Should I get Maverick Hunter X?

Ehhh. I want too many things.

I just bought the Mega Man X Collection this past February, and even though I am almost done with MMX, I have been thinking about also getting Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X. Why? Because it has added anime scenes in the events of the game. I learned about that in, um, where DID I learn about that? Was it Amazon.com? I think it was.  Anyway, I am leaning towards getting it because of that and the improved graphics. And more Zero. So yay.

Besides, I think I might beat it faster than the first time through of playing MMX. I am familiar with the order of the bosses I have to defeat. Plus I can play Mega Man X on the go (in other words, if the TV with the game consoles are being used at the time I want to play, that is was the PSP is good for =P ). For me, this is the year of Mega Man X. I can’t get enough of this X series.

But when am I going to return to (heh, start) Mega Man X: Command Mission and Mega Man X8? I still have those. Well, since I certainly know it will take me and my sister almost forever to finish X1-X6, I could probably start MMX Command Mission and X8 at any time. I think MMX:Command Mission first, since it comes before X8. Although…I do like X8’s side-scrolling format…

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...)