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I only learned about HROT the other day but I'm pretty interested in it. Maybe after I play DUSK and the other FPSes in my backlog I'll pick it up.

Mega Man 9 (via Mega Man Legacy Collection 2, Steam)

Okay so. This is definitely the best Mega Man game of 1-10. There's some trial-and-error difficulty and a few rooms with really cheap jumps/obstacles/enemy placement but mostly it's just great all around. Almost every power is useful, the bosses are all fun, it's just a good time. I don't miss the charge buster but I do wish they had kept the slide. Oh well. Good game zone.

Mega Man 10 (replay, via Mega Man Legacy Collection 2, Steam)

THIS game on the other hand. Holy shit, wasn't this supposed to be easy compared to MM9? This game fucking destroyed me, especially the Wily stages. Admittedly, I was using Proto Man, and I strongly regret that decision because I'm just not good enough at this series to deal with dying in 3 hits without it being a miserable experience, but even the platforming was insanely tough. No wonder I had to grind bolts and buy 9 of every healing item to beat Wily's Fortress when I first played this as a kid.

I suspect I'd have had more fun as Bass than Proto Man but I think he wasn't available to begin with? I dunno. Anyway, I generally like this game but those Wily stages are just brutal so I'm ending this 10 game marathon on kind of a sour note, unfortunately.

If I had to rank these games, I think I'd go with something like:

9 > 2 > 4 > 5 > 10 > 3 > 7 > 6 > 1 > 8

The middle is kind of a clusterfuck though. 9 is definitely the best and 2 is definitely second and 8 is by far the worst but everything else is pretty solid and could easily get swapped around.

Anyway that concludes my time with this series for now since I have no interest at all in Mega Man 11 (mostly because it looks incredibly ugly, not to be a graphics snob but yeesh). I still don't think I can consider myself a huge Mega Man fan or anything but I'm glad I've finally played these games!