History VideoGame / MegaManMaker

* GoombaStomp: Unlike ''Videogame/MegaMan3'', the Top Spin weapon can be used to bounce safely off enemies and damage them in the process.

** Upon completing, of failing, the Wily Challenges you can download any levels you played. Just in case you came across one you really liked.

* {{Antepiece}}: In the tutorial, Dr. Wily and Dr. Light advise to introduce a gimmick in a safe way first before testing the player with it. It's generally considered [[HouseRules bad practice among the community]] to introduce a new gimmick in the level in a room with too many enemies, or, even worse, with OneHitKill hazards in it [[note]]Seasoned level builders never take another player's knowledge of a level object for granted since there are '''so many things''' to work with in ''Mega Man Maker'' and you can never know if the person playing is a veteran of the series or a newcomer with little knowledge of the level hazards and gimmicks[[/note]].

* UnwinnableByDesign: Can happen to anyone-- from new players to even veterans due to lack of knowledge/testing, overisght or sheer accident[[note]]This is one of the reasons players are often encouraged to intentionally ''fail'' parts of their own levels, in order to see if they didn't overlook something that can end up frustrating others[[/note]].

* UnwinnableByDesign: Can happen to anyone-- from new players to even veterans due to lack of knowledge/testing, overisght or sheer accident[[note]]This is one of the reasons players are often encouraged to intentionally ''fail'' their own levels, in order to see if they didn't overlook something that can end up frustrating others[[/note]].

* UnwinnableByDesign: Can happen to anyone-- from new players to even veterans due to lack of knowledge/testing, overisght or sheer accident.

* UnwinnableByDesign: Happens naturally to new players, even veterans, for lack of knowledge/testing, overisght or sheer accident.

* UnwinnableByDesign: While such shenanigans are frowned upon, one could set up levels with softlocking traps. Like a path filled with goal orbs [[SchmuckBait that leads to]] a spike pit with a checkpoint over it.

* BlackoutBasement: Hologran enemies and a special tile can cause the screen to go dark hiding dangers like bottomless pits and spikes.

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Normally all it does is kick you to the nearest the start of the level or the nearest checkpoint. Averted in Wily Challenges where you have a limited number of lives.

* BlackoutBasement: Hologran enemies and a tile can cause the screen to go dark hiding dangers like bottomless pits and spikes.

* SpikesOfDoom: It wouldn't be ''Mega Man'' without 'em. Any player that isn't a complete newcomer will be '''very''' wary of these things and they come in all sorts of flavor: pointy, spherical, trident and even wooden. There's no shortage of ways to make a player's life difficult; tough jumps, spike drops[[note]]long falling sessions where the player has to avoid spikes having only the brief vertical screen scrolling to react[[/note]], or even spikes in boss rooms.

* SpikesOfDoom: It wouldn't be ''Mega Man'' without 'em. Any player that isn't a complete newcomer will be '''very''' wary of these things and there's no shortage of ways to make their life difficult either with tough jumps, spike drops[[note]]long falling sessions where the player has to avoid spikes having only the brief vertical screen scrolling to react[[/note]], or even spikes in boss rooms.

** Top Spin from ''VideoGame/MegaMan3'' can be used to kill weaker enemies without fear of ContactDamage and to bounce on top of tougher ones.

** Most shield weapons had something added to differentiate them from each other to prevent them from being mere PalleteSwap. See UtilityWeapon for more details.

** Thunder Wool from ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'' has much wider range when the thunder strikes the ground and its
wool/cloud won't fade away if it hits an enemy.

* BalanceBuff: The weapons in this game tend to be buffed so that they can become a bit more useful than their debut games:

** Super Arm also from ''VideoGame/MegaMan1'' had very limited use since you needed to find specific blocks in order for it to work. This game makes it much more useful by incorporating Guts Man's ability from ''VideoGame/MegaManPoweredUp'' to generate up to five Guts Blocks.

** Thunder Wool from ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'' has much wider range when the thunder strikes the ground and its wool/cloud won't fade away if it hits an enemy.

* BalanceBuff: The weapons in this game tend to be buffed so that they can become a bit more useful than their debut games. For example, the Hyper Bomb is not very useful in ''VideoGame/MegaMan1'', as it takes a while to explode when not making contact and the blast radius is small. In this game, it retains the delayed time to explode, but the blast radius now becomes bigger and goes four-ways like the bombs in ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}'', and also damages enemies or Hyper Bomb blocks upon contact. Also, Super Arm from the same game had very limited use since you needed to find specific blocks in order for it to work. This game makes it much more useful by incorporating Guts Man's ability from ''VideoGame/MegaManPoweredUp'' to generate up to five Guts Blocks.

## The less known, "boss rooms" that comes between parts of a level in the same vein of VideoGame/MegaMan1 and VideoGame/MegaManX1.

* SoundtrackDissonance: Nothing stops you from putting somber music in a saccharine looking level and vice-versa. Or putting ''Mega Man 1'' boss theme when fighting ''Mega Man 11'' bosses.

* InstantWinCondition: Party Balls and Energy Elements will grant victory to the player even if there are still bosses alive on-screen.
* InstructiveLevelDesign: Most types of map are encouraged to do this lest they fall into GuideDangIt by someone who isn't all too familiar with a something, be an enemy, a level object, a gimmick, or even lack of knowledge of the special properties added to special weapons.

* InstantWinCondition: Party Balls and Energy Elements will grant victory to the player even if there are still bosses alive on-screen.