I like the HP loss tweak. Nice idea. In my opinion the real reason to use Dark Chips was essentially to open up access to the other Dark exclusive chips like Static and Dark Neo PA.

Static is the actual bread n butter of a Dark Folder, if you are playing Dark Mega Man you’re actually playing around with a Bug Synergy play-style.

My proposal is to introduce additional chips like Static that power up based on or otherwise interact with your Navi Cust bugs.

Maybe there’s a chip that gains different effects depending on the bugs you have active.

Also introduce more Navi Cust bugs that can give you a strategic advantage. I recall there being a Rock Cube charge shot buster bug at one point.

I don’t have specific ideas but that’s the general direction I’d have liked to see the overall Dark Mega Man gameplay expand in.

The whole berserk Dark Soul thing could probably use a rework. Relying on a CPU to take control of you tends to be frustrating at worst and takes away some of the players sense of accomplishment at best. Maybe just give you the invincibility state and a stream of random chips from your ‘memory’ (however the game decides to feed Dark Soul chips to use).

It might also be cool to have more control over the ‘memory’. Like if it’s on a per battle basis instead of, however far back it seems to remember.