Mega Man Battle Network and Star Force deserved every ounce of love that they get. Personally, I love battle network more but, Star Force is a worthy successor. Props to you monger for giving light on how these games are quite a blast.

Geo and Omega-Xis might be my favorite Mega Man out of them all, character-wise. The main plot in this game is so good.

Black ace 100%. Imo it feels more canon than Red Joker (when you play 3, you'll understand) So happy to see this video out though. It's nice to see people give it a shot and not write it off, and actually _appreciate the story about dealing with trauma and depression_

Yay!!! More people are talking about this series. Let's hope this leads to Capcom remastering this series.

Fun fact: either in the beta for full games code there are assets of a 3d mega man.exe and a reimagined acdc town which could mean it started off as BN 7

Starforce is my first and my favourite megaman game that i found by a complete accident :)

What I loved about Starforce is how much each one improves on the last. BN was great, but the improvements were way less consistent.

I find it amusing that the idea of "Battle Network going henshin" already had its roots within the BN anime

Geo (and Omega) was my Megaman. I only really enjoyed the OG and X series causally as the "hard but fun video games my uncle keeps letting me borrow", but having discovered the first Starforce game during a certain period of my teenage life, its story and characters really captivated me. Whenever I remember the series these days, I still get super bummed that it was basically cut short. P.S. Omega is true best girl, but Sonia and Luna are close seconds

An excellent video about an underrated game: the Starforce franchise is my favorite video game. You made a fantastic video, and it made my day to see this. 🤗 I think it's good to split the videos up rather than just one massive load of information.

35:10 - Actually they do actually meet again. Similarly to BN4 and Boktai 2, Lunar Knights has a crossover scenario with Star Force that takes place after Star Force’s half of the crossover. Long story short. Omega-Xis and a re-revived Taurus end up in the Boktai world. Omega-Xis is stuck with the Lunar Knights guys, severely gimped without Geo around, while Taurus becomes Taurus Fire (something all the FM-ians can just do after dying and coming back) and starts a conquest with the local monster hordes. Eventually Geo gets to cross between worlds to wave change right as Taurus (rendered otherwise untouchable because of the wave roads) reaches his peak power… and Taurus gets slaughtered in under 15 seconds with just the buster. The good guys all leave happy, roll credits.

now megaman star force needs a collection!

I still feel the Battle Network series is significantly better gameplay wise, however I do think the Starforce series is probably better story wise (though it was pretty low bar to surpass).

Battle Network, Starforce, and ZX Advent defined my megaman experience and made me love the franchise

Kinda wish we able to see a 200+ years old Megaman.EXE.

I hope that since more attention is being brought to Battle Network and Star Force we get a remake or successor, especially since 11 wasn't too long ago

I’ve played all the battle networks before i played starforce. I remember when I got it the day it came out i was already hooked and loved the game. All megaman gameboy and ds games are under rated. Never knew about the DX version im definitely going to give it a try thank you for these videos keep up the great work

YES FINALLY STARFORCE. Never played these games so a retrospective is a perfect way to experience them

34:45 - What’s neat here is that the difficulty is warranted. In the second game, Sonia straight-up implies that this guy is somewhere around the AM Sage-Andromeda ballpark of power from meeting him on her own. Oh… and there’s someone under his employer even stronger than he is. But that’s its own story. Looking forward to Monger’s retrospective.

This is the best video related to Mega Man Star Force on KZfaq, excellent job. This is such a special game and there's so much to say about even beyond whats covered here but you more than got the point across and I finally feel like the series is in decent enough hands fanbase wise, I used to vouch for these games wherever I could as for quite a bit they were either slept on or just harshly scrutinized by people who I could tell either approached them with some form of bias(This isn't Battle Network crowd, or the It's not a real Mega Man game crowd) or just wrote them off entirely. The entire series is underrated yes but the first game was THE video game even I someone who isn't really a content creator wanted to make something for, while the drive isn't quite what it used to be it's still one of my all time favorites and I hope I can pay proper tribute to it someday. With people like you around it's safe to say I wasn't crazy for liking it so much, and that I can pass the torch and relax, feels great. Don't want to spoil much but while he'll always be a meathead, Bud will get more growth down the line and ngl Prez/Luna is my preference between the two heroines, she's so misunderstood but you didn't dismiss her and I'm grateful. While I doubt we'll ever see Star Force 4 again, I do hope that at least one day we'll see Star Force's Mega Man get to team up with and/or trade blows with Ryu and other Capcom legends in one of their iconic crossover fighting games, His potential is absolutely insane and he's just begging to be brought into the genre.

I absolutely loved the Starforce series. The use of constellations in the first game was a huge plus for me since it reminded me of my favorite anime, Saint Seiya, I couldn't stop smiling at the cheese scene when Geo comes up with the "Megaman" name and they game's theme starts playing, and the ending credits with Geo's capsule following his friends' signal back to Earth as the ending theme plays legit got me emotional the first time I saw it.

I started Megaman Starforce from the anime. The moment I saw Geo and Omega-Xis, I was...enamored. I really felt so much for Geo that I wanted to see his story. I preordered Starforce Pegasus and bought every subsequent game. And honestly, I feel it deserved far better. Starforce will always remain my most favorite Megaman series, and Geo and Omega-Xis as the best Megaman.

Bob reminded me of detective gumshoe from Ace attorney a bit

I recently replayed Starforce 3 with some friends and through emulation managed to make a brother band with them It had been one of the highlights of my year and I fucking love the Starforce Series as a hole, its a childhood favorite for me

seeing all those PET in the junkyard is indeed depressing.

If I'm being completely honest I love Battle Network to death, but I actually love Star Force even more! It took everything I loved about BN and just elevated it imo. Better combat, better sound, writing and characters. With the pinnacle being Star Force 3. Now that we have the Battle Network collection I'm hoping Capcom will eventually give us a Star Force collection.

Amazing video. Starforce is easily my favorite Megaman series and the first game is my favorite game of all time. It’s got flaws but the story it tells was super impactful for me when I was younger. Mental illness being tackled in a game like this is really cool, and every arc was really great with character building and all that. My favorites are Sonia’s arc and Gemini’s arc. Sonia is my favorite character, and I just loved her interactions with Geo. I could go on and on about what I love about the series but yeah, it’s omega underrated and I’m glad it’s been getting looked at again after so many years.

19:36 I can't really relate because I went to special ed private schools for middle school. One of them, a small, low-budget one even had a food truck show up at lunch because there was no cafeteria while by contrast, another, bigger one had a home ec class where I learned how to make the most USAmerican recipe: The cheeseburger lol. "You see Mr. Kaiba, it's the added dairy that makes it _truly_ American."

2 Star Force KZfaq videos in a day? My birthday must've come early- It makes me so happy to see SF get the recognition like this since I grew up with it and it helped me grow and develop as a person

Luna is my absolute favorite character in the entirety of MegaMan. She's so misunderstood and I relate to her arc of never being enough to her parents so much. Its a shame we never got SF4 but at least we have the MMSF Endwave fangame which is the closest we'll get.

I've spent the better half of this year marathoning the BN and SF series, and man, what an amazing experience! It is so great to see so much content discussing these series even now, they are just so awesome!!!!

Bob Copper looks like Gumshoo and Inpsector Gadget put together.

At first I was freaking out that I somehow missed a compilation remake like Battle Network 5's Double Team DS when you talked about Starforce DX. And then I found out it is a mod for a DS emulated version. Also, the reason for the "lack of popularity" for the Boktai series at 35:17 is due to a second, more deadly aspect. One of the main gimmicks of the Boktai series is that the MC's gun is recharged with ACTUAL sunlight from the real world via solar sensors that detect the bright lights. Problem is, this is effectively making players go outside to get fried by summer heat, as most normal lights cannot fool the sensors. This caused major health problems like heatstroke and killed a huge chunk of potential playtime, resulting in its decline.

Sonia supremacy! Best girl of Megaman Starforce! :3

Did you know that the overworld was originally gonna be fully 3D like the battles?

while battle network will always hold a special place in my heart, i cant deny starforce did do something interesting to continue the spirit while mixing it up. I do prefer the more 2D style of MMBN but i can most certainly appreciate the change in perspective and again they were still fun solid games

It breaks my heart that this game is pretty much all but forgotten about. I remember vividly playing all the handheld megamans and loved how similar star force was to battlenetwork. Felt like a soul successor to it that just didn't get quite the same love battle network did.

P.S. we believe in Luna supremacy as the best character in the game.

Actually just got done collecting a copy of every star force game. Great video. So blessed to see SF content in 2021

Em wave change! Geo stelar on air !

Huh this is the second video about Megaman star force i see today ... Interesting

The Starforce series is my favorite Megaman series with Starforce 3 being my favorite Megaman game. I can't wait for you to play Starforce 3!

I never played any Megaman game my whole life but your videos interest ms so much!

What a surprise. A certain MangaKamen just covered StarForce. So two of my faves covered this series.

Growing up, my dad gave me a flash cart with every ds game on it so iv'e played a majority of the systems library. When I say Megaman Starforce 1 was my favorite right next to pokemon Heartgold and New super mario bros, it's no small feat.

Star Force 1 has to be my favorite Megaman game, period. I really love the Zero games but Star Force still impresses me with how it handles its character arcs. It can be cheesy at times and I understand if that + the chunky DS graphics aren't everyone's cup of tea, but SF deserves more love.

Pegasus was my first Megaman game, so it's nice to see it getting love.

As a fan of the Star Force series... IVE NEVER HEARD OF DX. I **HAVE** TO PLAY IT. ALSO, i really loved the video, its not everyday you get to watch a video talking about this amazing series!

I will tell you, as someone who’s played all three, replayed them many times, and even completed it 100% on 2 of the 3. All are amazing, have amazing stories/lessons, and it’s just fun!!! Great video and thanks for sharing the love of this game!

Starforce is one of my favorite games of all time. All 3 of them are incredible and got me through my childhood! It makes me smile to see this video, because it's nice to know there's people that love this game just like I do

This series always meant a lot to me, always loved the cast

Amazing Video Moongerino, doing a good job as always. This was a good watch, and it is lovely to see one of my favorite games of all time covered, looking forward to the SF2 and 3 videos as well. Cheers!

if you look in all the PETs in the junkyard while they're all all grey except for one. it's that familiar heroic blue that we all know and love. i noticed that when i first played the game as a kid and cried

With how the MegaMan Battle Network franchise was able to get a Legacy Collection released on multiple consoles, this does make me wonder if Star Force will receive a Legacy Collection as well.

Star Force is a fantastic series! And even though a video compilation would have its advantages, since there are only 3 games, I think one video for each is better.

Finally! You're talking about one of my favorite Megaman series! Excellent video! It's a damn shame that it was overshadowed by BN and to see some BN fans simply call SF "BN in 3D" is a massive disservice to the game. I can't wait to see you get to MMSF3👍

The StarForce games are some of the best I've ever played and had a massive impact on my life. My first and longest used oc is still named Geo Stelar xD 12 years strong. Me and my friend bonded so much over these games. I still remember every one i had. The EB Games exclusive Dragon edition for the first, The Ninja/Zerker for the second, and Red Ace. Genuinely amazing series, great story, high stakes, amazing side Characters, awesome transformations and villains, and each game feels fresh and innovate as they go while still feeling familiar. Thank you for bringing more eyes to it!!!

Much love to you for making this series! I’ve never been super huge on MegaMan but I played all three of the games in these series and absolutely LOVED it and think back on it fondly… the reviews on these games were painful when I enjoyed each game so much.

Man, I LOVED your batle network videos. They made me remember the starforce games, how I liked the first but never beat he second. In fact, living in Europe, we never even recieved the third installment, so I always thought "is it worth playing the second without playing the third?". Thanks to your videos, went and purchased from second hand the first and second installments, beating the first in three days hahaha. I also got the third one, although it's a fake cartridge, so I can say I physically have every starforce game. I still have to start the third, but I'm thrilling to do so. I love to finally see this video. I prefer each game separatley for you to speak all you can of each one. Like that, I can as well try to beat the third game before you review it.

Glad it's finally here. Love the thumbnail too

Starforce team: “hey team lead how many troupes should we add into the story?” Starforces lead: YES!!!

Luna I can relate to on the over bearing parents

Star Force's story and characters were definitely more compelling to me than BN. Side-note, while it keeps the video length a bit shorter, the speed at which you talk can make it a bit hard for my slow self to follow. Very much liking the series and appreciating bn and sf being given such a spotlight

Honestly these games, the battle network games and weird enough Digimon World 3 kinda hold the same spot of love in my brain all weirdly similar to Pokemon games that really REALLY do their own thing and honestly make themselves much, much more fun.

The 200 year timeline gap is something that I don’t think gets enough appreciation. It is so COOL to see how the technological advancements of scientists like Lan Hikari in 200X are referenced in Starforce 200 years later. Games like these helped to turn me into an overall optimist for humanity from an early age. Imagine how much more advanced we could possibly be in the 2200s! Technology is exponentially evolving (much faster than the last century and even the last decade). We will surely have our own set of problems in the future, but hopefully we’ll put this increasingly advancing technology to good use. Regardless, our species is in for some interesting times.

Starforce was what got me into Megaman and I see it for what it was, as a standalone that couldn't be compared. I've seen it said once that due to the story and mechanics evolving too quickly it failed to stay for the long future and in a way I agree. However if there were someone to put the effort into reviving this particular part of the franchise I would wholeheartedly give my financial support.

My dude I am so glad you're continuing this series, would love to see you cover everything, even the anime

Star force 2 is my personal favorite when it comes to story among all the franchise (maybe because i like sonia) so I'll probably look forward for the next vid

These games were hard for me but I absolutely loved them. They were my Pokemon. Thanks for sharing about the DX patch, didn't know about that. Maybe I'm due for a replay

Star Force is like the ZX of the internet timeline: sadly overshadowed by other entries. At least Geo is in Smash Bros., though, unlike Vent and Aile! I did always find it kind of sad that Battle Network got so much cross-promotion that allowed it to have longevity, while Star Force only ever really managed to crossover with Boktai DS, only for that series to suddenly end, leaving it with only its predecessor series to rely on.

Im so happy ive been seeing more people starting to talk about the starforce series it’s my favorite series of all time and it’s really a shame that it got canceled at it’s peak the concept for the 4th installment sounded like it would’ve continued the streak of each installment getting better after another but it’s great that it’s slowly coming back from the grave now that it’s starting to get more talked about just hope it can spread even further

I’ve been waiting for this video monger! Your takes on Starforce 1 are exactly what I thought they would be! I can’t wait to catch your Starforce 3 playthrough!!!

The star force games got me hooked fir hours on end as a young preteen i think o_o or kid idk dude im old now 😂. Anyways starforce is Epic and so refreshing i wish they kept going with it because the characters are so likable and battle system is mawh♡

Okay. I was a BN die-hard and I got the first StarForce, but never followed up on the following two. But BN4 being reviewed better than SF1? BULLSHIT.

'Geo Stelar starts out depressed' Shit, me too man.

this game was so underrated for no reason. i remember playing megaman starforce pegasus, and instantly became in love with this rebirth series following up with starforce 2, and finally red joker. seeing this on my timeline just brought back so much nostalgia and im so happy to see how left some sort of legacy to the community

I literally didn’t know this existed. I could be wrong, but for some reason I feel like I vaguely remember seeing the television series for this advertised on Saturday mornings after Yugioh or something but I could be thinking about something else.

this was my 2nd favorite next to battle network. star force DX is the only version that should be played I'm thankful for prof 9s work 😁 he also did the bn 4.5. this is the era where I feel reviewers didn't want to play megaman games and made trashy reviews you see this with the zx series especially.

I love seeing any starforce content especially here in 2021. Really miss this series fondly and just recently finished replaying MMSF3. Such a shame that 4 was dropped during development - those reviews definitely weren’t fair!

You have no idea how happy I am, reaching the end of this video only to realize that it came out several months ago and you've already uploaded a sequel! This game series (including BN) was a larger part of my childhood then I would like to admit, thank you for covering it

thank you for picking up the pieces, i'm hoping this becomes the definitive starforce retrospective!

i know im a few days late but thanks so much for pumping out sm content about these lesser talked about games, especially with TWEWY and these megaman games ;-; !! I haven't really played them, but my brothers have, and whenever you upload these types of videos, they're always over the moon!! your videos overall are just a pleasure to watch :DD have a nice day

I played the Star Force games and loved them as much as I love the Battle Network series. Your video gave new perspective to this series and really filled me on things about I was never even aware of. Excellent work, man!

What I loved so much about Starforce was how the plot was aged up... with actualy a lot of sublety! Battle Network is like a time capsule, set in a world more similar to the 90s-early 2000s, where computers were still quite bulky and everything relied on bundling cables and the internet was still seen as this "no-mans land" of analogical data. Star Force was at the peak of the digital dawn, everything is wireless, there is signal everywhere, everything is airy and luminous. And the biggest comentary in all 3 games is about connectivity on a SOCIAL level, what we call today... *Social Media* Starforce 1 focused on loneliness, grief and "brotherbands", essentialy saying that through technological connection, one can either be isolated or find a new family. Starforce 2 focused on "Link Power" and how these connections can now be corrupted and people can simply have "brothers" to brag about, just like influencers and their followers. And finally, Starforce 3 had the "purposes" and "groups", once again showing two sides of connectivity. Bad people can also profit of this advanced connectivity for their evil endeavours, just like the internet can aid the bad people by hiding criminal activities. Plus the "noise" being the other thing about technology: If left to grow rampant, it might leave a trail of toxicity, which ironicaly became relevant NOW with the advent of NFTs and their impact on the enviroment (to simplify: NFT servers consume too much electricity for what is worth). Starforce is Battle Network growing out of its innocense into maturity without loosing contact to what made this franchise become what it is in the first place. Battles are still strategic bot don't shy away from allowing basic button-mashing, the writting is still lighthearted and simplistic and the art-style is vibrant and unique, only updating what NEEDS to feel updated, what really should grow more sophisticated with time, such as the battles being now 3D because the hardware allows it and because, well, we moved from the era of Pixels to the era of Polygons around the same eras represented in both games.

RIP pets I remember getting an artbook for this game series and I showed some characters one of my friends she looked and at Luna and asked me who she was and I told her that's Luna she immediately went that's my favorite character and I asked her why? She said because the drill hair

I absolutely adore Star Force, I'm glad to know people value it's story as much as I do, I still love Battle Network but SF really just struck a nerve in my preteen self and I think it legitimately made me a more empathetic person. The battle system is simplified but sometimes, i honestly prefer it to BN, in 3 especially, it can be so flashy and fast and I love it

I still question why there would still be a piles of Link PET_EX in a junkyard 200 years after Battle Network. I know the Transer was the PET’s successor, but there weren’t any newer PET models after two centuries?

I’m so glad to see more people talking about Starforce and bringing spotlight onto my favorite Megaman series. Thanks for this video, I look forward to your next videos! Fingers crossed someday for a legacy collection of Starforce or dare I say even a Starforce 4 🤞🏽

Yay! The energetic voice is back!

Brilliant Starforce video sir! Your experience with the game pretty much mirrored mine. I knew of the series, but never dived into it, and after i marathoned the entire BN saga, i set my sights on this series. I didn't know what to expect from this game, but i was BLOWN AWAY by it. The story, gameplay, general feel of it all, it was something special off the bat, and despite not knowing much about it a few months ago, it skyrocketed to one of my favorite MegaMan series. Can't wait to see the SF2 and SF3 videos soon!

I always forget about Star force and then get happy memories when someone reminds me of it. Was my first megman

Black Ace, it has the coolest Big Bang attack in the series.

LES GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I was seeing your VODs through this, I wanna see your review!

Star Force is special to me. While I had played and enjoyed BN starting with 6 when it first dropped and worked my way backwards to 3, I never really cared all that much about Lan. As mentioned in the video, Star Force 1 really stood out to me because of its story and Geo by extension. Geo being a softspoken, introverted kid who I could easily relate to, who gradually matured into the hero he is over the course of the game was such a great example of character development. I lost my DS shortly after I beat Star Force sadly, so I never got to play 2 and 3

all of your coverage on this series has been so amazing. please keep it up!

Megaman StarForce 1 is facing your depression head on and growing as a person, learning that connections help not hinder. Megaman Starforce 2 is about Geo trying to come to terms with himself being a hero and Trying his hardest not to fall back into that dark place. Megaman 3 is about Geo taking his role as a hero by the horns and use his experiences to help others.

It’s good to see this game get the recognition that it deserves

YES. MY FAVORITE.

I like calling this Mega Man "Omegaman/War Rockman" to set him apart from the other Mega Men. It might make sense for a "War Rock" to merge into "Rockman" but "Omega-Xis" merging to form "Mega Man"? Makes no sense! Also Star Force was the end of an era for Mega Man as a whole and aside from Over-1 (who hardly counts because Capcom wants us to forget he existed, not to mention he never became a Mega Man, he's stuck as a Rockman), he's the last Mega Man to exist.

Star force was ahead of it's time. Imagine if it came out now with the MCU craze