Not like say, uh, armored armadillo, where like when he bounces, it's a square room, you know, 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. He does have a cool design. I have to admit.
... cracking part of the fight is also the fact that he shoots things that then rebound off the walls. So the fact that you have an asymmetrical stage means that you are that much less likely to be Not like say, uh, armored armadillo, where like when he bounces, it's a square room, you know, 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. He does have a cool design. I have to admit. Uh, actually one that's overlooked when you talk about ...
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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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... 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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... And I don't mean the Battle Network ones. I mean Mega Man X command mission, right? And they like, literally, this was the perfect opportunity to show the whole, you know, human side of things. ...
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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…
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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.…
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You heard it here folks. Yeah. It's a really natural sort of, I mean, you do have the sort of the EX skills, which were basically about as close as you get to that in the previous ones. Although they're here too as well, but you know, we'll talk about that eventually. Yeah. I think those are more like the kind of X Mega Man X, uh, series zero stuff where you'd like get the different moves. Yeah. We also have a sole titanium who is titanium, the fairy queen, and also a butterfly. I think that's a really cool…
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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…
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