I played this game a ton as a kid and loved it, but even back then I had a hard time playing it after Battle Network 2 came out. They already nailed the fundamentals of its battle system here, but the design of its dungeons and a lot of other little issues with the way its objectives were designed drag it down a lot. I never want to do that electric power plant dungeon again.

Battle Network has always had pretty bad dungeon design, but 2 onwards improved so many other systems (and the design of the internet itself) in a way that makes the flaws of this first game really stick out.