Ranked #1262

Irregular Hunter X: The Day of Sigma

Megaman X was an awesome game when it first came out to the SNES, that said I had very high expatiation's when it came to hearing about this movie.

Those expatiation's quickly fell to ruin as I realized they changed a large part of the story line.

Following this movies story line writes out Dr.Cain which couldn't of happened yet due to the main fact that he was in X2. On top of that they turn him into a more useless old man(in X2 he was up and still helping and even rebuilds Zero if you can collect all the parts)

they also changed Dr.Lights main persona and reason for creating X making him instead into just a newer robot with the ability to think and feel into a newer warbot whom must fight for justice. Dr.Light wasn't designing X for war more just as an advanced thinking and feeling robot not a reploids.

The fact that they also calmed that X was the 'birth' for all reploids was pure bullshit to the story line as well (though the games don't fully go into it it's believed ((at least before this came out)) that there where reploids before X was found. They may not have been the exact same as X but that's what made X more special.)

I will say this the movie had very good art too it and was rather well animated, a lot better then the game it came from (psp remake of X1)

It's a good movie if you wish to ignore the raw story line of the games other then that I suggest not watching it. read more

Megaman X was first released in 1993. The series was the first of many spin-offs of Capcom's Megaman franchise and has been highly successful, receiving eight sequels (one being the Command Mission RPG), and a prequel OVA. That's right, back in 2005 Capcom and Xebec combined efforts and came up with an OVA prequel for the Megaman X franchise. Let's take a look at Maverick Hunter X: The Day of Sigma.

The story is pretty simple. It's about how Sigma went from being a maverick hunter, to the head maverick. For those of you who aren't familiar with the games, reploids are robots with the power of self determination. Occasionally some of them go "maverick" and try to harm others or just go berserk. If you're a fan of the X franchise it's an interesting look at the way things were before Sigma's treachery, even if you already know how things are going to end.

The Day of Sigma does do a decent job of fleshing out some of the characters a bit more than what you see of them in the games, especially Sigma and Vile. It avoids throwing in a bunch of characters from the games in order to keep things fairly clean and focused. Which does work to its benefit.

The art is deliberately reminiscent of the games. The characters look good and the battle scenes, though short, are nice and intense. Unfortunately, the backgrounds are kind of dull.

The voice acting is pretty well done. Sakurai Takahiro, Okiayu Ryotaro and Mugihito especially give strong performances. X is Cloud Strife, I just had to point that out. The music is pretty weak and forgettable. It could have benefited from doing more with the background music.

The yuri factor is a 1/10. There's only one female character and she has a small role.

My final rating for Maverick Hunter X: The Day of Sigma is an 8/10. If you're a fan of the Megaman X franchise you should definitely see it. If you aren't you should probably skip it since there's really nothing to appeal to non-fans. read more