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i got a mega man x "official complete works" artbook and i'm loving inafune's love of Zero and I'm only up to X3

X1:

"Usually, I would be the one doing the main characters, and Kaji would take care of the sub characters. This time, however, we decided to change things up a bit. I asked Kaji to do Mega Man, and I made the sub character, Zero, my project. I'm sure I've said this in many different places in more than a few different ways, but I really wanted Zero to be a playable character. I wanted to offer a 'different Mega Man', and possibly a more hardcore game." (Inafune)

"I wanted to make the character's personality a little more hardcore too, and I knew that if I was working from the design of the traditional Mega Man, I'd be stuck in that whole 'nice guy' image. The whole time I was designing Zero, I was seeing him as the 'new Mega Man'. But I didn't bring that up when I went to submit our designs to my boss. I brought out the X that Kaji designed and said, 'Here's the new Mega Man!' My boss had a verry positive reaction to X, and when I brought out the design for Zero, I simply said, '... and this is the sub character.' I figured that would ensure a less critical analysis of Zero and, as a result, I got an immediate OK in the form of, 'Red, huh? Hmm... yeah, that's nice.' (laughs)" (Inafune)

X2:

"Zero died in 'X1', but Inafune just came in one day saying, 'Don't you think it'd be a shame to let Zero stay dead?' So we brought him back to life. It was that simple. Not only did we bring Zero back to life for no reason other than because we could, we brought him back in pieces. I don't know what I was thinking, to tell you the truth." (Tsuda)

X3:

"The only illustrations I did for 'X3' were X, the new Zero, Vile MK-II, and Sigma. I was especially possessive of Zero. I just kept saying, 'He's my character,' and didn't let anyone else touch him. (laughs)" (Inafune)

how sad he is now Zero-less :(

also lmao Puyo Puyo playing during downtimes during X2:

"We had a lot of team members from 'X1' working on 'X2', but a lot of the people in the planning department were pretty new and inexperienced. The charactert and software people were constantly waiting on stuff from the planning department, and their boredom eventually resulted in a 'Puyo Puyo' epidemic within the studio. It seemed like there was always a Puyo tournament going on. The project leader was particularly good at Puyo, and could often be found relieving stress by mercilessly committing mass Puyo murder, victimizing various team members. The whole studio knew that if the mighty project leader ever fell in battle, though, we'd all hear an angry voice screaming, 'What are the planning guys doing!? I want to see some specs! Now!!' Yeah, the planning guys always suffered the consequences of a serious Puyo loss." (Tsuge)
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