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X5 is definitely the first game in the X series where the problems really start, but it's still okay. Badly executed gimmick and some stages are not great and designed stupidly, but some are decent and fun.

X6, oh dear. I think they did the soundtrack first and had no time left for the actual game. I still wonder how such a banging soundtrack exists in this otherwise pile of garbage. Not a single stage I played I thought was good or fun. Very problematic camera/views, ridiculously annoying sections that seems overkill, incredibly convoluted with the nightmares/rescuing/parts...I beat 3 or 4 stages and then just couldn't take it anymore in Blaze Heatnix' stage.

X7 I have barely played, but I don't think I'd add much that wasn't already said. Just a bad 3D attempt.

Somehow I struggled playing X8, I couldn't figure out some things/controls, so I didn't get very far. However, that one seems to be much better than X6 and X7, if still probably worse than X-X4.