#with is a whole other can of worms of aggrevating

[only-twenty-minutes-to-sleep]

Yeah, this was just me secretly still being salty about Midnights (/gen). Like, she literally wrote a whole song called Lavender Haze about having a boyfriend who isn’t romantic with her at all and at first people were like “wow, Lavender Haze! They’re so in love! He isn’t dramatic like her ex’s” and then people retconned it to be “Joe was inattentive 😢”

Imagine in a few years, Taylor and Travis get married and all the hetlors are like “omg, they’re so in love! They’re perfect for each other!” And then Taylor writes a whole album like “I’m trapped in this prison that I’ve built myself” and “no one knows the real me, no one knows the way I love you” and “his love is lavender” and the Gaylor’s are like “sounds like a lavender marriage, idk” and then all the Hetlors start to viciously attack the Gaylor’s for being “delusional” because lavender relationship “clearly don’t exist” and Taylor would “never do that.”

[spinningbuster98]

Mega Man X6 Part 3

Aww yeah we’re in the shit zone now!

Blaze Heatnix: what is this shit? What even is this?

This isn’t a level, it’s just short bits of level design put inbetween an absolute PLETHORA of fights against the same garbage miniboss, that you have to fight under increasingly more annoying circumstances.

Unlock Zero and then beat Infinity Mijinion to get his skill: it’s the most surefire way to deal with those monstrosities, otherwise if you try to attack those weakspots individually with THAT kind of level terrain? It’s gonna be an absolutely miserable experience for either character

Blizzard Wolfang: I hope you like ice physics coupled with X6′s trademark enemy placement and with the arbitrary disabling of wall jumps because....the walls are slippery I guess?

Zero’s double jump is pretty much required for those falling ice block sections: if you get crushed you lose like half your health and if you get stuck between two blocks the open space between them freezes and instantly kills you!

Rainy Turtloid: More shitty enemy placement assaulting you with no rhyme or reason every 5 seconds but this time...in the dark (with the Nightmare effect, more on that can of worms later)! With a gimmick that forces you to search for and destroy small devices! Isn’t that awesome?

The last segment requires you to use the Blade Armor’s mid air dash in an EXTREMELY pixel perfect fashion in order to make it through those tight passages littered with spikes, but honestly I just let myself get hit by enemies and abuse the I-frames....except for the Light Capsule where it’s just not enough so I’ll have to come back later...uuuughh

Metal Shark Player: in many ways the worst of the main 8 stages. Technically Blaze Heatnix’s is worse due to its issues but at least in that case there’s a “simple” solution as previously stated.

Here though?

That Ride Armor at the start is pure trolling, I’m sure of it, it’s there to make you think you’ll be able to make it through the whole level using it but NOPE you’re forced to abandon it a mere minute later. Fuck you too, game.

It’s stop and go the level! With some absolutely bullshit level layout and ESPECIALLY enemy placement, with those goddamn Nightmare bastards that can pass and shoot through walls, and some can even come from off screen while you’re dashing like mad to get past the current crusher section.

And if you die? You get booted all the way back to the start of that specific section, forcing you to go through that slog all over again and again and again until the next thing to get crushed is your fucking controller!

These levels are shit enough on their own...then we also add the Nightmare effect

Oh the Nightmare effect...

So you may have noticed some weird obstacles appearing in the levels every so often, like the aforementioned darkness in Rainy Turtleoid, or fire raining from above in Blizzard Wolfang or the random icy terrain in Metal Shark Player

That is the Nightmare Effect, a system that makes it so that everytime you beat a boss, an extra annoying obstacle appears in other levels. For example by beating Blizzard Wolfang those ice platforms appear in Metal Shark Player

It’s a system that exists exclusively to aggrevate the fuck out of you and to make these levels even more unenjoyable.

And worst of all: it’s explained to you in the most unintuitive of ways

At the start of the game Alia tells you that if a stage is highlighted in red a Nightmare effect is taking place: that’s technically bullshit

What the red tint means is that:

1) The Nightmare enemies in that stage can now once again drop Nightmare souls upon defeat

2) A Nightmare effect related to the stage you have just exited from is now affecting the highlighted stage

HOWEVER

Even if the stage stops being highlighted there will STILL be a Nightmare effect, simply that of the latest level you have visited (assuming that level’s Nightmare effect is applicable to the highlighted stage, since only certain effects affect certain stages). Bottom line: you can never fully avoid the Nightmare effect, there will always be some amount of crap to be dealt with. If you have full knowledge of how it works you may manipulate it to make it a bit less infuriating by tackling stages in a particular way, but you’re only gonna know any of this by looking it up on the Internet since, as I’ve just pointed out, the game ACTIVELY confuses you on its mechanics, either on purpose or due to this game’s piss poor translation I dunno.

Phew... well next episode is gonna be a bit filler, as I’m going to get most of the stuff I’ve missed, which I’d normally not bother showing but I will this time for the purposes of showing more of this game’s crap design

But most importantly I’ll show you a hidden but very important cutscene that pretty much no one playing this trainwreck will ever know about without consulting a guide