Playing this game for the first time. Why is the soundtrack so much weaker than every other Mega Man game? It's not bad, but it's noticeably less 'stand out' than any other game in the franchise.

It’s on par with the rest of the PS2 era X games. Maybe a bit better. Central Tower, Forest, Boss theme all standout tracks. Maybe even Marino’s theme despite being a bit out of place.

Zero series picked up the slack during the time these games were being released. Nothing but bangers.

I think it's just a lot more passive for too much of the soundtrack, as if they took it being an RPG to heart and wanted something that doesn't loop in the same way regular series music would. Which sucks, because it does become a lot more like background noise to a degree. The standouts hit hard, but not a lot else.

>>11824048 (OP)
It's a pretty weak JRPG overall. Not bad by any means but really below what it could have been.

The new characters barely do anything at all after their introduction, Marino literally has no spoken lines even.

Is CM canon is it in that same fucky accidental timeline branching the greedy Capcom suits have caused?

>>11825275
Who the fucks cares what's canon? The X timeline is a complete mess.
Mega Man's retcons are some of the most convoluted in general.

>>11824130
Was going to be canon and then it didn't sell well so it became a non canon spinoff

It has some of the best tracks in the series to be fair

>>11825714
>Who the fucks cares what's canon?
I do and im honestly tired of anti-canon midwits barging in saying there shouldn't be a timeline because they digested so much poorly written garbage that doesn't follow its own stories well.

>>11828024
"Canon" applies to real texts, not toys made by a changing staff.

>>11824048 (OP)
It's about on par with the PS2 X games. Most of it was composed by Shinya Okada, who doesn't really excel at rock music and did stuff like Mega Scorpio, Dynasty, the Armored Armadillo remix in Maverick Hunter X, and so on. Basically techno-heavy, electronic and atmospheric stuff.

Not really a fan of the guy's work in other Capcom games, but I actually really liked his work on Command Mission. Only big complain is that most of the songs are rather short.

>>11825780
That is not what happened.