You’re going to need to free up some time if you’re planning to play through all six games – and their variants – in the Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection, which now has a confirmed PS4 release date: 14th April, 2023! Pre-orders are available now on the PS Store, with the price set at £49.99/$59.99. Considering the sheer amount of content on offer here, we reckon that’s fair.
For those of you who didn’t enjoy this series when it was new on the GBA, they take Mega Man in a totally different direction, and reinvent the franchise’s gameplay as a real-time role-playing game. The combat is grid-based, so there is a tactical, strategic aspect to it all – but it’s not quite as complex as you find in SRPGs, like Final Fantasy Tactics or Tactics Ogre.
It’s still a lot of fun, though, and Capcom is going the extra mile to modernise these classics. There’ll be a lot of online functions for you to engage with across all of the games. For example, depending on the title, you’ll be able to compete online in Network Battles across both Public and Private lobbies. You’ll also be able to trade Battle Chips, Styles, Programs, and Folders.
As alluded to above, functionality will vary depending on the contents of the game – as a reminder, you’re getting every mainline Mega Man Battle Network title here, from the original through to Mega Man Battle Network 6, and so the content is slightly different in each release. But Capcom has added as much online functionality as makes sense, depending on the title.
The really neat thing is that the Download Chips, originally distributed at in-person events exclusively in Japan, will be included as part of the Legacy Collection. There’ll also be a Custom PET Pack available as a pre-order bonus, which includes additional skins for the compilation’s hub area, as well as unique soundtracks.
All in all, this is shaping up to be an absolutely superb package for both Mega Man and retro RPG fans. Will you be pre-ordering this one? Save Cyberworld in the comments section below.
[source blog.playstation.com]
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There are simply not enough hours in the day, but this is looking like such an awesome package!
Oh wow, I only ever played the first two, and neither to completion, as this was back in the days of early GBA emulation.
Much as I'd like to buy this, I never got around to the other Megaman compilation releases, and I just don't have the time anymore for all these classics.
Idk if it’s generous to sell GBA games for $60
@Deoxyr1bose And sell DLC for it as well. Some publishers can’t even release decades-old games and not give us everything without spending more than the standard-version price. (See also the Sonic: Origins collection and The Rumble Fish 2 for more recent examples of this.)
I know that this particular DLC is new content, but getting this content should be an incentive to buy these new versions over emulation, not another way to inflate the price of this collection for hardcore fans.
@Deoxyr1bose I mean you're getting ten of them.
I'm absolutely getting a physical for this. So many games I thought we'd never see on PS cause they were usually exclusive to ninty handhelds
It's amazing getting to play this, the gba castlevanias, rune factory 4, "portable" mh, ace attorney trilogy, the great ace attorney games, alliance alive, and theatrhythm ff on a PS5. Hope there's more to come
Ideally, each game will have a separate Trophy list. If it's shared, then gosh, that's a loooooooooooong Platinum.
@Deoxyr1bose I agree. The nostalgia hit me and I emulated the first game and finished it. The price for this is way too high.
Not sure what the people saying $60/£50 is too much are going on about, £5 per game is a steal imo.
More so when you consider the average price for an unboxed GBA cart of the games are £30-£40 each.
@Golem25 If the other MM collections are anything to go off it will have one list with one of the gold trophies being for completing all 10 games in the collection.
Awesome, glad to see we finally have a proper date!
I doubt I'll be paying full price though, still haven't found the time to play thru the original series, X series, or the Z/Zero games.
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