Trivia / Mega Man 8

• Cross-Dressing Voices:
  • In Japanese, Ai Orikasa voices Mega Man. In the English dub, he's voiced by Ruth Shiraishi, who also pulled double duty as Clown Man.
  • Aqua Man is voiced by Chika Sakamoto in Japanese and Michelle Gazepis in English. Both of them are women.
• Foreign Rescore: Outside of Japan, "Electrical Communication" was replaced with an instrumental song.
• Franchise Killer: Not necessarily bad (there have definitely been worse-received games in the franchise), but the Classic series slowed to a halt after this game, with only a spin-off game coming after. It would be many years before a proper sequel would come, and by then Capcom decided to strip down the series and return it to the gameplay style of Mega Man 2.
• God Never Said That:
  • Due to some poor wording from G4, it was believed that Mega Man 8 was intended to be a Sega Saturn exclusive, but fearing the competition, Sony allegedly demanded the game. This supposedly explains why it has additional content, since it was released simultaneously with the PlayStation version in North America. In truth, this is actually referring to the game's North American launch, as it is noted that Sony agreed to approve the game on the condition that it had something special over the Saturn version, resulting in a collector's full-color anthology booklet enclosed with the first editions of the North American release. The Saturn version likely has more content due to the extra time to polish the game between Japanese releases. Ironically, Mega Man X4 was intended for the Saturn first, despite the fact that it was released in North America after the PlayStation version.
  • It has also been misquoted that Capcom threatened not to release the highly anticipated Resident Evil 2 after being denied permission to release their 2D games (including Mega Man 8) in North America. While Sony did push for 3D gaming, in reality, the threat was merely an open suggestion to Capcom by a gaming journalist.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: To date, the Saturn version of the game has never received an official re-release on any platform, and its additional content has never been implemented into any of the PlayStation re-releases. Physical copies are somewhat rare online, and tend to go for high prices when they appear.
• Milestone Celebration: The game was created to celebrate the franchise's 10th anniversary, and it really shows in the opening animation.
• No Export for You: The Sega Saturn version was never released in the PAL territories.
• No Port For You: Zig-zagged — While the game is available as part of two Compilation Re-releases (Mega Man Anniversary Collection and Mega Man Legacy Collection 2), they use the original PlayStation version of the game as a base instead of the polished Sega Saturn version.
• Referenced by...: Shantae: Half-Genie Hero: One of the achievements is named "Jump Jump Slide Slide". You get it by jumping over all of the barrels in the area where Shantae's sliding down a ramp, like the snowboarding sections in this game.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: A very minor case all considered, but in the Legacy Collection the Rush Health icon no longer has the red cross on it, due to the Red Cross organisation's strict view on use of the symbol these days.
• Video Game Demake: Much like Mega Man 7, this game got a fan remake with 8-bit graphics and sounds. Notably, it also shortens a few of the longer levels like Frost Man's, removes the island and mountain levels, all but drops the Duo/Evil Energy plot, and implements the shop system from 9 and 10.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Duo was originally intended to be created by Dr. Cossack instead of a robot from space, which explains why his head still looks like a Russian ushanka.
  • It was discovered in October 2021 that the game had several features that were cut most likely due to time constraints, such as the ability to charge Water Balloon and Thunder Claw (the former becoming Aqua Man's Water Cannon from his Boss Battle), Search Man's obtainable weapon being his spiked disk instead of Homing Sniper, and bosses having more varied attacks.

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