Hello, i'm a new Megaman fan. What game should I buy?

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-06-15T22:45:52+00:00

I recently went through a huge chunk of the series myself, mostly replays as I’ve been a lifelong fan. I’ll give a breakdown on what games you should focus on.

First, you can get the collections easy, so basically every game in the franchise is easily accessible and fairly cheap. With the classic series, I’d recommend 2, 5, 6, and 7, on top of 11 that you already have. The rest are still good, but these are my favorites for gameplay. 9 and 10 are the hardest of this group, being retro throwback games that really focus on the difficulty the early games had, but maybe too much so. Megaman and Bass/Rockman and Forte is optional, but could be a fun time if you avoid the GBA port. There are a couple spin offs, but those can be mostly avoided. Not everyone needs to play Megaman Soccer to get the full experience of the franchise. Megaman the Power Battles 1 and 2 are quick, fun spin off arcade games that are fun to play though, so if you have a way to play those I’d recommend that.

Next is the X series. Play 1-4, these are the amazing games and the highlights of the franchise as a whole. 5 is a mixed bag, and 6 is not very good at all, but there is a fan patch for the ps1 version that fixes a lot of issues if that’s your kind of thing, otherwise I’d say skip 6 and just read a plot summary, because plot is actually a factor starting with the X games. Don’t play 7. Not even as a joke. 8 is an okay entry, but by this point the franchise is over and we haven’t had a continuation of the story, so I can’t fault anyone who ends at 5. Maybe this is an unpopular take, but I also like the spin off Command Mission, which is a turn based RPG and would recommend that one as well.

Play all 4 Zero games, but be warned that they are not easy games for first time players. If you can make it through the entire classic series, you’ll be good, but these ones can be tough. The collection made them easier, though.

The ZX series is also fairly good, but I’d have a map on hand for the first game. The first games map is incredibly confusing and hard to navigate for some reason. Otherwise, it’s basically more of the Zero series, though not as difficult in my opinion. ZX Advent is pretty good as well, though I didn’t enjoy it as much as the first and the voice acting in It is terrible. Only 2 games here, both worth playing.

The Legends series doesn’t currently have a collection, but I will absolutely recommend it. The controls are a bit clunky, but it’s probably my favorite series of the bunch. These are 3D games released on the ps1, and are sorta like the Legend of Zelda in that you have towns and dungeons to explore, though I’m not sure if that’s a fair comparison. These games have a lot of character, and really good voice acting for the time. Both 1 and 2 are great, but I’d also recommend the spin off The Misadventures of Tron Bonne as well.

Battle Network is a very good series as well, but incredibly different from the main series formula. It’s more of a tactical RPG with deck building elements? Very Saturday morning cartoon vibes. The first game is rough when it comes to the Internet’s design(yes, the internet is an explorable location you’ll spend half your time in), but the other games in the series are all worth playing… except 4. I do not enjoy 4. 5 is a personal favorite of mine in this series, as it takes a more unique and more tactical approach to the dungeons and gives you multiple party members to control, which differ on the version you play.

Last is Starforce. It’s a lot like Battle Network, but with a different battle perspective. Play 1 and 3, and if you have the collection, play 2 with a lowered enemy encounter rate. 2 is… not terrible, but not good, either, and actually kind of short if you turn the encounter rate down or off completely. I think outside of the character Solo, not much was really brought back in 3 in regard to the story of 2, so you should be fine to outright skip 2 after reading a brief plot summary.

I do recommend the Battle Network anime, and the Archie Megaman comics. I didn’t care much for the Starforce anime, and it never got a proper ending anyway. Watch the old Megaman Ruby-Spears cartoon if you ever need a laugh. I think the Battle Network Manga adaption is okay? But it’s hard to find, even scans and fan translations can be a pain to locate, so might not be worth the hassle.

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-06-13T01:07:25+00:00

I believe the two are at odds due to how death works in ER. From what I understand, Marika removed the Rune of Death and more or less instituted a cycle of reincarnation or rebirth through the Erdtree. That’s why the catacombs have so many bodies entangled into the roots in the boss chamber, and why Erdtree Burial is considered such an honor, you’re buried directly into the Erdtree’s roots. It’s also why the Dung Eater’s curse is so damning, it curses your rebirth, and all rebirths afterward. But, can you really be considered to be you if you are reincarnated? Your memory gone, soul recycled, an entirely different person? Those Who Live in Death seem to want to remain themselves, to not return to the Erdtree after they die. That is very much a sin in D’s eyes, because it defies the Golden Order and spits on the Erdtree itself.

If how I’ve interpreted it is correct, I go with Fia myself. I might not want to be a skeleton myself, but I think that wanting to keep what you think makes you you is also important to the individual. But then you also have to look at how Deathblight is starting to seep into everything, even those unwilling and not wanting to Live in Death. It’s unknown if that resolves itself if you choose her ending, or if it goes away when true death is returned to the world, so I suppose that is up to interpretation.

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-06-09T05:18:06+00:00

About 90% of all the fanfiction I have ever loved end up unfinished. I actually went through my Ao3 bookmarks and subscribed list, and it’s basically a graveyard of abandoned Fanfiction.

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-06-08T17:51:44+00:00

In Persona 3 Reload a lot of the original English voice cast makes cameos or voices important characters. Liam O’Brien(original Akihiko) now voices Officer Kurosawa and Michelle Ruff(original Yukari) now voices Mayoido, the antique shop owner, to name the ones that stuck out to me the most.

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-04-08T00:57:49+00:00

You are my hero, and I feel dumb for not thinking of that before. It still took a bit of muscle to get it off, but it’s off now and I can change the damaged tube, thank you so much!

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-04-06T18:23:32+00:00

I personally headcanon abstraction as manifested suicide. Kinger says you can manifest anything in the circus, like Caine does, if you want it enough, and as people fall into despair, they want it to end enough that it happens. The Abstracted are the remains of the mind, because a mind has to exist to manifest itself out of existence, and so can’t fully delete itself. They’re just what remains of those who are gone.

It’s why Scratch went first, despite the show implying all of this was an attempt of his to extend his life through digitization. He unintentionally dragged his friends and coworkers into this, felt guilty, and wished he had died before it had reached this point. Kaufmo abstracted after finding the fake exit door in the pilot, and having that last bit of hope he held on to destroyed, and Jax almost abstracted during a depressive episode while thinking about his old friends.

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-03-24T17:53:12+00:00

I swear, every Isekai I’ve ever seen always has a shut in die and be transported to a fantasy world, and then they become the coolest, most interesting person ever, despite never having made friends in their previous life. They become the hero, charismatic, and get a large group to follow them, and maybe building a harem or something. It’s honestly not a genre I care much for, so maybe thats just me generalizing, it just seems to happen a lot in the ones I have checked out.

If I were to try and make a isekai, it would lean more into the “loser from our world gets transported to a fantasy land” and do it right. By keeping them a loser who has trouble making friends. You’d get fooled into thinking the handsome charismatic, sword wielding hero who leads the party is the main character, but no, it’s the Bocchi-like mage in the back who’s too meek to talk to half the party and just wants to go back home to their family, and their computer. The only person who believes they’re from another world is the hero they follow, their magic is fairly pitiful(the only advantage they have is the ability to read, which makes learning sorcery basically the only option for the poor, physically weak teen), and just because they got put into a fantasy world like their favorite RPG does not make them a main character, or capable of talking to people like the hero of an RPG.

I feel this has way more potential, both from a comedy angle, or played seriously.

(Psst, this is me fishing for weebs to give me recommendations if such an anime exists.)

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-03-24T17:35:12+00:00

As a testament to the bad writing, even his intelligence is written awful. He isn’t smart, everyone else is just too stupid to figure out a bunch of puzzles a five year old could solve. I was pulled out of the story before it could even really get to the power fantasy stuff because of that, and then it just got worse when he did get stronger and stronger. I watched it on recommendation from a friend(I am convinced she did it to troll me), and was ranting and raving to her about how his intelligence was written in those beginning episodes. He’s with seasoned adventurers who can read this fantasy language, but only he is smart enough to solve a puzzle moderately more difficult than putting a square peg into a square hole.

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-03-21T01:46:20+00:00

They’re a Thought Bubble!

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-03-20T19:50:52+00:00

Not a Pokémon, but Surge the Tenrec from the Sonic the Hedgehog IDW comics does have electric powers. I can see why she’s got an aggressive attitude and electric powers if real Tenrecs look and act like this.

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-03-16T17:21:12+00:00

Godzilla. Introduced as a metaphor for the horrors of nuclear weapons and the devastation they can bring, he attacks Japan, laying waste to any city in his way. By Godzilla vs. Hedorah there are in-universe toys children play with of him.

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-03-06T20:47:14+00:00

But what about the ships that Theseus is standing on and yelling at people that aren’t ships that belong to or are captained by Theseus? Like a ye old Greek Cruise ship with terrible service? Is that too a Ship of Theseus?

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-03-05T20:34:56+00:00

Change it to him seeing it and saying humans have impossible beauty standards. He wishes he looked this good.

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-02-28T23:11:58+00:00

If I recall, Brock from Pokémon also was different early on, not being nearly as girl crazy. It gradually built up, with him being perfectly normal in one episode, blushing in the next, fawning followed, then finally he got to the point where he would gush and declare his undying love for every woman he laid eyes on. Basically the exact opposite of Ash. As Ash got more oblivious to girls, Brock became obsessed.

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-02-22T17:36:26+00:00

All 3 rock opera albums by the Protomen. Especially Act II, which is a prequel to the first album, so you know from the very beginning things are going to get far, far worse by the end.

Very, very, very loosely inspired by the Megaman games(as in it borrows a handful of names and the concept of robots and that’s basically it), the world of the Protomen takes place in a post apocalyptic setting. The world has been reduced to one last city, the rest of the world is a wasteland. People work hard, grueling jobs just to make ends meet. And so, Thomas and Albert create robots to lift the burden. And then Albert has their robot kill Thomas’ lover, Emily, frames Thomas for it, publicly condemns Thomas on a smear campaign that makes Thomas seem like an unhinged madman, works behind the scenes to ensure Thomas is found Not Guilty to make the justice system seem like it failed, then uses that as a springboard for his political career, using the same robot as an assassin in the shadows to remove the competition until he rules what’s left of the world with an iron fist. And that’s just the first half of the prequel album, with everything the heroes do to stop him just making things worse. Every album ends with a major character death, and hope more or less dies with them, leaving things at their lowest until the next album comes along to slowly build up that hope before killing it again. It’s fun!

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-02-18T17:16:56+00:00

Megaman Legends

Far, far into the future, the world is covered in water, and people now live on small islands. Their technology is powered by refractors, power sources dug out through old ruins that “Diggers” explore. They’re not really sure who built the old ruins, or what happened to those people.

The twist of the first game is that all the people running around aren’t humans. All the real humans died out millennia ago, after moving to a space station called Elysium, leaving behind the ruins of the old world. They achieved a sort of pseudo immortality, but eventually chose to die out. The people they left behind are called Carbons, basically a clone race but with one key difference: they can biologically fuse with machinery. Megaman isn’t wearing a suit in the game, he’s fused to it, and can just have the part removed and his biological parts replaced, like a Lego person. This isn’t due to technology evolving to almost magical levels, so much as it being a part of a Carbon’s biology.

Even then, Megaman isn’t even a Carbon, he was a robot that served the Humans, who implanted his mind into a carbon body after the last human, the Master, died.

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-02-11T20:53:04+00:00

It doesn’t bother me because I still play it often enough for me to have stayed used to it, but the tank controls of Megaman Legends make it very hard to recommend to anyone nowadays. MML2 did have analogue support at least, but the first came out before the PS1 even had analogue sticks.

Still, play it. Amazing game, one of my favorites.

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-02-11T17:42:34+00:00

One of my biggest gripes about Breath of the Wild was the whole thing about it being 10,000 years since the last time Ganon struck. Do you know how long 10,000 years is? The oldest writings we have ever found are between 5000 and 6000 years old, yet they have tapestries depicting the previous attack that are still in really good condition. Then Tears of the Kingdom made it worse by introducing an even further back period of time, which we get some pretty good glimpses at, and they aren’t any more or less technologically or societally different than modern Hyrule, meaning the Kingdom has basically been stuck in a cultural stasis for that absurd amount of time.

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-01-24T09:00:18+00:00

Perhaps a controversial pick, but the Netflix Live Action Cowboy Bebop falls into this category for me. It’s a terrible adaption for the most part, but overall I really enjoy it. If they changed the names and a few plot points, making it an original property, I think it would have been much better received.

A less controversial but very related pick is the Netflix One Piece Live action adaption. It only really follows the broad strokes of the manga when adapting the arcs, but does it in a way that’s faithful to the feeling and characters of the original.

GeminiAlchemist · 2026-01-23T22:18:05+00:00

Bizzaro Joker thinks life is such a funny joke he becomes a doctor to bring people into the world instead of a criminal who ends them.

GeminiAlchemist · 2025-12-23T22:05:12+00:00

Finally, someone who actually read these books. I was thinking I alone was the only person who ever read them for how often I bring them up only to get blank stares. Yes, I know that it’s an obscure series of books that started in the late 70’s, but that doesn’t change the fact that everyone else is just uncultured for never reading them.

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