To kick off my return to Mega Man, I thought it would be interesting to take my "least backtracking routes" from the old MMX Reviews, and make dedicated videos out of them. Starting with Mega Man X! Follow me on Twitter! / jsreviews2
For those looking for an extra challenge, you can obtain Boomer Kuwanger's Heart Tank without the charged shotgun ice by performing an *extremely* precise dashing walljump
Wow, and I have never strayed away from the weakness order until this video. Next to no backtracking feels so satisfying after defeating bosses out of order.
5:22 - the Pattern is not random. When you descent, while jumping (or falling) the boomerang goes down. When you stand still, walk or dash, ascend (while jumping) the boomerang goes up.
@@BuruKyu no it is not. The player will eventually mash away until they get the sub tank. You don't need to know how to aim the boomerang cutter like that. It's like you didnt even watch the video to see how J did it
Here's a question. You said in your MMX review that doing certain stages would affect other stages? What was the effects? Edit: Never mind, you covered it. Thanks.
I am pretty sure all of them were mentioned in this video. But, if not, Chill Penguin freezes the lava of Flame Mammoth, Storm Eagle causes a power outage in Spark Mandrill's stage, and Launch Octopus floods the forests of Sting Chameleon.
Great video! So many great memories playing this game. I always had to have my older sister beat sigma at the end even though he's kinda a pushover. Just so intimidating. Quick hint: you can destroy the floaty boaty thingy in lunch octopus' stage (7:16) with one shot if you use the tornado weapon.
Not to mention the appropriately named Nightmare system making the order you have to play in random. Nobody completes the stages with the darkness effect active.
@@GordieKat I know. I played through it again recently and I ended up doing my run through rainy turtloids extra area with that effect on. Absolute torture. I lost track of how many times I died.
I might be more than a few months late for this, but I honestly think this format is _awesome_ and should definitely continue in the future! X3, despite having some awesome upgrades, is a chore to get through considering backtracking and whatnot. Plus I never got the gold armor because I didn't know how to get a specific upgrade without using the upgraded foot parts. I seriously recommend continuing this because it would be super helpful, especially in the future X games.
Thanks for this!! Mega man x for snes has always been my favorite game. I’ve never completed this game until now. Also saw your guide on X2 and X3. Awesome
Sweet video! A strategy guide video is a great idea! Coincidentally, I was just playing X1 last night! By the way, I also use the same boss order to go through the game!
Definitely a fun video brother. As long as you're enjoying it I think its a great idea to keep building up the Mega Man content on the channel. But I do want those Mega Man 1-6 reviews at some point lol. Just don't want you to get burned out again.
This is an amazing order, and I'm definitely interested to see what orders you have in mind for the other games in the series. Here's my order of how I play the mavericks and get all the powerups if you're interested: Chill Penguin, Storm Eagle, Flame Mammoth, return to Chill Penguin for the heart tank, Launch Octopus, Sting Chameleon, Boomer Kuwanger, Armored Armadillo (I go buster on this dude for the challenge), and Spark Mandrill.
This game is so fun to speedrun. That route is called "Icefull" except for one change, you get the penguin heart after chameleon to use the invincibility to go faster. If you can do the "Iceless" jump, the route rotates a bit, but it's not worth learning unless you speedrun the game.
Definitely found this enjoyable to watch. Even though I know where everything in X1 and how to effectively get it I still do the boss weakness order because I don't mind back tracking in this game too much. I'd love to see more of these kinds of videos. Think you might do this for the later X games like 6? Or even the Megaman Zero games?
Backtracking isn't that bad in any of the first four X games. But each of them can be completed 100% with only one revisit. Hell, you can get everything in X2 without any backtracking if you use the slope glitch, and Zero doesn't need to backtrack in X4 either. However, X5 requires five or six revisits.
Hello! I really found this video pretty awesome. I know getting through an x game as fast as possible haz been a thing for a long time now, however, when I play I just play. & It's fun! But I really thought your strategy was awesome. I'll try it in the future. I'd love to see move of what you have to say with this format!
I usually go Kuwanger second since you can get the heart tank without any upgrades, you just need a dash jump and a little bit of precise timing, but this is probably the most optimal route for fun.
I really enjoyed this video and would like to make a suggestion, a video explaining Mega Man Zero's ranking system/optional difficulty kinda like what you did with MGS
I'm actually revisiting x2 currently. Would love to hear your tricks for that one next! Also, did you know in Maverick Hunter X that Zero's buster upgrade is stronger than lights? That and how boomerang cutter makes launch octopus and sting chameleon even easier?
Great video and I love the concept and format, but I'm curious about why you chose to not mention the fortress bosses? I feel like strategies for fortress bosses would be one of the most helpful bits of info in these games as their weaknesses are seldom as apparent as the 8 stage bosses might be. Edit: With the boss fights, I mean aside from the comment about timing the Hadoken accurately. Tips about actually fighting them might be helpful. Again, just a thought for future vids. Great job, and I'm so happy to see more MMX on here.
I just bought the mega man x legacy collections 1-2 so I got all 8 games now and this guide helped a lot I’m finally finishing my first complete playthrough of the the first one
I this actually taught me something I never knew(how you can shoot the flame things with the buster to get the helm) thanks, next time I play X1 again I'll use it to cut the back tracking
If this does continue into X2 (my favorite) I'd make sure you include most of the neat little tricks you can do to nab powerups. Obvious ones include how to get the arm parts without the leg upgrade using strike chain, and how to grab the sub tank in bubble crab with that nifty little slope jump trick. Some more advanced stuff I'd like to see at least mentioned (if not demonstrated because they can be tricky) would be getting the arm parts without ANY weapons or powerups, or how to get the heart tank in morph moth without crystal snail's weapon (requires you to have the arm and leg parts and do a neon jump). I realize those are trickier ones that are hard to do, but I feel that at least bare mentioning as I would have liked to have seen tricks like ice-less (getting the heart tank from boomer without his weapon OR ice) mentioned in this video.
Great video, I really want to see your X2 one so I can plug my old SNES and play once again X2.... Now that I think about it, I wanna have the X trilogy for my SNES collection
Damn this helped me alot I'm only 13 was interested in this franchise from your videos and bought this on the 3ds vc cause I don't want the xlc unless I really like this game which I do and I'm bad at finding secrets and this guide helped me beat this game and it's also the first mega man game I've ever beaten
This is totally useful and should continue to at least X4. Also, for completion's sake: the mini-boss in Sting Chameleon's stage is vulnerable to Boomerang Cutter. That said, I agree that Storm Tornado is the better choice. It may only do two damage per hit (the mini-boss has a total of 64 HP, btw!) but it's more efficient than firing off Boomerang Cutters (or charging it).
Do it for rest of the series to help every newcomer since I remember myself reaching a good guide for the collectables back then. ~Yes even for X6 I dare you!~
I’m looking forward to whenever you get to X3 because I find 100%ing that game with minimal backtracking is extremely difficult because I hate fighting the X3 Mavericks (looking at you Blast Hornet) without their weaknesses.
You're a Mega Man after my own heart, J. We go through the same 100% order (except I save the Penguin Heart Tank until after I beat Chameleon), AND we both do the L Button dash. I see so many people who just kinda accept the weird dash button placement despite the buttons being remappable. Out of curiosity, where do you put the Weapon Select L mapping? Do you just swap it with dash and leave it on A, or do you remap it to something else? Personally, I put it on X. All in all, fantastic video, and I hope to see more in the future~
I personally go with Flame Mammoth's stage as the first pick, as crazy as it might sound. That stage and boss are pretty straightforward and easy even without the leg upgrade. Also, you get the heart upgrades in Chill Penguin's and Flame Mammoth's stages, respectively, almost immediately after. That and also, I prefer playing through the stages in their original states, that being Flame Mammoth's stage is drastically easier after you defeat Chill Penguin. Other than that, I go with the usual weakness order since the amount of backtracking is pretty non-existent.
Good video & format; good luck with X: 5-8 as all of them are a pain to 100% as u need to do each stage at least seemingly twice & that's with optimal runs
Nice video! Can you please also cover side effects from weapons on bosses? Like boomerang cutter on Flame Mammoth's nose. Or sonic slicer on Wire Sponge. Never saw a tentacless Octopus. It's a cutter's job too?
🙂 beautifully done, well informed as well, and I'll admit, I love using the hadoken, I do think it's worth getting, never underestimate the power of the hado!! 🤣😂 in fact I'd dare say that I enjoy it more than the shoryuken in x2 *though the shoryuken played a good role for me, especially since Ken is better with the shoryuken while ryu is better with hadoken, 😂😁 if I'm not clear or confusing you, I adore street fighter.*
I love this idea. I beat X1 and X4, but every other game I’m still trying to get through. Is The Zero/Zx games out of the question? Stay healthy and safe J.
A guide to X2 would be a great video to watch. That game handles collectibles so well (sans Bubble Crab) that there's so many potential optimized routes for it. I usually do the following: Wire Sponge Wheel Gator Overdrive Ostrich Crystal Snail Morph Moth Bubble Crab Bubble Crab revisit Flame Stag Magna Centipede If I want to get the Zero parts everything after Overdrive Ostrich can change after a whim. Flame Stag can realistically go anywhere on the order as long as it's before Magna Centipede now that I think about it. I suppose you can also put Bubble Crab wherever you want too.
Huh, i never thought about doing Boomer Kuwanger right after Flame Mammoth, maybe because i'm too used to how that fight plays out with his weakness, nice find, i'm gonna try that the next time i play this gem. But hey, my order was pretty close.
