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X1 :

After an incredibly mid year of '92, and an only slightly better '93 thanks to Aladdin and Mega Man IV, Capcom decided to redeem theyselves by ending the year with a revolution. Mega Man is now on the SNES!
The game looks great, it sounds amazing, the gameplay is super fast yet smooth and responsive! Mega Man is uhh.. kinda dark and edgy now? There's no cute dog, bird, Dr. Wily or funny robots, only cool looking bosses with cool names, even Mega Man hisself has a cool new suit of armor and looks older and edgier.. hmm

I can see people adore this new serie since it's defo the most 90s Mega Man has ever been, but I kinda liked Classic more. It wasn't serious or fast-paced, you weren't absolutely zooming through stages and clearing 'em within minutes thanks to yer bajillion movement techs and special attacks, you were just a silly robotman in a blue onesie, leisurely taking a stroll through big levels, casually pewpewing cute baddies and listening to cool tunes in order to stop yer weird uncle with dementia who got lost in a castle again, X feels.. overdesigned in comparison

Despite how cool X looks, sounds and feels, personally the best Mega Man game so far is still IV for the GB. I liked the upgrades and collectables, I liked the shop and the consumables, I liked the weapons and unlockables, it just seemed the more well rounded game; X's stages are too short, you keep fighting the same enemies throughout the entire game, the bosses are too easy and the ridiculous upgrades make the game even simpler, and it seems like my few deaths only came from a few bs moments such as an enemy hiding offscreen, waiting for me to jump over a pit before popping up and pushing me into it. That, and dash jumping still needs a fair bit of polishing before it becomes convenient; the controls for it aren't very friendly

X2 :

That.. wasn't much of an improvement over the first game. It's neat that the upgrades from X1 are now baseline abilities, since it makes X2 feel like a proper sequel, but everything else is more of the same or worse. There's some cool new movement tech like mid-air dashing and whatnot, but it's ruined by the level design making using 'em as obnoxious and frustrating as humanly possible. The final stages in particular are especially bs, but the bosses are all braindead easy; even the final boss just casually went down on my first try Man, this ain't it. Hopefully they figure out the X formula soon, 'cause that was just annoying to play for the most part

X3 :

I tried, I really did. I like to think I'm great at games (I beat the Ghosts n' Goblins games no problem, for example, and even the previous Mega Man games were a cruise for the most part), but X3 just kicked my ♥♥♥♥ in. I tried many suggested boss orders, but I just can't take any of 'em. They're all massively overtuned and take a bajillion hits to kill, but it only takes two or three hits to kill you and those are hard to dodge without any movement tech (which you can only start getting once you've beaten some bosses)

Add to that dark and bland graphics as well as boring music, and I just had no real incentive to keep trying; hard skip

X4 :

I was looking forward to this'un since it's the first game with a fully playable Zero and.. well it's the best X game so far I suppose, not that this makes it *good*

The hitboxes are garbage and you get zero iFrames, the bosses are overtuned once again (although I hear Zero's story is harder, so that one might be on me), there's hella input lag and lost inputs, the stage design is boring and linear, and there's virtually no upgrades outside of the usual health upgrades and one upgrade that doubles yer lives on gameover.. there's E Tanks but once again, they refill so slowly that they might as well not be in the game at all, so the game just feels like a generic Capcom platformer

Really its only redeeming feature is the anime cutscenes with lovably cheesy 90s voice acting; those are alius great

i'm giving this a "thumbs up" just because it's megamanx and it's a *faithful* port. some modern issues though. streaming this game is a pain (but doable), and the fact there's no steam overlay is super stupid. also make sure you have an xbox controller! my ps4 controller works but no dpad, and since you can't use a steam overlay to bring up to force the controls to change. i haven't tried to play in big picture mode so maybe that solves a few issues, but yea. this game isn't without a few annoyances but dang, it's megamanx. we'll manage somehow

great game ^_^

It's insane to think that 30 years later and I still can't beat Megaman X because I lack the patience of redoing the Sigma Stage over and over and over again because the game doesn't save after each Sigma Stage part... Just FYI, Everytime you boot the game you lose all you Extra Life containers being filled, the hadouken and all Sigma progress... The person who designed the game this way should be hung by the balls.

YEET!

From its beginnings, the first three games of the Megaman X series hold up very nicely. The soundfonts used to create the soundtrack are my favorite part of the series as a whole.

From playing these before on consoles, the feel really stuck with me for a long time. The controls and gameplay are what made it influential and inspirational in a lot of ways. What made it stand out from the series is its unique grit.

good

An amazing collection of some of the best action platformer games of all time, a solid 9.5/10. This is easily the better of the two Megaman X Collection's, Megaman X1- X4 are terrific games, especially X4 with it's cool anime cutscenes, and intricate story line.

Just make sure you use a guide to find the heart tanks, energy tanks, and armor pieces so you can actually beat them. There's also a mod you can install to switch Megaman X4 to use Japanese dialogue for the best experience possible.

MegaManX will always be my jam no matter what. Buy and play these always. One of my favorite franchises of all time and a series I play constantly over the years.