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BEETBOOD Man, it's like Opposites Week or something. I never have trouble with Blizzard Buffalo, but Gravity Beetle kicked my rear all over the place back in the day. Also, I think you can hold the Frost Shield in front of you if you keep Y held down, but don't quote me on that. Makes it way more us...

Oof, raocow. I feel like that was a bit of a needless death montage there, considering you actually already have Blizzard Buffalo's weakness weapon!

It was interesting watching someone fight him the intended buster-only way, though, and with minimal upgrades at that.

Ouch, that was a LOT of death, but that lets me segue into this little bit of trivia: anyone remember Nintendo Power magazine? They used to host challenges where entrants could win prizes by submitting photos of themselves accomplishing certain feats, and one of the two Megaman X3 challenges present...

Ah, X3. I was able to play X1 and X2 intimately soon after their respective releases, but I unfortunately never came into contact with a physical copy of X3, so it wasn't until emulation I was able to properly experience it. I know where most of the junk is and how to get it, but as for neat little ...

Oh, I'm aware of Zero's backstory (what little we're actually told) and his relation to [redacted]. I've played X1-X6, and the first three Zero games (though its been a while). I just forgot that particular line on this story path, and thought it was a little weirdly phrased. Ah, okay. I brought up...

I can't confirm anything behind the scenes or in the Japanese version, but I'll just say that Zero is complicated. This game presents the first tiny sparks of his backstory, but that backstory isn't going to come at us full throttle until X4, which I'm sure raocow won't be playing anytime soon. It w...

I'm a bit of a purist when it comes to first time Megaman experiences, so I'm in agreement about it being unsporting to look up weaknesses; however, I can understand someone doing this in the latter Megaman titles when Capcom got lazy and started giving bosses a single weakness rather than the secon...

So raocow's usual thing is to play games he's never played before, but I gotta' say, having Informantcow in videos like these has been an oddly soothing change of pace. As such, I think it'd be really cool, dear cow of raos, if, in either of the two videos remaining, you showed off one of the charge...

Man, it's my favorite kind of level, the infamous "a game within an entire level" type. Sometimes less is more, people! What the heck is the song that plays while you're fighting the elite trio? I know I've heard it before but I can't place it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXK9mgCbf9g T...

Funny how Serges goes from the most pitiful of the X-Hunters to the absolute worst. I didn't foresee quite that much death when I envisioned raocow's rematch with the old robot.

...who the hell makes old man robots, anyway? Yeesh.

Ah, right. I had a feeling it'd be in the collabs I didn't fully watch. Thanks guys!

Now that's a good gimmick level. Enough said!

Also, I've been out of the loop on a couple of the last collabs. Is this the first time we've heard Undertale music in one of raocow's videos?

One of the problems with me always starting with Wire Sponge is that I had no clue that the weather crystals could be affected by weapons. This is the first time I'm seeing that fog effect in action. Learning new things here!

I made an interesting observation today: both Serges's head cannon shots and the spikes on his platform only deal one point of damage. The floor mines, however, do WAY more and are in your best interest to destroy and/or avoid. Huh.

Am I recalling right there are only limited chances to get the X-Hunters? That's right. Basically, if you go to a stage one of the X-Hunters is in and neglect to fight them and win, you forfeit that Zero part permanently and have to take the B ending. Game over doesn't count against you, however, a...

Well that was a fun, enjoyable LP for me to come back into watching raocow regularly on. Not gonna' give an exhaustive list of changes between the old and new Bowser's Castle, but in addition to the fact that the old one has no midpoint, one of the most significant differences is that hallway with t...

While Annex of Castle follows the same basic structure of the original, the inner dynamics of it were changed substantially. The first part used a special current different and much stronger from the current seen in OSE. The vertical pieces of current hamper jumps significantly, by which I mean othe...

I'm a Wire Sponge first kind of guy. Call me vanilla and old-fashioned, but his weapon is nice for alternate means of obtaining stuff (like the upgrade in Wheel Gator's stage, which I used to think required the boots). I assume there's something particularly useful behind those blocks; been so long ...

Today's level song was brought to you by Touhou 5! Last Judgment, I believe it's called. So, fun little trivia: a long time ago, like...even before OSE came out, I read that you can apparently choose the EXACT FRAMES those custom muncher and flamethrower blocks hurt you on, so Anikiti was just being...

Congratulations on making it through Anikiti Airship Hell™, raocow! You must be overjoyed! One of the reasons SMB3's music loops so quickly is because SMB3's levels are actually really damn short. They lack midpoints and are very often only about 10-12 screens long, and the airships are even shorter...

Well, that certainly happened. I was expecting the deaths to be against Sigma's final form rather than his silly original body. I forgot you had to repeat the text expositions with every single death. That sure is a drag. X2's next, huh? Gotta' say, even though I think the original Megaman X is the ...

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Yeah, there are actually more sprites to deal with overall, but the diagonal bullet bill generator that permeated the entire level is gone, so that generator-based difficulty that people often complain about is missing.

Anyway, that secret capsule is pretty tedious. It's not difficult to get like the one in X2, but revisiting the same area just before the boss chamber four times in a row is counter-intuitive. The reward looks pretty slick, though, and it's a shame we won't see Sigma getting blown down by a shockwa...

For what it's worth, the airship has three power-ups now instead of one as well, some of the terrain was subtly changed around to make a few jumps easier, a few flame shooters were removed, and there are sniffits in addition to the diagonal shooters.

The Catacomb's a heck of a lot easier with a cape, but raocow goes oldschool mode and proves that you don't need one. So the first level of today's video is the only one that's significantly different from the original. It was a forced power-up filter + mushroom bounce section akin to that one secre...