Peak game made better like not much else to say if you want to play Sonic 3 play this one

It's 9 but a bit worse and has notably worse weapons but 9 is still the best one so that's like saying 23 karat gold is worse than 24 karat and like yeah it is but also it's still fantastic
Water shield is a very fun weapon but this is sadly another game where one weapon is just like the best one because Blade Man's weapon exists (sorry forgot the name I'm writing this at 1am) Solar Man's theme is super good too I love that song
Also having the gameboy bosses with their weapons as DLC and fully playable Proto man and Bass is insanely cool and makes this one of the most replayable games in the series

Its good don't get me wrong but it's extremely apparent that this is the first game in the series and it definitely lacks QoL and refinement

Kinda shitty dlc sorry glad repentance exists now

This was like one of my favourite games as a kid but god damn does it have so many kind of shitty 2D platforming levels that really bring down the actually great 3D levels

Eh it's alright but the definition of formulaic mega man game.
It's very easy (comparatively) and the weapons are mostly terrible, and you don't even need them since the charge shot it overpowered. I like most of the stages but they just don't stick with me very much.

it's a chat program where you can be like some funny character or a furry with a super high quality model but I don't have a vr headset so it's just like a chat program to me

Good foundation let down by lack of content at launch and weird design decisions. If the game launched in the state it was at 2.0 and then got updates on top of that easy 5 star.
Also I prefer the life sim aspects and they went away from that a bit in this entry to be more focused on customisation which is a downside for me.

THIS IS WHERE IT GETS GOOD
The first truly great mega man game, like all the levels are really well designed, this is the first game where a lot of the weapons are good instead of like 2 or 3, the music is great, it has a lot of levels due to two castles, visually it looks great too. Seriously if you tried playing 2 and didn't like it play this or 6 instead if you want to get into the classic mega man games.

Very fun game this was like my favourite when I was a kid

Eh not a huge fan of this one. The bigger sprite has always made it feel weird to play for me and while I do think the levels are great it's just not too memorable in my mind. Like it's great don't get me wrong but it doesn't stick with me much.

Peak maybe idk I kind of suck at it but I also love it

Eh it's good but not my kinda game sorry. The playstyle the game encourages is honestly not very fun to me and I think I like 2016 more because of it but the actual quality of the game is amazing which makes ranking it hard