As in the original game, if the player reaches the fight with Vile in Sigma Palace 3 without the Arm Parts upgrade, Zero will grant them his.Sigma Palace 4 remains relatively unchanged, although Sigma remains in the background during the fight with Velguarder.Sigma Palace 3 is a hall of banners featuring rematches against Chill Penguin, Sting Chameleon and Flame Mammoth, followed by the fight with Vile (without battling his Ride Armor).Sigma Palace 2 has new underground and above-ground platforming segments, and features rematches with Armored Armadillo, Storm Eagle and Spark Mandrill.Sigma Palace 1 goes under the palace's moat rather than scaling the wall, and features rematches with Launch Octopus and Boomerang Kuwanger.The Sigma Palace stages have drastically different layouts, and the boss rematch order in the stages has been rearranged:.The Arm Parts are in Sting Chameleon's stage, in the same place as the Body Parts in the original game.The Body Parts are in Storm Eagle's stage, in the same place as the Head Parts in the original game.It is barricaded by blocks that require the Foot Parts to destroy. The Head Parts are in Chill Penguin's stage, in a new hidden area in the vertical passage just before the Foot Parts in the original game.The Foot Parts are in Flame Mammoth's stage, in the same place as the Arm Parts in the original game but with the ceiling lowered for easier access.Shuffled locations of the Light Capsules containing the Armor Parts:.At the end of the Opening Stage, Vile now has an energy bar and X must defeat him in order to progress.It is a prologue story that depicts the events directly preceding Maverick Hunter X, including the beginning of Sigma's Maverick rebellion and his first confrontation with X. The Day of Σ, an unlockable four-chapter cinematic animation.Selecting Hard causes the player to take more damage and gives bosses more difficult attack patterns, some even utilizing new attacks. Two difficulty options: Normal or Hard.Notably, the eight Maverick bosses have undergone heavy redesigns. Light Capsule designs, Life Energy and Weapon Energy designs, Ride Armor designs). Many characters and items have been redesigned to a more modern aesthetic reminiscent of Mega Man X8, which released in the same year as this title (e.g. A brand-new graphical art style featuring 3D graphics.As a remake, Maverick Hunter X provides a large amount of changes and new features to the original Mega Man X experience.