Mega Man X (1993)

This interview covers basically everything I can say about the Mega Man franchise.

Mega Man X was the first game in the new series generated by Capcom. It came out while Mega Man was still thriving. I love the Mega Man X franchise so much more than the Mega Man franchise, and I think it is because the Mega Man X character had more abilities which made moving around much more fun than simply running and jumping like the Mega Man franchise.

Mega Man is about shooting and killing your enemies as you progress through the levels which are platforming levels. The end of each level has a boss which you are supposed to kill. Once you kill the boss, you gain his power, and you are supposed to utilize that weapon power to kill the next boss, who may or may not have a weakness to that weapon power. Rinse, and repeat until you get through each level. There are eight levels in the game, resulting in eight bosses. Once you've killed all the bosses, there is a final boss level, usually with more than one stage and smaller bosses at the end of each stage until you finally get to the ultimate final stage and kill the true final boss, thus beating the game.

Mega Man X builds on the mechanics that Mega Man gameplay has. It doesn't change very much of the mechanics at all. However, what made it great was the additional movement mechanics which allow the player to traverse through levels which are much more complex and contain much more verticality than any of the prior Mega Man games contained released before it. Plus, it looked more awesome because it came out on the SNES, while the Mega Man games released before it were all on the NES. So that extra power of the SNES allowed the Mega Man X franchise to look much more polished and have better sound, and overall a better look and feel.

I love the soundtrack from the Mega Man franchise, and the Mega Man X franchise is no different!

Excellent game, and I strongly suggest you give it a try if you can!