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Mega Man 2 is obviously great, though exactly where I rank it compared to the other Mega Man games varies. It gets a lot of credit for executing a very solid game (MM2's controls feel soo good compared to many NES platformers) and setting out the Mega Man formula so well. Yet obviously many other iterations on that formula (not all of them, but several anyway) are better executions of it: MM2 certainly has a few clunky stages: Quick Man is rote memorization, Crash has too much ladder-climbing (one underrated improvement is how MM3 sped up ladders), Heat has... not the best vanishing block implementation, and of course Wily 4 is terrible.

I still love the game to be clear! Just it's hard to know exactly where I would rate it on a list today, even compared to other games in its own series.

I haven't played AM2R, might give it a look sometime. I liked Samus Returns pretty well? Loved the omni-directional aiming in particular. It doesn't really measure up to Super or Fusion in terms of tone and atmosphere, but not much does IMO.

Obviously I second any and all FFT hype, and even agree with your criticism. It's just a game you can do so much with on replays, on top of being a great base experience. That job system is so, so good; I've played many job system games but few do what FFT does and also let you pick your abilities (for some reason FF5's "you get these abilities in this order" seems much more common) which is what the brings the customization to a new level. It's even better in hacks that smooth out the balance of these choices.

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