Are these difficult games?

[Andrew R]

They look neat but I feel maybe not for me. I'm assuming you must play them in sequential order?

[SupaSuba]

they are challenging if you dont have the right cards for certain battles.

[hunli.davis]

They're not difficult and you don't need to play them in sequential order. The story between the games are all unrelated.

[DeathX]

there are some call backs but nothing major to the point you MUST play them in order and like the others said it can be hard at times if you don't have a great folder set up

[ForteDS]

You don't need to play them in sequential order if you really don't want to, but if you get stuck, Buster Max mode will break most encounters in half, with a few exceptions where you need to delete some viruses at the same time in the post game in 3.

[Natofdeath]

1st game has a few tricky puzzles but even that isn't very complicated. Other games have interesting boss mechanics. Once your use to the games, though the only thing that will bring real difficulty is post content.

[Loopie Louie]

It naturally varies between games, but overall they aren't too bad if you take it slow. Although from what I remember, there are some difficulty spikes midway through. It does get difficult when you get to the post-game, but by then you're usually ready for it. Worst comes to worst, you can (supposedly in this collection) enable buster MAX to help you grind for more upgrades if you ever hit a wall, but still want to try your hand at the later bosses without assists.

As for sequential order, in all honesty you can skip the first game; the second game alone has so many improvements to the formula it makes the first game feel like a beta. It doesn't help that the first game has some issues that might be frustrating for a newcomer if you aren't prepared for it. The plot in the first game is fairly light, and the second game does catch you up on the important story beats if you skip the first game.

[mcnichoj]

Originally posted by hunli.davis:

They're not difficult and you don't need to play them in sequential order. The story between the games are all unrelated.

Not entirely accurate.
One could enjoy any of the games on their own but it's a much better experience playing through all the stories.

However if someone is worried about the games being hard, the first one is the best to start with as it lacks a lot of the more nuanced mechanics of later entries. It's actually considered so much easier that it's an actual big con towards the title when people rank all the games in the franchise.

[Andrew R]

Interesting.

At the very LEAST, I would like to play 1 & 2. XD

[Vesper]

They're definitely not too difficult.

If you want to enjoy the games for their story, I'd definitely recommend playing though at least 1, 2 & 3 in order.

Depending on how burned out on the series you may or may not feel after finishing 1 through 3, I'd say there's three equally valid routes to take after playing those games:

A.) Call it a day after the original trilogy, as MMBN 1-3 definitely do form a complete story of their own.

B). Skip straight to MMBN6 if at that point you don't feel burned out yet, to be precise the Cybeast Gregar version of MMBN6.

C.) Commit to 4 & 5 before MMBN6 if you feel like you could pull it off

[dustin1280]

Originally posted by Andrew R:

They look neat but I feel maybe not for me. I'm assuming you must play them in sequential order?

As a HUGE fan of this series...

I would start with MMBN 1 and if you like it play MMBN 2-3.

If you still want more MMBN and aren't burned out after 1-3. I recommend playing one version of 4, one version of 5, and one version of 6.

I DO still recommend playing them in order though because the newer games generally make improvements over the old games and that won't work in reverse.

IE if you start with 6 then play 1, it might sour your playthrough of 1 because it is missing things you could do in 6...

[P1]

Originally posted by Andrew R:

They look neat but I feel maybe not for me. I'm assuming you must play them in sequential order?

Not really. Catch a team of six and make sure their moves have some good type coverage against the gym leaders (bosses). You can always grind levels if it is too hard.

[Kyllin]

Buster Max=Zero Challenge, and you still get all the achievements. Just press the big button under the start button.