This came is almost amazing but there are so many issues where it just feels like the dev team needed more time with play testing. The timing is incredibly unforgiving. When I was going through the segment in Neo Arcadia with kinto blocks and being attacked by birds I realized that this is Mega Man X married with Ninja Gaiden and that's not a good thing.

There's no reason to engage with the elemental chips outside of bosses. I do like the stun-lock dance the developers want you doing.

Cyber-elves are idiocy. They're purely a collectible because they're single use. What am I feeding these guys for?

The aesthetics are so on point even if the audio quality is pretty trash. I played this through with the patch that reduced weapon grinding.

Tip for those emulating, use one of the control-types that doesn't require chorded inputs for the sub weapon and just map it onto a face button and put both shoulder buttons to dash, it's a much better experience.

There are so many things I love about this game but it's not without its rough spots. Some of the secrets: heart tanks, and capsules feel like you're trying to get the game to glitch out to get that one perfect dash jump off. The timing of the final Sigma battle is such a huge spike in difficulty compared to the rest of the game which is fairly balanced. I'm not sure I really like how hard the design leans on X's charge shot. It slows down the speed a lot from Classic Mega Man even if everything else is ostensibly faster.