigame, shmup
>Wily 3: normal
>Wily 4: normal, the boss rush and final boss