Thread 11980340

So is this boss fight supposed to be impossible?

I think it's even worse on SMS. You need to be able to shoot two shots at once and once the statues are in the middle of the screen, you have to watch the timing of your shots to make sure the 2nd shot doesn't hit during the i-frame

>>11980340 (OP)
You can't ever say anything in a game is ever hard on this fucking website
Because once you do you get faggots going "psh that's baby mode I can't believe zoomers are having trouble with this" and all discussion ceases

It's pretty hard. You want to jump at it with a little bit of space between you and it while attacking. With your stars you need to hit the bottom and middle statue. When all statues get on your screen use ninjitsu.

Or you can just cheese it and turn to the left and get knocked back to the right, but you aren't going to cheese it and beat it the real way, right?

>>11980340 (OP)
iirc I accidentally glitched through by using the super attack as they don't actually damage you so it just pushes you out, likely on the correct side as it is constantly moving left. Looking up a longplay, that seems to be a genuine strategy. If you want to do it properly though, you need to get the timing down whilst being relatively close to the it. Easier said then done.

It's always possible if you get knocked out to the other side.
It's impossible if you try to do it properly and with some shit weapons like the grenade.

I don't really get it, sometimes I clear it no problem, some times it feels impossible to beat it before it crushes me, but I don't understand what did I do different

>>11980792
Each section takes 4 shots to kill, but they have i-frames. So you have to both pace your shots individually and shoot fast to hit one during a jump and another when you touch down. And lastly, you need certain weapons.

>>11980796
The OP is Shinobi arcade. You only get the stars and one ninjitsu. You can only upgrade to a sub machine gun when rescuing hostages, which you can't do on a boss stage.

>>11980801
I was probably recalling the SMS version then, where you get a grenade. That weapon sucks.

>>11980792
The timing of your shots, watch not to hit during I frames

psh that's baby mode I can't believe zoomers are having trouble with this
(fer reel)

>>11980719
holy broken zoomer mind holy shit that is such a pathetic post

psh that's baby mode I can't believe zoomers are having trouble with this

>>11981230
lol The game doesn't even become hard until the last two levels, but then again I played the game all the time waiting to see movies at AMC Theatres.

>>11981238
>That level where ninjas are just flying out of nowhere

>>11980340 (OP)
likely you are going to die, at least the maduras you destroyed previously stay dead

>>11981254
I've never beaten the game because of them I think towards the end. It's an arcade game, though, it wasn't meant to be beaten, at least that's my general philosophy. Beating these games, the older ones, is always some obscure bonus for hardcorers.

>>11981279
But anon you're supposed to cry about how the game is "bad design quarter muncher" and use savestates and rewind QoL to "fix" things!!

You just don't get it

>>11981238
>Can't use another credit to continue in the last stage; it's all or nothing
They weren't fucking around back then.

>>11980691
THAT'S a boss fight?

>>11981296
It's a form of elitism, but I'm ok with it. Toki does this on the last level in that it gives you a message that's basically: "hey, just two more continues, so git gud", but Shinobi is bordering on cruelty.

>>11981296
The SMS version lets you continue but when you continue you lose all your upgrades. The final boss is a total nightmare without at the very least health upgrades, it took me 30+ attemps to kill him.

>>11981306
Not sure about the SMS version, but that's just the wall before the actual boss.

>>11981294
*boo hoo hoo*
The devs hurt my butt, guys! They ruined movie night! I was entitled as a young boy to beat their video game that took thousands of dollars in 1980s money to develop with just one quarter and was just a clever way to give entertainment and then grift money from dummies who never learned.
*boo hoo hoo!*
It isn't fair! Anyone who is good at the game CHEATS!
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(that better?)

>>11981306
Well, the real boss is after the statues but he's super easy.

The video may make this part of the fight look easy as you're just standing and shooting, but the timing is very strict due to projectile limit and the statues' i frames.

This fight filtered me for years as a kid.

Yes.

>>11981306
The lightning ray on the left kills you instantly if you touch it. Basically, this fight is on a time limit - you have to kill all the 16 mandaras before they push you into the ray. There's a boss right after it, but it's much easier.