I can only imagine what must’ve happened behind the scenes for this game to turn out the way it did and I feel so bad for the developers who worked on it. This is pretty much as bad as it gets. It doesn’t feel good to control, nothing interesting happens, it isn’t visually interesting, I can’t remember any of the music in the game, the sound mixing genuinely hurts to listen to. Something must have been seriously awry with the pipeline around this time at Capcom for Devil May Cry 2 and this to happen back to back.

My thesis of that review was that it’s important to play games that are commonly trashed on to see how you feel, I feel less so with this one, at least to completion. It still warrants at least a brief look. I maintain that games like Mega Man X7 still act as cautionary tales and serve as examples of what to avoid, as harsh as that is.