Optic Sunflower kept changing the layout of his room, and you had to use the blocks to avoid lazers by standing underneath or over them. For instance, against Avalanche Yeti, when he was near death I had to contend with 2 giant snowflakes bouncing around while he jumped around the screen trying to freeze me (at which point you have to call your other character to break him out) and burrowing into the snow to pop out and do a ryu uppercut, yeti-style. The bosses also do different things based on how low their life is. They have relatively long life bars, but it doesn't feel like you have to sit there and whittle them down forever. The bosses so far have been very well done. These are mini levels of sorts which take you back into the stage with a modified objective.
There are also intermission stages which pop up after you clear a stage. It gets tricky because of spikes and boxes which try to crush you when they are flipped. Gravity Antonion's stage involves pressing buttons on the floors and walls to flip the stage 90 degrees. Then there's a platforming part with spiky walls, and another, harder auto scroll. If you get crushed at the top, you lose energy, but fall off the bottom and die. :lol The stage is auto scrolling and involves shooting, going over ramps to jump crevASSes, and fighting two minibosses.īurn Rooster's stage starts as an auto scrolling segment where you have to jump downward from platform to platform. At the beginning, the helper character tells you to watch out for "CrevASSes". It is supposedly the worst stage in the game, but I had fun. Based on your performance, you will move up or down a difficulty level for the next mini challenge.Īvalanche Yeti's stage is a 3d bike stage that looks like it's a mid level PS1 title. You'll go into a room and have to fight a flying robot while jumping on moving platforms, or some such thing.
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Optic Sunflower's stage is a series of minichallenges. I have beaten Optic Sunflower and Avalanche Yeti so far, and have gotten to Burn Rooster and halfway through Gravity Antonion's stage (gotta love the ridiculous names). The intro stage forces you to use certain characters either alone or in combination, after which you can select 2 of them to take into a stage. So looking at the decent reviews, I took the plunge.Īnd I like it! It is actually pretty cool. Except Gamespot, but they have zero credibility with me after their "POP Warrior Within is best on Gamecube" crap. Then some reviews came in which said it wasn't half bad. Overall, I've enjoyed this game for years and would recommend it to any fan of mega man games.OK, even though I thought the last 2 X games were pretty terrible (I played them anyway, but thankfully as rentals), I had a good feeling about X8.
This level is a stain on what is otherwise a 9/10 game. On normal or hard, I'd play this level last if you want to keep your sanity. It's poorly designed as well as really difficult. The thing that makes me hesitate when introducing this under-rated gem to others is gigavolt man-o-war's level. Also, while it has its bad moments, the story and VA are decent. The amount of cheats, hidden objects, and hidden metals to find and discover is quite commendable for a mega man game, too. Getting all of the X parts are fun and rewarding, and the boss battles are good. The level design is fresh, the three playable characters all have their own moves and play styles, and the guitar-heavy soundtrack is superb. The level design is fresh, the three playable characters all have their own moves and play styles, and the guitar-heavy I love this game.
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