The feeling of becoming efficient with zeros tools and movement is one of the best feelings

The thing with repeating the cutscene constantly is because you have the checkpoints on, in the old game if you already died to the boss and enter the room there are no cutscenes

Zero 4 was one of the first times a game made me feel sad about a video game character.

So some Zero lore for anyone who cares and doesn't know: 1) Elpizo doesn't destroy Copy X. That's actually the REAL Megaman X's body. He used himself to seal the Dark Elf away several years before the first game, essentially being the lock to it's cell. His "soul" (basically a cyber-elf) helps Zero in the first 3 games, before he dies for real in 3. 2) The Dark Elf was originally the "Mother Elf", created to defeat Sigma (the main bad guy from the original X games), specifically the Sigma/Maverick Virus. 3) Dr. Weil isn't Dr. Wily. He LOOKS like him, but it's two different people. Weil is the one who corrupted and turned the Mother Elf into the Dark Elf (out of spite: the government denied his idea to mind-control reploids to counter the Maverick Virus, while X wanted to make the Mother Elf.)

It's so weird to me that Capcom apparently announced recently that ZX3 was canceled. Its been 15 years and Inti Creates went off and basically made their own spin-off MegaMan Zero with Gunvolt. I think most people figured that ZX3 was dead at this point.

Here's a late tip: you can dash underneath projectiles and electric wires. Your dash is not invincibility, but it lowers your hitbox to a crouch.

I’ve never been a “get good” gamer but the amount of times I vocally reacted during this video lol. Every time Kbash dashed to the wall in the Frog Boss, I was like “if you died enough times, then you know the wall isn’t safe. Why are you dashing jumping into the wall!”

Fun fact: ZX Advent's "easy and normal" difficulty modes were originally named "normal and hard" but were changed in localization

EDIT: Okay so I did feel this way at the time, but if you're seeing this comment now, the following is not true of KBash's content anymore. I feel he's become much better about this and many other issues over time. Just like someone should be critiqued fairly, I think they should be praised for improving- so that's me doing that here and now. Good work KBash, you do great stuff! "I liked the review overall, as I do with your reviews in general so far- but one thing is that you seem... strangely embarrassed by sincerity? A villain explaining their worldview isn't always supposed to make you relate to them- half the time it's done to do the opposite. The "Selfish Myopic Old Man" trope found in the classic Chinese Mojun vs Minjun "defeat your awful old master" trope is a celebrated tradition for a reason. Some people just become deranged and terrible, and that's a valid villain archetype too."

These bosses look sooo cool! You're right there really needs to be a fighting game for this.

Something not brought up in the review: some of the best music in the entire Mega Man series. The intro to Zero 2, “Departure” is still one of my all time favorite pieces of video game music. Sidenote: I’m one of the absolute weirdos who love these games enough to speed run them. A perspective from a relatively new player to the franchise is always interesting to see!

40:43 IF you were paying attention to the dialogue You'd know that's not copy x lmao That's THE X who's holding the dark elf at bay from being released. Pretty important plot point mentioned quite a few times in the game. His ghost shows up in 3 as well which is kind of a weird plotpoint.

I LOVE the Zero Series! It's super underrated no one talks about it!

Its not wasting time geez, its improving. Its like saying that losing a game in a sport is wasting time.

Hey dude, it's okay. Every line of work, and I really mean, everyone, tends to become monotonous and grinding. Still, you make great videos. Thanks for your hard work.

Patient: "I have depression." Psychiatrist: "Well if you hate life so much, why even play it?" *Job's done!*

“Man copes with his terrible hand eye coordination for 40 minutes well trying to deflect any criticism by calling it *dehumanizing*”

Review would have been better if you focused on talking about the game instead of your struggles with adequately playing through and reviewing the game and blaming it on the time you don't have/make for the game while ironically filling up said time with complaints on the schedule you decided for yourself for other games, of Which have no affect on the actual quality of the game in question . The average person does exist and it's good to look out for them but thinking a little more about it you might just find that the average person likely won't binge all of the games in a row for a KZfaq video on a time limit because of a self inflicted schedule. They'll enjoy it at their own pace or not at all.

KBash has been going hard so far this year.

I don't like saying "get gud", since it's generally a shit argument, but when you're literally jumping into the same enemy over and over...just fucking stop. This is certified "stop hitting your self" moment. The games aren't THAT hard and no I'm not a speed runner and I didn't play the games multible times. You just have to stop for a moment sometimes and look around. Every enemy you dash jumped into can be easily avoided if you just DON'T BLINDLY DASH JUMP OFF SCREEN.

Great stuff as ever. Zero 4 and 1 were the favorites I played to death as a kid but you're right, it feels like the intended way to enjoy these games is to get beaten into submission memorising the layout. That said, mechanically the whole series has this one thing that still irritates me from the main x series where some boss attacks become functionally unavoidable spreads if you're in *the wrong place* onscreen during the brief neutral state between boss moves. For whatever reason I never really clicked with the DS sequels or the gunvolt games - they have the wild visual designs and speed, but there's a weird sort of loose, floppiness to them under a mountain of probably deep systems that seems somehow less immediate.

Disappointed about the rant tbh. Should've been a separate video. Sorry KBash. Disliked. Just take a break, man.

Always been quite fond of ZX, despite the shortcomings it felt like a love letter to the franchise after Z4, and the little things tying the story together are pretty nice. Blessed be Prairie Advent tho... it sure is a game that exists.

15:48 I don't know how you can miss this but that's Original X's body.

here's the thing, I've always found the passive yet very close-ended timing, counting your strikes and when to really strike it, as very satisfying. I love megaman and zero presents a gameplay loop that makes a lot of sense to me. I've always loved more passive gameplay were I grind my teeth and take my opportunities and win. I feel like megaman zero's movement, design, and gameplay loop are very satisfying and don't need to be completely looked into to be enjoyed. Sure taking the extra step does help with enjoyment of this game but stepping back and just grinding through a difficult yet largely skill based game is really fun to me. that's all really

I loved the open world exploration in MMZ1. Not a lot of people realize it, but most of the stages are interconnected and between missions you can leave the base and explore the different areas. As you progress through the game, some open up, some become closed off, and some have their layout/terrain altered by story events .

Hey K-bash. I love your videos, they're all amazing and this one was no exception. Social media can be pretty rough but your channel is one with exceptional quality. When I started following you (don't remember exactly how long ago, maybe about a year), you were at around 15-20k subscribers and I couldn't fathom such a high quality channel had so (relatively) few followers. At 100k now, seems like your work is paving its results. That is to say, you don't owe anyone an explanation for how you play your games or whether or not you enjoy them (as fun as it might be). Your honest input, your impeccable writing, your amazing personality, your really interesting insight, and your high-quality editing are what has driven you so far, and will continue to drive you. You don't need to be a pro speedrunner or a gaming encyclopedia. Thank you for doing what you do.

These tangents are nuts. Man is literally spiraling.

Megaman Zero is pretty cool, I haven’t played any of them since I was like 7 but I remember it being cool

I've never actually sat through someone's Patreon name listing but god that was funny, good one

People should stop marathoning series if they can't avoid burnout bias. Zero story still the best however

it's not that everything is reactable on paper, it's that quite literally everything is telegraphed before it happens and if you didn't catch it the first time look at them again, ie actually take your eyes off zero during a boss fight rarely do you need to know where he is on screen so long as he isn't within immediate striking range.

I'd like to chime in and say that the score system is an integral part to why I loved the series. I didn't have a lot of games growing up, so the ones I did have I would play over and over again unless it was something long like an RPG. And even then I'd still play through those at least a few times, SMRPG and FF7 for instance. But I did have Mega Man games, and I played 2+3 on the NES with my father most likely thousands of times taking years to beat them. And by the time I got an SNES with MMX, I could beat MM2 or 3 in a single sitting. I was probably around 6-7 at the time. Fast forward to the GBA era, I saw a classmate playing MMZ on a school bus trip. I had no idea handheld Mega Man games existed and they let me play it. It was incredibly hard, but I'd been there and done that. I never had the first game myself, but got Z2 as a gift soon after that experience. I'd play it over and over and over again, aiming to get to that perfect score. It always let me know how to improve based on the score, it was essential to my experience with the game. And while I completely understand that it is brutal and locks out elements of the game and how extremely flawed that is by design to the majority of players, it's what I loved to do. I already played the NES games by that point as buster only runs, how hard could playing through Z2 without elves really be. My experience with Z3 was pretty much the same as MMZ. Except this was at a sleepover and I played through it all in one night and pushed for S rank at minimum. I ended up unlocking the Ciel minigame at the end and had a blast playing that until everyone else woke up lol. That friend eventually ended up gifting me that cartridge which is a wonderful memory. That was a long spiel, but I really wanted to voice just how important games that trend towards mastery are to me. And for me it peaked with the Zero series. Nowadays I mostly play fighting games and rpgs, but it's because it's getting harder and harder to find 2D platformers that fit that niche I'm looking for.

9:45 Weird, because the conflict isn't really about humans oppressing reploids - It's reploids oppressing other reploids because of the energy crisis. That is why Ciel wanted to come up with the new energy souce

That wasn't Copy X stabbed by Elpizo, that was our goold ol' boy X, main character in like 10 games.

This franchise will always live in our hearts.

15:46 thats the Real X holding the Dark Elf at bay, not a regenerating Copy X

You can burn the leaves for Burble Hekelot, you made it harder for yourself and earlier in the same level you can burn the trees so you should've put 2 and 2 together, plants burn

There’s a difference between learning boss attacks to punish, and trying to use i-frames to get through and complain the games are bad. I played them for the first time a few months ago and absolutely fell in love. Bosses all have like 5 attacks at most and for the most part they’re orchestrated well enough that you should only get hit the first few times. I understand some of the level design is very flawed which I’ll give you that but just about everything else in this review seems half assed. Pretty bad review if I’m honest.

Game hard, I suck so is bad. There is the whole video in a nutshell, I save 40 min of your life, yw.

I can't even beat Mega Man X games, and when I attempted Mega Man Zero I never made it past the first boss. Always seemed like there was cool stuff in there, but the barrier for entry is just too high for me.

i feel like a lot of the complaints here are just skill issues entirely especially with the zero 1 review. complaints about the bosses needing memorization is like a key design philosophy of every mega man game lol. it also seems that you just haphazardly damage boost through a lot of stuff? which is not how you’re supposed to play at all and i don’t think is encouraged in any mega man game. zero 1 really just takes other mega man concepts and expands upon them which is fine to criticize on z1’s behalf but these complaints are very general and don’t specifically tie to z1. the “not having a lot of options” thing is also prevalent in like every other mega man. you start off with just your main weapon and then go from there. even then zero has way more options available at the beginning than other mega man games.

Choosing to play in a way that isn't fun ("laming out" bosses) because you "don't want to waste time" is really bizarre and counterproductive. You're choosing to turn the entire game into a waste of time. Just say you don't like the game instead of giving me this weird tortured "logic". Also really bizarre to suggest that the game wants you to be in melee combat just because the melee weapon is stronger than the ranged weapon. Obviously if the long-range weapon did as much damage as the melee weapon, the melee weapon would be worthless. Like, Bro, YOU HAVE A GUN. You don't have to be passive, just shoot the guy lol.

"Zero 2 is probably someone's favorite, but I don't know who that is" I'll give you an example, me. Also Zero 4 is the easiest??? Nah, I ain't gonna try and correct that

4:02 hahha SLOWPOKE, as they say in dark soul, GIT GUD

Imagine my fun as a young elementary school student, having beaten MMX once or twice, playing Zero 1 for the first time. It was instantly hooked, fantastic theme change. Loved it. But I absolutely got wrecked literally every time

The ZX series has always been my favorite, purely because shape shifting in games is like _crack_ to me. *TRANSFORRRRRRM*

Even though advent isnt looked upon very fondly, It pains me that it'll never get the chance it deserves to flesh out its characters and world out in the forever in limbo ZX3. While most of its good or interesting story beats ended up being contingent on previous megaman titles, I think there was bottomless potential for improvement. I can only hope that when capcom is done doing whatever the fuck they planned on following up megaman 11 with, they give it another look.

I count the Zero series as my favorite platformers of all time, and y 'know what? I don't think your criticisms are unfair. Sucks you didn't enjoy them as much as I did, but I understand completely why you didn't. These games can be aggressively alienating and difficult to get into. They're all dear to me in specific ways, and I think once it clicked with me, few things could really match it. I love speeding through the levels and shooting for higher grades in them. Its like a platformer Devil May Cry to me. But that does not make them particularly intuitive. I've tried to get some of my friends into the games and they both bounced off of it in the first game. I'm glad the story mostly was a success with you for the Zero games. I've always held those games to have the best story of any Mega Man series, and its cool to see that element work for someone who didn't click with most of the games as much as me. Small side note, oddly Elpizo is my favorite villain in these games. He reads really tragic to me, like he was pushed by desperation and anger to attack Neo Arcadia hastily, putting blood on his hands that drives him nuts. His dialog in the last cutscene makes it sound like he's authentically come by the mentality of Sigma without being influenced by a virus. And the prospect that this was underlying his actions the entire time I think says a lot about the state of the world in the Zero games and how messed up everything is. (The Dark Elf stuff is explained pretty badly, though. I think because there were like, Japan-only audio dramas that go into it more. Really wish they'd have been more clear about that stuff in-game.)

alot of the time it isn't about perfect reactions to 50/50 chances, it's about putting yourself in a position where you'll be prepared for either attack. timing your dash from the right center so that if he drops he drops behind you and you just have to not jump off the wall, or if he rolls you have enough time to jump afterwards and using the leaves to figure out when that will be.

The zero series is definitely a weird experience. Takes up to a year to “get gud” but when you eventually gain that skill playing any of them with graceful flow feels euphoric. Kinda like watching games done quick

I came for a Megaman Zero Review, I instead came out with a person complaining about the type of beat the KZfaq is doing to a person and how that might be leading to said person just not enjoying their work.... as much as how it helps him discover stuff. There's a side of me that wants to say, he should take rest and just enjoy a game uninvolved with Work for awhile. But I know he cant cause KZfaq Scheduling and the nature of his work. Edit: Side Note: Man this Review was terrible compared to the KH One or Nier or Even the Persona Ones.... it legit feels like Kbash is making this for a Job then Passion and It Sounds so Dreary...

uh... i think you way overstate the difficulty of zero 1. Its not THAT hard. Not even looking at this from an "elitist" standpoint. It was even a requirement to not use any fairies while getting all to get a secret fairy (which was required for Ultimate mode, not sure if that's still a thing for the rerelease). Sure enemies coming out from outside the screen can be bad, but that's normal for games with short levels. You are suppose to learn the enemy layout and get S ranks. Its built for replayability. They were even nice enough to give you an infinite respawning tower enemy in the first level so you can grind for weapon levels if you wanted. How is that "remembering boss patterns" not good design? That's how boss fights should be. If they have a random pattern, you anticipate for the worst and play around it. It seems like a basic thing. I mean sure if you just want to feel powerful and overpower bosses, sure that may not be a playstyle you like but that's every megaman game (outside of going for weaknesses, then it suddenly makes most bosses a joke).

Banger after banger, after banger. Greatly anticipated your takes on the series and wasn't disappointed ! ♥

Perhaps playing from zero 4, 3, 2 then 1 may have made the playing experience easier While the understanding the story may have suffered And while i know megaman zero is hard, is the community around it sounds a lot more painful for you then usual...

I remember playing Zero 1 it was hard and unforgiving. Could never beat Aztec Falcon. Fast forward to a more seasoned and confident gamer playing the collection on DS and I hit the same walls and never picked again. This and Mega Man & Bass for GBA are the bain of my gaming life.

Well Copy X, Elpizo and the guardians are all dead by Zero 4 so them not being in the game makes sense if you paid attention to the story

What you said about Cyber Elfes taking extreme numbers of crystals to upgrade just a tiny bit of health, only applies to Zero 1. It's way more reasonable in Zero 2 and 3, I don't think I ever had to grind in those games

It kinda feels like you are projecting your own failure at playing the game as a issue with the games design. When you say that the game encourages you to play safe and held back, you show no arguments besides "it's safer". Like, you can use that argument for almost any action game, so what is the criticism here??? Yeah it's safer but it's boring that's a choice YOU, THE PLAYER, makes, not one the game does. Like when mention the boss fights in Zero 2, you mention a strategy you came up for every boss and talks like the game encourages you to fight like that, but that this strategies aren't fun to use. Did it not pass through your mind to try a diferent strategy??? I never seen anyone fights those bosses like that, and there's probably a reason for it. Again, it feels like you didn't enjoy the games because you purposefully try to fight them in a way you won't enjoy.

Aye Kbash thank you for doing what you do, I also deal with media in a suboptimal manner but you still put out bangers every month.

"If you lived through that era, hey how's therapy going?" i was good at video games so i didn't need it. thanks for asking tho

Say what you will about the difficulty of Zero, but I bet anyone would choose Z1 over MMX6 every single time.

It's cool you use ur videos to express yourself but as a person who just watched one of your videos for the 1st time I just can't connect. It's whatever the youtube grind, you have supporters. When you started going on a tangent I was like ???? I thought this was a game review. I don't mind memes and self insertion. It's a problem tho when you don't control it and it harms at actual point of the video. What i got from the review is you played all the games. You struggled threw some games and didn't have fun? And you worry about video numbers... So the megaman games you played aren't great? The art isn't good? The music sucks? This is more bargain bin then review or like "My megaman experience"

32:00 Model HX isn't considered the best just because of its utility, it's the best because of its utility, _and the fact it has the highest DPS in the game._ Its tornado sheers off an entire HP bar, and properly learning the combo system allows you to kill bosses in seconds. Even without learning the combo system properly, that tornado alone will destroy any boss that isn't Ice element aligned.

Therapy is going quite well, thank you for asking.

You gotta stop worrying about comments yelling at you for enjoying what you like. You decided to make your opinions public (which are good by the way) and clearly you know how people would react, don't bother repeating it. I know it's your job and it kinda depends on your audience's appreciation for the opinions, but you're fine.

I’ve played zero 1 a ton and it’s a lot of fun to play but almost everything else is ROUGH in a lot of ways (level ups, rankings, cyber elfs, the lives system)

Fun fact: The way you pronounce "Elpizo" in spanish is the same way we say "The floor"

The frog boss in Z2 is not a 50/50. Use a charge fire attack to burn the ceiling, like how you did in the stage itself. Also, i don’t think you gave the sequels enough credit for fixing bad design decisions. Not too big a fan of this video, you don’t have to like it but I do and you seem quite condescending about some things

18:49 breaks my heart that the persona videos didn't do well. I found it to be some of your most enjoyable content. More than maitaining youtube numbers and plaques or patreon funding, I hope you can maintain your sense of self (and sanity) throughout this journey of exploring and critiquing games.

ZX was the first Megaman game I’ve ever played, so it was pretty weird, yet fascinating going back to play the Zero games with no biometal gameplay, and seeing all the characters that were based off of said biometals in their prime.

I remember being so angered by the Desert level of Zero 1 that I physically mapped it out, so I'd never forget where the annoying stuff was. Great times for kid me.

I can physically feel the self-loathing radiating from the screen. Please just relax and do whatever is most healthy for you.

34 this year, started gaming in 1995. Gotta say therapy is going well, thanks for asking

Dude's pretty passive aggressive in this one eh

15:45 that's the real x and not copy x. If you're reviewing, you're not very good at what you're doing. I think that people should keep quiet about things that they don't know much about, instead of saying false things.

I frequently see the" You have to memorize a boss's attacks to beat them" as a point of negative criticism. I often find this to be disingenuous. Having to memorize a bosses moveset in an action game to then be able to defeat them it's just part of the game. No one criticizes Fromsoftware games, Monster Hunter, Devil May Cry, Ninja Gaiden, popular Megaman games, or many others for this. Imagine if at the end of every section of these games the boss was a pushover. Imagine getting to Gwyn, Sigma, or Virgil and defeating them on your first try ever. Many people would be let down. The more relevant critique would be to say that it expects too much of you to succeed in a reasonable amount of tries which some games do suffer from. I've also noticed this is a recurring pattern in your reviews. You will praise games and critique games for the same thing. For example your Darksiders review. You did not like Darksiders 1 and 2 because they were derivative of games you like (being Zelda and Devil May Cry/God of War). But then you said that you like Dark Siders 3 because it is derivative of game series you love.(Darksouls) As someone whose been subbed for while your losing credibility being wishy washy with your opponions man.

You should try Megaman BattleNetwork. Also the guardians are gone because they die in 3, the X in 2 is the original's body, and copy x isn't in 4 because he dies again in 3.

Can't believe you made a video about my childhood game. The MegaMan series which made the person of who I am today. But yeah, MMZ was one of the best games I played, the story was dark but yet action-packed. My favorite MMZ is MM3 and MM4. I really want Capcom to take the opportunity and make a Zelda BOTW style type of MMZ game. Just imagine an open world MMZ5!

Azure Striker Gunvolt as a spiritual successor definitely gets annoying with the "this game is only enjoyable as a speedrunner" stuff the game is either too easy aside from true ending and a few bosses before that when for true ending you finally have to disable prevasion, or you're going for high score no hits taken speedruns, no real inbetween, prevasion and the game being balanced around either "prevasion easy mode, no prevasion hard mode" with no inbetween ruined it for me

Something I would like to note regarding ZXA's voice acting, the collection uses the original voice line recordings, before being compressed, for both games (ZX1 had JP only voice acting). Something about the compression process they had for the original DS version did a pretty decent job of masking the accents, except for Grey's. Grey's voice is an unfortunate case of good character, good lines, VA recognized for previous work, in this case, X7. This is the first time I've heard complaint's over Ashe's voice, which is actually interesting to hear after years of "omg whiny x is grey" nonstop. Wonder if they'll revive that ZX3 project someday?

MMZ2 is one of my all time favorites. I loved the speed. I S ranked the whole game back when I was a kid. I still remember the day my mom bought me this with mega man and bass. Another favorite.

I really appreciate how intelectual and comprehensive your videos get, it sets them apart. I’ve always loved megaman but really knew nothing about these, so I’ll have to check some out

Well done Kbash I like the fact that you actually Improve, unlike others youtubers.

Nice video, very entertaining! It was quite interesting to hear your opinions on these games and I think the skits you put in between are really well done. Your style of videos are always fun to watch and I hope you had just as much fun getting the footage and making the video. Have a nice rest of your day!

I just have one critic that you can't refute: The worst of playing games like that in marathon in order to review them all in one video, is that you start to ignore and simply not give a single shit to the story. Proof of that is that what you say in the video clearly ignores things told so many times in the main cutscenes of those games. It's not lack of attention, it's just plain fatigue.

Somebody takes Dunkeys opinions on Video Games seriously? But he is a comedian first and anything else second so there is literally no point ever to take him seriously even when he tries to.

Tldr: this guy doesn't have thumbs. And he blames the game for it.

I actually really enjoy the difficulty in the mega man zero games, I specially remember enjoying staying hours to get past the first stage and the grind that took that essentially forced me to play in a half-perfect way, It's like the atmosophere and difficulty really added up to the grim level of tension and the level of immersion just peaked, every victory was earned and satisfying. It had a weird effect when playing it again the game felt like the easiest thing ever.

I remember I was in 7th grade when my teacher gave me an old Game Boy Advance it had zero 1-4 with it and I randomly came across this channel and you helped me play the game you gave me some of the best days of the 7th grade and then I played Metroid fusion I now see that you hated these games but me I loved every second of the day when I played these game all I have to say is thank you kbash hope your doing well

Megaman Zero 3 is ultimately the age old question of "Nature VS Nurture", one that is especially keen for Zero himself being the literal magnum opus of the OG bad guy Dr. Wiley. But despite being created to destroy fate would grant that he'd have a chance to be his own being and form bonds, friendship, love with other reploids and even humans. The struggle between violent programming that is literally hardwired into ones being, and the compassion and love that came to what was intended as literally the strongest killing machine in existence, showing him a better way. Ultimately standing for those Zero loves and fought for, CHOOSING for himself as few reploids truly ever do, in doing so both becoming and remaining the man his friend X and so many others always believed in. A defining moment that as a teenager I couldn't grasp why I was so attached to it, until a dear friend of mine pointed it out to me and I was left with a feeling of true fulfillment. I truly love these games, thank you for reminding me of them Kbash. Godspeed sir.

I'm really glad kbash is starting to get the recognition he deserves. I don't remember when I subscribed, but I knew from the first episode I watched that kbash was smarter than me and deserved more acknowledgement for his hard work.

Could've harped on minor nitpicks I found with the video (e.g. "Copy X wasn't stabbed by Elpizo, that was the Original X who's body had sealed the Dark Elf") but honestly it doesn't really matter. You're coming in with the mindset of a casual player looking for some fun, and that's extremely fair. A lot of gameplay/ plot elements aren't mentioned in game and require external explanations, like what happened to the Guardians after Zero 3, or just about every single Cyber Elf mechanic and how to make the best use of them. Zero 1, 2 and 3 in particular do rely on the X series for a lot of context (specifically X1-X5) and I can see how they won't really vibe with newcomers who didn't experience those titles first. With that nonsense out of the way, I do agree with just about everything you said about Z4 though. And thank you for commenting on the great boss designs, the Eight Gentle Judges are still some of the best Mega Man bosses in the series' history.

Also the chameleon 50/50 can be avoided just by using a fire attack to burn the plants that block your vision.

When he asked "if you lived through that era, hows therapy going?" I dead ass immediately and honestly replied "Poorly."

I remember playing the Zero series a decade ago and enjoying them but I also sure used save states via emulation at the time and never used cyberelves because I felt bad about lowering rank/the fact they die from use in lore and so now I just go "dang how would I play and feel about these games now". I still appreciate the memories I have of them though, and it's nice that 3 and 4 at least still have good things going for them.

4:23 "If you lived through that era, hows therapy going?" Me who started on Zero 3 thinking id be a good entry point for all megaman games ....Thearpy is going well, thank you for asking :)

I love the zero series to bits but I agree with your criticism tbh. AND I DON"T CARE IF IT IS CRINGE, I STILL TEAR UP AT CIEL AND ZERO TALKING WHEN ZERO DECIDES TO STAY ON RAGNAROCK AND STOP THE IMPACT OK?! especially because in the music cds there is a fully acted drama version

god this video is making me hope you cover Battle Network one day. Zero and BN were my childhood so this video was like a slap of nostalgia in my subbox. Keep up the amazing work!

Doesn't sound like you are getting much value from reading people's reactions to your videos on social media. Just saying, deleting my social media accounts was the best thing I ever did for my mental health.