Mega Man Xtreme 2 - A Spinoff with Soul(s) | Trav Guy

[@SnipeMD]

I'm a big fan of this game, so I know a lot about it. Here's a few things to point out: - Sigma Beast can actually be hurt while red. The color Sigma Beast is determines which character can cause damage to him. When he's red, Zero can attack him enough to deal damage. When he's blue, X can deal enough. - Again with Sigma Beast, his seemingly unavoidable shield dash attack actually can be repelled by attacking the shield with either a charge shot (as X when Sigma is blue) or the Z-Saber (as Zero when Sigma is red). Hitting the shield will push Sigma back much like the Sphinx Tank. - Dr. Doppler did actually manage to completely eradicate the Maverick Virus and Sigma at the end of X3, the only problem was that Sigma's DNA soul was still active (although unable to find a proper body to inhabit seeing as how X destroyed his Perfect Battle Body form). This game actually shows that Berkana amd Gareth managed to "resurrect" Sigma through this soul erasure process and ties X3 to X4. This game is actually one of the most integral plot beats in the entire X series that NOBODY played.

[@prometheusmodelow8322]

Yeah the Red/Blue mechanic was pretty obvious.

[@DarkArmedDaddy1]

That’s amazing insight. Thanks cause I never knew this and i love everything about the x series

[@thunderknight4149]

@@roslynnerentas8939 how are we supposed to know where the foot parts are and the weaknesses are?

[@HerschelRiffs]

Never thought I'd come across someone else with this much love for this gem. Appreciate you sharing the insight for others and reminding me of great times.

[@Timelesshero1711]

Speeding footage from X1 without a dash counts as a dash.

[@dprototype6431]

“The Reploid Research Lavatory” will never get old.

[@JaY-uy7mn]

Lavatory laboratory, robots shitting definitely deserves a study

[@christiancox972]

*epic reverb fart in background*

[@jordandillow3423]

Bad comment

[@NoorAdventure2007]

*Bathroom*

[@No-sr5fb]

I heard its a pretty shitty place to work

[@Pupppeteer]

Imagine being named Gareth and getting roasted by someone called Mr Guy...

[@jordandillow3423]

No you need to be stopped

[@Pupppeteer]

@@jordandillow3423 please let me keep going!

[@jordandillow3423]

Nope I can’t dragon fist combine with X,s haduken and shuriken

[@Pupppeteer]

@@jordandillow3423 up up down down left right left right B A now I have extra lives!!!!

[@jordandillow3423]

Well I cast a live take away spell now I have you’re lives

[@DistributionMackerel]

It's not really a great translation, no, but its a concept visited multiple times in the X and Zero series; a Reploid's "DNA Soul" is the Reploid's "essence", or their data, as it exists in Cyberspace. That's what the plot of this game was about, the process of reviving a Reploid by recreating their "DNA Soul" in Cyberspace. It's also what Gate's research was originally about.

[@alwaysangry2232]

amd would became literally magic moving to zero series and good bye suspension of disbelief or any reason to take this crap seriously

[@lpfan4491]

@@alwaysangry2232 Zero Series was definitly a mistake.

[@MegafanX123]

The Reploids. The DNA of soul

[@MorphBaller388]

@@lpfan4491 yes officer this one here

[@lpfan4491]

@@MorphBaller388 Nah, those elves were just dumb, the screen crunch is crazy and copy X in the way he is implemented is a silly copout. It's also incredibly silly that people have to recommend newcomers to experience the story in reverse order or online. I'll have to play the legacy collection-version with checkpoints because I tried the GBA version of Zero1 and lol.

[@lovingfool2060]

Don't really see how robot souls is that far out of a concept in the series in retrospect. Cyberspace is a physical place you can force your physical body into as shown in the zero games, and that reploids are human in their own right is sort of the overall theme of the series onward. Not crazy to believe they have a weird cyber soul lol

[@SonBlackHeart22]

Yep and in Cyberspace in Zero 3 all your cyberelfs get activated making you very op until you exit it.

[@mjc0961]

Human souls is a far stranger concept. It's this totally made up story-time concept, and yet everyone believes it like souls are real?! I don't get it.

[@CaptainCoolzCT-]

Also, X6 set up, "Nightmare SOULs" which is one of the main systems that the game sets up. Souls in the X series really aren’t that out of place.

[@Bucket_Buffoon]

"Soul" could just be how they refer to AI Like how the actual Software that makes Zero who he is (his "soul") can be taken out of the hardware made by Wily only to have a completely different OS (Omega) Installed on it to get it working as intended.

[@NEETKitten]

​​@@Bucket_BuffoonThen with this interpretation, a DNA soul would be a backup of that AI saved on the cloud.

[@Smellbringer]

So I'm not the only one eternally disappointed by how Iris gets like, no screen time? Awesome. Little sad that the fucking crossover game, Project X Zone, does more with Iris than her own franchise.

[@toumabyakuya]

Heck, Mega Man X Dive and Battle Network 6 has done more with Iris than the X games ever did!.

[@zorn2017]

Youre only disappointed because she's a girl, if she was a man you wouldnt be disappointed.

[@toumabyakuya]

@@zorn2017 Where did this come from? No, honestly, where? I don't think Iris's gender is the problem here.

[@_V.Va_]

@@zorn2017 You're either baiting or stupid.

[@patoso6940]

@@zorn2017 It's not like we have to feel bad about her death because she was emotionaly attached to zero but none of it is shown in the game she appears in.

[@zetamaxr]

Minor correction on the final sigma fight, though I doubt this would be seen. The pink/red form can actually be damaged by zero, though it isn't easy. Blue is meant to be damaged by X. The point of the fight is to swap between who can damage him, though it doesn't work well in execution.

[@kidshapeshifter8507]

Both Civvie and Trav post on the same day. Score!

[@jennifertottenham2995]

Postal 4 wendsay when civvie

[@alwaysangry2232]

megaman series when civvie

[@NewZen41]

Dunno if it's been addressed, but Trav, you don't have to take that platform in Hornet's level to get the heart tank. Right before you enter the section where the tank is, you can take a ladder (Ironic that you didn't even notice it as you climbed back up) down and simply just cross that way. Lol

[@SonBlackHeart22]

That's how I got that all the time I did not know you can ride the platform down to get it that way.

[@dmas7749]

i knew it

[@strengthcolossal5538]

Berkana is potential Waifu

[@gravethestampede3454]

6:01 Bruh, Sigma's goal in the first game was to wipe out all the humans. That's not even bringing up the role they play in the Zero games onwards.

[@megasoniczxx]

I guess to be fair on Trav, the humans are kind of just ignored for a majority of the games with only some passing mention and never really have any physical appearances in the plot outside of Dr. Cain and (if you count him) Dr. Light, the Zero games not withstanding. It's always been one element of the plot I wish the series had expanded on a bit more.

[@HighPriestFuneral]

I thought that Sigma may have been offended that Berkana was hurting Reploids, "his people", after all.

[@wizofwonders]

Sir Gareth was a knight of the round table in Arthurian lore

[@Aa-dn1oq]

"2001 was a pretty good year-" YEAH IDK MAN IMMA HAVE TO STOP YOU RIGHT THERE

[@ThatTravGuy]

OH MY GOD I DIDN'T EVEN CONSIDER *THAT*. FUCK

[@Aa-dn1oq]

@@ThatTravGuy Lol it's alright just being facetious

[@Mak0h_]

One positive I always had about this game growing up was some of the songs in this game had better bangers than the originals, for example, Launch Octopus in my opinion. It's the little changes they did to the songs that I just love to prefer over

[@MagnaGamma]

I do not agree with how you got the Blast Hornet heart tank. I would always get it from the other side, not with the falling platform.

[@niclaswa5408]

23:38 Gotta give credit that Tunnel Rhino got a unique entrance instead of just slowly levitating to the ground like in X3

[@aganaom1712]

xtreme 2's track remixes are almost all better than their official variants. change my mind.

[@DaiquiriJack]

Damn... this was the first Megaman game i ever played as a kid. Being real, the music in this game is tight, i think the game boy versions of these songs sound better than the snes versions (but this may be the nostalgia talking)

[@robertlupa8273]

No, it's not just your nostalgia. The X2 Intro Stage, Wire Sponge, X Hunter Stage 2... It's hard to find a song that _doesn't_ sound better or at least as good on GBC. (though I still can't forgive them for cutting Volt Catfish's theme in half)

[@شخصشخصاخر]

5:11 I respect you so much for this. It must’ve taken time to edit and cut the parts where the screen flashes and I couldn’t imagine myself watching the video like that Truly, thank you

[@tuenghi4107]

Gareth is how they switch the alphabet in this name, if we arrange the alphabet this name again then we have "Gather" that means the Gareth's job is gathering the DNA souls :vvv

[@DarksTunes]

megaman xtreme 2 is my 2nd favorite megaman x game

[@menashokier3665]

I can't believe i found you here buddy Have you been doing a new tune

[@DarksTunes]

@@menashokier3665 oh hi Mena! I remember you! You were the one who made that Amazing comment on my 8 bit Twitch's theme! As a matter of fact, I have been making a new tune. Well, A bunch really. It's for a secret project that I am releasing soon I hope. In the mean time I will try to release some more music only stuff. I'm so glad that you remembered me! 😁

[@menashokier3665]

@@DarksTunes oh that is an honor to me that you rememberd as well budd , i will be supporting you as much as i can and who knows maybe we will help each other in future I am sure i would be able to handle the art stuff and maybe the programming but i would defently need a music expert like you but of course i have no current files for anything just dreams and skills but hope you put that in your mind cause i will be subscribing to your channel to keep in touch Also great to hear you are working on a lot of stuff can't wait to see what the dark tunes expert hide , again i will be supporting your project as much as i can

[@DarksTunes]

@@menashokier3665 😁 thank you so much! And don't worry, I won't forget you! I will definitely keep you in mind for the future! That really means a lot to me!

[@ZackVc]

Ok I don’t want to be that guy but about the DNA souls that is what they are called , canonically it contains everything that a reploid is like they’re blue prints, design, memories and personality so the game isn’t technically wrong it’s just the way iris said it was wrong

[@ThatTravGuy]

I guess my problem comes down to my world view, and that the concept of a "human soul" is subjective. It works great in Doom cause it's thematic for the series, but confusing in a Science Fiction world for me.

[@KiddDaPhoenix]

Gareth is the name of one of Arthur's knights of the round table. Maybe a bit odd to choose one of the lesser known knights rather than Mordred or Lancelot, but the knight motif fits with the name even so =)

[@thatitalianlameguy2235]

I got the flame mammoth weapon with zero instead of x and then couldn't get x's upgrade with it even though it was still a fire weapon hitting a flammable thing

[@HighPriestFuneral]

That's a good warning to others.

[@CarloNassar]

I should mention that the shots coming from Isaz and Sowilo (the Sphinx Tank) will move as the Sphinx Tank moves like if it's all one layer. For example, let's say the boss starts moving back. If a missile is moving downward and the tank is moving back, the missile will move back as well. Overall, I agree with your take on a boss that's probably my pick for the worst boss I've played in a Mega Man game, none of my reasons being the fault of the GBC's screen.

[@jruler93]

X can equip 4 parts if you don't complete the armor, which makes him very powerful if you skip his head parts and instead use Zero's head parts to get X's arm parts. The Energy Saver lets you use the Zero Final twice, which makes most bosses a joke. Beast Sigma turning red is supposed to be your cue to use Zero.

[@jasonmartinez5116]

32:55 The was actually the ending opening theme for X6 playing there, which is called The Answer by Showtaro Morikubo (the voice actor of X and Dynamo that time)

[@zeldarnation1875]

Even tho these Villains are one-note I Love Berkana's Design Cuz We Barely get any female Villains in Megaman in General, It's the Witch style Attire I'm a sucker for those Design's.

[@mengo329]

I assume the rabbit ride armor is called a rabbit because of the jets on the back sticking out like rabbit ears?

[@RuinAngel]

I played the Japanese version and if my memory served me right X, Zero, and Iris were discussing the new item drop they found on the island. It is the DNA data of the reploid which they later referred as DNA soul because it is essentially the soul of reploids. And the conclusion is that they should collect them as much as possible. As for the villain side, they were under the order of Sigma to erase and collect DNA souls from reploids to create stronger reploids or enhance existing reploids. It is still a plain and pale background story but at least it makes sense compare to the badly translated English version lol

[@charleschase7945]

Never played this game but X3’s double buster is by far the worst buster out of the games I played because X is stuck in place for seconds while performing the shot and a lot times the second buster input is canceled from wall jumping, getting hit from sitting in place for too long, or a lot of times the buster barely hits the narrow hit boxes of bosses from not being precise making it unmeaningful.

[@balder7877]

You know that probably explains why I never beat this game when I got it on the 3DS Eshop.

[@yogsothoth915]

A weirdly specific tragedy for this game. Despite the sweet character designs. Megaman X managed to have a Gacha game that never featured them. It even created original characters after running low on female robots but never added Berkana. So sad.

[@ThatTravGuy]

Berkana fans are in shambles. All 4 of them.

[@MrLucasrn]

It’s a missed opportunity to develop Iris and Zero’s relationship.

[@andershughes6626]

Dude, honestly found your channel last night and already have 5 of your videos down. Amazing work I am so glad I found this channel!

[@sethheusted9021]

I had this game since I was very young, my aunt game it to me along with her Game Boy Color. I’ve played it multiple times. And even I never noticed that it said “research lavatory.”

[@TheMGMfan]

My guess for why Capcom made Xtreme 2 for the GBC instead of the GBA is that this was only a few months after the latter system's release, so the developers either might not have felt it had a big enough install base to develop for it, or they could have just not heard if it until well into development.

[@alucard002x]

I believe the use of Moonlight as a promo song for Xtreme 2 was due to Morikubo (Singer of both X6's amazing opening themes: Moonlight and The Answer) being the VA for X. Also hand over that purple heart son.

[@amajesticzombie]

Playback speed: 0.25 has failed me for the X1 playthrough, video ruin'd Unrelated, having all abilities on one type of ammunition sounds like a fun challenge.

[@seasirocco3063]

Frankly I think it’s best to ignore the DNA part of the DNA souls and just assume that they are simply reploid souls.

[@FabulousJejmaze]

I don't know how to tell you this, but in both games you can dash with a single button. *The select button.* Yeah I don't know what they were thinking either

[@ThatTravGuy]

I know that was true for Xtreme 1, but the options menu only gave me a prompt to assign the Select Button to Character Swap, or change weapon.

[@FabulousJejmaze]

@@ThatTravGuy I might be misremembering then

[@farout_tech]

You can assign dash to the select button in the options if my memory serves, which is fine in X/Zero compaigns, but in Xtreme mode you'll be replacing it with the quick swap. I'll also add that X1 never requires you to dash, even if it does force you to pick those boots up.

[@paolonavarro8318]

The Select Button is for the Special Weapon for X, the Dash function was only in the previus game, and for the Start Button

[@PrinceAkaiVtuber]

My two cents is that Gareth was based on Sir Gareth from Knights of the table.. So yeah I'm probably the only one who think he's cool and Berkanah could be a reference to Morgan Le Fay keeping up with the Arthurian legend

[@BugsyFoga]

Mega Man ........ TO THE XTREEEEEEMMEEEE!!!!!!

[@themagicalaxolotl2258]

"babe, babe wake up, new Trav Guy video!"

[@TheRedSpartan]

“2001 was a good year for games” Me “ yes “ Mega man extreme 2 Me “ no “

[@RockEsper]

For the time, and for the console it was on, it was a fine ass game.

[@KirbyLinkACW]

"A Game Boy Color game in the 21st century?" The first Shantae game was released on this platform in 2002.

[@costby1105]

And a Harry Potter game released five months after that in the US and a Doremon game released over a year after that in Japan. Still not as crazy as the Super Nintendo in Japan though.

[@ziqi92]

This game is honestly amazing as a kid. I was lucky that my dad grabbed a copy of this from a flea market while doing business travel. Kept me busy for a long time at a time when I had very few games. I need to find my old cartridge again.

[@Truegear]

Trav-Iris gonna make me act up

[@serPomiz]

my GBC still has a mark on the A button from that last boss even after all these years, Sigmalion is still one of my gratest compleated trials in videogames

[@nafeesr6377]

I just found this channel and this is the perfect channel to watch while I'm eating lunch!!

[@rubenleuchtman4207]

Yaeh

[@GaleHarquebus]

I refrained from completing X's armor so that I can keep giving him 4 upgrade parts. Ultimate buster + Speed shot + Buster Plus 1&2 combined with rapid fire just turns X's buster into a giant flamethrower.

[@nicoexists]

What do you mean?

[@GaleHarquebus]

@@nicoexists Thing is X can equip 4 parts from the start, but if you complete his armor, you will have less slots to equip parts.

[@lonk_skonk]

GUYS, That Trav *GIRL*

[@Dinomight_Absolution]

Wait so im not the only one who saw the thumbnail and went damn not trying to sound gay but thats a cute girl

[@giroandkarin2822]

"Oh NO!!! NOT CARL!!!!!!!!"

[@razorchance6976]

I can imagine a dexter's laboratory blooper, "dee dee, get out of my lavoratory!!!!!" 😂 Dexter is not in his home anymore, "what in the devil is a lavoratory??!! Where's my lab!!!!!"

[@gabecat1]

For the Sphinx boss if you dash up on the platform you can bait the boss into shooting most of its shots off screen. Having figured that out accidentally, I was able to take him down without healing on my first go.

[@unnamed12346]

"A Game Boy Color game in the 21st Century?" Me: "Wait a minute..." *Looks up Shantae release date*

[@JamesTaylor-xh6pi]

This was my first megaman game. Been a huge fan ever since.

[@protohunters]

Yo! I remember the dash problem and one thing I hated! It did have a dedicated button…I believe it was select. You know, the tiny button at the bottom of the system no one ever used. That’s why no one knew.

[@nickis6069]

What am I fighting for!!!!!!!

[@BaxterAndLunala]

Excuse me, I thought Abel City was in Scandinavia. I say that because Crimson Palace from X7 is near the Central Highway stage from X1, and we do see this in the Zero section of the intro stage in the game. And if you pay attention to Earth in the stage select screen in X7, you can actually see that Palace Road and Crimson Palace are located in Scandinavia. And yes, the city was called Abel City in Maverick Hunter X.

[@wesleybcrowen]

Not gonna lie, I hated the last stretches of this one, it gets as bad as late X6 at some points.

[@alexrivers8163]

I loved this game so sad I lost it being able to switch at will between x and zero was just soooo cool and way ahead of its time.

[@beardbreeder5886]

This game has mixed memories for me. I remember my mom asking me what games I was interested in for Christmas (about 10 years old), and I had already been playing X5 on pc. I pointed to Megaman right away, as I've been obsessed with the series since the second game on the OG Game Boy. So the days lead up to Christmas, and my cousin's bday is also in December. Guess what? It wasn't a Christmas gift for me, but a bday gift for him. Never actually got to own a copy myself.

[@erykzysk3330]

Oh hey! I just saw your first megaman review, nice timing.

[@robertlupa8273]

Wait, Gareth is an actual real-life name? I never knew about that. 0_0

[@lanereynolds4567]

It's called the Rabbit, because the jet pack thing on the back looks like rabbit ears, and the chest design kinda looks like a rabbit face.

[@johndoe7270]

You know what would be really cool? A Sigma prequel! You could even have his pink dog/wolf for support.

[@markovranic295]

I used to play this game for hours

[@robertanderson9447]

So I'm not the only one who had that Blast Hornet midboss softlock. Except it happened in the Zero campaign, so I was beyond confused.

[@Rodolphin]

Actually you can hurt Sigma when’s he’s pink/red. If he’s yellow/blue, X can only damage him while Zero can hurt his red form. Also Sigma dash attack can be pushed back.

[@ChessPieceRook]

i'm....amazed you had that much trouble with the sigma fight.

[@evanseifert8858]

5:44 I doubt this is a translation issue since the word soul is right there in the Japanese title, and reploid dna is a recurring theme in the series.

[@gabrielcastejon7914]

This has to be a top 5 GBC game. Along with Link's Awakening, Oracle of Season, & Pkmn Crystal.

[@GabrielShakkori]

I remember playing the hell out of this game and loving it as a kid

[@alecrutz956]

same here

[@valletas]

Hey im the guy who has beaten this game way too many times The sphinx boss is really easy and it requires skill its because you are neglecting the character switch mechanic Use zero to kill the ground part (zero even makes him go back) and use x to kill the top I mean that part of the video sounds just like the people complaning the marauder was too hard because they didnt know how to fight him Also upgrades help a lot and they are really broken the damage boost upgrade makes all your hits as strong as the charge shots making bosses be killed in seconds

[@ThatTravGuy]

Damn, really going for my balls there with the Marauder comment. I think you are correct though - I didn't realize that I could character swap in the fortress even during the Solo campaigns - as well as not understanding the parts system until Sigma, so my complaints are debatably moot because I accidentally handicapped myself. I will give you that, and unlike the Marauder haters, own up to the fact that I was wrong. EDIT: I still stand by the Sphinx Tank being a terrible boss, but not as bad as I originally thought.

[@valletas]

@@ThatTravGuy i talked about the marauder because i know you are a doom fan and would understand I liked the video overall and its nice to see someone playing this game I agree with many points here and while its overall jank its good jank but i will fully adimit its an aquired taste for me Also you said one time that you would revisit doom 1 after becoming more of a fan and thats the video im looking foward the most

[@Eddman368]

He does realize Gareth is a knight of the roundtable right? Which is who the boss is named after most likely

[@ThatTravGuy]

I'm aware, and still think it's dumb for a Megaman boss name 🤷

[@Mary-qe5ro]

I loved that game as a kid! First time I could play with Zero and it was all I needed to play this game way too much XD

[@junojun722]

that trav girl

[@Dubbag]

What about the awesome "Boss Rush" Mode you get after beating Xtreme Mode? That was the best part of the game! It was 16 mavericks, all of them from both Xtreme games! I loved it.

[@memorycardzx4415]

Well uh, DNA souls for repliods do exist. The reason X is a cyber elf in MMZ is because his soul went to cyberspace.

[@blackout295]

So here's a very bizarre genre recommendation I don't think I've ever seen this channel touch on, crpgs, specificlly of the isometric variety. Maybe just the first 2 fallout games, but isometric crpgs are a genre somewhere above immersive sims when it comes to being niche.

[@agreedboarart3188]

Uhhh, I don't recall Launch Octopus' hurricane attack to be avoidable without the dash upgrade.

[@kevinpagemen]

14:09 Can game reviewers stop insulting devs by saying they "didn't give a shit" about the game they made when they clearly, clearly did? It's just a shitty thing to say.

[@bryan8602]

"I'm not going to show this screen due to not trigger anyone's epilepsy." Speeds up all his run of X1 that is kind of epileptic inducing.

[@GuyDude-hk8uy]

Is the intro sound a slowed-down version of the spring from SMW? I MUST KNOW.

[@ScreamyngYoshi]

Nice review! You actually went in and analyzed the game, and compared it to Xtreme 1's quality, instead of just saying 2 is better than 1, because it's more original. I agree that Xtreme 2 is a pretty bad Mega Man game, for a myriad of reasons, and I also believe that Xtreme 1 is better.

[@ZeroKnight95]

Literally the only reason why I've played this game was simply because at the time, it was on the Nintendo 3DS eShop and was my only method for playing as Zero in a portable Mega Man X game until Mega Man X4 was put on PlayStation Network allowing me to play the better game on my PlayStation Portable.

[@ZeroKnight95]

@Ashmander Yep. It released on the North American 3DS eShop on May 29th, 2014.

[@StuffWePlay]

Trav Iris isn't real, they can't hurt you

[@frankiesamo1563]

An ultra megaman collection every single megaman game the original blue bomber games all the megaman x games the xtreme games mega man the wily wars megaman soccer the megamn zero/zx games the x challenge a boss rush which you get which is every single megaman boss megaman 64 megaman powered up

[@nelsonwoodard7459]

When sigma turns pink only Zero can hurt him when he is blue only X can damage him

[@gabecat1]

Couldn’t remember how to get to rhinos upgrade and came back to see how. The video and my game synced and I’m pretty sure a portal opened somewhere

[@kat_lynx]

Really, the reason DNA souls exist and reploids having "souls" that drift into cyberspace after death and coming back to life wrong unless Wily has a hand on it is because Mega Man, the whole franchise, runs on the same logic as tokusatsu kids programs like Kamen Rider. Don't think too hard about it, it just "makes sense" for the magitek developed by Dr. Light to create X and reverse engineered by Dr. Cain. Zero seems to still work on old Robot Master technology as opposed to a "Soul", though.

[@nebzshady9389]

Actually, it's "The Answer". Not Moonlight. Still for the same game, still the same singer.

[@1yaz]

Clicked the video to see your thoughts on Sigma ;) Cleared him on original hardware back when the game launched. Was pretty hard to find.

[@esmooth919]

31:26 I did it, and that's because I did it on the original hardware

[@tailscashexplosion7196]

Pretty sure select is a designated dash button, although, probably not much use. But I mean, it's a gameboy. It has literally two face buttons lmao. One button has to be jump and one has to be shoot lol.

[@RockEsper]

This game is flawed but it's alright. I understand it might not be for everyone, you're entitled to your opinion, but this review is pretty sloppy and I hope it doesn't make anyone shy away from the game. The parts system which went over your head is fun to mess with and Zero can be pretty fun to play with how much damage his saber can deal. Also, being able to swap between characters freely in xtreme mode was super cool for the time (and still is).

[@gtdfg4594]

I think he missed a little too much or focused on what he wanted the game to be instead of what was there. Like you said, Trav noticed the Parts System at the final boss, and I think a lot of this game's appeal and replayability comes from it. In Blast Hornet's stage, the Heart Tank can easily be obtained by going down the ladder, which also scrolls. In Volt Catfish's stage, the electrified water gives you a fair amount of time to dodge, but he spent too much time on a section above it and died thanks to that, so much so that in the footage, he gets it easily the second time around - though I have to agree that the wind generators on Overdrive Ostritch's stage are untelegraphed and have strict timing. And I understand the frustration with Sigma Beast, since you're not incentivized to change characters except for the very last boss, but experimenting during a fight you're stumped in is key to finding out how it works. Zero plays perfectly fine, but with a shorter range. He does much more damage than X more quickly, without needing to charge or spend weapon energy - while he does have a single bar for 6 techiniques, it's not nearly as bad as Trav said it is, since enemies frequently drop energy refills, and most techniques, while using weapon energy, are much more specific, with Rising and Drill Crush being two of the best techniques for overall use, both of which do not use weapon energy. This combined with his range makes him a bit of a hard mode, more than X4 made him a "hard mode", but thanks to the high damage he dishes out it's satisfying to master his playstyle. Trav relegating him to a damage sponge reminded me of my first X8 playthrough in which I did the same, but I enjoyed both games much more when learning to alternate and use 2 characters effectively. I'm not saying this game is a masterpiece, I agree with a lot of his criticisms - needing an optional Armor Part to progress is never a good thing, only one character obtaining a Boss Weapon in Xtreme mode, while fun to build around, can lock you out of some upgrades, including an Armor Part, and Xtreme Mode is locked after doing both X and Zero's missions - but I think one has to understand that this is a Gameboy Color game, and it does REALLY well with its limitations, for the most part: Two playable characters, each with different playstyles, 2 modes with 4 levels and one with all 8, time attack, great physics... I find it similar to X3, X5 and X8: games that are obtuse and don't excel in their level and item design, but thanks to more varied mechanics and having more room to play around, it's really fun to replay them and test stuff out, as opposed to only varying the stage order. Granted, they aren't as solid as X1 or X4, but they still offer so much variation and replayability, above what titles like X1, X2 and X4 can do - but most people will prefer a solid experience above a weaker, but more replayable one. Edit: I might be too fascinated with how well this game performs on the GBC while still being a fun Megaman X experience, which arguably competes in some elements with the main series, but I noticed that it's hard to appreciate it when all other X titles are widely available. Doing the same thing but again on the GBC is what sets most people's expectations of these games down, and it becomes hard for them to genuinely appreciate them. But I keep comparing to the console entries and enjoying myself: for example, in Xtreme 1, the fully charged buster shot only does 2 points of damage (3 with the Arm armor part), meaning that bosses are a lot tankier and some enemies are harder to kill, since it also has a smaller hitbox. This incentivizes the player to use Weapons, which I love: it brings a spotlight to using them outside of boss weaknesses, like in the Classic games, while mantaining the high speed, kinetic momentum that the X series has. Most people don't talk about changes like this, which are some of the more interesting takes to be had from Xtreme 1 and 2 instead of "at their best, they are a carbon copy of the originals".

[@Reoko77]

Fuck, this game was something else. I have vivid memory as a kid playing as zero, I couldn't find his body armor so I did his whole playthough without it. Fighting Gareth was a bitch. He would literally kill me in 3 hits so I did his fight so many times, I memorized his pattern where I would perfect him. I don't know how I had the patience for that. Nowadays, nope. Hell, i had so much, I 100% this. Even rebought it on the 3ds and 100% that one too.