gold standard for platformers. say what you will about the metal blades - they're fun to use

basically a flawless game but i like mm2 more

nightmare effects are cool, music's excellent, and the weapons are extremely fun (especially on zero). sorry but y'all got filtered

:sigmamale: more tightly designed than x6, but a few slower stages keep me from preferring it

boring start, but it gets really good once the exploration opens up a bit

whoever came up with rush adaptors and alternate stage paths deserved a promotion

great stages, the rpg elements aren't annoying like in z1, and the grapple hook is lots of fun

madly underrated. the momentum isn't that big of a deal smh

level design's too safe for me to call this a favorite. it's only any fun as zero, and the stages feel fairly cookie-cutter. great bosses tho. PRISTINE voice acting

good robot master stages. horrible padding and a lame castle. slide goated

fun stages and weapons for the most part. really easy but still enjoyable despite that

movement feels really sluggish cause of how huge the sprites are, which makes platforming a bitch. still worth playing for the solid boss fights and great ending

littered with frustrating and downright nonsensical design choices

doesn't do anything z2 didn't do better. level design is a lot cheaper too

NEW RULE: if you like the broken-beyond-belief charge shot in this game, then you're not allowed to shit on the metal blades ever again