If you're wondering what the difference between Normal and Difficult is, all the bosses take less damage from special weapons and some enemies take more shots to destroyed.
With that taken care of, one with the show.
Instead of six Robot Masters to deal with, you have eight Robot Masters this time around. Once again, you can start with any Robot Master you want, but I have a method to the madness.
Bubble Man
Left and Right let you move around, Up and Down lets you climb ladders, A lets you jump and B lets you shoot. Pressing Start will allow you to pause the game and select your weapon.
Unlike the first game, there is no score in the top center of the screen; as a result, the bonus point pick-ups no longer ruin your life and refilling your health and weapon energies is much easier.
Bubble Man is perhaps the easiest to deal with if you have just the Proto Buster, so let's go ahead and do that.
The frogs shoot miniature clones out of its mouth. Take out the source, then stand still to kill off all the underlings.
The robots with the red shells go faster when you shoot their shells off. Either hit them directly from a lower point or jump out of the way!
When you jump into the water, you'll jump higher than usual. Keep that in mind so you don't accidentally drift upwards into the spiked ceiling.
To destroy the big angler fish, just shoot at the angler on its head. The shrimp that come out of its mouth and lunge towards you can give you power-ups (and come in quite handy if you're playing this later in the game), so shoot them down as you take out the big fish. Unlike the last game, the health power-ups come out much more often from destroyed enemies, and you no longer have those pesky point icons to deal with. You can also get extra lives off of enemies if you're lucky.
Watch out for the jellyfish. Not only do they come down rather slowly, they also start following you shortly after they reach your level and explode upon contact.
Once you get out of the water, you'll start seeing crabs falling down the waterfall in the background. If they hit the platforms, though, they're not very fast and they go down in one shot.
To beat Bubble Man, walk under the bubbles and jump over the bullets, and shoot him as he slowly comes back down to the ground. For best results, shoot at him while in mid-air and just below where his head is, so you can shoot him in the foot. He just keeps doing this while going from one side of the room to the other, so he's really not that hard at all.
When you beat Bubble Man, you'll get Bubble Lead. You'll also get a password for beating the stage; be sure to select "Password" and write down where the red dots are so you can save your progress.
Metal Man
Metal Man not only has one of the most awesome weapons in Mega Man history, he's also got one of the better BGMs and level designs in the franchise as well. Gears spinning in the background, the earliest uses of conveyor belts, and one of the most frantic pieces of video game music from the late '80s.
The pink arrows that flash at the ends of the conveyor belt tell you which direction the conveyor belt you're on is going at a glance. One of the first that goes left has an Energy Can at the end, which is easily attainable as long as you keep mashing the A button while moving towards it.
The spiked crushers take out almost a third of a full energy bar, so avoid these at all costs. You can jump through the chains that hold them, but I wouldn't recommend it.
The drills come out in certain section of stages, they take a few hits before they go away, they give out a lot of power-ups if you go slowly, and they don't stop coming at all until you reach the end of said section. They can also hit you by surprise, so go slowly.
If you have one of the items near where the vertical portion begins, you can get the 1-up on the top conveyor belt at the end.
The guys that take a ride on the gears are really hilarious. You can see when they're coming, too. Shoot the gear and the clown riding on it will be sent tumbling down.
If you have one of the Items (preferably Item 1), you can get the Energy Can here.
To beat Metal Man, just avoid the buzzsaws he throws at you and stay on one side of the screen. If you come towards him, he'll just leap all the way to the other side. Whenever you shoot, he shoots. Also, the direction on the conveyor belt changes every so often, so you'll have to be on your toes and keep an eye on what direction the floor is sending you.
The little dome-shaped guys that are low to the ground and move quickly when you're at their level can be taken care of with Bubble Lead or the Quick Boomerang.
When you beat Metal Man, the Metal Blade is yours. This deadly buzzsaw not only fires in eight directions (something no other Robot Master has never done and hasn't done since), it also takes out a lot of bosses.
In case you beat a Robot Master and die at the same time, you still win and get the Robot Master weapon.
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