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Now Crapcom decided they had written themselves into a corner, so, since there was no fixing the ghastly Mega Man Zero series, they did what they do: they moved forward in time. Behold Mega Man ZX, where things get better, but also stay bad.

Suddenly metroidvania.

This is when Crapcom thought they could do like Iga or Sakamoto. Anyone can make a metroidvania, right? Well, maybe if the people involved weren't the worst people, they could. But alas, Inti Creates wasn't done putting out garbage in exchange for money.

You're a guy or girl (you get to choose, so I went with girl since my character was going to look feminine regardless) and you accompany Giro, a guy that looks like Zero who's your boss in a delivery company. And you're carrying a "biometal", something so important, it's already baffling they let a small delivery company handle it.

Long story short: the biometal is like a tiny machine with X's personality (the same X that used to be a cyber elf but ran out of energy and died in a previous game) and Giro has another biometal that's Zero. They are model X and model Z and allow you to have an anime transformation sequence to go from human to something that acts like Mega Man. It's stupid, but whatever, it can't be worse than the last series.

You save a girl that looks a bit like Ciel, even though they imply this is a long time after the previous series. She speaks of a "Sis" but never says who it is, so you think it's Ciel. She's with the Guardians, but not the guardians from the previous game. It's all meant to make you think it's one thing while being another. That's a good game right there. These Guardians fight mavericks and travel in an airship.

There's humans again. But it's basically the same plot from MMZ4: a businessman named Serpent owns a company that controls the only city with humans. Serpent is totally not the final boss.

You do missions for the Guardians fighting mavericks that get spotted around the city while destroying "pseudodroids" which are made using biometals from other characters. The four guardians that sort of disappeared from the previous series are now back in the form of biometals you can transform with. So it's already cooler than anything in Mega Man Zero since now you also get big gameplay changes with each transformation.

By the way, pretty much everyone in the "good guys" team in Mega Man Zero and Mega Man ZX series has a French name. Biggest indicator that they are actually the enemy.

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