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Sure, all the long explosion sequences are annoying, but it's still impressive they managed to get a pirated copy of all of michael bay's movies crammed into one Snes game.

I remember how the Maverick bosses didn’t have creative entrances, they just drop from the ceiling.

The Triad Thunder thing is a reference to an old Yokai myth about a giant monster catfish that could cause earthquakes.

Storywise, needing the chimera armor first makes sense since it's probably the only "real" armor, and the other ones are just add-ons, as in a being that fuses animal characteristics into itself, thus a Chimera, plus that's why is the only one you actually get as a physical armor, not as a collectible

Gameplaywise, they could've improved it by making it unmissable like the boots in X1, since it IS easy to skip

I can't stress enough how the Zero Project spoiled me. I can no longer play the original ver. anymore since the Zero Project is the definitive ver. of Megaman X3.

The Zero Saber is hilarious because it sounds exactly like one of those playground rumors.

"You find a hidden teleporter in one of the stages that warps you to Vile so you can kill him early if you use his weakness and then you go to the second Dr. Doppler stage, change to Zero and fight the midboss (which the game lets you do now) and win and the boss self-destructs on Zero so Zero gives X his lightsaber trust me my dad works at Nintendo."

"[T]he remix for Doppler Stage 1 is a crime against humanity"
YES FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT 👏

This series has taught me that there are different levels of perfect

7:04 and how ironic is it that the X button does nothing in a Megaman X game?

As a kid in who played X1 - X3 on the SNES, I played X3 religiously after elementary school. X3 is just my favorite out of the series despite the flaws

I ALWAYS thought the 3rd Armor's Buster looked like a vacuum! Thank you!

I really like X3's OST on the SNES ver.

The helmet map was strangely more useful in the prototype. In addition to mapping out powerups, it also marks boss rooms, Bit/Byte rooms, miniboss rooms, and Ride Armor platforms.

19:10 They missed the oportunity to call him "Bill The Buffalo"

Mega Man X3 is a very rewarding game. It's probably the hardest game in the series when using just the X-buster (probably even more so than X6), but once you get all the power-ups, including Zero's saber, it feels so good.

X3 always held a special place in my heart. As a kid I considered it my favorite Mega Man X game, and I think the reason is that I hadn't gotten a PS1 yet and the only Mega Man game I owned at the time was Mega Man X.

I rented and played X2 from time to time and loved it, but X3 was something special because every time I went to the local blockbuster, it was always the first thing I looked for and it was almost always completely rented out.

That continued to the point where it was the game I went in to try to rent when I learned they had phased out SNES games.

Despite the fact that I now own it on PS2, 3DS, Wii U, and Switch X3 has been immortalized as that special unobtainable Mega Man X game that I fell in love with simply due to the fact that it was rarely in stock at the local blockbuster and those times that it WAS in stock, made the game feel that much more special to me.

That last segment speaks to me quite a bit considering the amount of times I've ended up having drastically different opinions from the various content creators I watch, you included, because Secret Rings is actually a good game and you're wrong for saying otherwise except for the part where you're not wrong as it does have plenty of flaws that can easily turn off many fans of the series. So maybe one day I should just get a capture card so I can make a video on it explaining why I love it to the best of my ability. Same goes for stuff like X6, Dream Drop Distance, Tag Team Racing etc.

Also X3's SNES OST is fire, especially for Gravity Beetle and the credits, and I won't be hearing otherwise.

X3 is my absolute favorite of the SNES games, but that is also because many of the issues reviewers have of the game are there because of the context of X1 and 2, and 4 after it.  When you play those three games, then X4 immediately before or after, some of the design quirks become eminently noticeable.  

The Zero issue, the collectathons, the lack of communication regarding some of its secrets...they all seem woefully deficient.

But for anyone who was hooked on Mega Man back in 1995, X3 was the definitive 90s X game.  It was X....*TAKEN TO THE EXTREME*.

You like those items?  HAVE 10 MORE!  You like that Zero that was TOTALLY RAD in X1 and X2?  YOU CAN FUCKING PLAY AS HIM! (with heavy restrictions, because this is a Mega Man game, not a Zero game.)

You want BIG GAME BREAKING SECRETS?!  We JUST DOUBLED IT!

Honestly, it was entirely normal at the time of release.  

Don't like what they did with Zero?  Do you not remember that Zero was supposed to be the original main character, and Capcom nixed it because he didnt look enough like Mega Man?  You think they were just going to go head first, full on deep end when they made him finally playable?  

No way.

You didn't like the collectathons?  Well then, you don't like 90s games and advertisements.  

Baffled by the secrets, and angry that they werent conveyed at all?  Were you even alive in 1993 when you learned about the Hadouken?  In 94 with the Shoryuken?  NOBODY KNEW THAT FUCKING SHIT WITHOUT A GUIDE.

The complaints for X3 nowadays make it seem like it was a total train wreck at the time of release.  A cacophony of bad game design that hinders an altogether great series.   But for those that played it when it came out, it was exactly what it should have been.

More X - a lot more.  While being totally fun to play, and having lots of options that the other two games simply didn't have.  It was fun as all hell.  

And the Third Armor still stands as the best armor in the SNES series - complete with having the best mobility with the double dash.  

Mega Man wouldn't play as fun as that again until the ZX series.

I fucking love X3.

Quite possibly the greatest name for a Mega Man review ever conceived