Finally, the last (I promise) Mega Man game on this series of Pi Reviews, Mega Man X3. I was already getting a bit burnt out on the Mega Man franchise by the time X2 finished up, so this review may be a bit more negative than this game deserves due to that, but here goes. Mega Man X3 is not good. The levels are much more lazily designed that X and X2, and the music is frankly dreadful. I'm not sure what happened to the team between the end of 2 and the start of 3, but there must have been some sort of burnout on their end, or perhaps a change of personnel. In any case, I wouldn't recommend this one unless you really want to finish all of the Mega Man X games and are thus particularly fond of flagellation. The controls and graphics are still excellent and the boss fights pretty fun, but that doesn't cancel out the lazy levels and dismal music. I did think it was cool that you could finally play as Zero, but since he basically has one life instead of being able to start a file as him, or switch characters between levels, I don't think I even bothered playing as him.
All in all, I would not recommend this one to any but the most die hard Mega Man or platforming fans. I'd give it a 6.5/10.
-TRO
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