MEGA MAN X DiVE - MOBILE 12+

This game’s levels and characters will bring back all the feels. The classic side scrolling action is fully felt with the music and characters. The controls take a slight adjusting but do well for the mobile series. This is another free game with micro transactions, but there’s enough to do without having to purchase with actual cash unless you desire to. I’ve been able to grind out a decent few good characters and weapons without spending a dime so far. There is a lot of different materials to track, as well as upgrade trees to understand, but it starts flowing better with time and practice. What is great is that you can swap out characters for the most part as you level up and you won’t lose significant ranking & power by doing so, which means playing with different characters doesn’t feel like you’re starting over completely.

My only wish is that while there are SOO MANY playable characters in the game (many of which I haven’t unlocked yet), I don’t know all their backstories on their connection to the franchise. A “BIO” button giving their connections would’ve been nice. Which game they showed up on, their alliance, maybe who made them, etc…

You want a 2D side scroller gacha set in the Megaman universe? You’ve come to the right place! The game is split into Story campaign, all your dailies/some event, and PVP. Most new players complain about getting stuck in the story mode (as enemies become bullet sponges), but that’s just how gachas work. You’ll need to grind out the various ways of increasing your power level, and eventually story mode becomes trivial. It’s kind of neat that you can choose different weapons, from busters to sprayers to shotguns to machine guns to rocket launchers to swords, but outside these categories, all the weapons are pretty much the same with different properties like rate of fire and damage per shot. Where the game starts to fall apart is after you’ve cleared most of the PVE content and only really have PVP to focus on. PVP is unbalanced so that that people who connect game controllers to the game will always 100% win because it’s easier to exploit certain mechanics with a controller. Some people claim that when everyone can equally exploit, then there’s a layer of strategy involved, so maybe give this game a go if you already have a game controller? Otherwise, I find the gacha to be generous enough for FtP to be able to enjoy the game as a pickup without having to feel like you need to pay.

There’s a scene with Ico with her stating, “You seem a bit dim-witted, so it comes as a surprise you’re pretty clear headed! I was going to say that if you continue to make a scene, I’ll go boil hot water and pour it on your head so that it can wake you up.” (“I’ll go boil hot water and pour it on your head.”) I get it, Ico is nasty and pretentious, but usually, if you want to wake someone up, you usually use cold water.

I was two years old and had climbed on top of a stove and reached for a pot of turkey grease and oil that just came out of the oven. I ended up with third degree burns and have a faded scar on my arm from scratching at my irritating burns at the time. Kids/adolescents are impressionable, and if they think this is normal amongst their friends, I promise you, those kids aren’t going to be on speaking terms anymore.

It’s bad enough that Tik Tok will undo anything that should be normal behavior, but I think there are better ways to get your point across.