almost drops a star because of how god fucking awful sigma stage 1 and the final boss are but come on man it's smegga man x. such a banger even if i prefer x4. items are fun to use, dash jumps are fun to pull off, vile and zero make up the Obnoxious Brat ratio of the game, launch octopus is sick despite being inordinately more difficult than the rest of the mavs this time around? just a good time. oh yeah, boomer kuwanger is here too. far from a perfect game and still stuck with some of that nes mega man bullshit but they managed to make the first actually good mega man here! woohoo! arin hanson might call the game design perfect but i'm going to shave him hairless and chase him around my apartment like a rat.