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.

Decently fun game but most of your time with it will be spent in the postgame. The main game is fairly short but the postgame is absurdly long. If you don't mind that then the game will be amazing for you, but I never felt too engaged with it for that reason.

Mostly pretty good, but the boss fights are way too simple and the endgame levels are paced horribly because of the adaptors. A strong contender for the best soundtrack out of the classic series.

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.

Weirdly fun to revisit, the controls and game design have mostly aged pretty nicely even if it kinda goes without saying that better games have come out since then. Everyone should play this at least once.

The charge shot in this game is so strong that it makes your other weapons and even just regularly firing feel completely worthless. A lot of people play Mega Man games to mess around with the weapons, and they'd completely hate this one. The music isn't even anything special either.

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.

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.

The first classic Mega Man game I thought was alright. Some people say the endgame is horrible but I don't think it's so bad. The weapons, bosses, and stages are all designed way better than the first two games for the most part. Still nothing too crazy though.

I'm already not huge on arcade-style games but this one controls especially horribly. Not worth revisiting unless you're a big Nintendo fan.

If you want to play Pokemon I don't think any entry will disappoint you. Technically doesn't fix most of the originals' issues but it improves on everything that was already good and does add a lot of cool features, like the Safari Zone and Pokewalker.

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.

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.

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.

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.