>>11979551 (OP)
I always like this version of the ending. I know it's changed from the Japanese version but I feel it works better. Megaman has been pushed far enough to consider crossing a line he shouldn't cross and kill a human, though whether he hesitates because he ultimately doesn't want to go that far or because of what Wily said about him being "just" a robot, or both, is unclear.
In the Japanese version Wily just says that robots can't hurt humans and Rockman goes "BZZT! ERROR! ERROR!" and appears to practically shut down, implying he really IS just a robot. (What the hell about Wily's bots though? Pretty sure they have no "Don't harm humans" programming)
I know that X's whole thing is that he does have free will, but the Japanese version implies that Rockman is just a machine that follows orders.
Also, plenty of kid's games had darker elements, hell, even cartoons back then. Disney of all things did not shy away from using the word "kill", I remember how the pilot to Darkwing Duck had a part where characters were arguing about killing each other.
>>11979568
Game Genie?
>"You didn't beat the-"
Do you think a 10 year old from the early 90s is going to care?
>>11979776
I think it was a way to retroactively put more credit into the "X could be dangerous because he has free will" angle MMX went for, since it came out before MM7, with the whole making it out to be that Megaman has no free will, at least, in the Japanese version.
>>11979912
That's a book from the 1700s, kids generally were worked to death back then and you were lucky to make it to 40.
>>11980179
IIRC only the response after Wily tells Megaman he can't hurt humans. In the Japanese version he appears to shut down, in the US version he claims he's more than just a robot and yells "Die Wily" but is interrupted with the place collapsing.
