History VideoGame / MegamanLegends

* ''Mega Man Legends'' (1997) is about Volnutt and the Casketts fighting to keep the Bonnes from destroying an island town to steal an ancient treasure buried there, while uncovering the secret behind a centennial catastrophe about to befall it. This game was re-released on the UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}} under the title ''[[SuperTitle64Advance Mega Man 64]]'', and re-released on September 29th, 2015 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, Vita, and [=PlayStation=] TV.
* ''The Misadventures of Tron Bonne'' (1999) is a prequel in which Tron and her [[MechaMooks Servbots]] have to go on a crime spree to save her brothers Teisel and Bon from Glyde. The game was [[http://www.polygon.com/2015/5/6/8561517/misadventures-of-tron-bonne-psone-classics-ps3-vita re-released on May 6th, 2015]] for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, PSP, Vita and [=PlayStation=] TV, four years after the cancellation of ''Mega Man Legends 3''.

* ''Rockman DASH: Itsutsu no Shima no Daibōken!'' ("Big 5 Island Adventure") is a mobile game released in 2008 on Japanese cell phones. The game is a midquel, taking place between the first and second games of the series. Rumors claimed that the game might see a release on UsefulNotes/{{WiiWare}} or [=DSiware=] like the formerly-cell-phone only ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears Final Fantasy IV: The After Years]]'', but it never materialized.
* ''Mega Man Legends 3'' was [[http://www.themmnetwork.com/2010/09/29/mega-man-legends-3-announced-for-nintendo-3ds/ announced]] as a UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS title on September 29, 2010, almost 10 years after the release of ''Legends 2''. Unfortunately, on July 18, 2011, Capcom announced that the project had been [[http://www.capcom-unity.com/devroom/blog/2011/07/18/a_message_from_capcom cancelled]].

In aesthetic and themes, it's very obviously influenced by Creator/HayaoMiyazaki films, specifically ''Anime/CastleInTheSky''. In fact, the Reaverbots, the ancient robots found in the ruins of the game, are quite obvious [[ShoutOut shout-outs]] to the robots in ''Castle in the Sky''. Likewise, the archetypes of an adventurous boy, a capable female companion, and lost civilizations are very much present as well.

-->'''Tron''': I'm...sorry, Teisel. ...I lost...
-->'''Teisel''': Don't worry your pretty little head over it, Tron. We tried our best, but sometimes, your best isn't good enough. We lost, fair and square. That's life.
-->'''Bon''': [[TheUnintelligible Baaaauu...]]
-->''(the Focke-Wulf spirals out of control and explodes)''

-->'''Teisel''': ''(smirking)'' OK, Blue Boy, I must know, what's your name?
-->'''Megaman''': Me? My name is...Megaman. Megaman Volnutt.
-->'''Teisel''': Megaman, is it? You know, I've been in this business a long time, but this is the first time anyone's ever given me this much trouble. Yet, it feels good somehow being beaten by you like this. Almost as though I've met my match.
-->'''Tron''': ''(incredulous)'' Teisel?
-->'''Teisel''': I can face the facts: I lost, you won. I'm gonna try to forget this entire incident. Ahh, it feels good to say that. My heart feels as clean as the blue sky on a cloudless day. See you around, Megaman.
-->''(the Bonnes turn and walk away)''

* [[RollerbladeGood Rollerblade]]/[[RocketBoots Rocket Boots]]: Roll's able to make Mega Man a pair of shoes that have built in rocket-propelled roller skates. Which he's able to walk and run in without issue. [[ItWillNeverCatchOn Maybe because]] they [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heelys balance on the heels]].

-->'''Teisel Bonne''': What do you think you're doing? Hurry up and close the hatch!\\
'''Teisel Bonne''': I thought I told you to close the hatch!\\
'''Teisel Bonne''': I ''SAID, CLOSE'' THE ''HATCH!''

-->'''Data''': Did you know that if you start a new game without cutting the power, you can try the game again at a different difficulty setting? Here's another hint...The faster you play, or the harder it is, the easier it will become...Wonder what that means? Maybe you can figure it out...

* TankControls: Mega Man can turn while moving, but only barely, which puts him two generations ahead of the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' games on the same console. But he still has trouble with free movement. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with ''Legends 2'', as it was made after the Sony Dualshock controller had been out for a while and become common place, and thus 2 was designed accordingly for it.
* TerribleTrio: The three members of the Bonne family definitely fit this.

--->'''Tron''': Well? Have you learned your lesson?\\
'''Servbot''': What do you think you're doing!? I could have been killed!

* BleachedUnderpants: Averted; character artist for the series, Hideki Ishikawa, made RuleThirtyFour of the characters.

* {{Bishounen}}: Glyde, the Bonnes' nemesis (their ''other'' nemesis) is a tall, slender man with long blonde hair.

** The biggest so far would have to be the Colossus Reaverbot that serves as the endgame boss of ''The Misadventures of Tron Bonne''. It's so big that the battle against it takes place ''on the shoulders/head of the Reaverbot itself''. Heck, it's so big that its HitPoint bar goes off-screen.'

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* TitleDrop: The Japanese version's TomatoInTheMirror at the end of the first game is the first time the term "[[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Rockman]]" is used.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Every instance of the name "Rock" [[spoiler:and later Rockman]] was replaced with Mega Man. So a 14 year old kid's first name is Mega Man. Okay. It gets worse when [[TheReveal the reveal]] comes along, and it turns out his name is coincidentally still Mega Man. (''Legends 2'' attempts to rectify this by saying Roll named him after her [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic favorite video game character.]]) It gets even more awkward when your main weapon is called the "{{VideoGame/Mega Man|Classic}} Buster".

* ForcedTutorial: In the original game, in ''The Misadventures of Tron Bonne'', and to a lesser extent in ''Legends 2''. Also suffers from CaptainObvious and AnnoyingVideoGameHelper.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: An unusually obvious example, with a painting in the museum directly showing [[spoiler:the final boss battle with Juno.]]

* OhCrap: In the first game, when Mega Man finally destroys the Gesselschaft and the Focke-Wulf, he and Roll suddenly realize [[spoiler:that the Bonnes didn't eject from it.]]
* OrphanedSeries: For a long time, until 2008, where Japanese cell phones got a new game, and late 2010, with ''Legends 3'' being announced on the 3DS and then [[ScrewedByTheNetwork getting canceled again]] after that.
* ParentalAbandonment: Roll. It doesn't help that [[spoiler:her dad's gotten a whole new family trying to rebuild his post-amnesia life and that her mom's currently being [[GrandTheftMe bodyjacked]] by an Ancient that's currently stuck on Elysium.]]

* EleventhHourSuperpower: The [[EnergyWeapon Shining Laser]]. Though it costs a hell of a lot of money to fully upgrade, once you do, you've basically got an infinite-ammo DeathRay that can down almost all enemies, up to and including both games' [[FinalBoss Final Bosses]], in mere ''seconds''. The only thing that prevents it from truly being in GameBreaker territory is that in both games, you don't gain the necessary parts to build it until you're practically at the end anyway.

* InvisibleMonsters: The first game has the Blue Sharukurusu in the Lake Ruins. As if the regular green versions weren't [[DemonicSpiders tough enough already]], these blue ones will remain invisible until they are near you. Which is probably a few seconds away from impaling you. Nothings screams "Nightmare Fuel" when you hear Reaverbot footsteps and you can't see the enemy until it's too late. Thankfully, they can't jump, and the room they're in has platforms to snipe at them from.

* LethalJokeItem: The Drill arm in ''2''. See the GameBreaker entry for more info.

** And then in ''Legends 2'', [[spoiler:oh look, Sera is off to the Elysium to activate the "Carbon Reinitialization Program" and wipe out the entire population of Terra... what's that? You want to run around farming Reaverbots for zenny for several hours? All right, we won't stop you...]]
*** Except [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that case since [[spoiler:when you reach the final boss chamber, Sera reveals she ''could'' have activated the Carbon Reinitialization Program at any time. However, she decided to wait for Mega Man Trigger to show up because she wanted to personally defeat him first, believing this would resolve her feelings of jealousy over the Master's favoritism towards him.]]

* ThirdIs3D: ''Mega Man Legends 3'' on the 3DS. [[{{Cancellation}} Well, that was the plan, anyway.]]

*** In both games, [[AllMenArePerverts Mega Man pumps his fist triumphantly after leaving the room, and you get the short music of a goal accomplished]], [[FridgeLogic which calls into question]] how accidental it was. Note that the fist bump was removed in the English version of ''Legends 1'', but maintained in the N64 port.

* ShoutOut: While conventional shout-outs to earlier games exist in droves (from a Classic series mini-cartoon playing on a bar's TV to the Z(et)sabre and X-Buster showing up as weapon materials), Legends has the rare condition of having exponentially more cameo appearances than actual games (many being Volnutt, Roll, Tron, the Servbots, and Juno appearing in VideoGame/CapcomVs games and in ''[[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork Battle Network]]'' scenery).
** There's also the notable Servbot heads in ''both VideoGame/DeadRising'' games.
%%* SmashMook: Hammuru Dolls and Jaiwan.

** Balkon Gerät is entirely invincible, even as Megaman blasts its arms off. And then it decides to use the giant plasma cannon on it's back, which turns out to be it's weak point.

* {{Tsundere}}: Tron Bonne

** The Marlwolf in ''1''. It's the first boss with a specific weak point you have to hit, it's the first boss to use the [[ThatOneAttack green energy orb attack]] that most Bonne robots use, it has a decent amount of health, and if you don't know how to disable its treads, it's very fast, too.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The series takes place in a mostly bright and sunny world full of beautiful tropical islands with helpful, friendly locals. However, it doesn't take long to realize that the only reason there are so many tropical islands in the first place is because some catastrophic flood of literally biblical proportions drowned a more advanced precursor civilization right off of the map. And just when you thought the obvious was tragic enough, an even more horrifying fact is eventually revealed: [[spoiler:The original humans all died off long ago, and all of the people in the series are actually "Carbons", the Ancients' [[ArtificialHuman biomechanical android creations.]] So to reiterate, this is a game about the extinction of humanity as we know it, and the earth being left behind to extremely advanced machines who have almost no idea that their creators even existed.]]

* RiddleForTheAges: Exactly what caused the world to be flooded is never revealed in the series.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Taken to a new extreme: [[spoiler:Ridiculously Human Robot Humans. Or something. The original Japanese is a bit clearer on this: most "human" characters are Carbons - [[MechanicalEvolution descendants of artificially created humans]] meant to populate Terra as long as the Master was around - with the small remainder (including Mega Man himself) being System Units which are mostly robotic, but with some biological components (such as being able to age). Only the Master is truly human... except by the time the ''Legends'' series takes place, he's been long dead, and the vast majority of the System Units are trying to bulldoze the Carbons and clone humanity back into existence.]] See Tomato In The Dyson Sphere below for the short version.

* GenreBusting: The first two games are a pair of over-the-shoulder third-person shooters with platforming and action RPG elements.

* ''Mega Man Legends'' (1997) is about Volnutt and the Casketts fighting to keep the Bonnes from destroying an island town to steal an ancient treasure buried there, while uncovering the secret behind a centennial catastrophe about to befall it. This game was rereleased on the UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}} under the title ''[[SuperTitle64Advance Mega Man 64]]'', and re-released on September 29th, 2015 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, Vita, and [=PlayStation=] TV.

* EasyModeMockery: [[AvertedTrope Averted to Hell and back SO HARD its not even funny.]] Easy mode here is an UnlockableContent you get for either beating the game Normal in under three hours or by just beating it on Hard. And the rewards you get for doing so are mind-numbing. You get four times the number of zenni you'd normally get from refractors, your shield takes much longer to break, and finally, from the very first dungeon, you are given access to '''The''' most powerful buster part in the entire game: [[PurposelyOverpowered Buster Max,]] which fully maxes out of all your standard weapon's attributes (something that's completely impossible to do on [[LevelCap Hard and Normal mode]]), thus turning it into a god-like death machine of a weapon on par with a fully maxed-out [[InfinityPlusOneSword Shining Laser.]]

* EyesAlwaysShut: Mega Man Juno again. Race memory from his Japanese VA having voiced [[{{LightNovel/Slayers}} Xelloss]] beforehand? You decide.

* AfterTheEnd: It's been a while, certainly, but The End has definitely come and gone. [[EpilepticTrees Several times, if you put it in the main Mega Man timeline.]]

* DubNameChange: In the Japanese versions of the games, the term "Irregular" which was translated to "Maverick" in the X, Zero and ZX series, is instead translated to "Abberant" in the English versions of the Legends games.

* BagOfSpilling: Justified. An optional dialogue box in the opening cutscene of ''Legends 2'' can have Volnutt asking "What happened to my weapons?", i.e the special weapons and parts he would have obtained in the first game. Roll admits that cash was tight and that she needed to sell them to make ends meet. There is a single aversion -- Volnutt keeps the boosted jump height from the Jump Springs in the first game, though they don't show up in the menus as an actual equipment piece.

* NoPronunciationGuide: In Japan, "Bonne" is pronounced "bone" (and is spelled the same way). The English releases pronounce it "Bonne", as in "bonnet", but then the later English releases (such as ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'') revert back to "bone".

* TacticalSuicideBoss: The Marlwolf would be untouchable if the Servbots would quit opening the hatch to throw bombs at you. Tiesel even lampshades it, constantly screaming at them during the fight to stop opening the hatch, but they don't listen.

* SexyWalk: Most likely unintentional, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8YW1Xymp6M Mega Man]] has one - a rare male example.

* SmashMook: Hammuru Dolls and Jaiwan.

* TankControls: Mega Man can turn while moving, but only barely, which puts him two generations ahead of the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' games on the same console. But he still has trouble with free movement.
* TerribleTrio: The three members of the Bonne family definitely fit this.

* EasyModeMockery: [[AvertedTrope Averted to Hell and back SO HARD its not even funny.]] Easy mode here is an UnlockableContent for either beating the game Normal in under three hours or by beating it on Hard. And the rewards you get for doing so are mind-numbing. You get four times the number of zenni you'd normally get from refractors, your shield takes much longer to break, and finally, from the very first dungeon, you are given access to '''The''' most powerful buster part in the entire game: [[PurposelyOverpowered Buster Max,]] which fully maxes out of all your standard weapon's attributes (something that's completely impossible to do on [[LevelCap Hard and Normal mode]]), thus turning it into a god-like death machine of a weapon on par with a fully maxed-out [[InfinityPlusOneSword Shining Laser.]]

* EasyModeMockery: [[AvertedTrope Averted to Hell and back SO HARD its not even funny.]] Easy mode here is an UnlockableContent for either beating Normal mode in under three hours or by beating the game on Hard. And the rewards you get for doing so are mind-numbing. You get four times the number of zenni you'd normally get from refractors, your shield takes much longer to break, and finally, from the very first dungeon, you are given '''The''' most powerful buster part in the entire game: [[PurposelyOverpowered Buster Max.]] It fully maxes out of all your standard weapon's properties (something that's completely impossible to do on [[LevelCap Hard and Normal mode]]) and turns it into a god-like weapon on par with a fully maxed-out [[InfinityPlusOneSword Shining Laser.]]]]

** And then in ''Legends 2'', [[spoiler:oh look, Sera is off to the Elysium to activate the "Carbon Reinitialization Program" [[KillEmAll and wipe out the entire population]] of Terra... what's that? You want to run around farming Reaverbots for zenny for several hours? All right, we won't stop you...]]

* [[TomatoInTheMirror Tomato In The Dyson Sphere]]: How is Volnutt the only one who can understand Data? Simple: [[spoiler:he's a RidiculouslyHumanRobot]]. Everyone else? [[spoiler:Either {{Artificial Human}}s or fellow Ridiculously Human Robots with strict orders to [[KillEmAll wipe out the Artificial Humans]] and rebuild humanity on the freshly-vacated planet.]]

* NintendoHard: Both main games (on their standard difficulties) aren't particularly hard, but the Class S Digger's Test in the sequel more than makes up for it. Both games also have a Hard Mode, and the sequel also has a ''[[UpToEleven Very Hard Mode]]''.