We ranked every game included in Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection

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Capcom recently announced the Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection during the June 2022 Nintendo Direct Mini. It contains 10 games from the iconic Gameboy Advance series, with Battle Network 3 onwards having two versions similar to the Pokémon franchise.

Each game follows a young boy named Lan and his partner Mega Man.exe. Mega Man is a NetNavi, which are avatars that roam around the Internet and virtual world as if they were physical spaces. Fans love the Battle Network series because its games are full-fledged RPGs rather than the side-scrolling games that Mega Man was originally known for.

The collection is due out in 2023, but not all of the games are of equal quality according to the Mega Man Battle Network fanbase (myself included). There are six mainline titles included, but which ones are worth your attention? I’ve put together a list of the best games in the series, from worst to best, to help you prep for the collection’s eventual release. Even version differences are enough to warrant one over the over!

The fourth entry in the series is widely considered a black sheep. That’s due to its lack of a compelling story and its narrative structure built around three main tournaments. The plot revolves around an asteroid heading towards the Earth, and it’s up to Lan and Mega Man to stop it by proving themselves in tournaments, apparently. It’s not like they’ve already saved the world three times up to this point.

BN4 tried to rein in some of the more chaotic aspects of the past games’ combat. It introduced the Double Soul system, which replaced the superior Style Change system that BN2 and BN3 had. It was an interesting concept, with Mega Man being able to borrow his allies’ different elemental powers and utilize