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Lucas Gilbertson(Voice of Zero in X8, Command Mission and Maverick Hunter X) redubbed some of the cutscenes. He definitely tried to emulate the energy and feel of the Japanese Dub.
the "What am I fighting for" scene is incredible because it's genuinely an emotional moment that's undercut in the most hilarious way by the voice acting. You can tell the writers knew it mattered cause it gets referenced in Zero's most climactic moment, the ending of MMZ4
Capcom are the undisputed king of "good bad" voice acting. Dr Wahwee, WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOR?!, Jill Sandwich, and I SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE ONE TO FILL YOUR DARK SOUL WITH LIGHT!
@@taylord5381 It’s the weight of the flaws. If there are sixty flaws that mildly annoy me while game is amazing it nearly doesn’t matter. If there’s a single flaw that completely breaks an amazing game, then it’s a major problem. How fun the experience is also matters, I don’t give a shit about a game that has no flaws but has mediocre concept and execution. But I’ll pay $60 with shitty looks, an army of tiny bugs, a few actual bugs, and bad models but brilliant and creative gameplay(Pokemon Arceus in a nutshell).
The experience of X4 isn't that great. The controls feel really finicky and the levels are a little on the boring side compared to other mega man games; plus, the armor parts either make the game too easy (plasma charge arm parts) or get in the way (foot parts). The best part is the bosses, but even those can be ruined by the awkward controls. This game is also not as fun to me as many other games. I'd take any of the classic Mega Man (except Mega Man 8), Mega Man Zero/ZX (except ZX Advent), or SNES Mega Man X games over this one. Heck, I'd rather play X6 or Mega Man & Bass because the sheer frustration those games bring is more interesting to me than X4. I'd still pick this over X5, though!
I think the biggest issue with X series story is that it has a lot of cool and interesting ideas that are either lost in translation, are kinda vague, or have poor execution. It’s one of the reasons I’m so disappointed that the maverick hunter X series didn’t continue since we could have finally gotten a solid narrative for the X series.
Ikr? Maverick Hunter X was a solid narration to the X series but unfortunately it wasn't continued because of the system it came out on. Maverick Hunter X is highly praised for retelling the story in a comprehensive way so why not hold the good pace Capcom?
@@Ghosty_Dosty It was initially supposed to remake X1 through X6, but the game was a selling disappointment for Capcom and it's a shame because despite the X series being a rollercoaster in terms of quality, most of these games just needed some tweaks to make them masterpieces, X3 Zero Project and X6 Tweaks proves that
I've always considered Megaman X4 the best game in the series, it's the closest thing to a perfect Megaman game. The japanese voice acting is actually good, especially for its time. The american localization ruined this games reputation for too long, and it's quite a shame.
I would personally consider Zero 3 to be a perfect Mega Man game, and I think J somewhat agrees. The Zero formula is done the best and mechanically it adds more to what Zero 2 did than what X4 added to X3.
@@MaskedGuyCh It's always been held in high regard in Japan due to anime being an extremely lucrative business. They can't afford to play around with voice acting. I'm not sure how it has changed, however. All the household names are from that era.
14:10 They might not have intuitive button combinations for X, but something that not enough people talk about is that X4 introduced the next best thing to the X series: having separate buttons for the buster and special weapons. That way you can still have a special weapon ready while using the buster.
I've always put Megaman with no space since it feels weird when writing or typing it Mega Man it feels off the same as putting the dash between Spiderman
Okay, if you want to call Mega Man "Megaman", that's fine. More power to you. However, Spider-Man is Spider-Man, not Spiderman. It's just the tiniest of pauses in between words.
I still miss those manually drawed anime-cutscenes from MMX4 by this day. This visual style holds something really special from the 90ths anime. No other games since MMX4 used something like this for some reason, and prerenders from MMX7/8 cannot compete with MMX4 cutscenes at all. Such a loss.
This was back in those days where the home consoles finally could have those anime-type cut-scenes for the first time. I remember being 12 playing this game and amazed that I was playing a game and watching an anime at the same time. Huge step up from my previous system which was the SNES.
Not gonna lie, when I play the MMX games on my own time, I usually just bind one of the buttons on my controller to the emulator's fast forward feature so that I could speed by the boss rushes.
@@Exellocks I've only played the first two X games but I always bind the dash to L and then weapon switching to X and A. L feels so much more natural to press than A. I also don't want my finger off of B and Y to jumop and shoot.
X4 is my favorite of the X series. I appreciate the attempt at story telling and playing as Zero in particular is really fun to play as. The ability to play in virtually any stage order helps a lot as backtracking is very minimal. I know u can play stages in any order in X games but when replaying them u almost need to play in specific order. Anyone who's played X1 a few times always goes to Chill Penguin's stage first
Unfortunately Penguin’s Stage has an unmissable capsule. If you take on Spark Mandrill or Storm Eagle without it, you will certainly die. Thankfully, this was fixed in future games. #regularx
@@droman608does make it kind of a fun challenge to try and beat the bosses without dash boots though lol. It can be done you just need to be a little lucky and very good at the same time. But to be honest this was a whole new game mechanic so they put it in an unmissible spot in the physically most they put it in an unmissible spot in the physically least imposing boss stage. They knew what they were doing lol. They clearly had people there that understand humans well.
I will always have a special place in my heart for Mega Man X4. This is the first X series game I played all the way through and really loved it. Even today, this is probably my favorite X game. This has one of my favorite X armors (first time you could switch out X armor parts, even though it was just the arms), you can have a full playthrough with Zero, had really awesome music, and it just had some really fun gameplay. This was just a really awesome installment in an already solid Mega Man series.
I love the characterisation in the Split Mushroom fight. It's a spin off of the concept of eating random mushrooms would make you go on a massive trip, Split Mushroom really gives you that feeling of "WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON ???!" but to be honest, it's really not that hard. It just LOOKS hectic with all the bullshit going on which'll cause you to make a stupid panic mistake, but it's all fake. Just stay calm and you win (all of this assuming you're not using his weakness)
@@inaminute1826 Not like he was the first MMX boss to rehash a Classic MM boss gimmick. Wheel Gator basically copies Drill Man with his diving and Dive Man with his drilling. No, I didn't mix those up.
Ngl, these reviews really got me interested in the x franchise. I used to really suck at them but actually replaying them & learning the level design & boss pattern has really made me found a new appreciation for some of these games. Learning about least backtracking routes was really enjoyable too. It a weird way these reviews taught me these games aren’t as hard as I thought they were back then. You iust need to what your doing
This was a period of time where people generally bought games less often, and the primary target audience was mostly kids. Kids were a lot more inclined to "figure things out" due to excessive free time & needing to make the most out of every game they were fortunate enough to acquire. Because of this games were more often designed with steeper difficulty curves that asked a lot more mechanical skill of the player up-front, because the players were more inclined to spend the time figuring things out. In our modern age where you can nearly instantly download countless timeless masterpieces for $5 or less regardless of what system you're using, things have to compete for your attention much more aggressively & that sort of difficulty curve tends to make people give up and play something else.
This game's just got vibes, you know? The music is so nostalgic and atmospheric and it pumps you right up for the action, the intro's just so exciting, the "Megaman... **X 4!**" annoucer is so cool, the sound effects and in-game voice acting are so crisp, the animations of all the bosses are so cool, the FRIGGIN BOSS INTROS never fail to send a chill down my spine... Vibes. So many vibes. EDIT: The cutscenes, as hilarious as the voice acting is, got some good vibes too
Don't know why the English localisation flip flops between Mega Man and Megaman but I always spell it as Mega Man, as that's how the Robot Master naming convention is set up for the likes of Elec Man, Metal Man, Snake Man, Pharaoh Man etc. On the subject of X4, this was THE game that I was the most excited about when the XLCs were revealed, and despite getting my ass handed to me a few times when I first played it, it quickly became my favourite X game, as well as one of two games that fight for the honour of my favourite Mega Man game in general, the other being Zero 3. The Fourth Armour and Zero's gameplay alone elevate it above X1 for me, but the package as a whole is nothing short of excellent, story/translation problems notwithstanding.
On the subject of the name, I also flip back and forth. I also do it with a lot of other characters (Spiderman, Superman, Batman, Astroboy, etc.). So it's not exclusive to this franchise.
I like Megaman more because it's a name, not an adjective, nor a surname. It's not like Mario Bros, that Mario is the name and 'Bros' is his surname. He's not called 'Man' that's mega, he's Megaman. That said, I remember somewhere is implied that Megaman X is actually just X, but probably they retconned that. Started with Mega Man X, than Megaman X to be closer to the Japanese name, then finally just X to avoid confusion because the classic Megaman started to receive new games again.
@@magicalcapi9148 What? No. Not all person's names have to follow the personal/family name convention. Especially superhero and robot names. It's not a divine obligation. And what makes you think that "Bros" is Mario's last name?! It's written "Bros." because it's short for "Brothers". It's supposed to refer to Mario AND Luigi being brothers. That's _what_ they are, not their surname. (It's assumed from the fact that they're called the Mario Brothers that Mario is their family name, but that's a different issue.) And he IS a Man of Rockin'/that's Mega, otherwise the name would just be an empty flex. And X is just short for Rockman/Megaman/Mega Man/whatever X. The computer description in the original MMX intro even refers to X himself as "Megaman X", and Dr. Light's voice recording in Maverick Hunter X's ending calls him "Mega Man X" the first time.
@@CarbonRollerCaco You're correct in many points. Sorry, I indeed got confused about Mario's name. If we're gonna get into technicalities, they can do whatever they want. Just saying what for me feels more logical, but there's also a lot of merit being separated too. Researching a bit more, apparently, characters avoided/stopped/never were calling X, by Megaman X, for the exception to Dr. Light and Dr. Cain, creating the theory that X's past is being kept a secret. For most of the characters, it's just X.
Personally, I spell it "Mega Man". I love the red and black Plasma Arms, they make it looks like X is going through his rebellious phase or something. Interesting to consider how a full Plasma Armor would have looked. Great re-review, again!
Yo! There IS a "Full Plasma Armor." In MMX4 there is the Ultimate Armor which matches the gloves. You also get unlimited Nova Strikes, which you can cheese and burn through the whole game
This was my first Megaman ever, it was installed in the computers of my school and I always played in my free time. Unfortunately it was installed with no soundtrack and no anime cutscenes, I also couldn't get used to play it on keyboard (shooting, jumping and dashing in 3 separate keys was awkward to play with) so I never managed to finish it. Years later I got the Legacy Collection for my PS2, and with a controller in hand and more experience, I managed to beat this game. Zero, who I considered a weak choice because of his short range combat, became super fun and satisfying to use. I owe Megaman X4 a lot for how much into gaming I am nowadays, and for introducing me to this franchise. Even to this day it's one of my favorite games of all time. EDIT: Well I guess I never had any problem with spelling "Megaman"...
The Legacy Collection on GameCube also included updated dub work on X4. While the in-game sound effects were the same, they did a complete rewrite and re-dub of the English script and it reads far better.
Despite playing Megaman my whole life, I never realized there was ANY time that it was divided, that's totally on me. Regardless I've always written it as "Megaman" or "Megaman X" because of how I would mentally speak it.
x4 is my fav x series. The stage difficulty/ boss design is balanced to perfection. In fact it's done so well it'd be more enjoyable to fight all bosses with mega buster. The collectable are also much easier/ less tedious than x2/ x3.
In my opinion… The stages/bosses are way too easy to be anything all that interesting. Said stages are the third best in the X series, but what is that saying when the same series has X3, and X5-8? Some bosses are good, like Split Mushroom, Magma Dragoon, Slash Beast, Colonel, Double, and Iris, while the others are either easy, tedious, and usually have terrible hitboxes. Mechanically, much of it is a missed opportunity. As opposed to improving on what X3, it goes back to X1’s level of upgrade and mechanic depth with just heart tanks, sub tanks, and armor. The plotline is also a missed opportunity. X’s story is generally very shallow, Double doesn’t have enough importance to mean anything and Sigma just appears. Zero’s doesn’t shed enough light on Iris, making her death feel incredibly insignificant. The OST feels lackluster in comparison to the original trilogy and even the rest of the PS1 games. On a positive note, X controls his best here, and Zero’s campaign is very nice to have. The weapons are one of the best sets in the X series, and this is the best game to do a minimalist run of. By the way, I still like this game, and I don’t mean to imply that I hate it. But it’s not the end-all be-all X game, and it’s certainly not the best Mega Man game in my opinion.
@@amso7169 In fact it's done so well it'd be more enjoyable to fight all bosses with mega buster. That's the key point. Ik they make weakness weap too strong in x4. That's why is generally more interesting to play as Z.
@@Ventus_S I should have specified that I meant fighting the bosses with the buster. I was making a point that even without weaknesses, most of the bosses are too easy or have some other issues. Frost Walrus, with the buster or not, is a complete pushover for example.
@@amso7169 Not every game need to be insanely hard though. I think x4 has the widest reach along with X cuz how fair their difficulty is. X stage is very short and simple too.
@@amso7169 I can't bring myself to say it's stage design is any worse than x2's personally, but maybe not x1's. Also, what issues with hitboxes did you have with the bosses?
I was in 4th grade when I first played this and It was the first game I ever saved up my allowance to buy. I still have that copy to this day in excellent condition. I still need a Repliforce patch, or a Keychain, or a Cap. I still Head fanon an AU of "how would thing change if in best case scenario the reploid civil war was prevented, Reploid rights was greatly expanded, and Repliforce was granted an Island nation as a homeland. How would Sigma change his plans in terms of X5?"
Favorite X game and one of my favorite games in general. Pretty much everything is good to great, with the voice acting being the most obvious issue. Regardless, I actually enjoy the story, especially their endings. Zero and X both wonder if becoming Maverick is an inevitability. Plus, it shows how much X trusts Zero by asking him to take care of him if it were to happen.
X meant "take care of me" as in "take me out [like an enemy]". He can only trust someone as powerful, skilled and knowing of him as Zero to be capable of doing that.
I always go Jet Stingray first when planning the least backtrack route because you need nothing to grab all power ups in that stage and the boss is free for Zero, and pretty easy for X with no upgrade or weapon. BTW, you can crouch cancel slash in X5 for Zero :)
I still unironically love this voice acting (same with MM8s which im sure we will get to eventually). Sigma's voice is perfect. Zero mispronouncing "coup" is the only issue and I still actually tear up at "what am i fighting for" despite the memes.
maybe tho my disagreement about the voice is that I played this (and all megaman games) when they first came out. So when I played it, we didnt know what "bad voice acting" was so I was unbiased by the memes because they didnt exist.
Also have certain nostalgia for the 5th gen of consoles despite experiencing most of it “after” its heyday. Given that as a kid I mostly played SNES games in the late 90s, so during the 00s I primarily caught up with the Ps1 stuff after the family managed to get one of these. Though so far I only tried some N64 games vía emulation a few years ago. Only “on console” experience with it was a few MK64 matches in a Chinese restaurant that had some N64s as some kind of game room.
I only knew about X4 from the memes about the cutscenes, but when I played through the series for the first time recently I was really surprised to realize that 4 may just be my fav in the series, at least gameplay wise Specifically Zero's campaign
The sound design for X4 really seemed to be trying to keep the sound style from the SNES games, but reworked, and modernized through the PS1 hardware. Maybe they were hoping to appeal to nostalgia/fan service. X5 went in its own unique direction that was kept as the series went on, and it really did sound better. Burn Dinorex vs Magma Dragoon, for example, isn't even a contest. That said; everything else about X4 was just better. Great video series, m8. Oh, and "Megaman" lol
Always felt magma dragoon's theme didn't even sound like anything fire or heat related so it was out of place. I could picture it instead being a theme for an electricity based stage/boss.
X4 was my first X game with the Saturn when I was a little kid. It's been one of my favorite games growing up, and I'm happy it has held up. But the cutscenes also was a sticking point. But I heard the original Japanese, as well as a fandub recently, which made me take the cutscenes more seriously, and appreciate how these characters interact with each other, and the weight in X's last cutscene in his exchange with Zero. You may like the fandub for X4's Zero cutscenes where Lucas Gilbertson(Command Mission/X8) did Zero's voice lines, and different actors for Colonel and Iris. It was delivered far better, albeit with the original English script.
When it comes to the spelling of Megaman I grew too used to it being one word. Also when it comes to X4, I do feel it sits as the peak of the X series. Tragic to say it like that but X4 feels like it refined everything it needed to and introduced Zero as it is the 4th game in a series so it must introduce something new to spice up the formula, but it was done well and is remembered as a fond and welcome addition to the series at least imo.
@@fillerbunnyninjashark271 That irritated me as a younger, less sympathetic kid. I was like "She's dead. Give it up already.". And you obviously can't blame the localizing for that.
Long childhood story here. When i first got this game on my ps1 my controller was not working properly (it was constantly holding DOWN without me pressing anything) so after the intro stage i only had 4 stages to play, frost walrus, slash beast, Jet stingray, and split mushroom. (this Last one i couldn't beat it because of a ladder section it had i believe) Then by accident i held up on the d-pad when the game was loading the stage select screen and i could choose the other 4 stages, unless i released up, the controller would stuck me down again XD, anyway i still couldn't beat the game cause of ladder sections, Web spider stage has a long one on the first phase. So i was playing it like that for a month until my dad bought me another controller and i finally could beat the game. Such good old times...
this was my favorite game growing up, i struggled so much back then that i had to call bro to beat certain obj. Now a days i just love speed running this game lol, which is still to this day really fun for some reason. and how i write mega man depends if its x series or og. ex: megaman x4 and mega man 8
MegaMan was my first ever MegaMan series game and first PC game. MegaMan is what me choose my life course as a software engineer. I have every collection of MegaMan items and I thank God for telling me about it. Also, Thank you for reviewing my childhood game.
Your route actually made me think about makingmy own because i really wanted the plasma shot so i made my own and you were right about routing paths being really fun. My path goes Magma dragoon Web spider Storm owl Slash beast ( i was really proud of myself for beating him buster only) Backtrack to magma dragoon Split mushroom Cyber peacock Jet stingray Frost walrus This is why i played this game so much
Great review, I agree it's the perfection of the MMX formula. And yes the voice acting was painful, especially sigma and zero. I wanted to mention that the Mega Man X remake for the PSP, "MMX: Maverick Hunter", has INCREDIBLE voice acting. I don't remember very specifically right now, but I remember getting really absorbed into the dialogue while playing simply because the voice acting was so good.
Oh man, look at all these new characters. I love them, I sure hope they come back in the sequels. Also X4 has the best soundtrack of any and all Mega Man games ever made. I could listen to Magma Dragoon's stage on loop for days without getting annoyed.
Megaman legends 1 and 2 were my favorite megaman games ever. So disappointed that we didn't get a megaman legends 3. I guess megaman trigger, sarah and that one other lady (forgot her name) are stuck on elysium forever.
I really enjoy these videos. I found your channel by looking for Mega Man content after playing through the games again. I grew up playing Mega Man as I was in elementary school when the original games came out. I watched your original Mega Man videos and the Mega Man X videos up to this point. Thank you for putting out these awesome videos! Keep up the great work!
This is the most fun choice too imo. Although most recently I like starting with Split Mushroom first, a hard boss fight but you get the double jump and spinslash early.
I like to start with slash beast with zero i don't know why but the battle against him is really satisfactory as the first boss and you can get everything in his stage without revisiting the stage
I got both my Playstation and Saturn on the same day (9/9/95). Before that, I had a Sega Genesis/Sega CD and Snes. I am also a 5th generation collector today and still very much a Mega Man fan (I'm going somewhere with this). Having said that, while I don't agree with your assessment of the Saturn (it definitely was important to the console wars), I find your channel to be very refreshing. You may not have experienced the full breath of the 4th and 5th generations you show a modicum of respect, and for that, I thank you. Addendum - It has been so long since I played the Mega Man games that I had forgotten which ones beyond 8 were 32-bit. I knew some of the X's were, but I had to look them up. I actually just realized while cleaning up my SSD that I own the Mega Man X Collection on the Series X (and PS5). I really wanted to play the 32-bit entries again (without looking through our collection), and you just put me on the right track. Good man.
Right on, X4 was definitely one of the best in the X series. Followed the formula before they started changing it up in X5 onwards. The music in X4 is very well done too. It's definitely more synthy from the rest of the games which isn't a bad thing. And each stage has a track that fits their theme so perfectly. Web spiders jungle makes you feel like your traversing a... Jungle. Fighting through dangerous hornet nests and .... Fish men with spears. Magma.....DRAGOON's stage feels like an intense volcano. So intense you need a ride armor to walk through the lava - or magma because it's inside a volcano? And of course my favourite ( and the one I remixed 😏) Frost Walruses stage. The first part is PERFECT for a winter wasteland feeling. The howling wind, those offbeat chimes, that Dreamcast boot up-esque sound that plays. All of it captures the atmosphere so well. And the Part 2 area, I love how we get a more traditional track, with a beat / bass / melody as we explore inside the base. I don't mean to rant, but the X series is my favorite. Good stuff, keep up the reviews! 💎
Says Mega Man X4 is yet another perfect game at the 3:20 mark. I disagree. It’s good. But the voice acting ruins a lot. The only thing that could make it perfect for me personally is if they re-dubbed X4’s cutscenes with the voice actors used in X8, X Command Mission, and the Maverick Hunter X OVA. Those guys did a hell of a job and they’re the ones I think of when I associate a voice with those characters. Much like the way you’d associate Maile Flanagan’s voice with Naruto. No one else can do it BUT that person.
I can't remember if X4 or X3 were my first Mega Man X games, I remember playing both of them and being so bad that I never finished them until I was 16 or older, and all I can say is that they hold a place in my heart and your reviews lets me enjoy them once more even if I'm not playing them. I plan to buy the full legacy collections just to try and make Capcom see we want and need a megaman comeback, just hope they don't burn the franchise again
And in my opinion, X6 blows X5's soundtrack out of the water. Too bad X6 is an even more problematic than X5. But, X4, X5, and X8 hold special places in my heart. X4 is just the cleanest game, and the best for speedrunning.
Wanted to finish all videos before giving my opinion and I'd say I liked your original all inclusive X retrospective. These games have a meaning for me but finding someone who could be analytical on them, while still able to find merit and value in them at the end of the day was a refreshing take because it was always either one (thoughtless praise) or the other (unintelligent aversion). Having said that these videos are good too because you shared new talking points without making them rehashes of your old work. You're a good guy, Justin. There's a sense of legitimacy to your channel that makes me watch and enjoy your content. You talk and I know I'm listening to someone with genuine passion. Someone who has spent time with these games and tried to understand them. Something that's pretty scarce in the current game vlogging scenery nowadays. And when you've reached that point of Zen, of being comfortable with yourself, what you do and how you deliver it, numbers are what matter less. It doesn't matter when you'll get there anyway, because you're having fun on the journey. Congratulations, and you'll hopefully find more success in 2022.
X4 is one of my PS1 favorites, played it a lot but still haven't got to speedrun levels of good. Didn't know there was an undub version since I played the Japanese version instead for the voice acting, the opening song was good but the ending song was rewarding to listen to, especially on the first playthrough on that version as X without any armor and heart tanks, just the EX and the recovery tanks.
I still remember my first experience with this game. I didn’t have a PlayStation console yet so I rented one from Blockbuster (back when that was still a thing) and Mega Man X4. When I got home and fired it up, that intro blew me away. My jaw hit the floor. I was actually seeing Mega Man X in animated form and it was one of the coolest moments in my whole gaming life. I’ll never forget that moment! It was the first game I ever played on the system.
Excellent video! X4 is also my favorite game from the X series. I just want to add a couple of things. The Japanese version of X4 have better voices for both X and Zero. X sounds a lot better and not like a 5 years old child when he shoots the buster. Zero's voice is a lot more serious too. The bosses have voices and they said something just before each fight, what they say is not always the same, they also said something when you defeat them just before they explode. The anime opening have a full song by a Japanese singer (it is suppose to be Iris singing for Zero). The ending credits have another song from the same singer. Both songs were excluded for the American and European releases of Megaman X Collection but they are in the Japanese version of the game.
This is a big nostalgia game for me. Man I didn't knew the exchange of Zero and Colonel is that funny. It probably topped the Iris scene for me from now on.
Glad to see ya re-reviewing these Mega man x games because with how your mindset has changed, it's nice to see them in a bit of a different light. Looking forward to your re-reviews of the other Mega man x games and some other stuff as well.
I think a missed opportunity here would have been to have Zero have capsule upgrades like MegaMan did in previous games. Imagine how awesome it would have been to see Wiley onscreen for the first time saying "Zero, you are my greatest creation. To fulfill your destiny, to meet your true potential, I've prepared this for you, so that some day you might become my vision of the future" Chills bro. Chills
I've definitely enjoyed these newer video reviews, J, and your work in general is what keeps me interested in your future works and keeps me coming back.
Did you know that the voice actress recording lines for X wasn’t even told she was recording for him in the same session as Mega Man 8? Yeah the sessions for these games were a mess.
"I wasn't even alive for the height of this era." Awww. That sentence weirdly made me proud...like, I am watching the youth discover the things I grew up on. It makes me so happy to see younger people enjoying these old games.
"pacebreaker" in this context just seems to mean "anything that wasnt simple to slash through at full speed" some people like difficulty, doesnt need to be full speed the whole time
Great mini retrospective man! Hopefully we see Legends, Battle Network or the original MegaMan series at some point from you, it'd be awesome to hear your thoughts on those, keep up the great work!
Glad to see X4 still holds up to this day! Always have been interested in playing it, but never got around to it. Also, for some reason I always thought that classic Megaman was spelled without a space, but Mega Man X did have a space in it. Weird :/
Man seeing the old review and this is like day and night. You really change since the few years fam, i cant wait for you re-review the zero series and maybe review the battle network and the classic series...you were the youtuber who i kinda use to know about the x games
Enjoyed watching these 4 X vids. As for Sigma, yeah when he beat Zero that is when he (Sigma) got infected by the virus to become a Maverick, (and took over Zero's role who was the first Maverick). Also when Sigma goes "Zero, you were a Maverick!?" I never took that as a fault in the writing. Instead I always took it as Sigma just toying with Zero. Like he just reminded Zero of Zero's origins and then plays with it saying like "my my, you were a Maverick?" not that he was actually surprised and asking Zero that question. It's more of an insult to Zero fighting what he was. And it's Megaman for me.
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LOVE your reviews man. Keep doing what you do!
heyyy My name is finally called :D
Where did you get the Japanese version mod of X4? it looks really interesting!
You spell it as : Me-Gay-Man"
Lucas Gilbertson(Voice of Zero in X8, Command Mission and Maverick Hunter X) redubbed some of the cutscenes. He definitely tried to emulate the energy and feel of the Japanese Dub.
And that´s why you SHOULD play Rockman X4 and not Megaman X4
the "What am I fighting for" scene is incredible because it's genuinely an emotional moment that's undercut in the most hilarious way by the voice acting. You can tell the writers knew it mattered cause it gets referenced in Zero's most climactic moment, the ending of MMZ4
God that part was so damn cheesy.
Capcom are the undisputed king of "good bad" voice acting. Dr Wahwee, WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOR?!, Jill Sandwich, and I SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE ONE TO FILL YOUR DARK SOUL WITH LIGHT!
That cutscene filled my dark soul with light.
Try the undub hack, Okiayu's performance is godly
@@dcb99filmzit is surprising how much the better dub adds to the experience, felt like I was actually invested in the story, also that intro god damn
"perfection is more about the experience than it is the flaw count"
more critics need to hear this
It's not the brilliancy and flaw COUNTS, it's the brilliancy and flaw WEIGHTS.
@@CarbonRollerCaco brilliancy outweighing the flaws is what makes a good game
@@CarbonRollerCaco no. It's flaw count.
@@taylord5381 It’s the weight of the flaws. If there are sixty flaws that mildly annoy me while game is amazing it nearly doesn’t matter. If there’s a single flaw that completely breaks an amazing game, then it’s a major problem.
How fun the experience is also matters, I don’t give a shit about a game that has no flaws but has mediocre concept and execution. But I’ll pay $60 with shitty looks, an army of tiny bugs, a few actual bugs, and bad models but brilliant and creative gameplay(Pokemon Arceus in a nutshell).
The experience of X4 isn't that great. The controls feel really finicky and the levels are a little on the boring side compared to other mega man games; plus, the armor parts either make the game too easy (plasma charge arm parts) or get in the way (foot parts). The best part is the bosses, but even those can be ruined by the awkward controls.
This game is also not as fun to me as many other games. I'd take any of the classic Mega Man (except Mega Man 8), Mega Man Zero/ZX (except ZX Advent), or SNES Mega Man X games over this one. Heck, I'd rather play X6 or Mega Man & Bass because the sheer frustration those games bring is more interesting to me than X4.
I'd still pick this over X5, though!
I enjoyed how X and Zero had radically different theme songs myself. X sounded more desperate and urgent and Zero's sounded more no nonsense
X's X3 theme>X's X4 theme>Zero's X5 theme>Zero's X3 theme>Zero's X4 theme>X's X5 theme
To me Zeros sounded like a Badass lone wolf theme like. "Its all up to me again!"
This is best megaman X game. So glad I played this then Pokémon red hahaha great times.
Wai u watched bomber jetters such a gud anime
zero's sounds more like tragic because he will go through worse things later in the game
30:28 Okay but Double's "Nothing to worry about" was delivered _perfectly_
A nugget of gold in a mountain of crap sadly
I actually like Double’s voice because it makes him sound like an average guy.
as a kid when double double crossed x i was legit scared, great story
2:38 fun fact: Spider-man hates it when people misspell his name because it lowers his google search score.
I think the biggest issue with X series story is that it has a lot of cool and interesting ideas that are either lost in translation, are kinda vague, or have poor execution. It’s one of the reasons I’m so disappointed that the maverick hunter X series didn’t continue since we could have finally gotten a solid narrative for the X series.
Ikr? Maverick Hunter X was a solid narration to the X series but unfortunately it wasn't continued because of the system it came out on. Maverick Hunter X is highly praised for retelling the story in a comprehensive way so why not hold the good pace Capcom?
@@Ghosty_Dosty MHX killed Dr. Cain. Kind of an unnecessary move.
@@CarbonRollerCaco I mean, he's just old
@@Ghosty_Dosty It was initially supposed to remake X1 through X6, but the game was a selling disappointment for Capcom and it's a shame because despite the X series being a rollercoaster in terms of quality, most of these games just needed some tweaks to make them masterpieces, X3 Zero Project and X6 Tweaks proves that
@@CarbonRollerCaco
he barely had an effect on the narrative anyway aside from a few scenes in 2 and 3
Being able to finally truly play as Zero throughout the entire game was so cool. X4 is easily my favorite Megaman game alongside X5, X8 and Zero3.
Aye. I tend to joke that this isn't Mega Man X4, it is Mega Man Zero -5 (minus five). Once Zero is an option, he becomes my main. :)
X4 is my favorite Mega Man game also!
Me too. The only downside for me is that you can't crouch.
Heh Funny...because this is the game that make me stop play megaman x including megaman z .....well until megaman maverick hunter x release
Agreed I loved playing as zero
I've always considered Megaman X4 the best game in the series, it's the closest thing to a perfect Megaman game.
The japanese voice acting is actually good, especially for its time. The american localization ruined this games reputation for too long, and it's quite a shame.
I would personally consider Zero 3 to be a perfect Mega Man game, and I think J somewhat agrees. The Zero formula is done the best and mechanically it adds more to what Zero 2 did than what X4 added to X3.
What do you mean "for its time"? The Japanese voice acting was the same then as it is now in the industry of anime.
@@F_Yale It's undeniable that voice acting in japanese media has improved since then, it's been 25 years.
@@MaskedGuyCh It's always been held in high regard in Japan due to anime being an extremely lucrative business. They can't afford to play around with voice acting. I'm not sure how it has changed, however. All the household names are from that era.
@@F_Yale I said "especially" for its time. Never said it's only good for its time, because I still think it's good voice acting.
14:10 They might not have intuitive button combinations for X, but something that not enough people talk about is that X4 introduced the next best thing to the X series: having separate buttons for the buster and special weapons. That way you can still have a special weapon ready while using the buster.
Mega Man 8 did that too.
@@smashmaster521 And actually encouraged you to use it.
It's baffling that Mega Man & Bass and Mega Man 9-present cut this feature.
"WHAT I'M I FIGHTING FORRRRR" Man, that never gets old.
Jyb did a redub of that scene and it makes such a huge difference
That line is one of the most memorable line in the whole X series.
Otacon in MGS1 says it in a cutscene after you defeat Sniper Wolf, even Kojima liked the line.
Indeed it does, but you didn’t say it right,
@@rickrincher9132 It’s actually emotional their, and fits zero.
I've always put Megaman with no space since it feels weird when writing or typing it Mega Man it feels off the same as putting the dash between Spiderman
People who don't put a hyphen between "Spider" and "Man" don't deserve rights
@@blip7882 Agreed. It missed the entire point of the hyphen. Showing Between Peter's double life.
I always put Guts Man and Cut Man with spaces, so Mega Man gets the same thing.
@@Rokku-D That's, not why it's there
It's so you don't confuse it for Superman from afar
Okay, if you want to call Mega Man "Megaman", that's fine. More power to you. However, Spider-Man is Spider-Man, not Spiderman. It's just the tiniest of pauses in between words.
I still miss those manually drawed anime-cutscenes from MMX4 by this day. This visual style holds something really special from the 90ths anime. No other games since MMX4 used something like this for some reason, and prerenders from MMX7/8 cannot compete with MMX4 cutscenes at all. Such a loss.
Agreed!
And it gave us the legendary W WHAT AM I FIGHTING FORRRRRRRR!.
This was back in those days where the home consoles finally could have those anime-type cut-scenes for the first time. I remember being 12 playing this game and amazed that I was playing a game and watching an anime at the same time. Huge step up from my previous system which was the SNES.
Not gonna lie, when I play the MMX games on my own time, I usually just bind one of the buttons on my controller to the emulator's fast forward feature so that I could speed by the boss rushes.
R button for Dash is my favorite option. It feels like acceleration on car games.
@@srcapibara6932 I like it on L because it's tied to your movement, which is managed by the left hand
@@Exellocks Nice.
@@TheRealBlazingDiamond chronic circle dasher here 🥲
@@Exellocks I've only played the first two X games but I always bind the dash to L and then weapon switching to X and A. L feels so much more natural to press than A. I also don't want my finger off of B and Y to jumop and shoot.
X4 is my favorite of the X series. I appreciate the attempt at story telling and playing as Zero in particular is really fun to play as. The ability to play in virtually any stage order helps a lot as backtracking is very minimal. I know u can play stages in any order in X games but when replaying them u almost need to play in specific order. Anyone who's played X1 a few times always goes to Chill Penguin's stage first
Unfortunately Penguin’s Stage has an unmissable capsule. If you take on Spark Mandrill or Storm Eagle without it, you will certainly die. Thankfully, this was fixed in future games.
#regularx
@@droman608does make it kind of a fun challenge to try and beat the bosses without dash boots though lol. It can be done you just need to be a little lucky and very good at the same time.
But to be honest this was a whole new game mechanic so they put it in an unmissible spot in the physically most they put it in an unmissible spot in the physically least imposing boss stage. They knew what they were doing lol. They clearly had people there that understand humans well.
First I go after the capsules. After that I start always with Storm Eagle. His weapon is absolutely broken and you can do some crazy shit with it.
The transition from x intro stage to slash beast stage sounds so good.
I will always have a special place in my heart for Mega Man X4. This is the first X series game I played all the way through and really loved it. Even today, this is probably my favorite X game. This has one of my favorite X armors (first time you could switch out X armor parts, even though it was just the arms), you can have a full playthrough with Zero, had really awesome music, and it just had some really fun gameplay. This was just a really awesome installment in an already solid Mega Man series.
I love the characterisation in the Split Mushroom fight. It's a spin off of the concept of eating random mushrooms would make you go on a massive trip, Split Mushroom really gives you that feeling of "WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON ???!" but to be honest, it's really not that hard. It just LOOKS hectic with all the bullshit going on which'll cause you to make a stupid panic mistake, but it's all fake. Just stay calm and you win (all of this assuming you're not using his weakness)
Kind of like a real trip, just stay calm and you'll probably be fine!
@@vjspectron damn straight to bad a suck at it with shrooms. LSD on the other hand… 👍
yeah this is accurate lol
This is why I always use the stun lock with lightning web :/
Gemini man wanna be
@@inaminute1826 Not like he was the first MMX boss to rehash a Classic MM boss gimmick. Wheel Gator basically copies Drill Man with his diving and Dive Man with his drilling. No, I didn't mix those up.
I’m SHAKING in anticipation for that X5 review since it’s my favorite in the series both gameplay wise and music wise
Oof that’s a tough opinion, because don’t get me wrong it’s good, but I prefer 4, and 6, since it’s both the change in the base format after 6.
@@joshshrum2764 X5 is not a game. It's a walking simulator. Unless you're at a boss fight, you'll be rewarded for dying. Stop saying X5 is good.
@@mohdadeeb1829 Your just a hater, but he already covered it so who cares.
@@joshshrum2764 I do. I don't want lies to spread. X5 is a game where you don't have to kill anything. Just tank damage and run.
@@joshshrum2764 You should look up a guy called 'Nico Evaluates' where he played through this 'game'
Ngl, these reviews really got me interested in the x franchise. I used to really suck at them
but actually replaying them & learning the level design & boss pattern has really made me found a new appreciation for some of these games. Learning about least backtracking routes was really enjoyable too. It a weird way these reviews taught me these games aren’t as hard as I thought they were back then. You iust need to what your doing
Also to answer your question
It’s truly hard to say if megaman or mega man are ways to spell the name
But if I had to choose I’d say mega man
Same here. I always admired the X series even at its lowest. Whenever I see gameplay online, there's always some rhythm to it.
@@Moromom22 Even the worst MMX X-ecution can't undermine the solid control foundation.
This was a period of time where people generally bought games less often, and the primary target audience was mostly kids. Kids were a lot more inclined to "figure things out" due to excessive free time & needing to make the most out of every game they were fortunate enough to acquire. Because of this games were more often designed with steeper difficulty curves that asked a lot more mechanical skill of the player up-front, because the players were more inclined to spend the time figuring things out. In our modern age where you can nearly instantly download countless timeless masterpieces for $5 or less regardless of what system you're using, things have to compete for your attention much more aggressively & that sort of difficulty curve tends to make people give up and play something else.
The X series is really easy to get into for anyone, for the Zero series not so much, that game kick your ass left and right.
This game's just got vibes, you know?
The music is so nostalgic and atmospheric and it pumps you right up for the action, the intro's just so exciting, the "Megaman... **X 4!**" annoucer is so cool, the sound effects and in-game voice acting are so crisp, the animations of all the bosses are so cool, the FRIGGIN BOSS INTROS never fail to send a chill down my spine...
Vibes. So many vibes.
EDIT: The cutscenes, as hilarious as the voice acting is, got some good vibes too
Don't know why the English localisation flip flops between Mega Man and Megaman but I always spell it as Mega Man, as that's how the Robot Master naming convention is set up for the likes of Elec Man, Metal Man, Snake Man, Pharaoh Man etc.
On the subject of X4, this was THE game that I was the most excited about when the XLCs were revealed, and despite getting my ass handed to me a few times when I first played it, it quickly became my favourite X game, as well as one of two games that fight for the honour of my favourite Mega Man game in general, the other being Zero 3. The Fourth Armour and Zero's gameplay alone elevate it above X1 for me, but the package as a whole is nothing short of excellent, story/translation problems notwithstanding.
On the subject of the name, I also flip back and forth. I also do it with a lot of other characters (Spiderman, Superman, Batman, Astroboy, etc.). So it's not exclusive to this franchise.
I like Megaman more because it's a name, not an adjective, nor a surname. It's not like Mario Bros, that Mario is the name and 'Bros' is his surname. He's not called 'Man' that's mega, he's Megaman.
That said, I remember somewhere is implied that Megaman X is actually just X, but probably they retconned that. Started with Mega Man X, than Megaman X to be closer to the Japanese name, then finally just X to avoid confusion because the classic Megaman started to receive new games again.
@@magicalcapi9148 What? No. Not all person's names have to follow the personal/family name convention. Especially superhero and robot names. It's not a divine obligation. And what makes you think that "Bros" is Mario's last name?! It's written "Bros." because it's short for "Brothers". It's supposed to refer to Mario AND Luigi being brothers. That's _what_ they are, not their surname. (It's assumed from the fact that they're called the Mario Brothers that Mario is their family name, but that's a different issue.) And he IS a Man of Rockin'/that's Mega, otherwise the name would just be an empty flex. And X is just short for Rockman/Megaman/Mega Man/whatever X. The computer description in the original MMX intro even refers to X himself as "Megaman X", and Dr. Light's voice recording in Maverick Hunter X's ending calls him "Mega Man X" the first time.
"XLCs"? Did you mistype "FMVs"?
@@CarbonRollerCaco You're correct in many points. Sorry, I indeed got confused about Mario's name.
If we're gonna get into technicalities, they can do whatever they want. Just saying what for me feels more logical, but there's also a lot of merit being separated too.
Researching a bit more, apparently, characters avoided/stopped/never were calling X, by Megaman X, for the exception to Dr. Light and Dr. Cain, creating the theory that X's past is being kept a secret. For most of the characters, it's just X.
Personally, I spell it "Mega Man".
I love the red and black Plasma Arms, they make it looks like X is going through his rebellious phase or something. Interesting to consider how a full Plasma Armor would have looked.
Great re-review, again!
For me when saying Classic mega man I say mega man but for megaman x I spell it like megaman x
Yo! There IS a "Full Plasma Armor." In MMX4 there is the Ultimate Armor which matches the gloves. You also get unlimited Nova Strikes, which you can cheese and burn through the whole game
Oh yeah I know I used it on my latest play through
@@Itshomski I dont think OP knew. Glad to see ppl still talking abt this game!
yeah these games deserve more love
This was my first Megaman ever, it was installed in the computers of my school and I always played in my free time. Unfortunately it was installed with no soundtrack and no anime cutscenes, I also couldn't get used to play it on keyboard (shooting, jumping and dashing in 3 separate keys was awkward to play with) so I never managed to finish it. Years later I got the Legacy Collection for my PS2, and with a controller in hand and more experience, I managed to beat this game. Zero, who I considered a weak choice because of his short range combat, became super fun and satisfying to use.
I owe Megaman X4 a lot for how much into gaming I am nowadays, and for introducing me to this franchise. Even to this day it's one of my favorite games of all time.
EDIT: Well I guess I never had any problem with spelling "Megaman"...
The Legacy Collection on GameCube also included updated dub work on X4. While the in-game sound effects were the same, they did a complete rewrite and re-dub of the English script and it reads far better.
What??? No way. I'm going to check right now.
i checked
:(
18:38 i NEVER saw anyone sticking with the 4 charged shots buster unless they are doing some kind of challenge to use that armor part
And judging form Fourth Armor in X5 has Plasma charge shot it was the canon choice, except it has the Quad shot arm's color.
it's cool to use doe. But yah you right
It's the superior one for speedrunning.
It's the go-to for speedrunners since the plasma shot causes slowdown.
@@ginger-ham4800 so basically it's better than plasma?
It’s great to go over your old videos every so often to witness and appreciate how far you’ve come
Despite playing Megaman my whole life, I never realized there was ANY time that it was divided, that's totally on me. Regardless I've always written it as "Megaman" or "Megaman X" because of how I would mentally speak it.
x4 is my fav x series.
The stage difficulty/ boss design is balanced to perfection.
In fact it's done so well it'd be more enjoyable to fight all bosses with mega buster.
The collectable are also much easier/ less tedious than x2/ x3.
In my opinion…
The stages/bosses are way too easy to be anything all that interesting. Said stages are the third best in the X series, but what is that saying when the same series has X3, and X5-8?
Some bosses are good, like Split Mushroom, Magma Dragoon, Slash Beast, Colonel, Double, and Iris, while the others are either easy, tedious, and usually have terrible hitboxes. Mechanically, much of it is a missed opportunity. As opposed to improving on what X3, it goes back to X1’s level of upgrade and mechanic depth with just heart tanks, sub tanks, and armor. The plotline is also a missed opportunity. X’s story is generally very shallow, Double doesn’t have enough importance to mean anything and Sigma just appears. Zero’s doesn’t shed enough light on Iris, making her death feel incredibly insignificant. The OST feels lackluster in comparison to the original trilogy and even the rest of the PS1 games.
On a positive note, X controls his best here, and Zero’s campaign is very nice to have. The weapons are one of the best sets in the X series, and this is the best game to do a minimalist run of.
By the way, I still like this game, and I don’t mean to imply that I hate it. But it’s not the end-all be-all X game, and it’s certainly not the best Mega Man game in my opinion.
@@amso7169 In fact it's done so well it'd be more enjoyable to fight all bosses with mega buster.
That's the key point.
Ik they make weakness weap too strong in x4. That's why is generally more interesting to play as Z.
@@Ventus_S
I should have specified that I meant fighting the bosses with the buster. I was making a point that even without weaknesses, most of the bosses are too easy or have some other issues. Frost Walrus, with the buster or not, is a complete pushover for example.
@@amso7169 Not every game need to be insanely hard though.
I think x4 has the widest reach along with X cuz how fair their difficulty is.
X stage is very short and simple too.
@@amso7169 I can't bring myself to say it's stage design is any worse than x2's personally, but maybe not x1's. Also, what issues with hitboxes did you have with the bosses?
Your last X4 video convinced me to give the game a try for the first time. Glad to see you revisiting it :)
19:46 Strategy Section
I was in 4th grade when I first played this and It was the first game I ever saved up my allowance to buy.
I still have that copy to this day in excellent condition.
I still need a Repliforce patch, or a Keychain, or a Cap.
I still Head fanon an AU of "how would thing change if in best case scenario the reploid civil war was prevented, Reploid rights was greatly expanded, and Repliforce was granted an Island nation as a homeland. How would Sigma change his plans in terms of X5?"
That's a good question, but what you really need is a poster of the alternate Iris from Mega Man X DiVE.
@@smashmaster521 only as part of a series of recruitment poster. "General wants YOU to join Repliforce!"
@@jamcalx With how beautiful the alternate Iris is, I can see those posters being VERY effective.
Favorite X game and one of my favorite games in general. Pretty much everything is good to great, with the voice acting being the most obvious issue.
Regardless, I actually enjoy the story, especially their endings. Zero and X both wonder if becoming Maverick is an inevitability. Plus, it shows how much X trusts Zero by asking him to take care of him if it were to happen.
X meant "take care of me" as in "take me out [like an enemy]". He can only trust someone as powerful, skilled and knowing of him as Zero to be capable of doing that.
@@CarbonRollerCaco It should've been mutual.
Though zero with that voice is a amazing meme.
Hell yeah J, fantastic review!
I’m glad I was able to become a Patreon just before this video dropped MMX4 is my all time favorite!!
30:56 "yea you started this conversation" lmaooo This will forever be my favorite X game
Eiii our boy has sponsors now, super happy for you, these reviews are like a holy grail to me.
I always go Jet Stingray first when planning the least backtrack route because you need nothing to grab all power ups in that stage and the boss is free for Zero, and pretty easy for X with no upgrade or weapon.
BTW, you can crouch cancel slash in X5 for Zero :)
I still unironically love this voice acting (same with MM8s which im sure we will get to eventually). Sigma's voice is perfect. Zero mispronouncing "coup" is the only issue and I still actually tear up at "what am i fighting for" despite the memes.
maybe tho my disagreement about the voice is that I played this (and all megaman games) when they first came out. So when I played it, we didnt know what "bad voice acting" was so I was unbiased by the memes because they didnt exist.
Also have certain nostalgia for the 5th gen of consoles despite experiencing most of it “after” its heyday. Given that as a kid I mostly played SNES games in the late 90s, so during the 00s I primarily caught up with the Ps1 stuff after the family managed to get one of these. Though so far I only tried some N64 games vía emulation a few years ago. Only “on console” experience with it was a few MK64 matches in a Chinese restaurant that had some N64s as some kind of game room.
What PS1 games do you own?
I only knew about X4 from the memes about the cutscenes, but when I played through the series for the first time recently I was really surprised to realize that 4 may just be my fav in the series, at least gameplay wise
Specifically Zero's campaign
Honestly not a bad introduction even it it kind of leaves a bad after taste like going to bed, and waking up with a dry throat from pretzels.
Just wanted to say that I’m seriously loving these megaman x reviews. Good stuff mate!
This series is going to end up making me actually play all these games, have had collection for a while now.
We all know the best way to say MegaMan is like Dr. Light with Meguhmahn
I always thought when Sigma acted surprised about Zero being a Maverick, he was being sarcastic after the big reveal.
The sound design for X4 really seemed to be trying to keep the sound style from the SNES games, but reworked, and modernized through the PS1 hardware. Maybe they were hoping to appeal to nostalgia/fan service. X5 went in its own unique direction that was kept as the series went on, and it really did sound better. Burn Dinorex vs Magma Dragoon, for example, isn't even a contest. That said; everything else about X4 was just better. Great video series, m8.
Oh, and "Megaman" lol
Always felt magma dragoon's theme didn't even sound like anything fire or heat related so it was out of place. I could picture it instead being a theme for an electricity based stage/boss.
X4 was my first X game with the Saturn when I was a little kid. It's been one of my favorite games growing up, and I'm happy it has held up. But the cutscenes also was a sticking point. But I heard the original Japanese, as well as a fandub recently, which made me take the cutscenes more seriously, and appreciate how these characters interact with each other, and the weight in X's last cutscene in his exchange with Zero.
You may like the fandub for X4's Zero cutscenes where Lucas Gilbertson(Command Mission/X8) did Zero's voice lines, and different actors for Colonel and Iris. It was delivered far better, albeit with the original English script.
When it comes to the spelling of Megaman I grew too used to it being one word. Also when it comes to X4, I do feel it sits as the peak of the X series. Tragic to say it like that but X4 feels like it refined everything it needed to and introduced Zero as it is the 4th game in a series so it must introduce something new to spice up the formula, but it was done well and is remembered as a fond and welcome addition to the series at least imo.
Same. X4 was the true peak of the X series; and this series honestly should have concluded after X5.
The subtle thing with the boss health bar is pretty cool. Some of them have the sigma logo and others are replaforce
The worst part of this game is how Zero sounds just like Matt McMuscles: "WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOOOOOR"
Iris! IRIS!
@@fillerbunnyninjashark271 That irritated me as a younger, less sympathetic kid. I was like "She's dead. Give it up already.". And you obviously can't blame the localizing for that.
DAMN, that's some shade on BOTH of them.
@@CarbonRollerCaco I've been quoting that for years, loll... Shit almost decades...
Long childhood story here.
When i first got this game on my ps1 my controller was not working properly (it was constantly holding DOWN without me pressing anything) so after the intro stage i only had 4 stages to play, frost walrus, slash beast, Jet stingray, and split mushroom. (this Last one i couldn't beat it because of a ladder section it had i believe)
Then by accident i held up on the d-pad when the game was loading the stage select screen and i could choose the other 4 stages, unless i released up, the controller would stuck me down again XD, anyway i still couldn't beat the game cause of ladder sections, Web spider stage has a long one on the first phase.
So i was playing it like that for a month until my dad bought me another controller and i finally could beat the game.
Such good old times...
I like that you’re remaking old videos. Just watched the original again a few days ago
7:02
Jesus Christ, Such a great Transition to the square space ad with X..
this was my favorite game growing up, i struggled so much back then that i had to call bro to beat certain obj. Now a days i just love speed running this game lol, which is still to this day really fun for some reason. and how i write mega man depends if its x series or og. ex: megaman x4 and mega man 8
MegaMan was my first ever MegaMan series game and first PC game. MegaMan is what me choose my life course as a software engineer. I have every collection of MegaMan items and I thank God for telling me about it. Also, Thank you for reviewing my childhood game.
I gotta play this game again, it's probably my favorite X game out of all of them. Oh and I usually spell it as megaman.
The Saturn’s relevance will depend on region. In Japan, the Saturn sold more than the Nintendo 64 and the SEGA Genesis.
Your route actually made me think about makingmy own because i really wanted the plasma shot so i made my own and you were right about routing paths being really fun. My path goes
Magma dragoon
Web spider
Storm owl
Slash beast ( i was really proud of myself for beating him buster only)
Backtrack to magma dragoon
Split mushroom
Cyber peacock
Jet stingray
Frost walrus
This is why i played this game so much
Woops I meant frost walrus then jet stingray lol
Can you tell I was half asleep when writing this lol
Great review, I agree it's the perfection of the MMX formula. And yes the voice acting was painful, especially sigma and zero. I wanted to mention that the Mega Man X remake for the PSP, "MMX: Maverick Hunter", has INCREDIBLE voice acting. I don't remember very specifically right now, but I remember getting really absorbed into the dialogue while playing simply because the voice acting was so good.
"I wasn't even alive in this era"
Jesus, I open the video and already feel old.
Oh man, look at all these new characters. I love them, I sure hope they come back in the sequels.
Also X4 has the best soundtrack of any and all Mega Man games ever made. I could listen to Magma Dragoon's stage on loop for days without getting annoyed.
Megaman legends 1 and 2 were my favorite megaman games ever. So disappointed that we didn't get a megaman legends 3. I guess megaman trigger, sarah and that one other lady (forgot her name) are stuck on elysium forever.
I really enjoy these videos. I found your channel by looking for Mega Man content after playing through the games again. I grew up playing Mega Man as I was in elementary school when the original games came out. I watched your original Mega Man videos and the Mega Man X videos up to this point. Thank you for putting out these awesome videos! Keep up the great work!
Boots up Megaman *X* 4
Play as *Zero.*
Choose Magma Dragoon as your first Maverick after the intro stage.
Oh yeah! Its the perfect way to start X4!
This is the most fun choice too imo. Although most recently I like starting with Split Mushroom first, a hard boss fight but you get the double jump and spinslash early.
I like to start with slash beast with zero i don't know why but the battle against him is really satisfactory as the first boss and you can get everything in his stage without revisiting the stage
I got both my Playstation and Saturn on the same day (9/9/95). Before that, I had a Sega Genesis/Sega CD and Snes. I am also a 5th generation collector today and still very much a Mega Man fan (I'm going somewhere with this).
Having said that, while I don't agree with your assessment of the Saturn (it definitely was important to the console wars), I find your channel to be very refreshing. You may not have experienced the full breath of the 4th and 5th generations you show a modicum of respect, and for that, I thank you.
Addendum - It has been so long since I played the Mega Man games that I had forgotten which ones beyond 8 were 32-bit. I knew some of the X's were, but I had to look them up. I actually just realized while cleaning up my SSD that I own the Mega Man X Collection on the Series X (and PS5). I really wanted to play the 32-bit entries again (without looking through our collection), and you just put me on the right track. Good man.
Right on, X4 was definitely one of the best in the X series. Followed the formula before they started changing it up in X5 onwards.
The music in X4 is very well done too. It's definitely more synthy from the rest of the games which isn't a bad thing.
And each stage has a track that fits their theme so perfectly. Web spiders jungle makes you feel like your traversing a... Jungle. Fighting through dangerous hornet nests and .... Fish men with spears.
Magma.....DRAGOON's stage feels like an intense volcano. So intense you need a ride armor to walk through the lava - or magma because it's inside a volcano?
And of course my favourite ( and the one I remixed 😏) Frost Walruses stage. The first part is PERFECT for a winter wasteland feeling. The howling wind, those offbeat chimes, that Dreamcast boot up-esque sound that plays. All of it captures the atmosphere so well.
And the Part 2 area, I love how we get a more traditional track, with a beat / bass / melody as we explore inside the base.
I don't mean to rant, but the X series is my favorite.
Good stuff, keep up the reviews! 💎
Says Mega Man X4 is yet another perfect game at the 3:20 mark. I disagree. It’s good. But the voice acting ruins a lot. The only thing that could make it perfect for me personally is if they re-dubbed X4’s cutscenes with the voice actors used in X8, X Command Mission, and the Maverick Hunter X OVA. Those guys did a hell of a job and they’re the ones I think of when I associate a voice with those characters. Much like the way you’d associate Maile Flanagan’s voice with Naruto. No one else can do it BUT that person.
I wish they would re-do Mega Man X7 and 8 as a 2d sid scroller like the other's. Or
Have 9X and have the robot master return
25:14 WHAT THE FUCK!? I NEVER KNEW YOU COULD DO THAT TO WEB SPIDER ALL THESE 25 PLUS YEARS. OH MY GOD
As my favorite series are EXE and Legends, I always spelled MegaMan as both use it as a single word but with both Ms capitalized lol
I can't remember if X4 or X3 were my first Mega Man X games, I remember playing both of them and being so bad that I never finished them until I was 16 or older, and all I can say is that they hold a place in my heart and your reviews lets me enjoy them once more even if I'm not playing them. I plan to buy the full legacy collections just to try and make Capcom see we want and need a megaman comeback, just hope they don't burn the franchise again
X5 will always be my favorite because of the incredible soundtrack. X4 had some good tunes but X5 completely blows X4's soundtrack out of the water
Too bad X5 is mostly worse in every way
And in my opinion, X6 blows X5's soundtrack out of the water. Too bad X6 is an even more problematic than X5. But, X4, X5, and X8 hold special places in my heart. X4 is just the cleanest game, and the best for speedrunning.
Wanted to finish all videos before giving my opinion and I'd say I liked your original all inclusive X retrospective. These games have a meaning for me but finding someone who could be analytical on them, while still able to find merit and value in them at the end of the day was a refreshing take because it was always either one (thoughtless praise) or the other (unintelligent aversion). Having said that these videos are good too because you shared new talking points without making them rehashes of your old work.
You're a good guy, Justin. There's a sense of legitimacy to your channel that makes me watch and enjoy your content. You talk and I know I'm listening to someone with genuine passion. Someone who has spent time with these games and tried to understand them. Something that's pretty scarce in the current game vlogging scenery nowadays. And when you've reached that point of Zen, of being comfortable with yourself, what you do and how you deliver it, numbers are what matter less. It doesn't matter when you'll get there anyway, because you're having fun on the journey. Congratulations, and you'll hopefully find more success in 2022.
So is x4 a 32 bit game
29:36
This will never not be funny to me.
Every cutscene sounds like a poorly done fandub.
X4 is one of my PS1 favorites, played it a lot but still haven't got to speedrun levels of good.
Didn't know there was an undub version since I played the Japanese version instead for the voice acting, the opening song was good but the ending song was rewarding to listen to, especially on the first playthrough on that version as X without any armor and heart tanks, just the EX and the recovery tanks.
i personally spell mega man as ロックマン because i don’t really like the mega man name
I still remember my first experience with this game. I didn’t have a PlayStation console yet so I rented one from Blockbuster (back when that was still a thing) and Mega Man X4. When I got home and fired it up, that intro blew me away. My jaw hit the floor. I was actually seeing Mega Man X in animated form and it was one of the coolest moments in my whole gaming life. I’ll never forget that moment! It was the first game I ever played on the system.
Excellent video! X4 is also my favorite game from the X series. I just want to add a couple of things. The Japanese version of X4 have better voices for both X and Zero. X sounds a lot better and not like a 5 years old child when he shoots the buster. Zero's voice is a lot more serious too. The bosses have voices and they said something just before each fight, what they say is not always the same, they also said something when you defeat them just before they explode. The anime opening have a full song by a Japanese singer (it is suppose to be Iris singing for Zero). The ending credits have another song from the same singer. Both songs were excluded for the American and European releases of Megaman X Collection but they are in the Japanese version of the game.
This is a big nostalgia game for me. Man I didn't knew the exchange of Zero and Colonel is that funny. It probably topped the Iris scene for me from now on.
Glad to see ya re-reviewing these Mega man x games because with how your mindset has changed, it's nice to see them in a bit of a different light.
Looking forward to your re-reviews of the other Mega man x games and some other stuff as well.
I think a missed opportunity here would have been to have Zero have capsule upgrades like MegaMan did in previous games. Imagine how awesome it would have been to see Wiley onscreen for the first time saying "Zero, you are my greatest creation. To fulfill your destiny, to meet your true potential, I've prepared this for you, so that some day you might become my vision of the future"
Chills bro. Chills
With these titles, I can’t wait for “Mega Man X6 is the Best Game in the Series.”
Don’t forget that they were also released on PC. That’s where I played them
I've definitely enjoyed these newer video reviews, J, and your work in general is what keeps me interested in your future works and keeps me coming back.
i've always been of the opinion that it's one word because i view megaman as a similar tier hero to batman or superman. he's a MEGAman.
bro i just found your channel as i started playing through the megaman x games again. what great videos, thanks for getting into this my friend!
These re-reviews are so much better than the original ones, you've really improved!
5:03 YO THAT MUSIC TRANSITION WAS SMOOTH AS HELL
Did you know that the voice actress recording lines for X wasn’t even told she was recording for him in the same session as Mega Man 8?
Yeah the sessions for these games were a mess.
I’m 33 years old and the PSX boot up screen still gives me chills ❤
"I wasn't even alive for the height of this era."
Awww. That sentence weirdly made me proud...like, I am watching the youth discover the things I grew up on. It makes me so happy to see younger people enjoying these old games.
"pacebreaker" in this context just seems to mean "anything that wasnt simple to slash through at full speed" some people like difficulty, doesnt need to be full speed the whole time
in fairness to the "Zero you were a maverick bit?" It could be read as a rhetorical question. Although I know real world it was a mistranslation
Great mini retrospective man! Hopefully we see Legends, Battle Network or the original MegaMan series at some point from you, it'd be awesome to hear your thoughts on those, keep up the great work!
Glad to see X4 still holds up to this day! Always have been interested in playing it, but never got around to it.
Also, for some reason I always thought that classic Megaman was spelled without a space, but Mega Man X did have a space in it. Weird :/
Thank God you love it, I was so anxious you'd rip it apart.
Man seeing the old review and this is like day and night. You really change since the few years fam, i cant wait for you re-review the zero series and maybe review the battle network and the classic series...you were the youtuber who i kinda use to know about the x games
X5: The Perfect Fanale
X6: The Perfect Disaster
Enjoyed watching these 4 X vids. As for Sigma, yeah when he beat Zero that is when he (Sigma) got infected by the virus to become a Maverick, (and took over Zero's role who was the first Maverick). Also when Sigma goes "Zero, you were a Maverick!?" I never took that as a fault in the writing. Instead I always took it as Sigma just toying with Zero. Like he just reminded Zero of Zero's origins and then plays with it saying like "my my, you were a Maverick?" not that he was actually surprised and asking Zero that question. It's more of an insult to Zero fighting what he was.
And it's Megaman for me.
It's bad localization just that.
@@galten7361 Or it's what I said. Just that.