Instead of getting special weapons from bosses, he’s given new techniques for his sword. To be fair, Zero takes a bit of getting used to, but overall, he’s pretty fun to play. This means that combat is entirely short ranged, and in a side-scroller where you’re not allowed to touch an enemy due to risk of disease, this can spell trouble. Whereas in X3, he primarily used a typical buster, in X4, he’s restricted to a Z-saber. Here, he basically get his own separate plotline, but goes through essentially the same stages. Zero was available in X3, but he could only be called in for segments of stages, and would warp out the moment you hit a boss. What is probably the most exciting addition to X4 is the full, unrestricted ability to play as Zero. Trains are my favourite setting for video game levels, but do they work for Mega Man X4? Hmmm. That’s fine, I guess, it at least doesn’t have as much backtracking as X3 did. Even though there’s a tidy 16 items, they’re not evenly allocated to the stages. To help you, each level contains a heart capsule that increases your overall health, as well as two e-tanks, a weapons refill tank, and a third type that increases the number of lives you start out with after you game over. There’s eight mavericks that you must take out before you’re put through a final gauntlet that leads to the end boss. The formula remains the same, so you can sing along. Yet it still contains all the buster charging, dash jumping, and wall humping that was present on the older consoles. It’s just difficult to tell where the ground ends, specifically. Mostly, this has to do with how the ground and platforms are slightly tilted in an attempt to provide a better illusion of depth, which I’ve never liked in sidescrollers. I feel like there’s a bit of a loss of precision that was present in the pixellated SNES. The graphics look a lot more detailed than the SNES, but I’m not sure I appreciate that. It’s still a 2D side scroller, and no real 3D has been attempted. Largely, it feels like this was an attempt to translate the classic gameplay to a new engine.
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X4 marks the biggest evolution the series has seen since its inception, but less has changed than you may think. There’s actually fully animated cutscenes in this one, and while the voices are legendarily horrendous, they somewhat make up for the fact that the plot is one huge burning trash compactor. Hey, do you think Sigma’s involved? Just a thought.Īnyway, X and Zero have to blast and slash their way through eight maybe-mavericks in an effort to stop Repliforce from claiming independence. Repliforce got labelled as a maverick organization because… something to do with a crashed floating city. So, this time around X and his BFF Zero are up against an organization of reploid robots known as Repliforce. (Image source: ) NEXT GENERATION FIGHTING ROBOT The only addition was some animated cutscenes that kind of sucked.įor X4, however, it was time to take advantage of all those extra bits and really push the series into the next generation. The 32-bit versions weren’t improved by any degree, though. I guess the low cost of optical media or siren call of the 32-bit systems were too much for them, because disk based versions of Mega Man X3 were released alongside the SNES cartridge. So was Capcom going to pull the same thing with the SNES and release up to Mega Man X6? That’s pretty far past the launch of the SNES and even came after the release of the inaugural Mega Man X game. There were six games of the classic Mega Man series released on the NES, the last one arriving as late as 1994.
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