The Virus Stages copy level layouts from past Mega Man games. Yes, you read this right. It would actually have meant something if CAPCOM LISTENED TO KEIJI INAFUNE AND NOT MADE X6
This new entity with the same reading as Zero is christened the Zero Virus, and it has appeared at a specific location. The Maverick Hunters must destroy it once and for all.
But first...
Izzy Glow
Izzy Glow map by X GOD, No. 11 & TK31 for the RockMan Memorial Hall.
Come here as X with the Gaea Armor equipped. After the wall you have to knock down at the beginning, go down instead of straight ahead. You'll find a spike pit, a hostage and a Heart Tank.
You may have noticed a wooden roof in the castle. Destroy it with a charged-up Ground Fire, then climb up there to find a hostage and an EX-Tank. The EX-Tank allows you to start the game with four lives instead of three whenever you load up your save file or continue after a game over.
Axle The Red
Axle the Red map by X GOD, No. 11 & TK31 for the RockMan Memorial Hall.
You may have noticed at the beginning of the part with all the rope that one of the walls has two black blocks with a gold "V" on them. Dash into them with X's Gaea Armor. You can also destroy them with a fully-charged X-Buster shot if necessary. You'll have to push one towards the edge of a cliff in order to dash jump to a Heart Tank, and reaching that can be a bit of a stretch unless you can dash jump right off the edge of the block and onto the platform. Use the Gaea Armor to reach it so in case you somehow reach the left side of the platform where the Heart Tank is at, you won't accidentally slide off.
Grizzly Slash
Grizzly Slash maps by X GOD, No. 11 & TK31 for the RockMan Memorial Hall.
Remember the maze near the end? Equip X's Gaea Armor and climb up that rather tall wall. There are spikes at the top, so you wouldn't have been able to really do anything here until now. Head to the right and you'll find another Heart Tank.
Squid Adler (continued)
Squid Adler maps by X GOD & TK31 for the RockMan Memorial Hall.
You'll need X's Gaea Armor yet again. Climb up the ladder near the end, but go left instead of right. Open up the yellow gate and go up. Push the blocks, open the gate, and you'll get yet another Heart Tank.
Virus Stage 1
All Virus maps by X GOD, No. 11 & rmexesaito for the RockMan Memorial Hall.
As soon as you go in, some of you big-time Mega Man 2 fans will notice that this looks awfully familiar.
It's Quick Man's stage. No, seriously, it's Quick Man. Right down to the level design. There are two flying Robot Ride armors, a bunch of Sigma viruses at the midway point that look like X (I think) and extra vertical lasers near the end. Only thing is, you don't have any breaks in the action while you're dropping down and avoiding the lasers. Yes, the lasers still kill you. Yes, Dark Hold acts like Flash Stopper, and if you charge it up you'll freeze time longer than if you don't.
Then you enter the Boss Room. It's the Yellow Devil from the first and third games in the original saga. Even the music here is a remix of the Wily Boss music from Mega Man 3. Only difference is that the Yellow Devil is now black, you can duck under the lower center row of blobs when the boss teleports in the usual Yellow Devil fashion (this time from front column to back instead of utterly randomly), and the boss can sometimes change into a replica of a Wily machine.
Shoot at the eye with Tri-Thunder if you're playing as X, or use your regular attack if you're playing as Zero.
Sometimes the teleportation will stop halfway, and the boss will attempt to crush you two blobs at a time. Stay still in the center of the room and duck and jump accordingly.
The boss also leaves a green outline when it teleports. This outline will hurt you if you touch it.
When the Black Devil is near death, it'll change into the Wily machine form from Mega Man 6 with the spikes on the bottom that tries to jump around and crush you. You may not have that tomahawk weapon, but you can still shoot the eye with Tri-Thunder when it appears.
Virus Stage 2
It's Sigma Stage 1 from the first X game. Using Zero for this part makes it easier, as you can double jump to the platform area (which doesn't have those annoying flying enemies, by the way).
There are walking cannons will follow you around and jump in addition to shooting at you, and you also have crushers on the ceiling, too.
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