Mega Man X5 Boss Rush - No Dash/No Damage/Minimalist (Part IV)

Part IV

Individual boss comments:

Purple Cubes... I mean Sigma: There are no hit box shenanigans with X5's Sigma. Only misery.

Sigma's first form is threatening enough on its own. His dashing is deceptively speedy, and though you can jump over it, whether he'll decide to start climbing the walls or simply dash right back where he came from along the ground is anybody's guess. There isn't as much time to react to this as you'd like to trick yourself into thinking, so you need to concentrate to not jump directly into him and thus invalidate your worth forever... by virtue of making a mistake in a video game, no less. Shame on you, sir.

If he dashes after deciding to encircle himself with virus heads, repeat the above except with 50% more capital letters and some nasally screaming thrown in here and there.

Speaking of virus heads, did I mention I fucking hate virus heads? These bastards will have your eyes bleed out by the time you manage to time a shot between them, which makes things last far longer than I can try vainly to extract comedy from.

Luckily his electrical orbs are your playground.

That one attack everyone is sick of seeing bosses use by now isn't dodged a hell of a lot differently than it normally is... although to be fair you might take a hit from it around the time you've put your controller down and left the room to engage more meaningful pursuits.

His second form unleashes all the stops. Everything in this fight is harder without the dash, with one mysterious attack being particularly impossible... but we'll leave it up to you to guess whi- it's the fucking cubes okay?

Sigma's claws are idle playthings. They might be slow and look like they were built by Fisher Price but they move around in not only erratic patterns, but erratic speeds. When they decide to move independently of each other, it is a simple thing to get yourself crushed.

The rest of his shit isn't exactly fun. Walking through a claw's lightning is as nerve-racking as it ever was, and his blue orbs actually start to require pretty precise placement to not get stuck in a corner by.

So, the purple cubes. I will spare you the mocking laughter by not mentioning how long it took me to figure out how to dodge these things without dashing, and even then, you're still at the mercy of a coin flip.

The purple cubes materialize on your position stubbornly enough that X simply does NOT move fast enough to avoid them altogether. Within two or three, they will either catch up to him, or the variation required to not get trapped by one that's yet to dissapear will be too significant to avoid getting totally fucked. For certain, even moving optimally, there is absolutely no way to climb a wall and not get hit by a materializing cube. So instead of being a matter of moving quickly, it's a matter of both extremely careful placement and extremely precise timing.

There are two methods I've found to dodge the purple cubes. Both require starting on the top of a wall, so you'd better get your ass up there when you know it's coming.

The first is lunacy and I would not recommend it to my worst enemy. It involves tricking the timing of the second cube so that it materializes exactly where the first one did. Halting yourself a fraction of a second too early or late will have X eat a faceful of the first cube or stand there slightly confused while the second one materializes directly on top of him. If it works, the last cube will materialize on the ground under X, which means climbing the far wall isn't just extending your doom. I show it off here because apparently this battle only becomes more fascinating to witness the more often I have to repeat it.

The second method also requires a very small window of timing but is in the realm of consistency. Fall from the wall immediately, and a half a second after the third cube starts materializing, jump as you're walking away to force the fourth cube to materialize in the air above you. Then, as soon as the last one is appearing, walk away at just the right moment so that the third cube vanishes but the last one doesn't crush you.

And the final secret to dealing with the cubes? Close your eyes and wait five seconds, because there's not a fucking THING you can do to deal with the last cube's movement except get lucky and have it take paths that don't involve flattening you.

If you actually took the time to read that fucking mountain of text, I promise you one free blowjob should you provide your location and 500 dollars.

Tracks used, in order:

Sigma 1 - Venetian Snares - Hiszékeny
Sigma 2 - Epica - Illusive Consensus (Instrumental)

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Mega_Man_X5
• MMX5
• No_Dash
• No_Damage
• No_Weapons
• No_Upgrades
• Xtreme_Mode

[tzeshern]

Wait did u die before this? I noticed there is no dailogue before u fight sigma

[HideofBeast]

Yes. Dozens upon dozens of times.

[RabiEnRoll]

I think this is the only X5 video in history where the player WANTED the purple blocks to appear and they DIDN'T.

[xxRyuuji]

FUCKING GREAT JOB WITH THE FUCKING PURPLE FUCKING CUBES

CUBES CUBES CUBES

This video was extremely fascinating to see

[sk130goc]

God!!

[ZombieVidsGuy]

I like how you just effortlessly dodged all of his attacks without even dashing! Musta took some time to perfect... not that I'm complaining, I thought it was awesome. You just played around with him towards the end... Thumbs up from me

[Supermariofan14]

I'm always so unlucky that the hands both fly striaight and there's no time to even jump out of the way. Nova strike is the only way to dodge

[VentusxBBSxSpero]

Best descriptions ever 5/5

[Dimastrength02]

I was hoping there's at least 1 thing that hit you...

But, none happen.

[WilliamSchunter]

You deserve so much more subscribers or views at least for all the time,effort,frustration,play stations, and blood it has gone through to make all of these

[EigenX7]

@RabiEnRoll they DID

[joesakik88]

"And the final secret to dealing with the cubes? close your eye and wait five seconds" lol, its well and simply put... Im just in shocked of how you did this (ofc Sigma part one is great, but part II is simply jaw-droppingly amazing) it took me days to get the game done (when I was a kid that is...) I dont even want to go through it again, its just so hard, specially Black devil :S and the godamnit cubes, the were always on me when sigma was below 50%hp >.<... the purple cubes... OF DOOM

[TheKyrielle]

0:51 no damage still? WTF!?