MEGA MAN X DiVE Offline

The roster mix-and-match brings genuine innovation and sandbox freedom to the franchise. But let's be real—the game is severely bloated. You'll spend way too much time managing redundant upgrade currencies and clicking menus instead of actually playing. It's a fun museum piece, but the mobile-style padding ruins the pacing.

"This game plays best on controller" Followed by the worst controller UI known to mankind. Anyways, treat this game like you would an incremental idle game. The point is to make the numbers go up. Do not expect a proper megaman experience from this game, you won't find it here. All I can say is that I'm not suprised the online gacha version didn't survive. The gameplay itself is very bland. Most of the stages aren't great, the enemy variety is very limited. You will get pulled out of the flow to stand still and deal with enemy waves, but they take too long to spawn. Often you are just standing still in the middle of the room and hold the auto aim fire button to kill anything that walks into your screen. The most important thing are your weapons. The characters are mostly a vehicle to carry the weapons as they individually won't differ that much. Some have synergy with specific weapon types through their passives. The actives are nice but often won't truly shape a unique playstyle. It's nice that you can play as some characters that you normally haven't been able to do before in other megaman games. That said, if you're just here to play a specific character, it's possible you will have to sit through the game for quite a while before you have made the necessary story/level/power progression to unlock them. True to it's gacha nature, they are not made equal. Some characters are rediculously OP in comparison to others. I was able to statcheck all bosses with gangsta boy sigma without taking damage even while only having 66% of the recommended power level. The story is terrible. Not that you expect much from a gacha megaman game I suppose but still. I hope I never have to hear this girl say "Playa-san" again. As mentioned at the start, the UI on controller is atrocious. The actual battle stages are fine, but all the interactible buttons on screen do not have any controller configs. You have to click on them. Which is done by slowly moving the curson with the joystick and pressing the OK button (whatever that is on your preferred controller). The skip button in stages doesn't work on controller at all as you can't move the cursor during them, so you have to grap your mouse to skip. In general, you will find yourself using the controller for the stage and then grabbing the mouse to navigate all buttons/menus. Which is just tedious and should not be the case as we have plenty of examples of gacha UIs that work well with controller mapping. Conclusion: Don't buy this unless you can get it for dirt cheap. There is some enjoyment to be had in this game, but only if you are prepared for what you will get. Don't go in with false expectations or you will be dissapointed.