Finished Mega Man X2!!!!!

I finished the game June 29th. I thought I was going to need to try again, but I got so far that I decided to see if I can finished it, What the hell, I’ll go for it, I said. I have all I need, so I’ll go on ahead and learn what’s around for next time. It turned out that it wasn’t a waste of four hours…well I had to eat dinner in the middle of it because I didn’t like to play hungry. Read on for the details…

I still had a couple more upgrades to get before venturing out to the X-Hunters’ Base. I wanted to get the last Sub-Tank located at the Central Computer stage. It was difficult because even though I learned that I needed to use the Fire Dash move, I kept jumping too soon or falling right before I reached the edge of the wall. After several tries, I ran out of fire energy and had to EXIT and start the stage again with full WE for the fire weapon.

After I got that last Sub-Tank, I tried to get the Heart Tank above the spikes in the Dinosaur Tank stage. I lost cluster after cluster of lives before I finally did a good long dash jump and then the fire dash move….and it seemed like I made it, but I fell into the spikes again   >=(   But I got it the next time.

I didn’t bother to get the Heart Tank in the Crystal Mine stage, it was just too frustrating. So I went ahead and started the X-Hunter Base. It was refreshing to hear music different from the music for the other stages. I had to use a lot of skills, especially the dash jump, and even the crystal hunter weapon got some good use. I had to have X use it to crystallize some Mavericks to get to an area that he couldn’t reach…

This Mega Man X2 game is the first one to introduce the choose-your-battle stage of the Maverick bosses. This is the order of the Maverick bosses I fought:

1. Crystal Snail

2. Morpho Moth

3. Flame Stag

4. Magna Centipede

5. Overdrive Ostrich

6. Wheel Gator

7. Bubble Crab

8. Wire Sponge

Gosh, I hate that Wire Sponge! Next to Magna Centipede, anyway. But it’s those little plants that Wire Sponge throws out that annoy me because of shooting him, I have to shoot those plants first or they’ll hurt X. And if I touch Wire Sponge at all, it hurts him to much so I have to avoid him, of course. I’m glad that there were at least four small energy pills after every battle so I can survive up until the last boss. Then, after that stage, I went to the Dinosaur Tank stage to fill up all four of my Sub-Tanks really quickly. I ‘m glad I did, because the next thing I knew, I’d be at the final stage.

My sister wants to be the one to start Mega Man X3. That’s the one where we can play as Zero. Since we’re playing the Mega Man X Collection together, I’ll blog about the stages and bosses she encounters, and the things I notice that she isn’t while she plays (because I make a good backseat gamer).