If we didn’t accept WWW, we’re not accepting Gospel either.
Lan Hikari and his NetNavi/Brother MegaMan.EXE once saved the world from WWW and their dangerous Life Virus. Technically they saved it twice from those guys, but that’s dubiously canon. Either way, our heroes have gone back to their daily lives since then. However, they have reached one of the most important times in an elementary school kid’s life: summer vacation. Barring some lackluster grades, Lan is ready to take his vacation in stride! Unfortunately, there’s only one problem: there’s a new criminal organization on the internet: Gospel. Viruses once again fester on the net as this new netmafia grows in power. And you better believe that if one criminal organization was stopped by an eleven year old, he’ll have to stop the next one as well.
Welcome to Mega Man Battle Network 2! This is the sequel to Mega Man Battle Network and Mega Man Network Transmission. Though the latter isn’t exactly important nor was it even the same genre as the rest of the series (and I streamed that one instead of Lping it if that matters to you,) I’m going to issue a spoiler warning for both of those games regardless. We’re going into this one assuming you know the 1.5 plot points that are important in those games, and they’ll be casually discussed throughout this playthrough. That being said, anything that happens in later games will be discussed as vaguely as possible, so please try not to spoil anything from three onward, or at least use spoiler tags. While I’m familiar with the series, Loaka is not so I try not to give away much that happens down the line.
As for the game itself, it’s not exactly leaps and bounds ahead of BN1. Visually and mechanically, a lot of this should seem familiar if you played the first game. That’s not to say it’s the same experience with a new story stapled on, though. Lessons were learned from the first game, some of which make this one a bit more interesting and provides some variables for playthroughs. Bosses are also more elaborate than they were in the first game, which might sound good but personally I find it to be a bit annoying. There’s also the fact that the letter G might be the most powerful force in the series in this one, but we’ll get into that later. The fact of the matter is, if you liked the deck building and optimistic vision of the internet the first game provided, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll like this one too.
Episode List
Part 1: Virus Busting 201
