What a way to ruin a game (X4)

(Read the edit, I made this post when I was tired and lost patience. Great game and I’ll git gud)

Sorry for this being complaining but I just need to vent.

Recently I’ve been getting into the Megaman series (specifically X) for the first time, and I have finished X1 and 2 and skipped 3 because I heard 4 was fantastic. And for 95% of the game, it is. The Mavericks are incredibly fun to fight. But that last 5% is some of the worst experience I’ve ever had playing a video game.

So I was having a massive blast with Rockman X4 (because the english VA is awful), until I got to Sigma and I absolutely despise this game now. I spent an hour on this stupid fight and I still can’t beat it. Even with Max E-Tanks it’s unfun. The first phase is a total boring pushover while the second onwards is just bad. The second phase is just unfair since Sigma constantly spams his stupid 4 boomerangs when his sythe is in the ground basically guaranteeing that I take damage because there’s barely any room to dodge.

The third phase is just tedious garbage with 2 health bars that have really unfun attacks and insta-kill spikes in 2 instances plus the head that sucks you up and shoots garbage at you is immensely hard to dodge. It doesn’t help that the lighting head attack is also extremely irritating.

I understand that it’s the final boss and it’s supposed to be hard, I understand that’s it’s an older game, I also understand that there’s hitless runs of this fight, but having to fight all 8 mavericks just to get back to the annoying fight isn’t fun, it’s tedious. Plus after the first phase, it’s just incredibly unfun and tedious. I would have been more forgiving if the game saved right before Sigma but the entirety of this fight has basically killed my interest of ever finishing this game and my chances of doing a run with Zero (edit: for now, I’ll probably get back to it) which is a shame since I was having a lot of fun with the game up until this point.

Edit: I had zero clue that Sigma’s Sythe could be manipulated to be thrown into the wall so I’ll try that the next time I play. This game is still fantastic, I just wish that I didn’t have to get through the 8 Mavericks every time even though the weaknesses trivialize most of them. I’ll probably come back to this game in a few weeks. Also considering that I’ve played 3 X games in a row (X1, 2, and 4) without a break with another game instead, caused me to get some fatigue and wrote this as a result.

Edit 2: thanks for the encouragement and advice! I will admit that this post is pretty dramatic considering that I know now what to do in the fight and me making a mountain out of a molehill.

Edit 3: I WON AGAINST HIM