



Mega Man X3 is full of strange stuff like this most prominently, it's absolutely overdosed on collectables, for one thing. Its direct predecessor X2 was still novel enough, though cracks were already starting to show in the bizarre structure that saw you gathering sidekick Zero's "parts" (oo-er!) from the X-Hunters essentially a different experience every time, but mostly it just ended up funneling you wherever the game needed you to go for the "good ending", encouraging you not to care about it lest you have a much more frustrating experience. And X5 is mostly interesting on a conceptual level rather than actually fun to play. But I have weird Mega Man X opinions in general, I suppose the only ones I really like are the original, X5 and X8. I've been pilloried for this before, metaphorically stung with vicious verbal barbs, physically bruised by thrown projectiles.
