Nigga protecting humans against Zero

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1. Rasterman (rasterman@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 13:03:36 JST Rasterman

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   Now we're in Mega Man Zero 2 because I wanted to justify having bought this trash heap and hoped the sequel would be better.
   
   A year passed and you're a broken down Zero that spent the time between killing Copy X and now wandering the wastes like the Vault Dweller. For no reason at all, since he could've gone back to the base with Ciel. Zero is rescued by Harpuia, one of the guardians from the previous game. There's no explanation for why he decides to help the reploid who kept committing acts of terrorism against the city he protects, but Oriental magic is probably afoot, as is the case with the Japs.
   
   Now the resistance has a leader, Elpizo, which is a name so stupid it has to have come from a Japanese mind. This guy looks evil and is passive aggressive towards Zero. The game hasn't even started and you already know this is gonna be a boss.
   
   One cool detail was how during the intro stage, Zero looks half-broken and the pause menu looks broken as well before Zero is repaired and the pause menu looks completely different to accommodate the new options.
   
   Then I find the new resistance base. It's huge and is full of rooms that take a good couple of seconds to enter and exit from. And most rooms are empty. It's incredibly annoying to explore just to meet an NPC that might have one line of dialogue like this is a JRPG.
   
   You do missions for the resistance to "buy time" while Ciel researches a solution for the energy crisis so there's no longer a need to fight with Neo Arcadia. Elpizo sends you in missions of terrorism just like you did in the first game and you fight 8 bosses again. Again only three elements.
   
   The cyber elves are back and there's a mega-retarded plot about two "baby" cyber elves that look for their mother, the Dark Elf, that caused a lot of destruction some time in the past when the Mother Elf was used to destroy the Sigma virus. See, this is like introducing Rey in Star Wars. The moment this idiotic plot is tied to Mega Man X, now MMX is ruined as well because of the association with this horrible series. You chase the baby elves around the world. X, the magical cyber elf that likes to travel the world and speak in riddles tells you to find them.
   
   And now... Japanese plot twist! You thought X had no body and was reduced to being a cyber elf while Copy X ruled Neo Arcadia? No! Actually, X does have a body! He's permanently containing the Dark Elf in its vault and he can't move; but he's also a cyber elf. I can feel my eyelids narrowing and my independent thought disappearing as I play.