How Is Your SNES Gaming Going?

[dunpeal2064]

For no real reason, I'll share the route I have taken through this game since I was a kid:

Chill Penguin (Dash boots, makes the rest of the game go faster, easy choice)
Storm Eagle (Heart Tank thanks to boots, E-Tank, and Helm upgrade)
Flame Mammoth (Heart tank, E-tank, arm upgrade, boss is cake with tornado)

Now I'll hop back in Chill's stage really quick, just to snag the heart. So, 3 stages down, 3 armor pieces, 3 heart tanks, 2 e-tanks. Pretty hard to lose at this point.

Spark Mandrill (Can get heart tank with dash boots, LOLboss)
Armored Armadillo (heart tank, e-tank, another LOLboss thanks to spark)
Launch Octopus (heart tank)
Boomer Kuwanger (seaking missles make him easy)

And then, with a quick revisit to Boomer to use his own weapon to get a heart (this irritates me), and to spark for the last e-tank (and to hear that sweet music once more before heading into the final stages).

Optional: Hadouken

[SNESdrunk]

Speaking of cool little touches in the original Mega Man X, I love cutting off Flame Mammoth's trunk with the Boomerang Cutter.

Whoa, I had no idea you could even do that. That's awesome

[dunpeal2064]

Speaking of cool little touches in the original Mega Man X, I love cutting off Flame Mammoth's trunk with the Boomerang Cutter.

Whoa, I had no idea you could even do that. That's awesome

You can cut off Launch Octo's arms as well. And the cutter knocks Chameleon off the ceiling.

Someone on the inside must have really liked that cutter.

[Gunstar Green]

More proof that Boomer Kuwanger was the most badass original Maverick.

[SNESdrunk]

More proof that Boomer Kuwanger was the most badass original Maverick.

I think his disco maneuver makes that concrete.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Speaking of cool little touches in the original Mega Man X, I love cutting off Flame Mammoth's trunk with the Boomerang Cutter.

Whoa, I had no idea you could even do that. That's awesome

That's news to me too. As much as I complain about the easy bosses, Sigma was a challenge in the original Mega Man X. (Only in Mega Man 7 does Dr. Wily exceed that level of difficulty.) It is also cool that years after its release I am still discoveirng things about it. (It is probably my second favorite game in the series next to MMX4, BTW.)

[Gunstar Green]

One of my favorite things in the second game is using the Magnet Shot to knock Crystal Snail out of his shell and then dashing into it to knock it around the room and keep him from getting it back. He's a boss that you can literally troll, it's hilarious.

Speaking of cool little touches in the original Mega Man X, I love cutting off Flame Mammoth's trunk with the Boomerang Cutter.

Whoa, I had no idea you could even do that. That's awesome

That's news to me too. As much as I complain about the easy bosses, Sigma was a challenge in the original Mega Man X. (Only in Mega Man 7 does Dr. Wily exceed that level of difficulty.) It is also cool that years after its release I am still discoveirng things about it. (It is probably my second favorite game in the series next to MMX4, BTW.)

There's a sweet spot that makes him kind of a joke but yes, he's one of the harder Sigmas.

I think X3's final Sigma takes the cake thanks to his obscenely tiny hit box. His pattern is easy once you get it down but unless your aim is spot on it's an endurance match.

Really on the whole most X3 Mavericks have really lazy patterns but their levels are brutal until you're upgraded sufficiently. X traded in his armor for tissue paper at the beginning.

[MrPopo]

For no real reason, I'll share the route I have taken through this game since I was a kid:

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That's the exact route I've always taken. One of my buddies who introduced me to the game showed me that as the first three stages, and then the rest is just following the boss order and revisiting for Kuwanger items.

[Gunstar Green]

When I was a kid I always did Storm Eagle first. I don't know why because that level and boss fight is kind of a bitch without the boots. I guess I just liked his music a lot.

[MrPopo]

The whole game had an amazing soundtrack. I'm surprised there isn't a cover band for the game like Metroid Metal.