Mega Man X8 is good but Axl isn't a good character.

[RollCaskett]

Just saying...

[Spark☆]

X7 was a terrible start, but X8 drastically improved Axl. Not only have they improved on his personality as a whole by giving him a more cocky style, but his voice acting is great in both English and Japanese. The real issue is that they didn't know what to do with him once Red Alert was down. But I honestly feel like they nailed that with the new-gen Reploid plot.

My only hope is that they expand even further on that should an X9 ever be made. Axl just kinda... disappeared, and they didn't even bother with properly acknowledging him in Zero or ZX. I mean, Model Albert? Gimme a break.

[jchaosmaster]

I really thought axel was a fine when released in X7. Axel i think was meant to be a voice of cheers. In the story X had lost some hope in world. "which after 6 other games is understandable." Plus in x7 i thought it was cool he got the different weapons. He was a great chracater in Command mission. I didn't like him in X8 but that more do to the ending beeing kinda messed up. I undtersand they couldn't really end the story because of the Zeros games but they had to make possitive they could do more games.

[DP9A]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από ARG Red:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Tron:

ZXA? As in ZX Advent? As in the game that explictly states it's not Model Axl but Model Albert?

That isn't really the point, but rather how well a character with his abilities worked in a game specifically designed for him.

Model A doesn't play like Axl at all. Axl is Bass with a copy ability, Model A is just your good ol' megaman character that jumps and shoots with next to no twists.

[Great Duck]

The young blood angle is exactly what the series needed, though- after X4 broke X and Zero we needed someone black and white and spouting Super Nintendo quips to offset them a bit. The variety in the application of his weapons sets him apart from X enough- it would just be a little more organic if X wasn't effectively Buster-only in X8 as most of his aresenal is trash.

[JohnnyTheWolf]

I like Axl, even though Capcom really did not do the character justice by having him debut in a subpar game and then failing to give him much to do in X8. You would think that a game revolving about Reploids sharing the same copy ability as him would be a great opportunity to explore Axl's origins - like X4 and 5 did with Zero - and pick up where X7 left off, but no.

[Great Duck]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από JohnnyTheWolf:

You would think that a game revolving about Reploids sharing the same copy ability as him would be a great opportunity to explore Axl's origins - like X4 and 5 did with Zero - and pick up where X7 left off, but no.

You'd think. The game never really gives the player a sense of what Axl's copying is supposed to do. So it's just relgated to out of the way bits.

[NØNE/Dragon]

Axl is a good character. The problem lies in that in X7 we don't get to see too much about him other than he ran away from Red Alert and the fact that he has the ability to copy. And in X8 is shown that he was a prototype of the new-gen reploids. But other than that, he didn't get enough character development.

[matohin]

axl may not be the best character in terms of writing (just like pretty much every x series character lol) but he's the best character to play as in the game, at least for me. really fun and usually cool at bosses aswell. also this is a necro because why not

[funewchie]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Great Duck:

The young blood angle is exactly what the series needed, though- after X4 broke X and Zero we needed someone black and white and spouting Super Nintendo quips to offset them a bit. The variety in the application of his weapons sets him apart from X enough- it would just be a little more organic if X wasn't effectively Buster-only in X8 as most of his aresenal is trash.

You're not wrong.

Once Axl appeared, you can actually see X and Zero both start to improve gradually.
At the start of X7, Zero's kinda grouchy and X... is honestly a bit of a crybaby.

But by the time of X8, notice that X's is back to his usual self ("I don't like to fight, but I'll do what must be done"), and Zero's gotten some of his cocky attitude back?

It's kind of a cool thought that Axl brought some life back into those two.

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από NØNE/Dragon:

Axl is a good character. The problem lies in that in X7 we don't get to see too much about him other than he ran away from Red Alert and the fact that he has the ability to copy. And in X8 is shown that he was a prototype of the new-gen reploids. But other than that, he didn't get enough character development.

To be fair, X7's writing is a bit hit or miss at times.

Such as the intro stage. Maybe some details were left out, but the way it's presented...

Zero is responding to Maverick incident, sees a young reploid fleeing from a giant mechaniloid out for blood(oil?), demands he stop running and discuss if he, the victim, is responsible for this outbreak...
...and then after stopping the rampaging mechaniloid, arrests the young reploid for the high crime of ....running for his life?

(What is this, the Stallone movie version of Judge Dredd? "You hid in a trash can to save your life from the massive shootout, so you go to prison for 20 years")
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Not even getting into the whole "X, you have to make me a Hunter."
...With Signas, the actual commander, standing 6 feet away. Um, as top commander, don't you think Signas gets the final say in the matter?

X: "Not just anyone can be a Hunter!"
...Really, X? What about those pathetic officers in X6 who got the snot shot out of them by the intro boss? The hunters Double killed? Green Biker Dude?

Or the officers that caused Shield Sheldon to commit suicide in the past, because they misjudged him to be the maverick (instead of the scientist he guarded, who went maverick).
All of which happened as X was on his way to correct the situation.
(Please tell me X at least gave those officers one heck of a dressing down?)

[Lars]

I like Axl