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

Almost every challenge this game poses is based on bad design. Don't get me wrong, I'm a seasoned NES player and Rockman & Forte is one of my all time favourite games, but this is cheaply done. Do you remember those old NES games like ninja gaiden where the enemy positioning was intentional to make you fall into a pit? There's loads of these here and some other similar challenges. Horrible music that I had to simply disable and awful UI settings. Well done Capcom, you'been 1-upped by your 1998 self.