i don’t consider myself MUCH of a mega man fan, I’ve only beat 3 games out of the whole classic series! But I think I’ve played enough of the fourth to give an honest opinion. So here we go! This is my review of mega man 4.

Story (8): This is the first game in the series to have a (as I like to call them) “decoy villains” in this case, Dr. Mikhail Sergeyevich Cossack. A Russian evil scientist with a daughter named Kalinka. He and Kalinka are kidnapped by Dr. Wily, but wily decides to spare him in exchange for defeating mega man. (or captured him for the reason, idk.) So when mega man hears about Dr. Cossacks (wily’s) intentions to take over the world, mega man hurries to stop Cossack! (Wily, lol)

Sound (9): OH DAYUM does the music sound good. Skull man’s being my favorite. Almost every music track in this game sounds good. With a few being about grade-b tracks. However, this IS mega man we’re talking about, so is that so unorthodox?

Graphics (9): The graphics are quite well made. I personally love some of the details in the background. Like the little skulls in the walls of skull man’s stage. Or the piles of trash in dust man’s stage. my most favorite detail being the gears and the lights in Bright man’s stage. ( even if it’s difficult to see where you are going.) The only thing I hate about the graphics are when sprite flickering happens. But that’s a problem with almost every NES game, so it won’t much of a problem.

Depth (6): Depth? HAH! You won’t find any type of depth here. The game can take you about 2-3 hours. And if you’re really good, about 30 minutes to an hour. To put it simply, you go beat 8 robot masters. Go to Cossack’s lair, go beat Cossack, go to WILY’S lair, and finally, go beat wily. That simple. But since you can choose the robot masters in whatever order you want, I’ll bump the depth up to a 6.

Addictiveness (7): I can’t really say that this is an addictive game, it only takes about 30 minutes to 3 hours to beat. But you can set self-challenges for yourself, so that’s something. And you can also try to pull a Roahm Mythril and try to do a perfect run against them all. So I’ll bump it up to a 7 like the last one.

Difficulty (9): By today’s standards, this game is just brutal. If you play a lot of “hand-holding” games and this is your first time playing mega man, then you will most likely get very angry at this game. It has a lot of the things that NES games are riddled with: Knockback, enemies that hit like trucks at times, bottomless pits, spikes, and too much more to talk about. This game will test your patience if this is your first time playing the game. (unless you play mega man a lot.)
Overall (9.3): If you ask me, this game holds up exceptionally well by today’s standards. The game has a lot of fun moments, has a good soundtrack, good graphical capabilities for the time in which it was made, and a decent story to boot. If you still have an NES and you haven’t played this game, go play it! Or you can buy it off the 3ds E-shop for $4.99. IMO, mega man 4 is the best mega man game I’ve played. Thank you for stopping by, this is Mega Mewtwo x: Signing out.

An decent review could have been a tad bit longer with more details. Oh and I think you meant hand held instead of hand holding, that just sounds weird to me. You could have included the name of the stages and the name of the bosses you would have to face in the end, but I guess that's just me. Was also looking for what year the game came out, was hoping to see it in this review. As an person that hasn't really played mega man at all this review doesn't really make me want to try this game out. 

A good review about a game that I've never played. I like the fact you included the E-shop price as well and that you compared it to today's standards, that's not something you see in many reviews. Like cnw said, some parts could have been longer but for the rest it's good.

I understand, your opinion, after all. However, I did mention some of the bosses and the year of the game should be on the game's page. I mainly tried to cover the main points of the game. But as I said at the beginning of this post, your opinion.

I know you did, I just wanted to state my opinion is all. My opinion is my opinion.

I think the one thing that's lacking in your review is that when you said the story is an 8, you never actually said why you think the story deserves an 8. All you did was give a synopsis of what the story is about, which is fine, but there was no reasoning or description as to whether the story is good or not.