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1. Rasterman (rasterman@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 13:00:02 JST Rasterman
   I just finished playing through the Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection. This isn't a review; it's a PSA:
   
   It's shit. Avoid it. It's not even worth pirating.
   
   By the way, this is gonna be a lot of text and a lot of posts and it's not going to be good, so you might as well stop reading now and do something better like stare at a wall. You already saw the important part.
   
   Before Metroid, Mega Man was my favourite game series. I even played Mega Man Soccer voluntarily. So having enjoyed the original and X series (or part of it), I thought it was a no brainer: a game starring Zero has to be awesome!
   
   And then the game started.
   
   This is made by a company that would go on to make good games, Inti Creates; but this was certainly not one of them.
   
   You are Zero. As usual, Crapcom avoids explaining anything; instead opting for starting a new series. You're a broken robot and some girl and soldiers find you in a lab and a magic loli sacrifices herself to revive you by crashing into your face. It was a "cyber elf", a program that also has a consciousness and personality, but is also meant to die to grant you a variety of effects, and you have to "feed" it e-crystals, which are a drop from killing enemies.
   
   Anyway, your rescuers are terrorists being hunted down by the authorities of what seems to be the last city on Earth, Neo Arcadia. Their leader is X, i.e.: Mega Man. Somehow you're with the Mavericks; but Zero only wants to kill, so he doesn't care. X has four guardians and they in turn have minions and the game consists of carrying out acts of terrorism against the human city to destabilise it and convince them to leave you alone; but the guardians are hell-bent on protecting humanity.
   
   There's an energy crisis and reploids are being removed as a result to ensure humans continue to live well. Ciel, the leader of the resistance doesn't agree, because she's a woman and is prone to siding with the enemy out of empathy. The plot doesn't make sense unless you hate humanity. I bet this was a hit with jews.
   
   You defeat the minions, defeat the guardians and then... Japanese plot twist! The X ruling over Neo Arcadia is not actually X, but Copy X! A copy of X! And the real X is... a cyber elf! Which means he's an invincible glowing dot that flies around the world and gives Zero cryptic messages instead of helpful information, before disappearing again. X is "tired of war" so he's taking it easy, but supports your terrorism against humanity. So Zero fights Copy X and destroys him. Happy end.