I'm still surprised almost 20 years after the game release than Capcom decided to not continue the gameplay style from BN4 and returned to the old roots with BN5 while mixing a new game mode which is the liberation missions (and i say this because ironically BN4 was the battlenetwork game who most sold even sucking a lot).
The story embraces the edginess like BN3 did and goes even further in my opinion (and it is a good thing), the soundtrack is good as always, there's a more variety of chips but at the same time i felt there's less combos to do (and P.A is nerfed to the oblivion in this game), the souls are interesting but in TP Gyrosoul is the only one really reliable because you have the Tornado combo or the double damage you can do with Super Vulcan, the post-game is really lacking in anything other than defeating certain DarkSoul navis who can use some battlechips, the "dungeons" puzzles are almost always just walking from X to Y without anything else and at the end the best thing here is the Liberation Mission mode... Which honestly, i don't really have anything against or anything i like about it at all.
The concept is nice and playing as an another Robot Master / Navi with his own quirks is a really nice idea, the final Factory Comp dungeon even makes an excellent use of it making you use those navis along Megaman.EXE to beat the crap out of the gay dark chip users, but the liberation missions itself are painfully easy to beat if you're not playing by some retard conditions like i did (fvck you RetroAchievements), you don't really need any strategy besides Napalmman clearing a whole row or using Gyroman to rush into the barrier keys / dark holes and the game really doesn't cover this mechanic that much beside 9 missions which 3 is with recicled bosses.
If i had to make a resume of everything, i would say you both to play the Team Colonel version since Team Protoman is just a fanfic, not the canon, and while this isn't a bad game it isn't that good like BN2/BN3 Blue was before or gameplay-wise BN6 is as the peak of the series with the combat creativity the game offers you (like deleting Colonel with a conveyor and a sensor ship, or using the Tornado combo to instadelete the last boss in Cybeast Gregar).
The story embraces the edginess like BN3 did and goes even further in my opinion (and it is a good thing), the soundtrack is good as always, there's a more variety of chips but at the same time i felt there's less combos to do (and P.A is nerfed to the oblivion in this game), the souls are interesting but in TP Gyrosoul is the only one really reliable because you have the Tornado combo or the double damage you can do with Super Vulcan, the post-game is really lacking in anything other than defeating certain DarkSoul navis who can use some battlechips, the "dungeons" puzzles are almost always just walking from X to Y without anything else and at the end the best thing here is the Liberation Mission mode... Which honestly, i don't really have anything against or anything i like about it at all.
The concept is nice and playing as an another Robot Master / Navi with his own quirks is a really nice idea, the final Factory Comp dungeon even makes an excellent use of it making you use those navis along Megaman.EXE to beat the crap out of the gay dark chip users, but the liberation missions itself are painfully easy to beat if you're not playing by some retard conditions like i did (fvck you RetroAchievements), you don't really need any strategy besides Napalmman clearing a whole row or using Gyroman to rush into the barrier keys / dark holes and the game really doesn't cover this mechanic that much beside 9 missions which 3 is with recicled bosses.
If i had to make a resume of everything, i would say you both to play the Team Colonel version since Team Protoman is just a fanfic, not the canon, and while this isn't a bad game it isn't that good like BN2/BN3 Blue was before or gameplay-wise BN6 is as the peak of the series with the combat creativity the game offers you (like deleting Colonel with a conveyor and a sensor ship, or using the Tornado combo to instadelete the last boss in Cybeast Gregar).