The Stage 2 Boss might be the hardest one in the game to handle without taking any damage or reaching him unscathed. While the stage and boss itself aren't terribly tough, finishing with the No Damage bonus is ultra challenging due to all kinds of cheap hits, a lack of reliable strategy for playing it totally safe, etc. However, your best bet is to save up plenty of hearts and use the Stopwatch item crash! It will create a series of homing missiles that will keep him too busy to get too many of his cheaper attacks in, and if you can use it twice, he shouldn't survive after the second. Keep moving, and be ready to avoid that final attack! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfO4nA8gilw

Another perfected boss fight. If you're savvy, you can snag that high candle for the Bible via the Axe from a previous stage and do some major damage with it, but this method kept it a little more honorable. Besides, having Hydro Storm on hand deals with the one attack of his that is the most tricky to avoid. He's honestly not too tough a fight, but when he connects, he does big damage, and the flying head is a real pain with the curse effect if it touches you. A well timed backflip deals with that just fine, though. His only real cheap tactic can come if he gets too close with his leap and thrusts and corners you if you don't get to the other, more open side of him. You can read most of his cues without much trouble. Try to read his head throw, as one of them will cause rocks to rain down. Either hide in the same spot as you would for the other head attack, OR use Hydro Storm on that one, which very well might end the fight straight up. He's a little harder to hit in this than in his SNES incarnation, but still, not so bad, and another perfect fight down! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiQSrsJxdhs