Thursday, March 25, 2021

Mega Man X: Maverick Hunter's Field Guide Preview Pages

You know how I said the Maverick Hunter's Field Guide would have a few little surprises? Well, these new preview pages show off one of them: brand-new character art!

The book will feature new art for more than a dozen different Hunters, Maverick and Reploids. Case in point,Vanishing Gungaroo and Duckbill Mole. Just two of many!

You can check out additional preview pages from Udon Entertainment's blog here.

Mega Man X: Maverick Hunter's Field Guide is due on August 17th. Pre-orders are available now via Amazon.

16 comments:

  1. I figured the art was what you were hinting at.
    Looks good. Just got my hardcover of the original book. It's nice.
    Who is the artists for the updated art?

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    1. Oh, I see. Jeffrey “Chamba” Cruz
      So it's unofficial art? If it looks good, that's good enough for me.

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    2. The artwork was comissioned by Capcom. It's official.

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  2. Now I really can't wait for this to be released!

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  3. Sonic Shield as Gungaroon's weapon? His moveset does not even have shielding, is it a mistake that will get fixed in the final release?

    And MAN, everyone gets a new art here, my God. This is so awesome. If the forms of the playable characters will also get illustrated, I'll need to pick this thing up 100%. It might be more than just a fieldguide to all of X-series...

    Yes, I believe that if White Axl will get his art, we might as well get to know the course of X9, if that art will actually be a teaser to it. The next mainline game in this franchise is coming out in spring of 2022 apparently.

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    1. I hope you're right and we don't have to wait another four years
      after X9 for another mainline game.

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    2. You may wanna go play (probably watch) the fight instead; the Sonic Shield is that giant orange barrier he spits out of his mouth.

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    3. Spike, I played in X7 myself. All I remember from it are my emulator lagging in that fight and Japanese dialogues with Gungaroon XD

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    4. X9 is good, but I'm not sure how this maverick field guide (whatever it even means or what it's for) relates to X9 or where the spring 2022 assumption came from if anything is even being made now. Looks like just old mavericks posted here to me. Same thing on his twitter. I see nothing new at all here. All they do these days is rehash old stuff, whether it is dive or whatever, sadly. Kind of boring same old same old. Like they ran out of ideas.

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    5. Gary Daniel, this assumption came from a leak that revealed the release dates of a lot of Capcom's upcoming projects, including a new Rockman game that was announced to be in early development state back in the fall of 2019. It can't be X DiVE since it was revealed in August 2019. I can't find the links to these articles but I'm not here to spread false info.

      And looking at what X DiVE has, this makes me worried about this new title.

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  4. I can't edit my previous comment, woops.
    Yes, Gungaroon actually has one attack that is called "Sonic Shield". And I misunderstood what the "weapon" part in the description meant.

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  5. Okay, this is cool and all, but...I wonder if I set my
    expectations a tad too high for those "surprises". I was
    leaning towards the book revealing "X9 maverick concepts",
    but this is only a taste of things to come, so we'll just
    wait and see.

    By the way, sorry I reposted this comment too many times,
    your site doesn't seem too friendly to comment on my phone.

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  6. I am always game for art. Maybe we can get official art now for X-Fire.

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  7. You know...flame hyenard actually looks pretty badass.

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  8. Good to know you had a hand in creating this guide; I won't be purchasing it. I'm not supporting any Mega Man products you worked on; you advocate for admins and mods bullying others on Reddit and Discord's and it's disgusting. Your group doesn't have a monopoly on Mega Man thankfully we'll vote with our wallets.

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    1. I genuinely have no idea what you are talking about. *I* don't tolerate bullying in any form. Period. If there is any issue, by all means, reach out to me via email or DM.

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