Playing the Mega Man X series. Man does it take a nosedive. The first three are awesome. Then the fourth one is awesome except the voice acting is awful, which isn’t a game breaker but it’s the first signs of cracks in the series. Then I played a modified x5 that removes interruptions from the navigator. (Why tf would a mega man game even need a navigator). It was less awesome but still very fun. Then X6 sucks a horse ball. It’s just so obviously rushed and half finished. It’s buggy, the level design is hideous and tedious like it tries as hard as possible to keep you from having fun. The bosses suck and are either push overs in most cases or impossibly infuriating. It’s just awful and it isn’t fun. No way was it play tested. It’s hard for all the wrong reasons, bad camera, shitty controls etc. A shame because it could have been good if they had finished it properly. Zeros control schemes and attack combos are fun but I hardly use them because the game is so ridiculous I find myself just using xs ultimate armor and nova striking my way through everything just to get it over with. The soundtrack is fantastic as always.

X7 is just as bad. It’s less infuriating but just as annoying. I find myself dyinh because of the camera more than anything. Playing as zero is fun though. But the story is so stupid. When did X go from being a bad ass warrior who said little but blasted alot into a whiny little tweet who only wants to bitch about how much he fights and how violent things are. Doesn’t he know he’s in a mega man game? And the voices are terrible. Just awful. I would just stop at x5. It’s ending works as an ending and it was meant to be the ending, but then there’s the monkey wrench of x8 being good again. Decent voices that actually fit the characters for the first time and actually portray them how I always imagined. Xs character is back, he still has reservations about fighting but he’s far less annoying about it. The game is actually good. Curse my inability to mentally cope with just skipping from 5 to 8.