![]() ![]() The later games in the series though, started making changes that were controversial at the time and still feel questionable. The extra capabilities of the PlayStation means the X games from that era have far more detailed environments and characters that can reduce clarity in level design - it’s sometimes unclear what is on the play space and what is set dressing. The CD format of the PlayStation also meant storage space for cutscenes and voice acting, pushing the series to do more direct storytelling and character interactions than before. Don’t get me wrong, the SNES X games had some dialogue at pivotal moments, but it’s especially clear when playing these games back to back how much the amount of dialogue increases, and how much it gets in the way of the experience of actually playing. During levels you have navigators giving you advice (which in a nice move, can be customised to the advice you actually want or turned off in some instances), you have long stretches of text boxes between levels when all you really want to do is get to the action. Things get even murkier when we get to the PlayStation 2 games, which introduce auto-aiming and 3D segments that really don’t have the same appeal the X games did before.Īs a result, the controversial choice to split this collection into two volumes that release simultaneously may actually be a blessing. ![]() ![]() It is crummy that if you’re buying a physical copy, that you only get the first volume on the actual cart while Vol 2 is downloaded - but if you’re buying digitally it means you can don’t need to pay extra for the second volume if all you really want is the first 4 X games. That’s not to say the second volume isn’t worth your time, in fact, some of the changes to game structure introduced in X5, further emphasis on action with consequences and a more lenient continue system are really interesting to discover and help make these games a little more palatable to modern tastes. Regardless of which volumes you choose you are getting some great Mega Man games, but there are a few missing features I was expecting that make this new collection fall short of the benchmark set by the first Mega Man Legacy Collection. You can save progress in exactly the same way as the original games, with a save prompt appearing anytime you see a password. There doesn’t seem to be an option for multiple save files for the earlier games which is unfortunate, but this was a built-in option for the games from PlayStation onwards where this has persevered. ![]()
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