The Pre-Rendered bits here and there look nice to me honestly too. The levels have a lot of detail and the sprite work is very well done. The anime cut-scenes are gone but that does not prevent the game from being a great looking title. One way to avoid issues is either collect three pieces of the cannon and keep firing it until you get it to work or just play the entire game as X, with you collecting heart tanks with him. And this is randomized after you collect all the parts of the shuttle. This is a problem that I need to bring up if the shuttle fails, you lose the ability to play as Zero. I completed most of the game as Zero with my X Collection copy a few years back and decided to try the game out with X and I made a good move, as you can lose Zero. Yes, I said X as I didn’t play as Zero for this run of the game. Overall, the level design is strong here and despite some really annoying bits here and there, I had fun running through the game as X. To make things worse, Sigma scattered the Sigma Virus all over the world and the parts needed are being protected by Mavericks."
Signas, the Hunters' new commander, orders Mega Man X and his comrade Zero, as they race against time to collect the four parts necessary to upgrade the Enigma and stop Eurasia before it's too late. The Enigma cannon is somewhat old and needs to be upgraded. The Maverick Hunters plan on using the large particle cannon Enigma to destroy Eurasia before it happens. Within 16 hours, Eurasia will crash and cause great destruction, in the worst case extinguishing all life from the planet. However, one day someone had occupied Eurasia and took control of it, scattering a virus in the colony and using its artificial gravity systems to set it on a collision course towards Earth. As it was quite old, it was planned to receive extensive renovation. "The repair of the space colonies damaged during the war was almost complete, the only space colony remaining being the giant colony Eurasia located in a Lagrangian point. The rest of the story summary is from the detailed and well organized Mega Mega Man X5 Wiki: The game takes place a few months after the events of Mega Man X4, with the Repliforce ending and Earth being in piece.
But the series continued and we got three more mainline X titles despite this originally being a conclusion title for the series. The game released in November 2000 in Japan and in February & August in 2001 to lukewarm reception. This lead to some really fun names for the different Mavericks: Grizzly Slash, Duff McWhalen (amazing name by the way), Squid Adler, Izzy Glow, Dark Dizzy, The Skiver, Matterx, Axle the Red
This is thanks to Capcom voice actress Alyson Court, who was involved in the game's localization, came up with names for the Marvicks as a tribute to her then-husband's love of the rock-band Guns & Roses. Localization of the game is something to note here, as the Mavericks you fight have original names for the NA/EU releases instead of translations of their Japanese names. Will be covering that with great detail when the time comes, but for now, lets just say they had little time to work on it compared to X4 and X5. The team behind the game includes the following:Īrtists - Haruki Suetsugu, Ryuji HigurashiĬomposers - Naoto Tanaka, Naoya Kamisaka, Takuya Miyawakiīut Capcom commissioned for a sequel game, MMX6, to release a year later after MMX5. Inafune had little part of X5's development, telling the team 'Finish the series off with this title' making the team push for the game to cover everything the series connections to Mega Man Classic, how the future series of Mega Man is set up (MM Zero), and in general, trying to make a fun final game for fans of the X Series. How does the game compare to other Mega Man X titles and is it a solid conclusion to the series? Lets find out!īut first, this WILL contain complete story spiolers, so please read ahead with caution if you never played this before. So, this game tries to wrap up a lot of loose ends that hanged since day one. This continues my Mega Man Retrospective and this is a major game in the X series this was supposed to be the conclusion to the X Series originally.