The random encounters do provide a steady stream of income and new battle chips, but the rate can feel high at times. The MegaMan.EXE segments can be frustrating in terms of trying to navigate very labyrinthine maps while also dealing with random encounters. You can even combine chips in certain ways to perform extra powerful moves. A meter at the top of the screen gradually fills up and lets you choose chips from a new set of 5, stopping the action and letting you strategize before hopping back into the real-time combat. Battle chips allow you to do sword swipes, cannon blasts, recover health, steal enemy territory, and unleash devastating area-of-effect attacks, including summoning previously defeated bosses like FireMan and GutsMan. From these 5, you'll be able to choose one or more of the same type to bring into battle. MegaMan is equipped with his trustee Buster Cannon, but it does little damage in comparison with the selection of battle chips you have at your disposal.Īt the beginning of a fight, you'll be given a random selection of 5 chips from the 30 in your storage folder. Combat encounters play out on a 6x3 grid with the player able to move freely on the 9 leftmost tiles the enemies are stationed on the other 9 tiles. In addition to advancing the main story, Lan can complete side quests to earn money to spend on upgrades and chips that give MegaMan new abilities. Players need to switch back and forth between controlling Lan in the real world and jacking in to network ports where MegaMan can explore maze-like labyrinths, get into random battles, and take down familiar boss characters from the classic side-scrolling series. Storywise, every title follows protagonist Lan and his NetNavi MegaMan.EXE, a virtual representation of the Blue Bomber who can explore network spaces and dungeons to solve problems affecting the real world. While there are changes both subtle and more noticeable in the different versions of MMBN 3 through 6, it's hard to argue that there aren't just six total games in the package as a whole.įor the purposes of reviewing the MMBN Legacy Collection, I'll be focusing primarily on the first game and the extras added to the Collection. Critically, the earlier entries in the series reviewed more favorably given how little the primary gameplay changes in the later games. Part 1 includes MMBN 1, 2, 3 Blue, and 3 White Part 2 includes the two different versions of 4, 5, and 6. The Battle Network Legacy Collection is divided into two parts that can be purchased separately (buying them together doesn't appear to offer any kind of a discount). Is this next Capcom collection worth adding to your library? Chug that E-tank and let’s find out! The unique combination of genres to which these games belong–with characteristics of RPGs, card battlers, turn-based and action combat–can make them more of an acquired taste. Following in the footsteps of classic Mega Man, which had six individual entries on the NES, all six Battle Network games originally came out on the Game Boy Advance and are no longer available on the defunct Wii U Virtual Console service (MMBN 5's two versions were also released as a DS game). Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection contains 10 titles, with MMBN 3, 4, 5, and 6 offering alternate versions of the same game (like mainline Pokemon). As they’ve done with the Mega Man, X, Zero, and ZX compilations, Capcom has once again collected titles from its back catalog and bundled them up into a neat little package.
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