What a fucking failure. It feels like aliens designed this game by just dragging and copy pasting random bullshit around aimlessly. I've played worse in my life for sure, but this game is so particularly infuriating because it doesn't make sense. How the fuck did this happen? Surely one man leaving shouldn't cause an entire team's understanding of game and level design to come crashing down, right? I don't even know, man. This game is horrible and shouldn't exist.

Until I have PS2 emulation set up on my dinky laptop my journey through the X series ends here. What a stupid fucking place to have to stop. I seriously can't get over how much of a step down it is, even from X5.