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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Game Boy Title!, January 17, 2001
By A Customer
Liked Super Mario Brothers DX but just need something a little bit faster for your tastes? You'll find it in Megaman Xtreme. This game is a solid conversion of the original Super Nintendo side-scroller classics and it features bosses from Megaman X and Megaman X2.Some of you might be wondering how they implemented dashing in this one, since the Game Boy only has two buttons (traditionally, X is a three button game - shooting, jumping, and dashing). They worked around this quite nicely. You can double-tap the directional pad to dash forward. Down-A made you slide in the original games, but it also makes you dash here (very useful). For dash jumping from wall to wall, it is automatic once you find the dash upgrade early in the game. There are also functions for auto-charging of the X-Buster, as well as for auto-firing. A few suggestions. Although it is supposed to work on a normal Game Boy, it's performance is prone to a great deal of slowdown. Whereas, in contrast, the Game Boy Color runs as smoothly as the SNES originals did. In fact, I don't even think I noticed any slowdown, despite how much was happening on the screen. Besides this, the GBC naturally gives color to the game and it is very nice. The backgrounds are every bit as detailed as in the SNES titles, although the sprites are a kind of simplistic in comparison. They animate very well, however. Overall, this is a very cool Game Boy game. But you'll want to have a Game Boy Color to really appreciate it.
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