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23. Sting Chameleon (Mega Man X)

Sting Chameleon has a lot of the same problems as Boomer Kuwanger. Using the buster only, I find the fight more annoying than anything. Sting Chameleon often goes invisible and cannot be shot. It makes sense, I mean he is a chameleon. I also like how it looks with him sticking out against the background. But it drags the fight out. The number of times I've fired a fully charged shot only for it to do nothing because he started camouflaging at the last second is frustrating. He also has an attack that, for the life of me, I can never seem to dodge. He crawls towards me and reappears, lashing out with his tongue at the same time. If I jump to avoid it, he lashes out a second time instantly and hits me anyway, every time. This is not a fun fight to go into without a bunch of health upgrades. Some of his attacks are neat, like when he shakes the ceiling to drop thorns. Still, the tongue attack and the invisibility makes Sting Chameleon an annoying battle. He's also a boss who is trivialized by his weakness. If you have Boomerang Cutter, you can pretty much just stand in the middle of the screen and shoot him whenever he jumps into a corner. So, like Boomer Kuwanger, Sting Chameleon is either annoyingly difficult or brain-dead easy. I never enjoy fighting him. The nicest thing I can say about him is I like how he looks, especially the way his eye spins around when he first lands in the boss room. He certainly looks cooler than Boomer Kuwanger.

STAGE
23. Safari Park Stage (Mega Man X3)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTIao1GF7a4

For the most part, I don't hate this level. The first portion is a fun area to jump around in with the dragonflies and red guys throwing spike balls. The level has semi-obvious secrets that are still fun to discover, like how that one cracked wall stands out and how I intuitively knew I needed to hit it with the drill weapon. Unfortunately, Safari Park is dragged down by the miniboss. I hate, hate, hate fighting the sandworm. The guy in the video I linked makes it look easy, but I struggle so much against this stupid thing. You can only damage its head, and you have to do it while dodging spike balls and trying to guess where it's going to unburrow from. I always struggle against it for reasons that don't feel fair. This thing is the true threat of the level, not Neon Tiger. It's sad that one miniboss can drag down an entire level, but... it can. I dread playing through Safari Park because I know the sandworm is going to kick my ass. The tiny hitbox and the bouncing spike balls make it hard to find an opening to shoot it. Some bosses are a fun challenge to overcome. The sandworm is just "I fired and oh I missed the tiny head, time to wait for it to unburrow again".

SONG
23. Tunnel Rhino (Quarry Stage) (Mega Man X3)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiMd7r1G5I0

This song doesn't have anything jarring like Launch Octopus' theme did, but Tunnel Rhino's theme just never grabs me. It feels like a song that never builds into anything. It really sounds like it's going somewhere for a few seconds from 0:07 to 0:09, but then it just stays at the exact same level with a mediocre tune that feels like it's repeating over and over. And it just... stays there for the entire rest of the song with no sections that stand out to me. It's like the song has no energy. I honestly don't have anything to say other than that. Tunnel Rhino's song feels empty.