I’ve been playing videogames for 25 years and reading about them for 23. I’ve been obsessed with them for most of my life, and I honestly didn’t think I could learn anything new. How wrong I was!
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Videogames are a fairly young medium. Because of this, they don’t often receive the same sort of criticism and analysis that other media does. This is probably due a variety of factors, from a lack of demand to the inability of many game writers<\/a> to put together an accurate article<\/a>, let alone something that’s actually compelling.<\/p>\n It’s sometimes difficult to sift through all the crap sites that post upskirts from ‘Super Smash Bros.’, rumors parading as news, and misleading headlines that completely fail to convey what’s contained inside. But every once in a while, you’ll find a diamond in the rough.<\/p>\n While perusing Topless Robot<\/a><\/em>, a site that Josh got me totally hooked on, I found one of these diamonds in the form of a YouTube video. It’s part of what will hopefully be a long-running series called ‘Sequilitis’, and it presents the game ‘Mega Man X’ in a way that I had never even thought about before. I know that I mentioned this video in a recent Weekend Roundtable<\/a>, but I think it’s good enough to deserve its own post.<\/p>\n The video in question is titled ‘Mega Man Classic vs. Mega Man X,’ but that’s really deceptive. The video is better described as a 20-minute love letter to ‘Mega Man X’. Ten minutes of that are dedicated solely to the first stage. That’s right, the first stage.<\/p>\n