30XX Reviews

Absolutely obsessed with the soundtrack. Cityfires, you magic man.

There's hardly any homoerotic tension, but other than that it's a worthy successor.

Admittedly this is a very good game, waaaaay better than the content (ie mega man) that it's based on, but the higher difficulties are a bit over engineered, it would require some hardcore luck to actually beat the hardest settings. Granted I'm just okay at this stuff, but I know people who tend to excel at such content and just saying, not a single one could max out the entropy in this game and actually get past the first level. But if just to go middle of the road with the difficulty this is a very fun solid gaming experience. I kinda hope eventually there'll be a 40XX.

To compare this to their previous game, 20XX. 20XX was orderly and the bosses made sense. 30XX the levels look like random arrangements of scrap materials, and some of the bosses are absurdly hard compared to everything around them. Finally, getting a lab powerup that disables boss battles, I thought I would be able to make it to the end. Then the end game mini boss, a dragon bot, after being defeated splits into 3 parts and makes total chaos of the battlefield. And forget about the stage itself, which looks like all the elements of the game were put in a blender and splattered all over the screen. I believe this game would be improved by the inclusion of a dodge button, as there doesn't seem to be any other way to dodge some of these attack patterns besides being in the right place at the right time. But you have to deal with that like 15-20x while fighting these bosses which is enough to wipe out a full health bar if you aren't playing carefully. This is even with "danger hints" that you get as to what attack is going to come where. The only thing this hints seem to do is embolden the designers to make harder and harder attack patterns. I would recommend 20XX over this game anyday. If you want something that's insanely hard, then fine, get this. You asked for it.

A huge and overall improvement from 20XX, and a must have for Megaman X fans. Highly recommend playing this game with Megaman X rebirth mods.

Tons of fun if you have a friend who's into the genre and likes MegaMan-like gameplay!

Mega Man X inspired game. Great graphics and fun gameplay, challenging too. If you like Mega Man X, you should get this one

One of my best friends bought this for my birthday, knowing my love of games that are hard as nails and for the Mega Man franchise. Let me say that this game does not disappoint in either of those areas; it scratches that deep itch for a new Mega Man style game that I will never get because Capcom just seemed to forget about that franchise existing, while also being challenging every step of the way. This is a great sequel to 20XX, it has challenging bosses that are new that each get progressively meaner depending on which order you take them in; levels sprinkled with random rewards that make you take BOTH paths when you encounter a fork in the road just to make sure you didn't miss out on any of the new Challenge levels. It's easy enough starting out if it is your first dive into this sort of game, and it gets progressively harder as you complete levels; even allowing you to make the game harder for yourself through tweaking various options, or easier by taking any of the different starting power-ups, with nearly limitless ways to build out your favorite heroes. The best part about this game, is that it's art style and game play intrigued my wife enough to start playing, and the challenge kept her interest enough to keep at it; and now she and I have something we enjoy playing together! 100% recommend this game, and it's predecessor. The team at Batterystaple Games absolutely put their hearts into this game and it shows.

Much worse than 20XX. Bosses are overall designed much worse with far less avoidable attacks and far more HP. They're just plain less fun. Level design is mostly great just like in 20XX except that a couple of levels have new obstacle mechanics that are just frustrating and absolutely atrocious becoming nightmare fuel if left for last, it really feels like they created these new obstacle mechanics simply for the sake of having something different in the sequel without truly considering if it were genuinely fun or f they needed to do that in the first place. And last but not least they made Nina (ranged pewpew) wayyyy stronger by giving her the ability to have multiple guns at the same time firing simultaneously while Ace (melee character) much worse both indirectly through the boss design and directly by giving him unique powers plus 3 extra power slots except that all the powers are both more boring and far worse than both Nina's and the dlc character's. So you're left with two real characters, one of which is paid dlc, and some joke challenge characters that just nerf you in an already ridiculously difficult and unfair game? VS 20XX which has 4 well balanced characters all of which are just as fun to play and 2 of which are paid dlc but on one of the most unique and well designed roguelikes you will ever play? Yeah big difference. Just go play 20XX instead, it seems like they stopped even updating it which is a shame because I feel like this game was close to still being a great game in its own right even though its far worse than 20XX it just needed a little more to be able to look past its serious flaws. Make no mistake though in its current state this is not a good game it is simply mid :(

So much fun, but expect to die... a lot... and in sometimes humorous ways. They keep with the tradition of rouge-likes to let you buy upgrades for later runs and the funds to do so are more plentiful than in the previous game. A definite must have if you like side-scroller MegaMan games.