What's your favorite MMX game and why?

Honestly, I think the idea that "You can skip x2 to x3 and not miss anything" is more reserved for skipping x3 and going to x4. In x2 you learn sigma is a virus, you got the x-hunters, and you resurrect zero. What happens in x3? Nothing.

X1 was amazing story wise. It's simple but I felt it did a lot to convey who was powerful and who was not and X's journey to become strong.

Small correction on one thing you said in the video, Keiji Inafune did not create Mega Man, it was actually designed by a man named Akira Kitamura, but since he didn't stick around after the first game, Keiji Inafune pretty much took the mantle after that, and created iconic characters like Zero. Also, fun fact, Mega Man 6 and Mega Man X were released quite nearly within a month of each other.

I'm pretty sure this is common knowledge by now, but X5 was meant to be the finale to the Mega Man X series. This is why Zero dies at the end of the game. He wasn't supposed to be resurrected, until Mega Man Zero, which takes place hundreds of years later. However, X6 would be made without Kenji Inafune's knowledge, causing retcons and plot holes. I know many people would prefer to have the series end at X5, but personally, I'm kind of glad they continued after that, because as bad as they are, X6 and X7 are interesting pieces of Mega Man's history. And without them, there would have been no X8, which was a return to form for the series, and some fans, including myself are still clamoring for an X9 to this day.

I rented X3 from our local shop in town and would use dial-up and netscape navigator to get the level and upgrade passwords.

While Inafune is the most well known, he isn't the creator of Megaman. That distinction goes to Akira Kitamura.

Some of the best touches of X4 include how X and Zero have wildly different intro stage music. Each song captures the characters really well. X’s song sounds very sad and conflicted, like how he feels about defeating mavericks. But still, it has a part that sounds heroic or determined, like how X will do what he must. Zero’s theme is just pure raw energy and badassery. Just sounds like a hero who just gets shot done. That’s totally Zero. I also like how some bosses have the Repliforce logo, and some have Sogma’s logo, on their life bars. It’s a nice touch that helps you see their loyalty and motivation. Dragoon being literally Akuma is also amazing

Mega Man X2's greatest strength is its speedrun potential. In my opinion at least. Speedrunning it is so so sooo fun.

I did not expect a random Beast Wars clip in the middle of this.

I dig your comedy, it’s very much my jam. Reminds me of KZfaq back in the early days. Good shit man, keep it up 👍

X4 and legends were my first rockman games

2:45 this bit earned you a subscriber haha

X5 had some of the biggest nostalgia moments and brought up a lot of questions. I remember getting to the Zero Space levels and when landing thinking that it looked like Quick Man's level, all it needs is the instant death lasers and then there they were. The questions that came from it, knowing that Wily had to somehow be involved but in what way? Hitting the boss room, seeing the blurred Wily logo, hearing the Megaman 1 Wily boss music then seeing those familiar cubes come in from the side. I remember the cold shiver I got at the realization that it meant Wily was still around somehow and was orchestrating all of this. Getting to the final Sigma form 2 boss and the revelations he drops of meeting a partner who hates X as much as him, who helped build him this new body that resembles Gamma from Megaman 3. I thought this was going to lead to Wily revealing himself as the main antagonist for future X games... But no, no... Just disappointment. No follow up aside from Isoc being implied to be Wily, nothing quite on the nose as X5. The story potential was huge, if only they went hard into it.

@25:10 The Boss Refights in Mega Man X were stretched out over the four Sigma stages in the original as well. There was no dedicated boss rush that was the norm in the original MM series or became the norm in the MMX series.

A collection should be made for X Hunter, Powered Up, Command Mission, Soccer, Real Operation, and all the other oddball entries of each series.

You made me realize that a lot of special weapons from X2 start with the letter s

That Gutsman's ass joke was a nice bit of nostalgia

After Mega Man 11, I was certain a new X game would be on the horizon...😞

Okay... you got me, you got me with the Wimp Low "trained him wrong as a joke" he thinks winning is losing. I feel like you're my long lost twin, what even the heck is going on here. Probably the best youtube recommendation those suits have ever done.

To be fair, X5 being the start of the end of the series... makes sense as it was originally suppose to be the end of the series.

You get a Like for that Toonami feeling segment at 1:33. Makin' me feel like I'm watching the "Mad Rhetoric Walking Stick" video.

The opening alone scored you a sub and a like from me. Super polished!

Almost 20 years into X2, and still, it is interesting to me. After getting the buster capsule upgrade, you let go of ladders when firing a double charged shot. Multiple upgrades can be obtained multiple ways. Choosing boss order feels like it offers more variety than the first. They might have done an imperfect job, but the level of detail is very close.

Megaman X was one of the 1st games I ever played....finding out boomer kuwangers weapon cuts off some boss body parts over 25 years later is mind blowing.

It's gonna take at least 2,890,000 nuts to get Capcom to make a good old school MMX9

There's a mod to change the vile music in maverick hunter to normal stage music. Definitely makes it better

Funnily enough I never had any problems with dash on the A button x)

These are the type of comfy videos I look forward to after a long day of work

I am 41 years old. My first experience with Megaman was when I was a kid in the hospital and another kid had an NES with Mega Man 2 hooked to the hospital TV. I didn't get to play. My first experience playing a Mega Man game was MEGA MAN X on SNES. I played through the game and had a good time. I didn't touch another Mega Man game till The Mega Man Legacy collection went on steam sale 2 years ago. I bought Mega Man Legacy, Mega Man X legacy and Mega Man ZX legacy. I played through the games sequentially from 1 to 11 and then X1 to X8. HONESTLY, Mega Man 3 and Mega Man X3 may be my least favorites. Everyone else hates on X7, but despite anxiety playing the overly long boss battles, I was able to get enough tips online to make my first playthrough doable - and then I played through it seven more times to unlock everything. The only other Mega Man game I played through multiple times was X8. I mastered the game and played through it over 12 times to unlock every single thing. The prices are set ridiculously high. My LEAST favorite X game is probably X6 because playing through it is a chore. The game is poorly balanced and unfinished. X3 was boring to me but X6 is PAINFUL. I run it every now and then just to play the Boss rush and beat Sigma since the Shadow armor makes it easy, but I really think that obtaining the Shadow armor should be the main goal and the last level should be "easier" - essentially making Mega Man feel like NINJA GAIDEN. Great music, great visuals but terrible gameplay. ZX and ZX advent were really good by the way.

You're right about X3's repeating non-Boss enemies! Thought I was the only one that noticed repeating enemies in different stages.

The algorithm brought me here and I am glad it did. The intro very Toonami vibe and the pauses felt very Adult Swim of my youth. Thank you I loved it. Oh yeah, good content too.

You may be the first person I've ever heard say X2 was harder than X3 but it has been years since I've played either. X1-3 are my absolute favorites. My biggest gripe with X3 was the focus on vertical climbing. I think this was done to give you a reason to use the vertical air dash which I never did since its animation took forever lol. Now I'm going to go watch your Vesperia video and see how bad I want to fight you afterwards.

Getting to play as Vile was super damn cool.

Mega Man has some of the best music in any video game. The fact they made it sound that good on the SNES hardware is really something else.

1:09:42 this was actually confirmed by the VA herself in an interview. Along with that, every single VA from 8 was reused for X4

31:15 if you select Magna Centipede’s level from the stage select instead of the North Pole fortress, it also triggers the final level.

X1-4 were produced by the OGs, hence why they’re the best!

i like how the transition between games in your video gives me old adult swim vibes

I love the intermissions and the little adult swim title cards

There's only one reasonable explanation how zero keep coming back to life He hid himself as he repaired himself

X2 was the first I played in the X series so it holds a special place, but my favourite has to be X4 since it was the first that made Zero fully playable and the jump from SNES to PS upped the quality

I love how in the Ruby Sears series X describes a robot apocalypse living hell with "Cigma" & Dr Light says; What an amazing world you come from 😂😂.

The megaman anime/show with the d-tier voice acting makes so much more sense with Dr Light portrayed as a drunk.

Fun fact about Maverick Hunter X, X and Sigma’s voice actors are the same for Domon Kasshu and Master Asia in G Gundam, the halfway point cutscene with X and Zero fighting Sigma even pays homage to Domon’s shining finger attack with X hand glowing green

DIsliking Blast Hornets stage theme? BLASTPHEMY!

I LOVE, unironically LOVE, MM8 and MMX4s voice acting. So much.

In the absence of more new Megaman games, I would like to recommend something to you all. Look up a game called 30XX. Also, if you want a Metroid in between Metroids, look up A Robot Named FIGHT!. I hope both games keep you all sated until we get new official games for both series.❤

Solid video! Gotta say X4 is my favorite! I remember renting it at blockbuster and telling my dad I love this game! Loved it so much, we went out that same day to toys R Us and bought it!

It's crazy that Maverick Hunter X didn't reach the numbers Capcom wanted. I highly enjoyed every aspect of the game. Especially the added narratives and for me playing as Vava aka Vile. I wish Capcom allowed the continuation for the remake of the MMX series. The stories, animated cut scenes, graphics, and music would've been great. I like Keijei Inafune incorpated Vava and X's entertwining journey. Man just imagine if Capcom brought him back to complete the remake for all series leading up to MMX9. We would've gotten a good story on Vava went through his MK version armors while X and Zero contimued their route.

this vid needs to be in the museum of internet. awesome work!

X4 terrible voice acting is my favourite part of x4 I love zeros VA

This is a real good video. You just got yourself a new subscriber

The SNES versions of the X3 songs always sounds better to me. It just hits harder.

X1 is a perfect videogame and I will die on that hill

01:54 Not only is this an awesome video retrospective but my man also knows how to do proper HipHop sample sequences 🎉

I came from the Ninja Gaiden series on NES. I don’t like the original Mega Man series but X I feel made up everything that lacked in the NES series for me. The music, graphics, sound FX and storytelling is classic and a attribution to the SNES improvement of It’s predecessor. Being able to charge all weapons and improve your armor including a game changing dash and just pure chaotic action is my lane. One will always be my personal favorite but X3 I probably replay the most.

mega man X, took me all of summer at my grandparents house, and did it the hard way, didn't even know there was a order or "weaknesses" to bosses.

X5 is still goated. The opening theme alone should have been adopted for the series.

MMX4's soundtrack was easily... **chef kiss**

Saw the intro, had to subscribe. This guy gets it

X and X5 are my favorite games in the series, ive replayed them so many times. Matter of fact, im gonna go play X right now. Cool video

Maybe not completely. Capcom posted a tweet that mentioned "Master Eguchi and the rest of the developers" hope you'll buy legacy collection. Now to be fair, Eguchi did not work on legacy collection, he was known for Battle Network. But it was his idea to bring the Mega Man content to the failed Exoprimal game and even there, he mentioned that Capcom had approached him and the "Mega Man Team" for this collaboration. There are more and more signs that Eguchi who is not Inafune, but is a massive fan of Mega Man and more than likely has the keys to the franchise right now are working on something. That could be MM12, it could be X9 or it could be something incredibly different. Capcom polls showed that fans want Mega Man and the team knows it, so we will be getting something new from them, perhaps even several different projects. I'm not willing to give up hope just yet - signs of a new game in the franchise are starting to appear.

I'm only 5mins in, but man this is excellent! Excited to watch the rest, thanks for making this

I'm fairly sure just exiting the level with escape works too to get the Hadoken in X1. At least I seem to remember always using escape and getting it. That being said, I had no idea you could cut off parts of bosses with the boomerang, dang!

@30:00 X isn't the leader of the maverick hunters, he is leader of the 17th unit.

Chill Penguin has the best theme song imo

Pretty good review dude pretty awesome.. not sure if x6 7 8 will be a pretty long review

"Talkin about that heat shimmer!" *air horns* both made me aggravated and got me to subscribe. Looks like you win this round Mr. KZfaqr

I loved this. This series has great memories for me. Megaman 8 had beautiful cutscenes

The Best Wars reference had me weak lol. ill sub you for that.

I appreciate you including the Japanese commercials.

X3 was so special to me. I got it on my birthday. It was fantastic with amazing features and great music. Later versions change the music which was not as good.

PART 2 FOR THE WIN!

I had mega man x on snes. It meant the world to me. Local Walmart had so many at one point it was on sale for 15.00. Cut some grass and held onto my chips until the next Walmart visit and copped instantly 😂😂😂 ... Great breakdown of the X series. I've never read the booklet. I always went to controller page to learn functions 😅 so the storyline breakdown of The entire video is superb. Rented x3 for ps1 had the game for 3 days I slept 7 hrs total That weekend. Nostalgia at its finest. You brought me back. Great watch. Subbed as well. Sidenote 🗣🗣🗣I need the link of the music or video to the commercial Break at 41:17 sec mark please!!!! It's a banger. Deserves to be on repeat 💯💯💯 Miami Mega signing out

I loved this video, very informative and it took me back to my early teen years. I wish you’d talked about the upgrades you can get on X4 via “cheat codes”: Black Armor Zero and Ultimate Armor X. I’d also loved to hear your opinion on why they changed the opening for X4 from Yukie Nakama’s “Makenai Ai ga Kitto Aru” to much less impressive instrumental music. Cheers!

I just wanna say from the jump... As I grew up with the Megaman and MMX games (in their days of modern relevance)... why do you want a new one? Why does anybody? I don't. I'm just gonna say what no other fans seem willing to admit... the modern industry would absolutely NOT make a good MMX game. Indie devs? Sure. AAA? Not a chance. They haven't gotten it right since MMX 4. I know 8 has its fans, but that game is just... okay, and "just okay" is not what we want out of this series, ye? Sometimes it's okay to leave a beloved franchise in the past. Go back and visit it often if you want, but let it have ended so they don't ruin it (looking at you Final Fantasy).

I just started the video but this is great, I'm doing Megaman x legacy right now. I played the first 3 all the time as a kid, i know the first one by heart. It's one of the greatest game ever!

I love the Japanese x3 music

You know, in the original MMX the boss rush was also stretched out over the stages.

He went maverick because in x4 if you look at the animation if you play as zero it will show that zero has the wily virus. When sigma smashes zeros gem thingy zeros virus gets sent to sigma and i think that’s why he became a maverick.

Funny thing is that love megaman x6 and 8.

New subscriber here. The “why would anyone wanna buy a single nut ( testicle)?“ got me.

I’m gonna be honest dude, a few of your criticisms towards X2 are you just needing to get good. You can dodge that attack from overdrive ostrich if you position yourself correctly, and you can get another bike by just backtracking a little bit. But yeah, X2 has its shortcomings.

that X2 Zero theme has been the alarm on my phone for decades! It's just too good

OK, did this guy just say that X3 is more balanced than X2? Seriously, the game where you can die in three hits at the beginning and if you have all the upgrades you can kill bosses in two hits. Yeah, that’s more balanced. C’mon man, I like X3 too but out of the first four games it is easily the most unbalanced.

Can't believe you left out the coolest part of x4. Black zero. Sure it's just a cosmetic but it's BADASS!!!

Good work on the video. Enjoyed and agreed with most of your comments. Subscribed.

Goated into deserves a like on its own

X was def cool, and I love his robo-hommies, but Protoman was always my #1. I'd give a kidney for a AAA Megaman turn-based RPG that spans the original to the newer iterations. Collecting new champs and pet-bots, leveling new teams with dual and multi-skills. Big boss battles with an intriguing story. Chrono Trigger with robots.. I can only hope.

My favorite games by far as a kid. Theres a remake? Duuuuuude!

i once died in first Vile fight even though it's supposed to not happen. but i'm not 100% sure since it was almost 30 years ago lol

MMX 1 is the first game I play on a new PC/GPU for no other reason than it's just the thing I do lol So the first stage is also my most played

Not sure if anyone has ever noticed or pointed this out, I never see this mentioned in any videos or articles, but they subtly preserved the W/Wily connection throughout MMX and MMZ series. Σ (Sigma) is a sideways W. ω (lowercase omega) is a rounded/curvy w. I never knew about the W cobra thing, but it makes it seem even more likely that their symbols reference the Wily W for villains.

Gonna be that guy, but have you seen the original Japanese voice acting for MMX4? Japan went through their growing pains with video game voice acting much quicker than English. For example Zero and Iris were voiced by seasoned anime voice actors Ryoutaro Okiayu and Yuko Mizutani (RIP) and while it was definitely a relic of Japanese anime voice acting in the 90s (Iris's voice is very high pitched naturally) you can tell a lot more effort was put in to that acting than it was across the Pacific. Hell Zero's voice actor hadn't changed from the main X games since X4.

X was really good, X2 was even better, but I love X3. Maybe because it allowed me to switch to the badass Zero for the first time, or combine tmbecause it allowed me to use X with Zero’s Sabre for the first time. But what I remember most from that game was Tunnel Rhino’s theme.

X4 is my favourite

un muy buen video! el algoritmo me sugirió tu canal y ha sido uno de los mejores contenidos que he visto relacionada con la saga de X! aplausos! 👏🏻

i swear if theres a 5 yr old who comes to this video and says: "oh yeah hes so sigma."

I’m digging the adult swim intermissions. You get a subscribe sir. I mean I was going to anyway because this is some nice content but still.