One day you'll be back my little blue friend.

紛れもないクソゲー
過去作ロックマンに比べてステージが1.5~2倍近く長いのにも関わらず残機が無くなれば最初からという鬼畜。
それに比べボスは雑魚なので横スクロール系のソウルライク的な魅力も皆無。
初見殺しのステージギミックやイライラさせるつもりしかない敵配置、敵の攻撃でHPが0になって死ぬことはほぼ有り得ない、それよりも一撃で即死する棘や落下で殺すため一度のミスで全てが終わる。クソほど長いステージを死に物狂いで最後の方まで行ったら死んで１からリスタートはステージのボリューム増加に見合っていない。
爽快感はなく、買ってしまった以上やるしかないという意識でしかプレイできない。
ステージ途中でやめることも出来ない。ただただクソ。イライラしかたまらない。
昔のゲーム特有の圧倒的鬼畜を体験したい人間にしかお勧めできない。

So, I'm a bit late to this one. Always liked the Mega Man series' lore, art and characters but never played many of the games when I was young aside from a tiny bit of X1 and a chunk of X7 that I remember almost nothing of. Mostly because I'm just very neutral on platformers in general. They're fine, but not a genre that grips me.

Some point recently I got it in my head that I was going to play all the mainline Mega Man games, at least the classic ones. Played and beat 1-4, but those games were built different and I was not acclimated to how difficult the series actually was. I had to occasionally (mildly frequently) use the rewind function to beat those, but I still had fun with it. I tried not to spam it too much, and bit by bit I started to at least get the gist of how those games work. After 4 I was charmed enough by them to be curious to see how Capcom handled the most modern entry, and it happened to be on sale.

I love this game. It's so fun to play in a way that's hard for me to describe.

In particular, the difficulty hits a sweet spot for me. There are difficulty settings to chose from, but in addition, the difficulty is kinda what you make it. I've been playing on Normal, and at first I was dying left and right to both enemies and hazards. But after each Game Over, you can spend resources to buy consumables and upgrades that change your approach to the game little by little. A lot of these shop options carried my ass through my first few hours, as since I used the rewind crutch for 1-4, I was still not very good at Mega Man. Over time I started to rely on them less, and even turn a few of them off as I started to enjoy the challenge as I was getting better. Eventually I was blitzing through stages without relying much on upgrades or even the Double Gear system (too much). It's hard to put into words how satisfying it's been to slowly start to 'get good'. It's kinda magical, and again, I really don't care all that much for 2-D platformers. For more experienced fans of the series though, there's a Super Hero difficulty that I'm kinda excited to try. And if you feel upgrades make things too easy, try burning through without them.
All this disjointed rambling to say; difficulty feels great to me. Longtime fans of the series probably wouldn't rate this one as one of the hardest or anything though.

OST is great, which is expected because Mega Man games typically never miss when is comes to the soundtrack. I've seen a number of people say that it's good but overall one of the weaker entries as far as the music, and I can see their point to an extent. Classic fan favorites like MM2 has a soundtrack that contains mostly instantly memorable bangers. This one has slowly wormed it's way into my heart though, and I think a lot of these tracks a great. Especially the Stage Select, definitely my favorite SS theme so far.

There's some weird stuff with the controller support; It detects the bumpers as triggers and vice versa, won't let me use the D-Pad instead of the analog stick, and has some weird stuff with the face buttons. I do prefer to use a DS4, so these could be a me problem.

TLDR;

This is a blast to play. If you like platformers or Mega Man and haven't tried this one yet, it's well worth it. Even if you don't -particularly- care about platformers, or have never played a Mega Man game, there is a good chance this game will win you over. But then again I'm just some weirdo