Ancient Tomb

75th: Ancient Tomb Make a Good Mega Man Level 2

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Overview Creator(s): NinjaUmbreon Composer(s): Rushjet1 Statistics Scores: 13 15 17 0 7 Total: 10.4 / 50 Rank: 75th Elements: 1 Enemies: Battonton Haehaey Hover Mummira Neo Metall Rembakun Ring Ring Sasoreenu Skeleton Joe Taketento Sub-Bosses: Tama

Theme Music Mega Man 4 - Pharaoh Man's Theme Stage Order Location: Tier 1 Previous: The Fall Next: Wily Tower

"A dev-kit level. I'll steal it! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!"

―Dan Backslide, ACESpark's Judge Comment for this level

Overview

This level became infamous when shown due to it just being Pharaoh Man's stage with a few new enemies and extremely minimal changes to the layout. Pharaoh Man's level was even included with the devkit participants used to create levels, furthering the laziness of the level (though, bafflingly, this level does not include Pharaoh Man himself despite being in the original devkit level). It has been often wondered by players and the judges themselves, looking back on it, how the level didn't get disqualified for plagiarism.

Strategy

It's basically Pharaoh Man's level, but with a few differences and a new enemy or two. With no boss. Just blast through everything with Triple Blade.

Judge Comments
snoruntpyro  : 13 / 50
Design Fun Creativity Aesthetics Functionality Skip Teleporter? / 15 / 10 / 15 / 5 / 5 It's a blatant edit of Pharaoh Man's stage. The beginning part is kind of different and honestly I kinda like it more than the original level because original was just flat and lots of annoying scorpions but here there's some variety. After that the level doesn't even try to hide the fact that it's a blatant edit where there's literally just the original section but with like one random out of place enemy added. There's just a miniboss fight with Tama out of nowhere. There's like one random Rembakun added in the final stretch and that's all the changes. Um. Uhh. Yeah.
JupiHornet  : 15 / 50
Design Fun Creativity Aesthetics Functionality / 15 / 10 / 15 / 5 / 5 This was basically Pharaoh Man's stage with a few more enemies, nothing else. The fact that there was no Pharaoh Man boss at the end only made it more disappointing. Come on man, that boss was even in the devkit! Also, one of the Hovers failed to spawn and I had to use Rush Jet, but I'm not sure that's your fault or the game's.
Enjl  : 17 / 50
Design Fun Creativity Aesthetics Functionality Skip Teleporter? / 15 / 10 / 15 / 5 / 5 While this stage is fun to play, I don't believe that much of it was actually original, since... it's basically a less interesting version of Pharaoh Man's stage. I don't really have anything to add here, to be honest. That basically sums it up.
Garirry  : 0 / 50
Design Fun Creativity Aesthetics Functionality / 15 / 10 / 15 / 5 / 5 {{{gacreativitynote}}} {{{gaaestheticsnote}}} {{{gafunctionnote}}} When I play a level, I'm expecting something new and original, not a blatant duplicate of an existing devkit stage. So I'm refusing to judge this level. Enjoy the 0 points.
ACESpark  : 7 / 50
Design Fun Creativity Aesthetics Functionality Skip Teleporter? / 15 / 10 / 15 / 5 / 5

Trivia

• This is the only level to outright get a score of 0 from any of the judges.

Make a Good Mega Man Level 2 - Tier 1
Entry Stages
Snow Man • Cardinal Man • Q.U.I.N.T • Mix & Match • The Fall • Ancient Tomb
List of Bosses
Chill Man
Tier Boss & Extra Levels
Milk • Strawberry Milk
Other Goodies
Astro Man's Vain Hope