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1996
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1992
I really love 5 despite its flaws. It is my favorite NES Mega Man game. The buster is OP and makes the game a fair bit easier, as a lot of enemies will die to one charge shot. The robot master weapons are pretty bad overall but I still find enjoyment in trying to use them anyway. Whenever I need a Mega Man fix I can boot up this game and run through some stages and enjoy the music. It's the coziest mega man game.
1991
Mega Man 4 is where these games really started to settle in. The quality of the games gets more consistent from this game forward. Unfortunately I find the content of this game more forgettable than any other classic Mega Man. It feels like an awkward middle child to me. Fun nonetheless and I think it's objectively better than 1-3.
1990
This was my favorite of the first 6 Mega Man games for a long time and I still have a soft spot for it. The game's development was supposedly a nightmare and it shows with how the game runs and the level designs. However, I still find this game more enjoyable than the first two. I like the selection of robot masters, and it has one of the best soundtracks. If this game got the dev time it needed, it would have been really great.
1989
1987
Not bad. Note my experience may have been affected by me taking a long hiatus half way through the game. The game does a nice job of emulating the original Paper Mario games. Unfortunately, no part of it reaches the same heights. There are a LOT of sidequests, but most of the ones I played were uninteresting. Although I didn't fight every bounty boss, I enjoyed those fights the most. I can recommend this game if you have a Paper Mario shaped hole in your heart.
An enjoyable action platformer. Combat got old after a while and I started avoiding enemies. May have only been because I chose hard mode and enemies were tankier. I like that it's not a metroidvania. Didn't give a single shit about the story. Was able to get 101% in game and achievements before fighting the final boss so that was cool.
2021
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