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| - You control Ryu in this chapter. Right off the bat, hold down the block button as you're going to have Ninjas charging you from the get go. If you've never played Ninja Gaiden before, the game will give you instructions on how to fight. After you kill them there will be a brief cutscene. When it ends you'll fight some more Ninjas. Kill the Ninjas and follow the boardwalk to the left. There's a chest. Open it to receive an Herb of Spiritual Life. Use this to restore your health if needed. Head back to the left and down the stairs to continue the level. You'll come upon a Save Statue. Before you can use it though you'll have to fight off some more Ninjas. After you've dispatched them use the Statue to save and heal your wounds. You'll enter a hallway and see some Ninjas charging toward you. Hold the triangle button to charge up an Ultimate Technique attack. When they get close let it loose and it should pretty well exterminate them. At the end of the hall is a room with a chest in it. Open it to receive some Blue Essence and restore your health. Exit the room and continue down the next hallway. In the middle of the hallway there's a gap in the floor. To cross it perform a wall run. Before that however hop down into the room below and open the chest located there. It will contain a scroll explain the Technique of Shadowless Footsteps, which in plain speech is the wall run move we were just talking about. Use it for pointers if you have trouble. Make your out of the hole and across the gap to continue. You'll turn a corner and find a room to your left and a chest right in front of you. Open it to receive a scroll explaining the Reverse Wind Technique which helps with dodging enemy attacks. Proceed into the room and open the chest immediately to your left. It contains a Life of the Thousand Gods which will expand your health bar. As you leave the building you'll note a Crystal Skull on rooftop opposite your position. Before dropping into the area below, hop across to the adjacent roof and grab the Crystal Skull. Don't worry if you miss, there's a ladder below. After you get the Crystal Skull, drop down to the area below. Enter the building directly ahead. Some Ninjas will attack you. After they're dead, go open the chest by the vase near the wall. There's an Herb of Spiritual Life inside. Now smash the vases and crate in the corner to receive some Essence. Head up the stairs. You'll be attacked by a lone Ninja. After you've maimed the poor fool you'll come to a boardwalk with a waterfall visible. Almost immediately there will be a chest to your left. Open it for a scroll explaining how to use Ninpo and teaching you your first spell. After you open this chest you'll be attacked by some Warlocks. These guys are tougher then you're average Ninja. Block their attacks and when they pause lay into them with sword strikes and combos. Continue up the next flight of stairs where you'll see a chest sitting. Kick it and you'll receive some Ki to use with your Ninpo abilities. Proceed through the nearby door and you'll encounter another gap and some incoming Ninjas. Let them come to you and then wall run to bridge the gap. If you fall, there's a ladder back up. Continue up the stairs to another gap and more Ninjas leaping across it. You can't wall run to get across this one. Instead jump toward the bar jutting out of the wall toward the middle of the gap. Ryu will catch hold of it and you can then jump to the other side. Once there you'll find a corpse. Examine it for a scroll explaining the Obliteration Technique which helps you execute wounded foes. Right after that you'll be attacked by some one armed Ninjas to practice on. As you reach the end of the hallway you'll see another corpse and a Save Statue. The corpse is holding a scroll explaining the Flying Bird Technique which allows you to scale parallel walls via rebound jumps. Use the Save Statue and continue either with the ladder or the Flying Bird. You'll emerge in a courtyard with some cherry blossom trees and, you guessed it, some Ninjas. Take them down, practicing your Obliteration Technique if the opportunity presents itself. After they're all in pieces, head toward the bridge. Don't cross the bridge just yet. Hop down into the water below and turn right toward the waterfall area. More Ninjas will drop in. Kill them and then run to the area with all the hanging lanterns. You'll find a chest in a corner there containing a Life of the Gods. Collect enough of these little suckers and your health bar will increase. Head all the way left of the bridge and you'll find another chest inside a boat. Open it to receive a Devil's Way Mushroom. Use this if you run low on Ki. Now you can cross the bridge. Smash the vase for some essence. Now head left and you'll be attacked by Warlocks. Keep following the trail and you'll turn a corner to the right. Head down the ramp and continue on and trigger a cutscene. The cutscene will end and you'll be attacked by Ninjas and an Archer. Crystal Skull You see where the Archer is perched? There's a Crystal Skull up there too! To get up there requires a bit of acrobatics. Heading down the stairs here, you'll see a tree positioned right about where the right hand railing stops. Look up and you'll also see a roof ledge. Do a bird flip off of the tree and onto the ledge. Then just run over the Archer's dispatch them and grab the Crystal Skull. Kill your foes and continue down the path. You'll come across another gap. Two Ninjas will leap across it. Kill them. Before heading to the other side of the gap, jump down to find a chest containing some Blue Essence. Head in the direction opposite this chest and you'll encounter some Ninjas and find another chest containing a Life of the Gods.. Now climb back up and use the bar in the middle of the gap to hop to the other side. When you hit the other side you'll be attacked by a couple more Ninjas. After they're dead continue on. You'll come to another gap with two bars this time. Jump onto the first one and then jump and catch the second. Easy as cake. When you reach the other side, head up the stairs and use the Save Statue. After that head up the ladder. When you reach the top of the ladder, head right. There's a chest containing a Devil's Way Mushroom. Next, continue to the left. You'll find a corpse. Examine it to find a scroll detailing the Flying Swallow Technique. Remember this one as it is endlessly useful and effective against most every enemy in the game. Continue down the boardwalk. You'll come to a larger area where you'll be attacked by Ninjas, Warlocks and a new enemy, the Phantom Warlock. Phantom Warlocks are one of the most annoying enemies in the game. They float around the screen shooting off fireballs and can disappear and reappear at will. They love to appear right next to you and hit you with a melee combo. Try the Flying Swallow on them. After you kill these guys, prepare for a Boss Battle.
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