I have never been great at Mega Man games but the option to play the game on an easier mode really helps. Most things feel like reasonable challenges. If you know what you're doing this game is rather short, but the weapons and mix-and-match powerups from the shop do provide the game some replayability, especially if you want to try out the harder difficulty modes. I'm under no illusion that I'll ever be able to get all the achievements for this game, but I've had fun going after them and have managed to get the majority despite being bad, which tells me that most of the achievements were designed with the capabilities of an average player in mind.

One complaint is that if you've never played a Mega Man classic game before, I can see the moveset being unintuitive. Especially if you're coming here from the X series. They explain the new stuff (the gears) but not the old stuff (Rush coil and slide) which felt like an oversight given the rest of the game's presentation. When you get a boss weapon, you have a whole little (optional) tutorial letting you play around with it to learn it, and there's also one for the Rush jet you unlock partway through the game, so why they didn't so much as mention your initial movement options is beyond me. While you don't really need Rush coil, I can see new players getting frustrated or bricked in several places because they don't realize that the slide is a button COMBO and not a dedicated button like literally everything else. Pre-existing Mega Man fans will know this, but new players may be confused as to why a slide option exists in the button binding menu but isn't seemingly bound to anything.

That being said, this is also definitely the game with the most newbie-friendly features built in. Most of the Legacy collections have optional newbie modes, but the options available here feel more sophisticated and nuanced for various levels of play, versus the Legacy Collection's "either the game holds your hand or it won't" methodology.

Overall I had fun and will probably play through this one again every once in a while, just because it's very easy to pick up and play a stage or two. If you ever wanted to try a classic-style Mega Man game, this is probably the best place to start.

Cons: No controller support.

---{ Graphics }---
🔲 Awful
🔲 Bad
✅ Will do
🔲 Decent (Nothing special)
🔲 Stunning
🔲 Visual Masterpiece

---{ Gameplay }---
🔲 Bad
✅ Okay
🔲 Nothing special
🔲 Very good
🔲 Good
🔲 Try not to get addicted

---{ Audio }---
🔲 Bad
🔲 Not too bad
✅ Good
🔲 Masterpiece

---{ PC Requirements }---
✅ Potato
🔲 Decent
🔲 Fast
🔲 High-end PC
🔲 Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Difficulty }---
🔲 Just press a bunch of buttons
✅ Easy
🔲 Significant brain usage
🔲 Easy to learn / Hard to master
🔲 Difficult
🔲 Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
✅ Nothing
🔲 Only if you care about 100%
🔲 Average grind level
🔲 Too much grind
🔲 Insanity

---{ Story }---
🔲 None/Not important in this game
🔲 Bad
✅ Average
🔲 Great
🔲 One of the best I've had the pleasure of playing

---{ Price }---
🔲 Free
🔲 Cheap
🔲 Underpriced
✅ Acceptable price
🔲 Overpriced
🔲 Complete waste of money

---{ Bugs }---
🔲 Never heard of
✅ Minor bugs
🔲 Can get annoying
🔲 Bugpocalypse: Proceed with caution

---{ Length }---
✅ Very Short (0 - 4 hours)
🔲 Short (4 - 10 hours)
🔲 Average (10-30 hours)
🔲 Long (30-50 hours)
🔲 Extremely long (50-100+ hours)
✅ For 100%: 20-30 hours
🔲 No ending

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