Comments on: RS Links: Mega Man 9 – Removed Character!

By: monokoma

monokoma — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:02:56 +0000

Thank you for the infos Kiddo and Fliptroopa! :) It’s nice to know that the developers are so “open” talking about the removed girl, maybe they will even show her in the future?

By: FlipTroopa

FlipTroopa — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:15:32 +0000

I actually read in Nintendo Power just this past month that the second female Robot Master was meant to be Hornet Woman. However, when they realized the novelty would be wasted if they had TWO that were female, they turned the character into Hornet Man. Maybe that explains a few things about why Hornet Man is a fairly simplistic looking boss?

By: Kiddo

Kiddo — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:25:41 +0000

Probably related to this is something stated in the Nov. 2008 Nintendo Power issue with “Grand Theft Auto Chinatown” on the cover. Page 28 starts the section called “Cross the Boss”

“Hornet Man was originally going to be a female character Honey Woman, but after long consideration, the woman boss status was awarded to Splash Woman instead.” – Yoshitaka Hakateyama, character designer.

This quote implies however that only one or the other would’ve made it into the final.