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Neat to see someone playing these games for the first time. And yeah 2 really is quite a bit better than 1. I think 1 is actually solid for the time, it starts the fundamentally cool idea of the series of getting new weapons from bosses and clear the stages in any order you want, but it's obviously a formula that many later games do better.

Not 7 though.

WazzupGenius00 posted...

7 is the worst of the mainline games, they made it in like six months. The character:screen ratio is f***ed up, boss design/balancing is all over the place, and I think most of the music isnt great

Yeah this is how I feel too. I can't really think of anything I remember fondly about 7.

I do like 8 though. It's different and I totally get why someone wouldn't care for it (if you don't vibe with the physics or whatever), but I like the larger stages that iterate on themselves and the higher number of checkpoints, and the weapons are powerful and great fun.

2/3/9 > 8/11 > 4/5/10 > 1/6 > 7 is probably my order, but it can swap around depending on my mood.

Definitely play X8 if you play the X games, it's the best of them IMO (aside from one terrible stage). Being able to switch between multiple characters who play very differently is so cool.