It feels like every time I replay 3-7, I feel different about them, for this time I felt kinda mixed. If you want MM stages to be this short, at least make them challenging, robot master stages are fun but Wily stages are painfully underwhelming, I didn't find myself putting a smile on my face while playing any of them, having 2 Castles was never a good idea. But I guess the weapons are one of the best, shame stages are so short that you can abuse them very easily. This is the game that introduced the charge buster and this is the game where it works the best, It doesn't take forever to charge like 7, it's not chonky and op like 5 or 8, sometimes you have to go for lemons for the sake of having more shots per screen. The OST is also kinda underrated