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Mega Man X4

I've beaten the game and I have mixed feelings on it.

Firstly, love playing as Zero. The way he uses his Z Saber is pretty cool, using various techniques that he takes from the bosses and whatnot. The one I am the biggest fan of is when he slashes his Z Saber all around him. But other then that, a lot of the techniques don't feel very useful. The blaster cannon and Rising fire attacks have to slow of a start up time for my taste and that dash attack seems pretty pointless to me as a lot of enemies can hit you before you can hit them with the attack. Double jump is useful, but not being able to use it out of an air dash kills its versatility to me, as you could do that with the airdashes in X3. Although the double jump is much easier to use then the up air dash in X3 where you had to tap up twice, and I swear it didn't work sometimes.

The Mavericks are all fine and fun. Except for that Beast looking thing and split mushroom. As well as the stages and music (except for the stupid speeder bike section). Cyber Peacock's theme was pretty cool sounding especially. Also, fuck the voice acting. Sigma sounds like a weasel rather then a badass like he should. Zero sounds prepubescent and I don't even know what's up with Iris and the Colonel's horrible acting with some British mixed in.

But that final level. Jesus that final level. This has got to be the hardest boss rush I've played in an X game and the most annoying final boss. You know the boss rush sucks? Because they only give you 2 E-tanks! Since PS1 classics don't have save states, that means if I want to conserve my E tanks for the Sigma fight, I am going to have to go out and grind lives so when I die I can come back at full health to fight some of these annoying bosses. Sigma isn't too bad in his first and second phase, but that final phase with the giant head and gun thing? Yeah fuck that too. It essentially becomes a game about where you stand and how to trigger easier situation to get out of and I swear it doesn't even work half of the time you want it to. Having to deal with Sigma head sucking in debris randomly hitting you and blowing back out all while carefully avoiding spikes that take down a majority of your health is not fun to me.

So where do I rate it on the scale of other X games? I... don't know honestly. X1 very fun all around but lacks that mechanics later games have to make the game feel more fluid. X2 was not as fun but still enjoyable, however Sigma was too easy. I don't even remember if X3 was that fun because they cranked up the difficulty way to much on everything. And X4 was annoying in particular places....

I'd have to put X4 on the lower part of my list if I had to make on though.