Game:

Mega Man X3 (1995)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 10:49

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For our fourth stage, we go to the lair of Blast Hornet, which seems to be some sort of military warehouse complex. Nothing is too hard here, though there are a lot of sub-bosses: a bouncing and rolling wireframe star thing, a sort of cargo plane...and in this episode, I fight Bit, the first special boss. He is weak to the Frost Shield (and apparently the Triad Thunder as well?). I don't use it on him, though it gives you different cutscenes if you do. He will always either jump straight up, dash across the room at the same height that you are, throw a homing fireball, or throw a hoop-like object that will trap you if you touch it. Later on, he starts throwing two projectiles at a time. Blast Hornet himself isn't too hard once you know how to lure his attacks. For the first phase of the fight, he will fly around, stop, and lunge at you with his stinger, then throw out five small bees that stick to the walls. Lure both of these to a place where they can be easily dodged (and the bees destroyed). The second phase has him flying in a figure-8 pattern sending out crosshairs. If one of them touches you, he will send out a homing bee at you, but again, those can be destroyed. Upon defeating him, we get the Parasitic Bomb, which is a rather interesting weapon. The bombs it shoots out can lock onto enemies and disable them; charge it up to get 4 crosshairs that will send bees at enemies when active. And with that, that's half of the Mavericks down. I like to do this stage fourth because this is where you get the Ride Armor, or at least the base Ride Armor that you need to use any of the others.

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