Cyborg Haven Update May 7th

The following items have been added to the list titled Video Games I’ve Yet to Finish.  They are:

 

• Sonic Generations (PS3)
• Mega Man X8 (with the REAL ending)

Currently I am playing Mega Man X8 on Normal Mode, with the Force Metals I had left over from Easy Mode.  I play the intermission stage for the snowy stage a lot, as a way to get more and more Force Metals and get more upgrades the three Maverick Hunters will need for the rest of the game.  I always choose Axl for that stage since he has non-stop bullets.

So yeah, apparently there’s this “other ending with Lumine” that others keep mentioning and my sister really wants to see it.  So…I’m gonna try to finish MMX 8 in Normal Mode, and see if that does anything.  We certainly didn’t get this special ending in Easy Mode.

Returning to Mega Man X8, April 7th

A certain someone wanted me to return to playing Mega Man X 8.  I wanted to play Sonic Generations, or at least give Sonic Unleashed another try.  But I went to MMX 8 instead, and it turned out to be a productive session of the game.

It was good to listen to the music from the game again as I was playing either Zero or Mega Man X and my favorite of the three, good ol’ gunslinger Axl.  The familiarity of the gameplay was actually relaxing, and in no time at all I remembered the game controls (except for the all-important Team Attack thing, I forgot for half the session that it was the L2 button that triggered that.)  Here are the goals I accomplished:

ü  Bamboo Pandamonium

ü  Gravity Antonion

ü  Arm Parts H

ü  Zero’s Fan Weapon/Shield

Further Progress on Mega Man X8, late August

It all happened so fast.

I finished Mega Man X8. But it was on Easy Mode. I finished the game using Axl and X in his full Neutral Armor. Of course X has to be one of the ones to fight Sigma, because he has some weapons that may work against him. However, the fully charged shot was even enough to do some helpful damage against Sigma, so even that was good. Axl was my support, but he got KO’ed in the process, so it was up to X.

The credits rolled and I had to choose a new mode of game play: Normal or Hard. I chose Normal, since the mode I played before was Easy. I loaded the clear data and ended up starting the game all over again, but with the leftover Metals included so that I can level up the three Maverick Hunters from the beginning. The game even saved the Intermission stages for the two stages that had them, so it works out great for the Central White stage; that is the place to get more and more Metals for level-ups. Axl is the best for that one because he has the continuous shooting. ;)

I already had X acquire his Neutral Armor and Head Parts I as well as Body Parts H. Thanks to Axl  :)!!!   I have to deal with Retry Chips now, as it is Normal Mode that the game is in currently. Hey, it’s not so bad. I might just even give Hard Mode a try later on, when I’ve got at least 80,000 Metals that I can help give the Maverick Hunters an easier time getting through the Hard Mode. And maybe the ending would be better? Like, more satisfying than just one little battle with Sigma? What about Lumino? Er, Lumine? Sorry, I had to keep that typo in there because I’ve been calling Lumine “Lunimo” to remind myself he is a male Reploid. Or is he genderless? I mean, I guess it is a unisex name...

Mega Man X8 on July 12th

I got pretty far into the game this time. I am almost done with the game now. According to the save menu, I am 93% done with the game now. I found more parts for X (with the help of Axl in one stage and Zero in another) and defeated all of the Mavericks. To know more, read on for the details.  :3 

First I went to the Primrose stage, where I chose Axl and Neutral Armor X (I always choose Neutral Armor X so that he can pick up the parts and equip them immediately). Pallette was my Navi and she tells Axl and X that there is another teleportation door in the room they stopped in. It took some trial and error and lots of dying from instant-death spikes, but Axl was able to take X to the capsule that contained Head Parts I. This part “causes damage to enemies by jumping near them,” says Dr. Light.

The second stage I went to, choosing Axl and X again, was the Pitch Black stage. The last time I went there, Axl and X could not find the generator that turns on the lights, and still we could not find the capsule with a part for X. So I was lucky this time; Axl had to jump up the elevator/moving platform area (the one after the light-source robot lights up the dark room) and there was a room at the top of the elevator that lead to a capsule. This one contained Body Parts H. It allows X to be “invincible to weak enemy attacks,” says Dr. Light. So now X has two types of Body Parts armor, and personally, I prefer this one to the other Body armor.

Central White was next. That is the stage with the Avalanche Yeti, the Maverick for that stage. I love this stage because the Maverick hunters get to ride on snow mobiles. :D Better than slipping on ice, right? Not only that, but this is a good stage to build up my collection of Metals that function in this game as currency for upgrades on X, Axl and Zero’s strengths and abilities. This time I had to leave Axl behind and choose Zero and X. I like Zero’s attack from the snow mobile, and he really came in handy to break the barrier (huge ice blocks) that cut off access to a capsule for X. I had Zero try different things in this area, but I tried the Tenshouha and it broke the ice blocks just like that. I knew there was something there if the ice looked breakable and shiny. Zero was useful here after all.

This is a job for Zero, the red Maverick Hunter! Ha hah, his new nickname can be Ice-Breaker. O__O

In this capsule was Head Parts H, which according to Dr. Light “increases the weapons’ charge speed when equipped.” Yes, X definitely can use this to his advantage! He may need it more than he knows…

Here are the final special weapons each Maverick Hunter earned after the Avalanche Yeti (by the way, in defeating this guy, X was completely knocked out and Zero managed to finish the battle with one health bit left!).

• Zer0……………….Hyouryuusho

• X…………………..Drift Diamond

• Axl…………………Ice Gattling

So now that all the Mavericks are defeated, there is more plot revealed and as usual, there are a few more stages to complete before getting to the final final boss. I love the music for the Stage Select at this point; I just let the music play a few times before moving on.

Oh, I learned within this session of playing MMX 8 that if a character is knocked out, they might come back in five or ten minutes with about a fifth of their energy left. That is what happened to Axl in the Pitch Black stage, and after fighting an ambush and earning metals and energy crystal, I let Axl take that energy crystal. I am nice, am I?

Before I end this very long post, lemme just say that I did at least reach the stage where I had to fight against the Mavericks again. I want to choose a careful time to finish the game. I still have one more Part for X to go, in the Pandamonium stage, but it is almost impossible to reach it at this point. I am hoping I can finish the game without it. It was a very productive session of MMX 8, and I had another Intermission Stage unlocked at Central White this time.

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Mega Man X8 Music!!!!

I love this song.  It makes me think of Axl cuz I had him ride the ride armor first in MMX 8.  Axl my booo!

The music is from MMX 8.

Update + Mega Man X8 on June 3rd

It's great to be back on Cyborg Haven again.  I was recovering from a bilateral tonsillectomy (both tonsils were removed) so while I was living on liquid Vicodin, antibiotics, applesauce, apple juice and Gatorade, I couldn't update Cyborg Haven on time.  Even after eating more types of soft foods, I was still tired and sick because of the medicine.  But now I am well enough to return and  share my gaming experiences.  Yayyy!

So here is the blog post I meant to put up that week of my surgery.  There are a few other posts I wanted to complete by this time, but for now enjoy this update on my progress for Mega Man X8. 

I went to the Optic Sunflower stage to find armor parts for X. See, in the Stage Select screen if it says that a stage is “30% Complete,” then there must be something that X needs to get there, so one of my characters that I choose to play MUST be X (preferably with his Neutral Armor on). And of course Axl goes with him! (Sorry Zero : P)


After defeating Gigavolt Man-o-War at the Dynasty Stage, the heroes got these weapons:

X: Thunder Dancer

Axl: Plasma Gun

Zero: Raikousen

I still have yet to fight the Avalanche Yeti in the snowy level. It’s really fun and I get a lot of metals in this stage, but 98% of the time that the characters die, it’s because they fall into one of the pits. I haven’t reached the Maverick yet in this stage since I keep falling into the pits. Well, it is the last Maverick. Meanwhile I wanted to at least acquire X’s other armor parts so he can be powered up to fight harder bosses. There is still one other weapon X needs to find along with the last special weapon. Is it the Giga Attack chip? I dunno.

In the Mining stage, I found a breakable rock that was blocking some barrels, behind which there was a capsule. I wanted to get to it, but that big ol’ Mechanaloid was trying to shoot at X and Axl. After fighting that big thing as a sub-boss, I checked back after it started walking away, then found that the rock was gone. I was able to burn up the barrels and get to the capsule, where X got his Body Parts I.

There are still three areas/stages that have an item X still needs: Pitch Black, Primrose, and Booster Forest. I thought I’d still have to get one in Inferno too (the Burn Rooster stage) but I ended up getting that one that night as well. It took a while since there were a lot of spikes on the walls and on the floors to avoid. I had to go down a few levels, and then jump to a wall on the side and wall-jump up alternate sides to avoid spikes on either side. So Axl was the best go-to-Reploid for this stage. Axl is basically like insurance. Hah hah ha! Right before this wall, Axl had to fall then I had to push the hover button (X for a second jump) to hover over to the side wall. And I had to time it right or Axl would fall onto the spikes. After at least thirty deaths, Axl manages to get to where the capsule is, and X obtained his Foot Parts H. Dr. Light’s hologram tells X that these will help him “gain speed in movement.” I tried it out, and it certainly does.

After saving, and Chip Development, I went to the stage select to just do a brief play in the Intermission for the prologue stage. But it turned out, that there was an emergency intermission for the Inferno Stage! A hole developed in the volcano and X and the others are needed to see how deep it goes. It was almost 2am. I said, why the hell not, this will be the last thing I do before I stop playing for the night. I chose Zero, and big mistake. HE doesn’t run as fast as the other characters because he is carrying his saber with him. Ergh, sloooowww! After a few times with Zero, I tried X with his new foot parts and I can definitely feel the difference in the speed. He got more metals than Zero too. After those, I had enough and stopped playing for the night.

This game is so much fun! One of these days though, I’d like to return to Mega Man X3 or Mega Man X4 again. I love the music and game play for both.

Mega Man X8 on May 27

Yay!!! Axl never disappoints me. :3  Mega Man X8 is fun because of him.

I’ve defeated a couple more Mavericks in this session: Earthrock Trilobite and Burn Rooster. I also acquired some parts for X’s armor.

I found the Neutral Armor in the Optic Sunflower stage. I needed Axl’s help because it might have required his hovering skills to get to the area where it was. There was a barrier blocking access to the capsule. Alia tells Axl and X that they need something that can break it, and I immediately figured that it was X’s gravity weapon that would do the trick. So I tried it, and it worked! :)  I’ve been wondering what those things were because they didn’t look like capsules I would recognize in the earlier Mega Man X games. So after getting to this first capsule, X got the Neutral Armor and Buster Part H.

I knew where another capsule was, so after this, I exited the stage (since I beat the maverick here) and went right to the Prologue stage. I brought X in with his Neutral Armor and of course, Axl my boo. In this capsule X gets Buster Part I. The Dr. Light hologram tells X that this chip can allow him to power up his special weapons into charge attacks. That is gonna be swwweeeeeeeeeet! I’ve tried out the ones I have and I can't wait to have X put them to practical use!  I feel good when I figure out which of the special weapons works on a difficult ememy or barrier.

Oooo, I love Axl’s rainbow attack weapon. I forgot what it’s called (I should have taken notes last time. Next time I’ll just write down the attacks that all the characters have up to the point I’ve played.). When Axl shoots, it bounces off walls and gets enemies that are hard to reach from an awkward angle. Its three shots at a time though, but after a second Axl can shoot more. Again, Axl has proved very valuable in this video game. WHY DON’T PEOPLE LIKE AXL?!!!

Again, when I write down the weapons Axl/X/Zero got, I’ll update this post :)

EDIT 6/4 :  Here they are!

Here are the weapons I got for each character up to this point:
X

• X-Buster

• Shining Ray

• Squeeze Bomb

• Shadow Runner

• Melt Creeper

• Crystal Wall

• Green Spinner



Axl

• Axl’s Weapon

• Ray Gun

• Spiral Magnum

• Black Arrow

• Flame Burner

• Bound Blaster

• Blast Launcher

• Copy shot



Zero

• Zero’s Weapon

• Tonshouha

• Juuhazan

• Rasetsusen

• Enkoujin

• Rekkyoudan

• Youdantotsu

MEGA MAN X8 + OMG AXL IS SO COOL!!!

Mega Man X is happy that Amethyst Anne

has returned to playing his video game series.

When it comes to playing Mega Man X8, Axl is my boo.

It was time I finally returned to playing a video game in the Mega Man X series. I think I need a break from Dissidia Final Fantasy, as fun as that game can be. My love for the Mega Man X series has weakened the longer I went without playing any of it.

The last time I tried Mega Man X8  (MMX 8 here for Amazon.com) was sometime last year in February. I was trying out the game to make sure it was a working copy, since it was used and in very good condition. It worked like a charm; however I started the game in NORMAL mode, so it wasn’t impossible, but it was frustrating. I never made it past the prologue stage, and I was still getting used to Axl’s controls.

Well, when I started this game again, I chose EASY mode. And I went to the Options Menu to change a couple of button controls for the controller configuration. I wanted to switch characters using the R2 button because I am used to switching weapons on other games with that button. I kept the “switch weapons” control to its original L1/R1 buttons. It made the tag-team game play so much easier. I usually, er, maybe never changed configuration for video game controllers, but I wanted to make things easier for myself if I wanted to have fun with this game. I am also pleased that the game play is side-scrolling style, yet the game play’s graphics are in 2.5D and the colors are very vivid and rich. I’d like to think that the voice acting is decent, especially with Lucas Gilbertson’s Zero being just right for him. Axl’s and X’s voices are agreeable to me as well.

Everyone starts out already having the DASH move! Yippeeeeee!

I was so excited to play as Axl, the third Reploid in the Mega Man X threesome…0.O I almost always choose Axl first when I go through the Character Select. I didn’t even get to play this character in MMX: Command Mission yet, so I was so happy I could play as Axl from the very beginning. Here are some reasons why I love playing as Axl in MMX 8 (and why he should have been popular):

• Auto-shooting (non-stop bullets)

• Auto-shooting in ANY direction

• Great chance of large-numbered combos during attacks

• Weapon and Special Weapons don’t use Weapon Energy

• Hovering

• Hovering + shooting

• Hovering  + moving

• He’s just so awesome.

The Options Screen has such beautiful, calming music, much like music that helps promote brain waves that can help a listener fall asleep. It is a good change from always having loud or fast music in the levels or the results screen. I don’t need to change anything else in the game, so I occasionally go to the Options Screen just to listen to that relaxing music :D  MMX 8 has a great music soundtrack. I fell in love with the music track used for the Bamboo Pandamonium stage.

Here are the stages in which I’ve beaten the bosses so far in my personal order:

• Bamboo Pandamoniom

• Optic Sunflower

• Graviy Antonion

• Dark Mantis

I still need to find X’s Neutral Armor and some items that I can’t seem to find now. I am getting the hang of playing as Zero since he wields the Z-Saber instead of shooting. I enjoy playing as all three characters, and as I’ve said, I love playing as Axl most of all because of his hover ability and endless weapon energy. Sometimes I have to decide that a stage can do without Axl, and X needs some more fighting to do together with his buddy-pal Zero. I have a suggestion though: use Axl and Zero in the Avalanche Yeti stage because they have the best shooting weapons for the stage. This stage is also a good way tol collect lots and lots of Metals. Those Metals are important for creating things call Power Chips that enhance X, Zero and Axl on their missions.

I am going to be having a lot of fun with this game :)  So I will write more about it in the near future as I play further into the game.

 

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A couple of funny Mega Man videos...

I saw these videos recently and I wanted to share them with you guys :3




Here's the link to its site on You Tube




Here's a link to a funny Mega Man X8 fan video:  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQLaC-bITOc

Trying Mega Man X8 and Mega Man X Command Mission

I tried out Mega Man X8 and Mega Man X Command Mission to see if those used games worked.  They both work beautifully.  In the cinematic intro scene for Mega Man X8, X’s face reminds me of the main character Takeru from the sci-fi anime Freedom.  I didn't get too far in the first level, and I used both "retry chips"; I'll start again from the very beginning, I don't mind.  The game play is fun and I enjoy using Axl’s hovering ability when shooting enemies that are in mid-air.  Aww, Axl is helping X out, how sweet.

     But X belongs to Zero…:3

I looooooove the music from Mega Man X Command Mission.  I waned to dance to it at a few points. And it’s an RPG genre game, so…yuh know…RANDOM BATTLES. [Dead pan] NOOOOOOO.  But I deal with it.  I want to know what happens in the story anyway, and plus, the random battles are extra opportunities to level up and get, uh… “zenny” (that’s money, I guess).  It took me a while to realize that the blue, green and yellow crystal-like things were containers with items in them.  I didn’t know a dash could open them up until I was near done with the first mission, or something.

At the end of every battle, X says, “[Sigh] I did it!!” and punches the air with his…cannon arm thing.  This is cute now, but I might get sick of it later and hope he starts saying something different from “I did it!”  I'll try to remember to use my voice recorder again.

Reminder:  I must charge my PSP’s battery.  Must play Crisis Core: FFVII but I’m enjoying playing tooooo much Mega Man X….

Crazy about Mega Man X and Zero!!!

Crazy about Mega Man X!! And Zero!!!

I received my March 2010 issue of Nintendo Power, #252, and on page 11, there is news about a DS video game collection called Mega Man Zero Collection.

This is a picture of MMZero's Zero I scanned

from the March issue of Nintendo Power.  I thought it

was a cool pose Zero had.

     I have to say something:  my sister and I are loosely Mega Man fans. We knew of the games, and read about them in video game magazines in the early and mid-1990s, but we never played them. In fact, the Mega Man X series were on the Super NES and the first PlayStation, and then the last two, X7 and X8, were on the Playstation 2, and back then we didn’t have a PS2.  Furthermore, around the years 1995 and 1996 we knew of an animated Mega Man cartoon from ADV films, or DIC or something. "Super fighting robot...Mega Man!!"  If I remember correctly (or not), it used to air on Saturdays on channel 11 at 11 o’clock.  But we didn’t watch it.  Anime wasn’t new to us; we just weren’t used to it at the time. A video game character in an animated show?  Wow!

     So why am I talking about this? We've re-discovered Mega Man X because of the March issue of Nintendo Power, and Zero became a quick favorite.  On YouTube I looked at some tribute AMVs that used content from the MMX series and MMX Command Mission (they are here and here).  The animation looks cool, and I wouldn’t mind going back to side-scrolling again.  Just Friday night I decided to buy the Mega Man X Collection and maybe MMX Command Mission from GameStop.com.  The next morning I woke up, and decided to get both games.

     I ended up buying not only the MMX Collection (GameStop) and MMX Command Mission, but also MMX 8 (the last two from Amazon.com). I read the reviews for it in Amazon.com and I’m like, Hell yeah, I’ll get that too. MMX 7, I am not going to worry about. I KNOW that I don’t want to miss out on the MMX series, because if it weren’t for the other titles, like the Jak and Daxter series, Kingdom Hearts/II, Devil May Cry 3, Chaos Legion, Final Fantasy VII/X/XII, all these ….. It’s not like the Sonic Mega Collection Plus where I played five of the six SEGA Genesis games already.  I haven’t’ played any of the MMX games before.  They will all be new to me. And yay, unlockables!

     I just hope the disc works very well. MMX Command Mission and MMX 8 I ordered through Amazon.com because I could choose the condition I wanted: Like New or Very Good. And it should have an instruction manual. I don’t care if it’s not in its original box.  Maybe the disc may be used, but should still be playable.  These games are available only as used copies, and if they are new, the price is up the roof.

     So, you’ll occasionally be reading about my experience playing the Mega Man X games. I guess it was a good idea to wait till there was a collection available on the PS2 so I can save money. I never had a Super NES or a PSone, so this collection is awesome. I won’t get it until the first half of March, but that is okay. I have other games to keep me busy in the meantime.

Link (To where I learned about Zero)
Link  (Another Zero webpage.  I should find some with Mega Man X himself...)
 
Link (Okay, here's plenty of main blue-bot Mega Man X...)