Maverick Hunter X is.. weird.

At its core MHX is still a decent time because it's still very much X1, but like.. it's a bit worse. There's a lot of neat stuff here such as the really lively animations, the remixes, the additional dialogue between X and the Mavericks, and even a prequel short titled "The Day of Sigma", which I'd recommend watching.

However, MHX also doesn't feel like it improves upon the SNES game very much when it comes to gameplay. For instance, despite being in widescreen, it felt like I got blindsided by enemies way more often because the camera feels so zoomed in compared to the SNES game. You have way less of a vertical view in this game and I feel it fucks with the level design which is fairly untouched from the original; though the Sigma stages are almost completely different from their SNES counterparts, unfortunately for the worse I feel. Another change I don't jive with and really don't understand is the fact that all of the upgrades have been moved to different locations. The dash is now in Flame Mammoth's stage, the body parts are in Storm Eagle's stage, etc. What was wrong with the old locations? And speaking of the armor parts, instead of moving the dash to another location, why don't you just give me the fucking thing like every MMX game after 1 did?

I definitely don't think Maverick Hunter X is as bad of a remake as say, Nightmare in Dream Land, hell in spite of it all I can't even say it's a bad remake period. But it's not a good one, either. Considering it was the intention of Inafune to remake the rest of the sprite-based MMX games if MHX did well (and you can guess how that turned out), I really don't think I could stand worse versions of four games I already don't like.