Together Retro: Mega Man X

[ExedExes]

In late game, the entire affair becomes a joke. With Storm Eagle beaten, the factory gets crazy easy (despite the increased blackout effect) and the ice cracker makes Spark Mandrill boring to fight against.

There's three versions of the bubble boss? I've only ever come across one.

It's just useful to have the Storm Tornado at that point anyway, tons of damage, even powered up, boss is done fast.

Going to start X2 today. I've beaten it in the past but there's a lot of stuff to do.

So I have beaten all the robot bosses and am moving on to the Sigma stages. I have 2 E tanks, all the upgrades minus the hadoken and three extra hearts. Should I spend time grabbing more of these to tackle the Sigma stages?

I'd suggest at least the other 2 sub tanks. Sigma's fight takes me at least 2. It doesn't hurt to have that extra health. They're easy to fill at Armored Armadillo stage in-between Sigma Stages with the powered up Rolling Shield (thanks MrPopo for that!)

[BogusMeatFactory]

Thanks for the tips. As for the bubble boss, I didn't know he was so difficult. I tackled him second after the penguin. All I really did was dodge his lightning, wait for him to bounce around and land next to me and then just button mash the arm cannon. Took me only 2 tries to beat him.

[noiseredux]

Thanks for the tips. As for the bubble boss, I didn't know he was so difficult. I tackled him second after the penguin. All I really did was dodge his lightning, wait for him to bounce around and land next to me and then just button mash the arm cannon. Took me only 2 tries to beat him.

I can't tell if it's truly that the DOS port is more difficult, but it looks different than vids I watched of the SNES version. In the DOS port he seems to like dive-bomb straight at you more often. Try to find a vid of the DOS level if possible.

[ExedExes]

Started X2 today. I forgot how good this game really is. Dat music, everywhere.

I forgot about the X-Hunters disappearing the longer you take to destroy them. So I only have 2 Zero parts. Looks like a tough battle later on.

[Flake]

Started X2 today. I forgot how good this game really is. Dat music, everywhere.

I forgot about the X-Hunters disappearing the longer you take to destroy them. So I only have 2 Zero parts. Looks like a tough battle later on.

But it's better than the one that happens in X5.

[noiseredux]

ok so I attempted Eagle. His stage is still super easy, but I had trouble beating him w/ X-Blaster. So I want back to Spark. Manned up and took down mid-boss. Got the level memorized (again), and after a few attempts, breezed through. Took him down easy w/ ice.

Either the DOS port feels harder than the SNES version (unlikely) or I've gotten worse as a retro gamer since I last played this on SNES (likely). Then again, X4 felt like a breeze compared to this (until I got to Sigma) a few years back.

But F, I'm having a good time. The "challenge" is making it really really fun for me to get back into this.

[noiseredux]

took out Armor Armadillo. His stage is really easy. And so is he w/ the right weapon. The is the first stage I noticed the DOS version music not holding up. It uses mostly MIDI. Can't pull this track off.

EDIT: Beat Mr. Octopus too. Stage was a bit tougher than I recalled, but he was a breeze. Took him down first try. Softened him up w/ X-Buster and then did him in w/ Armadillo's weapon.

[TSTR]

Soooo I beat Chill Penguin after finally remembering I could use the walls. This took me days.

do i even vidya bro

[o.pwuaioc]

Soooo I beat Chill Penguin after finally remembering I could use the walls. This took me days.

do i even vidya bro

The thing that's cool about MMX is, among hundreds of other things, the first stage is a "tutorial" stage without feeling like one. When you fight that first wasp-thingy, it drops you down, and you have to figure out that you can climb walls. If you forget afterward, it's your fault.

I think it was Miyamoto who said that the game should show you how to do things by good level design, rather than by forced tutorial stages.

[Gunstar Green]

Storm Eagle was the first boss I beat back in the day, which is insane to me in retrospect because without the dash boots both the level and the fight are really rough.

Excepting the Sigma fight which can be a pain, especially without the hadoken, I never really found anything in the original Mega Man X terribly difficult and I even consider it the easiest traditional Mega Man game (excepting maybe Game Boy Mega Man 2 which is a complete joke and NES Mega Man 5 with its insanely broken item-drop RNG and absurdly powerful Mega Buster). Maybe it was just because I had cut my teeth on the less forgiving classic series long before Mega Man X showed up.

X2 ramps the difficulty up a bit and X3 really starts you off super-weak making it by far the hardest of the original 3. The final form of Sigma in that game also requires a lot of patience and pixel-perfect shooting. I hate that guy so much.

Started X2 today. I forgot how good this game really is. Dat music, everywhere.

I forgot about the X-Hunters disappearing the longer you take to destroy them. So I only have 2 Zero parts. Looks like a tough battle later on.

But it's better than the one that happens in X5.

It's a fun fight, but not as badass as saving Zero and having him slaughter the clone. I love that moment in X2. It's especially great since Sigma is talking up the copy like it's the real deal and Zero just bursts in and ruins its day.