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Later, Vent/Aile receive a signal from Model W, located at the Slither Inc. However, Vent/Aile is stalled by Pandora and the Biometal is moved elsewhere. Upon retrieving all eight Biometal pieces and their passwords, Vent/Aile is able to enter a secret location and find Model W.

He/she succeeds in defeating Promethus before recovering the rest of the pieces. Now the Guardians, including Vent/Aile, must recover eight Biometal fragments and stop Serpent.Īfter finding four of eight Biometal pieces, the Guardian HQ comes under attack from Mavericks, led by Prometheus, with Vent/Aile aiding in the defenses. By "double mega-merging" with both Model X and Model Z, he/she uses the form Model ZX to escape. Giro hands Model Z over to Vent/Aile during his dying moments and transforms into a Cyber Elf. He expresses his intent to find the Model W Core, and leaves, but not before possessing a weakened Giro with the power of Model W.
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Serpent reveals his knowledge of the Biometal and says that he's also a Mega Man, possessing Model W.

The duo meet the president of Slither Inc., Serpent, and his Reploid guardians, Prometheus and Pandora. Later, a Maverick attack is spotted at the Slither Inc. After finding Giro, in the form of Mega Man Model Z, they board an airship deemed the Guardian's headquarters. With the help of Model X, the Maverick is destroyed. Model X lends its strength to Vent/Aile, allowing him/her to "Megamerge" and transform into Mega Man Model X. Here, he/she meets with Prairie, the leader of the Guardians, but their meeting is cut short when a Maverick attacks the group. Vent/Alie escape the area while Giro covers their retreat. Vent/Aile and Giro are ambushed by Mavericks after meeting up. Giro is contacted by an unknown person to deliver a package containing Biometal Model X to a rendezvous point in a forest. He/she is taken in by Girouette (Giro for short in North America and Europe), the owner of Giro Express (Girouette Express in Japan), a delivery service. In response, Ciel created six new Biometals (based on Mega Man X, Zero, and the Four Guardians of Neo Arcadia) to counter the growing threat.Ī decade prior to the beginning of the story, Vent or Aile (depending on what gender the player chooses) loses his/her mother to a Maverick raid on an amusement park and becomes orphaned. The group's original leader, Ciel, mysteriously disappeared after an investigation where she discovered a Biometal (a living artifact containing characteristics of someone who lived long ago) called "Model W", which turned her team into Mavericks. To repel the attacks, people banded together to create the Guardians, a Maverick-fighting defense and investigation force. Trading between nations became obstructed, forcing the nations to separate into utopian cities. However, the peace is disrupted by several incidents of Reploids mysteriously going Maverick. Cain prior to Mega Man X - now coexist peacefully, successfully restoring Earth's former nations thanks to the technological efforts of Slither Inc. In the year 25XX, humans and Reploids - sentient androids initially created by Dr. The game was re-released in February 2020 as part of the Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and Microsoft Windows. Proving to be a success, a sequel, Mega Man ZX Advent, was released the following year, in 2007. The game received positive reviews from critics, who praised its gameplay and level design, but were divided about its high difficulty level. The game's plot revolves around the efforts of the protagonist and a peacekeeping organization known as the Guardians to recover powerful ancient artifacts, the Biometals, from the Pseudoroids, evil robots made to harness their power, and stop their creator. Set two hundred years after Mega Man Zero 4, ZX introduces a new open-ended gameplay environment and features the ability to select the protagonist's gender, a first in the Mega Man series. It was released on Jin Japan, Septemin North America, Jin Australia, and Jin Europe. Mega Man ZX is an action platform game developed by Inti Creates and published by Capcom for the Nintendo DS handheld game console.
