... Is Inta Creates was founded by a bunch of former Capcom employees who worked on, I believe, the Mega Man X series. Right. ...
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I am your host, Nadia Oxford, and I'd like to talk to you all about the fourth and last entry in the Mega Man Zero series. With me today to do this really cool metallic, robotic, etc. task
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... [♪♪♪] I am your host, Nadia Oxford, and I'd like to talk to you all about the fourth and last entry in the Mega Man Zero series. With me today to do this really cool metallic, robotic, etc. task where I've just kind of scrounged up other Mega Man experts. So let's go around the table. First, it's our own Stuart Gipp. Hi, Stuart. Thanks for joining me. Oh, hello. Hello. It's Stuart Gipp, actually. I'm sorry. ...
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... And now people are kind of coming around to, "Oh, okay, maybe being Neo Arcadia is not such a good thing," and fleeing and rediscovering nature. And you've got the path to the more brighter future of Mega Man ZX. And this is kind of like a midpoint between what Mega Man Zero was in 1-3 and that. ...
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... There's the samples in it are great and really suit the zone. Mega Man X2's composer was Yuki Iwai. Oh, okay. ...
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... I don't freaking know. But he wrote to, was it the Mega Man Network saying, "Stop calling me an evil scientist" because you wrote an article for Mega Man Network saying, "Oh, the evil scientist, Dr. Weil is in Mega Man 04," blah, blah, blah. ...
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the colony Eurasia did fall and hit the earth and devastate the region. The only thing that could make me love 04 more is if they had canonized a different X5 ending. I would have loved what that would have done to Mega Man fandom for years to come. But I think this is a great setup. I love that. It's just using a set piece from a previous X game to set this all up. Yeah, I love that. ...
00:58:02 - 00:59:18
because what the zero knuckle does is on specific enemies. You can just grab them and you'll steal their weapon. Yeah. I freaking love that because it is just, did you ever watch the Ruby Spears Mega Man cartoon back in the day? Of course. I got your power. Exactly. It is finally that and like game form in the truest sense. Just like reach out, grab an enemy and take their weapon. ...
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them in English version of the game, unfortunately. It's called the songs called Frisia. And yes, she'll just kind of cries there for a little while as the wind goes through the the trees. And it's actually I think that the credits are all in all in kanji. It was it's kind of unusual. Okay, according to Mega Man knowledge base, they say unlike the North American GBA version, the Mega Man zero collection uses the Japanese vocal ending. ...
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... Well, for the, I guess relevant stuff, I run the mm network.com, which is the Mega Man network and the mm network on socials. So you can find me talking about or sharing Mega Man stuff there. ...
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exactly where he's going. Yeah. Uh, before we move on, I want, uh, bring up one other thing, kind of, uh, actually a commonality here between two themes that, uh, Nadia and Victor were talking about. Tech crack in would be another one of those, uh, extra prizes. Cause there was volt crack in AKA squid at learn Mega Man X five who had a connection, as I recall to Octopardo or watch octopus from X one. So yeah, I love, I love a robot cephalopod. So you must love mad Nautilus from a command mission. Yeah. Love him.…
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... This was actually supposed to be a 20th anniversary episode, but it got kicked down the line. So happy 21st anniversary to Mega Man Zero Four. We love you. ...
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... Like Zero One art is neat, but it was also like a lot kind of grainier and sketchier than I used to from Mega Man. And it just like felt gradually like more and more polished, like as the Zero series went on and onward into ZX. ...
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... Yes, we are the Mavericks because Maverick is just a political designation to determine who you as a people should be. They started exploring that in Mega Man X4 and just dropped it. ...
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cool arc. It's incredible. It does add something I think. And you know, undubs, as they call them, roms are available, but obviously don't download them for Christ's sake. You know, you're not allowed, but they're out there and easy to find. I know it didn't sell very well compared to the other collections, but the Mega Man Zero ZX legacy collection, most of the legacy collections have like, let you play the English or Japanese versions. So that might be possible there. I'm not sure. It is 100%. Great. Yeah. Uh,…
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... Well, X, even like Ghost X, he's got his robe. He's got his halo, like he's truly, yeah, absolutely. He's absolute Jesus, especially in the Mega Man X manga, sorry, Rockman X manga, by Iwamoto. Literally, the one story that became kind of a breakout meme with the bit screaming Merry Christmas as X, who is crucified, is like, he thinks he's killed, but no, he's resurrected because he's X. And it says clearly, blatantly in the manga, that like, we celebrate X the way we celebrate Jesus Christ on the birth of, you…
01:31:40 - 01:32:14
no, nothing's okay. Nothing's ever going to be okay, ever. It's it's it's just dope as hell, to be honest. The whole finale of this game is dope as hell. I love it. It really is. I actually really liked the last battle I like to fight with. I should mention actually, this is a little bit we'll talk a little bit about the the bridge between classic Mega Man and Mega Man X, which is the elf wars. David, you probably have a better memory of this than I do. How would you describe the elf wars? Wow. Okay, so Dr.…
01:49:16 - 01:49:50
resolution. It's clearly not it's just kind of reminds me of the face on on the moon. Yeah. Yeah, face face on Mars stuff. That's really Mars. We really want the thing though. No, they did not want to leave an out. They did not want to make a zero five. They've said like, no, we killed zero because we're done. We're done with this. Like we're not we don't want to do Mega Man zero five. This is ending the series. So when people started like spotting phantom zeros like in the background or whatever, you just know…
01:02:54 - 01:03:29
uh, high ranking the game, if you don't feel like you want to, I guess, uh, you can now get the EX abilities, uh, just by clearing the stage on the more difficult mode rather than doing something, keeping your ranking up, which is much harder to do. Yeah. If, if, if you don't have anything to prove, um, then you can, you can get through mega man zero four. Not that the boss patterns are that much easier or that the stages aren't still, you know, difficult compared to plenty of other games, but it is, it is our…
01:41:07 - 01:41:40
it feels so good. I love it when he just locks on to you and then fires and you have to get like the you've got to dash it just the right second so that you could pass under the laser. And it's like, well, I mean, you do that right at the beginning of the game with the first laser thing, which is probably kind of subtly teaching you that but is that ever used in any of the other Mega Man Zero games, the fact that you slightly descend when you're dashing late to any like is that's the only way you can dodge that…
01:46:33 - 01:47:06
the debris breaking off of it. That's, I call it the hoses flying up. Like just, yeah, it's, it's bad. Between the craft fight and the first vile fight where he's summoning the bosses from Mega Man zero three to attack you with the ex attacks. It all just really does come together. They're just for my note. This is the climax. None of that happened before counted. This is it like there's no more after this. We are throwing everything we got at you and it, oh, it's just so good. It's so good. You know, mentioned…
01:05:05 - 01:05:40
who lays eggs at you. It's, it's just not that imposing really. There's actually quite a few Mavericks and who cross over in at least design wise in the series and the X series. And it's interesting to see who does it better. And most of the time, frankly, I feel like intercreates does it better. Like Mega Man X eight had a mantis Maverick. I don't remember his name. There's a dark man mantis or something like that. Yeah. But then in X, sorry, zero two, I think it was, he had death tens mantis zero three. He's…
02:04:54 - 02:05:27
can get the EX skills that use those kinds of things, but it just felt like the focus was even less on the rock paper scissors type thing here, which means that no matter which order you do the man, it doesn't really matter that much. You're going to have a similar kind of time fighting the bosses. So it's, it's a weird balance to me. And I don't know if any mega man game in the entire series has ever perfectly managed to nail that, you know, even like X, my favorite, you can just stink a million your way…
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