Upon selecting your team, you'll have the option of choosing one of three navigators (or none) to see you through the mission. Once X recovers new armor suits, you'll have the option of using and customizing them (in the Neutral Armor's case) or sticking with normal X without armor equipped. Much like X7 you'll have two characters to choose before tackling a mission (except the inital Noah's Park run-through).

The final three bosses have health bars just under the entire width of the screen.Enemies exhibit stronger attacks and defense (such as the floating turrets shooting beams rather than small energy balls).Bosses will engage their Overdrives with half their health lost.Watch extra cutscenes after the final Vile battle and during the final Sigma battle.All enemies are at standard health and attack level.Can't bring developed chips into a New Game + session.The game will end upon defeating (final) Sigma, with a teaser after the credits of the final battle against Lumine.Can't unlock the Ultimate Armor, Zero's Black Armor, Axl's White Armor or the РћР€ Blade through selecting New Game +.Can't fight Cut Man in Optic Sunflower's stage.Enemies and mini-bosses (including the Crab Mechaniloid) are much weaker with respect to Normal mode.Many chips won't ever be available to develop.You'll have a bundle of chips already developed, and there won't be any Rare Metals to find.Differences experienced between the three in gameplay and cutscenes are:

Mega Man X8 features three difficulty settings: Easy, Normal & Hard (selected when you start a new game). If you've finished the game already and want a quick overview on what else there is to do, you'll find everything here. Much of this information can be considered to be spoilers, so it's advised that you use caution while reading on as certain things like game endings and hidden unlockables will be revealed here (but are presented at the bottom of the page). This section deals with hints and tips detailing various pieces of information about the game that don't really fit anywhere else.

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