| Mega Man Legends | |
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| Developer(s) | Capcom Production Studio 2 |
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| Director(s) | Yoshinori Kawano |
| Producer(s) |
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| Designer(s) | Kazunori Kadoi |
| Programmer(s) | Masaru Ijuin |
| Artist(s) | Kazushi Ito[1] |
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| Composer(s) | Makoto Tomozawa |
| Series | Mega Man Legends |
| Platform(s) | |
| Release | PlayStationNintendo 64WindowsPlayStation Portable
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| Genre(s) | Action-adventure, third-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Mega Man Legends[a] is a 1997 action-adventure game released by Capcom. It is the first game in the Mega Man Legends sub-series of Mega Man games from Capcom, and the second major 3D polygonal Mega Man title in the franchise, following Mega Man: Battle & Chase.[2] It was released for the PlayStation in 1997 in Japan, and in 1998 in North America. A Nintendo 64 port was released in 2000 with the same title, but it was renamed Mega Man 64 for the North American release in 2001. It was also ported to Windows in 2001, and to the PlayStation Portable in 2005, the latter only in Japan. Its most recent release was as a PS one Classic on the North American PlayStation Network in 2015.
Legends stars a new incarnation of Mega Man, known as Mega Man Volnutt, the game's player character. Mega Man Volnutt is a "Digger," someone tasked with investigating ruins on a flooded Earth. During his journey with his friends, their ship crashes on Kattelox Island, where Mega Man confronts pirates seeking the island's hidden treasure. As an action-adventure game, Mega Man Legends's gameplay is significantly different from the original series, though it retains some familiar elements.
Mega Man Legends received positive critical reception for its transition from 2D graphics to 3D. However, the Nintendo 64 and Windows ports were criticized for lacking improvements over the PlayStation version, whose graphics were considered outdated by the time of their release. Mega Man Legends was followed by the prequel The Misadventures of Tron Bonne and a sequel titled Mega Man Legends 2.
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- ^ "Mega Man Neo" (PDF). Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 96. Ziff Davis. July 1997. p. 108. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-08-28. Retrieved 2020-06-05.
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