Mega Man X6 - Part 3: Darkness. TRUE DARKNESS.

Welcome to Part 3 of Mega Man X6! Who turned out the lights?! What a nightmare.
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[@RodsRetroplays]

"Who turned out the lights?! What a nightmare." Ted must be writing the video's description again.

[@derpboyzero7669]

Unrelated, but I never, ever understood why X, Zero, and EVEN Alia in their mug shots look so pissed. Imagine how much their teeth hurts gritting like that so often in conversations.

[@WavemasterAshi]

+Derpboy Zero Look at what game they're in - you'd be pissed too.

[@RRaccoon99]

FYI, the word Mijinion is actually a play on the japanese word "mijinko" which means Daphnia. Daphnia is a type of Water Flea. That doesn't mean he can't kick your ass.

[@PutoML]

+RRaccoon99 Mijinion and mijinko. Not mai.

[@TheChaoticBlur]

+RRaccoon99 That was educational Thanks man, i learned something new here today. *Thumbs up*

[@The_Chosen_Heretic]

I did some research too. Apparently Daphnia are really fucking resilient. I heard they can actually survive in the vacuum of space. I guess that explains the infinity relation ish? Since the universe is infinite.

[@LilacDownDeep]

I know it's late, but you're thinking of the Tardigrade, which is from a completely different species subset. Their nonscientific name is called 'water bear' though so I can see the mistake.

[@SB-ex8nt]

Ah, I get it. Water fleas. And there's no shortage of fleas. Almost like there an infinite number of fleas! Infinity Mijinion.

[@DarkEinherjar]

I already said this in a previous part, but I'll say it again here because that darkness is really annoying... How to avoid darkness in Rainy Turtloid's stage: enter Shield Sheldon's stage once, then leave. Rainy Turtloid's stage will no longer be dark (you'll have to deal with clones that keep spawning and flying at you, but it's way more bearable than the darkness). How to avoid darkness in Commander Yammark's stage: enter Rainy Turtloid's stage once, then leave. Commander Yammark's stage will have normal (not acid) rain now, instead of darkness. Another way to avoid the darkness altogether: do NOT enter Infinity Mijinion's stage until you're done with both Commander Yammark's and Rainy Turtloid's stages, and don't go back to those stages once you're done with them.

[@TheFa54]

+DarkEinherjar Wait, there was darkness in Commander Yammark? In my two playthroughs (ohgod) I played this stage first and didn't get dark, so I guess the Nightmare effect doesn't affect the first stage. It's still BS though.

[@DarkEinherjar]

+TheFa54 Going to Infinity Mijinion's stage is what triggers the darkness effect. You can see, at 4:32, which two stages become red after Mijinion is defeated.

[@pforgottonsoul]

i only found it annoying in commander yammark stages, it wasn't much of an issue with rainy turtloid since there weren't as many spikes to avoid.

[@esmooth919]

DarkEinherjar the problem is, you have to go back to both those stages for upgrades

[@DarkEinherjar]

@@esmooth919 Then don't touch Infinity Mijinion's stage until you're done with them.

[@Aaron-Magica17]

It actually seems like they beta-tested X6 with the ULTIMATE ARMOR

[@esmooth919]

If they did, then X would have been able to get past that damn spike wall at the very beginning of Gate's Lab! Needless to say, this game wasn't playtested at all

[@RenzyTheGreat]

Never thought I'd hear DragonBall Super references in a Megaman X6 playthrough lol

[@Knuxfan24]

If you weren't aware, someone's actually beaten Blaze Heatnix's stage with only the Buster, no Armour & without taking damage. It's fucking insane, some of the shit needed to attack the Nightmare Snakes is crazy.

[@marcellosilva9286]

If you don't mind, can you give us a link, pretty please?

[@Knuxfan24]

+Marcello Silva I'm not at my PC right now & a link may get filtered. Just search Megaman X6 Blaze Heatnix Perfect Run & you should hopefully find it.

[@Zanzuki93]

+Marcello Silva it was done by hideofbeast and it is absolutely inspiring :D

[@papershadow]

+Knuxfan24 There was also a run by a KZbin user named "Kevvl", and he's done similar runs for every X game as I'm aware. Perfect Run series similar to Roahm Mythril's runs of the Classic series.

[@marcellosilva9286]

I saw it, absolutely breath-taking. Guy's a professional. He said Gate 2 took more than 170 tries, he has the patience of a saint, too!

[@IronTorch20]

9:00 You're assuming they actually play-tested this. I still say Gate 2 is the worst stage.

[@korruption6]

"Hmm hmm hmmie hmm... Alright, the title screen works (I think). Game's good to go!"

[@icrsicarussmith]

From what I know, the Nightmare effect, (despite the red markings) never turns off meaning that after a bit, every level will be affected and the only thing to do after you visit every area and want/need to go back to one is "picking your poison" between the two nightmare effects each level can contain.

[@KimJongTsun]

Actually the red windows on the level select screen being an indicator of which stage has a nightmare effect is a misconception. The red window just means the active nightmare effect has changed.

[@jordantolkar2586]

Yeah, it basically gives you a warning for the next time you visit that particular stage. When you play and leave infinity Mijinion's stage, both Commander Yanmark and Rainy Turtloid's icons turn red, which mean that the darkness nightmare effect is waiting for you the next time you visit those stages. Meaning it's *STORED* on the stages PERMANENTLY until you change the nightmare effects by playing a different stage that affects a particular stage.

[@tylerspradley8618]

@@jordantolkar2586 but the game doesn't tell the player that. I played this game and couldnt figure it out. Its a bad design choice that stopped me from playing this game cuz so much shit is hard to dodge cuz of the dumb Nightmare effect. This game is BAD as bricks. No amount of explaining the Nightmare system for this game will make it better. The damage has been done. Which is why Capcom went downhill since then. Megaman X is donzo

[@AmateurPsychologist]

Guys, just to make the Nightmare system clear: the red character portraits on the stage select only notify you about stages where Nightmare's souls have regenerated, not specifically which Nightmare is affecting which stage. Each Maverick stage will affect two other stages in terms of which Nightmare effect will occur. Example: visiting Mijinion's stage creates darkness in Turtloid and Yammark's stages. You can replace Nightmare effects by visiting another stage - this creates the red character portraits, but only to notify you about Nightmare regeneration.

[@jordantolkar2586]

Yeah, the problem is that the game doesn't explicitly tell you that, so more often than not, I looked up guides to decipher that stuff, but it at least makes things more tolerable.

[@ZeroKnight95]

The reason why the Nightmare Darkness was triggered was because Johnny went through Infinity Mijinion's stage. It's also my most hated nightmare effect in the entire game. Because of that, I generally try to go after Commander Yammark and Rainy Turtloid before taking on Infinity Mijinion.

[@Megamanexe]

+Zero's Channel (Ultimate Maverick Hunter) In a sense the nightmare effects triggers depending what order you defeat the Maverick bosses, despite there being red around them. So in a sense sort of like X1 method of stage effecting others, just for x6 it is to annoy the player > .

[@esmooth919]

What the fuck made them think that was a good idea?! Dark ass stages with spikes and pits

[@ZeroKnight95]

L-Y3T They were seduced by the "dark" side. :P

[@dmas-uncut8450]

My personal least favorite, and the only one I really don't like is Yammark's Nightmare effect. Oh boy, if you thought X was bad before then that effect makes him nearly impossible to play when those damn bugs show up. Sheldon's stage isn't so bad even with it, but I can't imagine Blaze Heatnix's stage, which is already much worse as him than Zero.

[@Comkill117]

I still love “Gosh John, it’s like you’ve never kidnapped anyone before.”

[@HigakiRinne]

"It's like... PRIMAL TERMPERING" Somebody's been having a bit too much XIV.

[@SilverPwns]

Not the donuts. NOT THE GIANT KILLER DONUTS!

[@IWasAPerson1]

Alright, so about the nightmare system, I finally figured out what the deal with it is. It's not completely random, but the way that the game explains it and any guide explains it is so misleading that it might as well be flat out wrong. The biggest thing is that once a nightmare effect hits a stage, it never goes away. The red icons only indicate that a nightmare effect has been changed or added to a stage and each stage triggers two specific nightmare effects in two stages. Each stage can have one of two nightmare effects (for example, Rainy Turtloid's either going to have the awful lighting problems Johnny had or the X or Zero holograms, thank god the effects don't stack). So, for example, Johnny triggered the lighting thing for Rainy Turtloid's stage. That'll never go away and will always be there unless he goes to the stage which sets off the hologram X and Zero nightmare effect in which case it'll get changed. The guides are right on that count. But keep in mind that the nightmare effects remain even if they don't show up on the map as red stages since the red markers only show stages where a nightmare effect has changed, not where there is a nightmare effect. It feels incredibly random but there is a set pattern to it, it's just that the game has a bullshit way of dealing with it. And if you have to read a guide to know what a stage is going to do then it's even more bullshit.

[@progamer2009]

+IWasAPerson It should also be noted that certain nightmare effects can be dealt with using specific special weapons and most nightmare effects can make a stage section nearly impossible to traverse.

[@truercker13]

@@progamer2009 Yeah like those little robot dragonflies in Blaze Heatnik’s stage can be destroyed with Yanmark’s special weapon I believe. Late reply I know sorry 😅

[@roserave5632]

For those wondering, the darkness is triggered by beating Infinity Mijinion, and the X and Zero holograms are from Shield Sheldon.

[@MMetelli]

God damn do I hate the Yamark Nightmare with X. Those pain in the ass bugs always get in the way of my shots. And they play tested it with the Ultimate Armor X. I don't think it was play tested with Zero either.

[@ShadowkingSonic]

As I said before, the Infinity Mijinion nightmare on Turtloid's stage is the last nightmare to affect the stage, therefore it will be there until you get another nightmare. Iirc, Shield Sheldon's nightmare can affect this stage, so if you hadn't played Mijinion's stage, you'd be getting that. In addition, if you had entered and left Sheldon's stage right before going into Turtloid's stage, you'd have Sheldon's nightmare there.

[@tylerpancake780]

Infinity mijinion is based on a daphnia, a type of water flea that can survive extreme conditions (hence the infinity in Infinity mijinion). The mijinion part of the name derives from the Japanese word Mijinko, which means Daphnia. Thank you Megaman wiki

[@GoGojiraGo]

"Mijinion" is the Japanese name for the daphnia, or water flea.

[@SnesRulez]

I think there are two types of nightmare effect in each level, one which always activates everytime you beat a certain maverick and another one which activates only if you have the red portrait. That's why some nightmare effect always seem to appear despite not having the red portrait

[@circledude2362]

That "Donut" is called a nightmare snake.

[@reversemanjr1899]

Infinity Mijinion is based of a Water Flea. You can secretly fight his brother, Möbius Tick in Megaman X10 if do the button combination for a hadouken on the title screen.

[@Icarus975]

+ReversemanJr Megaman X10?

[@LucidPhoton]

Okay Clement at least you changed up the "I hate this game" statement. Now you just sound bored XD.

[@ThatEntityGirl]

The nightmare effect DOES have a pattern, and isn't random. When Alia is explaining how it works, she specifically says that the stage is red when there's a CHANGE in the nightmare effect there, NOT when there's just a nightmare effect there currently. As in if you see a stage that isn't red in the stage select when it was red previously, that means the nightmare effects there haven't changed and are still the same effects that got there before when the stage last turned red. And a change in a stage's nightmare effects doesn't mean that the nightmare effects are turned on/off, it means that one or more nightmare effects have turned on/off.

[@Errox025]

*Sees this part's title* *Shakes fist* XEHANOOOOOOOOORT!!!!!!!

[@enigma6845]

You Mean Ansem: Seeker Of Darkness, Right?

[@NaiblistheCurious1]

+Enigma Same Person. Just Xehanort's Heartless.

[@TheMaestroMizerous]

+Errox025 All shall be extinguished!!!

[@Errox025]

Enigma Xehanort, Ansem SoD, Xemnas,... They're all basically the same guy with the same Darkness fetish.

[@misterspoo7068]

+Errox025 lol yep

[@CrimsonMoonM]

The red highlight on the stage selection screen is actually just an indicator of when a NEW nightmare effect has been added to the stage. The effect will remain even after the red coloration disappears until you add another nightmare effect to the stage by visiting another stage.

[@Ultrapyre]

I would've made a Kingdom Hearts reference, but I see I've been kept in the dark about the upload times. *rimshot* But good grief, Rainy Turtleloid's stage is absolute bullshit when that advanced darkness is in effect. Not to mention it seems to activate whenever the heck it wants.

[@omegazeroINFI]

fun fact, that 3rd donut actually doesnt loop. it does go to the top eventually if you dont kill the boss. also, x has an easy way to deal with them without cheats. falcon armor sharkplayer charge weapon. a couple of those will drain them like zeros giga.

[@dbstewart86]

With the teleportation issue mentioned @ 4:00, I like to think that they teleport around as beams of light going through satellites and the hostage reploids had some kind of power ranger style wrist teleportation devices that was destroyed and X/Zero are giving handing them out so they can teleport out. And that each boss has a built in area-of-effect radar jammer and you just "happen" to find them in the boss room after "looking" for them by proceeding through their stage. Then after they blow up you can finally teleport back out. It's a lot to think about, but it makes more sense/feels less frustrating to me.

[@SuperAirsoftGuy87]

Anyone else notice that Illumina's face looks like G1 Megatron?

[@omicronnero2346]

I Always thought for some reason Illumina kinda looked a bit like Big O, but I can see the Megatron-esque appearance.

[@Comkill117]

The pretenders background in Infinity Mijinion’s stage has something that looks like Megatron’s head too.

[@scrubbleague6217]

Regarding Clement’s statement about the pathway ending on the 4th donut fight in Blaze heatnix’s stage It does not loop. You can actually reach the end of that pathway while still fighting the boss and if that happens you might as well give up because it’s almost effin impossible to hit the green orbs. I’ve done it twice while playing this stage as X.

[@Scorpionspear77]

Johnny, the darkness effect only appears after Infinity Mijinion is beaten according to the MMKB. If you take on Rainy Turtloid before that, you don't have to worry about this darkness. Be careful- it can show up in Commander Yanmark's stage too.

[@Ultrapyre]

+Scorpionspear77 Does the game ever tell you that? I doubt the poor soul that made up a guide for this game had the guts to go through all that trial and bloody-tear-soaked error to deduce that on his/her own.

[@DarkSamusFan11]

Mega Man X6: the game that cheats you so hard that in order to get enjoyment from it, you must cheat back. Which, if I do, I'm activating the Black Zero code for the buffs he gets.

[@thunderguyer]

Is Blaze Heatnix the inspiration for Falzar?

[@ThatEntityGirl]

X can actually decimate the red donuts in Blaze Heatnix's stage if you use the charged up version of Metal Shark Player's weapon.

[@esmooth919]

That makes sense...

[@arkxlonginus1521]

That's what I did as well. Giving those donuts a good Metal Storm Eagle-"Raging Cuckoo"-impression. :D

[@michaelmay8393]

I found that as x the charged weapon from infinity mijinion also works, but it's still a stupid mini boss

[@DarkEinherjar]

Fun fact: Rainy Turtloid may be one of the easiest Mavericks in the normal difficulty, but in Xtreme, he's the hardest of the eight and one of the hardest bosses in the game! In Xtreme Mode, he already rolls twice as fast from the beginning of the fight, and the crystals on his back regenerate very fast and regenerate separately, making Turtloid hard to damage. In addition to that, he uses Meteor Rain as a desperation attack when low on health, which showers meteors all over the battlefield (same as X's charged version of the weapon). The fact that Sub-Tanks are very hard to refill in Xtreme Mode (enemies don't drop health or weapon energy) makes it even worse.

[@dmas-uncut8450]

Yeah, him and his stage gave me hell. Those damn blocking Monbandos while the acid rain is draining my health, treacherous jumps and wall climbing above bottomless pits while bombarded with Sea Attackers, and Turtloid himself, with his barely-possible to dodge attacks. But I beat it as X, and it was goddamn satisfying.

[@fisherdotogg]

The section with the purple fire does end, and it gets harder when it does because while the fire stop ascending, the big stupid donut thing will rise on top of you because there is only the one platform next to the exit to stand on. At that point you have to hope you can kill it before contact damage from it kills you.

[@MsRafael345]

Well, yeah because you went to infinity mijinion's stage first. the nightmare activates based on the enemies and stages you visit. it's kinda like the same effect in MMX when destroying an specific maverick influences another's maverick effect only that in MMX6 is like 6 times more punishing(somehow this makes me think that that was the original idea for MMX)

[@MicharionAQ]

I have learned quite a bit about both X5 and X6. Not that this knowledge actually changes the fact that they really didn't think some things through. To answer Ted's question from X5 the level affects the bosses health and at level four you are given a choice of a health expansion or a weapon energy expansion, at level 8 you get that and the choice of a part that can be equipped to Zero or X and cause effects on them that are all beneficial with each part being either associated with the health or energy expansion. The Nightmare Phenomena are kind of interesting in that they only seem to be purely random. Beating a certain Maverick attaches that Nightmare effect to certain stages and when they have multiple to choose from it will probably default to the last stage beaten. In this run Johnny went after Shield Sheldon first which would have given Rainy Turtloid Nightmare Mirror but since the last one that affects Rainy Turtloid was Infinity Mijinion he got Nightmare Dark. The stage being red will randomly choose from the Nightmare effects that stage has and could possibly give you one you don't have a weapon to counter. So if you know what you are doing which you probably do now you can make the Nightmare Phenomena your bitch. Thankfully the stages can only have one Nightmare Effect barring three Mavericks which have set Nightmare Phenomena and so you choose which one is the lesser of two evils.

[@nex1899]

The red face in a stage does not mean "Is being affected by a nightmare effect", it means "It is now affected by a nightmare effect". Which means that once it turns red once, it will always have a nightmare effect. If you don't like the one it has, you can technically go to another stage that affects it and change it, but it will still have a nightmare effect one way or another. If the game didn't have that stupid gimmick, it would be five times better.

[@dmas-uncut8450]

I don't think it's a bad idea...for a hard mode. But forcing this shit on the player who may or may not even know what the effects are to begin with is anything but good.

[@Thebigcmaverick]

There is a helpful bug in the game or should I say broken for Zero, Shield Shelldon's weapon for so some reason if you highlight a enemy with it and attack with the Z-Saber it does Triple the damage!

[@lawrencema667]

Weirdly enough, that specific nightmare virus in Blaze Heatnix's stage will drop everything, completely ignore the hostage a few feet away and go after you immediately.

[@GoGojiraGo]

Another funny thing regarding the Maverick Weapons. Rainy Turtloid is weak to Blizzard Wolfang's weapon. When you're Zero, Blizzard Wolfang's weapon make him zip up to the ceiling from the ground and hang there while he attacks. But if the ceiling is too far up, then Zero can't use the weapon. See where this is going? The ceiling in Rainy Turtloid's boss room is too high for Zero to reach with Wolfang's weapon. Meaning that it's impossible to use his weakness against him as Zero.

[@heropon12l9]

another reason i say that x6 is worse than mega man and bass. at least in that game the boss weaknesses do their job. in this game you're better off using the standard weapons for most of them.

[@thetrophygamer1835]

+heropon12 l and there is no bullshit nightmare system

[@heropon12l9]

+JWMG 7702 exactly. plus there are work arounds that don't require cheat codes

[@heropon12l9]

+JWMG 7702 not to mention that if someone playing isnt able to beat the zero nightmare or get the necessary upgrades for x, its possible to get stuck in this game

[@DarkEinherjar]

Not that the ice weapon would've been much good against Turtloid anyway: you can't really damage him unless you get in front of his body or break his shell's crystals first.

[@The_Chosen_Heretic]

A Mijinion is a type of water flea, I think.

[@amuroray1085]

The stage selection becomes red when a stage has just been changed too a nightmare form. Furthermore more a stage will never return to a default form, instead it will remaim in it's current state until you go to a stage that changes it. BASICALLY, what i'm trying to say is if you want to get rid of darkness in Turtloid stage, visit Sheldon stage. If you want to get rid of darkness in Yanmark stage, visit turtloids stage. The moment you step in Majinion's stage, Yanmark and Turtloid will get darkness until you visit a stage that changes it.

[@TopHatLucario]

Who started humming the rest of the song after Clement sung the first part?

[@raikohzx4323]

Actually Clement, you can reach the top of that vertical shaft when the doughnut's chasing you. But then you have literally one platform of movement space next to the room gate, and the fucker keeps raising itself up on you to ram and shoot. Essentially if you're out of Zero's special attack Johnny was spamming this part, or you're not packing the right weapon for the situation, it's almost unwinnable before you can kill the bastard.

[@NewZen41]

Also, something else to clarify for those that don't know-you can hit the Nightmare Snakes offscreen with either a Charged Ray Arrow or Rekkoha(In X's case, with Hyper Charge or the Ultimate Armor by itself, spamming it), so if you went to Mijinion before Heatnix, then it's not all that bad, but still....fuck that level.

[@DarkEinherjar]

It's possible to get to the Light capsule without any upgrades in Rainy Turtloid's stage: with proper timing, you can lure two bats toward you, take damage from one, dash through the first set of spikes, then take damage from the other one so you can dash through the second set. I managed to do so with both X and Zero. Also, what Alia means by her hint of X being smaller is that X can, indeed, air dash through the gap without touching the spikes... but only if he has the Blade Armor. It's the only way of getting to the Light capsule without losing any lives. However, since lives don't matter in this game anyway (as a matter of fact, getting a game over is actually a GOOD THING, because it sends you back to the checkpoint and restores your Limited Parts), you might as well abuse invincibility frames and get it the easy way.

[@Team_Orchid]

Casual reminder that someone out there has done the 8 "robot masters" buster only without getting hit. People are batshit insane.

[@valoricintake]

Kevvl14 recorded perfect runs for all of X through X7

[@Team_Orchid]

TEHMEGAMASTAH Yeah him, I couldn't remember the name.

[@Knuxfan24]

+TEHMEGAMASTAH & some of them (X6 & 7 in particular) are fucking insane.

[@papershadow]

+MissingnoTheGreat Kevvl is the X runner, though I believe the run type was popularized by Roahm Mythril on the Classic series.

[@blueberriesinmycoffee1234]

The background info you get on infinity mijinion is interesting. It sort of makes him sound like a crash test dummy for mechs, which is something.

[@sparking1022]

Is Lewis reading the DBS manga ? Also thank god for SSB because SSGSS (especially if you say "sai-in and not -SAY-in) was a pain to say.

[@sparking1022]

Also supa saian people is just a VERY littoral translation. On the plus side they said Saiyan right.

[@countxero7655]

Holy crap, I've never seen Rainy Turtloid in nightmare mode! I've never seen this!

[@TheTruestZero]

Just to people who don't know, the red panels means that the area is under the Nightmare Effect... BUT!!! Depending on what stage is cleared, the Nightmare Effect will be permanent on the stages that it will affect. EX.: If you clear Metal Shark Player, any stage that would had the metal blocks as a Nightmare Effect when red, it will have permanently.

[@TheTruestZero]

Plus, for +ClementJ64 If you clear Infinity Little Shit Stages, all stages that would had the "Blackout Effect" have, regardless if is red.

[@esmooth919]

When i first saw Infinity Mijinion's stage, i was like, "Where the FUCK am i?! What the fuck is up with the background?! What? Why is it going dark?! SHUT UP, ALIA! ...Ohhhhh, fuck. Giant robot in the background. Great."

[@MrCJHardcore]

I've actually gotten to play Rainy Turtleoid's stage without the darkness effect. Its nice. Its beautiful. Except for the Phantom X or Zero that periodically spawns that tries to dash into you. But at least I can fucking see!

[@kazuma3706]

+LoneWolfWarrior93 Guard Shell protects you from the phantoms.

[@MrCJHardcore]

Guard shell normally blocks projectiles and fires back, but how the hell would anyone ever think to use Guard Shell on the phantoms?!

[@kazuma3706]

LoneWolfWarrior93 Shield Sheldon's stage triggers the Nightmare phantom effect.

[@hostiusasinhostilityhostil7853]

@@MrCJHardcore A bunch of the Nightmare effects can be countered in some way using their respective boss weapons - Ground Scaravich's, for example, destroys GS's Nightmare blocks - but it's not exactly too intuitive, and not all the Nightmare effects can be neutralised like that (see: darkness effect).

[@DylanDude]

What IS with their blinking?

[@TheAdventGamer]

So gotta ask, will you guys do the Zero Series?

[@NewZen41]

Just to clarify on Infinity Fuckjinion for a second, his pattern of reproduction works like this-any hard hit or a certain number of hits (Both X and Zero) will cause him to be pushed back and reproduce. The problem with Zero is that his Saber is basically programmed as a big hit on the bastard, so he gets pushed back by just about any slash you lay on him, which means you're better off doing what Johnny just did (If you have enough health or Black Zero, that is) because the Z-Buster basically gives bosses almost no invincibility frames and takes a number of shots to put him into his forced knockback state. If you're playing him as X...don't use the Charged Guard Shell...you will literally set yourself up for an early grave...

[@EclipsisTenebris]

You misunderstand the Nightmare effects. The nightmare effects are triggered by beating certain investigators. the thing is, IF the level is randomly red, the nightmare effect will trigger regardless of whether the investigator is dead yet or not.

[@samza9233]

Not defending the game but the nightmare system is not random. Each stage have two nightmare effects which is determined by the last stage you played that can affect the stage you are about to play. The red markers indicate which stages will be affected by the stage you just completed/entered. For example, if you enter/clear Infinity Mijinion, yanmark and rainy turtloid will appear red, to tell the player that infinity mijinion has a nightmare effect in those stages, aka blackout. To remove the blackout, you need to apply a new red, so basically enter/complete a stage in which also has a nightmare in the stage you want to change the nightmare effect in. So to change blackout in rainy turtloid, you need to enter/complete sheild sheldon and Rainy turtloid will show a new red on stage select, indicating that sheild sheldon's nightmare effect also takes place in rainy turtloids stage, and since you played sheild sheldon more recently than infinty mijinion, you will get the zero/X ghost nightmare instead of blackout. Same idea applies for all stages. I also thought the red markers were random at first, and were just misleading. But then I realized they tell you what stages are affected by the stage you just played.

[@cshunter911]

STORM EAGLE THE DONUGHT. Also with the shadow armor you can giga crash the donught on the vertical part and using the "high jump" you can leave the area before the camera could ketch up with you.

[@gordonsmith6784]

For anyone (which is probably everyone) who is still wondering what a Mijinion is. The name is a play on the words minion and mijinko which means daphnia in English. A daphnia is also a species of water fleas.

[@TheKpa11]

Sounds like a future Pokemon

[@toondude78]

The thing is, the red thing doesn't matter after you enter certain stages. Once you enter a certain stage that nightmare effect is permanent.

[@crazygamer4260]

I've never had the dark nightmare

[@reallygoodbee]

You also forgot to mention that those little flies will block X's buster shots and by the end, you had six on screen, all at once.

[@mechashadow]

As a young Xehanort once said "Darkness darkness darkness darkness darkness darkness darkness.......... .....darkness"

[@elliott1781]

Ironically, I've Always Played Rainy Turtloid's Level Without Darkness, But It's Always Been Yammark's That Gave Me Darkness

[@WavemasterAshi]

X6 came out about 6 months before Shantae. Helpful upgrades...what about Climb Ladders Faster?

[@Ballade90]

iirc the maverick who is highlighted has their nightmare effect active on set stages. not that the red means that stage is going to have an active nightmare effect, it's their effect that applies on other stages, ie infinity fucker is causing rainy turtloid to go dark.

[@xan220]

Yeah, you've probably heard it plenty but the Nightmare effects aren't actually Random, the Red Icon just signifies that the Nightmare effect of a Stage has Changed, I don't know if there's ever a point where the game doesn't have a Nightmare Effect applied to a stage, but I'd wager it's always one of the two a given stage can have, and if you have a guide like this fantastic one on the Megaman X6 segment of Retropixel, you can have a list of the effects the Nightmare has on a stage, and what other stages to Visit to get it to Change the Effect, like Commander Yammark's stage can either have the Floodlights, or gusts of wind, and if you visit Rainy Turtloid's Stage, it'll change the Effect to the Gusts of Wind in Yammark's stage, or if you visit Infinity Mijinion's stage, it'll change it to the Floodlights. You need a guide either way, so to a newcomer it at least seems random and is definitely bullshit, but if you have a guide on hand and the patience to manipulate it based on your progression in the game, or even to plan your route accordingly, the Nightmare system in general can be severely Mitigated as far as annoyance goes. Though as far as I'm concerned, the only real annoying Nightmare Effect is the Floodlights from Hell. Also, because of this, John, if you visit Shield Sheldon's stage before Rainy Turtloids, the Nightmare Effect instead changes to "Soul Body clones" of the opposite character from you, that try to fly into you in various areas, kinda like the Zero Virus from X5 but these spawn in at a specific spot then dash towards you in whatever direction seconds later, rather than matching your elevation then dashing at you.

[@ShadyKnight9]

I think Mijinion might be Japanese for some kind of flea. Kind of like how they didn't translate Boomer Kuwanger, which is actually a stag beetle, not a cockroach. Also I think Guard Shell is supposed to absorb projectiles and then shoot it back.

[@79bigcat]

Water flea, I think. Even then, why not "infinity imp"? Alliterated. Easier to pronounce.

[@ShadyKnight9]

79BigCat Remember what they said in the first part about how it feels like this game was translated literally rather than localized?

[@AmartharDrakestone]

+ShadyKnight9 A water flea to be precise. In Japanese water flea is "mijinko", hence, "Mijinion".

[@TheVideogameStorm]

is this game like x1 where beating a maverick will affect the other stages because c. yanmark's nightmare effect happened after u killed him

[@SilentSpider13]

The darkness levels seems to be off the charts!

[@Dunker401]

Hmmmm Johnny hates megaman X3 and shadow the hedgehog because they're boring. Clement hates megaman X6 and sonic 06 because of terrible design

[@crazygamer4260]

I'd rather play a boring game instead of a bad game

[@lucasmartinez5703]

I'm with crazygamer. I'd rather sit through boredom than lose years of life being constantly frustrated and stressed out by bullshit game design. I play games to shake off stress, not augment it and make it worse.

[@williamwhite2568]

crazygamer4260 Me too

[@leafreak91]

I believe the nightmare effect in Rainy Turtloid's stage the darkness is because of beating Infinity Mijinion which is why I try to take care of that stage first. Also fuck Blaze Heatnix's stage actually most of the stages I hate. That stage without the powerup from Infinity Mijinion is damn near impossible to go through. Its one of 2 stages when I first played this game years ago where I actually rage quitted

[@KomotoRaynar]

Now, Rainy Turtloid is a boss that the Plasma Charge of the Force Armor would be good against. Instead, you'd have to use the Falcon Laser, which is still decent, or whatever Blade Armor's charge is. Yeah, the shogan Armor is pretty damn unmemorable. I can really only remember that it has the Mach Dash. Hell, Shadow Armor is way more memorable to me, because it hurts High Max without his weakness.

[@esmooth919]

Ultimate Armor FTW (although in X6, it looks really fugly)

[@crystalmaiden7791]

Why don't the Reploids teleport out? Maybe Zero/X gives them teleport chips that magically teleport them to safety.

[@TheFa54]

I still remember not knowing how to fight Infinity Mijinion on my first playthough, and I still remember the time it took me to beat him after many (x15) tries: 29:59:37

[@No0neat]

you know.... the giant robot at tje beggining of infinity mijogalatinga is shooting ki kou hous at you. TIEN BUILT THAT SHIT!

[@blkknightrutter1]

Wait wait wait, at the beginning of Rainy Turtleoid's level, was Zero getting attacked by Beyblades?

[@crimsonspirit3036]

+blkknightrutter1 I knew I lost my Dranzer somewhere!

[@esmooth919]

They looked like beyblades, but they were, in fact, the seahorses from Launch Octopus' ("Octopardo") stage.

[@cloudycloud7666]

@@esmooth919 I know I'm pretty late on the punch but. What in the hell is Octopardo!?

[@Scorpionspear77]

The gnats summoned by Commander Yammark’s nightmare can be destroyed by the Yammar Option

[@SolMadguy]

Ok so I decided to look up the Red Doughnut looking junk thing that you run into in Heatnix's place. I was wandering what the hell it was suppose to be because it was reminding me of something. It's called the Nightmare Snake and it is inspired by the Ouroboros, the serpent that bites its own tail to represent the never ending cycle of life and death. And seeing as you had to fight the fucker about half a dozen times, I say it's living up to that.

[@korruption6]

I agree that Crapcom took that concept and basically made a huge middle finger out of it. I tried to share that tidbit years ago and people just weren't having it. Strange that so few care what those fuckers really are, considering the high quality of this game. >_>;

[@woahbeashooder8671]

The darkness inTurtloid is caused when you kill Infinity Mjinion

[@MynameisHukos]

I'll defend some games with "You're supposed to take it slow and easy" but there's really no excuse for X6.

[@YuuMonMusuedo]

I... never had darkness with Rainy Turtloid's stage. In fact, I thought the acid rain was it's nightmare effect. That's just annoying.

[@likeanuuk6612]

+《Yuu-Mon》 the darkness is there because they went to mijinion level. if you go to sheldon's level and leave, the darkness gets replaced by x and zero ghosts sometimes attacking you

[@homuraakemi103]

Does the game TELL you you need to leave the stages and get out in order to trigger the least annoying Nightmare Effects for the stages you're actually playing, regardless of it being red or not? No? Then it's still bullshit and effectively random and lying to you...

[@llysender]

+Ness Prower alia does tell you at the start of stages but considering every alia prompt is skiped....

[@homuraakemi103]

Because most people just want to get on with the game. The tutorial on the stage select for first-timers should have been something like, "Red is what are the stages affected by the stage you just visited. However, the old Nightmare effects are still in effect for all stages. Ergo, visit a stage to get the least annoying one." They'd be a lot less annoyed if that happened. And they DID mention looking it up. And really, randomness only being semi-random doesn't immediately make the game good...

[@llysender]

You asked if they mentioned it in the game and they did and you are still bitching....

[@homuraakemi103]

Because the game still sucks, and there's nothing you can do about it...

[@homuraakemi103]

Also, the Mega Man Wiki says Alia CAN'T detect the Nightmare Phenomenon. Kindly direct me to the quote...

[@PandoraXilliaRaws]

the acid rain effect is determined if you pick x at the beginning....but zero wasn't playable until you unlocked him right? P.S. this info is coming from the MMKB by the way.

[@Meteorlink]

well if you want a cheap explanation for why you need to touch them to teleport them, they don't have a teleporter, your HQ has one and needs their exact coordinates. In case of why you aren't porting to bosses could be multiple things, easiest answer aswell, would be that you just don't know their exact location.

[@2PacPRNDL]

this vid was hilarious lolol those floating hostages

[@MrLocalguy]

Are you sure the stages marked red are the safe/normal ones and the ones not marked red are the nightmare ones?

[@DarkEinherjar]

Once a stage is marked red, that means a Nightmare effect has taken place there. It will remain there even if the stage stops being red later, and this is something a lot of people don't realize when they play X6.

[@funnyspoonman7437]

for the donut with purple fire it does stop at the exit you just have to kill it still

[@SilverTheHedgehog754]

Oh lord, the level designers took a page from Dj Khaled's keys to success Many years before it was a thing

[@crazygamer4260]

I think the nightmare is determined by which maverick you've killed

[@MicharionAQ]

+crazygamer4260 Yeah, they are. Barring Ground Scaravich, Shield Sheldon, and Rainy Turtloid the mavericks will have a nightmare effect put on the stage after the specific one is beaten. Beating Scaravich will put Nightmare Blocks in Metal Shark Prayer's and Shield Sheldon's stages. Beating Infinity Mijion will put Nightmare Dark on Rainy Turtloid and Commander Yanmarks stages. Beating Blaze Heatnix will put Nightmare Fire in Blizzard Wolffang and Infinity Mijion's stages. Beating Blizzard Wolfang puts Nightmare ice only in Metal Shark Prayers stage. Beating Metal Shark Prayer puts Nightmare Iron in Blaze Heatnix, Infinity Mijion, and Ground Scaravich's stages. Beating Shield Sheldon puts Nightmare Mirror in Rainy Turtloid and Blizzard Wolfang's stages. The lasers in Shield Sheldon's stages count as nightmare effects but since they are part of a puzzle will always be there. Scaravich will always have Nightmare Random and the only other stage that has that is one of the final ones. Rainy Turtloid is interesting since his Nightmare Rain affects his own stage as acid rain and for Commander Yanmark and Ground Scaravich normal rain with wind that will push you around. I believe when the stage is marked as red it will have that Nightmare effect even if you haven't beaten the boss in question yet.

[@bluevexer4595]

Rainy Turtloid's stage with this effect sucks! I used to get annoyed as a kid with this stage when X or Zero Nightmares tried killing you, and then in another playthrough, this shit happens. My friends and I instantly thought, "Please give us back the less bullshity bullshit."

[@Azelf89]

1:17 You know, even though you joke about the term "saiya people", TECHNICALLY it's actually a more accurate translation of the Japanese term "saiya-jin" than "saiyan", as the literal translation of the Japanese term is "people of saiya". Doesn't make it any less hilarious, but it is an interesting little thing that I thought I would mention. Also, the actual correct pronunciation of "saiyan" is actually "Sigh-in", and not "Say-in" like how it's pronounced in the English dubs. Just thought I would mention that for some reason.

[@SRXofChaos]

wow....I guess I've gotten lucky I've never gotten the nightmare effect for Rainy Turttloid

[@Zumabdeen]

+SRXofChaos Same. I never even knew that stage can get dark

[@megabowser64]

anybody reading this comment the nightmare effects are triggered by entering particular stages, for instance the darkness is caused by entering infinity mijinions stage.

[@GamerNym]

The red portraits mean that the last stage you went to applied its Nightmare effect to the stages indicated. The effect does not go away unless something else applies a different effect, and each stage has two potential effects. In the case of Blaze Heatnix, John had gone to Commander Yammark's stage long before, but never went to the other stage that affect BH's, which is Metal Shark Player (and good thing too, BH with MSP's nightmare effect IS the worst stage in the game, by far). With Rainy Turtloid, it had a Nightmare effect applied by Shield Sheldon, but that was overwritten before getting there by Infinity Mijinion. Resulting in... this. I think it's a really neat system but the game is piling on Bullshit already and the effects themselves aren't well designed either. I'll also agree that the fact that the system doesn't explain itself worth a shit is BS. Also fuck the donuts. Just... ugh.