Rockman 5 ブルースの罠!?

capcom said “hmm, let’s take all the annoying aspects of mega man games and make an entire game out of it”

Found this one pretty identical to MM4 in terms of quality. This one might have a slight edge thanks to Beat (who is cool to use) and the slightly reduced difficult, but I can definitely understand how people buying these as they were coming out were getting fed up with the mainline games by this point ha

The charge shot in this game is way too good and all the weapons besides Gyro Cutter are kinda ass but like, it's still fun tho

most annoying level design and the easiest. i don't dislike any of the classic nes mega man games but this one is by far the worst to play

i actually like the charge shot being powerful, it puts less strain on all the robot master weps to be good and lets you breathe a bit. besides that this game is kinda ass

the one where the classic games kind of start to stagnate and decay

The title theme drop in this is obscenely good

Waaaaaay too easy. I beat the boss rush on my first try and only using the buster, since they all have basically just one move. There are good level design decisions, though.
The second and third act are by far the worst for the NES era.