Difference between revisions of "MegaMan X"

Launch Octopus’s level is underwater and most of the enemies are robotic fish of some variety. Launch Octopus is, himself, an octopus. These enemies reappear in Sigma's Fortress. It is not possible to drown.

As Zero dies, he has blood or a blood-like substance leaking from the corner of his mouth.

In Spark Mandrill’s stage certain parts of the stage will go dark, making the pits very difficult but not wholly impossible to see. Enemies are, apparently, luminescent, because they cannot hide in this darkness. There are some that come at you quickly in this part.

Zero sacrifices himself to save X at the midpoint of Sigma's Fortress's first level.

Dr. Light, X’s creator, is dead by the time the story begins, but he has left a number of holographic terminals by which he improves X’s capabilities.

The Electric Spark weapon, by both the player and Spark Mandrill, causes purple electrical damage. Armor Armadillo, in particular, is vulnerable to the weapon and will show his “skeleton” when hit with the weapon, and his armor will break off. This effect only happens the first time he is hit with the attack.

Every character dies with an explosion, some more grand than others.

In addition, there are pipes/fuel containers in Storm Eagle’s stage that can be destroyed. One set needs to be to get the Helmet upgrade.

The boss of Sigma's Lair's second floor is a giant face and X must attack and destroy the face’s eyes and nose to defeat the boss.

Several enemies attack with fire, and Flame Mammoth's level heavily features fire and lava. The lava can be cooled by defeating Chill Penguin before going to the level, resulting in walkable surfaces. Flame Mammoth, as his name implies, uses a lot of fire based attacks; if one of the patches of oil he throws ignites, a large fire erupts. This is comparatively rare.

Hitting Chill Penguin with Fire Wave causes Chill Penguin to entirely catch fire during the damage animation

Sigma’s “pet” breathes fire.

Sigma’s final form has a large fire breath attack.

Sigma’s disembodied “spirit” or consciousness taunts you after the credits, setting up the sequels.

X has an arm-cannon and many enemies also use guns or arm canons themselves.

Because the game is a platformer, there are jumps over high gaps in basically every level.

The helicopters in the first level appear to be large blue hornets. Many robot enemies are designed to look and move like insects.

Boomer Kuwanger, one of the stage bosses, is designed after a stag beetle (his name comes from a failure to translate the original Japanese name).

In the dark parts of Spark Mandril's stage, enemies will come flying out of the darkness very quickly at X.

The plot of the game starts with a mass murder of humans by robots that have recently gained free will and are using it poorly (the Mavericks) and X’s journey involves killing all of them (twice) on his way to stop and destroy their leader Sigma. All of these robots are now sentient.

In the first level, Zero blows the arm off of Vile’s (Purple Maverick)’s armored carrier. Vile himself is unharmed.

It is possible to cut off all but 2 of Launch Octopus’s arms and Flame Mammoth’s trunk with the Boomerang Cutter weapon.

Using Electric Spark on Armor Armadillo will electrocute him and remove his armor.

When Zero sacrifices himself, it appears that his bottom half is gone while he delivers his final words to X.

A number of enemies and level hazards include sharp spikes.

Many enemy robots are designed to look like rabbits, bats, and other rodents or rodent-like creatures.

Armored Armadillo is an Armadillo, which is not a rodent, though his face appears mouselike.

Sting Chameleon is modeled after a chameleon. There are several common enemy robots that resemble turtle and lizard like.

Zero knowingly overloads his power core to self-destruct and destroy Vile’s armored carrier, saving X.

There are two sea serpent mid-boss enemies in Launch Octopus's level. One of these enemies is optional.

The first Sigma Lair boss is a giant mechanical spider vulnerable to Shotgun Ice. It also spits out little mechanical spiders.

Zero sacrifices himself to save X and destroy Vile’s armored carrier.

The Sigma Virus, the malevolent computer program that causes the havoc of the entire series, shares many similarities to demons.

The Player Character causes a plane to crash after defeating Storm Eagle. The crash itself is not shown, however the aftermath is. The Player Character is not inside the plane when it crashes.

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