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Mega Man 7 is the first and only numbered title in the original series released on the SNES.
However, Capcom only made this mode accessible via a secret password.
A CD soundtrack for Mega Man 7 containing 37 pieces of music was published for the first time in Japan by Team Entertainment on November 21, 2007 amidst the franchise's 20th anniversary.
The new head illustrator Hayato Kaji concurred, stated that the team was very devoted to the project's completion despite having to rush its development.
GamePro simply called it "a nice holdover" for fans waiting for the next game in the X series.
Next Generation rated it three stars out of five, and stated that "it's still the same game", noting that the audience has grown and has gotten tired of it.
The game was released in Japan on March 24, 1995 and was localized later in the year in North America and Europe.
Gregory Ballard, the president of Capcom's North American division, admitted the company was too conservative in shipping copies of Mega Man 7 when it launched in the region in September.
Although many considered it a competent game by itself, many other reviewers thought that the series' formula had gone stale, as they criticized the game for not innovating enough from its predecessors and negatively compared it to the more inventive Mega Man X, released on the SNES over a year earlier, because of it.
GameSpot contributors Christian Nutt and Justin Speer praised it even compared to its predecessors: "Finally, a real upgrade to the original series on the SNES, after so many years on the moribund NES crippled the series.
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