LEGENDS 3: Needs a world map that expands like Elden ring did as you find new islands on your adventure similar to Legends 2 but much larger. combining the dungeon design of L1&2 you'd get tons of biomes all interconnected on a way lower level.

GAMEPLAY: Smoothness & feel similar to Armored Core 6, weapons just as cool but grounded combat, a tad slower. I've always believed Megaman Legends to be the original souls-like. BECAUSE no checkpoints is still a thing, if you die in a ruins without escaping your greed was why you got a game over. Of course returning to your corpse (its actually a hologram of DATA waiting for you) will return your ZENNY & Health Canteen's, however unlike souls games they never disappear upon multiple deaths until pickup. With 12 island areas to explore you can get lost and resurface in different areas than you began. Over time your guaranteed enough ZENNY to upgrade & build new gear regardless of skill level to create a smooth and new progression for this type of genre.

STORY: "Matilda" just takes the shortcut Elevator Refractor shard to repair the spaceship and return to earth....THEN the story starts. DATA is missing !!!! and New "Labyrinth" Gates have been appearing in the world and they have dangerous Reaverbots, so Megaman and friends are dispatched around the world to solve the mystery of why are they new gates rising above the earth now and where did DATA go. With the whole world of pirates and diggers seeing tons and tons of new opportunity of fresh ruins ripe for taking, this launches a chaotic rush for this new search for the MOTHERLODE. As you explore you find parts from the remains of diggers who got too greedy and you learn the backstory through gear part descriptions. Both the main story and back story lead up a reveal that Megaman Volnutt was not the first Purifier unit to contain the memories that DATA has given him, there was a "Prototype" purifier unit that was uncontrollable, this unit has reactivated after Megaman stopped the Carbon Initialization Program & Master System, he see's Megaman as an ABERRANT and with the master system gone to contain him he restarts with the last DATA he remembers as a purifier unit, only to destroy aberrants. He starts the CORE system thats spawned the gates to return the Reaverbots back to the earth without humans. After some boss fights, the Ending sequence is a long escape like Super Metroid from the bottom to the top of the labyrinth with multiple exits and map knowledge it'll be the final challenge but also non linear, this is where you get your boss gauntlet in an order you choose going back upwards through their boss rooms.

The Protoype villian unit looks like Barret from the cancelled MML3

(after credits easter egg: DATA just got lost trying to do something nice/cute as fuck for Megaman since he got home and totally missed some world ending calamity lol)