Been a few years so I'd wanted to go back to it, still really fun! Endlessly charming, whether it be thru something blatantly apparent like the music or fun enemy designs, or more subtle things like the little nuances you notice if you deviate from the "enemy weakness on boss -> next enemy weakness" pattern (i.e. level design changes, fun weapon interactions w/ certain bosses etc).

There are some performance related issues that bring it down for me, I played this on Switch so input delay was guaranteed, but the game also has a ton of inherent slowdown when the room is overwhelmed with enemies and their effects, and that just isn't fun. Said slowdown can also hamper platforming, and in general I found trying to go about the platform-heavy sections w/ any bit of precision to be not super crisp? It's smaller nuisances, but I'd definitely feel them at times.

Regardless, strong evolution on classic Mega Man, can't imagine going back to before when you don't have dashes and a stronger Buster. Good!