in the name of justice!
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I played as both, X first, in X4. There's a fair enough balance between the two so that each one is enjoyable. Zero certainly has an easier time on final Sigma, though.
i haven't finished the mavericks in x4 yet with x (mostly laziness, since i have found most of them, especially dragoon, and naked split mushroom easier with x) but i can certainly see where each character seems to be better, so far. repliforce general in particular was a ridiculous pain with zero for me. i actually heard (from ocremix though, they're a bunch of pansy rpgers, hahahaha ;-) ) that the x4 sigma was harder with zero, but...i have no idea, really. i can't beat him without resorting to praying for the wind blow attack.
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I'm kinda of confused by your three words to Nate though. I stopped at X5 because it sucked ass, and I had heard that the series just kept getting worse near the end, and the combination of the two led me to belive that that would apply to me as well. So I've never played X6. Still, half the reason I thought X5 sucked so bad is that Zero was just so utterly freaking brokenly good. Since when the hell did I beat Mavericks first try? It went far into ridiculous territory. If you thought Zero sucked in X5, I'd hate to see what he's like in X6...
x5 is retarded. the game suddenly gets very difficult at sigma because he can kill you in five hits and his collision is totally bizarre (gogo his running echoes on the ground). other than that, the mavericks are totally pathetic, and the only boss weaknesses that are worth using are squid's, duff's (which is the c-saber) and rosered's. yes, zero is very powerful in x5. but so is x (i reccommend watching the pure speed run...even if it's actually not sixteen minutes long).
basically what i meant by "zero doesn't suck" is "zero is fun to play as." he's been powered up by giving him double jump and air dash right off, but weakened because you have to find and beat him in battle to unlock him, three of his techniques are really bad (but funny anyway. sensuizan is the mega man weapon that you're most likely to kill yourself with, and the hyoroga cannot be used on the boss it's weak against XD), and i am pretty sure his saber slashes more slowly.
there's actually a sort of side-quest in this game where you rescue reploids (like the ones that show up on a couple of stages in x5). they give you extra lives or tanks or parts and also heal you. unfortunately, there's the part about rescuing them...if you wait too long, a nightmare will attach to them and they'll become evil and try and shoot you, and you'll lose whatever they had. after you get rekkoha, at least, zero is a lot better at rescuing them since his mobility is so much better than x's. after you get blade armor (which is 99% necessary for the completion of the game...one boss took me >80 tries with zero) then it swaps again, and x can actually get to more places than zero.
the game does have a ridiculously cheapass ceiling crush stage though, but i don't find it any worse than the bike levels from 4 and 5. main thing is, i think zero is more fun to play in x6 and some of the levels actually let him take advantage of using a sword. the reploid rescue stuff isn't perfectly executed but the parts system is enough fun to justify the collection portions. plus, the game isn't ridiculously easy (though the continue system is the same as x5, which is "too easy" most of the time but is a good thing when you make it to the second to last stage)...three mavericks are way too easy (better than seven way too easy mavericks though) but there are three bosses who, in my opinion, match the three hard x4 bosses (dragoon, repliforce general, and final sigma, all with zero, if you want to laugh at me again haha) in terms of pure evil.
i certainly don't think i can call x6 the "best" mega man (especially seeing as i've only played like...eight of them...haha, "only eight." that's more than the number of metroids or zeldas i've played.) but it's the one that i've enjoyed the most so far. in any case, i reccommend you try it. /me fails at mm2 weaknesses.
edit again: x6's music is like half rawk and all badass.
