Mega Man X Legacy Collection Review (PS4)

Mega Man X is a good series.  Don't you wish they wish you could just have them all without having to search high and low for each title?  Well, now you can.  This is the Mega Man X Legacy Collection.

All the games you know and love (or hate) are all here.  You take the role of X in his quest to beat the crap out of the evil Sigma in the eight main games in the Mega Man X series.  It would have been nice if they had included Mission Command and the Xteme, but it's not a big problem.  What's here works well enough.

The games look good.  Usually, these types of collections have small or fuzzy look to them or are cropped to close.  This collection, however, seems to have been touched up enough to where you don't have to screw with the settings to get the games to look right.  This is something I appreciate and hope other collections will replicate.

So what does this collection added that the Gamecube game didn't have aside from the obvious inclusions of X7 and X8?  A lot, actually.  You get to view artwork, character bios, the stories of each game, and look at merchandise that may or may not still be on the market.  There's also a music player so you can rock your head to the music of every game without having to worry about landing in a pit of spikes.  Let's not forget about The Day Of Sigma, a cartoon you can kick back and watch.

Look at all the crap you can buy...probably.

The Day Of Sigma is essentially a prequel you watch instead of playing.

You also get to play the North American version or International versions of each game.  Most game games get a North America version and a Japanese version, but X7 and X8 have even more versions.  It's not really a big deal, but was worth mentioning.

Each game gets its Megaman X entry...

...and it's Rockman X version.

The crown jewel of the new additions is the X Challenge mode.  Here, you fight two bosses from different games at once.  For example, you could fight Chill Penguin from X1 and Frost Walrus from X4 at the same time.  You simply select a difficulty, pick three weapons from a random assortment, and start whuppin' some robot ass.  There are no levels to shot and jump through.  You jump right to the bosses.

If you've ever wanted to fight two bosses at once, this is your game mode.

This mode isn't perfect, though.  Once you pick your weapons, you're stuck with them for several fights.  Naturally, you'll be stuck fighting in situations where you don't have the weakness at least one boss.  Also, some of the boss combinations are just garbage.  Who's idea was it to pair Storm Eagle and Storm Owl together?

Pick your weapons carefully or you could wind up fight two bosses with neither's weakness.

There is also a TINY issue with the music.  X3 only has one soundtrack and, unfortunately, it's the one I don't like.  You only get the original soundtrack from X3.  The smooth, remade soundtrack is nowhere to be found to my knowledge.  The original songs sound like shit compared to the remade music, so I don't know why they wouldn't include both.

What we have here is a solid collection of games.  If you've missed out on previous collections or don't want to pay the ridiculous amounts of money you might wind up paying (just check what some copies SNES of X3 go for) for the originals of each game, you'll want to pick this up.  A must have for Mega Man X fans.  Check it out.