Sonic the Hedgehog 2! (ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ 二)

Yesterday I almost beat Sonic the Hedgehog 2. I beat the original a few months ago for the first time in about 10 years and figured I would follow up with the sequel. I blazed through the first stages, had some fun gambling in the Casino Zone, and had some trouble in the Aquatic Ruins and Factory type stage. By the time I reached the final stage I had about 10 lives and 4 continues.

It was time for trivia night so I left my Genesis on and returned home at 12. When I resumed playing I attempted to defeat the final sky zone stage (or some name like that). However, I COULDN'T BEAT DR. ROBOTNIK!!! I spent all of my continues and received the final game over message at 3am! I didn't know what went wrong! It was a choke of epic proportions. Now the evil Doctor is still at large enslaving all of the animals and turning them into his robot army.

I decided that before I set out to defeat him again that I would do some research. I want to share it with you to avoid you one day running into the same difficulties.

First of all when you get to the part where you are about to have the super showdown with that quack of a doctor: THERE ARE TWO BONUS LIVES!!! The lives are at either end of the plane, the first one is after you go up the platforms that go from horizontal to vertical, after going up those, keep going left till you find a conveyor belt going up the tail of the plane, jump onto that, jump onto another one of those horizontal/vertical platforms and knock the life off the tail, as it is too high to jump on to itself, it should be at the bottom of the tail of the plane when you fall.

The second one is after you defeat the machine in the room with the spiked platforms, instead of jumping down the hole and following robotnik, jump across it and keep going right till you can't go further, then jump and press right and you've hit it, then go back and jump down the hole.

For the final two stages of the boss (when you are out in space and its all crazy!) refer to this video: SONIC POWNAGE n00bs! I didn't even get to this part because I was stuck on the first one.

There are two parts to deathegg zone. The first one is the robot sonic. In order to damage him you have to hit him at an angle when he is just standing there. If you hit him directly on top, you will die. if you are really skilled you can hit when he shoots across the floor standing up. I would suggest trying to hit him twice when he is standing that way you won't have to guess what he is going to do next.

After you beat robot sonic you face doctor robotnic! I won't lie he is very hard and it takes 12 hits for him to die. When he first stands up be close to him. (Not to close) and move slowly away from him as he walks toward you. (don't try to hit him!) When he goes up in the air, you will see a circle form around you. As soon as this happens run to the middle of the screen, press down and super sonic spin. Keep doing that until you see a little red circle around that starts to blink really fast. Then make sonic spin to your left side of the screen. When he lands, his back should be facing you. Be as far away from him as possible. He will most likely shoot two sets of bombs out of his back. When he does this just stay where you are. He will shoot up in the air again. Repeat the step on super sonic spinning while he is in the air. When he lands the second time, his back should be facing toward you. He will only fire one set of bombs and then he will start walking forward. Fallow him but keep your distance. When he stops walking, jump up and hit his back. Be sure to keep away from his fire that comes out of his back at all cost. If you have time you can try to hit him again before he shoots up in the air again. If you are really good you can hit him while he is walking but i would not recommend it. When he shoots up in the air again repeat the sonic spin move but only go to the right of your screen. He should repeat the same steps as before. Here is the order you should super sonic spin at. Go left twice then right twice, then left twice then right twice... if you mess up the order and he lands facing toward you then I think he goes at random. If he ever faces toward when he lands he does one of two things he will either walk toward you or shoot his spikes at you. When he walks toward you just stay where you are. He will not harm you unless you are not at the far side of the screen. If he shoots his spikes at you just jump straight up and dodge each spike. Don't try to hit him. Remain patient when fighting him and don't get greedy on the number of hits.

The other cool thing I forgot about but once saw my cousin do when I was 8 is SUPER SONIC! I haven't figured out how to get him yet, but he looks like this:


So now you are hopefully armed with the tools to save animals all over Sonic land. Once you obtain victory don't forget to grab Sonic's favorite treat, a chilli dog, down at George's Coney Island!