Mega Man fans and Hand-Drawn Game Guides fans rejoice as Phil Summers has started a new Kickstarter project for a Hand-Drawn Game Guide for the original Mega Man game. Phil made a name for himself a few years back with a number of Unofficial Guides for the likes of The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Contra. This time around, he has teamed up with Nintendo Force and has full approval from Capcom to make an official guide for Mega Man.
The Kickstarter project is live now and has a selection of tiers available, each with their own assortment of rewards from digital and physical copies of the guide to art cards, bookmarks, getting your name printed in the book, and more. Some of the higher tiers have already been backed, but if you are interested in picking up a copy of Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man, you can make your way over to the project page here.
Will you be procuring your copy? Which did tiers you go for? Do let us know in the comments.
About the project:
True to its name and Phil’s original aim, every creative element inside Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man is hand-made. Phil has illustrated every character. Every level map. Every tip and trick and tricky trap!Â
Working with honest-to-goodness, actual art supplies on real, tangible paper, Phil has brought the world of Mega Man’s original 1987 adventure to brand-new life. Maps offer accurate layouts of the levels as they appear in the game, but then greatly expand the art out beyond the borders of the game screens to imagine what the surrounding landscapes must look like as the Blue Bomber is blazing his way past all of Dr. Wily’s big, bad bots. Individual examinations of every enemy character present information on their movement patterns and attacks, as well as taking a look inside their robotic construction. Epic two-page spreads depict Mega Man’s climactic encounters against each Robot Master at the end of every level, while also presenting the best strategies for how to beat them! And this is just scratching the surface. There’s much more to discover in the full guidebook!
