MMBN3: Completed!
Bowlman was awesome. I need not say anymore.
Drillman was a stupid fight. I was lucky that I like Wide Sword like attacks (Flame Sword, Elec Sword, etc.) which happen to hit him hard if timed right. Otherwise that fight could have taken forever.
Refights...Flasman fails, as expected (500 HP ON THE UPGRADE! ...wait...), Bubbleman is a whore, Desertman is just stupid, Plantman and Flamman aren't too bad, and despite me fighting them with a Grass form and two in a row, I still beat them in one go, and Drillman is completely unchanged.
Bass is annoying. Took me some time to figure out how the Aura recharges (thought it was a time thing, but...nope, recharges after specific attacks!) and he hits hard.
Final Boss...was stupid. Its a fight you need to keep moving...yet he keeps blowing up the front panels. I've actually seen him blow up the entire front panels, THEN fire the Missile. The Missile is a move that hits hard as hell, and blasts the 2 back collumns...meaning you have to run to the front collumn first. Fair...except impossible when its blown up.
But that's not what's annoying. What's annoying is how I had a relatively Close Range heavy Folder against a boss who CANNOT BE HIT WITH CLOSE RANGE ATTACKS. Normally, you'd say "ok, use Panel Grab skills!" which yes, I had several of! ...except his panels are immune to stealing, so he's flat out immune, ARGH!
Basically, a resource fight. I eventually won it when I was able to pull off Random Meteor (which actually isn't that random! Definitely targets panels where there are actually things on the enemies side.) in the right spot at the right time and watched it totally rape the shit out of him.
The dungeons...last few were basically just "Run around the entire world!" Not...as annoying as MMBN2's "HEY THE NET IS FROZEN LOLOLOLOLOL" where they made you go on this massive fetchquest across the ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD, though, at the same time, its still very faq bait. Thank god for shortcuts.
Plot...uhh...
I know a lot of you are saying "MEGAMAN PLOT!" but no, that doesn't apply here.
See, Megaman plot actually MAKES SENSE. THe problem is, its not very good. Its bland, boring, crappy writing, and overall silly, but its not illogical (...MMX5/6 do not count.)
MMBN3...went below that level of sensibility. The game tossed nonsense after nonsense at you. The Crises were some of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen. Ok, MMBN1 and MMBN2 had some silly ones, but they weren't that ridiculous. MMBN1 had, after all, Oven is on fire! Ok, reasonable crisis; something catches on fire, its bound to spread if not dealt with, fair. And they said this was going on in several places, so by finding the source in your house, you can stop it in others. Silly, but fair. Similarly, "TRAFFIC LIGHTS ARE ALL GREEN NOW!" Yes, its silly, but causes accidents and thus, actually sensible, its fluff and works, just not very good <_<
MMBN2 had something like Snakes on a Plane! Well, not that stupid, but basically, plane is in trouble. An actual threat, especially for the main character. Forget some of the others, but outside of the "INTERNET IS FROZEN!" stunt, they were all at least somewhat sensible crises.
MMBN3...THE DISHWASHER IS OVERFLOWING! No, I'm not kidding; this was an actual crisis. Alternatively, there was "THE ANIMALS ARE ATTACKING!" Now, it'd be one thing if the animals were robotic duplicates and you had to jack in and fix their AI or something, but...the actual crisis? THE CHIPS USED FOR MONITORING THEIR HEALTH IS NOW BEING USED TO CONTROL THEIR BRAINS! No, I'm not kidding; that's literally what happens.
I refuse to discuss the ALpha nonsense. That was just ridiculous on so many levels. To put things in the simplest of manners...
YOU ARE FIGHTING THE INTERNET!
No, this isn't an exaggeration. It is in fact what happens.
Ending was...pulling a "Main character is dead...oh wait, just kidding Teehee
![Tongue :P](http://www.rpgdl.com/forums/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
" Thing. Except its not as simple as "You survived based on Deus Ex Machina's 0.1% chance kicking in! ITS A MIRACLE!" cliche; that would be annoying, but whatever, suspend belief, its Science Fiction, etc.
Instead, it had to do with a whole Xanatos Roullette for why he lived. Basically, a dead guy programs his brain into a computer, KNOWING that eventually someone was going to find him there, and those would be his grand children, one of whom was about to die, so he programmed a code that he knew his son would eventually get and be able to decode miraculously, which just HAPPENS to have the exact data to bring back that one exact person who died.
No, this isn't an exaggeration; it is exactly what happens. The game treats it like its nothing too...
Anyway, overall game wasn't...much different than MMBN1 or MMBN2. Some neat new ideas with bad implementations. The plot is just really damned awful and nonsensical though. Guess its a 4/10 maybe? Dunno at this point.