GameRankings had an average of 76.60% for the PS version, while Metacritic had 76 favorable reviews out of 100 for it. In a 2007 retrospective of the "Mega Man" series, Jeremy Parish of 1UP.com ranked "Mega Man Legends 2" as "Worth it!", praising its graphical improvements over the first title and commenting that its unresolved ending is "one of gaming's greatest injustices". In a similar feature, GameSpot stated that the game could "fix lot of the flaws in the original and ["Mega Man Legends 2"] is a substantial improvement upon the Legends formula". 1UP.com analyzed "Legends 2"s ending and found it unfortunate as the plot involving the Elder System mentioned in the game's ending remained unresolved.