| rdfs:comment | - Rockman DASH in Japan, is a 1997 Playstation game that was Capcom's first attempt to take the franchise into 3D. The storyline revolves around "Mega Man Volnutt" and his friends/surrogate family Roll and Barrel Caskett -- a team of "Diggers" exploring the ruins left by the Precursors searching for energy-generating refractors that are more precious than gold in their Scavenger World. Opposing them are the Bonne Family, a trio of Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain Pirates. Other foes include Glyde, a pirate who hates Teisel Bonne's guts, Bola and Claymore, two former pirates/bounty hunters who kick some serious ass, despite being very old, and others.
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| abstract | - Rockman DASH in Japan, is a 1997 Playstation game that was Capcom's first attempt to take the franchise into 3D. The storyline revolves around "Mega Man Volnutt" and his friends/surrogate family Roll and Barrel Caskett -- a team of "Diggers" exploring the ruins left by the Precursors searching for energy-generating refractors that are more precious than gold in their Scavenger World. Opposing them are the Bonne Family, a trio of Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain Pirates. Other foes include Glyde, a pirate who hates Teisel Bonne's guts, Bola and Claymore, two former pirates/bounty hunters who kick some serious ass, despite being very old, and others.
* Legends 1 is about Volnutt and the Casketts fighting to keep the Bonnes from destroying an island town to steal an ancient treasure buried there, while uncovering the secret behind a centennial catastrophe about to befall it.
* The sequel, Legends 2, picks up a year after the end of the previous game, with Volnutt and the Casketts having beaten Juno and the Bonnes. The game introduces Glyde, Bola, and Claymore as three more rivals to Volnutt, along with the mysterious Yuna and Sera. The plot revolves around the mysteries surrounding Volnutt, Juno, and the origins of both Elysium and Terra.
* There was also a prequel called The Misadventures of Tron Bonne in which Tron and her Servbots have to go on a crime spree to save her brothers Teisel and Bon from Glyde.
* In 2008, a new game in the series was released on cell phones in Japan, Rockman DASH Big 5 Island Adventure. The game is a midquel, taking place between the first and second games of the series, and rumors claim that the game might see a release on Wii Ware or DSiware like the formerly-cell-phone only ~Final Fantasy IV: The After Years~.
* On September 29, 2010, Capcom Europe confirmed Legends 3 as a Nintendo 3DS title almost 10 years after the release of Legends 2... Unfortunately, On July 18, 2011, Capcom announced that, due to it not meeting required criteria, the project had been cancelled, with the Suspiciously Specific Denial that it had nothing to do with sacking Keiji Inafune. What made it worse was that Inafune even offered help to finish the game, yet Capcom refused. Fans were not amused. Unlike the other games in the series, Legends is more of an adventure game with loads of exploration and character interaction, as opposed to the hardcore side-scrolling shooters the other games are. In aesthetic and themes, it's very obviously influenced by Hayao Miyazaki films, specifically Laputa: Castle in the Sky. In fact, the Reavers, the ancient robots found in the ruins of the game, are quite obvious shout outs to the robots in Laputa: Castle in the Sky. Likewise, the archetypes of an adventurous boy, a strong female and lost civilizations are very much present as well. Despite the small amount of games, characters from this series have made more appearances in Capcom vs. Whatever titles than all the other series combined.
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