After another long day of work, I come home and on my first day off in over a week, I immediately feel obligated to review the next game in this series. I open up my emulator and start Mega Man Zero 4. I see the title screen with those flashy Game Boy Advance interpolation rotation effects.

I feel nothing.

I get through the first level. It's fine. I fight the first boss. It's fine.

I continue to feel nothing.

What is the point? Why am I doing this?

Mega Man is a series that brings me no joy. I've only resigned myself to play it for the sake of others who want to read my thoughts on them. I'm sick of it. I can't keep doing this.

I'm sure Zero 4 is fine or whatever, it can't be much better or much worse than the other games in the series. I just don't have it in me to keep playing through these games. They all blend together in my mind and make me feel so empty.

I won't ever understand these games.