40 Fun Facts About Mega Man Legends 2

The airship Sulphur-Bottom in Mega Man Legends 2 takes its name from an old nickname for which sea creature?

Blue whale bellies can look yellowish from tiny algae, so whalers called them sulphur-bottoms, and the huge airship in the game vaguely resembles one.

The music aboard the Sulphur-Bottom in Mega Man Legends 2 is an arrangement of 'Spring' by which Baroque composer?

Vivaldi wrote Spring as the first concerto of The Four Seasons, and its bright tune suits the luxurious airship that Von Bluecher sank his whole fortune into.

The fan campaign to revive the cancelled sequel to Mega Man Legends 2 is nicknamed Get Me Off the what?

Moon was the fans' shorthand for where the hero is left stranded, and the Facebook group behind the plea reached 100,000 members in April 2012.

Reviewers at IGN and GameSpot compared the dungeons of Mega Man Legends 2 with those of which adventure series?

Zelda was the yardstick: IGN likened the ruins to those in Ocarina of Time, only lighter on puzzles, and GameSpot found them less cerebral but varied.

Mega Man Legends 3, the cancelled sequel to Mega Man Legends 2, was announced in 2010 for which handheld console?

Nintendo 3DS owners were promised an eShop Prototype Version with ten missions first, but Capcom scrapped both it and the full game in July 2011.

As Mega Man Legends 2 ends with its hero stranded far from home, Roll Caskett and friends set about building what?

A rocket is his only way home, and once the planned third game was cancelled in 2011, the rescue it was built for was left unresolved.

Which mechanical monkey starts a fire while cooking at the start of Mega Man Legends 2?

Data speaks only in monkey chatter that Mega Man alone understands, yet he also saves the game and refills health whenever the player talks to him.

Critics said the expressive story cutscenes of Mega Man Legends 2 made the game feel like watching what?

An anime was the standard comparison, helped by faces that change expression and mouths that move, and GameSpot likened the result to an anime you can play.

What legendary treasure, said to hold limitless energy, is the goal of the expedition in Mega Man Legends 2?

Mother Lode turns out to be no treasure at all: the four keys Mega Man gathers open an ancient Library holding a program built to wipe out the planet's people.

Which new kind of ruin in Mega Man Legends 2 makes the frame rate drop on the original console?

Underwater ruins change the physics too: objects weigh less there, and the hero can jump higher than he can on dry land.

Which airship, home to Mega Man Volnutt and Roll Caskett, carries the pair between islands in Mega Man Legends 2?

Flutter troubles open both games: engine failure crash-lands it on an island in the first, and a cooking fire closes off several rooms in the second.

Which polar destination, wrapped in a violent storm, does the Sulphur-Bottom set out for in Mega Man Legends 2?

Forbidden Island sits exactly at the North Pole on the in-game map, and a graveyard in Yosyonke City remembers the explorers who never came back from it.

Which mysterious woman, disguised as a television reporter, warns the Sulphur-Bottom to turn back in Mega Man Legends 2?

Yuna is really an ancient android living in a borrowed human body, which is why the professor on board mistakes her for his long-lost daughter.

Which ancient android, accidentally freed from her seal by Mega Man Volnutt, is the final boss of Mega Man Legends 2?

Sera never actually runs the purge she threatens; she waits to duel the hero instead, hoping a win will prove that the man they both served liked her more.

Which professor, grandfather of Roll Caskett, joins his old friend Von Bluecher's expedition in Mega Man Legends 2?

Barrel raised the hero as well: he found him as a baby deep inside sealed ruins and brought him up alongside his own granddaughter.

On which orbiting colony, a supposedly perfect world, is Mega Man Volnutt left stranded when Mega Man Legends 2 ends?

Elysium is called Heaven in the Japanese version, and its ancient builders never aged, fell ill or went hungry, yet all but one of them had vanished.

A demo of Mega Man Legends 2 first shipped with a 1999 spin-off game starring which pirate antihero?

Tron Bonne spends that game robbing banks and raiding ruins in her Gustaff mech to pay off a huge family debt and free her captured brothers.

Which small robots, about forty identical helpers, follow the pirate siblings in Mega Man Legends 2?

Servbots look identical, yet the spin-off about their mistress gives each one its own personality, skills and even a laziness level to manage.

What name is given to the hostile ancient robots that guard the underground ruins explored in Mega Man Legends 2?

Reaverbots are usually marked by a single round red eye and skeletal ridges, and their origin is one of the biggest unanswered mysteries of the Legends games.

What ancient energy crystals, whose shards serve as money, are sought in the ruins of Mega Man Legends 2?

Refractors are the civilisation's main power supply, and in the first game one huge red crystal is enough to get a grounded airship flying again.

What is the name of the money that defeated enemies drop for Mega Man Volnutt to spend in Mega Man Legends 2?

Zenny pours in faster once the hero passes a harder license test, because the tougher enemies that follow leave bigger rewards behind.

What kind of license, earned by passing optional tests, opens restricted ruins in Mega Man Legends 2?

Digger license classes cut both ways: a higher grade opens more ruins and bigger payouts, but S class doubles the health of every enemy compared with B class.

In Mega Man Legends 2, Roll Caskett guides Mega Man Volnutt through ruins from afar in what named support role?

Spotter is only half of her job: she also flies their airship and builds the hero's special weapons out of junk he brings back from the ruins.

Which new move in Mega Man Legends 2 replaced the kick that Mega Man Volnutt used inside ruins in the first game?

A lift and throw, officially called the Lifter, lets the hero hurl blocks and small enemies at other foes, even ones that would burn or freeze him on contact.

Which special weapon built by Roll Caskett in Mega Man Legends 2 can break through certain walls inside ruins?

Drill Arm hits hard but has almost no reach, so it is poor in a fight, and in the sequel it is made from a Broken Drill and some Heavy Duty Gear.

Which single island was the setting of the first Legends game, before Mega Man Legends 2 spread across many?

Kattelox is where engine trouble strands the heroes, and its mayor had to approve each ruin they entered, a system the sequel swapped for license tests.

Before his memory was reset, Mega Man Volnutt of Mega Man Legends 2 was an ancient unit called Mega Man what?

Trigger was a Purifier Unit who turned on the system he served, then hid his memories inside a small companion so that nobody could tamper with them.

Which 3,000-year-old figure, called the last true human, gave Mega Man Volnutt his dying wish in Mega Man Legends 2?

The Master asked to be taken down to the planet, liked the lively world he saw there, and with his last request asked for the old system to be destroyed.

What do the ancient machines of Mega Man Legends 2 call the artificial people who now live on the flooded planet?

Carbons are flesh and blood yet can swap body parts for machinery, and in Japan the same people are known by a blunter name: Decoys.

Which producer of Mega Man Legends 2 later left Capcom yet offered to finish the cancelled third game with his own team?

Keiji Inafune once named the first Legends as his favourite game, even while admitting it had sold poorly, and Capcom turned his offer down.

Which vain air pirate, a foe from the earlier spin-off, commands an army of Birdbots in Mega Man Legends 2?

Glyde tries to seize an island with his troops, and his airship is finally destroyed when the island's Parabola Gun sends everyone aboard into helpless hysterics.

Which veteran air pirate, brother-in-law of Klaymoor, floats in mid-air and fights with blades in Mega Man Legends 2?

Bola has saved enough to retire and keeps fighting only as a favour, and after losing twice to the hero he shrugs that he must be getting old.

Which dragon-like servant takes over the Sulphur-Bottom and must be beaten on its deck in Mega Man Legends 2?

Geetz can merge with machines, which is how he seizes the airship, and when the fight is lost he dives at the hero and blows himself up.

In Mega Man Legends 2, the pirates' Gemeinschaft that attacks near Yosyonke City is what kind of vehicle?

A train with two armed cars, it ends an uneasy alliance: once the rival gang's car is crippled, the pirate siblings happily uncouple it and leave it to explode.

On which island was Mega Man Volnutt found as a baby, deep inside sealed ruins, in the Mega Man Legends story?

Nino is revisited in the sequel, where the hero defends the island from an invasion of Birdbots and explores the very ruins he was found in.

Which new heroine of the cancelled Mega Man Legends 3 had her final design picked by a fan vote?

Aero was to team up with a second newcomer, Barrett, and the returning cast to bring the stranded hero home after the events of Mega Man Legends 2.

Which composer wrote the music for Mega Man Legends 2, having also scored the first Legends game?

Makoto Tomozawa stayed attached to the series: in June 2020 he asked fans on social media whether they would back crowdfunding for the cancelled third game.

The Japanese subtitle of Mega Man Legends 2, Ōinaru Isan, translates into English as which phrase?

Great Inheritance is also labelled Episode 2 in Japan, because the earlier demo with its own separate story had already been released as Episode 1.

Under what title, shared with the first game and a later mobile spin-off, is Mega Man Legends 2 known in Japan?

Rockman DASH hides a phrase in its capitals: the last three letters stand for Adventure Story in Halcyon Days.

By what name do the ancient characters of Mega Man Legends 2 refer to the flooded planet Earth?

Terra is watched from above by an orbiting colony, and the last of the colony's makers asked to be brought down to the surface, where he died.