@@maxrichards5925well that's the entire point of a challenge it's not normally something that you can just blow right through and get done as fast as possible. Lol quickness does not always equal interesting.
In X6, Gate stage 2, you can choose Shadow Armor to travel through the ridiculous amount of spikes and skip a few enemies. However, in gate stage 3, it punishes you at the leap of faith parkour because like no armor x, shadow armor x cannot air dash like other armors. So in the end, you had to use Blade/Falcon/Ultimate armor to get through as X. For me in X8, the hardest stages or rather unfair stages are Optic Sunflower and Burn Rooster stage. Sure, Optic Sunflower challenges can be cleared with ease with the right weapon, armor parts or Axl's grenade launcher. What makes it unfair is that every time you failed and die in a parkour section (most notorious is the spike on the floor and ceiling section), it will reduce the difficulty of the next challenges by 1 when you respawn, making it difficult to obtain the Metal Generator or Life tank chip. It is so debilitating that the moment you die, you might as well return to base immediately and start all over again. Burn Rooster had 3 auto-scroller section. The first two are very fast paced. Fall too early before a platform spawns for you to land and you die. Wait too late and the screen eats away your health bar for being off-screen. Sure, using Axl/Pallete to tap fire in mid air can slow your falling but it is a bit too long. Then there is the spikes in the parkour. It is literally everywhere. And the worst offender is the one leading to Dr. Light's capsule. There is spike left and right of the wall jumping but because the spike colour is black instead of grey, it is barely noticeable (even with upscaled resolution in emulation) on the right wall until you take damage with prickle barrier or die. This is the one stage with the highest amount of backtracking. You need Axl to transform into a reploid with hover ability at the end, go back up to get Zero's hammer and then return to the stage as Zero with Gravity Antonion's weapon just to slam a floor. Well, even Bamboo Pandamonium had this issue, especially since you need the ride armor for at least two of the chip upgrades.
You probably already know, but it's possible possible to get to the other side in Gate Stage 2.5 with No Armor X and the Shadow Armor, even without parts.
@@LilMochi_ Giga Attack and Charge Shot for Shadow armor. Magma Blade and Ground Dash for no armor X. The devs could have just make a simple fix by letting X do air dash in all forms. Heck, they even give Zero Double Jump by default for X6. I mean we have Mods now but that is only for original PS1 games played through emulation. Not on ps2 collection or legacy collection. Not to mention, only original PS2 ISO can do the beneficial glitches like max metals and flying rasetsusen for X8.
@@hiroran9796 Yeah, or just give Zero that section, but the game was rushed so. I honestly hate that the metals glitch was patched, it's so annoying farming in Trilobite' Stage.
I've started putting tooterp on while falling asleep and it really does work. The content is engaging enough to shut my brain up, but I'm not so invested that it keeps me awake. A pretty comfy balance, definitely do that compilation to fall asleep to video you mentioned a while back.
MEGA MAN X6: this ENTIRE GAME is broken. If you cheat and use Ultimate armor, it actually makes the game slightly more fair, but even then the game is still ridiculously hard and suffering from bad design. The “leap of faith” in Gate’s lab can be beaten with a Nova Strike, but it’s nearly impossible to beat with the Shadow Armor. What’s sad is that it’s obvious that the final levels were designed to be beaten using Shadow Armor. Mega Man as a cyber ninja 🥷 was a great idea. But they ruined it with the “leap of faith”. If they redesigned this game and give Shadow Armor access to Nova Strike or his Shadow Giga Attack as a choice, the game would be awesome. Or just take out the “leap of faith” altogether.
Playing X1 since new, I always got the heart upgrade on Boomer's stage with just the dash boots and brute forced. Neat to know that there is a alternative/designed way.
Lol I’m surprised you even imagined you could brute force it without seeing it online. Most new players would attempt it some and think it impossible because visually it seems that way.
@@Nasa-cosmonaut See this seems more likely. I watched my older brother play it and use chill penguin so I’ve used every method but usually opt for Penguin cause it’s fastest casually.
@@coreywhitaker883 well especially because the one sub tank in spark's stage, you need the boomerang. So I thought this was the same, that sled jump is tough without practice/patience. And the enemies respawn if you fall.
As a kid Sigma Stage 1 was hardest lvl because I could never find the Weapon Upgrade for the shield which made the platforming a bitch. Also getting past the spike passage for the Shoryuken makes Sigma Stage 3 the hardest in X2 in my opinion
I'd say either Shield Sheldon, Blaze Heatnix, or the Ground Scaravich stages could easily take the top spot. I gave up on X6, its awful. I think its worse then X7. I havent got all the way through X7 yet, but I'd sayFlame Hyenard and Wind Crowrang's stages. With Ride Boarski as a very close third. The final stage kicked my ass in X8, i got so excited thinking I'd beaten it. Then I realized i forgot Lumine. Stupid ohko.
I'd say the Sigma stages are probably the hardest in X1. Honestly none of the regular levels are too challenging. Your supposed to headbutt the rock monsters? I have a hard time finding the will to play X2. I hafta agree on Tunnel Rhino. Storm Owl's stage does get annoying at parts. I'll agree with you on Split Mushroom. Screw you Squid Adler!
On X1 Sigma stage 1, if you use the full charge rolling shield to get a shield around X, the helicopter dudes don't affect you anymore, and makes that platforming section so so so much easier
Sigma stage 1 from the original game does have that difficult platforming section. However, there's a trick where you can scale the cliff and get in the fortress with ease
When he talked about how the hardest part in megaman X is the death pit in sigma stage 1 I TOTALLY AGREE because before i figured out that i could kind of bypass it with the charge version of armor armadillo's move i kept getting knocked off by the stupid spiky fly things and keep falling into the death pit so i once again TOTALLY AGREE
22:35, skill issue, you can manually change targets with autoaim using the shoulder buttons, the game literally tells you how to do it in the manual and you got a hint in the room to remember the player how to do it.
Bro, i recently bought the megaman x collection from switch to play and teach my 10 yrs old kiddo about this saga back in the days, I was freaking out with the platforms at the 1st Sigma stage as you mentioned, but also I was doubting of my skills since I didnt play Megaman X since 1996 hahahaha glad to see I was struggling in a very challenging area indeed, best regards from Panama!
Honestly the wall from X7's intro stage is easy, if you know you can change lock-on targets. Which, if you don't listen to the metal gear style codec calls, you wouldn't know about.
The thumbnail is impossible in X3. Here's why. So I know that it's X3, b/c he's getting ready to dash up in the air. He has the helmet, too, though (Helmet and Legs on that armor set) but you need the arm piece of get the helmet b/c you need to use the powered up version of volt catfish's move to break the metal beams holding the boulder up that is guarding the capsule. Correct me if I'm wrong or missed something.
I still think Ground Scaravicj in X6 is the hardest due to the rng rooms and "rng" chances of getting the armor + the music and amount of enemies and nightmare effects. I replayed that stage so many times to no avail. Until a spanish guide reveal that there was a specific route/patter to get the armor, something about dashing to specific totem faces in order.
Isn’t hard per se, the stage itself is almost a breeze, probably one of e the easiests alongside with commander yammark. Getting the upgrades on the other hand can be a real pain
MEGA MAN X7: I found the fight with RED to be the most difficult part, but the entire game suffers from poor balancing. You need to level up Zero’s special attack and Axl’s RPG launcher first and then spam your way through the game. Then you need to level up AXL and Megaman entirely. Once your characters are 100% the game is EASY. I beat it 10 times.
4:34 Hmm, I rarely had any difficulty with the platforms in the first part of the first Sigma stage. I usually just turn on the charged rolling shield and laugh at the enemies that hit it. But without the charge shot upgrade (or if the platforms spawn awkwardly enough), it can be a bit of a pain.
I like Gygabolt Man-o-war's stage because you can beat him under 58 seconds. Bamboo Pandamoniums stage while trying to get the ride armor to the boss battle can be tricky.
MEGA MAN X8: once you level up your characters the game is easy. The hardest level, I feel is Gigabolt Manohar. If you don’t understand how to chase him properly- using boost instead of dash- you’ll lose over and over again. The rest of the game is a breeze- especially if you use Zero and all his weapons.
MEGA MAN ZX: the hardest task in this game was getting the energy tank in the LAVA field Area-K. If not for the fact my computer slowed down to a crawl due to a Chrome memory leak, I’d have never been able to get it. I got lucky.
MEGA MAN ZX ADVENT: this game was pretty easy compared to ZX and the rest of the X games. I collected all 4 energy tanks and though the hardest part is fighting Master Albert/ Ouroboros, I can do it with just 2 energy tanks.
X and X2: I totally agree X3: nope, I still go with sigma 3 X4: I had a hard time with the jet stingray’s stage when I was younger, nowadays it’s not so bad X5: yep X6: just pick one, I don’t care, maybe some aren’t that hard just annoying but they all suck. X7 and X8: never played
The x6 pick u putted as gate 3 but in reality it is gate stage 2 as u just go from the highmax fight straight to this stage. I agree with the pick but it is still gate stage 2
The hardest level is the first sigma level from MMX1, where zero passed away. It's so hard to get over his death. But as he dyes every time, you become used to that anyway...
Whale's stage in X5 is the hardest, I'd argue. Kraken can be learned and is very consistent beyond the boss, just a fine stage overall. Whale's 10 minutes of autoscrolling and midbosses is hell and each fight clutters the screen quite heavily. Scaravich's stage is way harder on Xtreme, as the virus count there is incredibly high compared to Easy/Normal, so there's a big contrast. Gate Lab 2 is very difficult in terms of enemy placement where-as Lab 3 is mostly consistent and simple, but it has way more instant-kill obstacles in comparison, along with Gate's fight being harder than High Max. Also, Nightmare Effects aren't RNG and X3 is the easiest X game. Cool video though.
What?! Tunnel Rhino's stage is easy, and it's the first one I complete for the easy E tank and the drill weapon to break the ice blocks in Blizzard Buffalo's stage.
0:51 look how many comments have I put to making the hardest level from every mega man x game video after the most beautiful maverick from every mega man x game x-x8 the best song from every mega man game 1-11
I personally wouldn't go with Sigma Fortress stage 1; considering that you can use Rolling Shield's charged form to protect yourself on the floating platforms. Sigma Fortress stage 2 is more difficult.
I had barely any deaths to the sea on Air Forces in X7, believe it or not. Edit: Wanna know why I say the escape sequences in Metroid are actually good, unlike Inferno? Because they aren't auto-scrollers.
regarding mmx1, i hate doing flame mammoths stage if i haven't beaten chill penguin first, it's so much more difficult without dash boots and the lava, granted that's just me i suppose
Sounds like you may want to play through each level without upgrades, then make your judgement. That method would eliminate the "experienced gamer" aspect.
20 years ago I used a password generator to get the heart and completion of Chill Penguin so I could skip boots entirely. No one is going to fault me for skipping the hardest boss, right? Climbing the tower after killing Vile sucked. Oh, and there's only one jump that you can't do, but it's fortunately in Sigma 2 - so after Zero gives you the free arm upgrade to charge the ice up. Now that I think about it, I'm surprised the game didn't crash or show random memory locations as pixel data when I beat it. The ending sequence where it lists the characters, it finishes with X dashing. If you don't have the boots, he has no legs. Interesting take, but I disagree with the approach. I think it'd be best to rate levels based on how bad does it feel when going to it immediately after the intro stage, completely naked and broke - at least for the maverick stages. I say this because they are put together with a minimum level of power in mind (in theory) while the gear you acquire is meant to make them easy to show the progression of the player's power.
For me Wheel gator stage is the hardest of X2 Kill that b....WITHOUT ARMOR is kind of a pain specially for beginers who plays X1 as his first megaman Mandatory wall slash, tons of damage if you touch him.....I have a friend who drop megaman x2 because that Also for me the hardest snes X game In X3 the boots are in blizzard buffalo stage and that grants you with a great advantage in combat In X2 you start with NOTHING. Tanks hidden with malice, armor set with an obligatory boss battle, and the containers ......OMG THE F.....container of that snail stage and his diabolic "double mech--jump milimetric miss f..... step 😭😭😭😭😭 Like your video buddy Merry xmas!
I'm always interested in how you will dunk on crystal snail and web spider hahahaha. Also if you use the rolling shield in sigma 1 the flying platforms are cake
The 8 Maverick stages can all be beaten without the boots, because in principle the stages are supposed be able to be played and beaten in any order. You can at least make it to the end of the level and kill the boss, even if you probably can't grab most of the upgrades. For the Sigma stages, they were finally able to make the dash a requirement since you have to have beaten Chill Penguin's stage to get there and they made it impossible to *not* get that upgrade. I suspect the annoyance of having to work around that limitation is why you have the regular dash be default in the X games afterwards.
MEGA MAN ZX: the hardest part is figuring out the Goddamn map. 🗺️ If you can deal with that, I’d say the hardest possible part is fighting OMEGA Ω model OX.
I agree that X4 is the easiest of the series, even an armorless X run is doable because of Lightning Web. Final Weapon Stage 2 becomes harder without the leg part.
I'd say Mega Man Zero are the hardest games in the series. Makes sense especially considering the Mega Man world in-universe is at its worst during those games.
For me, every stage in X1 is easy, as long as I don't play the legacy collection switch version... (I suck at playing on a controller tbh and I can't even improve after infinite dying to chill penguin
If you're going to rate objective difficulty, you should look at all the levels as if you were going in with nothing. For instance, in MMX1, you're basically like "Well, Boomer Kuwanger's stage isn't hard because I always play it after first beating about 5 or 6 other stages and getting a ton of weapons and power ups." Like, no shit it isn't as hard at that point. Does it not occur to you that the reason you go through Chill Penguin's stage without upgrades but not Kuwanger's is because the latter is more difficult than the former? I mean, really, you've basically answered your own question when you're talking about proper "routing" and preparation. Essentially: "Should you play Kuwanger's stage first directly after the intro level?" "No." "Why?" "Because it's a much harder level to start with."
Yeah I am not a speed runner but I will generally do a MMX playthrough every few years since it is one of my favorite franchises and I always mix up the bike stages from X4 and X5. I will freak out on Jet Stingray and then think, "Oh, that wasn't so bad. I've really grown as a gamer...". Then X5 comes around and I say, "No wait, this is the one I hate!". There is just a stunning lack of polish after X4 IMO like devs just stopped giving a shit about the series.X6 in particular just takes a "Fuck it let's just kill them" approach which seems vindictive (Donuts I'm talking to you!)
Seriously? The opening and first stage of Sigma's fortress is the hardest? Use the fully charged Rolling Shield for the barrier and those flying enemies literally can't touch you, which allows you to just focus on the jumps. Yeah, it's still a little hairy, but Storm Eagle's stage is about as bad.
Who else would like to see him finish the X, X2 & X3 without dashing?
That sounds like torture. And Mega Man fans love inflicting torture on other Mega Man fans.
I beat I can do that challenge haha 😅
That’s just boring lol. I guess you wouldn’t be able to get some upgrades but everything else would take twice as long lol
I would
@@maxrichards5925well that's the entire point of a challenge it's not normally something that you can just blow right through and get done as fast as possible. Lol quickness does not always equal interesting.
His ranking would make more sense in terms of fairness if all stages were judged without power ups tbh.
for sigma stage one in mega man x, its much easier if you use fully charged rolling sheild for the platforms part
In X6, Gate stage 2, you can choose Shadow Armor to travel through the ridiculous amount of spikes and skip a few enemies. However, in gate stage 3, it punishes you at the leap of faith parkour because like no armor x, shadow armor x cannot air dash like other armors. So in the end, you had to use Blade/Falcon/Ultimate armor to get through as X.
For me in X8, the hardest stages or rather unfair stages are Optic Sunflower and Burn Rooster stage.
Sure, Optic Sunflower challenges can be cleared with ease with the right weapon, armor parts or Axl's grenade launcher. What makes it unfair is that every time you failed and die in a parkour section (most notorious is the spike on the floor and ceiling section), it will reduce the difficulty of the next challenges by 1 when you respawn, making it difficult to obtain the Metal Generator or Life tank chip. It is so debilitating that the moment you die, you might as well return to base immediately and start all over again.
Burn Rooster had 3 auto-scroller section. The first two are very fast paced. Fall too early before a platform spawns for you to land and you die. Wait too late and the screen eats away your health bar for being off-screen. Sure, using Axl/Pallete to tap fire in mid air can slow your falling but it is a bit too long. Then there is the spikes in the parkour. It is literally everywhere. And the worst offender is the one leading to Dr. Light's capsule. There is spike left and right of the wall jumping but because the spike colour is black instead of grey, it is barely noticeable (even with upscaled resolution in emulation) on the right wall until you take damage with prickle barrier or die. This is the one stage with the highest amount of backtracking. You need Axl to transform into a reploid with hover ability at the end, go back up to get Zero's hammer and then return to the stage as Zero with Gravity Antonion's weapon just to slam a floor.
Well, even Bamboo Pandamonium had this issue, especially since you need the ride armor for at least two of the chip upgrades.
You probably already know, but it's possible possible to get to the other side in Gate Stage 2.5 with No Armor X and the Shadow Armor, even without parts.
@@LilMochi_ Giga Attack and Charge Shot for Shadow armor. Magma Blade and Ground Dash for no armor X. The devs could have just make a simple fix by letting X do air dash in all forms. Heck, they even give Zero Double Jump by default for X6. I mean we have Mods now but that is only for original PS1 games played through emulation. Not on ps2 collection or legacy collection.
Not to mention, only original PS2 ISO can do the beneficial glitches like max metals and flying rasetsusen for X8.
@@hiroran9796 Yeah, or just give Zero that section, but the game was rushed so.
I honestly hate that the metals glitch was patched, it's so annoying farming in Trilobite' Stage.
I've started putting tooterp on while falling asleep and it really does work. The content is engaging enough to shut my brain up, but I'm not so invested that it keeps me awake. A pretty comfy balance, definitely do that compilation to fall asleep to video you mentioned a while back.
one of the hardest thing in the Megaman X series is the soundtrack🔥🔥💯💯🗣🗣
MEGA MAN X6: this ENTIRE GAME is broken. If you cheat and use Ultimate armor, it actually makes the game slightly more fair, but even then the game is still ridiculously hard and suffering from bad design.
The “leap of faith” in Gate’s lab can be beaten with a Nova Strike, but it’s nearly impossible to beat with the Shadow Armor.
What’s sad is that it’s obvious that the final levels were designed to be beaten using Shadow Armor. Mega Man as a cyber ninja 🥷 was a great idea.
But they ruined it with the “leap of faith”.
If they redesigned this game and give Shadow Armor access to Nova Strike or his Shadow Giga Attack as a choice, the game would be awesome.
Or just take out the “leap of faith” altogether.
I was waiting for this video .
Playing X1 since new, I always got the heart upgrade on Boomer's stage with just the dash boots and brute forced. Neat to know that there is a alternative/designed way.
Lol I’m surprised you even imagined you could brute force it without seeing it online. Most new players would attempt it some and think it impossible because visually it seems that way.
I always thought you had to come back with the boomerang by design.
@@Nasa-cosmonaut See this seems more likely. I watched my older brother play it and use chill penguin so I’ve used every method but usually opt for Penguin cause it’s fastest casually.
@@coreywhitaker883 well especially because the one sub tank in spark's stage, you need the boomerang. So I thought this was the same, that sled jump is tough without practice/patience. And the enemies respawn if you fall.
Tooterp could make a "stinkiest stage in every mega man game" video and I'd still drop everything to watch it
As a kid Sigma Stage 1 was hardest lvl because I could never find the Weapon Upgrade for the shield which made the platforming a bitch. Also getting past the spike passage for the Shoryuken makes Sigma Stage 3 the hardest in X2 in my opinion
22:58 there's a button to switch targets.
I'd say either Shield Sheldon, Blaze Heatnix, or the Ground Scaravich stages could easily take the top spot. I gave up on X6, its awful. I think its worse then X7.
I havent got all the way through X7 yet, but I'd sayFlame Hyenard and Wind Crowrang's stages. With Ride Boarski as a very close third.
The final stage kicked my ass in X8, i got so excited thinking I'd beaten it. Then I realized i forgot Lumine. Stupid ohko.
"I *have* grown up with Mega Man" -Dan Swerdlove
I'd say the Sigma stages are probably the hardest in X1. Honestly none of the regular levels are too challenging. Your supposed to headbutt the rock monsters?
I have a hard time finding the will to play X2.
I hafta agree on Tunnel Rhino.
Storm Owl's stage does get annoying at parts. I'll agree with you on Split Mushroom.
Screw you Squid Adler!
On X1 Sigma stage 1, if you use the full charge rolling shield to get a shield around X, the helicopter dudes don't affect you anymore, and makes that platforming section so so so much easier
Shield weapons are for noobs
Sigma stage 1 from the original game does have that difficult platforming section. However, there's a trick where you can scale the cliff and get in the fortress with ease
When he talked about how the hardest part in megaman X is the death pit in sigma stage 1 I TOTALLY AGREE because before i figured out that i could kind of bypass it with the charge version of armor armadillo's move i kept getting knocked off by the stupid spiky fly things and keep falling into the death pit so i once again TOTALLY AGREE
MEGA MAN X5: I felt the Zero battle was probably the toughest part for me.
22:35, skill issue, you can manually change targets with autoaim using the shoulder buttons, the game literally tells you how to do it in the manual and you got a hint in the room to remember the player how to do it.
26:39 the place is wallpapered with spikes but if you can control your fear you can hop over and around them.
Bro, i recently bought the megaman x collection from switch to play and teach my 10 yrs old kiddo about this saga back in the days, I was freaking out with the platforms at the 1st Sigma stage as you mentioned, but also I was doubting of my skills since I didnt play Megaman X since 1996 hahahaha glad to see I was struggling in a very challenging area indeed, best regards from Panama!
Honestly the wall from X7's intro stage is easy, if you know you can change lock-on targets. Which, if you don't listen to the metal gear style codec calls, you wouldn't know about.
From what I remember, Mega Man are games you get good at by memory
25:14 use Zero and his long blade in the Jakob Elevator and all you need to do is jump and spin attack and you kill every enemy on the screen.
The thumbnail is impossible in X3. Here's why. So I know that it's X3, b/c he's getting ready to dash up in the air. He has the helmet, too, though (Helmet and Legs on that armor set) but you need the arm piece of get the helmet b/c you need to use the powered up version of volt catfish's move to break the metal beams holding the boulder up that is guarding the capsule. Correct me if I'm wrong or missed something.
Did a cannonball onto the subscribe button when he said X3 was his favorite X game. Impeccable taste.
I still think Ground Scaravicj in X6 is the hardest due to the rng rooms and "rng" chances of getting the armor + the music and amount of enemies and nightmare effects. I replayed that stage so many times to no avail. Until a spanish guide reveal that there was a specific route/patter to get the armor, something about dashing to specific totem faces in order.
Isn’t hard per se, the stage itself is almost a breeze, probably one of e the easiests alongside with commander yammark. Getting the upgrades on the other hand can be a real pain
MEGA MAN X7: I found the fight with RED to be the most difficult part, but the entire game suffers from poor balancing.
You need to level up Zero’s special attack and Axl’s RPG launcher first and then spam your way through the game.
Then you need to level up AXL and Megaman entirely.
Once your characters are 100% the game is EASY.
I beat it 10 times.
4:34 Hmm, I rarely had any difficulty with the platforms in the first part of the first Sigma stage. I usually just turn on the charged rolling shield and laugh at the enemies that hit it.
But without the charge shot upgrade (or if the platforms spawn awkwardly enough), it can be a bit of a pain.
MEGA MAN X4: though this game was generally easier than X3, the Sigma Battle is still the hardest part to me.
Wait the Axl wall cant you press r2 to switch lock ons?
the airship platforms in x7 are the bane of my existence
Mine is Illumina on Weapons Center in X6, I hate Weapons Center.
I feel called out because I like to do Armored Armadillo and Launch Octopus stages first before getting the dash boots.
I like Gygabolt Man-o-war's stage because you can beat him under 58 seconds.
Bamboo Pandamoniums stage while trying to get the ride armor to the boss battle can be tricky.
MEGA MAN X8: once you level up your characters the game is easy.
The hardest level, I feel is Gigabolt Manohar. If you don’t understand how to chase him properly- using boost instead of dash- you’ll lose over and over again.
The rest of the game is a breeze- especially if you use Zero and all his weapons.
MEGA MAN ZX: the hardest task in this game was getting the energy tank in the LAVA field Area-K.
If not for the fact my computer slowed down to a crawl due to a Chrome memory leak, I’d have never been able to get it.
I got lucky.
MEGA MAN X2: for me it’s the Zero-Sigma battle. Gotta have all E tanks.
MEGA MAN ZX ADVENT: this game was pretty easy compared to ZX and the rest of the X games.
I collected all 4 energy tanks and though the hardest part is fighting Master Albert/ Ouroboros, I can do it with just 2 energy tanks.
In X6 you chose Gate Stage 2, not Gate Stage 3, Gate Stage 2 for whatever reason is two levels stitched together. But it is technically one level.
MEGA MAN X : for me the most difficult part was the entire SIGMA BATTLE. Without the full complement of E tanks I can’t do it.
The hardest levels are all the ads you gotta sit through in these videos.
X and X2: I totally agree
X3: nope, I still go with sigma 3
X4: I had a hard time with the jet stingray’s stage when I was younger, nowadays it’s not so bad
X5: yep
X6: just pick one, I don’t care, maybe some aren’t that hard just annoying but they all suck.
X7 and X8: never played
X1 was the best. The games got progressively harder as the series progressed. Loved them all.
I've been watching a few months now, That Naruto reference got you a subscriber sir!
The x6 pick u putted as gate 3 but in reality it is gate stage 2 as u just go from the highmax fight straight to this stage. I agree with the pick but it is still gate stage 2
I never had much trouble with the X games, Mega Man 11 is kicking my ass right now though lol
9:40 That stage in X3 with the crushing walls nearly made me give up on the game.
23:41 Get me out of Neon Hexagon Land!
for sigma stage 1, you can dash jump up the wall near the moving platforms and skip alot of the platforms
The hardest level is the first sigma level from MMX1, where zero passed away. It's so hard to get over his death. But as he dyes every time, you become used to that anyway...
Whale's stage in X5 is the hardest, I'd argue. Kraken can be learned and is very consistent beyond the boss, just a fine stage overall. Whale's 10 minutes of autoscrolling and midbosses is hell and each fight clutters the screen quite heavily. Scaravich's stage is way harder on Xtreme, as the virus count there is incredibly high compared to Easy/Normal, so there's a big contrast. Gate Lab 2 is very difficult in terms of enemy placement where-as Lab 3 is mostly consistent and simple, but it has way more instant-kill obstacles in comparison, along with Gate's fight being harder than High Max. Also, Nightmare Effects aren't RNG and X3 is the easiest X game. Cool video though.
X6 is the hardest game of any of them in my opinion. Tough, tough game.
What?! Tunnel Rhino's stage is easy, and it's the first one I complete for the easy E tank and the drill weapon to break the ice blocks in Blizzard Buffalo's stage.
21:35 GATE as a boss is horrible. Jumping around above a bottomless pit trying to hit his energy balls is ridiculous.
0:51 look how many comments have I put to making the hardest level from every mega man x game video after the most beautiful maverick from every mega man x game x-x8 the best song from every mega man game 1-11
I personally wouldn't go with Sigma Fortress stage 1; considering that you can use Rolling Shield's charged form to protect yourself on the floating platforms. Sigma Fortress stage 2 is more difficult.
I did not know that Bit was weak to the ice shield move thingy in x3. The more you know
I find Overdrive Ostritch hard just because of the heart tank tbh. Collectibles ain’t optional for me, and I hate that damned heart tank.
Wonder what the hardest stages will be with no upgrades be like
Title: the hardest level in all megaman x games. Most used word in entire video: easy.
I had barely any deaths to the sea on Air Forces in X7, believe it or not.
Edit: Wanna know why I say the escape sequences in Metroid are actually good, unlike Inferno? Because they aren't auto-scrollers.
regarding mmx1, i hate doing flame mammoths stage if i haven't beaten chill penguin first, it's so much more difficult without dash boots and the lava, granted that's just me i suppose
Sounds like you may want to play through each level without upgrades, then make your judgement. That method would eliminate the "experienced gamer" aspect.
I haven't beaten X2, or X3. They are SO freaking hard!
20 years ago I used a password generator to get the heart and completion of Chill Penguin so I could skip boots entirely. No one is going to fault me for skipping the hardest boss, right?
Climbing the tower after killing Vile sucked.
Oh, and there's only one jump that you can't do, but it's fortunately in Sigma 2 - so after Zero gives you the free arm upgrade to charge the ice up.
Now that I think about it, I'm surprised the game didn't crash or show random memory locations as pixel data when I beat it. The ending sequence where it lists the characters, it finishes with X dashing. If you don't have the boots, he has no legs.
Interesting take, but I disagree with the approach. I think it'd be best to rate levels based on how bad does it feel when going to it immediately after the intro stage, completely naked and broke - at least for the maverick stages. I say this because they are put together with a minimum level of power in mind (in theory) while the gear you acquire is meant to make them easy to show the progression of the player's power.
I would love to see you play it with no dash boots.
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For me Wheel gator stage is the hardest of X2 Kill that b....WITHOUT ARMOR is kind of a pain specially for beginers who plays X1 as his first megaman Mandatory wall slash, tons of damage if you touch him.....I have a friend who drop megaman x2 because that Also for me the hardest snes X game In X3 the boots are in blizzard buffalo stage and that grants you with a great advantage in combat In X2 you start with NOTHING. Tanks hidden with malice, armor set with an obligatory boss battle, and the containers ......OMG THE F.....container of that snail stage and his diabolic "double mech--jump milimetric miss f..... step 😭😭😭😭😭 Like your video buddy Merry xmas!
I'm always interested in how you will dunk on crystal snail and web spider hahahaha. Also if you use the rolling shield in sigma 1 the flying platforms are cake
Nobody can beat X1 without the dash boots. It's impossible. If you did it... wow.
There’s a code that you can have all of the weapons without the armor. But you can’t beat the game without an armor part
The 8 Maverick stages can all be beaten without the boots, because in principle the stages are supposed be able to be played and beaten in any order. You can at least make it to the end of the level and kill the boss, even if you probably can't grab most of the upgrades. For the Sigma stages, they were finally able to make the dash a requirement since you have to have beaten Chill Penguin's stage to get there and they made it impossible to *not* get that upgrade. I suspect the annoyance of having to work around that limitation is why you have the regular dash be default in the X games afterwards.
MEGA MAN ZX: the hardest part is figuring out the Goddamn map. 🗺️
If you can deal with that, I’d say the hardest possible part is fighting OMEGA Ω model OX.
MEGA MAN X3: hardest part for me was the Sigma battle.
I agree that X4 is the easiest of the series, even an armorless X run is doable because of Lightning Web.
Final Weapon Stage 2 becomes harder without the leg part.
u right with mx4 and thats why im doing a run without powers, armor, hearts, and no damage, is more fun and challenging that way
and magma dragoon obviusly without the robot
X2 intro stage is the hardest for me, bacouse I have to see Green Biker Dude dies. 😢
I’ve never seen someone do wall jumps in sigma stage 2 in mmx3
I'd say Mega Man Zero are the hardest games in the series.
Makes sense especially considering the Mega Man world in-universe is at its worst during those games.
I like Squid Adler's stage,you just lack finesse Tooterp,that's all.
I respect you but you just lack finesse.
Great list
Overdrive Ostrich stage is lots of fun. Damn, Bubble Crab's weapon is so pretty.
Hey how was your holiday ? Hopefully it was good.
You missed out many levels but I can clearly understand it. If you missed a stage, it's because they're downright easy.
Maga man x3 is also my favorite and I go first to turnnel rino stage
X7 and X8 reviews + axl's stupidest, best, and worst weapons pretty please
20:18 Blaze Heatnix’s stage was garbage. Simply broken game design.
Lasers :(
It took an entire month btu I'm finally caught up on youtube from ebing gone for like 10 days
Megaman x5 hardest stage is tidal whale stage because you can die of old age waiting for that fucking autoscroller
For me, every stage in X1 is easy, as long as I don't play the legacy collection switch version... (I suck at playing on a controller tbh and I can't even improve after infinite dying to chill penguin
Imo the og megaman & zero series are tougher than the X series.
If you're going to rate objective difficulty, you should look at all the levels as if you were going in with nothing. For instance, in MMX1, you're basically like "Well, Boomer Kuwanger's stage isn't hard because I always play it after first beating about 5 or 6 other stages and getting a ton of weapons and power ups." Like, no shit it isn't as hard at that point. Does it not occur to you that the reason you go through Chill Penguin's stage without upgrades but not Kuwanger's is because the latter is more difficult than the former? I mean, really, you've basically answered your own question when you're talking about proper "routing" and preparation. Essentially: "Should you play Kuwanger's stage first directly after the intro level?" "No." "Why?" "Because it's a much harder level to start with."
Kay, now do Mega Man X: Hard Type (ROM Hack)
Mega Man X3 was a pain to play
Yeah I am not a speed runner but I will generally do a MMX playthrough every few years since it is one of my favorite franchises and I always mix up the bike stages from X4 and X5. I will freak out on Jet Stingray and then think, "Oh, that wasn't so bad. I've really grown as a gamer...". Then X5 comes around and I say, "No wait, this is the one I hate!". There is just a stunning lack of polish after X4 IMO like devs just stopped giving a shit about the series.X6 in particular just takes a "Fuck it let's just kill them" approach which seems vindictive (Donuts I'm talking to you!)
Seriously? The opening and first stage of Sigma's fortress is the hardest? Use the fully charged Rolling Shield for the barrier and those flying enemies literally can't touch you, which allows you to just focus on the jumps. Yeah, it's still a little hairy, but Storm Eagle's stage is about as bad.
It’s impossible to beat the mega man x series without dashing
It'd be awesome if you made castlevania content.
You doing the speed run up the vertical spike walls looks cool, and also rage inducing. Glad it's not mandatory.
You misnumbered the Sigma stage in X3. It's the second, not the third.
Grrrr these levels are hard