0-2's title, THE MEATGRINDER, is a fairly accurate description. The player should be familiar with environmental hazards such as, well, meatgrinders from other games. If not, this level will make you extremely comfortable with them. Touch the hazards in the level, and you are instantly transformed into a cloud of red mist and blue microplastics. Not fun! The first combat room (if you can even call it a room, it's more of a claustrophobic hallway) contains two STRAYS. If you followed our guide and used the pipe clip to skip most of 0-1, you will be unfamiliar with these enemies. Simply put, they shoot you. Once. and they are also incredibly cowardly! Their projectiles are easily PARRIED and they die from one Piercer shot to the head, and pretty much anything else. Shoot the one in front of you, then parry the bullet of the one behind you back into his skull.
The next 2 rooms of 0-2 get you REAL familiar with being surrounded by enemies. The first consists of a fragile glass bridge placed precariously over aforementioned MEATGRINDERS. After walking forward, four FILTH will spawn in front of you, and four will spawn behind you. As always, jumping to group them below you works to get an easy kill. You can either ground slam to crush most of them, or by pre-charging a Piercer shot and breaking the glass below you to shred all the filth below you. Just be sure to dash onto the intact glass bridge. The next room is vertically limiting, but you will catch a glimpse of your future opponent through a door that closes faster than anyone has ever been able to reach it. You will now be subject to a cocophony of FILTH and STRAYS lined up nice and orderly for a Piercer shot. On repeat playthroughs, a single CORE-NUKE will instantly obliterate all enemies in this room.
More hazards await you, but this time instead of wanting to turn you into sauce, they want to turn you (and thankfully, any enemy in their vicinity) into a pancake. After watchinig two FILTH get flattened. A large room with a giant piston in the middle will now greet you. Speeding through this level TOO fast can see you flying through the door to this room and straight into the waffle press. Clearing this room is simple as long as you don't run into the pancake maker in the middle. Through the door should now put you into a small piston gauntlet of sorts, where two strays will be instantly crushed upon entering. A single dash-jump timed correctly should safely get you to the next section. Now there are a few different ways you can go once you make it to this point. Theres a hole in the ceiling a few rooms back which contains a foreboding blue skull, which can be put on a pedestal through the door to your left. This unlocks... an exit. Alternatively, and preferably by most, going straight will put you in a small cage where you fight alongside our favorite yellow machined friend. You both battle a mix of STRAY and FILTH, both of which easily dispatched by charged Piercer shots and bullet PARRIES.
