#Mega man x4 nova strike full#

Its charged version rains crescent beams that deal significant damage, even to minibosses.

Sonic Slicer fires sets of Razor Wind that cuts through everything and ricochets off walls and ceilings.

firing a larger sawblade that fires shots all over the screen). Its charged version is no slouch either (i.e.

Spinning Wheel fires a sawblade that runs along the ground, hits enemies multiple times, and opens up secret breakable walls and floors.

The kicker? Getting the arm parts was intended to require using the leg parts from Overdrive Ostrich's stage, but through a tricky jump, it's possible to get the arm parts as early as the beginning of the game without any items! Alternatively, it's also possible to reach the area with the Light Capsule for the arm parts through careful use of the Strike Chain from Wire Sponge. Although it takes a while to fully charge both shots, but the payoff certainly makes up for it.

X2 has the Second Armor's arm parts, which grants X the ability to fire two charged shots, while the second shot is capable of ignoring bosses' invincibility frames, allowing X to dish out a powerful one-two punch of charge shots against them.

This makes one of the hardest sections of Sigma's fortress a cakewalk when you can just walk through them without taking damage.

Chameleon Sting's charged up version allows X to be invincible for a limited amount of time.

It doesn't deal that much damage, though. It shoots out homing missiles, and the energy usage is moderately cheap, making stages a breeze. And the weapon he gives you can kill almost every non-boss in one shot, and do a lot of damage to bosses, especially Flame Mammoth. Storm Eagle wasn't exactly hard to defeat if you chose him first. No wonder the X3 armor is also known as the Hyper Armor.

The only drawback is that it's not saved in passwords. In other words, you get nearly four times your normal health in addition to a host of abilities that make your character quite unstoppable. BUT! If you don't collect any of those but do find every other item in the game, you can get the secret Hyper Chip early in the fortress, which gives you all four abilities.

Thing is, if you take any one of these, you can't take the other chips. There are four booster chips in the game: armor booster that gives a 75% damage reduction shield when hit, a special weapon that allows you to spam Charge Shots, the power to dash twice before dropping to the ground, or a Healing Factor that would not only restore your health but fill sub-tanks.

X3 has the Gold Armor/ MAX Hyper Armor, which is a true game breaker.

Examples of this are the Hadoken in X1 (which had an added problem of being hard to aim against Sigma and in the original release of the first game is completely ineffective against his second form) and the Shoryuken in X2.

#Mega man x4 nova strike full#

This is balanced out by the fact that they usually can only be found in the final boss stages and can only be used at full health, in addition to requiring Street Fighter-like input commands that make them difficult to use in battle. In the first two games, X can find some well-hidden Street Fighter II-inspired Easter Eggs that let him perform a one-hit kill (or near one-hit kill) attack, thus making the game a whole lot easier after finding them.