Thankfully, I believe only this stage gets that treatment. Some others like Overdrive Ostrich have things like a sick intro added to them.This Eye o' Mine wrote: ↑5 years ago Not sure if this happened at all in Xtreme 1, but it's bothering the heck out of me how they truncated the music in this stage. It loops back to the start right before it gets to the most recognizable and energetic part. It ends up feeling like the stage never gets going properly.
Also having watched the video now, I can confirm that yes, you have to have a certain amount of souls on your person to unlock more things in the shop which is really stupid. Thankfully the best parts unlock at like 500-1000, and beating bosses gets you 200.
I should note that EVERYONE is weak to the x-buster in this game. Lemons do no less than 2 damage to every boss, so you don't even really need to charge a lot of the time. When you find the body armor, it should get a lot better since as you saw, some bosses have remix attacks.
On the note of the leg upgrade, and someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but it's actually IMPOSSIBLE for X to beat the game without it. You'll see what I mean later, and it's possibly the rudest MMX level segment I've ever seen.