We take on Magma Dragoon and get some much-needed pick-ups in this entry. Next time, we take care of the last bit of collectibles.
Snow Cave
Also, you can go up at the start to find some energy to refill your Sub-Tanks with. You'll also find an extra life. Keep exiting and re-entering the level to get your fill of extra energy and lives! You can also use Lightning Web to make your way further to the right to get even more stuff you can use to refill the tanks.
Also, the Escape Unit is active when you are in a level where you've already beaten the Maverick. Just select "Escape" and press X.
Cyber Space
With the Soul Body, you can get rid of the yellow spheres that get in your way more quickly.
Also, I finally get the Heart Tank and the helmet upgrade. As mentioned earlier, this upgrade reduces the amount of special weapon energy you use when you fire a special weapon down to near zero. What this means is that if you fire the normal versions of your special weapons, you won't use energy. Charging up the special weapons with an arm upgrade will still consume energy, however.
Volcano
The spiked balls will bounce towards you, but if you can position yourself and time your movements carefully, you can walk under them.
Volcanic rocks will go up and down the bottomless pits soon after the start, so don't cocky and simply dash jump over every single one. You might get smacked by one of those rocks for your impatience.
If an energy pick-up is laying on its side, it's a small pick-up. If it's upright, it's a large one.
The bats will drop bombs, and the Mettaurs just move towards you. There are craters which spew volcanic lava out, which damages to the touch.
The squid robots have three cannons and will fire missiles at you. Fire a fully-charged X-Buster shot at it, then lay waste to it with regular shots. They always fire missiles high, low, both, and then repeat, so be prepared to jump over some missiles if you're not quick enough at destroying them.
Near the end of the first section, watch out for the rolling rocks. They drop down at the top of the slope and then go down the slope, and it can be tough to jump over them as they can sometimes comes down in pairs.
Shoot the wall to get to the second section.
If you're low on health at the end of one area, you'll be completely refilled at the next one.
In the second section, you'll have to dash jump from one platform to the next. You'll be dealing with the volcanic rocks shooting up and down the screen again, and some of them will destroy the platforms after enough of these rocks hit them, so you'll want to be a little quicker when you see that happening.
The Reploids in the Robot Ride armors will slash at you if you get close enough to them.
After the first Robot Ride enemy, dash jump off the left edge to get a Heart Tank and increase your maximum health.
At this point, you'll see volcanic rocks coming down from above like meteors. Keep an eye out while progressing.
When you make it to the lava, you'll find a free Robot Ride armor. You can use this to destroy any volcanic rocks and to traverse the lava, which is really awesome. The Robot Ride has an overhead slash attack as opposed to previous games, and despite being something to get used to, it's pretty efficient. You can even use it to take a lower path and go straight to Magma Dragoon. You'll find out he was the one to let the Sky Lagoon fall, making it official that he's gone Maverick.
He's pretty easy to take on with the Robot Ride armor. Just pound away at him with it, since you'll have a lot of health on it to withstand more than enough punishment while whittling Magma Dragoon's health bar down. If you lose the Robot Ride armor, just blast him with fully-charged X-Buster shots.
Magma Dragoon will leap around the room, landing either at the center or one of the sides. He has a diving jump kick and will also shoot Street Fighter-esque Hadokens at you: one high and one low. He also has a Shoryuken, a flame thrower attack that covers the whole platform and can also be shot into the air, but more often than not, he'll be hitting you with Hadokens.
If you have Storm Owl's Double Cyclone, use it on him. It does the most damage. When it connects, Magma Dragoon will leap to the other side of the room, so follow him and hit him with it again. He'll keep leaping to the opposite end of the platform over and over.
When you beat Magma Dragoon, you'll find out someone goaded him into joining Repliforce and fighting Mega Man X. But who?
Beating Magma Dragoon with X will give you Rising Fire. It shoots fire vertically, affecting airborne enemies. It can also burn certain objects as well.
Snow Cave
Now that we have Rising Fire, we can melt the giant ice block in the ceiling shortly after the start to get the Heart Tank here.
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