Still an enjoyable experience thanks to the foundation and controls of the SNES trilogy being so solid but definitely a noticeable step down from X1 and X2. The damage scaling is insane with contact damage from basic enemies regularly taking off over half your health, the enemy variety is notably low, and its implementation of Zero is a big letdown. Despite this, the new upgrades are fantastic and the fact that there's way more of them plays to the game's strength, and the music is still great which is always appreciated even if having at least that much is standard for this series. It's understandable to skip this one but it's still decent enough to be worth at least trying.