Every Mega Man X Level Ranked From WORST To BEST 

McWhalen's stage gets me thinking: *Why the hell didn't they just remove the submarine after beating it once, and just make the whole thing scrolling?*

The gap in quality between the good stages and the bad stages is just staggering.

I'm pleasantly surprised to see Sky Lagoon so high on the list as it's always been my personal favorite opening level in the series, though admittedly I might be biased because of its top tier music.

I'd love to see a list like this for the zero/zx series.

Just started watching the video, already glad to see Duff McWhalen's stage next to dead last. It's one of the first stages I'd associate with the sentence "This level ****ing blows."

Honestly, I think that Zero dying in Sigma Fortress 1 from MMX was more effective in terms of the story, it represented that X now had to face everything by himself.

The coolest thing about wire sponge's stage is if you have speed burn or bubble crab's weapon on those orbs it will change the weather. I also didnt realize that wheel gator's stage has a day to night transition

The fact it takes 12 minutes to get to the doughnut stage's rank is kind of terrifying in regard to the quality of everything that came before.

I went straight to Top 10, and boy, I agree with many things you said. But, for me, X Sky Lagoon is easily the best level ever made. Playing Mega Man since it's humble beginnings, I was in awe when i played Sky Lagoon for the first time: The graphics, the scale, explosions! Everything was perfect, than comes the music: X Intro Stage music is ABSOLUTE PERFECTION!

Amazing video from start to finish, i was honestly surprised to see X3's levels get so high and not see many of X2's levels higher up than they were, considering they were my favorite levels out of the X series. Neat thing about Boomerang Cutter from MMX- if you're falling when you use it, it goes down with you, but if you're standing still or jumping, it'll go up with you.

X5, X6, X7 and X8 have a big competition where they each try to come up with the most shitty idea for a level

It is incredible how much you love this video game franchise. An immense work has been done by you, thank you! Now ranking all of the bosses should be a no brainier 👌

Despite it's NUMEROUS flaws, Mega Man X 6 opening level is one of the most memorable for me. And Volcano from X4 was a thrill even though I always had trouble with the Ride Armor. I just sucked back then. But the music?! Oh my God I love it.

You actually don't need all 3 characters to get every secret in Avalance Yeti's stage without the switching glitch. You can just combine Zero's airdash and Raikousen EX skill to get enough distance to make the jump. It doesn't make the miniboss any less tedious, but you do at least only need to experience it once.

I just had a shocking realisation: X7 is 20 years old now.

Storm Eagle truly has best everything. Best stage, best music, best boss fight, best weapon, its all there😊😊😊😊

Good list! I do agree the X1 to X4 levels just had a magical element to it.

Was extremely happy to see Cyber Peacock's stage in the top 2, cause it's easily my favorite Mega Man stage of all time for numerous reasons. Really good video! Definitely looking forward to the Classic Mega Man retrospective

This rules man, would love to see you do this for zero! I’m sure that’d be exhausting to do, especially soon after this though.

20:08 - X's Shining Ray also melts the ice. The reason you need Zero is to double jump up there in the first place. Also you can use Zero's Raikousen from an airdash to get over to the platform on the left without using Axl or the air tag exploit. X8's stages are definitely its biggest problem, for sure, but it does a lot right in other areas.

You ranked Squid Adler higher than Jet Stingray??? I agree with most of the rankings, but this? Adler's bike segment is beyond frustrating, especially if going for the barrier jewels, not to mention the insanely slow level afterwards with the colored locks.

This was an absolute treat! I really enjoyed hearing your thoughts on all of 'em, though it makes me a little bit sad realizing that X6 could have been pretty good if it hadn't been a messy rush job. Also, I think the hype of X8 is because it's a game that's pretty okay... that was the follow-up to X6 and X7, so I think for a lot of people, the fact that the series was starting to reorient itself at all ends up making it stand out positively to a lot of people

i think leaving the soundtrack and presentation out of the equation was a mistake, it really can elevate a lot of stages, weapon center x6 is a great example, it's really not complex or somenthing like this, but the epic sounstrack and the massive robot in the background and the beautiful images really elevates the experience above some others that had a better score

Great rankings all around. I did find it entertaining watching through the whole video just to see how far each X game will last throughout the rankings and while wasn't a surprise seeing the first 4 X games outlast the rest, X5 and X6 surprisingly made it farther onto the list than I expected.

I find it fascinating that the X subseries seems to contain both the best and worst of the Mega Man franchise. Great video as usual!

Now I need a ranking of the music from every Mega Man X level.

As someone who found X2 and X3's level designs too difficult and unfair (for context, I'm good at most of the other X games and REALLY good at the Zero and ZX games), you're *really* making me wanna play X2 and X3 again.

About Crimson Palace, you don't have much health in the B-Roll. Also, something really weird about it is how at the junction you can go to either the long platforming segment with the turtles and the sonic towers that knock you over, or you can just go the other way for a short beat down room with a bunch of Ride Armor dudes that's way shorter. That said, I'll gladly take it over basically any of the auto-scrollers if time isn't a concern. It would be so nice if there were a hack of X5 that at the very least makes it so that if you re-enter Duff's stage after clearing the boss, you just enter at the non-autoscrolling section to bypass the first two parts. Funny thing about Palace Road is that Mole Bore is absurdly weak to Explosion. Recycle Lab is a right hassle without Hyper Dash. Something helpful to know about Dynasty is that your amount of boosts are increased with Weapon Energy upgrades, so getting those first can make it easier to ram your face into Man-O-War and close it in under a minute. Damage boosting is frankly just what you do in X7 since Triple Barrier is so ridiculous and Shock Buffer also helps. Voluntary invincibility is also just a thing that significant enemies should not be able to do, relating to Radio Tower specifically. X can get past that Gate's Lab 2 gap without parts, but it really seems like he's not supposed to be able to. I think Shadow Armor also can, but again if it can it really doesn't seem like it's meant to. One of the reploids in Cyber Field is annoying for having a Weapon Energy Up but being past one of the walls that Axl needs to A-Trans to go through, so if you want X or Zero to have it then you need to go through the wall, wait for A-Trans to fizzle out, switch, grab the Reploid, then switch back and get A-Trans again. Very annoying. In Lava Factory, Leon is an annoying one to get ahold of if you don't just face tank something small and rush in with Triple Barrier. Something good to know about Hyenard, while the antlers of his mech cannot be targeted that doesn't mean they can't be destroyed. Get rid of both of them and it'll stop firing missiles which makes Hyenard less cumbersome to fire at. In Air Force, most reliable way I've noted to get that Heart Tank is to stand on the right yellow/orange bar on the center of the craft. The collectibles do make a noise, just a very quiet one. Jakob is really stupid to get an AAA on if you don't know to stack No Damage Clear and EX Finish to inflate your rank. Speaking of No Damage Clear, getting that on Central White is one of the worst things in the series. Don't do it. Inferno is the worst autoscroller in terms of presentation because of how you can fall off the bottom of the screen, your character explodes, and then a platform rises up from the bottom of the screen in the exact vertical position where the explosion occurred such that you obviously would've just landed on that platform if it weren't autoscrolling. No excuse for that, not at all. Something you didn't mention is that in order to get the Rare Metal that requires Zero, you also need another Rare Metal. Which one? The one you need Axl for in the same stage. It's X5 all over again, is what it is. Acknowledgement of Central Museum being bad. Quick Lasers did not need not being able to see the entire screen at once. Regarding Primrose, I'm pretty sure you're meant to get to the Light Capsule by stacking boxes rather than trying to air dash or whatever. Planetarium actually doesn't have slowdown on the X Collection, go figure. You can also absolutely use the Falcon Armor to bypass the platform, there's enough space to reset your flight without it being too tight. That snail shaft is the worst thing in X3. Literally at a snail's pace. Booster Forest has an easier No Damage Clear by the game's standards than it seems at face because the Ride Armor getting damaged doesn't count so you can just plow through with that. Regarding Hornet's X3 stage, I genuinely find it faster to just do Beetle first because backtracking for that Heart Tank actively takes less time than sitting through the box loading segment, or at least it feels like it does. My hot take is that Central Highway kind of sucks. It's too long for never being able to dash, and I wouldn't dissaude anyone who's already seen it through from just using a password to skip it. Regarding Central Computer, pop the robot with with Speed Burner a few times. That helps.

Since you asked, here are some of the reasons X8 is looked upon (overall) favorably by many: - Probably the most animate game in the series. From the freaking title screen to UI to enemies to boss introductions to the backgrounds of stages. Seriously, it's amazing how much goes on in this game. Swaying foliage, coursing rivers/waterfalls, birds in flight, computer monitors etc. - Dynamic lighting and camera angles. X7 may have had those first, but the execution was botched as opposed to X8. - Great sound design, which usually goes unappreciated. - Best English voice acting in the series FIGHT ME. - Dynasty might be terrible due to depth perception problems, but you can actually see what is up ahead, unlike the 2D games which with the exception of X2 hit you so often with insta death scenarios you absolutely couldn't have seen coming. - An air dash for every character by default. The freedom of movement and maneuvering this provides is awesome both for platforming and combat. - Best ride armor in the series. No debating. - *Best controls and physics in the series* FREAKING FIGHT ME. No matter how interesting or good you make the mechanics, stages, bosses and whatnot, having controls that don't measure up will always deduct major points. X8's dashing, jumping, attacking, and how all of that flows into each other is simply splendid with minimal lag and virtually no jank. - The tag team mechanic. Seriously, this is so underrated it's crazy. Gone are the days of struggling with X against crawling enemies cause Zero and Axl can easily attack those. The freedom and variety provided by this game and only this game's tag mechanic (X7's botched execution doesn’t count) is beyond awesome. - The balancing of the three characters is simply amazing. All of them have strengths that make them worthwhile and fun to play with. - The neutral armor is functionally the best X armor in the series. FIGHT ME. Great/Good effects, the ability to mix and match, you name it. - Enemies don't respawn infinitely if they go offscreen. Seriously, that was one of the most annoying aspects of previous games. And you don't need to worry about filling subtanks cause in addition to the usual way, you can charge them at the lab. - New Game Plus. Enough said. And much more. I can write a college essay on the great things X8 has. Don't get me wrong, it has a long list of problems and I can write another essay on those, but I genuinely believe the pros definitively outweigh the cons.

Almost 1 ½ hour? This video surely needs tons of effort. Nicely done!

this is the kind of video I know I'll love before even watching, keep up the good work

OMG! Finally a new content of Mega Man X! Love your videos man! I often put your reviews when I go to sleep and listen.

My guy really does NOT like X7

This was a great list! I really agreed with the majority of things. Really looking forward to the Classic Retrospective. I think I'm most looking forward to Rockman & Forte, Mega Man 7, and the Game Boy titles. Best of luck!

Spark Mandrill's stage has always been my favorite. I just really love the music and the sections where you have to shoot the flying security mechaniloids while platforming.

10:48 The first time I played this stage, I went down the bottom path, and I honestly thought that that was the main route! I didn't realize until I got to the end. And then when I did meet the actual boss, my reaction was "Wait a damn minute! Is this stage really that short!?"

Cyber Peacock's stage being so high threw me for a loop since that's my least favorite of the Maverick stages in X4. But pretty much everything else I can agree with

Great vid man, been watching your content for years, sometimes i watch your megaman x vids as bg noise despite their length, love em.

Beautifully done on this list j ❤🙂 must've been a grueling task upon replaying every stage in this series, I was honestly surprised that the first X hunter stage of X2 ranked very high, just goes to show how well made X2 is *again I'll admit it's me being biased since X2 was not only one of the very first mega man games I ever played, but also one of my very first video games i ever played, along with super Mario world* on another note I know you mentioned very briefly that once upon a time that you enjoyed classic mega man 7 more than X1, 🙂 I actually typed about mega man 7 as one of the game's that saved me from 2020, I would honestly like to share it with you, mainly because I feel that game does stand tall with the snes X trilogy 🙏🙏

Great video and analysis! Also a blast to the past to compare all the MMX games next to each other like this.

Fun fact: In X1 you can use boomerang cutter on launch octopus and cut off his tentacles. This prevents him from using his homing missiles and his tornado attacks. You can also use it on flame mammoth to cut off his trunk. This prevents him from spitting out oil and changing the direction of the conveyor belt.

I haven’t watched yet, but I love that you did this because I know Nico Evaluates never will 😂

Hell yeah! This is awesome! Btw, for the downward sections in inferno you can spam tap Axl’s guns in the air to slowly move down and avoid all the platforming, making it way easier. Edit: why didn’t you cover Vile’s stages in MHX? aren’t they different than the normal ones?

Amazing video, thank you for all the hard work into making it, hope you do a lot more of these!

X-Cellent job! The production value on this is very high and is just such a beefy video that clearly took a lot to make! The classic Mega Man retrospective will surely be awesome as well, and I'm looking forward to it!

It's really amazing how much more positive your recent megaman x videos are when compared to your old videos, it's so refreshing to just listen to someone who has the same love for these games that I do

When I watch a longer video like this I usually just have it run in the background and do something else, but ur video was really interesting so I stop what I was doing and actually paying attention. Good job man.

Super awesome video, dude! Very enjoyable watch! Great pick with Storm Eagle stage being first too!

Woah such a fantastic video and crazy amount of editing + script writing work! Your video deserves way more views and here's hoping this helps!

51:19 I have played X3 THOUSANDS OF TIMES, it has always been my fav X game of the franchise BUT I NEVER KNEW ABOUT THIS SECTION, IN THE 10 YEARS I HAVE BEEN REPLAYING THIS I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS "PLANE" IN THE GAME

Awesome video, J. Looking forward to any others like this. Any reason to dive deep into the X series works for me!

Beautiful video. The criteria shifts some things around that I didn't expect, but I think overall you had a good blend of personal opinion and systematic evaluation for each stage.

Only gotten 20 in so far, but seeing how every level so far is from the latter half of Megaman X, it really shows the difference in quality in X Legacy Collection volumes 1 and 2.

One of my favorite things in frost walrus’ stage is seeing blizzard buffalo & chill penguin frozen in the background. A pretty neat thing to spot whenever you do

Great video I loved watching it all and love to see more Megaman rankings

My personal favorite level of all time is Jungle Facility from X5, Axle the Red stages. This stage has just about everything going for it. I love rose aesthetics, the music is great, I love Axle the Red’s design, I love that it’s set at sunset which is rare in video games, his fight is hard but in a genuine way and not a bullshit way, and he’s named after my favorite Guns N’ Roses member 😅

Always a joy to see new videos from this channel

I noticed how there are more X4 levels on the high end. Well done, you passed the test

30:52 So about the slow motion thing, this is actually unintentional. The Mega Man X Collection on PS2 fixes the slowdown from the PS1 version, which served as the base for the new collection, which brings the slowdown back as a result.

love the editing here!

Holy shit, the editing really improved. This was a fun video to watch, and while I disagree with some placements (like all of X8's), it was fun to watch a video like this, especially since it's not a type of video you make often. oh also first

Hey. For a little bit lore. Storm eagle was the onely one who was reluctant to serve Sigma but since he was the commander under Sigma force. He challenge X for a duel to death to keep his pride Another lore from X4 forst walrus. At the entrance of the stage, you will see blizard buffalo frozen. In X3 we didn't killed blizzard buffalo and blast hornet. They joined maverick hunter but blast hornet die during the encounter with the dragon intro stage. After return X and Zero fight because of thr conflict idea. X want to confront repliforce and Zero want a peace talk with them. They separate and buffalo join either who you are playing with to confront frost walrus, frost walrus threatened to destroy maverick hunters and try to kill X/Zero. Buffalo sacrificed to save X/Zero. The stage play after to revenge for blizzard buffalo

Great video as always! Perhaps a boss weapon tier list would be nice? Just a suggestion for your future content.

Awesome video, J! Do you have any plans to do another video like this for the stages in the Zero and ZX titles by chance? :)

Have you considered ranking the music for each stage? Some of these are real bangers.

I've been patiently waiting for more Mega Man content and this did not disappoint. I'm PSYCHED for the Classic review series!

Let me start by saying how much I love and appreciate your videos. I discovered you when I was starting to go through the X Legacy Collections, which has been on my goals for quite some time. It was super helpful to see the no-backtracking and minimal backtracking guides for X2 and X3 respectively. That out of the way, I personally would have put Central Museum lower on the list. But to be fair... I didn't learn until about 2 hours later that you could destroy those damn metal blocks with an anchor attack... The Museum took me about 2 hours of grinding, and that was with me getting the lucky all collectibles on the first run. This was simply due to me getting into one of the rooms, crushed by a super narrow gap of the metal block. Then trying to climb through the block but instead clipping through it to take another big hit to my health, and repeating. I still didn't end up hating X6 as much as I thought I would... but when the stages were bad... hoo boy were they bad.

It would've been interesting to see how you would rank the various chapters of MMXCM as levels in tandem with the levels on this list just to see how you would rank them among all these levels as well.

Awesome video! love you MM content!!

Now I patiently and eagerly await ranking all the bosses of the X series!

48:00 I'd actually disagree. Zero dying in sigma stage 1 gave the following sigma stages in X1 a more somber tone. Having him die in the last sigma stage sort of destroys the vibe and mood the sigma stages in the original game had.

I always do wheel gator first and get the arm upgrade and heart tank while i'm at it too. The trick to dash wall jump to the arm upgrade area is to look at the rivets at the wall, that way you can find a spot that works every time.

Not really relevant to the video at all but I just wanna say J's reviews is so amazing to me because we're both the same age and had all of the same media interests as me growing up (minus JRPGs) and its also just nice to see one of my peers give such well executed critical commentary on topics I was never really able to discuss as a kid ,because everyone I knew only played a handful of video games for fun and I was considered a hater if my opinion on a game wasn't just its good or bad.

idk if you made one already, bu i would love to see a boss ranking, or even a classic megaman stage and boss ranking. Anyway great video.

Honestly X4-X6 had the best in my eyes, alot of variety and uniqueness, cool enemies and bosses, Decent challenge etc... Yes, even X6, Gate's laboratory is one of my favorite still. And recycle lab wasn't bad at all, It is pretty unique and allowed for more strategic approach, It's not great but not at the bottom tier.

You mentioned blasting through X3 with the charged buster, right? Have you tried blasting through it with Spinning Blade? That weapon is deceptively powerful at close range, allowing X to tap into his inner Zero (despite the fact that Zero is in the game) and play the game as a close range fighter.

I think Chill Penguin's stage becomes SO much better when you're doing a run of Mega Man X where you try and avoid getting the dash for as long as possible, or at the very least for some of the stages. Keep in mind, the game starts with it's cursor on a different stage, and there's nothing IN GAME that tells you about Chill Penguin's stage. And because of that, what blows my mind with Mega Man X1 is how not only was every stage built to be fun and fair with the dash, but they're all fun WITHOUT the dash as long as you're used to the classic Mega Man game's difficulty curve. And you just end up getting better at it, because of Zero's words of encouragement. But even if you can't do a level, you always have another level to try. So, after checking out each level and maybe succeeding with a few, and generally just playing the whole game like a classic Mega Man game but with the wall jump and an occasional permanent health upgrade being the big distinctor... out of NOWHERE, the game puts an item capsule in the middle of a random level, revealing a HUGE amount of lore that COMPLETELY recontextualises X as a character, but also reveals that all over the game there were even MORE powers that you missed and can get now. Zero's words of encouragement weren't metaphorical, they were shockingly literal. Suddenly, the world is your oyster, and waiting for the reveal makes this feel like SUCH an awesome and significant moment that doesn't impact the player nearly as hard when you go for Chill Penguin's stage first. Mega Man X1's structure feels incredibly underappreciated, if you ask me. Or at the very least, it's not talked about enough considering how everybody talks about the game like players will or should go to Chill Penguin's stage first. The game does such an awesome job showing the player the strength and potential of the new gameplay ideas, not just through a tutorial level, but by demonstrating it's potential with how the game feels to play. And it does it by taking the really fucking hard route and making it's levels fun both with and without a major control option. No shortcuts taken, they just did it with raw good level design. If you want more platforming challenge in X1 levels, then do the game without the dash! It's why the game doesn't have a focus on it, since the game's hard jumps are made easy with the dash. And just as much as I find it incredible that the game is fun without the dash, I find it amazing that the dash doesn't completely ruin the level design, since platforming wasn't the biggest focus anyways. The levels still have a huge sense of identity and purpose, and I honestly love it. Once you have the dash, levels are focused on trying to maintain flow and not run into enemies, which is perfectly fair and fun if you ask me. And it wasn't a big enough part of the game's identity for the dash to completely ruin it, because if anything a lot of the bigger challenges just play differently. For example, Storm Eagle's stage demands more precision since using the dash you can overshoot due to how narrow the platforms are and how you've spent less time taking out enemies. But using it also cuts down on wait times for the platforms. And Armor Armodillo's stage doesn't HAVE platforming challenge without the dash, but it does when you don't since the spike pits become jumps you gotta think a little bit for. Less platforming precision, and more about maintaining flow and not running into enemies like a moron. And there are even levels that give the challenge of maintaining the flow of the dash even WITHOUT that upgrade! I think it makes Sting Chameleon's stage and Armor Armodillo's stages more fun to play, since both of them give challenges that foreshadow how the game plays without the dash. The ride armor is awesome in Sting Chameleon's stage since with it you can dash despite not having the upgrade. And Armored Armodillo gives you an extreme version of how Mega Man X1 plays with it's dash with how the minecart segments make you move fast against a bunch of enemies that you don't want to run into. Giving Chill Penguin's stage more complexity than being simple and linear would have taken away from its purpose, and I think people miss how awesome the stage's actual purpose is when they miss the dash. Subsequent Mega Man X playthroughs for me have focused on clearing the game with as few upgrades as possible, and I think it's actually super fun. It easily should have ranked higher just for how much of a game changer it is. The later games were probably right to make the dash standard, but X1's general design is honestly just so cool to me. That part of its design deserves more attention, and so do 0% runs. Also, for some reason I find Storm Eagle's first fight to be way easier when I don't have the dash. When you know his pattern, just walking is all you should really need to be able to avoid his attacks, as long as you're smart enough to know when to jump. So using the dash actually makes my positioning less precise and it tends to make me make mistakes more. It's not the same story for his rematch, oddly enough, since the arena is placed higher and you HAVE to dash to avoid his swoop move there. Which is fair to do because the dash is mandatory there. But everybody loves Storm Eagle.

_"So you like Rockman?"_ *_"Name EVERY stage."_*

Watched the whole thing and really enjoyed the ride. Great work!

X5 developers: "Let's have a capsule in Tidal Whale's stage only be obtainable through his weapon, and then have you go through the first half of the stage again".

This was a fun watch. Thanks for posting.

Lol, you made me remember from X5's Jungle Facility area where I thought the Vine enemy were cheap and unfair BUT it was because that time we would have square TVs, and it was set to "fill the screen" (whatever it means) instead of showing the normal 4:3 entire screen, so in that level I wouldn't normally see the tips of the spikes because they were off screen for me, LOL. Not many years after, 16:9 would arrive but my family would always set the screen on Widescreen because it was "pretty" (and you know not many games or shows were made for those screens so it would look stretched to the sides). I would set it to 4:3 whenever I play or watch something that's originally for it, but my family would bother me for changing it and saying that I liked "small screens". Smh

Toxic Seahorse's stage popped into my head randomly when I saw this title, glad it got high marks!

I think Flame Stag’s stage is one of my personal all-time favorites. It’s a short level but there’s something about it that just makes me run and gun and feel awesome. The music, the volcano exploding. It’s just an awesome level!

What a fun and clever way to rank the levels!

like always amazing megaman content from this channel 👍 i really enjoyed this video and yes i would love to see you do this for boss fights as well i think you could also do it for megaman x musics as well but not like this video that you show the level and do a commentary on it , i think it would be better if you just played the musics completely and instead of saying your reasons for placing the music at each number just write it on screen so that not only it would work as a ranking video, it could also work like a music album so people could also just listen to it in the background while doing something else , if i failed to say it in a straightforward way: a channel called "AcordingToSCIENCE" has a video named "The Top 100 Final Fantasy Songs Of All Time" and i basically want you to do that but for megaman x ( if you are interested ) by the way i am very excited that you are going to do classic megaman retrospective as well

Great list man. Looking forward to the bosses list.

Anima Gate of Memories and its sequel, the nameless chronicles are games developed by Anima project studios. They are inspired by the Witcher, nier Automata, zelda and devil may cry. I think I distinctly remember you saying that one of your favorite series is the devil may cry games. Well the combat of Anima takes heavy inspiration from devil may cry. You also shown interest in zelda in the past and this games approach towards having a grand adventure is inspired by that series. It's on Playstation, Xbox, the switch and pc, and a video on the two games in the series would be really cool. Thanks!

One thing I loved about Toxic Seahorse level in X3 is that the frost-shield from Blizzard Buffalo appears GIGANTIC underwater, it’s a super nice detail to make that weapon behave differently under the surface, aside from the charged up version that creates a floating ice block.

one thing I'd like to point out about frozen town, you can get softlocked very easily if you fail the jump to the leg parts and the snow mobile enemy freezes you at at the bottom of the slope before the boss door

One thing about Metal Valley: it's the best stage to grind metals at for all the upgrades, especially the expensive Sigma Blade, the Double Armors, and unlocking the three navigators as playable characters

Question: where did you get the stage names from? They feel official but I dont recall any of the games mentioning the actual names besides the Final stages + a few stages from X8.

This video was just so good to watch. Gonna take a while to finish, but man it’s making me want to replay the games all over again, except X7. X6 I have a huge soft spot for. One of the first I played to completion. Crazy right? Considered one of the worst. But I loved it as a kid, and still play it a lot.

cool list vid lol that highest rank you gave an X3 stage was #4 wowow hah i knew i was going to be able to guess what your top ranked stage was , thought it was either armadillo or storm eagle stage XD

I found you around RE4 remake so its good to know you make megaman content too 😎 love the X games specifically

In case you didn't already know. Those dissappearing platforms are called Yoku Blocks.

Pretty good video that was worth the wait, but I'm surprised that you didn't mention that it's possible to actually beat the entirety of Gate's Lab with the Shadow Armor with a series of a very precise (and difficult) wall jump and a series of charged slashes and giga crushes to get across the gap, which while the normal player wouldn't know, wouldn't be too hard for a experienced player.

Well well well, we're finally going to deep dive into the others of the franchise. I'm looking forward to this. By the way J, if you're willing to answer a question, when you review megaman 1 will you be including megaman powered up in the review? Or will powered up be a separate entry like you did with maverick hunter?

Awesome video! I watched at least three times.

This is a great video! Something that I have always felt, and that your video validates, is that X5-X8 have a lot of levels that have gimmicks in which you are forced to slow down. To me, that's a factor in why those games aren't as fun to play as X1-X4. What fun is it if you have such great movement capabilities, if you don't ever really get a chance to show them off? It's as if the level designers for X5-X8 forgot or lost sight of what made the X series games so popular to begin with.