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« on: August 04, 2011, 07:16:25 AM »
The plot was far from mediocre- and Gate is probably one of the best characters in the series, and was incredibly fleshed out.
Blade certainly cant top Falcon;s free flight, but for the game, Mach Dash works just fine. Its helpful in Gate's stages. Especially since you can just sit there in midair if you need to calculate your move a bit more.
Shadow armor is definitely better than Gaea however. For one, it isnt big bulky and slow. Second, while it is just as short ranged as Gaea was, it's regular shots have normal range (although as spread shots). It also lets you high jump, stick to the roof, and fire downwards from it.
X5 is not without it's own problems... Mainly the power up distribution, which forced you to evenly distribute certain power ups between X and Zero.
X6 however, lets you fully power one character. The chip system in X6 is also improved from X5, making the chips equip to the character, not the armor, and increasing the max quantity. Although it now works by rank determining how many you can equip.
Zero's resurrection isnt as cheap as you think, when you take into consideration what the game actually tells you about it. (Zero admits to Light that he does not know who repaired him, and Isoc claims to have seen Zero alive)
It certainly is no cheaper than Zero's death by boss explosion in X5 REGARDLESS of his actual proximity to the explosion.
It was also the first X game to give us an antagonist that WASN'T Sigma pulling the strings.