 Alright, finally after a lot of annoying setup and stuff, I'm finally going to get this thing going. We're going to play Mega Man X, because why not? Yeah, I just needed a break, needed to play one of my favorite games ever. And one thing I like to do with this game is I like to switch the dash function from A to R. That way it's one of the shoulder buttons. It's much easier to access. The A button where you have to like either like stretch your thumb across or curl your index finger over to use while you're charging your weapon and stuff like that. I always kind of hated that. So I flip it to R, it's much easier to use and yeah, it's sometimes I start out and I get the dash on the chill penguin's level and I have to reset the game and start all over again because I'm like, well I can't play like, I mean I can play like that, but I'd rather not. So yeah, here we are, Mega Man X and I did a Let's Play on Mega Man X2 a million years ago divided up into like 25 parts or whatever because I had such shitty internet I could only is like, listen, I'm gonna only upload one 10 minute thing at a time. It's just how it is, I guess. Here just how it was, I should say. Yeah, I like coming here and you can trigger it where the thing, the guy does not come and you just hear him like he's waiting for you. I always thought that was odd. Such great like effects and such a great introductory stage. So many spectacular things like these, let's see if I can trigger it again, nope. This freaking giant ant or wasp thing, whatever it's supposed to be, so cool. I'm not gonna go all Aaron Hansen on this where he talks about how it's like the greatest like, oh it's so organic and blah blah blah, it teaches you like he has like a whole video about like how the game like teaches you how to play with by just by how it's designed and blah blah blah, it's like yeah, there's about a thousand games that do that. That came before and after Mega Man, so I mean geez, let's not go crazy here. Anyway, yeah I'm gonna try and beat this whole freaking game and it's gonna take a while. It'll probably take over an hour, hour 30 minutes, something like that. You can glance over to the bottom right of your YouTube thing. What is this thing right here anyway? Does anybody know what that thing is? I always thought it was like maybe it's there for the enemies to stop or something like that. I don't know. I've never known what those are or what those are doing there and what purpose they serve. It's very strange, but yeah coming up here we've got this guy. No, I'm gonna play through this whole damn thing. We're gonna beat the game. I'm gonna get as many parts and sub tanks and all that good stuff as I can. I don't think I, if I remember how to get most of them, I remember most of the paths and the combination. Even for like Sigma, I know Rolling Shield beats Sigma's final form. I know Shotgun Ice beats his dog. I know Sigma's first form is the Shock weapon. You get from Armored Armadillo, or wait, no you get from, you use that to beat Armored Armadillo. Hey, it's Zero. How you been, buddy? We should do coffee sometime. Like how he looks up without like shifting the rest of his body language. He just kind of cranes his neck up. Oh, and then he says he's not strong enough to defeat him. So that means there's more you have to do and it inspires you to get more powerful because you already saw how powerful it's like, really dude? Like look, I love this game too, but that's a little ridiculous. All right. Yes, yes, yes. I don't know. We all play Mega Man for the story, right? Okay. Let's get this road on the show, or show on the road, whichever you want to do. All right. Of course, you have to start with Chill Penguin because you don't have to. There was one guy that posted in the Super Nintendo subreddit not too long ago that actually beat Chill Penguin last, which means that he went through every boss stage and to beat every boss without the dash, which is pretty interesting. I never even thought to do that before just because I want to enjoy this game and not be and not hate myself. And the enemy design here is so cool. Like the guys that hit you with those things and then laugh after they hit you. That's such a great touch here. I'll probably get hit here. Look at that. He sits there and has a good shuckle. That's fantastic. Why is he a lumberjack guy with his big axe, battle axe, in the middle of a frozen tundra? Kind of an interesting job. One thing about Mega Man X, though, is that you get a lot. This game is pretty forgiving, all things considered. You get a lot of places to grind, places to replenish your health. Enemies are very forgiving when it comes to dropping stuff like that. You've already seen how many things get dropped. Oh, that was my fault. I've already earned an extra life or a free guy, as I should say. Look at that. There's another one. So I get it when people say this game is hard, I guess. But I really don't think it's that hard. I don't think it's nearly as hard as the NES games. So yeah, this is why you do chill penguin first, to talk to Santa Claus and your Christmas present is a dash. Some new Mega Man disco boots to help you dash. Thought the world might need a new champion. Does Mega Man have a belt if he's a champion? Is he have all the belts? Is he like Ultimate Warrior at the end of WrestleMania 6? Or is it both the Intercontinental Champion and the WWF Champion? No, I promise I'll try not to talk that much wrestling this time. I haven't really watched or paid attention to wrestling since 2007. So I am not going to go down that path again. I think I was doing Zelda, I think, and I just ran out of stuff to talk about. So I'm just like, you know, the Montreal screw job, blah, blah, blah. I won't do that this time. So anyway, yeah, the dash is pretty fucking fun in this game. And instead of a slide, like the previous Mega Man games, we charge forward heroically with a fierce, determined look on our faces. Now, that's what I'm doing right now, not Mega Man, not talking about Mega Man. I'm talking about my face. I got a fierce determined. I'm pissed off. I'm going to fuck up everything and this this mech thing. I always love this. It turns into a one on one, a really primitive one on one fighting game for like half a second. And this guy will just fall into the pit. Oh, I got such a kick out of that as a kid when I rented this. He'd fall and I'd laugh and laugh and laugh. Man, this game was unbelievable to me as a kid. It was I mean, this really is like an upgrade. Like it takes everything from the Nintendo game and the NES games, the NES series. I think that was up to Mega Man 4 at this point. I think, yeah, Mega Man 4 was out. Five and six were yet to come on a NES. So this was this came out in the middle of that run. And it was just like everything you could have possibly wanted from a from a Super Nintendo Mega Man. Like you saw Contra make the same jump. You saw Super Castlevania make the same jump from Castlevania. Mario. Now we have here in Chill Pegman, one of the most sorry, sad bosses ever. I mean, I really feel bad for him because his attacks are so lame. And I mean, he's fine. He's not that it's just he sits there and he's so slow. I guess, you know, he's it's presumed it's presumed that he'll be the first boss because the first power up is there. I don't know how you're supposed to know that the first time you play other than just by just OK, what do you what are you even doing right now? I mean, geez, it's just yeah, send more of these ice statues at me. All right. I mean, she's him and Storm Eagle are pretty damn pathetic when it comes to boss fights. Arm cannon all the way with with those two. In fact, now that I think of it, I don't even know what weapon you use to be. I mean, use the flame weapon to beat Chill Penguin. But I can't even think off the top of my head what the weapon is used to beat Storm Eagle. What would it be? I don't even know. Is it stink millions weapon? I guess I guess it would have to be. Interesting. OK, yeah, we get shotgun ice. That's a really cool weapon. And it's very useful in a certain boss fight. Yeah, I always start with Chill Penguin to get the dash and then I move over to Storm Eagle to because there's heart pieces, there's sub tanks. There's all sorts of stuff in this stage. So and plus the boss fight is pretty dang easy and you can beat him with the arm cannon in a relatively simple manner. And plus Storm Eagle's level music is effing awesome. And it sounds like, you know, an Iron Maiden like B side instrumental or something like that. It's really one of my all time favorite tracks. There's your first heart piece, very simple to find. The only thing is, it's like, how would you know that's there? But that's when you get the power, the power. But I mean, you know, there are heart pieces and sub tanks, like some are hidden in plain sight and some are like that. It's like, how would you know to go over there and do that? It's like, I don't know if you just watch your friend do it, I guess. But that's the game is not like predicated on finding that stuff. Like, it makes it easier, but oh, that's such a cool effect. Everything exploding out of nowhere. It's so unexpected when you play this as a kid for the first time. It's like these, the glass getting blown out. It's like, oh my God, like that kind of stuff just doesn't happen in the NES games. So this felt like going from the first Terminator to Terminator 2. Like, if that makes sense. I know they're two completely different movies. Terminator, the first Terminator is like a thriller, more of a, has kind of a horror theme to it. And the second one is pure fucking action James Cameron style stuff going on. Pure Arnold special effects fest with the T1000 and all that. So anyway, what was I talking about? Hey, you're not supposed to come back. What the hell was that? All right, climb this thing and then go over here. Let's get this free guy up here. Works for me. See, there's just a fucking extra life just laying there. And let's go down on this side because once you get the dash, you can jump up here. I want to go from here. Yep. And just shoot the bejesus out of this. These are DA tanks, I guess they're called. I think there's supposed to say danger, but they just say DA. Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. Now this updates nice and all, but it's really not necessary. All it does is just make your helmet look cool. Look at that. That is an upgrade in the style department, but how often am I going to headbutt stuff? You know what I mean? Like you do, and of course, once you get this upgrade, you can't not smash all the blocks. I can't leave until they're all smashed. There we go. Now I can leave. Of course, you do use this upgrade to, where am I going? You do use this upgrade to, what do you call it? I think it's the megabuster in whose stage is it? Flame Mammoth stage, I think? Either Flame Mammoth or Spark Mandrill. I want to say Flame Mammoth. I'm probably wrong, though. Look at that. See how the goodies, the bad guys, drop here? It's just one after another. I've never, it's been so long since I've gotten grabbed by one of those guys. I'm like, well, I forget what happens when I get grabbed. Well, anyway, now I know. They explode. They're kamikaze grabbers. And coming up, we've got Storm Eagle. They always get hit by that missile. This time I managed not to. Thank God for once. And this is another cool special effect coming up, completely unexpected. OK, so I jump over to this plane that somehow was the whole stage in midair or what. But yeah, let's blow up this whole section of this wing here just so we can fight. It's like something out of Dragon Ball Z. It's great. Stand back, acting. And it's ridiculous because that attack in particular and like the dash renders it useless. And then you dash over like that and then you just hit him. It's just timing. I'm just missing him a couple of times here. Got him there. Got him there. It's just this guy. It's a cool idea, but it's just like, listen, man. When you get the dash, your shit's over. OK, I can stand here and shoot you point blank range. And you're just going to stand there and flap your wings. There we go. See, it's just timing. But if you don't have the dash, I'd imagine this might be a little tougher. You'd have to just wait until he stops doing that. He just keeps doing it. OK, and he spits out his pathetic little egg that is very easily blown up. And does one dive comes down. Oh, the dogs are excited. I don't know if that's coming through. Oh, and I caught a mid-dash. That's pretty sweet. And I love how each boss here, each robot master here has like a death pose. That's another great touch this game has. It's like, ah, no. Very cool. And with that, we get a very useful weapon, one of my favorite weapons in the game, the Storm Tornado. And that is like a concentrated blast of several hits. And now with Chilpenguin's weapon, we're going to ignore. We're going to go back to our normal regularly scheduled path here and go to Spark Manjul and beat him with Chilpenguin's. Because since I destroyed, I guess the I don't know how this is known. I think it's in the instruction book or something like that, or maybe it's in Nintendo Power. But once you destroy Storm Eagle's ship, his airship or his plane, whatever the hell, it crashes into Spark Manjul's thing. And it's all the lights are flickering and the power is going out and everything's all broken looking. It's such a great touch. Love this game. So there's so many great little touches like this. And this is really cool, too. Those things that fly at you out of nowhere. It's it's I hate. Oh, I always forget about that one. I hate the light and darkness gimmick and a lot of games. But since it's done in this way, it's done really cleverly. And besides, it doesn't get completely dark. It's it just dims all the way down to so you can kind of see, but not really. Yeah, see, here is where we want to use Storm Eagle's weapon. It's just a very concentrated blast of stuff. And not only does, yeah, this guy can't get power. When you fight this guy before facing Storm Eagle, he is much tougher. He's got like a blast beam and he's much I think he's faster. And yeah, he bounces around like that. And he's a lot tougher. So in fact, he's one of the tougher mini bosses in this game. But once you beat Storm Eagle, it's he gives you a free guy. What a what a nice dude. What a nice whatever that thing is supposed to be. Machine, I don't know. Oh, so what's going on in your life? Oh, boy, got a long way to go here. I don't know if I'm going to make it with talking nonstop through this whole game. I got a lot to say about Mega Man, though. I really do. I do like the second game a lot more in a certain in a certain way. Not a lot more, but just I love the midair dash. It takes the dash and allows you to do it in midair during a jump, which is I just love that. I love it. It makes the game like Sparkster, you know, or like Rocket Knight Adventures. Like it just makes it crazier and just faster. Storm Tornado is also awesome on these guys. It wipes them out really easily. You don't even have to stop. But yeah, Mega Man X2 also has what else does it have? See, why am I doing that? I should be switching weapons. Well, that works, too, I guess. It's got the midair dash and it's got all the abilities are really cool, too. And there we go. I remembered that guy. I think there's one up here. Nope. There's this dude. Oh, I did not remember that guy. X3, on the other hand, not that great. The level design is really does not fit with. The first two games, it's kind of doing its own thing. They try and they try and work the mech thing, the mech functionality into into the game. And it doesn't. They don't really go all the way with it, or at least not in my. All right, this is all timing based. Hopefully I won't die. Boom, boom, it looks like he's doing a dance. Oh, I knew I'd fuck that up. I've done that many times before. If you get the timing just wrong, it's do I have enough shotgun ice to last? Yeah, I should have enough. Yeah, it looks like he's doing a dance when he's getting frozen. Damn, I let him get too close. That was bad. That's how he does it, too. There we go. Now we're in a good rhythm here. Check out his moves. There we go. Well, this isn't an officially a now, not a no death run. I have died and yeah, see, that's a great death pose. He's like, all right, triumphant again. Anyway, who is after? Oh, we're going to go to Armored Armadillo's stage after this because we get the spark, electric spark. Wow, real creative name, guys. You know, this game has some of the best password music of all time, too. I could sit there. I remember sitting there and writing down the password when I would rent this and just sit there and just jam out to the password theme. I really like that theme. Alrighty. Oh, and this is great, too. This introduces that thing, but we're not going to use that yet. This is where you can sit here and grind and fill up your sub tanks. And I will definitely be doing that as I progress through the game. I'm not going to make you watch me doing that because that's incredibly boring. And also, a fun fact, you get a free guy from that guy like 75% of the time. So there you go. Yeah, that the bats there almost almost makes it seem too deliberate that it's like, OK, yeah, you can come back here and just run up and down this ramp and refill all your stuff, all your weapons. Like who needs an M tank when it'll take literally just a few minutes just to refill everything right here. Because this is this is like Mario World where you can go go back to the is this the right weapon I want to use on this guy? See if I can kill this thing before he gets to the heart tank. I think it's a heart tank. Oh, fuck you. Get out of my way. Oh, I'm not going to make it. Son of a bitch. No. Oh, I'm not at the heart tank yet. Never mind. I did kill him before the. I like the sound it makes of like not working, not working, not working. Now it's working. Black, black, black, black, black. Goodbye. Oh, yeah. And another thing about this game is that it's fun to just look at that. God, another free guy, two huge things like of life. I think this game is forgiving. There's another one, but it's fun to just go through these levels and just use the boss weapons just for fun. And I know there's certain people out there. I talked about this on the New Game New Game Plus podcast where it's like there's people that either use the boss weapons in the levels themselves and there's people who are like, no, I can't because I have to save them for the bosses themselves. And I'm like, what fun is it to just go through every single level the exact same? It's like that's what makes Mega Man, Mega Man is using these cool ass boss weapons. Like I just killed that guy from behind. That's a cool ass thing. Oh, and I love this too. Oh, and you can shoot it, shoot the thing and it'll, whoa, look out. I have died many times at that spot. Not anticipating the thing. OK, so here's here comes another guy. You know, I think I just missed a sub tank. I think I'm supposed to go to the left of the first one of these guys. And yeah, I think that's where the other sub tank is, right? Or am I confusing that with the first with the second game? Did I make it? Did I can I get up there? Shit, that's like right in the nick of time. Yes. That's as close as I've ever got. That's crazy. OK. Oh, and by the way, no, I don't. I'm not going to waste your time dying four times at the edge of this cliff after I get everything and get the Hadouken and then beat the boss in one hit. I'm going to play this, you know, without that. So there's plenty of other places you can look up and. Oh, shit, I forgot to jump. That was really stupid. Well, I got the heart piece, so whatever. I never said I was the most efficient help here. Yeah, now it doesn't matter if I blow this guy up. I can just use just blow him up for fun. With a good old fashioned arm cannon. Oh, are you kidding me? That was more efficient than the. Oh, well, yeah, all right. Let's remember to fucking jump this time. See, even this guy, these guys, you're zooming past them at like 45 miles an hour in your out of control spiked mine cart. And they're still dropping goodies. And I love these like wounded ducks that go down and flames as you shoot them. That's another really cool touch. OK, this boss is armored armadillo. He's kind of crazy, bounces around the walls, rolling a million miles an hour. But once you shock him like that, he will lose his armor and then he'll just sit there and shoot like that, pathetically. Oh, maybe not. Didn't see that coming. See if I can get the timing down here. Hopefully I won't need to use a... There we go. He's got a great death face. Let me see your death face. Oh, it's great background there. Makes me wonder if he can just wander around back there if there's more bats, more enemies. All right, we are four down? Yeah, four down, four to go. And we get rolling shield, which is... Once you get the mega buster, it's a good power up to have. You can charge it up and it forms a shield over you. And we take on the octopus guy here. And he's a really tough boss. He's probably the toughest boss in the game, the robot master in the game because he is... I don't know, I've always had trouble with him. All right, here we want to switch to storm tornado. But yeah, we're going to be using that a lot in this stage. So yeah, there's people that are like, well, I'm not going to use storm tornado. This freaking rolling shield kills this guy. What difference does it make? So yeah, I am on team, use the boss weapons anytime, any chance you get for any reason you can think of. That is my Mega Man motto. That's what they're there for. Look at that. Another free guy. All right, now we got this submarine thingy here. And I think I can just get by with the arm cannon. Now let's switch to this because that'll take that thing out. That's another thing, the mini bosses here. Boss weapons really work great on mini bosses. In the case of this one, it destroys the seahorse missile things, whatever those things are supposed to be. It's not that effective on the mini boss himself, but on the missiles, there we go. He's pretty, they're pretty effective. Look at that, more drops. I don't know if I'm just getting lucky on this run or what, but I have gotten a shitload of stuff on this run so far. You know what's weird is that I've talked about Mega Man pretty much this whole time so far. The fifth, my fifth robot master weapon, usually I'm talking about like something else, so at this point, but not yet. This part is really tricky and there's a strong chance I'm going to die because he's going to pull you into the spikes. And I fucking hate that shit. I just have to hope you kill him while... Shit. Oh god, full concentration. I'm going to run out of my weapon. I'm just going to use the... God damn it. See, the tornado is not as powerful as I think it is, clearly. The arm cannon seems to be getting the job done so far. Alright, here's another fun little bonus that I found. I remember finding this by myself... Oh, I'm not there yet, never mind. That's a different part, a different thing. Here we go. I think it's up here. Yes, I remember going up here and doing this for the first time. Here's where I want a boss weapon of some kind. This is too slow. Hey, get out of my shit, man. Oh, please! That's going to use the whole fucking thing. There, finally, I drained my fucking spark, electric spark or whatever it's called. Yeah, and then it keeps... It crashes and then it keeps going. And it opens up this down here. I loved this as a kid. See, I'm like 30 minutes into this and I have not stopped talking about Mega Man. That's how awesome this game is. In my opinion, this is the top five Super Nintendo game. It's this Mario World, Chrono Trigger, Link to the Past, Super Metroid. That's the kind of company it's got. Those are my five. After that, I got to go... Hmm, let's see. I think Super Castlevania IV is top 10. I think Donkey Kong Country II. I think Turtles in Time is top 10. I think Final Fantasy VI has to be up there. And then, for the 10th, I might even put Mega Man X2 in the top 10. There's also stuff like Street Fighter II, Turbo, there's Mario Kart. What else is there? Star Fox. Although Star Fox really has not aged well. There's Act Razor. If you want to go Super Famicom, there's Live-a-Live and Seiken Densetsu III. All that good stuff. Yeah, Front Mission Gun Hazards. It's top 20 at the very least. Alrighty. Mega Man is leaving bubbles of breath. Breathing bubbles. He's an android. Is it one of those Star Trek data things where it's like... Oh, he wants to be... He's simulating it. That's why he blinks, is because he's simulating how to be human or something like that. Okay, now why is the background here all busted up? Is that... If you come here before a certain stage, is that, uh... Is this stuff normal? Is it another one of those reactionary things? I know, I'm... Whoa, that was fast. Okay, Storm Tornado works pretty well against that guy. Right the fuck on. I'm wondering what stage kills this guy's stage. If I can come back and... I honestly don't know. I just noticed that just now. Alright, we're gonna use Rolling Shield. And this is a tough boss fight. This is a... I'll probably run out of my weapon. I usually do when I face this guy. So let's do this. And this guy also has a nice touch right here. Going down. Why doesn't it... Why is he the only boss that does that? To my knowledge is the only one who does that. I'm gonna use this... I'm gonna need a sub tank. See, he just... It's the missiles he shoots right as he jumps. Oh wow, I got lucky there. Okay, let's keep going. I can't even... I don't even know how to legitimately dodge this guy's attacks other than just blow up what he's shooting at me. And that doesn't seem right. Okay, I almost beat him. With just the Rolling Shield. His death face is kind of lame. He just looks like he's taking a shit. What kind of death face is that? Alright, anyway... We are... Receiving the... Pretty much Magnet Missile. Homing torpedo, Magnet Missile, same fucking thing. It's going back to Mega Man 3. And his... Or the bosses whose weakness that is... Boy, that's a terribly structured sentence. Boomer Co-Wanger! Disco Man! I don't know what's up with the Saturday Night Fever disco move there. It's kind of... I don't know. What is Boomer Co-Wanger supposed to be anyway? Is he a... I honestly don't know. Alright, so are there any... Yeah, there's a heart piece in this stage but I can't get it because you need... The Chameleon's weapon to get it. Just like, speed your way past this. You're gonna take your lumps and keep going. I think that's what... I think a certain personality type gets hung up on... Like, oh Mega Man's too hard. It's like, dude... You don't have to... Don't approach the game like... You have to be perfect. Like, enemies are gonna drop replenishments. Take your damage and keep going. Like, yeah, do your part to dodge when you can but if you take damage, like... This isn't that hard of a platforming game, like... This is an interesting part here. Oh, shit. Oh, wow. I thought that was supposed to automatically kill me if I got trapped there. But yeah, I think people... I don't think this game is that hard. It's hard, but it's not that hard. Like, this is nowhere near the difficulty of like Mega Man X3, for instance. That's a much tougher game. Or, you know, Super Ghouls and Ghosts or other Capcom games for that matter. Damn it. Oh, and I missed my platform. Alright, this part gets kind of monotonous. So, anyway, let's ramble about something else. I've gone on almost 40 minutes and like 35 minutes of just talking nonstop Mega Man. And I'm probably repeating myself on a lot of stuff here, too. But, uh... Let's talk about something else. Recently, I got, um... Serious XM Satellite Radio. And, like... Son of a bitch. And, of course, that guy respawns. Motherfucker. Um... Like a lot of people, I have, um... A million MP3s. And I still use Winamp. And what I like to do is just put everything on one playlist and put it on random. And I just flip through the songs. And, uh... I don't know. And then it's so... When I saw it, you see there's the heart piece. Yeah, can't get it yet. But, um... Yeah, so I had all the music I liked. All the music I regularly listen to. All the stuff that, like, reminds me of, you know, certain times in my life. All that good stuff. And I have it all on one... It's just one big playlist. And so I can find it all. So it's like, okay, I don't understand the point of why... Okay, do I just take my damage here? And then, yeah, I guess. There's no choice. Um... Well, I guess the choice is down there. And go over there. Who cares? Um... So I never understood, like, why would anybody want to get a satellite radio? When it's like, just... Like, get all the music you can and then listen to whatever you want to listen to. It's that simple. And it turns out, you know, my friend at work... Yeah, here you want to equip the missiles and just, like, hide in the corner like a coward and just fire. It's that simple. It's pretty pathetic, but... Yeah, he's a cool boss. I don't know what his deal is. His disco move and his teleporting stuff. But, yeah, this is how you beat this guy. Like a coward. I'm not going to be able to sleep at night because I'm going to remember this. And I'm going to think of it and I'm going to hate myself. Geez. How can you live with yourself, Mega Man? Anyway... Um... Yeah, there's a really interesting psychology that happens when somebody else is picking the songs from, like, a huge, you know, vast array of whatever catalog. And then, you know, picking something that I own that I've bought on Amazon or iTunes or whatever. And it's just really strange how it's like, well, I could either choose to listen to what I want or I could wait and it's really kind of addictive to, like, sit there. What song's going to be next? It's like, I don't get how that works. I don't know why that's a thing. Um... And not only that, it's like... I love the first wave station because that's kind of what my sister listened to when I was growing up. I have a sister that's 10 years older than me. And it's got all, like, the synth pop stuff. It's got, like, Howard Jones and, um, Duran Duran and Depeche Mode and Susie and the Banshees and Darkwave stuff and occasionally Sisters of Mercy and all that... I love all that stuff, except maybe I don't really like Howard Jones that much, but... Okay, here's another heart piece, I believe. We're going to be on the stage for a while. There's a few things you can get. There we go. Our life goes up. There we go. Zoom past again. And now we go down there and we go back up here. And we face the infamous rock monster. And this guy takes fucking forever to beat. Time it. I'm at 40 minutes 30 seconds right now. Something along those lines. It's going to be a long time to beat this guy. He's so irritating. Anyway... Yeah, it's... I like First Wave even though it's... I was born in 1982 and so technically my generation, quote-unquote, that music is the 90s. Oh shit, I thought he was gonna... Bad job by me. So my music that I grew up listening to the most that reminds me of being a kid or reminds me of Junior High and learning who I am and all that sort of stuff. Remember all my childhood friends. That stuff like Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Alice in Chains. All that stuff. I wonder if ice works on this guy. If it makes any difference. Or even this. Let's try out some of these weapons. I don't think any of those really work. I think... Oh, shit. I think it's just Arm Cannon. Wow, that was close. But yeah, I can't... I have a hard time listening to the Lithium Station, the 90 station because they play so much crap. And it's like, yeah, I was there for the really bad music and I don't want to hear it again. I don't want to hear the Spin Doctors or Gin Blossoms or... Oh, what's some of the other awful stuff they play? Like... Like just some of the one hit wonders, like Dead Eye Dick. Who else was there? I got a girl song by... What's the band tripping Daisy? Like, oh god, this stuff is all terrible. I was there for that. I lived through that and I had to ignore it back then because it was such irritating music. With the 80 stuff, I feel like I missed out. There's all this great stuff that I'm really into. Like, aha! They have more than just the Take On Me song. They have a lot of good songs. Depeche Mode has a lot of good songs. Who else do they play? They play a lot of police. And then they also play a lot of dance stuff, like Erasure and Pet Shop Boys. A lot of stuff I never heard of, like General Public, which really gets on my nerves after a while. Ah, shit. But no, that's the one I listen to the most because I feel like that's the one I caught the tail end of as a really little kid and I feel like I'm catching up. As opposed to Lithium, where it's like, I did this already. No thanks. So there's also stuff like Ozzie's Boneyard, which plays just kind of a confusing channel because it plays quote-unquote classic metal. And they play like... It's a weird hybrid of like Queensrike and like... Finally! Okay, it took about three minutes to beat that guy, which is an eternity in Mega Man X. Because this game is such a great action platformer. Okay, Body Armor. So I will be able to absorb more hits. Excellent. Again, another thing to make the game easier. Ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom. Let's go. What other channels are there? Yeah, there's Hair Nation, which plays all the hair metal crap that, you know, Slaughter and Warrant and White Lion and White Snake and all that stuff if you're into that. Good for you. And then there's Liquid Metal, which plays like Meshuggah and all those like one note bands that tune down like one octave. Da-da-da-da-da-da. Okay. This is an exhibition. Like, listen to how good our drummer is. Like, okay, I get it. He's great. It almost takes on like a jam band kind of quality to it at a certain point. It's like, yeah, that sounds fun to play, but it's not that fun to listen to, sorry. Not that I don't appreciate a good riff or a good drummer. Great. All the Meshuggah fans are going to hate me now. Yeah, if you need to grind, here's another good spot to grind. Pick out worms out of this mechanical tree here. Yeah, this is my favorite... This stage is my favorite setting. It's like this mechanical trees with like bark coming off and there's like all this stuff coming out of the trunk. It's so strange. It's like a perfect blend of nature and look at the... underneath the ground there's like those wires sticking out and stuff like that. It's so cool looking. All right. Yeah, I love using the dash with this thing. Smoothly like... Oh, come on. Yeah, and like that tree back there that's like... and look how far back the background goes and it goes into this like purple like haunted forest looking thing. It's so awesome. Telling you, it just never ends with this game. There's so much to dig here. All right, we're almost at the boss, I think. And this is another pretty easy boss all things considered, but... That's one of my favorites. Guys standing there like an idiot like, hey, wait a second. Is there something up here? I can't remember, no. I'm thinking of a different game. I know in one Mega Man game when you go to the end and you jump over the door maybe that's X2. Yeah, we want the boomerang. So this should be fun. Yeah, this guy has a pretty easy pattern to pick up on. He just jumps down. The thing is, is that you have to keep hitting him and if you don't keep hitting him and you allow him to... Kind of like baseball in that regard. Like if you allow a hitter to get settled in the batter's box and to just get comfortable and... Whoops, see, I missed him. And now, see, there you go. Now he's doing his thing. Now he's tougher. God damn it. I'm doing this the wrong way. There we go. Oh, I just missed him. Now if you allow a hitter to get comfortable in the batter's box you can't let him do that. You have to pitch inside or maybe pitch behind his back. Alright, I almost got him. One more hit. Bam. Anyway, yeah. Not too long ago I just got back. My girlfriend and I, we live in Albuquerque so that is about a seven-hour drive, six-and-a-half-hour drive to Denver. And we wanted to go to Red Rocks. We found out Wien was playing there. We both like Wien. Even though Wien is a couple of very old guys now at this point unfortunately but still we went and saw them at Red Rocks. Oh man, this is a great freaking show and those guys can freaking play. Holy cow. Those guys are such a good like band. That's such a valley girl thing. Those guys are like such a good like band, you know? No, I mean like they're real professionals. They are all very, very, clearly they've played together for a million years. See, this is another cause-and-effect stage here. This is all fire on the floor here before you beat Chilpenguin's stage. But not here. Now you can just zoom past all this stuff. And yes, it is Flame Man this stage where you can get the Mega Buster as I will be doing right up here. So, we gotta- this is gonna be tough. Hopefully this won't take me too long. You gotta cling to that and then headbutt. Come on, don't- don't fall off. Come on you motherfucker. There we go, got it. It's harder than it looks. It's tricky. Yes, this is where the game really gets fun and you get to charge up not only your arm cannon and your Mega Buster, but your, uh, what's it called? Your boss weapons as well. Just a really nice touch and really unexpected. I did not expect- When I first played this game I did not ex- I was like, holy shit, that actually works? Yeah, that's the other thing about X2 that I love. It charges to- for two huge shots. It's so cool. Damn it, I hate these guys. Okay, and then there's a heart piece down here. There's also a, uh, sub-tank up here as well. I'm gonna get the sub-tank first. Just for fun. Oh, fuck you. Alright, let's just go get the sub-tank or the heart piece. Whatever. But yeah, we went and saw Wien and it's really funny. I get such a kick out of those guys because they play everything from their first album that they made back in the early 90s of just the two of them screwing around and I think they get a big kick out of like- Here we are at this awesome amazing sounding venue, Red Rocks, which by the way, if you've never been, it is really- it's pretty breathtaking. It's something else. And it's a natural, of course, a natural amphitheater, so it's- it's re- it sounds- not only does it look awesome, but it sounds awesome. But yeah, just being able to see, like, the city down below, you see all the lights of the city, there's the stage, and ugh, it's just the best. Oh, one- I can one- hit these guys with this thing. Right on. But yeah, Wien was a lot of fun. The only problem is that Wien still has a fan base that are very much, uh, like, college-aged kids. You know, like, Wien has been around since, like, forever, I want to say the late 80s, probably. And, um, it's like these guys are all there to hear, like, all their silly stuff. And- whereas I really like, uh, White Pepper and Quebec and, you know, they're, like, uh, the mollusk and all that stuff, where all these, like, college douchebags are there to hear, like, their comedic stuff. And they played a little bit of everything. They played stuff from- from the early 90s, from the early 2000s. They did a cover of Cashmere, which was really cool. Um, yeah, it was fun. I liked it a lot. It was totally worth going. Oh, yeah, that's the other thing. It rained pretty much the whole show. But, um, still pretty cool. Yeah, the audience was just a lot- is a significant amount of people that were there just to get high, which kinda sucked. And, um, yeah, I was in Denver. I was in Colorado for the first time since weed had been legalized. I'm definitely not a weed person. I'm more of a drunk. I need downers, not... Well, I guess marijuana is a downer, isn't it? But... It makes me go insane. I've told those stories before on previous Let's Plays, where... I guess I'll tell one again. The worst panic attack I've ever had in my life was... I would be more invested in this boss fight. If this guy weren't so easy. Okay, um... The, uh... My roommate at the time had gone to Ecuador of all places. I have no idea why. But he brought back this, like, weed butter. Really, really strong. Um, butter mixed with marijuana. And, uh, he made his, uh... His girlfriend at the time was now his wife, made cookies. Finally, we found Sigma's fortress. Why did... Oh, I don't know. I won't ask. Let's go! Let's attack aggressively. Hey, wait a minute. That's a Konami game. Alright, there are a few things I can do that, um... I missed out. I know I missed one sub-tank here. I think I... Yeah, I've got the boots. I've got the helmet. I've got the armor. And I've got the mega-buster power-up. So those are taken care of. But annoyingly... Oh, that guy didn't give me a free guy this time. But let's go get the sub-tank down here. Just for fun. Just because I want to hear this music again. Super fun. But, um, no, okay. To continue the story. See, when you're all filled up on everything, you won't get any enemy drops. It's kind of interesting. And if you do, they're all tiny things like that. Oh, there's a big one. Way to prove me wrong, asshole. Okay, I gotta let this guy go by. And then it should be over here, right? Yes. Okay. Well, alright then. That's three. Where's the fourth one? Oh, and I gotta go back to, um... Boomer Kuanger's stage and get his heart piece, too. Oh, yeah. And there's a heart piece, uh... Here as well. Anyway, they made these cookies. I didn't know what they were. And there were these cookies that had been sitting on the counter for, God, almost a month. And there had just been one sitting there. Like this for a long ass time. And I was like, see, you can... Oh, it didn't work that time. I guess I'd better save this for what I need. Eh, fuck it. Yeah, let's see what this does. This'll make a nice little shield. But, um, yeah, it's another free guy. Um, the, uh... What was I talking about? I'm mesmerized by the shield and the sound of it has me hypnotized. And it just keeps going. I was under the impression that the energy bar would drain. But it doesn't. You can just, like, go through this whole stage like this. That's not overpowered or anything. That's crazy. Anyway, um... Oh, yeah, there's just this one cookie that's just been sitting in this Tupperware thing. Oh, okay, if you come across a strong enough enemy. It'll, it'll... It works for anything that will get, can be one shot. Which is good enough, okay. So, yeah, this cookie had been sitting there forever and ever. And I'm just like, fine, I'll eat it. I remember I had a math class that night. Um, this would have been 2009, I think. And he, uh... I eat the cookie and literally like two... I eat the whole thing in like 30 seconds because I'm a fucking fat pig. Um, I was fucking hungry. I just kamikaze... Oh, no! Wait! No! Oh, that was... Oh, I nearly met my doom. Wait a second. Now why is he just sitting there? What the hell was that? That was a very confusing segment. Okay, anyway. I'm taking forever to tell this story. Um... Yeah, so I eat it of course in like two seconds because I'm an idiot. And I, I'm like, oh, that tasted really funny. What was that made from, like, garlic or something? Like, that's... What's with that? So... About five minutes later, I'm going up the stairs and it hits me like, why am I stoned? Like, oh, it's just my imagination. I'm not stoned. And then it just gets worse and worse and worse and worse and worse and worse until I'm just, like, in the fetal position on my bed. Just, like, I remember calling my friend Danielle and telling her what happened and she had a good laugh. And, yeah, I was just, like, you gotta tell me everything's gonna be okay. I'm not stuck this way forever. I just can't handle pot. I really can't. Like, I feel like I'm gonna be stuck that way and for the rest of my life and that is just... I turn into just, I can't handle it. I'd rather have a beer and enjoy myself than... than smoke a joint and think I'm gonna die. I just, I can't handle it. Then again, I did used to be able to smoke, like, in the early 2000s when I was, like, 21, 22 and you could buy, like, a just shit-ass, like, really shitty weed that's all seeds and stems and you could just, like, take a can of Mountain Dew and, like, put a dent in it and put some holes in the dent and smoke it like that, like, super ghetto. Like, I've done that and that was, like, pleasant. Like, oh, yeah, just get a nice buzz going on and just, you know, get nicely toasted. That was really fucking stupid. Did I at least hit a checkpoint? No, I didn't. I gotta go through all that all over again. Fuck! You know what? I'm not gonna put you guys through that. Fuck that stupid... I gave myself one chance at it. Um... Yeah, is there one more? Oh, yeah! This is where the fourth, uh... Is it here? Let me think. Storm Eagle... Yeah, it is here. That's right. It's right at the beginning. Okay. Um, you just have to go this path. Okay, I think. Right? Am I getting that confused with another Mega Man game? Oh, right, there it is. Okay, sweet. Yeah, no, I... I... I miss being able to, um... See, it's that simple. I miss being able to just, like, smoke and be okay. And that's what that shit-ass weed I used to buy, you know, it was, like, $20 for an 8th, $25 for an 8th. And you just smoke and you'd be fine. And as Louis C.K. says, it's like... Nowadays, they're working on that shit like it's the cure for cancer. You take one hit and you go insane. And it's like, that's not my idea of a good time. I'd rather do the slow burn and just be... And just hang out and have fun and not fucking lose my mind. That's right, you gotta flip to good ol' trusty storm tornado. See, I don't understand these people that are too cool for school that won't use boss weapons and the levels themselves. And here's another good example. Oh, this game's too hard, yeah? Watch this. You just keep this on and these things come... I'm sure you could just use the arm cannon and blow these things up, but why make life that much more... Like, just make life easier for you. It's there, so use it. The game... I mean, this is one of those games where the guy... They obviously knew what they were doing. They knew this existed. So, I'm gonna take advantage. I'm too old for this shit anyway. I'm too old to take painstaking routes to stuff. I'm all about just having fun, shooting this shit, having some beer. I'm drinking... By the way, I never did say what I was drinking, I don't think. I'm drinking arrogant bastard ale from Stone. Stone's probably my favorite brewer. I don't normally like IPAs, but I do like arrogant bastard. I think it fits me, that's for sure. That's the running gag with me. See, here's... You smarmy, cockamamie bastards that won't use boss weapons. No, I do get where they're coming from. Like, I don't want to run out. But then, like... So you'd have to use the... Uh-oh, here we go. So you'd have to use the arm cannon against the boss, which isn't exactly... You know, that's not the worst thing in the world, big deal. Alright, so now we heard sounds of... I always thought that was a really cool touch. A battle did not last long. Apparently zero sucks. Hmm. Drama. Ex-Nosey can't defeat me, that's true. That's a callback to their previous fight. Get it? And yeah, you notice he doesn't have a... Uh, what do you call it? He doesn't have a life bar, so yes, it is just as it was before. I'm sure you can legitimately beat this guy. I'm honestly not sure what his weapon weakness is, but I... I don't care. I just want to get on with the game. Not interesting. I mean, it's pretty cool that you could potentially do that, but... No, but zero is playing possum as Gorilla Monsoon would say. This is a cool effect here. Ooh, and you can see him fly off. That's really nice. What a worthless gesture. Something about this guy's body is just funny to me. What the... You know what? It really doesn't matter. Love the transition from... The bad transition from shock to... You know what? I don't care. Yeah, here's another one where you fight the guy like a coward and... Run away! Run away! Just use the homing missiles and stuff. There you go. He's dead. The gratuitous explosion. He wasn't that big, but he was powerful. And zero is going to die. Well, I have four sub-tanks. Would you like one? All you got to do is ask. Four sub-tanks. Hello? Okay, bye. Yeah, it's zero is supposed to... And then zero just comes back like... In X2, like... Oh, hi. No explanation. Or was there an explanation? I don't know. I don't give a shit. All right, so what else was I... Oh god, this part here. Here's a part where you just fucking skip... Oh, thankfully you dropped me. It's a good drop. God damn it, I hate these things. There we go. God damn it, and they respawn like crazy. You're better off just taking... Yeah, better off just doing this. There we go. Those guys can be one hit. The problem is that when you get hit by this thing, it goes away. So, you got to recharge again. But this time it at least lets you to recharge on the fly. Just ignore these motherfuckers. And dodge that. Make sure you don't get hit and zoom over to the other side. There we go. See, even with the shield, they manage to make it tough. Like, earlier I was feeling super cocky. Like, oh yeah, I can just go through the whole game like this. Blah blah blah. It's like, no, it's still going to be hard. See, the fucking developers knew what they were doing when it comes to every aspect of this game. It's crazy. This is such a well-made game. Except for this. Except for me being a complete pansy and hiding in the corner while I kill this guy. God damn. Guilt. It's overwhelming. Oh, here's another goofy layout here where these are all set up in steps and these guys keep coming. It's another impressive feat this game has. This game does have a bit of slowdown. You probably saw it earlier with the birds in Armored Armadillo stage. But look at the amount of sprites on the screen. Here you got like four right here flying around. I might as well just keep going. I think the spider is the boss here. This is a cool boss. This is one of my favorites in the Mega Man universe. All right, here we go. Oh, I hate it when he drops those things first. So this is an interesting. If you watch the four things, you dash over to the left. You have to pay attention to how many rungs are on each side. Oh, I judged that terribly. It's not... I mean, the rungs are random, but his movement isn't. These obviously can only follow the sides with the most rungs that are over there. So once he moves over to a specific side, you can kind of guess in less than a split second where he's going to end up. See, he didn't take that middle one, so I can dash to the... I know to dash to the little... This one, yeah, thanks. That was real easy. But... Okay, so he crossed over to that one and there's only one way to get back to the other side. It's just a matter of, like, playing the odds. Like, what are the odds he's going to go this way? What are the odds he's going to go that way? And you calculate the odds as quickly as you can in your head based on how the rungs appear in the background. He's making it real easy for me. These are some pretty easy patterns, though. And you also want to keep him on one side or the other by staying in the middle. And once you are able to kind of lure him... Oh, shit, I did not expect that. And, of course, the more... Oh, damn it! I totally didn't think he'd go that way. But, yeah. Really smart design. I love the design of this boss. See, he's going to stay... Ah, motherfucker! Me and my smart mouth. Oh, just one more hit. Yeah, I tend to go to the left more often than not. But, yeah, I love that boss fight. It's really fun. And I'm going to take a quick pause break here to take a whiz and I'll be back in a jiffy. And we're back. Let's keep on truckin' here into Sigma's lair. Boy, this is a really cool looking futuristic-y Sigma lair thing. I can't put my finger on what the design is like for... Shit. Like I said, this is not a no-death run. Please do not confuse this with a no-death run or an efficient run of any kind. This is just some guy rambling about how great this game is. Okay, as simple as that. Anyway, one thing I like to do at least once a year or at least, you know, once every couple of years... Ah, God, the placement of that bat is so irritating. I guess I could do rolling shield, but I'm too lazy. One thing I like to do... There's another extra life, free guy. The thing I like to do every so often, I own over 100 cartridges, Super Nintendo cartridges. And 110, I think, at this point. Or 111, I can't remember. Not including Super Famicom. Oh, God, this loser. So I might as well use his weakness just because it'd be fun. How dare you? Oh, he can still do that. But, you know, this isn't even that effective against him. I mean, it's effective in that it renders him does the jump back thing, but still. I like to go through, like I was saying, I go through all my cartridges on my original Super Nintendo, and just to make sure they still work, they still power up, and the battery save still works if they have a battery. And it's interesting to me how the games, the cartridges that I owned that my brother and I grew up with, and this would be only about 25 or so. I'm talking the ones that we bought after they came out. That would be Street Fighter II Turbo, Mortal Kombat II, Star Fox. There's a lot of sports games like NHL 96, the original John Madden Football, Madden 95, Ken Griffey Jr. presents Major League Baseball. All those games are awesome, and oh, shit, I don't have a mech against this guy. This guy's gonna fucking kick my ass. Damn. Well, that's no fun. Do I want to go this way, or do I want to go the other way? I think I want to go this way. A lot of those, the original games that we took painstaking care of, my brother and I, I am very proud of the fact that he and I really, we saved all our boxes, we kept them in awesome condition, just because, just because we loved Super Nintendo stuff. Yeah, he had Secret of Mana, I eventually got Chrono Trigger, shortly after it came out in 97, or 96, I think. Fucking Storm Eagle, come on. What's his weakness again? Is it Chameleon Sting? I honestly don't even know. Yeah, it is. All of those games power up, never had to replace the bad, actually, I did have some battery trouble with Griffey Baseball, but I replaced that battery myself, and the game still works great. It's NCAA Basketball too, I also replaced the battery on that one, but they still, no problems at all with any of the games that we, the actual cartridges that we grew up with. But a lot of the other games that I've bought since then, especially the games I've bought more recently, like I bought Aladdin not too long ago, that cart is a piece of shit, like it glitches out like crazy. The title screen is a mess, there's so much wrong with it, and it's like, what do I do with this thing? I mean, honestly, the thing is just to keep cleaning it. If cleaning it doesn't work, clean it again. Just keep fucking cleaning it. That's the only advice you're gonna get if the game looks like shit. It's like, what else can you do? Clean it again, clean it again. Wait till tomorrow, let it air dry, clean it again. Scrub and scrub some more until... Well, I mean, don't go crazy. Don't rub the shit dry or anything. Don't completely scrape it. I'm being, I'm exaggerating, but still, that's really all you can do is just clean it. So clean the game. But I've done that several times and it's still, I'm wondering if it's a problem with my Super Nintendo at this point, but right now I'm playing on the RetroN 5 just because it's easier. It's easier to just plug straight in with the HD than it is to go through the HD adapter thingy and all that stuff from the original Nintendo, although I do do that frequently. I have no more life. What am I gonna do? Yeah, this is an odd boss. It's just a big face with the eyes shoot different things and this thing bounces around and it has no other attack. It's like, okay. Yeah, there's no floor, there's no floor. There's no floor. One thing that makes me laugh though, I was checking the cartridges for secret, checking my cartridges for secret of Evermore. And it's glitched to hell. It looks like shit. And the battery still works. All the saves are still there, the saves from the previous owner and my save from going through the game long time ago. Those are all still there, but it's glitched to hell. Everything is a mess. If you've seen a glitch to hell Super Nintendo game, you know what I'm talking about. It's just the letters are all scrambled and it just looks like shit. I'm not sure what to do. Many times I've cleaned my Super Nintendo many times and it's just what makes me think it's the game and not the system is that all my other, there's so many other games that work perfectly. So many battery save games that work flawlessly. Like Mario RPG works great. Shadowrun works great. Ogre Battle works great. So it's just that cartridge or something up with it. And part of me thinks it's actually a sentient cartridge and that it became aware of my bad review of that game. And so now it just doesn't want to work anymore. Which, you know, that is one of my worst... I have to admit I have a confession to make. The five of you still with me listening as I refill a... a sub-tank. I have a confession to make about my secret of Evermore video. First of all it was like the sixth or seventh video I ever made. Back in 2013. That's four years ago. Almost four years ago. And I had just started. I had zero audience. My only audience was like the guys at Racket Boy who were nice enough to like sit through my videos. And somebody left a comment saying, you know, because the only games I had done at that time are games that I love. I did Top Gear. I did Final Fight. I did Super Ghouls and Ghosts. I did Ken Griffey Junior... That's the second Ken Griffey Junior reference so far. Drink up. It's the SNES Drunk drinking game. Reference Ken Griffey Junior. Take a drink. But I had done nothing but positive reviews up to that point. Just glowing reviews of Chrono Trigger and, you know, whatever else. And how are we? Oh God, I got a ways to go. I want to get at least two. So I went way over the top. Now here's the thing. I don't personally like Secret of Evermore. I don't think it's very good. I think it's got a lot of problems. But I went overboard like crazy. I'll fill it up all the way. That's good enough, whatever. But I went overboard with that game. And that was a stupid thing to do. It was because it's not that bad. It's so much better than, you know, Secret of the Stars or whatever else is out there. Mediocre RPGs. I think I'd rather play Secret of Evermore over Final Fantasy 2 or Final Fantasy 4, the Super Nintendo version, because the translation is such a clusterfuck. Oh, come on, really? That didn't hit him. But, um... No, Secret of Evermore is not that bad. And not only that, but H.C. Bailey, my favorite LP-er, did not too long ago a walkthrough. He finally did a walkthrough of Secret of Evermore. And if you know H.C. Bailey, he leaves no stone unturned. He goes over. He's 100% every game he does. He goes over fucking everything. It's a detail-free. And he's great for that reason. So, I wanted to go through the game one more time with his walkthrough and play along. But I can't! Or at least I can't on my original machine because my game is so fucked up. Like, it's glitched to shit. And I'm not sure if replacing the battery will fix it. Because the saves are still there. I know in some cases... Oh shit, it's getting too close. His dance moves are gonna hurt me. There we go. I know, in some cases, replacing the battery can fix garbled graphics and garbled visuals and stuff like that. So, and it's not like I'm fond of my game save on there. You know, it's... Now, Secret of Evermore is not that bad, but it's definitely... There's certain stuff about that game that's just ridiculous. Like the fucking... No, I feel kind of like an idiot. But not that big of an idiot because it's really not that game. The flea market, the hit detection is real bad. I just don't think very highly of that game. And plus, the fact that you have a dog and the game isn't two-player co-op, even though in Secret of Mana is... Really, I know the game really has nothing to do with Secret of Mana other than that they use the same ring system gameplay stuff. But still, if you're gonna have... Call a game Secret of and then have it two players and... Or no, have a second character that tags along with you and it's not two players, like, come on. Like, just get fucked at that point. So that... I think that was a disappointment, but... Oh, I hate this guy. I'm sick of him. Thank you for dying. Promptly dying as soon as I say that. By the way, I have switched to vodka and... If there's any fledgling... I'm gonna pull a Steve Martin here. If there's any fledgling brewer out there, anybody that would like a shout out and you wanna pay in alcohol, in beer, feel free to send me some free... No, that's totally shameless. But still... That's seriously, like, the only time you will ever hear me read a promo or, like, read, like a... This video is brought to you by blah-blah-blah is if it is of a drink and I'm paid in that same drink. And the drink is good. The drink has to be good, too. God damn it. Oh, yeah. I freak... I forgot about that. That looks like it's more... What's his names? Power. You know what I mean? The guy I just faced, Launch Octopus. Seems like it'd be more his... Power-up. Alright, let's not use... There we go. But, yeah, no, it's... I see some of this stuff. You know, I don't wanna name names, but there's people that are like, this is brought to you by Blue Apron. It's like, oh my God, that's so fucking tacky. But, um... Now, the only time... I understand why there are those people who are doing that, and that's good for them, but it's still just... I would be really, really uncomfortable doing that because I'm a terrible salesperson and I only believe... I can't sell anything unless I really genuinely enjoy the product in question myself. Like, in this case, I absolutely love Mega Man X, so it's very easy for me. What is the... Is it Spark? I honestly don't know what the weapon is here. I think it's Spark. No, that's only one... Well, at least it's working. Damn it. Really, you're just gonna hang back and do that? No, yeah, it's... I can sell Mega Man X to somebody. I can sell a really good video game to somebody because I know how to articulate that. You know what I mean? But if it's like... I don't know if anybody out there knows of... the podcast, or just any podcast, really, where the host is like... They go on these little like... Boy, you know, I tried blue apron a long time ago, and boy, it just makes my life so much easier. It's like... Shit, I should probably use a... It's like, come on. I'm not stupid. Don't... Don't be stupid. So what is the... This guy's... I don't think it's Spark, but I'm gonna... God, this guy's pissed off now. Alright, that's used up. Let's just use everything. Who cares? Let's use the X Buster. Am I gonna beat this guy? Shit, he's pissed. There we go. Finally dodged one. Duh! They're varying in speed. How does he do that? There we go. A couple more hits. Out of the way, motherfucker. Ah, no! No, shit! No! Don't! I can't die like this. There we go. Wow, that was close. Oh, that got the dogs upset. Ulysses has come to my rescue. Poor dog. He does not know any better. Okay, what I'm gonna do now is I am going to refill all four of my sub-tanks and I'll meet you back here. I'm not gonna make you sit through that. So, here we go. We are back. As you can see, all four of my sub-tanks are filled up and we are at the end of the game. We are at the last final boss area and it's not even an area. It's just three, well, technically two, I guess, but three fights. Two opponents, three fights. And he warps in here. I guess he learned that technique from Boomer Kawanger. Or did he teach that to Boomer Kawanger? I don't know. Alright, we have to fight a dog unfortunately. I'm a big dog person, so it is with a broken heart that I must wreck this cool-looking dog and use shotgun ice against him. And this is such a great weapon because even if you miss, you still have a chance of hitting him. Oops, I did not mean to do that. And I am doing very poorly. Maybe it's for the best because I kind of don't want to destroy this dog because it's a really cool mecha dog. Mech dog. Android dog. Now we flip to Spark. Okay, if I'm a supervillain and somebody destroys my dog, I'm not going to compliment them on an excellent job, okay? I'm going to be pretty pissed. I'm going to be like, hey, fuck you, you killed my robot dog. You know how cool it is to have a robot dog? Motherfucker. And you wrecked it. Piece of shit. All right, I remember my heart pounding the first time I got to this because I was naive enough to think that this was actually the final boss. Of course it's not the final boss. But I really did think like, whoa, this is the final boss and it's so easy. All he's doing is bouncing on the walls and all I got to do is just like do this. I do find it interesting that he has a lightsaber thingy, just like Zero does, in fact. Although we don't really find out that Zero has that, I don't think, until X3 when we're able to play at Zero. Is that correct? I believe so. Asking a lot of questions here and we're pushing up an hour 30 minutes. Hope somebody out there is keeping track and answering every one of them. That would be appreciated. Yeah, this is surprisingly easy. The next one is just a war of attrition. The next one, I don't know how to dodge or do any of the... I'm not good enough and I'm not fast enough to take on the final boss like in any kind of legitimate way. I just take my damage, use a sub-tank. But yeah, I usually don't need to use a sub-tank on the first two, on either the dog or Sigma, first form Sigma. One more hit should do it and he's got a great death face. Show me that death face. Oh, yeah. Right the fuck on. But here we go. Music change coming up. Oh, shit. Yup, that's right. We switched to rolling shield. And, oh god. Yeah. You can dive very quickly and very suddenly in this battle. Yup, you just stand up here, you take your damage, you take your medicine and you hit them with rolling shield. I think it takes 16... Oh, son of a bitch. Bad timing. 16 hits and just fucking take your hits and thank you. I think that's five times, six times. Shit. Seven times. Not quite halfway through. Damn it. Oh, shit. I'm not doing so good. He's not even halfway done yet. Halfway gone, I should say. Shit. I'm not doing well. Am I gonna do this? This is looking pretty bad. How many is that? Nine, ten. Fuck, down to my last sub-tank. No, that has to be more than ten. He's got one fourth of his life life. He's got like four hits left. One, two, three, four, motherfucker. Eat shit, Sigma. We are done. Very cool. You know, that's a good question. Why did he do that? Why is he cannibalizing his own reploid race? Yeah. Because Dr. Light made him a good guy to serve humanity. Wouldn't that make humanity the bad guys? Well, I don't know. I guess humanity's just trying to pretend. It's kind of fucked up, though. We're gonna use one of your own to fuck you up. Because we can't defend ourselves, I guess. All right, we have a very, very slow scroll here. I mean, Jesus, hit the fast forward button. I wish I was playing on a SNES 9x right now. I'd hold the tab key and just flip right past this and read as I... All right, I'm gonna wait till the top of the screen and then I'm gonna read it. The war has ended for now and peace has been restored, but those who sacrificed themselves for the victory will never return. What? Oh. Exhausted. Exhausted. Ex-gazes at the destruction. He didn't help cause it. He freaking caused it. And wonders why he chose to fight. Was there another way? The game would have been pretty weird if this was like Martin Luther King, like... peaceful marches. Reployed marches on the streets of Mobile, Alabama and stuff. Okay, standing on the cliff, the answers seem to escape him. He's not very smart. He only knows that he'll fight the Mavericks again before he finds his answer. How does he know that? How long will he keep on fighting? How long will his pain last? Wow. Maybe only the X Buster on his hand knows for sure. Peaceful Mega Man. Somebody needs to make that ROM hack. You don't get any weapons. You don't get to kill anything. How would the boss fights go? I guess it would kind of be like an undertale kind of a thing where it's like you negotiate instead of fight and just like talk them out of being violence or something. I really liked that about... Oh, and this is a great... This is like a Super Mario World kind of a touch here too. It only gives the names. It doesn't let you see each enemy, what each enemy is called. It just gives... It's nice that... This is the kind of detail that went into this game. They named each one of these things, even if they're nonsensical names like Death Rogue Goomer. What the hell is that? Dig labor? Hoganmer? Metal C50? Yeah, just give them some numbers and letters or something. That sounds futuristic. Ladder Yatter! Yeah! Planty. The evil plant. Bow Spider. Bow Spider is one of my favorite bosses. Velgarter. That's the... Velgarter. Velgarter, not garter. Ah, yes, of course. We get special treatment for the reploids themselves. It's too bad they don't list them in the order that you beat them, though. That would be a cool touch. But... That is not the case. I like the streetlights they got here on this road. Very futuristic looking. Everybody give a big hand for Sting Chameleon! You know, and after this everybody's gonna come out for a big bow at the end. They're all gonna come to the end of the stage and Mega Man's gonna be thrown given a bouquet of flowers just like a Broadway play. Does Sigma get his own credit? Yes, he does. Him and his shoulder pads. I was so confused when I remember being really stupid as a kid and thinking, I got Sigma confused with M. Bison. I was like, I don't know. Don't ask why. And you as Mega Man X. Well, not you, you. You, me. I'm the guy that fucking beat this game. You goddamn right. Alright. Thank you to Com, Sabori, Saka, and Dewey. Got only four programmers. But, yeah. Shitload of people worked on this game. Yup. Easily one of the five best Super Nintendo games ever made. I mean, the... The obvious ones that go without saying I already said. I guess you could argue Chrono Trigger and send it to those arguments because I'll be busy punching you in the face. You know, just nothing personal. But Mario World's got to be up there. Link to the past. Super Metroid. And Mega Man X. Along with Chrono Trigger. And like I said, I think I guess Donkey Kong Country 2. Yeah, you got to make an argument for Final Fantasy 6. Alright, and that's all. I want to thank you for watching and I hope you have a great rest of your day. Cheers!