End of Heroism: A Mega Man Zero Retrospective
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- The MegaMan Zero/ZX Collection came out, and I've got some things to say about those games. We tackle what I'd call the most ambitious MegaMan subsect, the Zero series. If you thought it was hard when it was blue, just wait till it gets red...
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Timestamps for easy breaks
00:00 Intro
03:38 Zero 1/Gameplay
06:34 Zero 1/Cyber Elves
09:52 Zero 1/Structure
11:40 Zero 1/Story
18:41 Zero 2
27:46 Zero 3/Story
33:22 Zero 3/Gameplay
35:43 Zero 4
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New pin: I wanna say that this is now on my small list of "videos I'll redo" someday. There's just a lot of things that didn't make it from my head to voice properly, could've researched better, and could've analyzed better. Just a lot of "Could've" things that my current standard would do differently. However, I know lots of people like this video, so I'm leaving it up and I'm not putting (OUTDATED) or (OLD) in the title. I feel that would be disingenuous to myself 3.5 years ago, who worked hard on this. Learning to make videos is a journey of improvement, and I'm not gonna erase part of it because I improved.
Yes because the spear is not useless.
I think it's worth noting that Zero is one of the few robots in the entire series under no obligation to follow the laws of robotics. He was purpose built by Wily to be the ultimate Maverick and bane of humanity and other robots alike. While he does follow many of those rules, he does so by choice and doesn't need any kind of mental gymnastics to kill Wiel and it's entirely his own morality that has him make the final choice. One he built for himself from his years with X and others to guide him. It is very fitting that one of the only robots built to break the rules chooses to do so to save the world when any rule abiding reploid might have been trapped. Zero is the only robot who's acting entirely of his own will and making choices without any imposed influence (like the laws being hard programmed in or the maverick virus controlling them) and against his original creator's purpose (X was already intended to be the good boy by design).
This is the way I've always felt about the scene and I wish I explained it better in the video because a lot of people thoguht I meant "Zero can only kill Weil with the law".
Though I do agree with a lot of it, there's one portion that I don't fully agree with "X was already intended to be the good boy by design." X turned into a force for good, not because it was pre-coded into him, but because he was taught it. X had to go into deep sleep where he spent a long time processing morality and that is what ultimately gave him the conscience to do good. Without this, he could just as easily turned bad [see Copy-X for such a scenario]. It is likely that X was not programmed with the laws of robotics to him; ultimately, other reploids have them because they were based on X's designs, but likely implemented older robot technology to be developed as hybrid /X+robots/. Because of that, I'd say that it was X & Zero's relations that ultimately led to them developing their sense of morality and, even, consciousness.
@@sangdrako I didn't say that X was hard programmed to be good or that he had the laws coded into him. What I meant was that the long processing period light used to instill in him a sense of morality already shoved him down the road of being a good and moral person. It was essentially the road already laid out for him by the design of Light. I do think that X, Zero and all reploids seem to have their own conscience and are making decisions for themselves at least usually (reploids maybe forced into actions sometimes by the laws for example). For example, Craft is bound by the laws but has his own will and morals and uses them to bend the laws to his own goals. To compare X, Zero and Reploids, it would be like this. Zero is like a kid born to a criminal family. He was taught evil as a child but got arrested, came out joined the police and turned himself around. X is like the kid who was raised by good moral parents and already was told what was right and his family and dad already guided him to being an upright police officer. He still has agency and choice and could go bad, but he had the upbringing and family that made being good the natural route. Then Reploids are like people drafted into the police. Like it or not they have to obey.
Not quite. Beginning with the X Series, the traditional Robot Masters of the classic series were replaced with the reploids. Based on X, who along with zero (both of which are not properly classified, both being more that just mere robots but also not Reploids), started as entirely free thinking, emotional machines that have no need to follow the Asimov laws. Cain reproduced those capabilities in a new series of machines he called reploids. However unlike Dr Light, he did not put his Creations through a rigorous testing phase to make sure they were mentally stable. Yes, this does mean that Dr Cain was a complete and total idiot.
@@MadnessHEROReverend The Zero series at least seems to disagree with this idea. The reploids that are not maverick seem to be under some obligation to obey the laws otherwise Craft would not have had to do his mental gymnastics to fire ragnarok. Wiel's taunts also make no sense if Zero should not be assumed to be at least impeded in some way by an obligation not to hurt humans regardless of how correct a decision it is. Reploids going maverick is also typically due to something going wrong with their operation or infection rather than a free choice of their own. Otherwise the next gen reploids of X8 would not be noteworthy for their ability to freely become maverick.
It's ironic that Wily, who was dead set on destroying or ruling the world instead saved it with his masterpiece. A robot that doesn't obey the rules of robotics was able to kill a human in order to do so. That said, he had so many robotic parts that it could be argued that he was no longer human.
Zero also served his purpose as well since he was made to kill X. So that was some serious foreshadowing.
That’s what I realized myself. Wily made Zero to surpass the original Mega Man, and he did, by becoming the greatest Mega Man ever.
There’s this nice subtle detail during the Phoenix Magnion fight that shows how draconian Neo Arcadia has become. Colonel is lumped in with Vile, Agile, and Bit.
Weil was an hypocrite and a egoist to the very end; he wanted robots to submit to humanity during the war, and did many evil things in order to fulfill that ideal, all of which he was severely punished for. Then, he wanted exact revenge on humanity for having punished him in the first place, thinking that all he did was for the best and that he wasn't wrong at all.
A rotten bastard through and through, and I love it. Probably the best villain in the entire Megaman universe by far.
Yeah. I cried a lot when zero died though...
@@arishkhan5918 s.a.m.e.
Thats Copy X for me, mostly because it enhances X by showcasing what would have happened without Light's foresight
Weil is fine but after Wily, Serges and then Isoc, I'm fed and done with Wily having expies or memetic successors
@@Sukaiba69 Weil transcends Willy's madness with ease, specially since their ideals are opposite. Willy always wanted robots to be praised as heroes of humanity and the pillars that would rise humanity as a whole. Weil, on the other hand, found Reploids not only extremely dangerous (since they can always become criminals/mavericks by choice), but he also saw them only as tools for humans, second class citizens.
Willy's final answer to prove his point on how robots could be heroes was Zero, a Robot Master capable of infinitelly evolving and that also works as protector of humanity by being the natural enemy of everything derived from Dr Light's technology. Did he predict everything? Most probably not, but he may have expected that just like at his present time, the future would use more of Dr Light's design over his, so Zero would always be the answer when a problem comes out of something from Dr Light.
Now, Weil, his answer to the threat that free willed reploids represented was simply starting what would be the most violent conflict in all of human story, with 60% of human population ans 90% of reploid population being killed in the process in just the period of 4 years. Weil literally brought a apocalipse to the world and if it wasn't for Zero and X to put an end to this, the numbers would be higher.
@@ilucasz The worst part is knowing Weil started said war just to spite X. Wily wanted proper recognition, but Weil just said f*ck you to pacifism.
It's really ironic how Weil died by his own creation because (spoiler warning) Rockman X Dive revealed Weil is the one who actually made Zero's copy body to put Omega in but ended up using Zero's original body instead.
The fact that Zeros consciousness can come back after a few hundred years and pretty much solo a war or two, in a spare body, against multiple generations of advancement. Dr. Wily was cooking
Facts
FunFact: Zero 4 original started life as a prequel set between 1 and 2, much of the gameplay ( like Z-knuckle) was made with that story in mind
I'm Zero 4's biggest fan and even I didn't know this. It explains so much, and while I adore the finished product we got, I can't help but want to see this version of the game. Scrounging for parts, salvaging weapons from your enemies, a single fairy as your only companion...could've been some very heavy stuff.
biggest gripe about z4 is the forced element on ex skill. i want to combo without the elemental drawback
@@kassmalz2069 that’s ironically something that i prefer. i thought it was annoying having to go to the menu in the previous 3 games to switch elemental chips, having all of the element attacks available at hand was convenient. though overall i’d agree yeah, the option to toggle elements would be better overall
@@kassmalz2069 Which later followed with OX in the ZX games.
The spear in Zero one is not useless it is actually the MOST situational weapon to kill easily X final form on the first Megaman Zero 🤣 😂
i tried. it dont work. the i-frames are too long
It's big for people that like to combo
Quick couple things on zero 3. First, the Satalite elves, the ones you equip, DON'T effect your rank, you can use them without drawbacks. Second the cyberspace doors, those green doors, when entered activate pretty much all your cyberelves at once temporarily, without sacrificing them. This automatically applies the max cyber elf penalty to rank for that stage. And finally, as a random aside, the original zero 3 could connect with battle network 4 and had an exclusive z saber chip to trade to it. Doing so would change cyber space enemies into battle network enemies
That first point I noticed somewhat recently when trying for some S ranks (keep in mind this video is a little over a year old). I was unaware of the 2nd two points. Probably because I only ever had Zero 1 and 2 on GBA and played the rest later on DS. Plus I'm yet to play many of the BN universe games. Just BN1 and SF1.
The second point is untrue, you don't take the maximum Elf Penalty, rather you lose 5 points off your Mission score category(unless you fought Hidden Phantom, beating him refunds your penalty on that stage)
Fun fact, Zero series were suppose to end on 3rd part. But company saw how good this series were selling, so they literally forced creator to make 4th part. Even if Creator told that he wanted to end it on 3rd part.
Really? I heard that zero 1 through 3 didn’t sell great. 1 only sold half a million and 2 and 3 sold even poorer. I thought the reason they did it was similar to the X6 thing where capcom wanted to do a capcom and force another game out. Only difference being that I actually like zero 4. I thought it was partially fan out cry and a desire for a proper conclusion in inti creates which lead to zero 4 being created.
Ok but that's a lie.
Do you really
*REALLY*
think that inafune, the guy who kept trying to make zero die or seal himself away for the Zero series to start, would end his own series on a cliffhanger with Copy X and the Guardians dead and getting no retribution, Weil still at large, and Project Omega being a success despite Omega himself dying?
@@CassiusStelar How is it a lie when Takuya Aizu, CEO of Inti Creates and game director of the Zero series himself admitted that they really didn't want to develop 4 until Capcom intervened?
"After we finished creating Zero 3, we actually didn’t want to create a fourth game. Scenario-wise, the story was complete in our minds, and we felt the ending to Zero 3 was a really clean way of completing the scenario. But then Capcom approached us to create another game in the series.
Our initial plan was to create a game which was basically Mega Man Zero 1.5, a story between 1 and 2. That was our way of compromising. But, Capcom wanted us to create a true Zero 4 instead of 1.5, so we started to rethink things. We're happy with the result - the game we created is very satisfying, in our opinion.
But we also decided at that point that we didn't want to create a Mega Man 5, so what did we do? We killed Zero off, so we wouldn’t have to make a fifth game." - Takuya Aizu
Source: www.vg247.com/companions-through-life-and-death-the-story-of-inti-creates-and-mega-man
it got a 4th largely due to fans wanting a conclusion to all the neo arcadia and Weil business. the games didn’t sell a particularly large volume
@@CassiusStelarYeah that was my first thought the story would've been incomplete.
There seems to be a flaw in your logic about some of the story beats: Reploids aren't bound by the laws of robotics; the intro of Megaman X makes that very clear, even explicitly states that. That's a big reason why X was put in stasis and had computers monitoring him, to ensure he'd be safe to go out among humans
So I disagree with how I presented my point in the past year, but I don't entirely disagree with the points I was trying to make. I'm just gonna copy paste what I said to someone else:
Zero himself never had to follow them. He often chose to as that's what was expected of him, which is part of why he didn't fight Weil in Zero 3. It's not that he ran numbers through his head preventing him from killing Weil, he just chose to adhere to it.
Zero's use of the 0th law was more to justify his actions, rather than it being a program preventing him from killing Weil without it.
Mega Man X as well is not programmed to adhere to the laws, but given how X is a good boy we can assume he'd never break the laws anyway.
I should've explained my line of reasoning way better in the video but I was still pretty new with making this stuff.
@@NovaZoneTV I can get behind that entirely, thanks for taking the time to clarify what you meant😁
Among.....us?!😳☝️🤡🤪🤫😂😩🕺🤸
Says zero 1’s weapons are bad and situational.
*Magnus Zero wants to know your location*
The issue with the laws of robotics is that reploids are no longer beholden to them. That is why they are called reploids and not robots. It doesn't matter if Weil is more machine than human, Zero never needed to perform mental gymnastics to kill him.
Man, what a rush of nostalgia. Mega Man Zero 4 was my first ever Mega Man game before getting addicted to the Battle Network series. I never thought they were insanely hard but that might've been just because they were my first.
Also, I feel like people don't give these games enough credit for having such unique character designs. Every little piece of armor and detail on the characters just makes me more curious about the world. Some of that concept art of damaged Zero and the other characters is just absolutely inspired.
I was introduced to the mainline Mega Man games by Mega Man Zero 4 (unfortunately that meant that when I went back to play through the whole story I knew how it ended the whole time) The battle network series was my introduction into Mega Man as a whole though. Actually gaming as a whole for that matter.
I first got into megaman when I watched the original megaman Anime from the 90's, and my first actual game was Megaman zero 1.
I got the collection on the DS a long time ago, could never beat it, didn't know what was going on, but it was really fun.
Zero is one of my all-time favorite characters in media, and the Zero series is phenomenal. Great video dude!
Same
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He’s a legend. Literally.
I always wanted Elpizo and Craft to show up in the ZX series as Model E (with a rapier based on the recoil rod) and Model C (with a freaking bayonetted bazooka). Also, is no one ever going to mention how Elpizo is a misspelling, and that his name was supposed to be Elpis, named after the Greek goddess of hope?
I remember playing with the 4th game as a kid and it was so damn hard. Now that I revisit this game again, I'm actually sad with how Zero has to die to save the everyone.
some good triple rod spots:
- anubis necromancess can be taken out if you manip him to the left side (stand on left during pillar phase, let him spawn on right, and attack him when he floats over to the left.
- mechaniloid (you can bounce on the top weakpoints)
- pogo section in neo arcadia stages
- train boss
- factory octo boss thing
- skipping the cameras in the factory, you can skip going all the way to the first platform (the beam thing with rolling spikes) by pogoing on the weird circle drone things.
but the recoil rod is basically a better triple rod either way. check out magnus zero if you want to learn some mmz tech
Thank you for giving the triple rod more credit. It's not as useless as people say.
Triple Rod is awesome in the level where you have to rescue the reploid in the desert. You can pogo on the spike traps and the whirlpool machines, or just use a downward diagonal thrust. But overall, there's a reason that they kept switching it out for new variations throughout the games.
The funny thing is that, I' not sure that zero used the "0th law" in that last instance. I'm not even sure he was ever programmed to follow the laws of robotics.
It's a bit more complicated than I had said it. Zero himself never had to follow them. He often chose to as that's what was expected of him, which is why he didn't fight Weil in Zero 3. It's not that he ran numbers through his head preventing him from killing Weil, he just chose to adhere to it.
Zero's use of the 0th law was more to justify his actions, rather than it being a program preventing him from killing Weil without it.
Mega Man X as well is not programmed to adhere to the laws, but given how X is a good boy we can assume he'd never break the laws anyway.
@@NovaZoneTV Zero didn't fight Weil in Zero 3 not because he choose to, but because Weil manage to hobbled to safety before Zero had the chance. And in 3's final battle, Weil let Omega did the heavy while he sat back and enjoyed the show.
31:40 Actually the laws of robotics doesn't apply to Reploids since they are fully sentient beings and all that Maverick trouble began because some Reploids deliberately started to think themselves as superior to humans. The reason Weil states he is a human is because although Zero doesn't remember his past, he still has his moral compass and always fought to protect humanity and those who couldn't fight from harm. If Weil is a human, that means Zero would be harming a civilian, at least on theory.
I think the superiority complex only occurred starting sigma. I believe it was explained somewhere that Dr Cain couldn't fully understand Dr light's schematic for X and could not create perfect replicates, and thereby reploids went maverick in a manner not unlike people with mental illness.
18:53 not exactly. majority of neo arcadian didnt know copy X is dead in end of z1 but it was publicly shown by weil in z3 so he can have the highest seat in neo arcadia
Reploids don't have to follow the Laws of Robotics. This is explained in the intro to X1 that everyone skips. They're really just metal people who don't age. This is why the Maverick Hunters existed, some Reploids chose to hurt people and the humans responded by sentencing the accused to death.
Zero is down to kill Weil in Zero 3, he just siccs Omega on you and he blows everything up before you can get to Weil.
Craft is just taking desperate measures to kill Cyber Hitler.
Each time I replay Zero 1 I like the triple rod a little more and I'll even call it underrated these days
Became my best friend when I played hard mode so I'm eternally grateful for it
I've found some more uses for it since the video. I still stand that it's the least useful secondary weapon between Zero 1-3.
Though of course, the different ways you can go about a stage with the tools given is one of my favorite parts of every MM series. So you having use for it just further shows how deep the mechanics are.
Triple Rod is so good, you can get a ton of use out of the pokes in ways the Saber and Rang just can't
The Triple Rod is a long range combo machine with plenty of utility simply because it can reach angles that the Z Saber never could. It is baffling that people think it is useless or bad at all. The extended hits can actually rack up damage on bosses since the invincibility frames it deals are extremely light. The charge attack can be combined with the initial Z Saber slashes in some cases to dish out a lot of damage very quickly. My favorite part is the aerial downward stab that allows you to bounce off enemies as if you were playing as Mario. It is certainly more of a precursor to the Recoil Rod than the Chain Rod, and I find the Triple Rod to be better than both the Chain Rod and the Zero Knuckle. Chain Rod is too clunky, weak and situational in its design in my opinion. It does not blend in with the high speed gameplay of the Zero games nearly as well as the Triple Rod.
Elpizo: I did it! I destroyed the legendary X!
Zero and the player: What's that? Your free trial of life as ended AND your triggered your self destruct system and you need me to make it go faster?
Elpizo: AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Narrator: That screaming wasn't from the transformation it's realization finally clicking in and Elpizo just realized how screwed he is.
The 'hundreds of years' timeskip was never retconned. It's stated both in earlier games and in Z4 that it's been 100 years since the space station that caused Area Zero crashed into earth. Just FYI
I still ascribe to 100 years, but promo material for Zero ZX collection stated hundreds of years. I don't know if it's a mistake from marketing or a legitimate change, but I really just felt the need to mention it.
There’s this nice subtle detail during the Phoenix Magnion fight that shows how draconian Neo Arcadia has become.
Isn’t it where they lump the colonel with the likes of Vile and Agile in Phoenix’ ghost attack?
@@todd2.08
Eeyup.
anyone who makes a 45 minute video about megaman gets my subscription
Dude I love your videos dude ! Please make more of these also, you have a nice voice and explain things so well
Nice video my man. This series is great and needs more exposure. In fact I'm gonna do my own retrospective soon
and another note on the final fight of Z4 is that killing him would stop the comet too which is why it was done then and there
8:45 kind of a trip to hear someone say out loud a random thought I'll have once in a while
Technically, Phantom does have an Element
It's just not an Element Chip based power
He is a Shadow Element fighter
It's cool you used Drama CD audio
Fun Fact:
Harpuia is using Aztec Falcon's deactivated Corpse as a Viecle
Rated E for Everyone people 😰
I regret not dedicating time to talking about the drama cds. Spent a long time writing about the Gunvolt CDs for a video I'm working on about that though.
Fantastic video, Roman!
I’d like them to port the boktai series and lunar knights to a collection on the switch
Would be nice, but those games will likely remain a relic of the GBA era. The solar sensor is a big part of those games.
@@MrPSaun i mean they could still make the cart work of of the camera in the system or make a modification to the cartrige but yes i think thats whats gonna happen too.
As stupid as the weapon leveling system in Zero 1 and 2 are in the gameplay sense, they at least make THEMATIC sense. Zero has mild amnesia in the first game and got beaten down to a pulp over the course of a year before Zero 2. The weapon leveling system is an ingame way of simulating Zero's memory being recovered by way of getting proficient with his weaponry over the course of battle, with it being gone by Zero 3 (and also the whole amnesia plot being dropped and Zero getting a bit more talkative) meaning we got our boi back fully.
This may be a hot take, but the original version of Departure hits in a way that no remix or remaster can.
"A melee weapon that's worse than the Z-Saber"
Shut up, Hammerloid was my best friend during the final boss
A underlying constant theme throughout the Megaman series is everyone’s consistent under-appreciation of the truly complex nature of sentience.
As philosophers will tell you, existence is pain. Awareness is pain. Life is suffering, and fighting off suffering, including death, is what causes people to choose violence. Choosing otherwise requires wisdom, maturity, experience and empathy. Development of sentience and subsequent maturity takes decades, and that process is wrought with complex and painful emotions. Giving individuals significant power during this nascent time often tempts them to choose violence. You wouldn’t give a gun to a troubled teenager. This is why Light puts X into a 30 year test period, to properly develop his sentience and ensure the development of empathy, pacifism, and compassion without direct constraint from the Laws of Robotics. This is also why Rock and Roll started out as children after the loss of Protoman: time to learn and grow. Literally no other robot master or reploid throughout the entire series gets this. Humanity kept creating reploids with specialized powers and burdens them with huge responsibilities right from the get-go, providing them only with memories and information from other reploids, thinking that’s enough. The New Generation reploids from X8 and Copy X are all excellent examples of how immature reploids granted immense power from the start without time to have their own experiences will always choose violent actions as their solutions. They’re impatient. It’s not simply being infected with a virus that causes them to turn against humanity, it’s their vulnerability to the idea in the first place. The young and naive are always easy to radicalize.
A good comparison would be Mewtwo from the first Pokemon movie, granted immense power at birth and immediately chose violence against everyone he met because his creators never taught him how to, or let him, process his sadness and anger after witnessing the death of Amber. The scientists only ever saw him as an experiment, not an intelligent sentient being with real emotions.
If reploids were treated like actual sentient individuals that needed time to learn and grow, like human children, instead of given specialized abilities and immense powers from the get go, their world would have been a much more peaceful place.
So I recently did grind out the Buster and Saber to max level in a fresh Z1 playthrough (which took literally two hours of farming a large group of enemies in the opening stage) and I find it kinda hilarious that I got enough E-crystals in the process to max out all the Elves in Z2 according to amount you stated but it wasn't even close to enough to do so in Z1. Man that was so poorly thought out in the first game. Even with all that farming out of the gate I still likely wouldn't have near enough to max out most of them in Z1 by the end without a lot more grinding. Z2 you could max out most of them by end game if you bothered to max out your weapons and that took way less grinding than Z1 to begin with.
Z1 grinding just sucks. Not even any sugar coating to give towards it. Just not fun.
Wel it is theorized that the reason why X games past Rockman X6 aren't mentioned in the ZERO series is because ZERO's ending in X6 is the beginning of a split timeline
I recommend you look up the speedrun and combo videos to see the Triple Rod in action.
Great vid!
Thanks for the input Liam. I really appreciate it. I hope this inspired you to buy some swords.
32:25 As much as I’d love to see Zero’s X design when fighting Omega, I do love how his outer shell is a warped reflection of said design. The horns, his shoulder pads, his boots, even the placement of his beam saber, everything about Omega’s design screams Zero before we even see his real body.
P.S., X5>X4? My man. 🤝
Quite a few DS and 3DS games have been ported to systems with a single screen. Final Fantasy III,Knights in the Nightmare,Sushi Striker,The World Ends With You, Rune Factory 4,Monster Hunter Generations, The Alliance Alive,Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars,Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance, and Resident Evil Revelations.
Yeah, I was meaning a bit more in terms of ports that still had both screens visible. I wrote a bit more originally since the script talked about ZX in the first outline but cut it when I cut ZX discussion. Though that video will now finally release within the next 2 weeks if nothing goes wrong.
35:05 Entering Cyberspace activates certain elves you have so you can have perks like more health or damage reduction etc. I guess it isn't noticeable since you already have a big health bar.
I haven't even finished this video, but after watching X MaverickHunter rip through a ton of stages with the rod, what you said around the 5min mark seems sacrilegious
"Who is this mysterious light that gave Zero his legendary saber"
Me: Oh the night that has a *Huge X on it.*
Dude it's totally Layer!
I never played the originals, so I just got the games and I wanted to understand the grind systems, and your video was very helpful.
lmao, thanks I guess. Never planned on this video to be used as any kind of tutorial 😅
This game is hard as shit so have fun
@@lewissteward65 Is Jakez your dad?
@@lewissteward65 I finished 1,Copy X was hard since I didn't use any Cyber elves during my playthrough since grinding sucks.
To be fair I don’t it’s the 0 law he used Zero is a maverick he isn’t actually bound the laws of robotics he chooses to follow them but he doesn’t have to
I thought this over the past few days actually because I'm finally working on the ZX video.
I do think the 0th law is important to this instance, but more important is close to your line of thinking. Reploids have never had to follow those rules. They think freely and have only chosen to do as such. Even if Zero has been labelled a Maverick, he's only ever done what's right. Which has more often than not been to not harm humans.
Since Zero 3 stressed the laws of robotics I chose to explain Zero 4s plot through that lens, but there's definitely more to it than just that.
The triple rod is actually one of my favorite weapons it takes a lot of skill to use but to a master of the games it’s an amazing tool. I’d reference magnus zero’s challenge for this his content uses the triple rod a lot more than you’d think
"All my efforts have been for _not"_
Um, I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be "naught".
this is only the second guy i've seen that doesnt call zero's new body an "artstyle change"
I think I can now put Z3 above Z4 in my own tier list, but Z4 to me is a very close second. Perhaps because it caters well to players who are more used to the X series, what with the 8-boss layout and being guaranteed a special technique by beating the 8 bosses (given the right weather condition). The crafting part doesn't bother me that much because I played X8 first.
I have just started trailblazing the MMZ hacking scene. I released "Revisited" versions of MMZ1 and MMZ2 which drastically cut down the grinding and make the mission grading system slightly more fair, not punishing you for using the cyber elves. I'm hoping I can do more in the near-future.
The Zero series is probably one of my favorite games series of all time.
Missed opportunity when doing the iori laugh in SvC chaos. Should have been blue iori killing zero himself.
Greatest retelling of Pinocchio
'Strap on some gloves' idk why but that got to me. I like your humour under quarantine lol, can't wait for your ff7 vid!
The Triple Rod is kinda fun tho even if it's very underpowered. You can even do like a pogo jump on enemies with it.
how the fuck did i beat these games when i was 8
8 year old you be lime hehehehe action reply/gameshark hehehehe
Nice☝️ Zero series is goated I swear.
Unrelated but, Skillet’s songs unironically fit well with the theme of MMZ
Fuckin Bryce in the beginning got me lmaoooo
Omega Zero is using the Body Zero had during the Elf wars
Every piece of first hand content I've engaged with implies or straight up says it's Zero's OG body/same one he used during the Elf Wars. So it's either an artistic/graphical limitation reason for the body looking different, or Weil made modifications to it.
Wouldn't be the first time Zero's frame, as made by Dr. Wily, was modified. His X1 design is pretty different from his X2 onwards look, and that's still Zero's body.
it's just f the art style change they went with for the Zero games. Omega is Zeros "Body" from X5 with the Sigma virus and the Zero we are controlling is the one who snapped out of it and killed Sigma and dies at the end of X5 hence why at the start of Zero 1 Zero is missing his bottom half of his body and his right arm as that's where Inafune intended X to stop
@@ciregoku Source: It was revealed to me in a dream
I remember being depressed beyond all heck when I saw Ceil crying.... Yeah, Zero3 was my favorite.
Honestly Megaman zero is actually one of my favorite Mega Man spin offs Ashley and the franchise itself
Mega Man Zero isn't a spin off
At some point we really gotta wonder if Dr Light shoulda just let Wily have a partner's desk and be done with it.
All this over a Double Gear system
I still have all the zero gba games 🔥🔥🔥
W spice choice
Anyone who's played Super Metroid will recognize that space station.
Megaman zero 3 is such an underrated masterpiece
Though my favorite game storywise is 1 and 4 1 just feels so depressing to a certain extent.
Buildings feel old and there are so many relics of the past wars amd especially the music.
Despite the game being in the future it feels desolate and post apocalyptic.
Im pretty sure Mega Man Zero 3 is a lot of peoples favorite MMZ game lol
For me it goes 3, 1, 4, 2
It's not underrated, everyone widely accepted the fact that it's the perfect game 👀
The zero series was legendary
you don't need to play hard mode to unlock ultimate mode, just collecting all the cyber elves feeding them, and finishing the game(z1 and z2), all secret disks(z3), and getting every part to create chips while upgrade your cyber elf to maximun (z4) and can be done on just normal
NOTE: in megaman zero 1 do not use the cyber elves before getting jackson, a secret cyber elf than only appear when you collect the cyber elves and finish the game, only after getting that last one you can use then and finish the game again, if you use one elf you won't get the ultimate form even if you collect them all afterwards won't work
1:18 the zero series was rereleased on wii u virtual console
Well, I'm still 2/6ths right ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I haven't played this since the GBA but I vaguely remember you can get boss abilities if you get an S rank on the results screen. want to say you can't get hit by the boss either. I remember freaking on my replay when I got an ability chip or whatever they called
In Zero 2 and Zero 3 you get special attacks for achieving an A or S rank. No other stipulations.
@@NovaZoneTV ohhh. I haven't played it since early 2000s in middle school. I thought I was wrong somewhere
I only wish there where a widescreen mod for the z zx collection :T
fing gameboy screen is too small, everything is too close
Man your sub count is waaayyy too low for the quality content you make. Just stumbled on your channel from my random Megaman nostalgia browsing and now I'm just binging your stuff
You have very good taste in anime
I don't remember what anime I referenced besides Seinfeld in this video but I will trust it was only good ones. Because I'd never (publicly admit to) watch(ing) bad anime.
whats the background music in 4:09
The Seinfeld theme
12:30 .......saauuucceeeeee!!!
Bro, im thinking about it all my life, is there a chance to Zero came back?
One time he had a hole in his torso and no lower body, but he "hid himself so he could repair himself". So using logic to revive Zero is long out the window. Zero can come back to life if Capcom sees money in it.
i see neptunia and megaman. i click subscribe
Loved the first game. Plot and all. I'm not a fan of the simp comparison. He is being a good friend while helping those weaker than himself. Zero is, in a way, returning the favor to X.
Something never understand Reploids are based of X and X uses solar energy to function. Why in the future they short of energy???
2:15 Top Tier Joke.
13:33 i lost it hahahahha
to this day I'm still surprised how I managed to beat all zero game at 10 y.o lol
I am convinced that the stables of the megaman... Stables decisions... Yeah, not good for wording here... I mean, the stage select option was manly for the MAIN SERIES, you see, ALL SPIN-OFFS, INCLUDING MEGAMAN&BASS HAD A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO THIS FEATURE. So it is not hard to imagine that far that does not feature MegaMan or X as the main protagonist had the unfortunate decision to not have that and the fans spoke and zero 2 fix MANY ISSUES from the first game and glad it worked bcz ooooh boy
I approve…
"The Z-rod is the useless weapon of the game, slow and useless"
Me: ~looks at the video of that one guy that screw every boss with the Z-rod~
departure:haha yes get slashed
Honestly dunno why someone hasn't made a mod for Z1 and 2 to remove or max out the weapons levels immediately.
Well at least you'll end up an unintentional badass in Contra if you master Megaman Zero. I once played Contra hard corps and ended up mastering fucking Sayuri the supposed hardest character in the game. Simply because she played just like Zero did.
I luv Zero
"(The Triple Rod) is the most useless weapon in the series"
High level players: _Pathetic._
He didn't mention the hidden phantom fight
Play hard mode for all the games and trust me, zero 4 will shoot back up to first place
3:27 x9 rumor start around 2008-20010 so 10 years at this point
when mighty no.9 came out I though Capcom want to troll me with the 9 number
me a quite a numbers of my friends do not like it 1 bit because of it. i just don't know that you just heard about it or it happen again for like the 5th times already
X9 rumors have come and gone since Mega Man 9 released. I wrote that video near when X Dive came out in Japan which caused X9 rumors to peak again.
Is Mega Man 6 one of your favorites too? I love that game.
It's up there. I replayed the NES ones earlier this month and I'm thinking it might be 2nd place after 4 for me. I need to replay 9 and 10 though.
@@NovaZoneTV Haha, my three favorites are 4, 6, and 10! The omission of sliding sucks for 9 and 10, but they're both great still. 10 might just have bias because of playable Bass but 4 and 6 are definitely my favorites of the first 8.
@@evilevie87 The classic series jumps in my ranking more than the X and Zero games, but my recent thought is:
4>6>9=10=2>7>1>3>8>5 for the classic series.
I haven't played 11 since release weekend so I don't wanna add it but strong contender for 3rd place.
@@NovaZoneTV Oh yeah, 11 is way up there for me too. And I definitely have 3 pretty low. Kind of a frustrating game. I actually played most Megaman games in order, so it was definitely an interesting experience playing the first one first.
Satellite elves dont drop your rank in mmz3