[Kiwami]

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Originally Posted by Talisman

The 4 Remake does bring the tone closer to the original trilogy, for what it's worth. Less 90s Action Hero stunts.

I like that because both have their place in gaming history for different reasons. Original for the campy action horror setting that worked really well, remake for when you actually want to be afraid and have a genuine scary experience.

@Topic: I actually played through the entire MegaMan X series recently. The original on the SNES from 1993 is one of my favorite games ever, but I never played the rest until now.

And well, it’s a journey. The first game is a masterpiece, 2 and 3 truck behind it, lovable but never quire reaching the heights of the original, then comes 4 and brings in a new spark of brilliance with a new system as it was first on the Playstation. Really nice graphics, fully animated video cutscenes (with a lovably bad, cheesy dub) gameplay as fun as the OG and basically two different campaigns to choose from.

After that I was hyped. 4 more games to play, what could go wrong? And oh boy, did things go wrong. X5 and X6 are horrible. Some of the worst games I’ve ever played. I have no idea how they screwed those up so badly. They are actively designed to annoy the player, just a pain to play. Which is baffling sine they already had the formula figured out by then, but instead of building on top of it they seemingly wanted to invent a catastrophe in order to forcefully end the series. Twice.

Then comes X7 which also sucks, it’s the first "3D" game on the PS2 in the series, and it's a wonky mess. But, unlike the two before, somehow playable, you can have fun with this. You can laugh at how bad it is.

Lastly, X8, and that one's actually really good. Still 3D in style but the gameplay is 2D again. And you have a solid MegaMan game here. Kind of cool actually. You can appreciate what new things they brought to the table; it's a genuinely well made game.

So if I had to rank these in order from best to worst:

X
X4
X8
X2
X3
X7
X5
X6

The series is sold in two packages nowadays as a "Legacy Collection", Part 1 includes games X-X4 and Part 2 comes with X5-X8.

Part 1 is a must have, has the two best games in the series and the other two are nice for the SNES-nostalgia alone.

Part 2 - just don't. If you get it for dirt cheap do it for X8 but never, ever touch X5, X6 or X7. Just don't, trust me.