Stage 2 is the second stage in Classic Mode in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.
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This stage is set in a mechanized library that is aesthetically similar to the Livre Ex Machina from the main game. It begins in a tall room where patrolling Lance Armors provide the only threats. After ascending it through a series of staircases, the player must go left on a series of platforms above a bottomless pit. More Lance Armors threaten to knock the player into the abyss while Bats fly at them from different resting positions. This room also introduces the flying Dullahammer Heads, which will become a common enemy later in the game.
Passing through a door, the player arrives in a small room that contains little but a Lance Armor and some Ghosts. The staircase up leads to a corridor where the player must go right, jump up to higher tier and then board moving platforms to proceed left. Lance Armors and Dullahammer Heads are prominent threats here as they can easily knock the player into the abyss or at least from the higher tier to the lower one. Beyond the moving platforms, they face a combination of obstacles including guillotines that move up and down, bottomless pits, Bats and Cannon Mortes. They go up to ascend a shaft where more Cannon Mortes and Dullahammer Heads impede them while a giant Dullahammer waits in the background.
Once the player reaches the enclosed room above, the giant Dullahammer jumps up and its head detaches, commencing the fight with the Giant Dullahammer Head. When the Giant Dullahammer Head is defeated, the Dullahammer body dies along with it and a heart drops down. Touching the heart ends the stage.
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- This stage is very similar in level design and enemy placement to Block 2 from Castlevania, to the point where some rooms are almost exact recreations. Both stages also end with a battle against a head that detaches itself from something else, summons smaller enemies to aid it in battle, and has an ability to petrify the hero; in Castlevania, this boss is Medusa.