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Mega Man Battle Network (Legacy Collection -Switch)

First real foray into this series, although I have played this first title a little bit before on an emulator. All in all, it was okay. It did have charm and a surprisingly nice story and universe. Core gameplay concept is unique and really suits the Mega Man universe in terms of making it an RPG. It looked and sounded okay too, if a bit repetitive.

But this is otherwise pretty barebones and it has some really tedious design elements. Most random encounters (which trigger constantly and cannot easily be escaped from if you don't draw Escape cards) are easy with an occasional bad luck combo where you have no safe spots to go to on your grid. Some bosses are very easy and others are frustrating, especially as those hard ones tend to come right after another boss. Drop system is very annoying. I like that there are good things to get from exploring the environments, but the environments themselves are very tedious to navigate, especially with you being taken out of it every few steps. The dungeon puzzles I thought were actually fun in concept, but are again made worse by the dungeon structure and encounters. The Power Plant was horrendous of course. Oh, and there were a loooot of spelling/grammatical errors. Not that big of a problem, but it does come across as cheap.

Still, I did know that this game would be rough as I've been reading that everywhere and that most other games in the series are far better. So I am still interested in MMBN2 and seeing how that improves things.