History VideoGame / MegaManX2

** Finding the Sub Tank in Bubble Crab's stage. The game never hints that the Bubble Splash allows you to jump higher than normal when fully charged in water, and even if you accidentally find out, how would you ever possibly guess that X now has the ability to jump on top of water?
** Good luck finding the Armor upgrade in this game. You need to use the Spin Wheel on a certain spot on the floor that isn't marked or distinguished in any way (by looking destructible or discolored, for example). There's no reason you'd come across it unless you were arbitrarily using the Spin Wheel (or the Helmet Radar) in this spot. And when you find it, the tiles don't crumble in a way that's graphically consistent with the series; the tileset literally falls off like someone was messing with it in a level editor.
** The Heart Tank in Wire Sponge's stage. It's hidden right at the start of the level, in a hidden alcove in the wall on the left. As with the Armor upgrade, about the only way to find it is to dedicate yourself to crawling over each level firing the Helmet Radar off every screen until it finds the passage. Which is the entire point of using the Helmet Radar, but still.

** If you don't find the [[Shoryuken capsule]] in X-Hunter Stage 3, you won't be able to go back for it after clearing the stage.

* PermanentlyMissableContent: There are several ways to make it impossible to collect all of Zero's components, thereby forcing you to fight him near the end of the game:
** If an X-Hunter is hiding in a Maverick's stage, and you beat that stage without dealing with the X-Hunter, they'll teleport off the map and never re-appear.
** Once the X-Hunters first appear, for every two Mavericks you destroy without dealing with at least one X-Hunter, you'll also cause one of the Hunters to teleport away and never come back (which order they disappear in is chosen at random; not that it makes any difference, seeing how you're screwed if even one of them does so).
** If you've gotten two of the Zero parts, but choose not to deal with the X-Hunter before you destroy the last Maverick (say, if that Maverick has the weapon the X-Hunter is weak to), the Hunters break into Dr. Cain's lab and steal back the two parts that you did reclaim.

* ShoutOut: In the ''X Legacy Collection'' rerelease, the achievement for grabbing an item by using the Silk Shot is called [[Franchise/SpiderMan "Friendly Neighborhood Mega Man"]].

''Mega Man X2'' is something of a MissionPackSequel to its predecessor, playing mostly the same but with a new set of Maverick bosses, Special Weapons, and Armor Parts. The main difference is the duels against the X-Hunters, and the game also makes great use of its cartridge's Cx4 chip to draw wireframe objects and warp sprites in real-time, for some added visual spectacle.

[[YearX In the year 21XX]], six months after the events of [[VideoGame/MegaManX1 the first game]], X has taken over as the leader of Maverick Hunters following Zero's [[HeroicSacrifice death]]. Zero's body is missing, and all they have left is his control chip.

Sigma has been destroyed, but the remnants of his rebellion are slowly rebuilding their forces. X spearheads a crusade to root them out, discovering a large group of Mavericks in an abandoned factory. Under X's command, the Maverick Hunters besiege the hideout.

Shortly afterward, however, the X-Hunters - a [[TerribleTrio trio of Mavericks]] named Serges, Violen, and Agile - unleash a brand new group of SA-Class Mavericks to wage war again. They also hold the three reconstructed pieces of Zero's body, and challenge X to duels over his control chip; thus begins the war to resurrect Zero. However, X will also discover a dark secret about the nature of Sigma, and that his influence may be more difficult to neutralize than it seems.

Alongside the X-Hunters, this game has a new batch of eight Mavericks to fight. They have diverse origins, ranging from former Maverick Hunters to complete mysteries:

* SorryImLate: If Zero's parts have been obtained prior to defeating all the Mavericks, he'll reactive in time to take down his fake copy before it could fight X.

Mavericks:
* Wheel Gator of the 6th Naval Unit, gives [[SpikedWheels Spin Wheel]]
* Bubble Crab of the 6th Naval Unit, gives [[BubbleGun Bubble Splash]]
* Flame Stag of the 17th Elite Unit, gives [[PlayingWithFire Speed Burner]]
* Morph Moth of an unknown unit, gives [[ExtraOreDinary Silk Shot]]
* Magna Centipede of the 0th Special Unit, gives [[PlayerGuidedMissile Magnet]] [[StickyBomb Mine]]
* Crystal Snail of an unknown unit, gives [[CrystalPrison Crystal Hunter]]
* Overdrive Ostrich of the 7th Airborne Unit, gives [[RazorWind Sonic]] [[FlechetteStorm Slicer]]
* Wire Sponge of an unknown unit, gives [[GrapplingHookPistol Strike Chain]]

In the year 21XX, six months after the events of [[VideoGame/MegaManX1 the first game]], X has taken over as the leader of Maverick Hunters following Zero's [[HeroicSacrifice death]]. Zero's body is missing, and all they have left is his control chip.

In the year 21XX, set six months after [[VideoGame/MegaManX1 the events of the first game]], X has taken over as the leader of Maverick Hunters following Zero's [[HeroicSacrifice death]]. Zero's body is missing, and all they have is his control chip.

Sigma has been destroyed, but the remnants of his rebellion are slowly rebuilding their forces. X spearheads a crusade to root them out, discovering a large group of Mavericks in an abandoned factory. Under X's orders, the Maverick Hunters travel to the area to destroy them.

Shortly afterward, however, the X-Hunters - a [[TerribleTrio trio of Mavericks]] named Serges, Violen, and Agile - reveal themselves, unleashing a brand new group of powerful Mavericks. They also claim to hold the three pieces of Zero's body, and challenge X to duels over his control chip. Thus begins a war to get a chance at reconstructing X's dear friend. However, X will also discover a dark secret about the nature of Sigma, and that his influence may be more difficult to neutralize than it seems.

* WolverineClaws: [[spoiler:Sigma's]] WeaponOfChoice are retractable claws that emerge from his knuckles.

** Finding the Sub Tank in Bubble Crab's stage. The game never hints that the Bubble Splash allows you to jump higher than normal when fully charged in water, and even if you accidentally find out, how would you ever possibly guess that it lets you jump on top of the water?

* BackFromTheDead: The plot is to get back Zero's parts in order to revive him, and if you fail the X-Hunters revive him to serve as a boss. [[spoiler:Sigma himself is revived by the X-Hunters, starting his JokerImmunity.]]

* BlindIdiotTranslation: "Sagesse" (wisdom) has been mistranslated to "Serges." Violen may have been this in the original Japanese; the X-Hunters are named after French words, and while the French word for violent is "[[ShapedLikeItself violent]]", in Japanese it would be pronounced without the "t".

%%* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Wheel Gator.

* PowerUpLetdown: The Radar Helmet sounds awesome, a way to detect secret passages in a franchise that uses them, but in practice it's not that helpful. It has to be manually activated and doesn't let X fire any weapons, and it will only detect secret passages in the sense of paths that are out of view or hidden; for power-ups that are in plain view but in out-of-the-way areas the player is unlikely to go to, the Radar probably won't point out to you. Further, there's only a few hidden passages in this game that aren't immediately obvious without the Radar to draw attention to them, and in the internet age any player can just look up the locations of power-ups, rendering the Radar pointless.

* ShoutOut: In the X Legacy Collection rerelease, the achievement for grabbing an item by using the Silk Shot is called [[Franchise/SpiderMan "Friendly Neighborhood Mega Man".]]

* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Overdrive Ostrich can jump-kick X across the arena.

* ScreenShake: The screen constantly shakes in Wheel Gator's stage.

* TurnsRed: Starting with this game, the Mavericks began unleashing new, more powerful attacks after their HP hits 50%. Flame Stag doesn't reveal much in the way of new attacks, but the color of his fire upgrades from red to blue (in the rematch against him, he already starts out blue).

** Agile, Serges, and Violen become available to fight after a second Maverick is down. They need somewhat more strategy to defeat than the usual Mavericks, but defeat all three and you skip a boss fight preceding Sigma. [[Spoiler: Zero's black copy]] can also be fought in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqJOgXoc15Y the japanese mobile port]] in Magna Centipede's stage after the game's been completed once.

** Agile, Serges, and Violen become available to fight after a second Maverick is down. They need somewhat more strategy to defeat than the usual Mavericks, but defeat all three and you skip a boss fight preceding Sigma. Zero's black copy can also be fought in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqJOgXoc15Y the japanese mobile port]] in Magna Centipede's stage after the game's been completed once.

* BonusBoss: Agile, Serges, and Violen become available to fight after a second Maverick is down. They need more strategy to defeat than the usual Mavericks, but defeat all three and you skip a boss fight preceding Sigma. Zero's black copy can also be fought in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqJOgXoc15Y the japanese mobile port]] in Magna Centipede's stage after the game's been completed once.

* SkippableBoss: [[spoiler:If you defeat the three X-Hunters in the Maverick stages and obtain all of Zero's pieces, you won't have to fight Zero in the final stage.]] Inversely, [[spoiler:if you choose not to fight one or more of the X-Hunters, and don't get all the Zero parts, you will have to fight Zero in the final stage.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: The leadership of the X-Hunters seems to shift between Agile and Serges. While Agile is arguably the most Sigma-like and is the last X-Hunter faced in the final stages, Serges seems to be coming up with all their plans such as the Unification and has those sinister ties to Dr. Wily. It's hard to tell who's supposed to be in charge.
** Adding to this is the ambiguity of Sigma's resurrection. Is he already revived by the beginning of the game, leading the X-Hunters himself from behind the scenes? Or is he awoken during the final stages to avenge the X-Hunters, like he was in ''X3'' or ''X6''?
** Then there's the CanonForeigner χ -kai- from the [=TruForce=] Collectibles series of models, who was retroactively introduced as the leader of the X-Hunters.

** Then there's the CanonForeigner χ -kai- from the TruForce Collectibles series of models, who was retroactively introduced as the leader of the X-Hunters.

** Adding to this is the ambiguity of Sigma's resurrection. Is he already revived by the beginning of the game, leading the X-Hunters himself from behind the scenes? Or is he awoken during the final stages to avenge the X-Hunters, like in ''X3'' or ''X6''?

->''"X and the rest of the Hunters have tracked the last of the Mavericks to an abandoned Reploid factory. There thy hope to wipe out the last of the resistance. Little do they suspect that real war is about to begin..."''