I actually find MM5 to be very underrated myself, It's superior to 1, 4 and 6 to me, and you can argue the others to be honest. If you look at the series out of the time, MM1 was rough and janky but good, MM2 was great but still kind of primitive, MM3 tried to do more but had technical issues alongside a kind of half baked attempt at extending the length of the game.. MM4 added the charge shot and a proper 'second tower' which was great, but the charge shot was new and not near as refined and the difficulty was inconsistent, along with kind of lame boss powers. While 5 doesn't have all great boss powers, it felt like the game really refined everything, the charge shot works better, the difficulty while maybe a bit too easy at times was still a lot more even, visually, music wise, etc, everything felt really polished and tight. It's probably the most technically sound of the games while still managing to pull off really nice visuals.
I like 6 a lot as well, but it definitely had a bit less of a inspired vibe to it in contrast, I find myself replaying 3 and 5 probably the most often.
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I actually find MM5 to be very underrated myself, It's superior to 1, 4 and 6 to me, and you can argue the others to be honest. If you look at the series out of the time, MM1 was rough and janky but good, MM2 was great but still kind of primitive, MM3 tried to do more but had technical issues alongside a kind of half baked attempt at extending the length of the game.. MM4 added the charge shot and a proper 'second tower' which was great, but the charge shot was new and not near as refined and the difficulty was inconsistent, along with kind of lame boss powers. While 5 doesn't have all great boss powers, it felt like the game really refined everything, the charge shot works better, the difficulty while maybe a bit too easy at times was still a lot more even, visually, music wise, etc, everything felt really polished and tight. It's probably the most technically sound of the games while still managing to pull off really nice visuals.
I like 6 a lot as well, but it definitely had a bit less of a inspired vibe to it in contrast, I find myself replaying 3 and 5 probably the most often.