Mega Man X6 a Dream or Nightmare? 

Thank you! I'll do more of these opinion pieces.

Glad you enjoyed it!

If were comparing X5 stages to X6 I disagree with you. They are tedious in X5 but X6 stages are far more. This is my biggest issue with X6, it took the terrible ideas from X5, building upon them, making them even worse. There are 4 other amazing X games (X1-X4) where it could of pulled ideas. Speaking of Tedious here are examples in X6: - Totems - Central Museum, Ground Scaravich - The Mini boss "Nightmare Snake"(Donuts) literally fight multiple times - Magma Area ,Blaze Heatnix - The whole stage but especially the "Night Ice" - North Pole Area ,Blizzard Wolfang - "Nightmare Rain" Destroying all the tiny machines, so you can destroy the main machine - Inami Temple, Rainy Turtloid - Literally a whole waiting section that one shots you if you don't wait - Recycle Lab Metal, Shark Player - The lasers doors/gates - Laser Institute, Shield Sheldon The only stages that remotely resemble a X stage are - Weapon Center, Infinity Mijinion (not the greatest) and Amazon Area, Commander Yammark does it very well! Overall I don't view X6 as "Hard", just poorly executed. The 8 main bosses are unbelievably easy (Besides Infinity Mijinion) but all the other bosses are extremely tedious. Prolonging a fight doesn't make it hard, it makes it tedious. Just like prolonging a stage. The Final boss is one that isn't tedious, and that boss is usually the most tedious! There are so many other problems but since your focus is on stages I wanted to hit on that point. Maybe you have a bias toward X6 (which is fine) but take a step back and look at all the games leading up to X6, as I did. You'll realize the X Fans deserved better.

@@TankAnSpank I don't even know what bias is. But most of these mentioned stages I don't even find boring. Especially in the Blaze heatnix stage. I move a lot in it and it is challenging. Is it challenging in a lazy way? Certainly. But it's delicious to destroy those donuts with Shadow armor or Zero. The ice stage I find annoying but not boring. The ice tetris part is surprisingly the part I like the most. Those Ground scaravich totems are just standard obstacles. I don't have any reasons to find it boring, they encourage me to move around a lot and is easy to destroy. What I really find annoying is having to repeat the level to get 100%. The nightmare rain and those buttons I don't see as a problem either. These are just normal mechanics within the level. It's not even that hard to find the buttons. But the Nightmare effect in this stage really sucks ass! The Metal Shark player stage is indeed a boring entire waiting section. But it's still not worse than the Whale stage of the X5 because at least we don't have to wait for the stage's camera to go on. The bosses really are a piece of cake, but the stages are not, and it is in the stages that we spend most of our time. But I do agree, I think the fans deserved better.

@@TankAnSpank I think you can already tell that my conception of boring/tedious in a game is different, doesn't? For me, something boring in a game is something that doesn't allow me to play with everything I have. Like a camera that doesn't allow me to move on my own. Dying over and over in one place I also find boring, but the only time this happened to me in X6 was in Gate lab 2 with Blade armor and Zero. I even agree that facing the same boss multiple times can be boring. But as much as it offers a challenge and plenty of room to move around, I might find it tolerable. Especially when I can obliterate with my skills. By way of comparison the mini bosses of the whale stage are almost none of that and even the mini bosses design being different and in smaller quantity I still prefer to face the donuts.

Hmm bias - think of it as viewing something so positively or negatively that you can't, or maybe won't see the other side. My reply wasn't directed at boring or fun, it was directed at tedious. Some things can be tedious but fun (collecting heart tanks, sub-tanks, rescue-able reploids). Your initial comment was about one game being more tedious compared to the other. Personally I find X6 fun because it is Mega Man but when compared to X1-X4 it's not that fun but I'm glad we found some common ground!

True, this is the problem when companies get bigger. They focus on the shareholders and bottom line, forgetting about the creators and players.

good thing it exists. I liked Gate.

@@ElissonDSouza I’m glad this horrible game gave you a good character. That’s one positive ig:

@@ota3933 There are other good points but nevermind.

@@ElissonDSouza true, there’s also the music

I don't believe it is the worst game, but it is definitely one of the worst in the X series!

@@TankAnSpank yeah I was trying to say that, a bad game on the X Series, but not the worst game ever

That's a valid point