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If you're a fan of classic platformers, especially Megman, then you'll enjoy this. It feels like the focus on this game was to improve the formula, but they got a little lost in some areas.

Enjoyed
- Aesthetically really cute
all the robot masters are free to be all shapes and sizes which adds to their personality and makes each fight feel unique
- English voice acting is finally good in a megaman game
- All the weapons feel very useful
- Power gear feels like a natural upgrade of Megaman
feels like a callback/call forward to the X series
- Great QOL improvements for the controls
having rush be a seperate button and always equipped by default is amazing, also using the right thumbstick as a weapon wheel is perfect!

Liked nor disliked
- Music doesn't stand out
Title screen music plus 1-2 other stages are pretty great. But the rest of the music doesn't seem to be as memorable as the other MM games
- Shop had some fun upgrades
I'm always happy when they have it, but I still feel like the MM8 shop had perfected it by having upgrades that changed the way you played
- Rush doesn't get any upgrades, still, being mapped to the Y button is great, was hoping for a flying level like previous games
- Story is cute and gives backstory for Light and Wily which is always welcome, it also feels like the MM story is (very slowly) approaching the X series. I just wish the side characters had more to do other than give commentary

Disliked
- Speed gear feels a little too intrusive
and causes certain enemies or boss attacks to be either way way too easy to dodge or unreactable if you aren't using it
- Super Hero (hard mode) feels a little frustrating
due to no item drops other than currency for the shop and all other secrets and stage items being removed It leads to a lot of rooms feeling empty and makes it feel like I need to grind currency to buy items, maybe the item drop rate should have been drastically lowered not removed
- No rewards for beating hard mode
was really hoping for extra characters to play as like protoman/bass/roll

excellent