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X8 seems good on paper, but every stage is a different experience.

Mantis - Dark stage, stealth, waves of enemies
Rooster - Vertical dropping and climbing with auto-scrolling
Trilobyte - Chased by, then pursuing and fighting the miniboss
Sunflower - Mini-games
Yeti - Vertical ride chaser
Man-O-War - Rail shooter
Pandamonium - Sidescrolling puzzles revolving around use of the ride armor
Antonion - Gravity block puzzles

Then you have the currency system, those crystals/metals you have to collect in order to make things such as the retries (which take the place of extra lives), and there are two armors again. At least this time you can use the parts right away, and mix them up. You still have to deal with tons of spikes (the final stage being a huge offender), the sudden return of Vile (again), and stage design.

At least you don't have to rescue Reploids anymore.

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