I stated my opinion and you responded as if it was directed toward you. I'd say it in your AMA thread if I wanted your negative take on something I value.
Soccer is not the same art style as 7.
Hahahaha no.
Megaman X1 and X2 are the only good titles? The worst part about this is leaving out X4. But also X3 and X5 are great games.
The above responses are a good example of why you need to just have a look for yourself! Maybe watch a brief retrospective or short clips of gameplay and see what appeals to you.
I mean aside from the Z Buster in 1, the roaming X Hunters in 2, and some optional boss gimmicks and the armor chips in 3, the series doesn't start punishing you for walking unprepared into problems you had no prior knowledge of, passing undisclosed cutoff points, and your general collection habits until 5 or 6.
You really don't need to have played the classic series to properly enjoy X. It's an indirect sequel, as the latest entries in the classic series don't necessarily rationally lead into the X series. A great many decades have passed, and Mega Man X is a later creation of the late Dr Light and a different protagonist. The wider range of movement and combat abilities may ruin the classic series for you should you later decide to return to it, though.
I'm tempted to try and blitz through some of the older MegaMan titles before I try out X. I've had the issue of trying to return to clunkier titles before and I did always plan on carrying on those classic games after enjoying the first two.
It's worth noting that there are "modern" classic series titles; 7 has an updated art style on SNES, and the most recent I'm aware of is a firmly post-Wii U Switch release with 3D character and environment models to go with the series' usual 2D side scrolling vertical plane gameplay.
I don't think that's all that inconsistent with Wily's character nor his established relationship with Bass.
Still checks out indirectly, since Astro Boy wouldn’t have existed if it weren’t for Pinocchio, and Megaman wouldn’t have existed if it weren’t for Astro Boy.
Astro Boy is literally robot Pinocchio, who has been around since the 1880s.
They are both artificial humans, they’re both stand-ins for sons, they both want to have real human emotions, hell they both join the circus and get treated like shit. It’s the literal first Astro Boy comic.
I think they might both carry the disdain of their fathers for failing to meet expectations. Granted, I last read about the original Pinocchio in passing a good long while ago and have never meaningfully consumed either source material.
