The References To Past Mega Man Games In The Zero Series

[Music] Mega Man Zero is the fifth series of Mega Man games being a collaborative effort between Capcom and NC creat this is my favorite series of Mega Man games and today I want to point out all of the references to other Mega Man games I could find within the series the first reference the series makes can be found as early on as 0er one's intro stage As It theme is an extended version of Zero's theme from Mega Man [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] X during the stop the hacking Mission a pair of submarines are found being able to crush zero and even firing missiles once zero gets on board both of these submarines have a worn out repli Force logo on them here's a better view of the submarine and the repli Force logo in question by using any hacker up that turns enemies into Mets you transform grounded enemies into the classic met Airborne enemies into the heli Mets which first debuted in Mega Man 7 and lastly aquatic enemies turned into the swim met from Mega Man 4 with their design from Mega Man 7 seeing as you can do the same thing in 02 and three I won't bother to mention it again there the rainbow devil as you sadly know is part of the infamous devil series of robots going all the way back to Mega Man 1 during his first phase copx uses three attacks similar to Mega Man X weapons first is ice shot which not only looks like shotgun ice but breaks off into smaller pieces pieces upon hitting any given surface fire shot which resembles fire wave and lastly a shot which resembles electric spark throughout the fight or if you combo him long enough he'll use the Nova strike from X4 if you manage to collect every cyber op in the game something that you should never do as there's plenty of them that are easy to miss are some that you literally only have one shot of getting in an entire playthrough and level all of them up something else that you should never do as it's by far some of the most worsome you'll ever do in a Mega Man game after beating the game without using any of the Cyber elves you get the rare reptilian cyber elf Jackson which after being fully leveled up and consumed gives zero full invincibility after holding down the jump button he's really useful not only making annoying sections of any particular stage nothing but also completely destroying the difficulty of bosses Jackson and his ability to make zero fully Invincible is a reference to sting chameleon's chameleon sting which not only functions the exact same way but even visually looks almost identical they even last for almost the exact same amount of time already moving on to 02 and firstly I want to talk about a cool coincidence within the franchise if you didn't know 02 and X7 both released in 2003 with 02 releasing first in May and X7 later on in the year during July I bring this up because these game's intro bosses are literally a letter away from being named the same thing with the mega Scorpio first appearing in 02 and the mega Scorpia appearing in X7 maybe the developers were in on it who knows moving on to the actual references 02 makes let's start with the X form as you would guess the form is a reference to X in both name and color palette however it also acts as a reference to X gameplay wise specifically to X6 not only does The X form boost Zero's Buster damage like crazy but it reduces the zaber combo into a singular slash resembling X's singular Slash from X6 and because of this just like X Zer is now much more reliant on his other weapons mainly the Buster shot while using the X form Within the Ruins of the forest of diis and nus rbot eyes can be seen all over the wall and floor being the same eyes on the raver bots of the Legend series also within the forest you can find these enemies that jump up from Bottomless Pits called sh bonds these guys are based on the sh runs from Mega Man 8 I almost forgot to put this in the video during Phoenix magan's boss fight if caught by his illusion attack zero will be damaged by past X Series antagonist in order of Game appearance starting with vile from X1 agile from X2 bit from X3 who weely enough has his shield something that only x5's intro had at the time of release and lastly colonel from X4 in C's room you're able to read about the Maverick Wars which mentions the sigma virus and later on you're also able to read up on X which mentions his previous occupation as a Maverick Hunter the Crystal Cave which was uncovered by the bombardment airships Crashing Bears a resemblance to the enen cave that Crystal snail took stronghold in her culus anus and kangus anus have a story that mirrors Boomerang Kanger and gravity beetles a pair of beetle reploids who are brothers with the blue brother wanting to avenge the red brother by defeating the reploid who destroyed him and after all that kua's anus is also based on the stag beetle just like Boomerang kener is after successfully fusing with the dark elf elpo says a world without humans the world only for reploids don't you think it'll be paradise paraphrasing iris's last words I wanted to live in a world where only refu exist you next up is 03 and this one's a little Bare Bones compared to the others since we got to start somewhere this game actually holds a few arrangements from past zero series OST like Express ug infiltration [Music] and sand [Music] triangle already moving on to Omega a lot of his attacks are from the X Series this includes the reuen from X4 chaos flasher from X5 and lastly Roha from X6 he also makes use of the shoot shoot slash pattern which first appeared in Zero's boss fight in X2 something that would make a reappearance in multiple X Series games thankfully the e-reader comes in clutch for 03 cuz otherwise that would have that might have been it okay so basically the e-reader is an add-on for the GBA that allows you to use cards for a specific game to modify your experience by modifying the game with the explanation for people who didn't know out of the way this is a really cool feature Mega Man 03 makes ample use of especially when it comes to referencing past Mega Man media first using the death tan mantis card transforms the elevator of the resistance base into an identical match for for the tra bile but zero in during Mega Man X with the only feature missing is the Maverick logo at the bottom next up using the Totton card and the hanu Machine card makes life energy and E crystals look like Health pickups and weapon energy from Mega Man X1 to three respectively back to the cards that affect the base using these sets of Cards plays a bunch of resistance soldiers from 01 two of them having met zero during the stop the hacking Mission with this guy being scared that blizzard stro off would have Frozen him and sent him down to the bottom of the ocean and a girl who asks zero if he remembers her if you answer yes she's happy that he remembers her recounting when they met not only giving him 200 e crystals but smooching him as well she also tells him to not tell c as human girls get angry over this type of stuff you can make some funny implications behind dialogue like this if you answer no she gets upset not only calling him terrible but saying that he must forget every girl oh if only if she knew if only she knew oh and they also throw in this random guy who was working security at the Subway after activating this card of elpo you can find this cyber elf in the base with Zero's dialogue implying that the elf itself is elpo an activating hidden Phantoms card does the exact same thing except it places the Cyber off on the roof with new dialogue using C's card changes the dialogue in the second tower with the reploid in it telling you about a neat little trick you can do in the Crystal Cave of 02 and lastly using the card of copy X's second form not only adds posters of C but Mega Man exe from Mega Man Battle Network specifically this piece of art from Battle Network 2 speaking of Mega Man Battle Network the last reference is kind of less of a reference and more of a crossover of sorts if you have Mega Man 03 in Mega Man Battle Network 4 Red Sun or blue moon you're able to make a trade on shattle Network 4's end of the trade you gain the zaber or as it's mistranslated the zabber and in 03 the next time you enter cyberspace grounded enemies will be replaced with bank inair enemies with sorty and water-based enemies with puffy all of which being viruses from the Battle Network series they also have their own unique death animation which mimics how viruses are deleted in the Battle Network series Mega Man 04 the last game for this video and the game is pretty direct when it comes to its ties to previous Mega Man games for example Mega Man x5's credit theme can be heard in [Music] Esperanto [Music] [Music] this makes perfect sense as area zero is the crash site for the Ura space Colony Ura is even in the background of area zero in the middle mission of the game not not only that but holy land the base theme of the game makes use of iris's battle theme from [Music] X4 [Applause] [Music] the boss of area zero Carnage force zero was apparently built from ancient blueprints with its code name being mod cf0 that means he was likely modeled after Mega Man x2's intro boss the gigantic mechanoid cf0 similarly hell the giant the boss of the save KNE mission is likely based on x3's intro boss Mao the giant before his rematch pegas eclair mentions that the current situation a space satellite plummeting towards the Earth it's just like the Maverick Wars I also find it kind of curious that he's the one to make this connection considering spiral Pegasus played a part during the Eurasia incident throughout the game you can find serot Anum in specific locations within the stages with it being used for some of the best recipes in the game like the rolling and double jump chip serot Anum is a metal predominantly featured in The Classic series with some examples being the fact that it was used to create classic Mega Man's armor metal man's Metal Blade and the leaf Shield the Beginning of Straight Ahead the theme of ragnaroks control room sounds really similar to Sigma Palace 1 from Mega Man [Music] X [Music] [Music] and lastly when wild questions Zero's ideals mockingly calling him the reploid hero before their final showdown zero says this [Music] this is my favorite moment in the entire series ending Zero's character arc on a high note while answering his Infamous question from X4 all at the same time well that was just about all of the references I could find from from the zero series and I really do mean find like maybe I just didn't look hard enough something that the X5 video and the ZX video showed me like you guys are amazing at finding this type of stuff but this one felt different I played through each of these games almost three times just for this video and I'm kind of disappointed at how little stuff I found at least compared to the other games well anyway I still really enjoyed myself playing through these games and making this video looking at their small details and I hope you enjoyed me talking about my findings thank you so much for watching this long I really mean it I hope you have a great rest of your day [Music] peace

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Length: 15min 24sec (924 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 07 2024