Ran this through just because it's the last numbered entry I haven't played. Really not good, but could be WAY worse (X6). Controls are a little questionable, movement is clunky and sometimes buggy, level design is ass... I could go on. Saving grace for a playthrough is that the lives are basically meaningless. The game isn't usually that hard but there are some bullshit parts. I never liked saving reploids in stages and it's fully fledged in this game. I decided to save myself the hassle of getting them all.

This feels like an earnest attempt at something new from a team that wasn't fully up to the task. I'll take this any day over X6 which is an affront to game design as a whole.