This is a game has a lot of really good points and really bad points with very little in between.
The level designs were very good and creative. There are a lot of levels whose aesthetics I really loved, like all of the details in Terror Man's stage. The weapon selection is also great, if a bit overpowered at times. The part about the Robot Masters helping you in the post-Robot Master stages was also a really nice idea.
However, the story is not only the game's major downfall, but I'd say quite possibly the worst video game story I've ever seen. The past Robot Masters in the Rock Force are probably the only characters in the game that are likable, because everything else is pure Wangst. Mega Man spends the whole game whining about Justice Man, a copy of him the player has been given no reason to care about and then skirts close to Humans Are Bastards territory after killing him while also claiming that Justice Man and his terrorist group never did anything wrong. A Downer Ending like this simply doesn't belong in a Mega Man game and certainly didn't work at all in this case.
On another note, the great aesthetics generally didn't extend to the Robot Masters. Most of the Robot Masters whose designs weren't bland and forgettable were downright ugly, especially Shock Man, who looks like a robot that a 10-year-old built out of cardboard, and Fish Man, who just looked like a guy wearing a mascot costume of a Mario enemy. Even the bosses whose designs I liked or accepted, like Virus Man, Death Man, Charade Man, Terror Man, and Polar Man, were still only passable (Terror Man's problem more being that his sprite makes it difficult to tell what he's even supposed to be). In addition, I would put forth that most of the robot masters were edited from existing Mega Man sprites (Virus Man looks suspiciously like an edit of Blade Man).
The fact that there are technically 16 Robot Masters also makes it look like the creator didn't feel like creating a second game, so they shoehorned both sets into one.
All-in-all, this was a 5/10, mostly because everything was individually either 1/10 or 9/10.
Everything about it is either amazing or terrible
This is a game has a lot of really good points and really bad points with very little in between.
The level designs were very good and creative. There are a lot of levels whose aesthetics I really loved, like all of the details in Terror Man's stage. The weapon selection is also great, if a bit overpowered at times. The part about the Robot Masters helping you in the post-Robot Master stages was also a really nice idea.
However, the story is not only the game's major downfall, but I'd say quite possibly the worst video game story I've ever seen. The past Robot Masters in the Rock Force are probably the only characters in the game that are likable, because everything else is pure Wangst. Mega Man spends the whole game whining about Justice Man, a copy of him the player has been given no reason to care about and then skirts close to Humans Are Bastards territory after killing him while also claiming that Justice Man and his terrorist group never did anything wrong. A Downer Ending like this simply doesn't belong in a Mega Man game and certainly didn't work at all in this case.
On another note, the great aesthetics generally didn't extend to the Robot Masters. Most of the Robot Masters whose designs weren't bland and forgettable were downright ugly, especially Shock Man, who looks like a robot that a 10-year-old built out of cardboard, and Fish Man, who just looked like a guy wearing a mascot costume of a Mario enemy. Even the bosses whose designs I liked or accepted, like Virus Man, Death Man, Charade Man, Terror Man, and Polar Man, were still only passable (Terror Man's problem more being that his sprite makes it difficult to tell what he's even supposed to be). In addition, I would put forth that most of the robot masters were edited from existing Mega Man sprites (Virus Man looks suspiciously like an edit of Blade Man).
The fact that there are technically 16 Robot Masters also makes it look like the creator didn't feel like creating a second game, so they shoehorned both sets into one.
All-in-all, this was a 5/10, mostly because everything was individually either 1/10 or 9/10.