Recent reviews by imp

megaman x with a gauge system. if you like megaman x 100% buy it

pros:
- music is easily the best thing about this game, amazed there's no soundtrack playlist in youtube
- pixel art and art direction are great
- stages are good
- both characters feel great and are balanced
- blue guy (forgot his name) feels great to explore maps with (red girl not so much since you're so limited to dashing)
- hard mode feels nice
- the game doesn't have weak points thank god, so most bosses actually feel GOOD to fight

cons:
- weapon variety are mostly are just reskins with little to no changes after your first few
- terrible translation. i had zero idea what the ♥♥♥♥ was going on in my first play through. they were speaking gibberish at one point
- very buggy; catch myself hitting invisible walls in the middle of walking, can't jump down floating platforms, you take more damage from spikes if you jump in the middle of the hurt animation, etc

nitpicks:
- main gun gauge can be hard to read as blue guy mid-combat
- cutscenes felt like a waste 80% of the time, probably rushed
- game ends anti-climatically with no true end unlocks
- some stages are a slog to go through simply due to the moving platforms you cannot skip. i counted how long i couldn't do anything for one of the stages and it took 20 seconds just so i could skip a few platforms with my 2 jumps and pseudo-up dash eventually as red girl. for the most part blue guy can skip most of it pretty quickly due to his gauge mechanic

i f**kin' love megaman but even i can admit this is a bad port. input delay ruins any good this port has. the artbook is amazing and the new soundtrack is great, but the input delay is just terrible. just get the you-know-what for the SNES ports and play it that way. only get this if you want X challenge mode and the unreleased concept art

ZX meets gunvolt meets sonic. pretty decent game, very rough around the edges and the story isn't great. spritework, i'm not a fan of personally. however, the gameplay and music are fantastic and make up for most of the cons.

megabros we are eating good

doggy dog doodoo, try again in 3 years

200 hours playtime (counting the betas and outside steam) and i don't have a single memory about this game

fun

after 3k+ hours of gameplasy i can confirm FFXIV is kusoge
translation note: kusoge means ♥♥♥♥ game