DzNutsKong
1994
My personal favorite X game. The fact that you can 100% the game with no revisits makes it much more fun to replay even if the level design isn't quite as good as the first one. I also have a lot of smaller gripes with the soundtrack. The game's speed and feel are the big draw to any Mega Man X game though and this has that while the rest of the game has less things that feel intrusive towards that than the first one does.
2012
1993
2002
Very rough around the edges. Level design isn't very good and they make you unlock the attacks in your moveset for some reason, plus the screen crunch really sucks. This series is mostly story-focused and all this game does is set up the rest of the series rather than do anything especially interesting on its own.
1985
1992
1995
I love just about everything this game tries to do. The boss fights are very different from the rest of the series but are all very good. Most people hate Slash Man and the Wily Capsule but mastering those was some of the most fun I've had with the series. The charge shot doing 2 damage and the invincibility frames being shortened were both great changes and I love the collectathon aspect it has. Easily one of the best classic series games.
1993
A lot of people will tell you that this is the best game in the X series, and it's very good, but my only two complaints are the early game before you get the leg armor not being fun because you usually play the game for its speed and Spark Mandrill's stage being horrible. Don't use the boss weaknesses in this game or any other X series game because they kind of ruin the experience. Otherwise the game feel and soundtrack here are some of the best of any game I've ever played.
1990
1985
2023
Unlike most games that you're designed to play through multiple times, Peppino feels very fun to control even on your first playthrough even if you'll need a world or two to adjust enough for that. The gameplay here is amazing and the game's artstyle and sense of humor are both nice. Only things keeping this from five stars are some of the endgame levels and a majority of the boss fights not being perfect.
2018
Was horribly lacking content on launch. I bought this for full price one afternoon and finished it before I had to grab dinner that same day. The final boss is genuinely my favorite of any game I've ever played and there was free DLC added later to try and fix the content issue but my experience with the game wasn't good enough for me to want to go back to it.
2013
If you want to play Pokemon I don't think any entry will disappoint you. Awful story, very few new Pokemon, and Mega Evolution is horribly overrated and advances the series in a way I'm really not fond of, but they're still perfectly fine games. Many will tell you it's too easy but Pokemon as a series has always been too easy, this one's just further in that direction than the rest.
1987
Not perfect but it's really not bad for a series's first entry, especially considering how early it released. Some of the weapons are really fun to use even if they hit similar spaces or outright suck. Game feels a bit slidy, there's some horrible jank and the level design and boss design both are far from perfect.