Ok, I know there is a gooning and shitpost sub but I'll still post this text

Holy shit, the game is so good that I didn’t sleep one night just to try to finish it (and of course I couldn’t). The game was so good that I was playing it with my jaw basically hanging open. Best MMX game ever. Yes, I like it more than X1 and X4. The graphics are amazing, the voice acting is amazing, the music is good, the waifus are good.

Since I’m a Portrait of Ruin fan, I really liked the co-op system a lot. Picking X and fucking everyone up with the Buster, using Zero to shit all over the bosses, mowing enemies down with Axl it’s all insanely fun. The stages are also really good, except for those two bullshit car stages and that night time stage, which genuinely sucks ass. The snow stage is, in my opinion, the least dogshit motorcycle stage in the series. Once you remove those two assholes, you’re left with a bunch of great stages. The gravity changing stage and the Optic Sunflower stage are my favorites.

The bosses are also really good, especially the final boss. There’s only one boss I didn’t like, and that’s the intro boss just that one. Other than that, they’re all straight fire. I kinda wish the operators were bosses too. Yeah, I know it’s a stupid and illogical request, but man, we seriously need more female bosses.

Of course, like every game, this one has its downsides. In some stages, the spike placement is genuinely awful so bad that it drops the enjoyment from 100% down to like 70%. I already mentioned it, but I’ll say it again: those two cursed vehicle stages. Also, sometimes you need to grind, but honestly, after you clear a stage the game throws a ridiculous amount of money at you anyway, so you only grind a little near the end.

This part is final boss spoilers

\>!I think Sigma & Lumine are the best bosses in the series. Yes, even better than Omega and Weil. That Sigma fight was insanely hard, stylish, and fun, but brutally difficult. I didn’t die this much even against Omega. And then Lumine comes in and he’s even better. He uses the powers of the eight Mavericks, and I love that concept. The second phase was personally the least fun part of this boss for me, but it was still fire. And you know that part where, when his HP gets low, the background turns purple and if you don’t kill him in time he instantly ends you? No. No. That never happened to me. Definitely didn’t. Anyway, putting that aside, I think this is overall the best Mega Man boss fight ever. Also, if there hadn’t been a checkpoint between Sigma and Lumine, it might’ve been even harder than Wily Capsule 7!<

Finally, I think Lumine is a girl, but Capcom messing with us by introducing him as male. There’s no way Lumine is male his voice actor is literally a woman. And if you say “if it’s a robot woman it has to have boobs,” then explain Zero.

I heard there’s a 16-bit demake of the game, but since it doesn’t have the team mechanic and it’s 16-bit (yeah, I don’t like that visual style), I don’t really want to try it. I don’t know if it’s actually that good or just nostalgia bait, but maybe I’ll check it out someday.

Megaman X8 is an underrated masterpiece (Pic unrelared)