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Somebody's gotta be bringing this over....if it's such an easy game to play it seems like localization will be a no-brainer
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Exit and Irregular Hunter X - First Impressions
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Is it true that 100 level have been released for download?
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sweet....someone bring it over!!!!
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Matix said:Actually, their will be new Stages released weekly until it totals to a 100+ Download-able Levels. Now thats Replay Value, ya know!!
YES!!! Now bring it over here to the state.
Ok here's how it goes. The game itself has 100 stages (10 stages per Situation) and now they're going to start FREE downloadable Situations (10 stages each) every Thursday, every week from next week till 23rd Feb 2006. That's 10 weeks, but the article claims 110 downloadable stages, so maybe there's something extra down the line. The plan is that by the end of Feb the game will have 210 stages total.
Damn talk about value for money. ^_^
Damn talk about value for money. ^_^
duckroll said:Ok here's how it goes. The game itself has 100 stages (10 stages per Situation) and now they're going to start FREE downloadable Situations (10 stages each) every Thursday, every week from next week till 23rd Feb 2006. That's 10 weeks, but the article claims 110 downloadable stages, so maybe there's something extra down the line. The plan is that by the end of Feb the game will have 210 stages total.
Damn talk about value for money. ^_^
And the DL Content is free, right? SUPPORT FREE DL CONTENT FOR A BETTER TOMMORROW.
Yeah, EXIT absolutely rocks...and all those free stages will make this one last a while too.
I'm also having a blast with Rockman X. It looks and feels so incredible on the PSP.
Both games run at 60 fps and they have me totally convinced that THIS is the platform for 2D action games. They look so brilliant on the PSP.
I'm also having a blast with Rockman X. It looks and feels so incredible on the PSP.
Both games run at 60 fps and they have me totally convinced that THIS is the platform for 2D action games. They look so brilliant on the PSP.
Amir0x said:
No it doesn't. You gotta understand, each stage is REALLY SMALL (for very valid reasons), so it's not much of an issue. The animations that ARE slow are done so to give more tension to the situation (climbing ladders in particular) while animations of you going up and down stairs and going down ropes is fast enough really. Movement speed is fine, and there's running (and tripping, but whatever
). You really have to play the game and see the animation to "feel" that it's just right. I know many people are turned off by the "slow" comments but it really isn't much of an issue at all.Edit: dark10x, you got the dash boots in IHX yet? I really suck, can't find em. And the bosses are now owning me when/if I actually get to them. I think I'm getting too old for this.... Oh wait that's just my avatar in Exit speaking...
duckroll said:No it doesn't. You gotta understand, each stage is REALLY SMALL (for very valid reasons), so it's not much of an issue. The animations that ARE slow are done so to give more tension to the situation (climbing ladders in particular) while animations of you going up and down stairs and going down ropes is fast enough really. Movement speed is fine, and there's running (and tripping, but whatever
That's encouraging. You must understand, I'm desperate to justify my PSP purchase. GTA:LCS is starting to get old finally, so Exit seems perfect. I've been interested in it since the second I saw it, and all this positive buzz makes me happy.
Looks like I'll be importing. Play-Asia has it?
No, not at all. I also use the run a lot, however, as I do not feel that the recovery animation is too slow (it's faster than, say, the old Prince of Persia games, Flashback, or other similar feeling titles). The pace of the game is just fine and the mechanics are just oh-so clever. I was shocked at how many things you can do in the game.Amir0x said:
If you're going for it, don't worry, the language barrier won't be a big issue through most of the game...BUT I did think that some of the tutorials were kind of important as they explain things that are a bit odd (such as using the cursor system or working with certain character types). I'm sure you'll figure it out, though, if you just fiddle a bit.
Can you believe they MOVED them?! Yeah, they aren't in the same location. They have been moved to Burning Noumander's stage! After obtaining him, he becames a piece of cake with the normal X buster.
BTW, in the snow stage, did you notice what appeared to be a sealed off area early on? I wonder what that's about...
dark10x said:
Yes I would BELIEVE that since well I COULDN'T FIND THEM! :lol
Thanks for the head's up! ^_^
Oh that's not the ONLY place sealed off with that type of block, I've seen it in one or two other stages. Reminds me of secrets in Rockman Rockman that they're sealing off using Gutsman's blocks. You noticed those areas in Cutman's stage in the demo?
Oh yeah, I noticed those blocks as well (in the demo).duckroll said:Oh that's not the ONLY place sealed off with that type of block, I've seen it in one or two other stages. Reminds me of secrets in Rockman Rockman that they're sealing off using Gutsman's blocks. You noticed those areas in Cutman's stage in the demo?
I wonder what could be hidden there? Can't wait to find out.
Source: *GameSpot*:
MAVERICK HUNTER X + MEGAMAN POWERED UP: New Gameplay Footage:
http://www.gamespot.com/psp/action/irregularhunterx/media.html
http://www.gamespot.com/psp/action/rockmanrockman/media.html
Old-School Gaming Love, doesn't it feel soooooo good
!!Those screens just can't do it justice. The visuals are just so damn intense on the PSP screen. In motion, this could be the best looking PSP game to date. It's the ultimate proof of why more 2D action games should be made for the machine over any other.
Years ago, I remember dreaming of playing a 2.5D version of Rockman X complete with an enhanced soundtrack and everything. Well, they totally nailed it. This game feels sooooooooo good. Absolutely love it!
Not only that, I went back to the original briefly today to compare...and found that it has aged worse than expected. The remake looks and feels (control wise) SOOO much better. It's a massive improvement and is an absolute joy to play. They completely nailed this one.
The original RMX was probably my favorite X game...and this remake looks and feels so much better to the point that I would be willing to call it THE greatest installment in the X series. It's polished to perfection and plays like a dream.
Years ago, I remember dreaming of playing a 2.5D version of Rockman X complete with an enhanced soundtrack and everything. Well, they totally nailed it. This game feels sooooooooo good. Absolutely love it!
Not only that, I went back to the original briefly today to compare...and found that it has aged worse than expected. The remake looks and feels (control wise) SOOO much better. It's a massive improvement and is an absolute joy to play. They completely nailed this one.
The original RMX was probably my favorite X game...and this remake looks and feels so much better to the point that I would be willing to call it THE greatest installment in the X series. It's polished to perfection and plays like a dream.
DCharlie
And even i am moderately surprised
Exit is doing my head in! What the hell is up with the controls? ARRRGGHHHH
and Mr. Esc could do with having a bit more urgency when climbing stairs/ladders... and THE ABILITY TO CANCEL WHEN YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND...
*pulls out hair*
so far, i'm loving the graphics and sounds and style - hell, i love the core gameplay, but god, i wished they'd have just looked at these niggles...
and Mr. Esc could do with having a bit more urgency when climbing stairs/ladders... and THE ABILITY TO CANCEL WHEN YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND...
*pulls out hair*
so far, i'm loving the graphics and sounds and style - hell, i love the core gameplay, but god, i wished they'd have just looked at these niggles...
Update time for Irregular Hunter X. I completed the X mode on Normal with all upgrades/subtanks/tanks/etc, watched the entire Day of Sigma animated episode and started on VAVA mode on Normal. So these are impressions anymore but more of a mini-review:
Irregular Hunter X is one of the best 2.5D gaming experiences you can have on the go now and I seriously don't know what the FUCK Famitsu was thinking giving it 27/40. This is at the very very least a 8/10 game. The MMX game itself is perfectly remade into 3D with sharp visuals, great modeling and animation and AMAZING backgrounds. The backgrounds and large-scale bosses are really what make the difference here because they look like what a current-gen sidescroller in 3D *should* look like.
Aside from slowdown in a few (very few) crowded scenes in the game, the framerate is otherwise awesome and the controls are flawless but if you feel the controls need any tweaking there's always the completely customizable key config menu. Besides turning the game into really beautiful 3D without compromising the gameplay or art design, they've also added high-quality animation FMVs by Xebec and fully voiced dialogue sequences to enhance the story and bring it closer (well in reality, it surpasses) to the style of the PS/SS versions of MMX3-4. There's a pre-title screen FMV intro with J-rock song, an different intro FMV for X and VAVA modes and different ending FMVs for X and VAVA modes.
Now if that's not enough (and Capcom in their divine benovelant love for all Mega Man fans feel it's not enough) there's a full TWENTY-FIVE MINUTE animated video that unlocks when you complete the X mode. It feels a lot in execution to FFVII Last Order in that it's a prequel story that most people are sort of familiar with but an excellent excuse to show the characters we know and love in an action-packed 2D animated episode without compromising the storyline or continuity.
Now somehow Capcom felt all that fucking awesome crap wasn't enough. No, it wasn't. So enter: VAVA MODE (probably VILE MODE in the US version). This isn't some cheap Castlevania style "play as the other character" deal. It's more like Dawn of Sorrow's extra character mode. VAVA has his own alternate-story plot with intro/ending FMVs, different voiced pre-boss dialogues, completely remixed enemy placements on the same stages, and best of all..... a completely DIFFERENT gameplay scheme. Before I explain more, I'll say this. VAVA mode is HARD! If you try to play it like you're playing as X it's even HARDER! Now the explaination of why...
VAVA comes with 3 body armaments, head, arm and feet. Each of these armaments corresponds to a button (square, triangle, circle) with X being jump. Before each stage you must equip your choice of weapons on each armament for different effects and once in a stage unlike X you cannot change weapons. VAVA's weapons all take up his energy bar but unlike X his bar recharges automatically when not in use. VAVA also has a tiny-ass lifebar to start with. VAVA gets additional weapon armaments to play with each time he beats a boss, and his subtanks and energy tanks are all in DIFFERENT places in the various stages. Replay value = AAAAA+. Oh and when you play as VAVA, when you usually fight VAVA in the X mode, in the VAVA mode you fight X.
Now let me take a moment to just say:
THANK YOU CAPCOM JAPAN FOR GIVING ME SOMETHING BACK FOR MY YEARS OF LOYAL SUPPORT OF MEGA MAN EVEN THOUGH I STOPPED BUYING THEM WHEN THEY ALL WENT TO SHIT! I STILL BELIEVED IN A DREAM THAT ONE DAY IT'LL ALL COME BACK AND IT HAS! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Irregular Hunter X is one of the best 2.5D gaming experiences you can have on the go now and I seriously don't know what the FUCK Famitsu was thinking giving it 27/40. This is at the very very least a 8/10 game. The MMX game itself is perfectly remade into 3D with sharp visuals, great modeling and animation and AMAZING backgrounds. The backgrounds and large-scale bosses are really what make the difference here because they look like what a current-gen sidescroller in 3D *should* look like.
Aside from slowdown in a few (very few) crowded scenes in the game, the framerate is otherwise awesome and the controls are flawless but if you feel the controls need any tweaking there's always the completely customizable key config menu.
Besides turning the game into really beautiful 3D without compromising the gameplay or art design, they've also added high-quality animation FMVs by Xebec and fully voiced dialogue sequences to enhance the story and bring it closer (well in reality, it surpasses) to the style of the PS/SS versions of MMX3-4. There's a pre-title screen FMV intro with J-rock song, an different intro FMV for X and VAVA modes and different ending FMVs for X and VAVA modes. Now if that's not enough (and Capcom in their divine benovelant love for all Mega Man fans feel it's not enough) there's a full TWENTY-FIVE MINUTE animated video that unlocks when you complete the X mode. It feels a lot in execution to FFVII Last Order in that it's a prequel story that most people are sort of familiar with but an excellent excuse to show the characters we know and love in an action-packed 2D animated episode without compromising the storyline or continuity.
Now somehow Capcom felt all that fucking awesome crap wasn't enough. No, it wasn't. So enter: VAVA MODE (probably VILE MODE in the US version). This isn't some cheap Castlevania style "play as the other character" deal. It's more like Dawn of Sorrow's extra character mode. VAVA has his own alternate-story plot with intro/ending FMVs, different voiced pre-boss dialogues, completely remixed enemy placements on the same stages, and best of all..... a completely DIFFERENT gameplay scheme. Before I explain more, I'll say this. VAVA mode is HARD! If you try to play it like you're playing as X it's even HARDER! Now the explaination of why...
VAVA comes with 3 body armaments, head, arm and feet. Each of these armaments corresponds to a button (square, triangle, circle) with X being jump. Before each stage you must equip your choice of weapons on each armament for different effects and once in a stage unlike X you cannot change weapons. VAVA's weapons all take up his energy bar but unlike X his bar recharges automatically when not in use. VAVA also has a tiny-ass lifebar to start with. VAVA gets additional weapon armaments to play with each time he beats a boss, and his subtanks and energy tanks are all in DIFFERENT places in the various stages. Replay value = AAAAA+. Oh and when you play as VAVA, when you usually fight VAVA in the X mode, in the VAVA mode you fight X.
Now let me take a moment to just say:
THANK YOU CAPCOM JAPAN FOR GIVING ME SOMETHING BACK FOR MY YEARS OF LOYAL SUPPORT OF MEGA MAN EVEN THOUGH I STOPPED BUYING THEM WHEN THEY ALL WENT TO SHIT! I STILL BELIEVED IN A DREAM THAT ONE DAY IT'LL ALL COME BACK AND IT HAS! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
duckroll said:Update time for Irregular Hunter X. I completed the X mode on Normal with all upgrades/subtanks/tanks/etc, watched the entire Day of Sigma animated episode and started on VAVA mode on Normal. So these are impressions anymore but more of a mini-review:
Irregular Hunter X is one of the best 2.5D gaming experiences you can have on the go now and I seriously don't know what the FUCK Famitsu was thinking giving it 27/40. This is at the very very least a 8/10 game. The MMX game itself is perfectly remade into 3D with sharp visuals, great modeling and animation and AMAZING backgrounds. The backgrounds and large-scale bosses are really what make the difference here because they look like what a current-gen sidescroller in 3D *should* look like.
Aside from slowdown in a few (very few) crowded scenes in the game, the framerate is otherwise awesome and the controls are flawless but if you feel the controls need any tweaking there's always the completely customizable key config menu.
Now if that's not enough (and Capcom in their divine benovelant love for all Mega Man fans feel it's not enough) there's a full TWENTY-FIVE MINUTE animated video that unlocks when you complete the X mode. It feels a lot in execution to FFVII Last Order in that it's a prequel story that most people are sort of familiar with but an excellent excuse to show the characters we know and love in an action-packed 2D animated episode without compromising the storyline or continuity.
Now somehow Capcom felt all that fucking awesome crap wasn't enough. No, it wasn't. So enter: VAVA MODE (probably VILE MODE in the US version). This isn't some cheap Castlevania style "play as the other character" deal. It's more like Dawn of Sorrow's extra character mode. VAVA has his own alternate-story plot with intro/ending FMVs, different voiced pre-boss dialogues, completely remixed enemy placements on the same stages, and best of all..... a completely DIFFERENT gameplay scheme. Before I explain more, I'll say this. VAVA mode is HARD! If you try to play it like you're playing as X it's even HARDER! Now the explaination of why...
VAVA comes with 3 body armaments, head, arm and feet. Each of these armaments corresponds to a button (square, triangle, circle) with X being jump. Before each stage you must equip your choice of weapons on each armament for different effects and once in a stage unlike X you cannot change weapons. VAVA's weapons all take up his energy bar but unlike X his bar recharges automatically when not in use. VAVA also has a tiny-ass lifebar to start with. VAVA gets additional weapon armaments to play with each time he beats a boss, and his subtanks and energy tanks are all in DIFFERENT places in the various stages. Replay value = AAAAA+. Oh and when you play as VAVA, when you usually fight VAVA in the X mode, in the VAVA mode you fight X.
Now let me take a moment to just say:
THANK YOU CAPCOM JAPAN FOR GIVING ME SOMETHING BACK FOR MY YEARS OF LOYAL SUPPORT OF MEGA MAN EVEN THOUGH I STOPPED BUYING THEM WHEN THEY ALL WENT TO SHIT! I STILL BELIEVED IN A DREAM THAT ONE DAY IT'LL ALL COME BACK AND IT HAS! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eh, it seems you just made me update my PSP, import this game, and soil myself as well. Thx
!!Impressions like this + $29 price point = definite purchase. PSP 2006 is going to own.duckroll said:Update time for Irregular Hunter X. I completed the X mode on Normal with all upgrades/subtanks/tanks/etc, watched the entire Day of Sigma animated episode and started on VAVA mode on Normal. So these are impressions anymore but more of a mini-review:
Irregular Hunter X is one of the best 2.5D gaming experiences you can have on the go now and I seriously don't know what the FUCK Famitsu was thinking giving it 27/40. This is at the very very least a 8/10 game. The MMX game itself is perfectly remade into 3D with sharp visuals, great modeling and animation and AMAZING backgrounds. The backgrounds and large-scale bosses are really what make the difference here because they look like what a current-gen sidescroller in 3D *should* look like.
Aside from slowdown in a few (very few) crowded scenes in the game, the framerate is otherwise awesome and the controls are flawless but if you feel the controls need any tweaking there's always the completely customizable key config menu.
Now if that's not enough (and Capcom in their divine benovelant love for all Mega Man fans feel it's not enough) there's a full TWENTY-FIVE MINUTE animated video that unlocks when you complete the X mode. It feels a lot in execution to FFVII Last Order in that it's a prequel story that most people are sort of familiar with but an excellent excuse to show the characters we know and love in an action-packed 2D animated episode without compromising the storyline or continuity.
Now somehow Capcom felt all that fucking awesome crap wasn't enough. No, it wasn't. So enter: VAVA MODE (probably VILE MODE in the US version). This isn't some cheap Castlevania style "play as the other character" deal. It's more like Dawn of Sorrow's extra character mode. VAVA has his own alternate-story plot with intro/ending FMVs, different voiced pre-boss dialogues, completely remixed enemy placements on the same stages, and best of all..... a completely DIFFERENT gameplay scheme. Before I explain more, I'll say this. VAVA mode is HARD! If you try to play it like you're playing as X it's even HARDER! Now the explaination of why...
VAVA comes with 3 body armaments, head, arm and feet. Each of these armaments corresponds to a button (square, triangle, circle) with X being jump. Before each stage you must equip your choice of weapons on each armament for different effects and once in a stage unlike X you cannot change weapons. VAVA's weapons all take up his energy bar but unlike X his bar recharges automatically when not in use. VAVA also has a tiny-ass lifebar to start with. VAVA gets additional weapon armaments to play with each time he beats a boss, and his subtanks and energy tanks are all in DIFFERENT places in the various stages. Replay value = AAAAA+. Oh and when you play as VAVA, when you usually fight VAVA in the X mode, in the VAVA mode you fight X.
Now let me take a moment to just say:
THANK YOU CAPCOM JAPAN FOR GIVING ME SOMETHING BACK FOR MY YEARS OF LOYAL SUPPORT OF MEGA MAN EVEN THOUGH I STOPPED BUYING THEM WHEN THEY ALL WENT TO SHIT! I STILL BELIEVED IN A DREAM THAT ONE DAY IT'LL ALL COME BACK AND IT HAS! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hell fucking yeah PSP is gonna own in 2006!!
I didn't even think about buying Mega Man, but duckroll just made me buy another PSP game.. thank you (I hate you duckroll... money.. *sigh*)
I didn't even think about buying Mega Man, but duckroll just made me buy another PSP game.. thank you
(I hate you duckroll... money.. *sigh*)Is this Irregular Hunter X?
http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/260164.asp
I'm guessing so? Sounds like it from the impressions.
Only 30 bucks. Nice.
The other Mega Man game is only going to be 30 bucks too:
http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product_id=190219
http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/260164.asp
I'm guessing so? Sounds like it from the impressions.
Only 30 bucks. Nice.
The other Mega Man game is only going to be 30 bucks too:
http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product_id=190219
Okay, I started playing Irregular Hunter X today, and I still can't find the dash boots. I beat Chill Penguin and then went onto Burning Noumander's stage (completely forgot that beating the ice stage first makes the lava freeze up!), but I didn't see the boots anywhere. Where exactly are they located?
Never mind; I found them when I replayed the stage.
They changed the locations of the armor parts. I think the heart tanks are still in the same places, though.
Chill Penguin's stage now has the
Pachinko said:
They changed the locations of the armor parts. I think the heart tanks are still in the same places, though.
Chill Penguin's stage now has the
helmet upgrade. You can get it when you have the dash boots; the upgrade is in that hidden area you can break away by just wall jumping to with the boots upgrade.
Exit is soooooo awesome.
It's an original game on the PSP that's not derived from some other franchise or a hand-me down PS1/PS2 port...and its good! This is why I buy games for portables; to have original content I can't get anywhere else. I love how the analogue controls like a mouse and you go around and scroll through the picture clicking and pointing on things. Sooo many levels + downloadable ones = the game will have tons of lasting value.
Total A quality game IMO.
It's an original game on the PSP that's not derived from some other franchise or a hand-me down PS1/PS2 port...and its good! This is why I buy games for portables; to have original content I can't get anywhere else. I love how the analogue controls like a mouse and you go around and scroll through the picture clicking and pointing on things. Sooo many levels + downloadable ones = the game will have tons of lasting value.
Total A quality game IMO.
Hi guys, first french review available here. "Great game for fans, even if the characters (including X) have lost a bit of charisma
http://www.jeux-france.com/articles_tests1008_maverick-hunter-x.html
15/20
http://www.jeux-france.com/articles_tests1008_maverick-hunter-x.html
15/20
MarkMacD said:
You can't "grab" them, the only things you can grab as items are Energy tanks and Sub tanks. The upgrades are all given in large capsule teleporter-looking things left behind by Dr Light. Has it really been that long? :lol
The dash boots specifically should be in one of those corners where you have to make stupid jumps to get to. I can't remember specifically since I'm playing VAVA mode now and everything is placed differently.
Finally got my hands on these games, and I must say they are both gems for being on a portable system. I can't believe MHX got such a nice budget for the overhaul, although the music is a little too subverted from the original tunes for my tastes on most of the states. The production values overall are much higher than I expected from this game. EXIT has been pretty fun so far, but I've only finished the tutorial levels. Can anyone tell me if it gets wickedly difficult later, or if it's all the kind of levels you can puzzle out after a couple of tries?
Joeholley said:
Exit can get pretty tough, but the best thing is that each Situation's set of stages have their own puzzle "theme", so what you learn from one stage applies to the others. Later on Situations will start to mix puzzle themes around so what you learnt in the previous ones will apply too. It's a very rewarding game.