I dunno. I love this game. I love all the little gadgets and weapons and fun little side things it has. It's on the easy side, but I've always been of the opinion that a game doesn't have to be difficult to be engaging and fun; as long as you maintain some modicum of mechanical depth and allow for a player to experiment, you'll have something really special.

Say what you will about the game, but the sheer amount of ways it allows you to play it through its weapons and its adaptors will always be what elevates this game to my favorites of the NES Mega Man entries.


Also, use the Power Adaptor! There's an awesome trick with it; the fully charged punch will plow through shields and knock back bosses, right? But the more precisely-timed half charge will deal more damage. If you get the timing and spacing down exactly right, you can just absolutely annihilate anything in your path, fuck using a weakness.

It's lovely. I wish the later games in the series still had stuff like that.