Megaman X Demo

The original Mega Man franchise is almost ancient at this point and it remains one of the most successful for Capcom over the decades. However, since the original developer stopped paying so much attention to it lately and only released next-gen titles featuring everyone’s favorite android, the fans have started to create remakes and derived platformers on their own.

Megaman X is a fan-made remake that aims to bring back some of the original magic and provide the rest of the fanbase with something to play until the next release from Capcom. However, since fan-made attempts are usually mediocre at best, you should expect it not to meet your expectations. In this case, nothing really clicks and most of the game is pretty much unplayable.

There’s no storyline to talk about, in the first place, which is quite the shame. Ever since the first Mega Man title, each episode had some kind of plot that evolved over the course of the game, which made the action that much more enjoyable. Here, you just start playing from a room filled with enemies and you have to keep going as far as you can, without asking too many questions on the way.

What can truly bother you during the gameplay is the fact that the enemies automatically and quickly respawn once their spawning point leaves the screen. Hence, the same areas are going to be crawling with enemies whenever you get back there, even if that means making a few steps to the right in order to prepare for a jump After a while, it becomes too annoying to keep going.

Speaking of annoying, the level design is just as bad as the rest of the game, in the sense that it says nothing and it barely has any purpose. There are some ladders, some corridors and the occasional moving platforms that require a bit of concentration. Other than that, it’s just bland backgrounds with no meaning or purpose, which is disappointing for a wannabe Mega Man remake.

When it’s all said and done, Megaman X has nothing a fan of the franchise would consider worthy of bother, except maybe Mega Man himself. Hence, unless you have tried everything else related to the subject, you’d better avoid this and stick with the originals and an emulator.