Played the Rockman: Power Battle Fighters re-release for PS2! This was a surprisingly neat and brisk little boss rush game. Feels a good bit better than it has any right to—a lot better than Mega Man 7, which it borrows some of the sprites and backgrounds from. Unfortunately, the graphics (very, very cool to see a lot of the classic Robot Masters rendered in the MM7 style) and feel are about where The Power Battle’s appeal ends. Randomizing the Robot Masters and providing no method to heal between battles suggests that this was transparently intended to be a Mega Man themed coin inhaler back in the arcade. Of course, I avoided that coin munching by playing the PS2 version, but the game still seems to have been designed with money in mind. Still, The Power Battle is not bad at all, though it probably isn’t worth playing unless you’re going for series completion.

Interesting little Mega Man boss rush game. It's not a long or difficult game by any stretch of the imagination, but doing a 1CC of each of the 3 "courses" is actually a really fun time. I much prefer the versions of the bosses presented in this game over their console iterations. Mega Man is quite fun to control in this, the mega buster doesn't feel awful against bosses like in the console games, and it has beautiful sprite work and musi (the stage backgrounds too are gorgeous to see in action).

A little bit unreleated, but I'd only previously played Rockman: Battle & Fighters on my NGPC (My favourite game for the handheld infact) and actually playing the arcade version of Power Battle for the first time really made me appreciate just what that port brings to the table.

While not an outstanding game by any means, it's very fun and I would 100% reccomend checking out to kill a couple of hours going for all 3 1CCs (Especially as its like £1.70 on steam through Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium)