NintendoCapriSun plays Mega Man X2 - Part 7 of 10

We tear through the X-Hunter fortress in our attempts to get rid of Sigma's followers once and for all!

X-Hunter Fortress - Stage 1

This stage is just dead simple. Sure the wall-crusher parts may be a bit non-linear and require you to use the air dash to get to the other side when necessary, but even then you can get through them without much trouble.

The claws will try to force you to use the lower path. The upper path is more effortless, believe it or not.

You'll fight Violen again at the end. There will be two blocks that act as platforms which Violen can change the position of (which is completely random) when he raises his arms. He has the same attack pattern as last time, but thanks to the blocks the mace can be easier to avoid at times. Hit him with Bubble Splash, now that you have all the weapons. It does the most damage.

X-Hunter Fortress - Stage 2

You'll need to use the wall jump techniques on the floating columns to get past some of the spike pits.

For the spike pit with the two bats, hit the bats with Crystal Hunter so you can dash to the other side.

The brown blocks can be removed with the Spin Wheel. You can charge up the Speed Burner to get the 1-Up, but it takes some practice to time that just right and you'll more than likely lose more than one life trying to get it, making going for the extra life rather pointless.

The boss is Serges in a machine. Jump on the platforms, and destroy the laser cannons with Silk Shot. Stay on the platforms, as he'll destroy them until two are left as you destroy the laser cannons. From there, get off the platforms and stand on the front of Serge's machine, charge up Sonic Slicer and unleash it on Serges. It'll hit him everytime. The fireballs he shoots in his second form split into form, and the four fireballs from the split alternate between cardinal (horizontal and vertical directions) and intermediate (diagonal) directions. Since you're standing on the one safe spot of the machine, he won't be able to even reach you, and the fireballs will barely be able to hit you. Fire away.

X-Hunter Fortress - Stage 3

Oh, no. Oh, boy.

Everything's all good and everything...then you reach the platform. We've seen the platform here before, but in order to get where you need to go, you need to jump and quickly orientate the platform so that the green triangle in the center is pointing where you want it to go. The directions go right, down, left and up. It goes clockwise as you keep jumping on it, so you'll have to time your jumps and do them quickly if you want to get anywhere in one piece.