Trivia / Mega Man X7

• Acting for Two: Vanishing Gungaroo gets this in both languages. In Japanese, he shares a voice actress (Rumi Kasahara) with Alia. In the English dub, he instead shares a voice actress (Lenne Hardt) with Axl, which is very noticeable when bringing Axl into the boss fight at Tunnel Base.
• End of an Era: The last Mega Man X installment to feature Showtaro Morikubo (who first took over in Mega Man X5) as the title character. As such, it's also the last X game where he lends his vocals to the soundtrack, performing the ending theme "Lazy Mind."
• Follow the Leader: Review outlets of the time incessantly lambasted X4, X5, and X6 for not following the Video Game 3D Leap trend of the time, despite being otherwise solid games (for the most part). Unfortunately, when Capcom finally decided to do something about it, the results were messy, landing X7 as another video game victim of the transition to 3D.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Prior to the Legacy Collection, X7 was the only X game to never see a re-release on platforms such as the Nintendo Virtual Console or Play Station Network.
• Promoted Fanboy: Probably because of his review of the game and the memes it created, ProJared was invited as a guest to Capcom's 30th Anniversary celebration of the Mega Man franchise.
• Urban Legend of Zelda: An interview with Tatsuya Minami allegedly claimed there would be a two-player mode, which never made it into the game. However, this was more likely a mistranslation of Minami explaining how the player can control one of two characters in the same stage.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The official X7 website said Splash Warfly was planned to be an archerfish. However, archerfish don't look distinct enough for an interesting design, so they turned him into a flying fish that spits water lasers like an archerfish instead.
  • On the back of the game's case, X can be seen in the highway of the opening stage. This is impossible in-game, implying he may have been playable earlier in the game during development. That or the screenshot was fabricated to resemble X1's opening stage for customers (as that part of the intro stage is the exact same level, one of many Continuity Nods to the original game and the SNES trilogy by proxy).

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