(I'm replaying every MMX game after like 10 years of my last marathon, i remember so little about them that they're almost blind playthroughs)
It's not as good as X1.
The levels feel short and uneventful, many times i got to the boss door thinking "wait, that's it?"
Most of the weapons suck aside from the bubblebeam.
The upgrade placement is evil, there was a point i started spamming the radar everywhere to find the last few items.
The worst one is the armor piece in Morph Moth's stage, it's literally impossible to find unless you're spamming the radar to break a random part of the floor thats not suspicious at all.
Then there's some asshole item placement like the heart tanks in snail and gator levels requiring some pixel perfect plataforming on a death trap to waste your time, or the heart tank in Magna Centipede's stage where if you fail to do the jump you have to retart the level to get another chance, and that level makes you wait a lot. I also have to mention the Bubble Crab subtank, i discovered that using the bubble shield made me jumo higher underwater, but even after that i had no idea how to reach the subtank. After some time i mashed buttons out of desperation and found out i had to dash once i reach the surface and for some reason it allowed me to do an extra jump.
The bosses i think are ok, what i'm not a fan of is how the weaknesses affect them. I swear most of them are easier with the buster, the weaknesses usually make them skip a phase wich is usually their easiest one or in Gator's case he only spams his most boring and time consuming pattern.
The X-Hunters i'm not a fan of, the boss fights are... fine (except for Violen, i have NO idea how to dodge the spike ball i just facetank and spam bubbles until one of us dies). The idea is fine, but i don't like feeling forced to pick a stage i don't want play to save Zero. The only thing i remembered about them is that they had a timer, i didn't check online to remember how it worked but i managed to save Zero anyways.
The music is a mixed bag, some of the melodies are cool, but at times the sound is pure earrape. Honestly, i can't remember a single tune right now and i played it like two days ago.
I used to believe the Snes trilogy was the best, X2 and X3 kinda merged together as extentions to X1, but now that i'm playing them again, i feel that's not the case. X2 is still a nice game, i had a good time, but it's very flawed and not as good/fun as X1.
It's not as good as X1.
The levels feel short and uneventful, many times i got to the boss door thinking "wait, that's it?"
Most of the weapons suck aside from the bubblebeam.
The upgrade placement is evil, there was a point i started spamming the radar everywhere to find the last few items.
The worst one is the armor piece in Morph Moth's stage, it's literally impossible to find unless you're spamming the radar to break a random part of the floor thats not suspicious at all.
Then there's some asshole item placement like the heart tanks in snail and gator levels requiring some pixel perfect plataforming on a death trap to waste your time, or the heart tank in Magna Centipede's stage where if you fail to do the jump you have to retart the level to get another chance, and that level makes you wait a lot. I also have to mention the Bubble Crab subtank, i discovered that using the bubble shield made me jumo higher underwater, but even after that i had no idea how to reach the subtank. After some time i mashed buttons out of desperation and found out i had to dash once i reach the surface and for some reason it allowed me to do an extra jump.
The bosses i think are ok, what i'm not a fan of is how the weaknesses affect them. I swear most of them are easier with the buster, the weaknesses usually make them skip a phase wich is usually their easiest one or in Gator's case he only spams his most boring and time consuming pattern.
The X-Hunters i'm not a fan of, the boss fights are... fine (except for Violen, i have NO idea how to dodge the spike ball i just facetank and spam bubbles until one of us dies). The idea is fine, but i don't like feeling forced to pick a stage i don't want play to save Zero. The only thing i remembered about them is that they had a timer, i didn't check online to remember how it worked but i managed to save Zero anyways.
The music is a mixed bag, some of the melodies are cool, but at times the sound is pure earrape. Honestly, i can't remember a single tune right now and i played it like two days ago.
I used to believe the Snes trilogy was the best, X2 and X3 kinda merged together as extentions to X1, but now that i'm playing them again, i feel that's not the case. X2 is still a nice game, i had a good time, but it's very flawed and not as good/fun as X1.