History YMMV / MegaManStarforce

* ScrappyMechanic: The ''[=PegLeoDra=]'' games had levels that fell into the same rut that many other NintendoDS games fell into early on, with level puzzles relying largely on Touch Screen gimmicks rather than button pressing. The ''[=BerShiDin=]'' games did away with this...
** ...except for the The FinalDungeon. Remember those sections where you get chased by Murian guards? If you touched them, you will initiate a minigame where you need to draw lines on the guard with the laggy touchscreen function. ''In less than 5 seconds.'' Otherwise a fight ensues. They are rather tough with a lot of hitpoints. Oh, did I mention to get to the FinalBoss you need to sneak through those guards? If you lose the Le Mu fight, you have to cross the dreaded section all over again! Now they wonder why the fans are peeved...

** The second series gets a lot of flak. Some of the reasons include and SuperDickery from [[EnsembleDarkhorse Sonia]], uninteresting villains, Solo's CutscenePowerToTheMax and Zack remains useless. Also see TheyChangedItNowItSucks below.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Well, it is Mega Man. Fans weren't in particular sure whether they preferred old Mega with War Rock's head for a blaster or new Mega with a much more streamlined variant.

** The second series gets a lot of flak. Some of the reasons include CharacterDerailment and SuperDickery from [[EnsembleDarkhorse Sonia]], uninteresting villains, Solo's CutscenePowerToTheMax and Zack remains useless. Also see TheyChangedItNowItSucks below.

* ScrappyMechanic: The ''[=PegLeoDra=]'' games had levels that fell into the same rut that many other NintendoDS games fell into early on, with level puzzles relying largely on Touch Screen gimmicks rather than button pressing. The ''[=BerShiDin=]'' games did away with this.

* {{Sequelitis}}: The first game was decent, but most people agree the second was a fair step down... [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel but the third was a much larger step up.]]

* CompleteMonster: Mr. King, altough debatable. His actions are incredibly evil, but at the same time, he has a lot of the [[{{Narm}} clichéd aspects]] of the CardCarryingVillain archetype, which may prevent players from really taking him seriously ([[spoiler: Dr. Regal]] in the Battle Network series was of a similar nature in this regard).
** Gemini Spark also counts, although only in the anime.
** Sonia's Manager from the first game. He flat out says he's only raising Sonia to make money and punches Geo, a twelve year old boy, in the face for trying to stand between him and Sonia.

* MoeMoe: Luna's DayInTheLimelight episode two-fer consists of her trying to learn how to kick for Rockman. She finally gets it down ([[LethalChef after a long string of failures]]), and presents it to Rockman only to find that her creation was ruined in the latest attack. Her pout is ''adorable''.

** Joker and Gemini Spark also count, altough the latter only in the anime.

* CompleteMonster: Mr.King, altough debatable. His actions are incredibly evil, but at the same time, he has a lot of the [[{{Narm}} clichéd aspects]] of the CardCarryingVillain archetype, which may prevent players from really taking him seriously ([[spoiler: Dr. Regal]] in the Battle Network series was of a similar nature in this regard).

** Joker and Gemini Spark also count, altough the later only in the anime.

* AmericansHateTingle: Luna. She is actually more popular than Sonia in Japan thanks to her {{Tsundere}} and {{Ojou}} status, but the opposite happens in the american fandom.

* TheScrappy: Zack, thanks to the events of the start of the first game. He still suffers from it, but people have started to like him for his roles in the later games.

** The term "Brother" seems like a rather odd term to use to describe relationships with other people regardless of gender, but then you find out in the second game that ''[[MegamanBattleNetwork Lan Hikari]] started the system, and he based it off his bond with Hub''. You see, he notices that whenever he and Hub worked together, miracles could happen due to this "Link Power", and decided to try and connect the world through this. He succeeded, to say the least.

**** Swords in general in the 3rd game seeing as almost every transformation powers them up, but Edogiri/Bushido especially in the 3rd game. Each one increase by 50 for each one you choose up until you reach + 150 damage, and also increases the hitrange of the sword until it's basically [[MegamanBattleNetwork Lifesword]]. This may not seem like a lot but the weakest bushido card does 110 by itself, 260 if fully boosted. Add that to the fact that under the right circumstances it is poosible to make 36/40 cards bushidoes and you have an easy possibly of doing over 700 damage at the first custom screen. With the right tranformation you can put someone in a stunlock. Did I mention that the sword hits BEFORE YOU EVEN SWING IT?

* ThatOneBoss: A few opponents have the chance to become this during the games, though like the ''Battle Network'' games most of them are either fairly easy or are souped up bonus bosses. ''Star Force 2'' has a combination of GoddamnedBoss and BonusBoss that takes the cake though for possibly the entire ''MegaMan'' series. After completing all of the bonus content, facing the final boss again results in a mandatory souped-up encounter. Winning that, unlike every other ''Battle Network'' and ''Star Force'' game, results in [[spoiler:Solo deciding that he wants to have a real final battle with Geo, instead of just leaving for when Geo's ready. Cue the battle with Rogue SX, who is so stupidly fast and powerful chances are the battle will last only a few seconds before you're just dead--if you can even survive a combo from him. Your only chance against him is either being really good with countering him(Mad Vulcan three works particularly well), stun lock, or cheating]]. What makes this battle even more rageworthy is that if you screw it up, you have to go back, beat the souped-up final boss again, and watch the unskippable credits, to fight it again.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Well, it is MegaMan. Fans weren't in particular sure whether they preferred old Mega with War Rock's head for a blaster or new Mega with a much more streamlined variant.

* {{Woolseyism}}: The original names of Lyra and Taurus--Harp and Ox--were changed to fit with the rest of the FM-ians' ThemeNaming. Though one wonders why Lyra and Sonia [[DubInducedPlotHole still wave change to form Harp Note.]]

* ShipToShipCombat: Holy ''God'', the fights this troper has seen between Geo/Luna and Geo/Sonia shippers...

* {{Woolseyism}}: The original names of Lyra and Taurus--Harp and Ox--were changed to fit with the rest of the FM-ians' ThemeNaming. Though one wonders why Lyra and Sonia [[DubInducedPlotHole still wave change to form Harp Note.]]

* GeniusBonus: Most players don't know what "Laplace" means, or even how to pronounce it.

* YourMileageMayVary: For every individual game, and the series as a whole. Even the often-loathed ''Star Force 2'' is seen as excellent by some for its multiplayer.
** One of the [[YourMileageMayVary perhaps weak qualities]] of Star Force 1 was that it was largely on the tail-end of the Battle Network fever that produced the latter half of the series. A common comment made by the critics was a particular lack of difference between the series - and you can't deny that the Battle Network connection was featured prominently in the early advertising.

* ThatOneBoss: One per game. Gemini Spark and Queen Ophiuca share that throne in the first game, with Rogue in the second game, and ALL BOSSES in their final forms in the third game.

** In the third game, the Noise system introduced about a fourth in to the game can be so heavily abused it isn't even funny. Basically, it goes up every time you hit an enemy with a non elemental non time freezing attack. Once it reaches about 200% or so, you have the option to Finalize, which resets your noise to 0% and changes your folder into a special folder. Don't Finalize. At 200%, all of your attacks gain the ability to pierce through MercyInvulnerabilty. This, combined with the absurd power and range of the already mentioned Bushido cards and the multi-hit Sword Fighter cards and Gemini/Rogue noise, which grant a stunning effect to all Sword cards, allows you to stunlock any opponent in the game to death.