Mega Man X4 (1997)

Status peshti Feb 21, 2021

I finished this first time as a kid, I can't remember if it was on PC or PS1. However now I got a saturn so I played it on that.

It took some time for me to get used to the controls, maybe it's because I'm new to the Saturn console, I don't know but I got used to it …

I finished this first time as a kid, I can't remember if it was on PC or PS1. However now I got a saturn so I played it on that.

It took some time for me to get used to the controls, maybe it's because I'm new to the Saturn console, I don't know but I got used to it and it felt extremly tight when I did.

It's honestly kinda crazy how well this game holds up today, it's still really enjoyable, not many cheap deaths etc because of how little you seen on screen etc.

Another thing that suprised me is that I prefer to play as Zero, it's a really fun and smooth playthrough.

The game is not too hard or too easy, the balance is pretty good.

However once you know the boss weakness of each level it gets pretty easy to finish the game.

The only thing is that the cutscenes feels kinda bad, especially the voice acting but it's at the same time kinda charming.

I can easily recommend you to play this game today, it's really that good!

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Status NotRegret May 18, 2018

This is where the X series peaked, it went down hill pretty fast after a different staff started handling in X5. If you like the X series be sure and play the best!

There isn't too much of a quality difference with the first 4 X games in stage design. They were all very fast paced with tons of unique …

This is where the X series peaked, it went down hill pretty fast after a different staff started handling in X5. If you like the X series be sure and play the best!

There isn't too much of a quality difference with the first 4 X games in stage design. They were all very fast paced with tons of unique environmental hazards, enemies, or mini-boses. But this is definitly one of the better ones: no gimmicks like ride-armor chip hunts, no health sponge enemies that slow down the action, the most and best uses of verticle stage design and the best platforming segments (an aspect that was very underdeveloped in the X series). What really pushes this over as the best X4 is how it's by far the most visually appealing. With beautiful environments like the jungle area with a rainbow over the waterfall, a level that consists of jumping between small aircrafts and boarding the mother ship, and all done with fantastic pixel art in high resolution with plenty of color (color usage become kind of repulsive after X4).

To top it off it's got the best and deepest movement in the series. In addition to dashes and air dashes you can do a hover which gives you more options for verticle levels or air-born enemies.

They also cut down on e-tank grinding. There's only 2 e-tanks instead of 4 and they fill up much faster. It's also hardest game in the series, with less cheesy boss weapons, a more conservative level of stat-boosting allowed, and bossse that are less pattern based, as well as getting tougher attacks at low health.

Zero is playable and has a totally different approach, with melee attacks and rather than getting new guns with limited ammo unlocks new melee moves. Action games rarely balance out range and melee characters, but this game does it perfectly.

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