X5. Zero: *dies dramatically* Death starts an entire new series on the GBA. X6. Zero: "Sup"

Everyone knows the enormous gap between X4 and X5 was because they were busy achieving pure perfection...the ultimate life form that is...Duff McWhalen.

“This game cheats, so I cheat back. Fuck it” - SomecallmeJohnny, 2018, best way to describe X6

Favorite line in this whole thing: "Remember Dynamo? *Short pause* the f**k happened to him?"

"I hid myself and tried to repair myself." With a cannon for an arm? Inside a crashed space station? IN THREE WEEKS?!

As much as I dislike X6, I do like that one picture of X and Zero reuniting. X is just so damn happy to find his best friend still alive.

"This game cheats, so I cheat back. F**k it." - Juan Ortiz on his overall impression of Mega Man X6 🤣

GAME:Ready?! * falls into bottomless pit Johnny: Nope, I sure wasn't. Pure gold😂

Iris was a unique case. She and her brother were supposed to be two 'halves' of a Perfect Warrior Reploid, so their Control Chips were interlinked. Iris went insane after her brother was killed because her chip desynced violently without Colonel's presence.

"It's not supposed to be Tidal Whale. It's Duff McWhalen!" Damn right Johnny!

26:35 Dr Light: "Zero...i'm glad to see you again" Zero: "...i will never die" 10/10 dialogue

8:26 "Because of the virus currently infesting the planet" so much for escapism in old youtube videos

I half expected Clement to show up, but it's probably for the better that he didn't.

A Johnny Vs episode always makes my day.

15:37 When he said, “ You forget about Dynamo,” I actually forgot that Dynamo existed.

Guns N' Roses members (names of X5 bosses) : Slash (Grizzly Slash) W. Axl Rose (Axl the Red) Duff McCagan (Duff McWhalen) Steve Adler (Squid Adler) Izzy Stradlin (Izzy Glow) Dizzy Reed (Dark Dizzy) Matt Sorum (Mattrex) Michael "High in the Sky" Monroe (The Skiver)

I hid myself while I tried to repair myself to see this.

Zero: i hid myself to repair myself ( earlier) Zero: ok i can do this. Put A slot into B slot and then into C slot and now put all of them into D slot. Alright i'v made my thumb, only the rest of my body to go!

“This game cheats, so I cheat back. Fuck it.” Badass.

Zero hid himself and repaired himself because he's a strong independent reploid! He don't need no human!

“I hate this game.” -The Great Clement; Megaman X6 playthrough

Ops, I almost forgot it: it's heavily implied that Isoc is Doctor Wily in robot form, and he was the one who repaired Zero. In fact, Zero asks Light in one of the capsules if he repaired him, but Light denies it, saying he can't do it since Zero's body is a mistery to him. Zero then asks Light if he knows who repaired him and Light simply remains silent.

I like how you ranted about X6 being impossible for unarmored X. HideOfBeast has a really good speedrun of Megaman X6 done through minimalist no-hit means, using powerups only at the two points where the game actually requires it. In it, you can just hear the dread in his tone for how broken the game is towards Unarmored X to the point where he questions why they even gave you the option to play as him in the first place. Check it out when you have a moment - good stuff.

3:34 The way he says DuffMcWhalen gets me every time

“I hid myself while I tried to repair myself.” Zero MMX6

38 minutes? Jesus christ, almost dethroned you know what. *Johnny vs Sonic 06 breathes a sigh of relief*

You know, there's a whole other part to this story of how "Capcom made X6 against Inafune's wishes" that nobody ever seems to mention. That being how the man was already becoming more and more detached from the X series as it went on, to where he really had almost no input at this point. For X1, yeah it was his baby, but he was basically nothing but a background element at this point in the series. He started off as both a character designer and writer, then becoming just a character designer, then by X4 he was just a producer (so not much of anything), and then he actually had *nothing* to do with the vast majority of X5's creation. He basically just told the team; "hey, have the game end like this, because I wanna make a new series, kthx". Unless there are some behind-the-scene things that never came to light, that was the entire extent of his involvement with X5. Idk, people always talk about how this being "taken away from him" was some kind of great crime, but calling the X series "his" at that point just seems... exaggerated.

Fun fact--- you can clear X6 without ever finding Zero. In that ending, Zero is not only repaired, but watching X from a distance thinking to himself "X, you can handle things from here. You don't need me around anymore" and futzes off to go do his ending. Hoo boy, if only he knew of what was to come after that. Also, turns out I got my release dates mixed up for the Xtreme games.

I often find X6 to be genuinely fun when playing as Black Zero and just breaking the fuck out of the game, but like you said, if you have to exploit a game to make it fun then there's something Dreadfully wrong here. X6 is my least favorite in the series, but haven't played it for a good 6-7 years. 'Bout time I change that.

16:30 Well Johnny, something that Classic Megaman stated is that there's an IC chip in every robot that houses their personality. It is incredibly unique to each robot, like each station lock was made with a set of random number generator. If it's damaged beyond repair...then even if they're rebuilt, it won't be the same "person". I assume that Zero's death at the end of X didn't damage his IC chip, just his normal body. This is implied in the Megaman X remake where the maverick bosses in Sigma's castle don't have any of their memories and personality and just basically have a "kill X" mentality and that's it. Implying that their bodies were rebuilt but they weren't given another IC chip so they only have either their barely functioning one or Sigma gave them a new one that was more calculated and simple. Putting them just above the level of a standard mechanoloid.

3:33 “IT’S DUFF MCWHALEN!” I love that part! 😂😆😁

"C'mon, John. X6 isn't that bad!" >dickish hazards at random >bullshit boss that won't be damaged with a standard weapon >bullshit boss who'll spend 45 seconds giving you no means to attack >said bullshit boss is weak against his own attacks that you have to hit, but always ends up giving chip damage >pathetically easy boss after bullshit boss >level with an auto scroller, crushers AND conveyor belts >pits that can't be made without perks from hostages >spikes that are too high to make with vanilla X I'm sorry, what's "Not so bad" about this game?

one day, he'll have a "johnny vs." that'll be longer than sonic 06. i have a dream

"Johnny I'm glad to see review again"-Dr.Light "I will never die"- Johnny

"This game cheats, so I cheat back" That was an excellent line! You rock!

33:53 The worst example of this scenario is the extra route in Infinity Mijinion’s stage. Three hostages, over a bottomless pit, with one Nightmare directly on top of one, KILL ME!!!

"Sigma Virus" sounds awfully similar to the recently spreading "Ligma Virus"... new Mega Man X game confirmed?

The colony crashing into the planet reminds me too much of Sonic Adventure 2. Wait... The main heroes are blue, the bad guy has evil robots...

"WHERE IS ZERO? WHERE IS MY ZERO!?" I guess Nightmare Zero is not only a Yandere, but he's also into selfcest.

You've probably already got this a lot, but the Nightmare effect in X6 is not completely random, and they don't necessarily lie to you. Alia (I think it was Alia anyway) mentions that the red highlights are merely changes in the nightmare situation, not that there will be a nightmare effect there. Each maverick also affects 2 other mavericks, with the exception being Shark Player affecting 3 and and Wolfang only affecting Shark player in 2 spots with some ice in the alternate path. You also don't even need to beat the boss in the stage to trigger the nightmare effect, it's there if you visit the stage. That means that you can manipulate it by replacing the Lights Out effect in Yanmark with the rain from Turtloid, and replacing the Turtloid Lights Out with the Soul Body ghosts from Shield Sheldon's stage. It's a truly asinine system, merely added to by it being explained in the most minimal way possible.

The time between X4 and X5 was almost as long as the time between this review and the last...

Can’t wait for X7

1 Million views and counting, way to go Johnny!

[BURN TO THE GROUND] We are almost there!

Johnny needs more subscribers. This is quality content

Anyone remember the ZX series?

Megaman x4:Sigma was revealed from the very beggining, capcom wtf Megaman x6:Sigma wasn't revealed in the plot and was just shoved in at the end, capcom wtf

So Zero gets his ass snapped in half, gets repaired, good as new. But Iris is 'decomissioned' and they're like "oh god she's gone, what do we do!? It's not like we can...fix her."

I went through Mega Man X5 and X6 in Xtreme. X5 is fun. With X, it's a blast since with all the different armors it offers X more versatility. The Falcon Armor is broken. Zero however was a pain. Unless he is in Black Zero gear, then forget it. Zero is pretty much Hard Mode. X6 however. It was a struggle. A complete god damn struggle. But hey it makes it all the more satisfying when you beat it so you don't have to play it every again.

Johnny's going to have a mental breakdown once he plays X7, I guarantee it. Especially when he gets to Flame Hyenard and the 30 minute boss rush. Also that Sigma Virus part made my day.

How much coffee did you drink before recording this lol

Johnny says Megaman 4 abuses spikes but damn look at Megaman 9...

There is nothing good in this world.... *Johnny uploads* There is something good in this world.

I just noticed he didn't do the the that's a good question line from MegaMan 8. Why didn't he do it? That's a good question

17:09 it looked like zero had a sezure

Me: Zero died in X5, oh wow that's a sad but great endin- X6: SUCK IT UP ZERO HID HIMSELF TO REPAIR HIMSELF. Me: ...

When a stage is red in X6 it does NOT mean it's currently afflicted by a nightmare effect, and the nightmare effects aren't random either. However the way it actually works is even worse than those two. If a stage is red it means that there was a CHANGE in what the current nightmare effects in the stage are. So if a stage is red, and then isn't red the next time you go to the stage select, that means it still has the same effects it had when it turned red before. And, if a stage is red two times in a row, that means it had another change in the nightmare effects, not that it has the same effects as before. And to make it even WORSE, a stage becoming red will never mean that an effect is turned off. Nightmare effects can NEVER be turned off, despite Alia saying that the red represents a general change in the nightmare effects. So basically, it's an intentionally designed system that's completely useless and garbage.

HEEEEERE'S JOHNNY! It's been almost a month since the X4 review! Edit: Oh cool! I didn't expect you to review the Xtreme games! Great review by the way, Johnny! I completed X6 for the first time a couple weeks back, and I was literally covering my mouth and screaming by the end. That crusher section in Gate's stage can go BURN IN HELL. Also who else is hyped as heck for the eventual Mega Man Zero marathon?

Why are the armor parts like this, Dr. Light? “That’s a good question.”

I have to say, with 3 years to think about, this is my favorite video from this channel. A long video about a series I love from one of my favorite personalities on KZfaq. I watch this video multiple times a year, hell multiple times a month sometimes.

X6? Oh boy. 37 minutes? Ooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh boooooooooooooooooooooooyyyyyyyyyyyy

"WHY DON'T THEY JUST REPAIR THEM!? THEY'RE ROBOTS!"

"This game cheats so I cheat back." lol. My brother used to own X6. Only one we owned, though I'd played through X1 before. I was... ok. But, yeah, lots of frustrating shit. Never beat it.

Johnny: Do you remember Dynamo? The fuck happened to him? *Datsa good question*

*Duff McWhalen* is prehaps the greatest name in the history of anything ever.

Oh boy, X7 is going to give him a migraine and a half, isn't it?

26:34 "Zero... I'm glad to see again."

X screaming periodically in the X6 segment adds a lot

It’s ok John, just hug your kitten and you’ll feel better. :)

X6 has a severe case of what I would call “Rom Hack” Syndrome. The story feels like some poor fan fiction after X5 with both the retcons and the English Translation. The new mechanics and level design while flashy is super unfair and bullshit. I know there is a ongoing debate to which is worse,but I find X7 more tolerable since it doesn’t piss me off to the degree of the dumpster fire of X6. X7 is boring,while X6 has broken difficultly balancing and is very unfair

Gave me trauma thinking of all those deathtraps in X6. I remember renting it from blockbuster and using the cheat code as well. Good Times!

"Perfect and the strongest reploids" sounds like it would make a great name for a band.

Thanks for the review(s), Johnny! I actually quite like X6, but you brought up a bunch of points that I was never fully aware of. I actually liked the level designs (though I can't defend Blaze Heatnix's), music, and gameplay. I never really cared much for the story, and so whenever I heard people complain about the game, people generally complained about the story first. But you did more than that, and now I feel like I understand a bit more. I never really knew that X in his basic armor couldn't complete certain parts of the game. And although I hit some dead-ends when exploring the game, I always just figured that I needed to re-visit that point at a later time (I guess games like Super Mario 64 made me more tolerable to stuff like that). So, thank you for your thorough analysis, and thank you for giving X6 a fair review! =)

The whole Sigma leaving X when he could have easily killed him is a Japanese culture thing, it doesn't make sense to us in the west because we have a different moral mindset when it comes to war/battling

X6 is the game equivalent of that AVGN joke of the pit with lava on top of the spikes, with fire-sharks swimming in it, spikes coming from the sides, ready to close in and squash you while stabbing at the same time, some laser cannons and upside-down volcanoes and start the game falling down the pit.

A lot of the important points of X4 and X5's story are hidden away in supplementary materials meant to explain the bits that didn't make sense. It's a shoddy way of doing it, but reading them makes the story so much more grim than you'd think. Also, as to why nobody just thinks to repair and rebuild Reploids: at some point, the series introduces the concept of Reploids having DNA and Souls. In effect, they *could* rebuild Iris...but it wouldn't actually be Iris anymore. ...yeah it doesn't make a whole lotta sense :|

Because of you "WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOR?!!!??! " is stuck in my head. Thanks Johnny lol 😂😂😂

Someone should make a fan animation of Zero going through the process of 'hiding and repairing' himself.

THE BADDLE HAZ JUSD BEGUNN!

Iris can't be rebuilt because she broke her brain and not her body. The purple orb she uses on herself is Colonel's memory chip, she and Colonel were supposed to be the same Reploid but the program was too contradictory to function. Iris isn't actually trying to kill Zero, she's just nuts after using Colonel's chip (which I assume she did to hold onto whatever piece of her brother she could, risks be damned). You know how most players beat her armor senseless to force her to eject the crystal, her weak point? She does that on her own if Zero's in critical condition, you don't have to lay a finger on her to win that fight. So, back to X2, Zero was able to be rebuilt because Cain saved his "control chip" which is essentially his personality. After X5, at least in the final canon where X6 happens, X and the Hunters go back to look for Zero but never find him. How that works in the original version where X5 was supposed to lead directly to MMZ, I will never know. Wily's influence is generally believed to be behind Isoc in X6, but yeah, nothing afterwards. It's very bizarre of X5 to claim he is suddenly relevant, DO NOTHING TO RESOLVE THAT, and somehow claim to be the last game, I think anyone who says that X5 feels at all "final" is out of their mind. Like, we were just told Wily's back, we have no idea why shooting Sigma for the eleventh time kills him when the last ten times didn't, or why Zero's body is vaporized even if X was the one standing next to the explosion. Oh, and X5's ranking system? IT PUNISHES YOU FOR KILLING ENEMIES. Just so you know, that's why it's so easy to gain a rank fighting Dynamo. I love X6. It has its issues, but I love it the way a completely insane Mario fan loves Lost Levels, it's cheap, it's hard as hell, it's certainly not the way to market a franchise, but if you're crazy enough to be up to it, it's appeal is something you just don't find elsewhere in the series. I love the crazy number of power-ups that can be stacked on one character to plow through equally insane enemy mobs in Gate's Lab. Basically everything X5 did, X6 did better (Falcon Armor excepted), it's just X6 has a lot of its own issues. The story of X6 only retcons the 3 year timeframe, other than that it follows X5's good ending (just imagine it as following the ending as played by Zero, I guess). X5 doesn't really tell us one way or the other how bad the damage is if the Shuttle Operation is successful, just that the Earth is "safe" relative to the whole colony slamming into it. Zero is kinda bullshitting X in X6, if it wasn't obvious. If you get the Light capsules as Zero, he talks about not being sure how well his repair functions worked and at one point outright asks Light if he was the one to repair Zero, to which Light answers no and simply calls Zero's recovery miraculous. Light CAN'T rebuild Zero, he doesn't know enough about his body (his reasoning for not building an armor for Zero in X5). Neither can Cain, btw; Zero's X2 body was built by Serges (artbook stuff, not stated in-game but it is canon). Cain just put the pieces together after Serges built them. One character in X6, however, claims to have seen Zero in an early cutscene before X found him: Isoc. Same guy who can disable Zero with a flick of his wrist should Zero defeat High Max. Also, whoever fixed Zero rebuilt the Z-Saber, which Serges built, because X never gives the one he has back. So, yeah, Isoc is totally Wily. General consensus is that Isoc did the major repairs, Zero escaped somehow, and Isoc is attempting to recapture him. I know it seems like a stretch and X6 does a lot to hand-wave Isoc away, but by process of elimination Isoc is the only one who COULD repair Zero. It can't be X, it can't be the Hunters, it can't be Light, it can't be Gate. Light aside, all of them claim to have not seen Zero until X defeats Nightmare Zero. Isoc is the only character to claim otherwise, he also claims to know Zero inside and out, and he just blue-screens once his job is done. Alia is about as involved in X6 as any non-playable character ever was. And really, it beats the hell out of what X5 did with her. I didn't like X5's Alia, like, at all. X6 is what made me a fan of her. Also, winning X6 combination with X: Shadow Armor, Hyper Dash, Jumper, Overdrive, Buster Plus, Ultimate Buster. You rip through everything with the orange saber of doom, Overdrive the boss, game broken, Earth saved. It's a lot of fun, really, and I love the fact that X has another armor that can remotely compete with the Ultimate in sheer firepower. It's not as versatile, but it is an engine of destruction all the same and it's immune to spikes, hallelujah.

I was just rewatching the Castlevania reviews thanks to Smash when I saw this in my notifications.

Holy crap! This might be the longest videos since the 3D Sonic Marathon!

1:10 anybody else thought dirty thoughts when they saw this image of Keji?

25:43 So MegaMan X6 inspired Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance?

Well that certainly came out of left field

Why Iris can't be fixed might actually have an answer if the Classic series is taken into account. Robot Masters have something called a IC chip that houses their personality, as long as it is intact than they can be rebuilt without issue. However, if this chip is destroyed than the personality is destroyed as well, while the RM could be rebuilt, it wouldn't be the same person/RM. So if reploids are similar in make, Iris' IC chip could've been damaged in her battle with Zero.

37:02 Wise words indeed.

X:"Zero I thought you were dead!" Zero:"I was!"

Don’t you just hate it when your company completely derails the plot of the games you spent years of your life making because they like money too much? On a side note, I got the Mega Man X Legacy Collection two weeks ago and am currently trying to beat X4’s Sigma with Zero so I can move on to X5. REALLY tempted to switch to Rookie Hunter Mode, but I’d like to clear at least ONE game without have to resort to that at any point. EDIT: That bastard’s finally dead! I’d like to thank you all for believing in me, I really appreciate it!

Even when I have a bad day, Johnny's always there to make it all better! P.S. I did a playthrough of X5 before and RNG was in my favor as the Enigma succeeded in destroying the colony, this was the same playthrough where I defeated the Shadow Devil with Zero, yes, I am insane doing something like that.

8:26 oh man that line, I thought it was about something else haha

Cant wait till he covers the MMZero series. Most satisfying gameplay in the series, coolest version of Zero, and most interesting part of the megaman timeline imo. Really wish it got ported to console so they could get more exposure. Ppl stayed overlooking portable series for Sonic/Castlevania/Megaman. Whining about not having any good recent titles in those series...when they were right there on gba. Also, shoutouts to unfair difficulty on X6 to pad out the game length

Am I missing out because ive never played a Megaman game?

Holy crap Johnny wasnt kidding about the length!

I like how absolutely nobody can get the "I hid myself while I tried to repair myself" quote correctly despite claiming that's it's ripped directly from the script

Of all the retro review guys out there, I f***ing adore you and this channel. Thank you.

Copyright kills all the fun. Atleast Jojo managed to get away with some of it.

Yeah, X6's translation is a bit of a disaster. A lot of the issues you had were simply translation errors... except for the three weeks thing, I think that was a typo on X5's end. Also, a Zero marathon? YEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!

John we can both agree the X5 boss remix from X legacy Collection 2. IS EPPPPPIIIIIICCCCCC

Is it just me or is Johnny talking really fast?