Mega Man X8 Walkthrough

Mega Man X8 walkthrough.

Note:This walkthrough is only a stage guide. If you want to know how to defeated the boss, click on the boss of that stage.

Intermissions
To activate the Intermissions, oddly enough you'll need to lose lives during missions. By deliberately sacrificing yourself and using up retries, eventually an Intermission will activate upon returning to the Hunter Base. The first will be the Noah's Park Intermission, with three more (Central White, Inferno & Troia Base) to follow.

Intermissions primarily offer various ways to save up Metals in either small rooms riddled with waves of enemies or repetitive arenas. You'll have infinite retries to use and the ability to exit at any time.

Intro Stage: Noah's Park
After the cutscene, head right through the jungle. Destroy any Bombees (bee enemies) you see with shots and grab the Metals. Cross the river when you get to it and destroy the Busterds (missile launching enemies). Continue right, destroying the Bombees and groups of Busterds. Soon you'll get to a small lightbulb-like enemy powering itself up using a Bombee. Destroy all these enemies and collect the Metals. Continue right, and you'll go through a few earth tremors before encountering the Maverick that you will constantly fight in this stage: Crabs-Y. Crabs-Y's main attack is that it'll often try to grab and immobilize you.

Intermission
This Intermission will see you trapped in front of the cascading waterfall in Noah's Park (where you fought one of the giant crab mechaniloids). You'll be assaulted by waves of small crabs and bouncing wheels from every direction, including a rogue flying claw. Two numbers appear up on the right, the top indicates your top score for the mission while the lower records total enemy defeats of the current session. Watch out when the claw flies in, after streaking away once it'll fly up out of the screen after passing over your character and come straight down, so stand well clear of the area where it took off to avoid a beating. Eventually all the enemy types will attack at once while the claw flies in and out, so keep yourself moving while attacking. The Hermes Armor's Body Parts H allows you to avoid any kind of damage from the small crabs and bouncing wheels, giving you a great chance of racking up huge scores in the hundreds.

Metal Valley: Earthrock Trilobyte
As soon as you enter this stage, a giant crazed Mechaniloid, named Yellow Brontes, will drop down and start chasing you.

Dynasty: Gigabolt Man-O-War
This stage is all about chasing Gigabolt Man-O-War (who is in a UFO form) through a futuristic city while on a floating Ride Chaser. During the stage, you'll encounter glowing billboards. Don't hit them, as you'll lose speed. Instead, let Gigabolt hit them. The billboards will collapse if he hits them.

During the entire chase don't stop firing at your target, you'll know you've hit home when he briefly flashes red. Watch out for the multitude of projectiles he often spews out to attack you with, at first he'll lay out exploding bombs. If they detonate use the Quick Strafe to zip around the latent explosion. With enough of a pelting Gigabolt will begin to show wear and tear with flames and smoke billowing from his backside, so you'll know you're getting there. Try to grab as many of the Metals scattered about along the way, especially when Gigabolt drops red ones. After taking enough damage he'll generate a group of small jellyfish projectiles and launch them at you, just be ready to sneak out of their way. Eventually you'll return to the beginning of the circuit and head around for another lap, just be sure to keep up with Gigabolt and take him down quickly, otherwise after a few minutes he'll escape and you'll automatically lose (the screen flashes red for some time before he escapes). It may take you a few tries to conquer Gigabolt, just don't give up. Once you've belted him enough he'll retreat and land on a floating platform where you'll face off against Gigabolt on foot.

Jakob: Vile V
This stage only goes in one direction: up!

Gateway: Sigma
From the hangar bay, head right and enter the doors. You'll find a huge gold structure with teleporters on it. Here are the colors of them and where you'll find each Maverick (after you defeat them, you'll find out that they were fakes): After you defeat them all, you'll have to evacuate. Return the way you came, watching out for the crumbling floor. But when you reach the hangar bay, Sigma will appear. He'll talk a bit, then attack. Sigma has many attacks. One is Sigma Slash, where he'll do a dash slash.
 * Black: Dark Mantis
 * Red: Burn Rooster
 * Orange: Earthrock Trilobyte
 * Purple: Gravity Antonion
 * White: Avalanche Yeti
 * Cyan: Gigabolt Man-O-War
 * Yellow: Optic Sunflower
 * Green: Bamboo Pandamonium