{"id":3648,"date":"2023-11-24T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T22:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2023-10-04T20:39:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T02:39:29","slug":"video-game-mega-man-x-dive-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/24\/video-game-mega-man-x-dive-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO GAME: Mega Man X Dive (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/3\/3d\/MegamanXdivekeyvisual.png\/220px-MegamanXdivekeyvisual.png\" alt=\"Mega Man X Dive\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\">Mega Man X Dive<br>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2020<br>\nRating: T<br>\nTime Played: 23,340 minutes \/ 389.00 hours<\/p>\n<p>Having played almost every single <em>Mega Man X<\/em> game, the one thing I felt was missing from these games is the variety of player characters. Sure, you can start playing as Zero in <a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/28\/video-game-mega-man-x4-1997\/\"><em>Mega Man X4<\/em><\/a> and as Axl in <em>Mega Man X7<\/em>. You can even play as Vile in <em>Maverick Hunter X<\/em> (a <a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/14\/video-game-mega-man-x-1994\/\"><em>Mega Man X<\/em><\/a> remaster). But what if you could play as the Mavericks? Heck, what if you could play as Mega Man from other <em>Mega Man<\/em> franchises? <em>Mega Man X Dive<\/em> delivered on this premise.<\/p>\n<p>As a free-to-play mobile gatcha game, most of the gameplay was rather shallow once you&#8217;d gotten through all of it. The new content wasn&#8217;t much different from previous events, boss rushes, or speedrun challenges. At a certain point, all I was doing was collecting resources to power up the characters and weapons I had obtained. I&#8217;m disappointed that the end-of-service is likely on the horizon since the Taiwan server closed down recently. I&#8217;m not sure I want to start over with <em>Mega Man X Dive Offline<\/em> since I sunk so much time into this game already.<\/p>\n<p>Still, for a franchise that Capcom seems to have forgotten about, I had fun playing &#8220;<em>Mega Man X<\/em> lite&#8221; while it lasted. The crossover characters with <em>Monster Hunter<\/em>, <em>Devil May Cry<\/em>, and <em>Street Fighter<\/em> were a lot of fun. And yes, there was likely a bit too much fan service for the handful of female characters that were canonically in the <em>Mega Man<\/em> franchise. But in the end, I expected as much for a free-to-play mobile gatcha game. Maybe if the Offline version of the game gets deeply discounted, I&#8217;ll pick it up again.<\/p>\n<p>An OK game to satiate starving <em>Mega Man<\/em> fans, I give <em>Mega Man X Dive <\/em>3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\">&nbsp;<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\"><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/bmw-the-critic\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2.jpg 820w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2-768x292.jpg 768w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2-640x244.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mega Man X Dive Year: 2020 Rating: T Time Played: 23,340 minutes \/ 389.00 hours Having played almost every single Mega Man X game, the one thing I felt was missing from these games is the variety of player characters. Sure, you can start playing as Zero in Mega Man X4 and as Axl in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,3353,1900],"tags":[2282,2600,3522,2243,3309,3521,2605,1903,8,906],"class_list":["post-3648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-0-stars","category-free-to-play","category-video-game","tag-2282","tag-free-to-play","tag-gatcha","tag-mega-man","tag-mega-man-x","tag-mega-man-x-dive","tag-mobile","tag-platformer","tag-review","tag-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3652,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions\/3652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}