Is Mega Man Maverick Hunter X The BEST Remake Of All Time? 

This is true. I was impressed and even loved the scene during the X and Zero fight with Vile.

I wouldn't go that far, but it is more enjoyable than I think most people would expect. By this point X's actor had become more natural-sounding with his portrayal, and I always enjoyed who I affectionately refer to as "Surfer Zero" from this age, although his modern actor does a fine job as well. X sounds genuinely pissed off at everything Sigma's done by the end of the game, and it sells the story even though the still images aren't as effective in that regard. Some of Dr. Light's dialogue is genuinely moving because of his delivery as well; old bastard had me getting misty-eyed at parts.

THIS HAND OF MINE IS GLOWING BLUE!

It does but I keep thinking x is going to yell gundam fight ready? whenever I hear it

@@minorfffanatic I understood that reference.... WITH THE HELP OF KYOJI!!!

There's also the fact that they were shown to have been caused by literally ripping the skin off of his robotic face in X4, and they weren't even at that. Either way, I think your explanation makes a lot of sense in context

Though your explanation makes sense, I still think the X4 version could be justified with a bit of conjecture. Since Sigma was slowly becoming a Maverick after his fight with Zero, that would have affected his psychology to the point where he may well have chosen to keep his scars. Remembering how powerful Sigma's stated to be, it's likely he never lost a battle before entering Dr. Wily's lab - thus, the damage he sustained while fighting Zero, combined with his exposure to the Maverick virus affecting his judgment, would have led to his obsession with Zero and his origins. In that case, Sigma may well have opted to keep his scars as a constant reminder to himself about Zero, almost like a religious rite. Keep in mind, all Sigma's later bodies have the scars too; he has no reason to include these scars on his new bodies unless they serve some kind of purpose to him - to reinforce to himself that he must find out how to gain Zero's power.

Honestly, I've always regarded Day of Sigma as still canon. With that, I always figured Sigma did get his iconic scars but did get them fully repaired since he was still a good guy at the time and never bothered to get the scars fixed after Day of Sigma for the much the same reasons you said while also me thinking that he simply didn't really have the time to fix because y'know *revolution* and it just stuck.

wait am i the only one who figured the scars were the evil virus flowing through him and the robot equivalent of veins lol

@@hostiusasinhostilityhostil7853 You know what? It works in both "time lines". Sigma from the classic series is a madman or well ... mad machine. This guy is the embodiment of evil so being obsessed with Zero makes sense since as we know Zero true form is a God of destruction ... On the other hand, Sigma from this soft reboot, does lean towards evolution of Reploids more than anything and is obsessed with X and his limitless potential. Sigma attempted to destroy Zero with no hesitation which hints to the fact that he probably didn't care about Zero. It actually adds a bit of novelty to both takes on the story. Original Mega Man series were more tied to Zero than what you may think ... X is there, is just the guy who fights for justice and has a soft side for Reploids and Mankind, his development isn't entirely fresh out, while Zero gets a lot of plot and main action even behind scenes: X2, X4, X5, X6. Meanwhile we can clearly see MHX giving WAY more character to X than what we have throughout 8 installments from the original series. Have we gotten full remakes / soft reboots of X2 ~> X6, then I'm sure Zero story wouldn't have been the primary focus but rather we would have seen a full story covering the battle of X against Sigma.

Yea, I definitely prefer the heaviness of X's movements. Other Mega Man games have made him feel more floaty and less satisfying

That's a pretty sweet feature, because you can do that in Street Fighter as well!

I noticed that for those miner robots but I've never seen those enemies doing that It's nice to see there's still new things to see in a game that old

Thanks for the HADOOOOKEN tip.

@@MrTheMaxness That trick where you can release a button instead of pressing it to top off a fighting game special move command is called "negative edge". Pros abuse it a lot, say, to make combos or reversals easier. But it can also get in the way.

If you fire the buster shot before the Hadoken, you're pressing the button just too early and releasing it at the actual right time. Make sure you're firmly on the final direction before hitting the button.

tbh both can work, after all the maverick virus is too important to the x lore to be throw away.

I always thought of the virus being the final straw pushing Sigma into doing what he did, together with his own philosophy shown in the OVA. Both lores can coexist as canon as long as Cain manage to escape the explosion, which could've been explained in a sequel that never came to be, unfortunatell.

the virus overall didn't become a major part till after X1 so little mention in this game makes sense edit:if this was seen twice and/or in the wrong comment, youtube on my side is screwing with the display where it seems like I posted it to a different comment so I'm hoping it's under the right comment

It's likely that the OG Maverick Virus wasn't even a thing (from a development perspective in the real world) until after X3. It's not unreasonable to assume that in-universe, the existence of the Maverick Virus wasn't public knowledge until AFTER the events of X1 (original and remake).

@@LordMetalSonic1987 there’s development document dated to X1’s development that says otherwise which states the virus and Zero were completed roughly around the same time

Yup yup. The wreckage wasn't _quite_ as obvious in the original, but it was definitely there.

The animation isn't exactly more subdued, it's just so unexpressive that it may not have even be intended to be a laugh. It just sort of rapidly opens and closes its mouth for a second before continuing. For all we know, it's reacquiring its target.

@@AzhreiVep J missed it because of the dimming effect and his own impatience, not because there were fewer scraps overall.

RE1 remake just has peak vibes omg

I have YET to see a remake more better or at least the same as Zero Mission no reason to play the original over the remake

The thing is better

Yep gotta agree to that.

@@skibot9974 but they also make flaws from Gen 2 worse rather than fixing them like the horrendous level scaling that heavily discourages catching Pokémon if they aren't legendarys and the already limited TMs became even more limited etc...

Maverick Hunter remakes of X1-X6 were planned (They were even going to have a new, better story hence why The Day of Sigma has things that are different from the original story) but because it flopped everything was canceled and they decided for Powered Up remakes of MegaMan 1-6 but that flopped as well :(

Negative response from the market, the game didn't sell well. You couldn't blame Capcom for that one.

@@ArpeggioPegasusMusic because they didn't port it to PSN/XBLA

Uhhh, having him actually be fun to play.

Agreed. It was so sad that they didn't sell well. Maverick Hunter X and Powerered Up were TOP TIER remakes. I couldn't wait for the sequels....and was sad when I found out they weren't happening :(

MZM beneficiates from the fact that Metroid is an NES game which, while it was great for its time, aged terribly badly like many of its contemporaries like Super Mario Bros. and the first Zelda. MMX came out at a time when game devs were starting to nail down that "good game feel" a lot of NES titles were lacking, and therefore couldn't be obsoleted so easily if not for a few game design mistakes which the PSP remake still made anyway (the intro stage is cool and teaches a lot about how to play the game, but is also boring to go through when you already know it). Both MZM and Maverick Hunter X came out at similar times, but the gap between the first Metroid and MZM is much bigger than that between MMX and Maverick Hunter X..

@@ArpeggioPegasusMusic Super Mario Bros "aging terribly" is a heinous statement. I cannot even begin to agree with that. Zelda 1 is arguable but I would say it aged much better than Metroid 1. Metroid 1 is barely fun at all, Zero Mission turns it into a solid game by treating it as a blueprint for something much more interesting.

@@ArpeggioPegasusMusic I know this is zoomerspeak because I was not even born when the game released, but I don't see how Metroid(1) was ever that good. It was done in like 2 weeks which is reflected in the Level-nondesign(and the few pieces of actual leveldesign are actually worse than the nondesign). And it oftentimes feels like Samus is simply not equipped to face the challenges she faces through her moveset. And then there are all of the annoying imperfections like enemies being able to follow you to the next room, thus beating you up during the door-transition. Yeah, I know that isn't the point, but I just wanted to speak my mind.

Sigma also has an interesting dynamic with X from the beginning because of his status as the first Reploid -- in other words, the first robot designed using X as a blueprint. Right from the beginning he could have a motivation to be unlike X that makes sense, because he was deliberately designed to be like him. He could even see himself as _superior_ to X, having come later, and that could be reinforced by the fact that he ends up taking command over X despite X otherwise being his senior. This would imply that Sigma becomes a Maverick of his own volition as much as anything, because it's an excuse to come into direct conflict with X to challenge his views and prove his superiority. You'd think it writes itself, until you see that they somehow managed not to.

@@MiaowGaiGar "This would imply that Sigma became a Maverick of his own volition..."

It in turn makes things like Storm Eagle and Chill Penguin turning in Day of Sigma interesting, because they seem in their right minds, not like they've just suddenly gone berserk, which implies that while some Mavericks may end up that way against their own will, at the very least some Mavericks defected because they agreed with Sigma from an ideological standpoint, or at least that it was ultimately a decision on their part; Penguin flat-out says rolling with Sigma just pays better. Eagle won't talk, but you learn later in Day of Sigma that he's a noble and honorable character, so you wonder why he ends up doing what he does, and he seems to even regret it to some extent. Even freakin' _Vile_ isn't portrayed as just a brainless rogue; when asked by Sigma at the end of his scenario what he planned to do if he actually beat X, he admits that he actually had no idea, to which Sigma doesn't even give an opinion; he just leaves while giving an order to retrieve Vile's broken body. Vile then gives himself a motivation afterward by saying that by beating X, someone whose status as "special" doesn't make any sense to him based on what he's seen of him, he in turn justifies his own existence. He's still capable of making cognizant decisions, even if his motivations are twisted. This builds on a narrative thread of a conflict that X causes without even knowing it: that despite X being a good person that pursues righteous goals, some Reploids come to resent him anyway because he makes them feel inferior or like they have to prove something in spite of him. Even in the case of Repliforce from X4, some Reploids that ultimately had the same goals as X come into conflict with him because of the politics of the world, not because were later affected by a virus or decided to cause trouble out of nowhere; they're branded Mavericks over a misunderstanding, but lean into it because they believe the reaction they received to be a symptom of a greater problem, that of oppression from humans against Reploids. X has to defeat them because he believes he should maintain peace and stop Reploid uprisings, but what that game never explores is whether he handled the situation the right way. Again, it almost seems _too_ easy to explore these themes, and the series even did do so on rare occasions, like with Gate in X6, although the atrocious translation makes it hard to know that: even though Gate does lose his mind because of the virus, his story is tragic because of what happens to him beforehand. He isn't just an evil character that wants to be evil; you learn later that he was a decent person that was screwed and sabotaged by his colleagues, causing him to become bitter and cynical about the world and opening him to the influence of the virus, creating an interesting villain, even if one that still has to be stopped. Even the eight boss Mavericks of the game are tragic, as you learn they sabotaged and murdered by the same plot against Gate, and forced to live again in service of his plan, but in many cases feeling indebted to him and _choosing_ to go through with it anyway. This kind of shit is interesting, and it just never gets its fair due. Curse you and your trademark bumbling, Capcom.

wait, i think there is much more depth to the idea of the virus corrupting the world, especially with its interaction with Z, X and sigma himself. with Z it double negatives him into a positive, with X he's immune due to his nature, and with sigma it alters his logical thinking. that's way more juice than making a standard villain even if it's a good one

furthermore X is not the only original reploid. Zero is also an original build of equal capability, just not as adaptive. but still boasts the same freedoms of learning and having feelings as X does, where reploids fall short. don't get me wrong, X is cool, but in terms of evolution sigma could chase after the krabby patty recipe for either of them and obtain similar results. the virus simply pushes sigma to pursue zero and power him up due to, well, you know. the virus is made by wily, zero is made by wily to destroy everything. stuff like that. ;)

"Answer me, X! The Undefeated Reploid!"

Sigma wasn't voiced by Master Asia in Maverick Hunter X, he was in X8.

Probably because there wasn't much planned for him after his introduction. He's the last son of Dr. Light and the template for a new species of robots with the capacity for free will, and that's it. A martial pacifist designed as a 'savior' can only develop so far in a game focused on killing evil robots. There was an idea I saw someone bring up in the X7 review where instead of just quitting the Hunters, X becomes a mechanic and starts building upgrades for younger hunters like Axl, or even his own family (which sort of happened in the Zero series with the 4 Guardians). Imagine the conflict he would go through if one of those sons or daughters turned Maverick?

@@WhiteFangofWar There wasn't much planned after Zero's introduction either. The original intention was to kill him off permanently after X1, until Inafune had him resurrected, constructing a narrative for the character mid series. The same could've been done for X. Remember that X is a pacifist who does not practice absolute pacifism, and there's narrative potential in that. That's why X's shift in X7, while somewhat of a shakeup and a potentially interesting direction to take him in, ultimately fails his character. This would all require Capcom to make a more concentrated effort on narratives constructed within the games however, something that they rarely do throughout most of their franchises.

@@WhiteFangofWar I agree that such development is unlikely to occur under his media of origin considering the publisher's disposition. Even Zero's development isn't handled as well as it could be. X's more philosophical altercations might be better explored within an animated format given Cappy's track record.

@@user-kl3us9bw3u Not like it has to be top-notch character develop, just something to get us invested in the game. I also liked the idea of X becoming a kind of surrogate for Dr. Light, trying to emulate him but struggling. In a better-written X6, Gate would have been the perfect lab-coated foil to X. Would've been amazing to have a scene in a later game where Mavericks invade hunter base and close in on X, causing him to sigh, fling his labcoat off, and amp up his Buster before easily devastating them.

I'd argue X gets one of the worst hands dealt of any character of his standing. As a character he's surprisingly nuanced and relatable, with an internal struggle that's easy to explore and get onlookers invested in: the power to do anything and the will to do what's right, but being uncertain of himself and what the right thing to do even is. He questions his power and his agency in the world, and whether his fight is in the name of justice, or is actually contributing to the world's problems. X's infinite potential and ability to choose for himself actually troubles him tremendously, because he struggles to decide what to do with himself. Despite being one of the last robots of his age, he's ironically an extremely human character. Zero is a great foil to him not because he's cool, which the series -- and the fans as a result -- focus too much on, but because Zero always acts with conviction and is never uncertain; where X may hesitate, Zero acts without faltering. The way they both see and approach the world opens up more interesting storytelling than was ever bothered with, and it's a shame because of the setup the series gives right from the beginning: X has unlimited potential and possibility, but is that necessarily a _good_ thing? Meanwhile, Zero's destiny was decided for him, but he rejected it, choosing another path. Zero's own series touches on what might have happened if X didn't have Zero to counterbalance him, implying that in X's pursuit of righting the world's problems, he created bigger ones by mistake, but it doesn't explore these factors because it once again shoves X aside in favor of Zero, _twice,_ before killing him off unceremoniously altogether. Maverick Hunter X seemed to be primed to right such wrongs, focusing on and exploring the character more than ever, but once again, he was shoved aside in the real world. X deserved much better than what he got, in pretty much every measurable way.

Same. Sad we might never see them..

Ik right. My purchase was worth every penny. I beat this one twice.

Pretty much. MegaMan was Call of Duty prior to COD releasing games every year. It was bad during the classic era but at the 2000s, Capcom was releasing multiple a year which is why the franchise collapsed on itself especially with sales. If I remember right ZX advent didn't even crack 6 figures on copies sold. And that was the last game to be released physically until 11. That's why it was my belief that Capcom was so hesitant on releasing new games until 11. And the long wait was worth it for them since 11 was the highest selling MegaMan game since MegaMan 2.

@@jlev1028 Huh. I guess you are right. I can't find the sales numbers though. ZX advent definitely sold over 90k only which is pathetic for a game.

Ye

It is also worth noting that a LOT of PSP games underperformed. The system had a very large piracy problem, as it turned out their security features were trivially bypassed very early. The ridiculously heavy-handed lockdown you see on the Vita was a fairly direct response to that.

Zero and the virus were never said to be less important for MHX.

FF7 remake doesn't really work for a comparison. It's like a sequel reboot hybrid of the original.

@@randomduck8679 Interesting, might this be said due to the shift in gameplay or episodic nature? I could still picture a pieced-together remake as a remake, and to call it a reboot or sequel is probably spoilers, but that'd mean it goes out of its way to go past the story of FF7, and now my curiosity has peaked.

@@runningoncylinders3829 FF 7 Remake deviates heavily from original FF 7. Besides adding more characterization to the side characters, the plot is not one to one anymore. The episodic nature isn't helping since we have no timeline of when the next part will release. Whether the next part will follow original 7 or go it's own way is yet to be seen but for now it's more of a reboot than a remake.

Also, on that note, the KH Final Mixes are less remakes and more updated re-releases, though bringing up the distinction is probably going to open up a whole can of worms on the topic.

Excuse me, but kingdom hearts final mixes aren’t remakes what drugs did you take.

I feel like the remake lost a lot of the goofy animations and expressions tho

Yeah it was actually good with the quality of life Ofc Partners in time didn’t get a remake in place of the one we won’t speak of because I like the ORIGINAL version of that game a lot more and was able to play it through the backwards compatibility!

I love Superstar Saga. But I do prefer the remake more because of the improved battle system and whatnot. Despite some lack of charm, I enjoyed it and would replay it more times than the original. Now if only Partners in Time gotten an remake. That game needs alot of improvements.

@@jaretco6423 I think pixel Graphics shouldn’t have been tossed out like yesterday’s trash but I do like the quality of life improvements that the remake on 3DS was And it was necessary because superstar saga could only be played on GBA!

Warrior. Yeah. I still have alot of nostalgia with the original Superstar Saga though. Since that was my very first RPG game I've played. So I still have an soft spot for the original.

you could hit him in the original, but hes invulnerable to it.

after watching years of clabe speedruns i can confirm you cannot infact hadouken final sigma and considering how hard people want that time save, it's safe to say you never will without cheating either

as for how you'd hit him with it if you wanted to see for yourself that it doesn't work, you'd have to perform a pause trick where you jump to the correct height, pause, unpause, and hadouken on the first frame out of the pause. this can be done because megaman registers as standing for a single frame after unpausing the game

@@BlinzerOmega I have an odd Mandela Effect memory of managing to do it once. I even felt so proud about it! So it's weird. But I had a Japanese Rockman X, not an English Megaman X. Maybe it works there and my memory of that time isn't fake D:

There is nothing controversial if the proper frame of reference is missing(In this case Emerald). It's like saying it would be controversial to say Post-patch BDSP has a lot of things over OG DP.

You don't miss out on anything good by not playing Emerald tbh, as to give you the idea what playing Emerald is like when you have only played ORAS is that remove all QoL stuff and improved moves Pokémon learn etc, and now stop every once and a while for added dialog that usually doesn't add much and for the phone that keeps interrupting you, go beat the villain teams base twice for no reason and for the climax of the villains story you just watch a cutscene of a yelling snek instead of saving the day yourself by beating or capturing the Legendary.

@@lpfan4491 post patch bdsp is one of my faviroute Pokémon games tbh

They are though i sunk my teeth into both versions, but emerald is really good i sadly lost my progress, but i got a bad bootleg copy.

@@V-Jes Rude, that game is great better to experience the old ones through that.

Also question, does anyone know if you change the voices in this game to Japanese?

I think they could easily fix it if the Dr. Cain in MMX 3 is a reploid with the memories of Dr. Cain, pretty much like Dr. Light in his capsules, or Dr. Willy himself with the appearances he had in MMX (never confirmed, but with strong clues it was him). Maybe they were preparing this for an interesting plot later on in the series, who knows! (Or maybe Cain doesn't really die, and the scene was just done for dramatic purposes. I've seen very often the scenario in manga and anime where a character seemingly dies from an explosion or something but "actually the character didn't die at that time! plot twist).

Hells, imagine if they had done 5&6. Think of how much could have been fixed...

@@hyuuint even X4's English voice acting

Its funny because one of the reasons who caused this game and powered up to fail was because they were very easy to emulate when they come out

I thought the same thing. He came across way more savage than his usual self.

I do believe his normal run speed is faster than X’s regular run speed but I agree he could have been a little tankier early on to balance him a bit

I like zero too, especially in the intro to mmz. So cool how he just easily tears through the army that seconds ago was dominating the battlefield, while still confused and underppowered. Personally he isn’t as cool as bass or proto man though

Regarding the classic series, Capcom claimed they planned on remaking Mega Man 1-8. It would've been nice to see that cringe localization ("DIE WILY!") from MM7 replaced with dialogue closer to the original scene. Not to mention MM8's entire body of voice work (Dr. Wahwee).

Powered Up Was AWESOME! I loved playing through the games over and over again with new characters. When you got to boss that was your weakness though...it was tough as hell. haha!

All this time later though the fact that this game can only be played on original hardware or emulator hold it back.

@@megapokesonicx a re-release on 3DS would have been cool, but I'd definitely have never played it if it hadn't come out on PSP first.

Movie remakes suck tbh

@@Bokobling the Thing 1981

Maybe he privated them?

I pray for the same thing lol