Mega Man Zero 3

hell maybe if they let you replay stages to get them it would have been better but no. if you miss out on something you either reset the console or go on without it for the rest of the game. its not even like the game is bad the movement is perfect and the story is cool but sometimes it feels like this ranking system replay value stuff is just there to hide the fact that these games are really short even for mega man standards and just serve to make me mad more than wanting to play through the game again

Maybe it's just me, but I never understood the complaints about the boss weapon thing, Zero's skillset and his assortment of weapons more than make up for that, the rest feels like a bonus to IMO.

its not like hes unusable without the boss weapons but it goes so hard against whats cool about zero as a character in what is supposed to be the zero subseries. zero isnt a guy with two sword moves a gun a useless shield and some annoying gimmick rod. zero is a swordfighter who at times can feel more like playing a fighting game character with some of the cool shit you can pull off. zero without anything in this game just devolves into hit and run with saber charges and hanging on walls or the rare time you get to actually do a three hit saber combo without being fucked for it. maybe if the other 2 weapons were anything useful outside of very specific cheese strats and pointless movement I'd agree but after zero 1 was a kick in the balls and zero 2 dialed it down a little it felt like i was just doing the same shit and it always worked. i say this so confidently only because in zero 4 you get all the boss abilities way easier and its the most fun ive had controlling a character in a mega man game

Also Zero's buster is like a night and day compared to what he had in X series. Or the ice chip can freeze some enemies if I remember correctly.