NintendoCapriSun plays Mega Man X3 - Part 2 of 17

We get our first weapon and get ready to grab our second!

Blizzard Buffalo (continued)

Now that you can dash in mid-air, go back to the ladder leading out of the cave, then dash jump to the left and then dash straight up. This will take you to the first of four Sub-Tanks in the game. Now you can heal yourself with energy you pick up when your life is at full.

Blizzard Buffalo will try to dash into you, and also use two attacks: throwing ice crystals that turn into Frost Shields when they hit a surface and a laser that spans the entire room. If you here a rather low noise, you'll know he's firing the laser. It should also be noted that the Frost Shields track your current location, and if you move around too much, you'll be trapped in a corner until probably the last possible second, as the Frost Shields can stick to walls.

Blizzard Buffalo will also charge at you, even from as far as the other side of the room. You don't want him to touch you at this point, because he will grab you and smack you right into the wall if he does.

You can easily fight this guy with the X-Buster, but his weakness is the Parasitic Bomb from Blast Hornet's stage. If you hit him with that, it'll stop him dead in his tracks.

Beating Blizzard Buffalo gives you the Frost Shield. It works like Blizzard Buffalo's weapon, but it has to bounce off a wall or an enemy in order to perform the shield properties.

Tunnel Rhino

There will be robots carrying rocks...until they drop the rocks after you get close enough. Then they try to shoot missiles at you.

The green wall robots will shoot up to a ceiling, then the face will slowly spin its way downward. Shoot the face, and you'll get rid of the "wall."

There is a fork in the path shortly after the start. Take the left one to continue. You can keep moving past conveyor belts and falling mud, then climb up a wall to get another Sub-Tank.

The blue crab robots shooting small balls of lightning to the sides. These will do a lot of damage if you touch them. These balls can also be charged up to a larger size to do even more damage, and can bounce off the walls twice before disappearing.

The purple drill tanks wil move forward and shoot explosive balls until you're close enough, then they'll shoot their drills. When you destroy one, both drills will come at you.

You'll also deal with large rocks. Some will fall straight from the ceilng, and others will roll towards you.

You'll ee a rock tied down by ropes. Unfortunately, you won't be able to see what's beyond that for the time being.

The mid-boss is a tank robot that just keeps running into the wall. Wall jump up the left wall a little bit to avoid the spike, then hit the robot's head with a charged-up X-Buster shots.