Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

The continuity of Megaman Legends can be seen as a totally different continuity. Having played Megaman Legends 2 - there's the diary of Professor Barrell Caskett. Yes, that means Roll Caskett isn't the Roll of Classic Megaman .  I once thought it was all the same continuity but the diary reveals that Megaman VOLNUTT is named after Classic Megaman . Classic Megaman is treated as Fiction Within a Fiction evidenced by the show in the bar, the video game, and a poster of Zero at the toy store. Megaman Legends was released in 1997 and the sequel Megaman Legends 2 was released in 2000. It's no secret that some Classic Megaman games come out after the Megaman X SNES Trilogy . For example, Megaman 7 came out sometime after Megaman X . Megaman Legends came with 3D Megaman spin-off that sadly never had the third installment. I think the game should've had a third installment before its cancellation. I mean, there was a lot of potential with the storyline especially the Elder Syst...

Megaman X as an obvious direct sequel to Megaman (classic) does have some stuff left to the imagination of the players. Granted, it's been at least 100 years since the original series ended and much can happen. Did Dr. Wily find a way to cheat death only to find out that he wasn't really having much of a choice? Dr. Wily didn't want to take the position lower than the Big Bad. However, it seems that he was left without a choice. There are theories that two characters namely Serges and Isoc are both robotic forms of Dr. Wily. It's also said that Dr. Wily is somehow a stream of consciousness that travels from one body to another. So, how does this work? One of the episodes of the third season of Transformers hast he once-mighty Cobra Commander after several years since COBRA was defeated. There's no more COBRA organization - only Cobra Commander going by the name of the Old Snake. The only way Cobra Commander could survive in the episode "Only Human" was to...

I don't deny that I'm a fan of Megaman X6 and I'm more than ready to defend it from unfair criticism . However, I think one of the weaker parts of the game is the introduction of Isoc. Isoc is assumed by some fans of the Megaman series to be a robotic avatar of Dr. Wily - just like Serges was in Megaman X2 . However, I do still feel that neither Serges nor Isoc is officially Dr. Wily  since Dr. Wily never takes a position lower than that of the Big Bad. Serges ended up building Sigma a new body and repairing Zero. Keiji Inafune never confirmed either if Serges was really Dr. Wily. Fan theories can be there and probably be left just for fun. Isoc is also subjected to this speculation I found about the character himself. There are certain clues in the game about Isoc's identity. Depending on who you use can reveal SOMETHING about this guy. If you use Zero to defeat Hi-Max (which creates the downside that you can access the Gate stage early on while it's nearly impossi...

  It's no doubt that I think Sigma is the best Megaman franchise villain ever . I feel he's more developed than all the villains such as Dr. Wily (for the Classic series), the Bonnes (for the now-defunct Legends series), or any of the other villains that were conceived for any Megaman entry. Now, a plot was seems to be either forgotten or somewhat played with is the plot that his true form (that is, according to Dr. Doppler) is a computer virus.  TV Tropes has this rather interesting point about him : Dead All Along: Neither X nor Zero ever were made aware, but X4 and Word of God clued in the audience that the "Sigma" who incites war throughout the series isn't even the genuine article. Commander Sigma, the Maverick Hunter, ceased to be when he first encountered Zero, long before the series even started. His consciousness was overtaken and assimilated by the Maverick Virus, causing it to mutate into the Sigma Virus, which walked around in his body until X first de...

It's no secret that my favorite entry of the Megaman series is the Megaman X series. Sure, classic games have been fun to play - the last three entries did start to slip down. I would really want to review Megaman X5 which was supposed to end the X series but thankfully didn't. Right now, I do feel bad towards Keiji Inafune considering Mighty No. 9 doesn't get what it takes to succeed the Megaman franchise. Now, I'd like to think about how it's a pale follow-up to X4 and why I'm actually glad X6 existed. Yes, I believe my opinion will be unpopular but I'm willing to risk it. So, I thought about what I hated about X5 . I could understand if animated cutscenes were not included presumably due to memory space. However, I hate those "You just can't skip it!" cutscenes which had you press the X button A LOT and I mean A LOT. It was irritating having to pass through them AGAIN AND AGAIN. Okay, I could understand that it can't be helped dur...

I did previously write why I think Megaman X6 is just unfairly maligned . Now, I think I'd write why I think Megaman X7 deserves all the flak it gets. I would admit that I do have a mix of popular and unpopular opinions. Why do I consider it to be really a very bad game? I decided to try and get some of the trophies for Megaman X Legacy Collection 2. Difficult can be fun - that's why I still think X6 is so unfairly maligned! Megaman 2 still has a lot of fans due to its challenge level. Megaman X7 can probably enter into the zone of "It's so difficult to the point it's more annoying than challenging!" It's safe to say I'd probably still pick Megaman 2 or Megaman X3 over this game. We could always start with the gameplay. Seriously, what's wrong with it? It doesn't take a gaming expert to find out. If you've played a series of Megaman games before it then you might relate to the frustration. The game itself really worsens almost everything ...

I really hate to think of how Megaman X6 happens to be unfairly maligned. Maybe,  Megaman X7  is too though I happen to be one of the most passionate critics against it. Why do I think Megaman X6 is unfairly maligned? It's because after playing the game once or twice - it really isn't as HORRIBLE as some may think it is. I've played through all of the mainstream Megaman X games for the console (X1 to X8) and I could say X6 may not be the best but it's definitely NOT the worst! Its American import is kinda lazy if you ask me. Why aren't the Japanese voices removed? Then again, I'm not complaining because I get to hear better voices. There's also some erroneous spelling such as "overwrite" is written as "overwright". The game itself presents to be very hard. You can also miss a lot of rescuable Reploids if you're not fast enough. The game itself can be a challenge. Sometimes, you just need to punch in that Ultimate Armor code to he...

Megaman is one series that I was obsessed with in my late tens and early teens. Then I thought that I do still have an obsession with Megaman (to a certain extent) but not as far as to "must have every Megaman item and game" -- I just want to gather all the favorites that I played in the NES, PSX and PS2 games. Note that I won't be ranking them according to collections such as Anniversary Collection and Legacy Collection and neither will handhelds be mentioned here since I have NO handheld systems. Games like Megaman NAVI and Megaman Star Force won't be included. Spin-off games like Megaman Legends 2, Megaman Legends and Misadventures of Tron Bonne will be included. But I'd actually rank them by series as to avoid confusion but I'd actually also rank the series ACCORDING to my preferences. This won't cover up an entire list either and I still am getting hesitant to get Megaman 11 and play Megaman 9 and 10 too... I. Megaman X series -- my favorite X s...

While playing Megaman X7 -- I still think it's what I'd call innovation GONE wrong. Yup, as much as there's much to explore but this is one game that just had no idea on what to do or can't decide. I mean, the game annoyingly shifts between 2D to 3D forcing you to adjust to situations too quick. Some can go ahead and say Megaman X6 is the worst X game ever but I beg to disagree . This game is even worst than X6 due to factors like how X is reduced to a whiny brat or how gameplay can be SO horrible. Now here's my thing -- Megaman X7 should have just focused on getting fully 3D instead of a mix of both. Aside from the fact like DO NOT make X a whiny crybaby -- the gameplay was also another focus. For instance, make Zero still have his effective jumping slash which was severely destroyed in this game. So how can we have a good 3D Megaman game? Analyze the Megaman Legends series' 3D gameplay together with the more effective Lock On feature for bosses. I mean, Meg...

Innovation is part of keeping up a business yet there's always the trial and error process. As a fan of the Megaman franchise, I did enjoy many of the new changes the game had especially introducing the Megaman X series. I'm a fan of the notoriously difficult Megaman X6 but X7 -- well it can now officially be the worst Megaman X game. It has the poor transition from 2D to 3D not because of that but because of issues like super hard controls, the poor lock-on system (where Megaman Legends does it better, sigh only if they analyzed the lock-on from Megaman Legends 2 or smoothed it out) and the really poor camera where the military deserves to get fired -- plus this game will be re-released on Megaman X Legacy Collection. One of the worst changes is turning Megaman X into a crybaby. Having to unlock X in a game based on him is B.S. to the max. No, this isn't the adventures of Zero and Axl -- it's Megaman X7!  You could only start as Zero or Axl. You can only play as ...

As Megaman's 30th birthday is a few days from now, I'd like to talk about one character in the Megaman X series that somewhat intrigued me. Some think he's not an interesting character. Others think he's the patron saint of trying too hard according to The Gamer.com . Here's what I started to think when I first ran into this character. He's a freaking reference to Bass from Classic Megaman. Both are colored black, have scars and they play almost like. Both can't run with a gun. If you played the rather frustrating Megaman & Bass game, you may be familiar with how to play as Bass. Both characters can shoot at multiple directions while they can't move while firing their weapons. Difference is Axl doesn't double jump. Instead, it's his hover move that makes navigation easier for him. What was amazing to think was how Axl was introduced as a playable villain in Megaman X7 while Bass was introduced as a new villain Megaman 7 (a game tha...

I remembered checking out the chronology of the release of Megaman games. If you noticed, the first Megaman X game was released for the Super Nintendo after Megaman 6. The ending of Megaman 6 showed us that at long last, Dr. Wily was arrested by Megaman. Megaman 6 was released on November 5, 1993 and Megaman X was released on December 17, 1993 under the Rockman title. Megaman 7 was a game that was released after Megaman X3. I call these games as the " prequel games ".  I gave a thought on it if Megaman X became more popular than Classic Megaman then why was the latter given more games after X6? My speculation has to do with this one: Megaman X2 and Megaman X3's plotline called for it. If Classic Megaman just ended with X6 then it'd be difficult to provide explanations for plot in X2 and X3. X2 reveals a bit of a puzzle where Sigma says that Zero is the last of the "Wi... numbers..." and X3 reveals that Megaman X will one day have to fight Zero. It wou...