I haven’t played the PC version, so I can’t comment much on it.

So remember this if you’ve found a nice pattern of attack-the bosses’ new attacks are usually more deadly (and harder to avoid) than the initial ones! Oh, and other interesting note: Most major bosses in this game change their fighting style when their energy reaches the halfway mark. If you have turbo, take this advice and use it, for it really helps. Try putting the fire button on turbo, and you’ll defeat most of the minor robots with just a quick spray from X’s arm cannon, whereas to charge up you’d first have to wait around. However, I’ve found that a turbo controller is far superior to charging up. X starts the game with the ground dash and an X-Buster that can obtain three levels of power (typical to most Mega Man games). See the Tricks section below if you want to take the side trip. Also, after the first two Mavericks, the paths to Vile will open up, though this is one fight you can avoid if you know where not to go. You will first meet Bit in the empty rooms, and after defeating another three Mavericks, Byte will start appearing, barring your way. After defeating two Mavericks, however, Doppler will deploy Bit and Byte. Some contain mini-bosses, but most are usually empty.

Also, because there are three gates in every stage (through which Zero is not allowed to pass), and because you can only use Zero once per stage, Capcom effectively prevents you from using him for more than a third of any given level.Įach stage of the game has two enclosed rooms (again, the majority of which Zero can’t enter). (Yes, X has infinite continues, but Zero can’t even carry a single solitary 1-Up.) If you cause Zero to die, he will not appear again for the rest of the game. In fact, if you want a challenge, try taking Zero into Doppler’s fortress! (You’ll find that because Zero is bigger and slower and is lacking an air-dash, he is much more difficult to play.) This means that he will be better than X at first, but as soon as X gets all of his enhancements, Zero is greatly inferior.

He cannot use any of X’s weapons or new enhancements (although his Beam Saber attack is well animated and thus a must-see), and he also cannot go through gates (which means he can’t fight bosses-well, except one). One nice thing to see is that Zero is now a player character (try pressing or on the subscreen it’s too bad the game is still only one player!) although his usefulness is limited to simply being a spare energy meter.

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