Ranking The Megaman X Games

hello everyone SP here today I'm going to be ranking the Mega Man X Games all eight of them with the Advent of AI here and the heated discussions around it being prevalent let's talk about a series that kind of did it like 20 years ago and was way cooler Mega Man X Games are a continuation of the original Mega Man games keeping the similar gameplay but adding some key differences like a deeper story wall jumping dashing and Buzz Lightyear here are my conditions rules whatever you want to call it one Mainline tiles only no extreme one or two or Command Mission I haven't played those I don't think you want to hear me talk about them since they're basically just inferior reskins of The Originals except uh Command Mission I've heard some good things about command mission two this video will probably contain spoilers but do you really care like what happens at the end of X7 and lastly keep in mind this is my opinion you have yours put it in the comments I look at them and I enjoy them everything after this point will pretty much be unscripted so let's begin at the very bottom of our list is X6 um because it's just a really bad game part of that might be because it was kind of against what inafune wanted you know like X5 was supposed to be the end of the the series it's kind of like an unplanned pregnancy and that it wasn't supposed to happen let's start off with the positives I think the first thing that I can think of is the graphics they they look pretty similar to uh X4 and X5 but I I mean they they're still some of the best looking games uh the very you know Sprite uh I love the Sprites of like X zero the Mavericks Sigma they all the stages look beautiful the enemies they all like have a it's much more refined you know from the original trilogy they all look smoother and like taller another positive I can think of is the music I think this is the last X game with some like Bops because X7 and X8 they have some good tracks but uh these are very memorable and I've I've used some of x6's Music uh in my videos uh I know in the the rambling about tears of the Kingdom I use the Rainy talid uh song cuz that's a Bop that's a banging track I mean I think that's probably the last of the the the positives because the negatives are that there's just it's like it's so difficult in all the wrong places the difficulty isn't like a fair challenge it's just bull there's nightmare effects which kind of sounds cool all right so they take the like X1 you know like I I think only X1 does this where like all the uh the stages change based on uh which stage you played previously so like I think you play like chill penguin uh it freezes Flame Mammoth stage and makes it easier and um storm Eagle you do that before um spark Mandel and uh the ship crashes into spark manel's stage and I for it's something to do with the lights and Spark mandrels I can't remember if they like flicker or like they stay on or something but I think it makes it I think it makes it easier for um smark Mel the nightmare effects do the complete opposite it's in Reverse so they make the stage harder uh the one example I can think of is wait there's there's like two examples that I can think of there's the Rainy teroid stage um I I'm pretty sure it's acid rain is the nightmare effect and uh that's just actual like brain dead game design uh it's stupid and then there's Infinity there's Infinity Magan I I believe that's how you pronounce it and um and uh infinity minan stage is there's this like giant uh Mech that appears in the background and the nightmare effect makes it so there's just a bunch of like [ __ ] enemies uh attacking you it's just a cluster of enemies on the screen and it's like a bullet hell as you're just trying to get through these enemy and it's easier to just get to like not fight the enemies and just try to get to the end of the stage because of just how the sheer number of them so they're not like I feel like it's a it's a cool concept on paper but in execution it just fails because it it's just difficulty for no reason uh there's the reploid and uh the sigma virus I think the I think the sigma virus is in the state there's that one Maverick with all the totem poles and it's all RNG based which is just and one of the capsules is armor capsules is hidden uh through the RNG which can change every time you play the level so like you could not even get it in that one playthrough of the level so you have to keep on like repeating uh playing through it it over and over again till you get it which is actually like what were they thinking there's clearly like a bunch of like bugs that were never like ironed out or fixed because I mean it wasn't really even planned to come out it it was 9 months after X5 it's literally it's literally an unplanned pregnancy this game was a mistake black zero was coded into the the game as like an unlock that you could get uh through like legitimate means uh but like capcom's coding Wasing horrible and they made it impossible to actually unlock uh black zero the gate stages are stupid gate the gate boss fight is harder than the final boss and it's like the hardest X boss that I've had to like face because it like you're like in this like there's like pits I I think the floor is like bottomless and uh Gates like float floating around the the Boss Arena and there's like platforms that you have to get on and it's a really annoying fight and I hate it I hate gate he's stupid he's his design is stupid I hate him if you're a gate fan please like tell me in the comments why you like gate what's so appealing about gate the stages before gate are like actually like designed from like I believe someone at capcon like had like a deal with like the devil and like was like working in Hell or something like designing the the the one stage with like all the spikes and [ __ ] what what were they thinking with this game the Maverick designs are all right they're they're definitely like this is definitely kind of like you know you can see a fallof present uh they're clearly not as good as the previous ones but I mean like they have cool Concepts uh I mean I like that rainy talid is like a huge gigantic tortoise turtle thing and he like takes up like half the screen Commander yam Mark that's a that's a good one I like that like dragonfly but like Infinity Magan is like a clam thing clam shell thing I don't know I feel like they're running out of ideas here also like there's no like English voice acting there's just a Japanese dub or Japanese sub or whatever and the the translation is God awful it's not even translated right there's a bunch of like mistakes and uh with the grammar and um I think spelling mistakes oh yeah metal metal shark player whatever his name is his stage sucks um it's a bunch of like the whole stage is about crushing you and uh you can die to instant death uh you know uh crushing I guess so it's a very tense level and you have to like there's no way you can do it on a first try because there's just a bunch of like tricks like will get you if you don't know about them there's blizzard wolfang uh stage with that whole ice block section I think that's also that might be randomly generated I'm not sure but that's annoying to get through there's sections in the gate stages where like if you don't have a certain armor equipped you I believe you can do these these sections off but you have to have like frame perfect accuracy to do the moves in order to to get to the like I believe there's like a gap uh that you need to use I think like the Shadow Armor to get through but if you don't have that equipped you have to do this Frame perfect move to get to the other side which is stupid the whole reappearance of zero and the inconsistencies in the timeline is just an expected problem uh because of this game uh I believe zero is like I hid myself while I tried to repair myself what this like what what the [ __ ] do you mean what does that that doesn't even make any sense I'm I'm tired of talking about this this God a game it's so it's so trash U but with that X6 gets an F tier because it's stinking pile our next game on the list is X3 I feel like I'm going to get some heat uh for this but please don't click off because I feel like my other my other uh games on this list are are pretty are pretty standard uh the reason why I just don't like X3 is because uh it it's got kind of in the same vein of x6's problems it's just arbitrary difficulty for the sake of arbitrary difficulty but I do think the stages are a little bit they're designed more better than uh X6 uh because I mean but that's not really a hard thing because x6's stages are God awful but I think like the main thing is just the damage that the enemies do they increased it uh to such a rate that like I mean like enemies can like like three shot you it's I get this is like the third game in the the series so like they probably wanted to make it harder but like not to this degree it doesn't have to be to this degree the Mavericks are kind of lacking in this one um toxic seahorse hold let me let me look up the uh the XTR Mavericks I'm kind of I'm kind of forgetting them also when you look up X3 Maverick uh you do not get the X3 Mavericks you get the uh ATV so that's pretty cool uh that's not what I wanted uh Vault catfish what is Vault catfish why is that thing who designed this neon Ty neon tiger is pretty cool The Hornet guy I can't remember it was like blast Hornet or something he's pretty cool the Crawfish yeah he exists tunnel Rhino not not really cool I think I think there's a gravity Beetle gravity beetles Prett I remember his stage being fun the music I feel like the music was kind of like it was it had like a few Bops but it wasn't uh it I don't think it's as good coming off like X2 and X1 which has like some of the best uh music uh SNES music best X music there's also the whole thing with zero so you can play a zero in this game which is awesome you can play a zero we get to finally play a zero in this game uh but but there's caveat you if you die a zero um you forever lose zero and you can't play as a any more so it's kind of and zero kind of sucks cuz I don't think he gets any of the upgrades or anything so he just kind of sucks so why would you ever use zero and also I this is like a weird thing but like I personally don't really like zero designs in like these these couple games because uh he he's taller than x it looks so uncanny like he looks like he has like a bigger head and like it it throws me off I I much prefer his design in like uh the X4 through like X8 this is one that I just I would never really want to play again like you would have to hold me a gunpoint to to play this Dr doppler's here but again this is X game so of course the the final villain boss fight has to be Sigma again I lied I lied about whatever I said about gate because I think uh I think this game has the like worst final boss worst boss fight in the series and that's Kaiser Sigma just Kaiser Sigma I think his first phase of sigma's first phase is pretty cool uh it's I think it's the one where he has like he either has the Wolverine or the Captain America shield uh I I think I think I think uh X1 is the Wolverine uh I think this one's the Captain America shield but Kaiser sigma's weak point is I think it's supposed to be like these air vents that uh I think his weak point is supposed to be like this vent or like exhaust pipe whatever thing that uh that connects to his head and you're supposed to shoot there there but it's a but like his head is the like thing that like shown getting hit so it's a very like awkward like like weak point that you have to hit and it's not explained well so it's just annoying try trying to fight him he's not even like that difficult his moves are kind of easy and predictable to like uh to dodge it's just trying to shoot him and trying to damage him is literally like really hard the chip up and then after you beat Kaiser Sigma he has this stupid he has to burn the ground burn wherever wherever you are and you have to do that so you're not even done yet so you have to you have to get through that too which can just be annoying if you like die after I mean it's pretty easy to do but like like if you die then you have to you to do the Kaiser Sigma all over again the chip upgrades and the the capsules or whatever um it has stupid thing with the gold armor I remember where like if you got the four chip upgrades or whatever before then I don't think you could get the gold armor which is again arbitrary why can't you do that uh there's the mech ride armor uh skins whatever different types of RI armors that you can use uh but I think you have to get a certain one first before you can you can switch out the ride armors again arbitrary bid and biter in here anybody any fans of bit and bite I like their names but I can't really remember their designs X3 is just annoying to play through and uh I would just call it arbitrary that's all it is so uh X3 gets a d tier before you click off again uh our next game is X7 I don't think it's that bad but like it's still kind of bad it's the transition era of Mega Man 2 from 2D to 3D and with that you have some awkward uh puberty in the mix which is just I feel like this game probably would have been better if it was it had the 3D aesthetic but was basically 2D so basically Mega Man X8 I think Mega Man X8 is just a better X7 I I mean let's let's start off with the let's start off with the main thing uh you can't play as uh Mega Man uh in the beginning uh of a Mega Man X game you have to uh collect 64 reploids I I mean rescue not collect they're people or you have to be all eight Mavericks which um if you if you're like doing the reploids blind in like some of them die then um you're like not resetting then you'll probably get the reploids by like I don't know like five to six or seven Mavericks uh which is pretty close to the eight Mavericks so basically like halfway through the game uh you get to play his Mega Man X before that you have to play as zero and the newcomer axle uh I like Axel Axel has a cool design I think he's better in X8 uh because he's just in this game he's just a worse Mega Man I mean in XA he's just a worse Mega Man but uh like can't get any of the armor upgrades he he he has the copy shot which he allows him to be uh any of the enemies which is like the gimmick uh but the the gimmick is like only in these like onetime situations and you never want to use the copy shot unless you're getting upgrades or whatever or saving reploids to to get X Axel just kind of he's good I like his because I mean he's he's X he's the worst X but like I mean he can still like shoot and you have the auto aim uh Auto the auto lock on whatever uh on the enemy so uh he's way better than like zero uh they really nerfed my boy zero in this game because uh melee doesn't really work here uh you have to get very up and close to your enemies and Axel's voice acting is actually terrible in this game he's very whiny uh not like not very good fit for the the character I I would have I would have preferred someone else uh zero has a pretty pretty good voice I really like Zero's voice and in some ways I actually prefer it to X8 and of course x4s but X fors is Iconic and X x what what were they thinking X sounds like a me he doesn't sound like he sounds a whiny he doesn't sound like a like a heroic uh kind of like stoic uh you know stoic figure that's like that's like war war is bad and like fighting these like Mavericks is kind of bad but I feel like it's necessary and I I I feel bad for them but uh I I have to kill them and X7 that's kind of like thrown at the window because they're like why why why do I have to fight why do I have to kill these Mavericks guys guys stop stop fighting the Mavericks guys guys stop it stop fighting stop killing the Maverick I thought they were killing the Mavericks I thought like throughout the games they were like killing the Mavericks and like I guess this game try kind of tries to explain that with the whole Boss Rush thing and that like it's actually actually a really good thing of X7 the the whole Boss Rush and like they're presumably like dead it's like they're Graves and whatnot and they're like coming back from the dead or something but again I thought they were killing the Mavericks I mean you're like locked in a room with them and uh it's clear that they're their their intent is also killing you so I thought like X and zero they they had no Cals with uh killing the Mavericks the 3D sections are kind of uh they're the the camera doesn't work and uh a lot of the sections are just really like there's flame henards and uh the the storm Eagle wab be stage I can't remember its name uh their stages suck there's like there's this whole lava section and enemies can just knock you back and you fall into the lava and that's instant kill um the enemies are just really annoying and it's really tight platforming and you have that tight platforming again with uh the storm Eagle wannabe and the plane sections oh my God they're like colorcoded planes and some of like the red planes when you get on them are supposed to I guess to be like this automated section but you can still it's they're like the hardest planes I feel like or ships or whatever they're called aircrafts whatever because they move around so much and it's really hard to control the character you're playing as so you end up falling a lot on on those automated sections and the game kind of like again like X3 it kind of is like a harder it's really hard at first to to play through but I feel like once you you kind of get some upgrades and stuff it becomes like a breeze to get through and it's uh actually really fun I actually one of the parts I do like is the whole upgrade and Chip system that they have where you save some reploids and then you get some upgrades that like maybe decrease damage uh makes your rate of fire uh faster there's one that in increases invincibility frames there's a new game plus where you can just uh you can just go to town and you you already have all the you already have the chips that you previously Acquired and then you can add more to make your character even stronger I really like that and of course you get to start the game as X in the Mega Man X game I feel like like they should have just like cut down the like amount of Mavericks and the amount of reploids to like half where you need to like maybe save like 32 reploids or uh or do four Mavericks you have to be four Mavericks to get xeg I feel like that would have increased the like of ility of this game because then you can get like X and like two two Mavericks if you're doing like the reploids and stuff and you're always like guaranteed to get X at like the midpoint of the game but I think the better option would probably just be let's have X at the beginning or or make Axel the new X make him have like upgrades or something and there's like no X in this game but like he's referred to as X so it can be called like X7 or something something but like I I I feel like that would be a better alternative uh not as many people would probably like this or play this if Axel was like the new X I mean of course I would probably have X up I feel like Axel just just doesn't his his gameplay gimmick just doesn't really work as well I mean compared to like zero who's way different than x but also is really fun to play as and X 7 and X8 you're not really yearning to play as Axel you're you want to play as the cooler characters there's this whole plot with uh the subplot with red I think his name is and he's like Axel's like Mentor or something and it's it's stupid and red red does have a really fun boss fight though I really like his boss fight it's really hard and challenging it's not as as hard as Gates and stuff by I feel like it's a fair challenge but I think the the real final balls of this game is flame hyenard because he I don't I don't know what they were thinking uh when they designed this because oh my God he he has to remind you that he is going to burn you to the ground burn you to the ground burn you to the ground burn you burn burn burn burn to the ground burn burn burn burn burn to the ground burn to the ground that's all he says that's all he says throughout the entire fight and his health bar is all the health bars in this game are so long and take so much time like ball slids can range from like 5 to like 10 minutes I mean not if you have like the weakness like if you have the weakness maybe like 3 to 5 minutes not not I mean I would even like think of fighting like a flame high inard with like the Buster only his ball fight is super annoying you have to get on this gazelle thing robotic gazelle thing and then there's like three of them and and pick a God and pray that uh you don't uh fall out you don't get into like the center of the uh gazelle thing and initiate the uh the thing where all the three guys are circling around you and if you try to get out there Circle they'll just take they'll just scrunch you back in there they'll gang up on you and and put you back into the center so you have to keep on attacking him uh so there's a there's a strategy where you kind of jump on like the uh the shoulder of the gazelle I guess and the kind of like this hump thing the I where you have to like jump on the shoulder and kind of the neck uh and keep jumping on them so that you don't get into the center but you can also attack uh flame henard and you can dodge the missiles that are being attacked on you flame hyenard is just really hard flame hyenard is just just really annoying but I feel like he's the standout moment of X7 and one thing about flame hyenard is that his voice acting a lot of people say is bad and it kind of is but like I feel like it's very accurate because this guy just wants I want to put him out of his misery and then actual has this moment where he's like he's like pointing his like gun at flame high inard and he's like I got the right medicine it's like oh my God Axel put that gun away I get with actually actually was saying bro I I I actually do like the art style of this game um the art direction or whatever I like the kind of like the so shaded I I I believe you would refer to this game as kind of so shaded it's not like the best looking X game but in some in some aspects I would say it looks better than X8 uh not in like the stages I think the overall stages kind of look better in X8 but like the character designs I feel like look look better in X7 the game play is kind of rough uh and especially like in the 3D but like even in the 2D it doesn't really feel as smooth and responsive uh but this later gets fixed and a X8 we we'll get to that when we get to X8 and of course I've talked about zero he just doesn't feel as responsive or smooth as he was in like X4 through X6 but yeah that's that's probably like all the Mavericks uh again they they really suck uh tornado tanion what is a tanion what what is a tanion there's what else what else what else is there there's that uh his name is like a Ryder B B borinsky Ryder borinsky or whatever what it's like it's supposed to be like an enemy that you faed in like previous X Games but now he's a Maverick um but they picked like the worst possible one to do this game is not as like it's not the worst Mega Man game that I've played as like a lot of people throw out and like we'll say like X7 is like the worst it's the the worst thing ever uh but it's not like the definitely not the best and uh so with that I'm I'm going to give it a deed here I I don't really it's it's okay it's all right it's I I find some enjoyment and how bad it is our next game is surprising only X5 um before I played like x 6 through like 8 and you asked me like what my opinion on uh X5 was I would have probably put this at like the higher end of the list but now that I like think about it and really like like really think about it I don't really like I find this game kind of mid it's just I mean I can't really like even thinking about this game I can't really think about like what's so good about it this was supposed to be the end of the franchise uh into the series and uh it's all right there's a bunch of like weird gimmick stuff thrown in here that doesn't like there's these two characters that are added to the uh cast uh that seem like they're just trying to ride off the coattails of uh x4's success um you have this guy who looks like uh the colonel who looks like the colonel and then you have one that looks like double and uh his name's like Douglas and the other one's called like sickness they're both like very forgettable and like who cares about them uh but Alia is introduced in this game I believe and Alia is pretty cool um she's really annoy annoying in this game I know I was like oh she's cool but I was like she's kind of annoying in this game because uh you can't really skip any of the things she says uh they do REM this REM remedy this in uh x x uh X8 and like not X7 because she's always shouting it's good in X6 I believe one of the good one of the rare good things about X6 it's it's got some really good levels I believe and some pretty cool Mavericks I like that the Mavericks are named in the English uh uh named after Guns and Roses members really like I always remember like some of their names like uh Grizzly slash I feel like that's a better name than uh cresant cresant bear or whatever that they call him in the Japanese uh sub or dub or whatever what whatever you want to call that in the Japanese version that's what I meant uh squid Adler like those are better names I believe in my opinion and they really stand out compared to the other Mavericks I I see a lot of people complain about the the guns and roses names it it just feels kind of like an underwhelming X4 to me uh it's got a lot of the same Aesthetics from X4 I mean there's like there's a there's both of them have like a Jet bike uh stage squid Adler stage starts with a uh pretty [ __ ] move in that it uh it it starts with like this uh pit before like the ready screen even starts and you're somehow supposed to be this like insane psychic that can predict this I mean the this the stage start screen has even like shown up and there's already like a pit they have to jump over and uh it it's quite it's very reminiscent of uh I forgot the guy's name from X4 hold on oh yeah jet Stingray it's very like reminiscent of that uh but I like the second half of the sage although it is very like it's very challenging because you have to it's very challenging because you have to put like you have to time the uh these like electric field barriers that act as like switches to doors and whatnot it can be very time consuming and uh I like that is kind of challenging but uh squid Adler stage is definitely the one that I remember the most and one that I don't really like you have Axel the red um great name uh with a bunch of like spikes and and stuff thrown in uh you know I love spikes spikes is the best thing to come out of the Mega Man uh X franchise and just well the Mega Man franchise the spikes are just the greatest thing ever I hate spikes this game is just very kind of divisive it's just not like it's not that good it's just kind of down the middle you know not not too bad but not too great either there's like RNG at the end of the game that determines if you get to play a zero or not oh yeah Dove McAn stage sucks it's I would say probably one of the like it actually kind of reminds me of X6 uh stages and that it's really bad it's like it's a slow Auto scroller and it it's like it's very boring to play that stage is the equivalent of molasses there's like multiple endings and then there's like I don't I don't know what this mechanic is called but like you get certain ship upgrades I think and that's completely orangey I don't know how the system works but I know there is a trophy related to it and it's very confusing and convoluted and a lot this game just has like a convoluted with all the endings and stuff it's very like like the mechanics aren't that well explained Dynamo is cool I mean he's all right the and there's also like a bunch of uh fan service with this game cuz you um you have uh X versus zero uh the the shadow devil uh ranga manga is back I do like the like ending and stuff portion of this game it's very uh very fun it's very fun and uh very nostalgic and actual good excuse for like fan service and stuff and here's the thing as much as much as like I'm like X6 sucks and uh and it shouldn't have been made but like I feel like this this wouldn't have been like a satisfying conclusion to the X series I mean you you have like the like x with the the saber zero saber and and he's like oh my I got to I will no matter what what happens I will save the world or something I don't know what he says at the end I'm just like paraph paraphrasing I don't even think I'm paraphrasing that good cuz I have no idea what he says at the end but he's like as long as I have the saber in my hand I can save the world it's it's just not I feel like x8s anding is good it's better um X7 all right it would but I feel like X8 is a very nice satisfying conclusion even though it is kind of open-ended and ambiguous I feel like X9 was kind of planned there but uh how I would describe this game is it's just very kind of slow and M so with that it gets a c tier our next game is Mega Man X8 uh the conclusion to the series and a really good one I really like the this one it does have its faults though uh I I like to describe this one as the basically X7 V2 like it's just a better X7 it's what X7 probably should have been uh so they' they've scrapped the whole 3D gamep play no more 3D gamep play Bad X bad x no more 3D gaml uh so they've they've stuck with uh the 2D gameplay but kind of kept the whole 3D uh n of the game uh with all the the 3D models X zero uh act all the enemies the Mavericks and stuff everything is like 3ish but it's in 2D it's all in 2D no 3D section I find this one has some actually good mechanics that they've added in new gimmicks and stuff axle for one really good good change uh I still still don't really want to use him and I I only use like X and zero mostly but uh sometimes when I had to get the upgrades I would use axle occasionally I used them in the beginning axle works better uh I do find his like aiming kind of weird and wonky at times I don't really like that and that's why I use x because he yeah you can control where the shot is and X is just overpowered cuz he gets the armor upgrades and stuff but I do like the kind of Rapid Fire of Axel and his copy shot is fixed it doesn't take a million shots to get the to copy enemies you only like have to hit like once I believe and you they drop your DNA or whatever and uh you can you can transform I like the stages in the Mavericks for the most part uh but there are some like annoying ones I hate Optics sunflowers one um I hate oh my God I feel like the worst stage ever designed in like the X Series is probably in this one and it's the the gravity Prim r no no is this is I think I called one of the enemies in uh one of the Mavericks in X3 uh gravity Beetle I think this is the game where gravity beetle is it's it's to whatever stage with all the the spikes and stuff I hate that stage and and a tip for anyone who is uh thinking about playing X8 or starting to play X8 uh make sure your your third stage is the the spike stage because um there's an annoying mini boss uh that's almost like it just really impossible to get through where like there's spikes and there's blocks on spikes and you have like to endure it for like a minute or so and it's really annoying and really tedious cuz it's instant kill so make sure that's replaced with vile so you don't have to you you don't have to uh worry about that and make sure you also of course get your upgrades the jet by stage that was fun um I really like the the bamboo pandemonium as uh that's a crazy name to call your Maverick but I like it I like the fire stage uh although it is like an auto scroller it was pretty fun I actually really like the ending of that stage because once you beat the Maverick it's not over yet and you have to uh the the volcano is erupting so you have to jump up it's kind of like the sigma fights where you have to like uh it's not done yet you you have to escape sigma's head Pauls what wa wo pause pause the chip upgrade system uh I I will I like it but I feel like it's a little too grindy for my taste uh I I do think you get an upgrade where uh but you have to go through optic sunflower stage to get it where you get chips by walking or something so it's kind of like the EXP Walker from Kingdom Hearts watch My Kingdom Hearts ranking video uh I I do like the the it reminds me of the X7 chip system but I actually think no I I feel like X8 could probably have a better system if it wasn't too grindy if the upgrades were cheaper but I'm not I'm not I like them I I like getting the chips and stuff although to get some of the rare chips which are like they UNL upgrades and stuff um they're kind of like Collectibles you without a guide they would probably like be imposs possible to find I don't even know how these people who were like coming up with the guide found them cuz they're like in the most like just obscure hidden places and you have to use this uh this upgrade from oh God what's his name Tri troby I really like troby's a stage where you're getting chased down by this huge robot thing it's really cool it reminds me of uh the brawl stage that uh based on the Mario stage the old Mario stage that's kind of like in a desert there's no reploids you can like turn off The Navigators I I forgot that like you you can turn off The Navigators I always had them on so that's why they I I said they could be like a little bit annoying but uh you also get like two extra Navigators and they're not as annoying and uh as Alia was in X5 they're really like they're only in the parts where they need to be and I like their designs they look really nice um you can get the secret characters you don't have to um put a code in them there's the whole tag team system uh it it's all right I thought it was very like fun to do in balls battles but like you're not going to use this in like regular like just going through the stage the control the controls are very nice they're very responsive um and everything feels like if I make a mistake it's my fault it's not the game's fault it's not like X6 vile's back vile's cool I love bio there's like difficulty options that's awesome although like although if you play on the easy uh difficulty from what what what I've seen um I think it cuts you off from like beating the final boss which is stupid I I don't I don't know I don't really like I don't see a point in that that's it arbitrary I think from what I've seen of the hard mode it's also arbitrary because it it kind of reminds me of like X6 and X3 where you just take too much damage well no it's X3 I believe uh where you just take too much damage I get it's a hard mode but normal mode I think was very nice it was great great uh it was a great it was not too difficult not too easy and I feel like X8 just feels like a natural addition to like like X5 and X4 while no I feel like it's kind of like a like a combination of like X1 X5 X4 uh X2 you know like just thrown in together these the Mavericks have like these super attacks that they can pull off um where like and they're all like purple based I think and um like Tri globy he throws like Crystal walls at you and you have to you have to dodge them um it's kind of like a platforming challenge and I think these These are cool moves uh they're very easy to read and but they're they're kind of hard to kind of pull off one thing I like is that the final stages you get to you get to choose which one they appear on your like where you fight the Mavericks and stuff they appear there so you can choose whenever you want after you cleared them you can choose which stage you want like like Sigma stage 1 Sigma stage 2 Sigma stage 3 I don't know they all have like a different name I think it one's called like Jacob elevator but what's not so nice is the final stage it's all right I mean I feel like like someone at this game kind of had like a spike fetish cuz I feel like there's a lot of spikes here and um the final stage I find it it's all right um but that God that final Spike section it it's platforming and like it's very platforming hearkening back to the platforming like hekking back to like the platforming challenges of like the original uh trilogy but I can find like the spikes hitbox is kind of a little bit off off centered for some reason H it's just a very tense final stage um I like the aesthetic of like the whole Moon you're on the moon now and then you fight Sigma sigma's back um and sigma's like like second form is actually kind of hard uh but after you beat Sigma surprise sigma's not actually the final boss this time it's a lum uh which is based on the moon you know I think that's kind of like a moon name and I like lum's design I thought Lumin was like a girl at first but uh Lumin is actually a boy I chalk that up to the uh the voice actor or voice actress although I I like the only reason why I really like Lumin is because uh it's not Sigma but Lumin like really comes out of nowhere and it's like oh okay I guess we're fighting now I I I like lum's first form I think it's really fun where like uh she no Lumin like takes all the forms of all of the eight Mavericks and uh has like these balls Spears flying around him and then like he'll use one and then use like the Super Attack that uh each Maverick does and that's how you tell which Maverick he's like possessing whatever using the power of so then you use the weakness of that Maverick to then hit and defeat Lumin I really like that that that boss fight but the second boss fight is uh just [ __ ] um so the attacks are not very readable and they're not clear so it's just like you're getting hit a lot and uh you better hope you have some subtanks on you because you're going to get hit here like the weakness the supposed weak of this uh Lumin is not very clear I think you better off just be using your Buster or your zaber or whatever but the the the key thing is at the end where Lumin activates his special attack which is called Lost Paradise or Paradise loss or whatever in which you don't have a timer but you it's not on screen but you have a timer it's uh 30 seconds or illuminate like I don't know destroys the world or something and uh that's not a good thing so you have to do that before the screen turns black you have to and like Lumin has like a bunch of ton of shields on uh him himself they have to get through so just use like a team attack and then you you'll be safe um but it's not very clear that there's a timer and like if you die to this uh I it's a game over it's like like no matter how many lives I think from what i' what I've heard it's a like instant game over no matter how many lives you have how many retry trips uh you just put to like the start of like the sigma stage 3 well like you're thrown into the the title screen with the Mavericks and stuff and then you have to pick the sigma stage 3 so that's uh very great of the developers to throw in kind of a stupid attack I feel like it would have been remedied if they just had a timer that said like 30 seconds to luminate like your ass but X8 is a really solid game so I'm going to give it a b tier our next game is Mega Man X4 um I think X4 is probably one of like the best Mega Man X Games um and if it weren't for the terrible voice acting and and cutscenes I think that it would have probably probably like the best story in uh like the X Games I really enjoy Zero's story um it's very original um and it doesn't really have anything to do with Sigma Until the End iris is cool I really like I like Iris and I think like it would have been cool to uh well well it's more of a I like Iris because you know it's kind of like Kingdom Hearts and like roxus I like it because it happens in that one game and doesn't doesn't come over until roxus comes over and like Kingdom Hearts 3 and stuff uh but but iris is I I feel better than like Alia and like uh and all the other robot companions you get in the later games I feel like it's a very smooth transition to the SNES to the PlayStation 1 era of uh consoles the Sprite work and artwork looks amazing it stands the test of time x X4 through X6 you could probably release now and no one would like realize that they were like Playstation One games you know whereas like you get X7 X8 you can kind of see its age I really like the stage designs and the locations um I also like the text before the Mavericks where it's like uh like you go to magma draon and it's like he HD himself in a volcano and now he's on the loose or something and the Mavericks and the the the stages are all solid you got cyber peacock split mushroom we spider I I really like jet Stinger stage compared to like squid ad and basically all the jet bike stages except for uh X8 X8 also has a really good one but I feel like jet Stingray is probably probably my favorite Frost walrus is really huge and I think like besides like flame Mammoth and maybe blizzard Buffalo he's like probably like the first like huge Maverick that you get to see Slash Beast is the one on the train I really like that one and magma draon is a cool one his stage is awesome and um but what's cool about him is that I think he appears in like the uh first level the before doing all the Mavericks and stuff and you get more character uh for him that you don't really get to see in a lot of the Mavericks I mean a lot of the Mavericks here I think this is the first game where they talk to you and they tell you like oh I'm doing this for good X and zero I'm not doing anything bad and of course you know you have the the the thing that I mentioned about the uh they they say what they they are and what they did before you uh when you click on their uh screen on the Maverick uh selection screen is this game kind of Easy A little but I I don't I think it like a lot of people like overestimate like I feel like a lot of people undermine the difficulty of it I mean it's still an X game so there's still going to be like some hard Parts this is the first one that introduced the checkpoint system which would drastically change kind of how these levels were designed because you get a checkpoint in between the uh stage so uh if you get a game over you go to if you pass the checkpoint you go to the checkpoint which makes the levels easier because these are kind of like I would say like the original trilogy so the levels are like those levels are designed to you're supposed to get through them in like one life one uh set of lives these ones uh you can just they're they're a lot easier there's the whole thing with the the double thing um he's all right I don't really like remember him much but I felt like it was a good but kind of like inyour face twist like his name's double of course he's going to be a double agent this is the game where we actually get to play a zero and zero is awesome I love using his zaber and his Z saer like the special moves that you get are more to play into his Combos and stuff which I found was a smart Edition I think this and X5 are probably like I I I don't really remember about X6 but I remember like this in like X5 I actually used the like sub weapons in like stages and and to like defeat enemies where I just kind of used the Buster and like zabber mostly for like the later games all right it's time to talk about like the voice acting and um yeah it's it's pretty bad um I think it's so bad that it's kind of good uh because but except for like X because X doesn't like why the hell would you choose that voice for X it's even worse than X7 he sounds like he's like seven or something like there is not what x is supposed to sound like I love the the the the scene where zero and the the colonel are fighting also the colonel and the uh guy I forgot his name I I think he's like the general or something they're both cool and uh I really like their balls fights uh especially the general because he's just huge he's gigantic and he takes up literally like the entire screen by love when like zero and Colonel are are fighting and the voice acting there is just so it's not even bad it's just so good it's like Zero's like stop the cop stop the he says stop the cop oh and and then he like really fastly says is this your decision and I think this I think this is the cut scene where he's like what am I fighting for and that's it's just iconic line um is it used a lot yes but it's just it's just so funny uh but like again and it's like such a sad moment and it's just the the heavily like memed on uh part of the the story kind of like a lot of things you know the most tragic part is like the one that is used a lot in in me and stuff the sigma boss fight is probably like one of the like hardest Sigma fights uh especially that last phase I found like with zero I mean x with X it's very hard I remember with zero kind of a little bit easier but with X it's really hard to do hard to do uh but with that I'm going to give X4 a a tier because it's really good our next game is Mega Man X1 um the start of the series and a banger in terms of game play and graphics and and story because it's simple it's a simple story and none of the the none of the problems would be present uh yet with like Sigma always returning and and things it it wasn't convoluted yet yet it was just actually very simple and very easy to easy to understand X1 really kind of earned its spot here because of how solid it is and in its game play because a lot of things are like kind of archaic here and I'm not like the biggest fan of the Maverick designs here but I really like their stages I mean and there's also like the intro level which I feel like is just a great introduction to the X Series and in terms of like its look and atmosphere and it's teaching you gamep play slowly and then like you know the story with zero and vile coming in at the end that's really epic and I mean you lose toile and that's like it feels like ah I want to beat this vile guy and zero looks so cool and we wouldn't get to add actually play Zero until like X4 I mean I he he was playable in X3 but who plays a zero in X3 nobody I really like the Collectibles here they're all very like easy and there's not a lot of not a lot there's not a lot to get you know it's very simple a lot of the this game is just simple uh one part that I don't like is that you don't get to dash immediately um which the next game and uh the last game uh on this list uh fixes that so it's like really weird you know cuz it's just a standard at this point for uh X Games some like highlights are chill penguin stage is really good uh storm Eagles spark mandrels is okay uh armad armadillo is really good um Boomer Kanger launch octopus launch octopus is really good and play mammoth you know really solid and it's not that I like hate the Maverick designs it's more that I just find them kind of you know boring and Bland a little bit but they're like very nostalgic and very iconic yeah they're I would compare them to like the Gen one designs where they're they're really good but I find a lot of the Mavericks from the later game just more interesting and uh designed well the music is probably like one of the best uh in the X Series you have things like uh chill Penguins bark mandrels the intro stage um launch octopus armor armadillo all really good bangers I really like the armor that you get uh once you get all the armor capsules I found like that was it's probably like the best like armor design better or X2 X2 might I feel like I probably like X2 is not better is this game kind of easy I would I wouldn't say it's like the easiest one because um it's not uh I feel like that that has to go to like X7 or like X4 I feel like most of it just comes down to this game is replayed a ton you know the original trilogy and like they're all just very replayed for like whether it be speed runs or like challenge runs or whatever I mean just casual like playthroughs a lot of people just want to replay it because of how good it is and it's very easy to like memorize the locations of like the armor capsules the heart tanks and like subtanks and stuff I feel like that's what makes it easier because it's not like an easy game I mean the level of design is kind of simpler than uh what it would be uh in compared to like X3 or something but I mean like the sigma stages are actually kind of like that that one section where you're like there's a bottomless pit and you have to get on that platform that's actually kind of like a hard platforming challenge it's that's maybe even like harder than like the entire game itself wolf Sigma oh my go I forgot that he's like called wolf Sigma I feel like that that whole Sigma Meme and stuff has just really ruined my perception of Sigma uh he's actually like one of the hardest like Sigma fights uh you will probably have to use some subtanks you get four subtanks in this game and you'll probably have to use your sub tanks on him he's really he's pretty hard X1 is here because it's legendary it gets an S tier our last game is X2 I don't know like how popular this take would be or like how hot it is but I really like X2 I don't know I just really like X2 I think a lot of it has to do with I really like the Maverick designs I really I think the music here is probably the best music uh for example I even like like I use uh bubble crabs uh stage for my spoiler warning um I haven't used that because uh it seems now these days I'm I'm always just like at the start of the video I'm like hey there's going to be spoilers here and that's mainly for like the good and the bad the stage design they look not only good but they play like really well and I just really like the the look of this game it seems very like brighter than X1 and it it's not as dark as X3 it can be like a little frustrating at times but I feel like that's what what makes it interesting I really like the Mavericks in this game they all look really good um you have like wheel Gator bubble crab overdrive ostrich uh flame stag um who else who else who else Magnus cented my God I can't remember um the moth's name but really like there's really good like uh stage design gimmicks here um even like I feel like this is where where it began you know the stage gimmicks here uh you have Magna centipede with I believe it's Magna cede with the the you know search lights um over drive ostrich with a jet bike that was the first time it was used I believe uh because I mean in the intro you see like that that nameless guy get killed and you're all on jet bikes oh yeah and you also get to you get to start with a dash in this one which would become the golden standard and it just feels like it feels like home but there's also the air Dash 2 which is a fantastic Edition it's just a great followup to X1 that really expands on all the good things from X1 and makes them even better and then there's the X Hunters I think the X Hunters are probably the best um usage of you know they're the best version of what they they are supposed to be you know the the bosses the M mini bosses that come in randomly during a stage I feel like they're the best best version of this I don't know how to pronounce his name but I think it's like Serge G or seres or I I I feel like it's sergay which I'm pretty sure he's supposed to be like Dr Wy I think that's the the whole lore situation with them um you have uh violin and agile or agile I don't know I don't know how to pronounce their names but they look their their designs are really nice especially violin's uh his like little tail uh whipping attack that goes across the screen and the sigma stages are really fun and then you have the final Sigma boss fight which is easier than X3 and I believe is like way more fun than like uh it and uh even maybe like X1 a little bit and I love that they used kind of the uh SNES chip with the whole like 3D stuff uh you know it's uh sigma's head I just find it a really cool boss fight so with that I'm going to give X2 a nice s tier and uh that's all my opinions on all the X Games um I feel like they're pretty standard there might be some differences here in there you know I've heard that some people's favorite game is X6 so I could be wrong someone someone might think that X1 is the worst game ever and think that like X6 and X3 are like the best games ever designed ever made but keep in mind this was all my opinion um let me know your opinion down in the comments down below and uh and since I I got like a lot of dislikes on the the Kingdom Hearts one uh if you're going to dislike it also like comment down below like like what what part of the video you you didn't like um whether it's like the video itself or just the ranking uh because if it's just the ranking then I just know like oh uh well you just didn't agree with me uh but if it's actually something with the video uh I would definitely love to hear your like criticism of it but if you made it through all of this thank you for watching and uh have a good day bye

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Length: 71min 19sec (4279 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 16 2024