Mega Man 5 [NES] No Damage Playthrough

Played by Zenith.

I don't have much to say about this one, since most of the bosses are relatively straight-forward and don't pose a serious challenge. And I didn't make any egregious "errors" this time, unlike in my Mega Man 4 run. This time, the name of the game is to keep close to your adversaries. It usually causes them to perform some easily avoidable attacks in a repetitive loop.

For example, Crystal Man's initial attack looks daunting, but is very easy to dodge with some practice. Then, if you stick close enough to him, he'll just jump around and occasionally try to hit you with one of his crystals (or energy pellet?) and never try to attack you with the more complicated crystal ricochet. That's a common theme, actually; robot masters jumping around during close-quarters combat.

The Dark Man fights are among the hardest here. Dark Man 1 is extremely wide. You need to take out at roughly half of his HP for him to begin moving faster, which will then assist you in being able to clear a jump over his head. Dark Man 3, in particular, I make look easy, but the timing to jump over is immobilizing shots is actually quite precise, since he tracks your movements. A jump too early will cause him to aim up at you and you will be hit.

I could've saved some time and unleashed the beast known as Beat on Dr. Wily's saucer, but I decided to fight him fair-and-square. However, it's a lot of waiting around for the perfect moment to strike, and Wily isn't threatening at all, so maybe I should have.

0:00 - Intro
0:53 - Napalm Man's stage
3:03 - Napalm Man fight
4:07 - Stone Man's stage
7:11 - Stone Man fight
8:07 - Charge Man's stage
10:02 - Charge Man fight
11:10 - Wave Man's stage
14:08 - Wave Man fight
15:13 - Star Man's stage
17:20 - Star Man fight
18:17 - Gravity Man's stage
20:12 - Gravity Man fight
21:07 - Gyro Man's stage
23:27 - Gyro Man fight
24:19 - Crystal Man's stage
26:20 - Crystal Man fight
27:23 - Proto Man stage 1
29:27 - Dark Man fight 1
30:16 - Proto Man stage 2
32:27 - Dark Man fight 2
33:22 - Proto Man stage 3
36:21 - Dark Man fight 3
37:11 - Proto Man stage 4
38:00 - Dark Man fight 4
40:13 - Wily stage 1
42:48 - Big Pez fight
44:14 - Wily stage 2
46:08 - Circring Q9 fight
47:27 - Wily stage 3
47:38 - Gravity Man fight 2
48:12 - Wave Man fight 2
48:44 - Stone Man fight 2
49:07 - Star Man fight 2
49:32 - Crystal Man fight 2
50:03 - Napalm Man fight 2
50:33 - Charge Man fight 2
51:09 - Gyro Man fight 2
51:31 - Wily Press fight
53:03 - Wily stage 4
53:29 - Wily Machine 5 fight
53:53 - Wily Saucer II fight
55:48 - Ending

Is all, really.