Mega Man Battle Network 3 Blue 2002

Is it still worth playing?

Capcom's 2002 real time tactical role playing game for the Game Boy Advance, released outside Japan in two versions, White and Blue. You alternate between Lan, a boy in the real world, and MegaMan.exe in the cyber world, where most of the play happens. There, battles take place on a six by three grid, half for each side, and mix turn based and real time. Five chips are drawn at random from a folder of thirty, and their codes decide which can be used together. Between battles you build MegaMan.exe up: the Navi Customizer fits programs that give abilities into a small space, Style Changes add elemental forms, and a Virus Breeder raises friendly viruses. In Blue the contest Navi is BowlMan, an extra Navi called Punk can be challenged, and each has five exclusive Giga chips. Building a folder and drawing from it still turns every fight into a small puzzle today.