Mega Man Battle and Chase

Also known as Rockman - Battle & Chase in Japan region. This is another karting game that's way to long for its own good and sadly lacking a couple of features found in the Japanese version which I had not known before starting the longplay making the whole experience feel less than rewarding.

I play as Megaman and play through all races in grand prix mode. After wining each race an item is unlocked and I show the description of what it is. Sometimes I will equip it to show its abilities as well but later on in the game I cant do that so much as I need fastest setup to beat the track. Now the kicker is that I have to finish the game 4 times in order to unlock all the parts and due to a wasted opportunity on the developers part there is no change to the story at the end of each grand prix. This come to upset more at the end of the 4th gp as there is no alternate ending in the euro version after unlocking all of Dr. Wilys car parts. I was less than impressed. Also the game gets insanely difficult by the time you hit the 4th gp. The ai cars cheat and travel faster than I can even with maxed out turbo pickup and fastest car parts. It took me a day or two to get through all those races.

After the 4gps are complete, I show some unlocked tracks in VS mode that are not part of the gp championship.

Another aspect of the game which I should have researched more before I started is calling up the shadow team. After winning the first gp, the shadow team cars are supposed to appear at random to compete against. However you need fast car parts so that I could not take them on right away. You can press a button combination while the signal lights count down to call them. In hindsight these should be done as soon as possible and don't wait till the end of the game like I did as it will create a large problem later on.

After beating all 4 shadow team challenges you can race again on 4 specific tracks to get their car parts which will build the DUO car. Now the faq was not clear on this and claimed that these car parts are not possible to pickup in gp mode, but in fact can only be picked up in gp mode. Now the problem for me was I had already finished the game so the difficulty was super hard in that I needed to go off track to get the part and then get back into the race and win. Very infuriating at times. If I had cleared the shadow team in gp3, I'm sure the race would have been much easier (as you can replay a race even if you have won it) After unlock duo, he can only be raced in VS mode so I take the opportunity to show the final unlocked track as well as duo here.

I'm still gutted about the lack of alternate ending in euro version as it was something to reward the time spent playing.

00:00:00 Intro and Grand Prix 1 (Easy)
01:06:30 Grand Prix 2 (Medium)
02:04:21 Grand Prix 3 (Hard)
03:10:12 Grand Prix 4 (Infuriating)

04:12:20 Grand Prix Loop5 (Infuriating) A single race where I unlock last Shadow team race here.

04:19:25 I show a few tracks in VS mode that have been unlocked and not raced in gp mode.

04:37:08 Back in to GP mode Loop5. I play the 4 tracks needed to pickup the car parts to unlock duo.

04:55:47 Back into VS mode to show off the final track using the DUO car and compete against the DUO Hard Grandeur which is different to the car I unlocked.