Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection

Great collection of the Star Force series. New features make it easy and enjoyable to replay games previously played plenty of times before. Great experience for newcomers and old dedicated fans alike.

A lot of people have already reviewed this top-notch collection. So I won't be long and just be straight to the point. I won't be talking much about the games themselves I will leave that to others. But to me they are great continuations to the MMBN legacy and great games in their own right. =) Also upon replaying all MMBN and MMSF games it's great to see how the writing has progressed as well I forgot how good the writing is in these games. =D The great: - QoL improvements: like skipping certain animations, camera moving, movement speed increase, encounter rate options and more - Making it easier to access the MMBN & Boktai extra scenarios, I never played through this before so it's great to finally see it =) - Allowing us to easily enter Ciphercodes and getting the exclusive cards which were previously inaccesible to most people - Redrawn character portraits is a great addition - Ton of options to control the 2 screens of the games (including the original layout which I mostly used) The good: - The menus are just as lively as the MegaMan Battle Network Collections though the animations were a bit more rough than those and the characters wouldn't talk unless prompted while in the MMBNLC MegaMan would comment on certain achievements and events as well. So having Geo be silent after I did something like beating a game felt a bit jarring after playing the last collection. Still it's a fun addition and really makes the menus even feel alive. - I really appreciate the new soundtrack, though I still prefer the original music I listened to both during my playthroughs - The new filters make the game actually look quite good The meh: - No touchscreen support even on devices that have actual touchscreen nor the ability to let the mouse act as a touchscreen is weird for a DS port which used the touchscreen quite well in it's design. So the complete removal of all touchscreen systems felt like a waste to me while it could've been an option (especially in StarForce 1 pulsing is made more annoying. Its doable but not as good as it was) - Complete removal of the original voices (the new voice cast is good but having 100%ed Starforce 3 makes me really miss the original voices it's not the same without them) - Recycled voice clips across all three games (battle voices and victory dialogue) - For some reason menu items are voiced in all games except 2, which felt somehat jarring The bad: - For some reason MegaMan Starforce 3 (one of my favorite games of all times) is the only game here which suffers from noticeable lag - In addition the game makes my PC run hot (while it shouldn't be THAT demanding. Was the RE engine really needed?) - Some mini-games in the 1st game are actually harder because the touchscreen is no longer supported