Mega Man X2 is...fine! Ok, it's good. Maybe even great! It's just not as great as the first game. Yes, it's bigger, with an even more cinematic presentation, more interesting set piece-style stages, more impressive upgrades, and optional hidden bosses. On paper, it should be even better than the first game, but it just...isn't. It's more complicated, but it's messier. Getting all the upgrades and defeating the mavericks and the X-Hunters means you're jumping around stages a lot more than in the first game, and while those stages have some interesting hooks (moving dinosaur tank! jet biking through the desert!) I don't think the level design is all that great. Still, absolutely worth playing, and definitely not the worst X game by a long shot, but I don't return to it very often when compared to the first one.