So starting now on a little run through all the X games, hopefully before infinite wealth, I of course started with MMX1. I've played this before, and unsurprising to me, and most likely a bunch of people who'd read this. It' good, comfy even.
As a series that branches from what you'd expect to see from the run and gun platforming that Mega Man is about, it takes things in a pretty cool direction with the introduction of dashing and wall-jumping, as well as giving X the chance to grow throughout the journey more than just getting weapons by finding heart tanks, e-tanks, and armor pieces that grant new or stronger abilities. You get a real sense of progression through the game as you find everything and slowly make the game more and more manageable, and that's pretty neat little point of diversion.
I do kind of forget that X1's armorset is a bit... uhh, tame compared to what I remember going forward. Like in this game, you get a extra stage of charge to the mega buster and halved damage from the buster and body parts, cool, but the head part is just like, breaking blocks??? and the leg part is the ability to dash, like at all. It's just funny because that's like something you expect going into the series and you gotta unlock it, fucked up. Granted they make it a standard part of the moveset going forward so it's whatever, it's just funny.
Actually, in speaking of the buster part, the ability to charge the buster an extra stage isn't even the coolest thing about it, it's that all the special weapons have an extra new thing they can do or enhanced version of the original thing. The sting chameleon weapon goes from a triple splitting projectile to just invincibility, shotgun ice becomes a sled, flame mammoths goes from a flamethrower to a crawling flame that damages everything in it's path, stuff like that. It's really cool actually.
For what I really like in a Mega Man game typically, the bosses, weapons, and final bosses, I like how they're handled here. For the most part, the mavericks are pretty fun to fight, and the only one boss I don't really like that much from the endgame is Rangda Bangda, the weird wall one, and even then, it's not that a big a deal. Honestly, there's nothing really egregious here, it's just a pretty solid line-up. I can't say there was anything that like, blew my mind on a revisit, but I at least had fun.
I'll be honest, I don't know where this game will rank once I'm done going through all 8 games, but I can tell you this. I will probably like X4 more, because I already do. For this game tho, it's pretty coooooool.
Starting out the new (but not really) Maverick Ranking, from worst to best:
8. Spark Mandrill
7. Armored Armadillo
6. Boomer Kuwanger
5. Launch Octopus
4. Chill Penguin
3. Storm Eagle
2. Sting Chameleon
1. Flame Mammoth
As a series that branches from what you'd expect to see from the run and gun platforming that Mega Man is about, it takes things in a pretty cool direction with the introduction of dashing and wall-jumping, as well as giving X the chance to grow throughout the journey more than just getting weapons by finding heart tanks, e-tanks, and armor pieces that grant new or stronger abilities. You get a real sense of progression through the game as you find everything and slowly make the game more and more manageable, and that's pretty neat little point of diversion.
I do kind of forget that X1's armorset is a bit... uhh, tame compared to what I remember going forward. Like in this game, you get a extra stage of charge to the mega buster and halved damage from the buster and body parts, cool, but the head part is just like, breaking blocks??? and the leg part is the ability to dash, like at all. It's just funny because that's like something you expect going into the series and you gotta unlock it, fucked up. Granted they make it a standard part of the moveset going forward so it's whatever, it's just funny.
Actually, in speaking of the buster part, the ability to charge the buster an extra stage isn't even the coolest thing about it, it's that all the special weapons have an extra new thing they can do or enhanced version of the original thing. The sting chameleon weapon goes from a triple splitting projectile to just invincibility, shotgun ice becomes a sled, flame mammoths goes from a flamethrower to a crawling flame that damages everything in it's path, stuff like that. It's really cool actually.
For what I really like in a Mega Man game typically, the bosses, weapons, and final bosses, I like how they're handled here. For the most part, the mavericks are pretty fun to fight, and the only one boss I don't really like that much from the endgame is Rangda Bangda, the weird wall one, and even then, it's not that a big a deal. Honestly, there's nothing really egregious here, it's just a pretty solid line-up. I can't say there was anything that like, blew my mind on a revisit, but I at least had fun.
I'll be honest, I don't know where this game will rank once I'm done going through all 8 games, but I can tell you this. I will probably like X4 more, because I already do. For this game tho, it's pretty coooooool.
Starting out the new (but not really) Maverick Ranking, from worst to best:
8. Spark Mandrill
7. Armored Armadillo
6. Boomer Kuwanger
5. Launch Octopus
4. Chill Penguin
3. Storm Eagle
2. Sting Chameleon
1. Flame Mammoth