The DEFINITIVE Guide to Mega Man X2 (All Items, NO Backtracking)
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2020
- The Mega Man X Guide series continues forward as I will show how to collect every single item in Mega Man X2 WITHOUT BACKTRACKING. It's also easy to do, so strap in and enjoy the video!
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As a youngun I went in to a rental store to rent Mega Man X even though I had already rented and beaten that game in the past. The employee said it was rented out and brought out a new game that he said had just come in, it was Mega Man X2!! One of the best surprises in my life.
I had a nearly identical experience with X2.
“Alright bullies it’s been a hot minute.”
*Hits like button*
If you stand in the doorway before the room that you'd normally fight Zero, you can Shoryuken into the center of the room and Zero will drop you into the Sigma fight. This gives you straight up invincibility during phase one Sigma as the game still thinks you're in the dialogue cutscene with Zero and Sigma.
In Bubble Crab's stage, you can use a charged Sonic Slicer to one-shot the giant fish miniboss.
I’m thankful for this comment
@DuoDynamo: glad I wasn't the only one thinking of this when watching the video
Bro ty for this, i like ur comment
Yoo
That precision jump for the arm parts can burn in hell. I went through over 15 full bars of weapon energy over the course of 2 hours and still couldn’t get it using the strike chain.
Same. I even got it down to hit that wall with Strike Chain over and over, but the chain detaches from the wall without pulling me to it. Seems bugged tbh. If I had tried it without having seem it being done I would have deemed it coded to be impossible. As it turns out, it’s just poorly coded instead.
It’s crazy hard but possible. I discovered that you have to jump slightly lower than you think and the strike chain makes up for it, if that even makes sense. J is definitely either quite good at it or very lucky because he did not explain how hard it is lol.
X2 is honestly my favorite X game of all time (let alone favorite video game in general), and seeing this guide has given me a huge incentive to revisit it again and try out this order! I always find myself backtracking since I always started with Wheel Gator since he's the easiest and just collect items and parts as I go, then do a quick clean up before the X-Hunter stages.
10/10 guide, J!
X2 is my fav X game as well!
By the way, great video once again J. I think that you mentioned something that made me realize why I might like X2 so much: there are many possible 100% routes and ways to get through the game, while some of the other X games are more limited with the routes that you could take. It reminds me of how MM2, and to a lesser extent, MM3, have several possible good boss orders.
It's my favourite of the X games myself too. It just does what X1 did, but better. X3 had issues and obsession with wall climbing + wall cancer.
@@TheJadeFist You're right, there is a ton of wall climbing in X3. I still like X3 a lot. However, in comparison to X2, I found the boss weapons in 3 much less fun to use. I do think that part of that is the enemy design, as the enemies in X3 love to have invulnerable spots.
@@co81385 X3 is still a good game, but man it has its issues. The only good boss weapon is really the Ray Splasher, it's simple and works well against almost every enemy.
X3 is also probably the hardest of the 3, you start with so little life and everything deals alot of damage compared to the 2 previous games. And the enemy like you said have weaknesses, or they take more hits on average, or they all have some kind of defense, be it drills, spike balls or simply being on the wall you are currently trying to climb, they're just so much more annoying on average, and the whole game is that way.
@@co81385 Well that and the ice shield is strong too, but it's also a bit gimmicky in the way it works, slow moving projectiles and falling on the ground.
If J reviews the Classic Series, 2020 might just become tolerable.
True!
Calling it right now, classic series sucks compared to the rest!
@@TheRealBlazingDiamond what the hell are you smoking?
@@IdleMoo24 The fuck are YOU smoking? I'm just stating facts.
@@TheRealBlazingDiamond care to explain why?
A better way to get Crystal Snails Heart Tank is to hold the attack button on the edge then use its jet pack. You travel farther with attack than the dash. Plus less wire, I hate that weapon.
You can also mash the jump button to get even further distance. I find this generally to be the safest method since the ride armor can usually cross the entire pit if you mash fast enough
@@grimspecs4752 You don't even have to mash. Just tap it enough to gain small boosts so you don't gain or lose any height. I always do it that way because it's easy.
The charge attack method was the business! I'm playing the Megaman X collection and I have to replay megaman x2 for the hunter medals. Idk how many times I died trying to get the heart container at Crystal Snail's stage. Thank you for that you pro gamer you!
Hey @J’s Reviews
@5:35 You can actually get the heart container without the strike chain in Crystal Snail’s stage. All you need to do is to dash jump with the ride armor and then repeatedly tap the jump button in order to get to that ledge.
I could show you a video example if you want to see the trick in action.
I usally do a combination of both it makes it Less hard,
If you hold the rider armor's "charge" and release towards the pit, you can actually hover over the gap VERY quickly and then have X just jump out when the armor begins to fall.
for newbie i would say just charge atk + directional of heart, release charge atk and tap jump REPEATEDLY as fast as you can, even if you failed you should be really close to heart and just jump out of mech
@@maxinehell1394 I appreciate this comment is from a year ago, but I was stuck on this heart tank for the longest time and this tip to use the charge attack and repeatedly tapping jump in the mech made getting across SO easy.
you are a legend i've been trying for hours
I like to think when X fought sigma he just uppercut him so hard his head fell off and rolled around like a potato
*FATALITY*
This, again, was pretty awesome. I've never really tried things this way before. I'd usually go for the boss weakness chain. But seeing things this way is just very interesting. It makes me excited to go back to my favorite Mega Man games!
You know it's funny how I'm still a veteran of the X series but still love watching other people's strategies on how they optimize their runs
Came into the video to see the Bubble Crab ledge jump that numerous folks still don't know about-left satisfied.
Also, like others have noted, you don't need SC in order to get the Heart Tank in Snail's level. Simply tapping the hover as you dash with the Rabbit allows you to pretty much cross the abyss without losing the armor, and you can actually get up the Miniboss with this same method provided you didn't destroy the crystals in a way that prevents you from doing so.
Either way, great vid...and now I wanna do another run of X2... Lol
4:40 Charged S. Slicers wrecks the fish miniboss when used directly under him.
I do have an alternate path that also grabs everything without backtracking. The first two bosses you mention, are a given. From here, I go to Overdrive Ostrich to fight Violen first. After that, I will go to Bubble Crab for Agile(As many people have already pointed out, you can use charged Sonic Slicer here and wipe out the fish), and Crystal Snail for Serges(Probably a little known fact, Serges is also weak to charged Sonic Slicer and it can bypass his shield from overhead). Once done with that route, I proceed to Stag, Moth, and Centipede in that order. From there, it's pretty much a straight shot for the Sigma stages.
5:30 You actually don't need the Chain to grab that heart container. It's possible to charge up the drill arm on the mech to get much more speed coming off the cliff, hover, then jump out , and you can just make it. It's actually quite a bit easier than the chain method you showed.
I'm super late but you can feather the jump button a few times with the ride armour to clear that big gap without the strike chain. Cleans up that pixel perfect element for the heart tank on crystal snails level
Are there stage changes in this one like there is in the first game? For example the power plant breaking after Storm Eagle's level.
holy heck i never knew you could reach the sub tank in deep-sea base (bubble crab) w/o the charged bubble splash. it's tricky, like bypassing charged speed burner for the heart tank in dinosaur tank (wheel gator), but it really does mean minimal backtracking.
5:30 If you don't hold the jump button and keep mashing it, you should be able to get to the left side without even losing the ride armor
Not exactly. To do what you describe you need to use the ride armor's charge attack. Get as close to the edge as you can, then hold the attack button to charge. The drills on the arm will start spinning. When you let loose the charge attack the mech will lunge forward and then you need to mash the jump button. The momentum from the attack in tandem with the jets should be enough to get you across, mech included.
It might be that, it's been so long since the last time i did that.
@@dustinvance243 thanks!!
Good guide. I personally go Wire Sponge, Wheel Gator, Overdrive Ostrich, Bubble Crab, Flame Stag, Magna Centipede, Crystal Snail, and Morph Moth. Whenever I fight the X-hunters, Violen appears in Ostrich, Agile appears in Crab, and Serges appears in Snail.
Now, 2 things I would like to bring light to:
- The robotic fish thing can easily be killed by charged sonic slicers if you aim it right. it has to be just below the underside while having enough room for all 5 slicers to generate, because otherwise you do nothing.
- You do not need strike chain to get the heart tank in crystal snail's stage. when you dash jump, don't hold b and gain height that makes you lose too much horizontal distance. Instead, for lack of a better term, mash b trying to maintain the height you're at when you start hovering. it's hard to describe, but if you do it correctly you should only need a dash jump and maybe a wall jump to reach the heart tank ledge, no strike chain required. speedrunners can bring the mech back and forth, but no normal player needs to do that.
I can only imagine when he gets to x5, the horror
Everyone gives X6 shit all the time but apparently X5 gets a free pass for some reason. X6 may be shit, but at least they took out SOME of the things that made X5 so bad.
@@blackknightjack3850 yeah but the things that they added in it's place were worst, their is literally one ok stage, and 7 horrible ones (not counting the gate ones, that are the worst in the series), the part sistem somehow is worst than x5, the weapons have control problems, the story is unreadable and if you don't speak Japanese, impossible to understand, and thx to the extra strange thing the backtrack is horrible, the only things I fell it does better that x5 are alia, the new armors, and the sigma fight(first fase only). If I were to rank the x games it would be(from worst to best): X6, Xtreme, Xtreme2, X5, X Command Mission (Fist game I like from X Series), X7(guilty pleasure),X3, X8, X2, X, Maverick hunter X, X4
@@ravinercf Just curious, what do you rank as the one "okay" X6 stage? I'm asking because I'm wondering if we will say the same thing!
@@co81385 commander yammark (but the lights out effects sucks, all stages have a problem, as shown in J reviews and the other 2 he was okay with , i dislike the intro stage because of the forced highmax fight, bland design, and how boring it is to me, and rainy turtloid, i dislike how small the targets are, and the fact, that in last one is just horrible, especially to get all the itens
@@ravinercf I agree with you on Yammark. I also actually like the Rainy Turtloid stage, except for the last section.
I should try to do something like this! It looks pretty cool. Btw, nice video! Keep it up
Do you need full health before the Shoryuken like with Hadouken in X1? Because I have everything (I think) and it isn't showing up.
Thank you so much this is my fav x game and I didn't know about the sub tank glitch
is it bad that after i finish bubble crab stage agile moves to crystal snail stage instead ofwhat other stage hes supposed to go to?
A charged Sonic Slicer destroys the fish tank in Bubble Crab’s stage quickly
i followed your guide exactly but when i got to magna centipede, agile wasnt there. what could i have done wrong??
I think X2 is probably my favorite of the SNES trilogy just because there are so many ways you can tackle this game without needing to backtrack. I'll be curious to see if X3 is possible without backtracking, but from what I remember you have to backtrack at least once. I think it has to do with needing Tunnel Rhino's weapon to get the arm upgrade and then the arm upgrade to get two of the items in Tunnel Rhino's stage.
yeah, you also need volt catfish's weapon on top of the arm parts to get those items in tunnel rhino. to get the arm parts, you also need the foot parts from blizzard buffalo as well as tunnel rhino's weapon. X3 can have a load of backtracking if you don't take an especially good route since item collection is so rigid. X2 is much more lenient about getting all the items, with no backtracking if you take a good route.
I remember x2 being my first megaman experience. Played it so much at my friends house on snes
Why switch from the bubbles on the parasite mini boss? It dies to bubbles in one hit once it's exposed.
In crystal snail stage, you can run and tab jump in a cadence of 1s-ish to go even further in the air with the ride armor. It's way easy and you don't need any special weapon.
Anyone else here realize the X2 Helmet Parts make X look like Protoman?
How do I get the collectibles on the button right section of the pause screen?
What is the area past the first checkpoint after you kill the X hunter you can dig out with gator wheele. It's not an exit from the x hunter nor do I see any heart or sub tank
I never knew you could do that for Bubble Crab's Sub Tank. I always revisited his level with his weapon to grab it.
So weird, i follow the exact same level pattern and at flame stag's stage it doesn't open the maverick hunter door for me. On a new game.. I haven't even seen the boss yet. I just don't understand.
I was 13 renting this game from block buster ... definitely one of the good classics
2:10, you can get the arm upgrade with just a super precise wall dash jump only.
It's worth noting that you need full health for the capsule of the Shoryuken to spawn.
Thank you!!
you also need all 4 energy tanks filled up
@@MattF012You don't
@@chewymew you absolutely do tho
@@MattF012 No you don't, speedrunners never have them all the way full
2:10 this jump is harder than just replaying a stage lol
Awesome guide! Thanks a lot!
Strike Chain for that arm part is tough! Gonna backtrack and try the Crystal Snail weapon 🔮 🐌 . Got the heart piece with the damage buff tho!
Perfect timing, just started X2
I wonder if you can get the armor parts without the weapon upgrades. Like in Mega Man X you can get them without beating the bosses so you can see a fully armored X in the Get A Weapon. I did it in Mega Man X Legacy Collection and it worked. So could you in X2 do the same?
i cant reach that platform for the weapon upgrade its not doable. may u can give me the code pls after you ve beaten the alligator?
That intro, fun. I gotta chase a stag, huh?
5:09 you can also use the Neon Jump to grab the sub tank or Bubble Crabs Weapon
Ok I been trying like a hundred times to get hurt and get the heart on Gator stage but I can’t do it. What’s the non cheese way of getting it?
Flame stag charged up
Muchas gracias mi estimado. Estuvo de pana su video
That's really useful, thank you
Thx. I needed the chest piece and stuff
2:35 You can do a dash jump and then at the highest point in your jump use strike chain on the wall to latch on to it and get the heart tank
What's on the other side of the wall you bust with the spine wheel? The floor is covered in spikes and it has a platform at the end. Fortress stage 2.
It has an extra life at the end. The only way to get it is by doing an air dash followed by a charged Speed Burner. It's incredibly precise, so you'll mostly die trying to make it, so there's no point trying to get it
5:10 how are supposed to reach that normally, or was that their design choice?
Man that heart tank at 4:50, I just cannot seem to get enough distance no matter how much I try...the rage is getting real..
Agile didn't appear in Magna Centipede's stage for me.
If you followed this route to a tee, I don't know how to explain that happening.
@@JsReviews i think it can be a bit random sometimes. i just used a password generator to make him appear in a different stage and i fought him there
Finally.... thank you Js
Hello, I'm from the Future and I'd like to Thank YOU for posting this Guide! Lol
The one thing I love about MMX's gameplay style is that it's very open-ended. Meaning you don't _have_ to follow this guide 1:1 if you don't want to. I always beat Flame Stag and Morph Moth first since I can 100% Stag from the get-go and the Silk Shot acts as a universal weakness for the X-Hunters depending on where you fight them. Sure, this means I have to go back and get both the Heart Tank _and_ Body Armor in Moth's stage after beating Wheel Gator but no biggie.
I'll let you know where you need to fight the X-Hunters so that they're weak to the stage-produced Silk Shot form.
Violen - Wire Sponge (leaves)
Agile - Bubble Crab/Flame Stag (rock)
Serges - Crystal Snail (crystal); Speed Burner also acts as a good secondary weakness
You can beat flame stag without his weakness?
@@shastealyomeal Yeah, I personally find him to be pretty easy without the Bubble Splash or even the Arm Parts. You just have to time your wall jumps and of course charge shots just right (or rapid-fire if you so please, he _still_ gets knocked back either way),
J’s Reviews Will you do a review on Gunvolt?
Fun fact: a charged sonic slicer one shots the bubble crabs mini boss. Easily decreasing the stress for the X hunter in that stage
Didnt have an X-hunter on bubble crab. Flame Stag made me game over so when I continued the other two hunters changed where they went.
As a kid I had no idea you started with the dash and got like half way through the game before I realized you didn’t need an upgrade and it came standard
5:03 Didn't og Mega Man kind of do this too? Not too noticeable but slightly higher jumps from what I remember.
You can use the giga attack instead of strike chain for crystal snail’s heart tank.
I just started this game with the ultimate armor mod and it's so fun
You can get the handcannon without the strike chain. You just have to do an even more precise wall jump to get up there.
Whats wierd is that i did all of this exactly, i didnt got through different stages unnecessarily, but i cant get the last part of Zero.
5:30 I used to do it this way until I found out that you can also hover multiple times instead of spend it all in one go, if you do it this way you won't need the Strike Chain
Thank for vid you helped me to beat the game(not yet)
X2 is a very good game with the ability to take on any stage in any order a big improvement over X1
You can do that in X1. You just had to do Chill Penguin first if you wanted the dash. (Which is fine because Chill Penguin is easily the easiest stage and boss)
@@krimsonkatt well aware just imagine having tried it without doing Chill Penguin first as all the stages are close to impossible to beat otherwise. Still prefer X1 over X2 it's just one of the things I think X2 did better than X1
powerful guide j.
hey man, this was helpful for sure, but i gotta tell you the presentation was very vague as far as the actual order of missions. if you could just drop a comment with the boss order and maybe timestamps that would be super helpful. i had to rewatch the video like 5 times to figure out how we got from ostrich to crab to snail in 30 seconds and i learned nothing lol.
if you're open to a constructive suggestion, you could use the still images that pop up when you choose a stage as a title card for like 3 seconds and just edit in a small image of a heart tank, a sub tank, and the dr light capsule with a "x1" or a check next to it if the stage has one, and put a red X over it if it doesnt. it would take next to no effort/time, and would improve the format of the video a great deal. Actually, it would work very well with the "chapter" system youtube recently incorporated as well.
Not to throw shade or anything, i love your content. im just very new to megaman in general, and the lack of formatting made it difficult to actually absorb the information. you have some very important advice, especially for newcomers. So if you make things a little more clear cut in future guides, i think alot of fellow newbies like me will be very appreciative.
Keep up the great work man.
I will say maybe newer games have spoiled me, but think Mega Man X2 should've started you out with all your upgrades (minus the obvious ones, the weapons from the previous mavericks) to then take away your powers. Not just to serve as story telling, but because it breaks you down, then build you up, much like the Vile fight in 1. You're helpless, then in comes Zero saying you're pretty weak dude, but don't worry you can get stronger, possibly even stronger than me. Moment I started X2 up and saw I had basically nothing... felt a bit disappointed.
4:01 if you struggle with the bike like I did the flame stag power up charged can do this... funny thing is after looking up an alternative video I gave the bike 1 last shot and got it... uggh.
Woops I guess I didn't hear that the 1st time through the video, apologies. I just figured it looked easier, given how stressed out the bike was making... but then I ended up doing it on my final attempt anyways.
5:25 I also found that you can do it without the chain, if you stop hovering for a second about 1/2 way through then hover again you can make the jump all the way, either to grab the ledge enough to triangle jump, or I actually made it without needing to do that too, just landed on the ledge.
are you gonna do a no damage run of this game?
1:00 Wire Sponge
1:50 wheel gator
3:20 flame stag
3:50 override ostrich
4:31 bubble crab
5:19 crystal snail
5:51 morph moth
6:19 magna centipede
How do I use x's one hit kill move
For the Shoryuken you should use charged burner first as X is immune to spikes with it. So you do not need to carefully maneuver around the spikes, instead, just burner charge into the spike and drop down naturally then air dash left.
I have a question I have 8 heart tanks all zero parts all megaman parts and also all sub tanks yet the shoryhken wasn’t there. Do you know why?
@@user-iu3fv4ij4l you need to enter the room with full hp for the capsule to appear
Memory is vague but I think you might need to be at full health when reaching the room?
Spent so much time getting to the final light capsule but it didn't spawn for me probably because I didn't get all the Zero parts 🙃
You blew my mind with the i-frame trick on Wheel Gator's stage .
It’s extremely frustrating, and I can’t do it. Can’t get to the spike wall in time.
I actually think it’s crappy when walkthroughs rely on game cheese methods, especially when they’re this hard to do. It becomes more of a showoff than a walkthrough. I don’t give enough shit to become a god gamer at MMX2. I just wanna get through the fucking game 100%.
@@My2Cents1 no... i frame is the easiest method out of 3 way to get that heart..... its a cheese method as you say definitely not a show off
Thanks for the help.
The guides are great. This one however is like super off from timing of what you say to what is on screen. Justs seems kinda confusing to someone who hasnt played X2 and im trying to figure out what is going on.. 😕
Cant get the chain to work for me no matter what i try
Great guide!! Always love how to the point you are with everything while still staying interesting and fun to watch
...but man, its 2020, cut it on saying "triggered" when you really just mean annoyed lmao
I don't even remember saying that, but I will avoid it going forward, as I do think trigger warnings are important and legitimate.
@@JsReviews didnt actually expect a reply, but ty!!
6:23 The hitboxes on those.... boxes are kinda weird, you can actually just jump straight up and spam the jump button and youll all of a sudden start walljumping on it.
The order I go is Wire Sponge -> Wheel Gator -> Overdrive Ostrich -> Crystal Snail -> Bubble Crab -> Flame Stag -> Morph Moth -> Magna Centipede. X2 is actually very lenient you don't need to collect at least two weapons/Armor parts to get most collectibles.
I could've sworn you said in your X4 review that X4 was your favorite X game
Is weird that super attack you show with the upper push is not my game even I did everything you say???
Please review the classic series!
Stagg and serges right after wheel gator? Tf u on?
the streetfighter move is not avaliable in my run :(
I always use charged sonic slicer to utterly wreck the fish boss in bubble crabs stage
Can't wait for X3, where most of the goodies are behind Tunnel Rhino.
Good thing I always beat him first.
Fantastic!
2:02 I hate this part. So much so I’m probably just going to backtrack
This is mostly good. The only problem I have is that you force damage to get Gator's Heart Tank instead of actually using Speed Burner. This is lame as heck. Also, I kinda like the way you got Snail's Heart Tank, tho it's also kinda weird.
The best way to defeat the Submarine In Bubble Crab's stage is to use Charged Sonic Slicers. It will be defeated in two hits if aimed properly
Thanks once again