Yeah, you read the title right. I think Mega Man 5 is both the best classic Mega Man game and one of the most underrated games I have ever played. I adore this game from start to finish, it is one of my all time favorite platformer games. The game features some of the best level variety I have found in a platformer game, especially for a game on the fucking NES. It’s wild. This game has great levels, pretty good weapons, great bosses, and feels like the pinnacle of what a platformer game from this era could be. For all of these reasons and more, it is my favorite NES game, and I hope I can convince some of the people who don’t love it as much as me to think about it more and perhaps give it a second chance.

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I wanna get this out of the way right now: Mega Man 4 is a good game. It’s fun, it’s not bad. However, it is definitely the least interesting of the original six NES Mega Man games. It is the most standard game, the one that is not exceptionally good or notably bad. It’s just a solid and fun game in a great series. Now, that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot to be said about it, or that game designers can’t learn from it. The game does add a decent amount of new elements to the series that are worth looking at, and of course since the game is fun overall, there are elements of its stage design that stand out.

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