A big improvement over the first game: much more forgiving and a bit easier to understand for a newcomer, Mega Man Zero 2 actually feels like a Mega Man game! Level design is much more interesting, but Inti Creates will never drop their ridiculous idea of beating the levels perfectly on your first try, unfortunately.

I'm not familiar with any games other than MMZ series which rank you on your performance, let you replay the stages, yet the ranking is finalized with the first run-through. This is the only thing keeping Zero series from achieving true heights, as you have to be pro to care about rankings, yet the game makes way too big of a deal about them to ignore.