i feel like maybe the difficulty for this game was a little bit hyped up, but i could just be saying that because i used save states at some points at checkpoints before bosses. i feel like the difficulty was on par with some of the less good mega man games ive played like 1 or 3, but i think having put up with so much mega man bullshit now i feel desensitized to this game's bullshit, this being the last mainline mega man game i had left to play. playing the game again as bass also considerably lowered the difficulty in the platforming, but the last few bosses as bass were way more frustrating than when i was playing as mega man which i guess is the tradeoff. still love playing as bass though because you could zoom through the game as him. overall though aside from being able to play as bass and like the one cool scene with protoman this game just didnt evoke that much from me, it just felt very fine and generic for the most part.