{"id":18151,"date":"2018-08-06T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T00:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18151"},"modified":"2018-07-27T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T14:27:00","slug":"20xx-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/06\/20xx-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"20XX (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>With the Mega Man X Collection recently released, and the upcoming Mega Man 11 on the horizon, there sure is a lot of excitement and buzz around the Blue Bomber lately.\u00a0 And if you want to keep that excitement going, and don\u2019t want to wait around for Capcom, then you might want to check out 20XX.\u00a0 Gameplay is nearly exactly like Mega Man X.\u00a0 So much so that I\u2019m surprised Capcom didn\u2019t sue.\u00a0 But the difference here is that the stages are randomly generated, so each run will be a little different every time.\u00a0 Because of that, the game is a bit more hardcore, too.\u00a0 20XX (how do you pronounce that anyway?) is available to download on most current game consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure what the story to this game is exactly.\u00a0\u00a0 Robots are rampaging and it\u2019s up to two robots\/androids\/humans in suits\/I don\u2019t know, to try and stop them.\u00a0 You can choose to play as blue Nina who has an arm cannon, or red Ace, who has a laser sword.\u00a0 So yeah, just like X and Zero.\u00a0 You can charge your shots, dash, wall jump, you know, pretty much everything you can do in the X games.<\/p>\n

But you don\u2019t tackle stages in a selectable order like an X game.\u00a0 Each stage is randomly generated, and when you beat the boss at the end, you can choose to take their weapon or another power-up.\u00a0 You can hold 3 weapons at a time.\u00a0 After you beat a boss, you can choose between three more random stages, so that part is a little like Mega Man X.\u00a0 You can collect chips to buy energy and more permanent upgrades like a bigger health bar and tons more.<\/p>\n

The game has several modes, too.\u00a0 There\u2019s the regular game where you go through a set of stages.\u00a0 You can choose to have either three lives or one, depending on the difficulty, so yeah, it\u2019s really hard.\u00a0 There are also daily and weekly challenges, both regular and hardcore (although the regular is pretty tough, too).\u00a0 One neat thing is that two people can play at the same time, although it\u2019s hard to tell each other apart when things get chaotic.\u00a0 It\u2019s a shame, because I think a simple thing like putting 1P and 2P over their heads would fix it.<\/p>\n

20XX has some other problems, too.\u00a0 The graphics are a bit bland, and there are only a number of stage themes (plant, fire, sky, and ice).\u00a0 But most importantly, one of the most fun thing about Mega Man games is learning the order of robots and stage layouts so you can get better at the game.\u00a0 And since everything is random here, you don\u2019t get that.\u00a0 But the gameplay is still fun and controls are solid, so if you are a pro at Mega Man X, you should definitely look out for this one.\u00a0 Instead of suing, I think Capcom should take notes from the makers of 20XX.\u00a0 While I don\u2019t like the randomly generated maps, a mini side game like that would add some much needed replay value in a Mega Man game.\u00a0 And wouldn\u2019t you love to be able to play a Mega Man game in co-op?<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

20XX is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You shoot robots with lasers and other weapons, who just explode when defeated.\u00a0 So yeah, no worse than any other Mega Man game.\u00a0 I grew up with these kinds of games and I think I turned out OK.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger gamers and less experienced players may get frustrated at the difficulty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the Mega Man X Collection recently released, and the upcoming Mega Man 11 on the horizon, there sure is a lot of excitement and buzz around the Blue Bomber lately.\u00a0 And if you want to keep that excitement going, and don\u2019t want to wait around for Capcom, then you might want to check out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18153,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18151\/revisions\/18153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}