I stayed up 4 hours plus to finish Zero 3 and my thumbs hurt, haha.
It's still a little urgh when you're playing in casual and don't know how well or bad you're playing cuz you already have all the elves, (though not leveled up?). I looked up a faq after I finished it and I missed a lot of stuff.
I saw those portal doors things and I wondered what the hex they added to the game cuz I didn't see a difference. Just the green background making me miss the regular colors.
I didn't know that it... gave me all the best elf abilities for free? I didn't really mess with the elf system so I didn't know what changed.
Then it turns out you get minuses on your mission grade when you go to the elf cyberspace thing. And getting grade A or S gets you abilities from beating the bosses?! I only got the Ice Shot thing from the Ice Rabbit boss cuz I was rushing over the ocean and didn't see the portals. I totally missed out on 7 other abilities, darn!
And while I went through all the portals, I didn't see the one in the Weil stage so I missed out on meeting Phantom again, darn!
Oh on the final Omega boss, I was pretty proud of myself for beating him, sorta. I had to memorize the attack patterns for the sword phase and the laser giant robot phase. But fighting actual Zero body Omega? After a few deaths, I chickened out and realized that I can just shoot him with the buster. So I just played keep away (run left, shoot lots. jump over, run right, shoot some more, jump over) until he died. Took a second fight to win with that tactic. I'm still proud for not using an E Tank and really just memorizing the patterns of the first two phases. Having the double jump available from the get go with casual mode really helped.
I really want to meet Phantom again (feel like he's wasted potential) but I'll finish Zero 4 first and see how I feel.
I wanted more of Harpuia being sorta noble. Also ***nir and Leviathan being dopes. So I'm sorry they won't be around for Zero 4. I liked the ZXs a lot cuz of them being sorta around.
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More fingers crossed on the comics coming tomorrow ish.