Yk as much as I think that some of the things this game did are great (Mainly proto man, some of the music and the slide as a movement option), it's just not as interesting as the second one. None of the weapons really spoke to me, so I just ended up using the shuriken the most, which is just the megaman 2 metal man weapon but... worse. It was either that or the buster, as they were the only ones that actually helped me.
Rush is... ok I guess? it's a cool dog with some functions, but they were already in old games in some way or the other, so is it really new? not really
So yeah
OH also the boss fights were sooooo boring (sorry not sorry) and there were way too many of them for my liking, I actually had to play this game in more than one sitting cuz I was kinda disconnecting mentally

Tl:DR, It's fine ig