Quadraxis14 plays Zen: Intergalactic Ninja - Part 1 of 5

Quadraxis makes his first appearance in forever on the PrinceWatercress blog, and this time around it's straight from his own channel! Can you believe it?

This one's pretty obscure. This is the last game Konami ever made for the Nintendo Entertainment System before they focused all their efforts on the still-fledgling Super Nintendo. Guess what? Despite the seriousness of the comic book series it comes from, the game is a Captain Planet rip-off (sort of). The main bad guy to beat here is Lord Contaminous, who is hell-bent on completely polluting planet Earth.

You choose from four stages at the very beginning. The first one we'll cover is the forest stage.

Acidic Forest Stage

"The flowers in the forest are being destroyed by acid rain. You must strike the flowers with your photon stick to revive them, then defeat Sulfura to save the entire forest!"

You don't have to tell me twice.

This stage is pretty easy. Just use the bushes to leap your way to the top of the level to fight Sulfura. She'll throw test tubes full of sulphur at you, but if you use your proton stick thrust to grab her and smack her into the ground, you'll come out on top as long as you jump over the tackle she attempts after she gets back up.

You'll have to go down every so often to revive the flowers, and thankfully the game reminds you to do this with a arrow pointing downwards popping up, telling you to go back down to the planet. To revive the flowers, just hit them with a regular attack. That's it. They'll keep wilting, though, so you'll probably be making at least two or three return trips before your battle with Sulfura is over.

Bonus Stage

"Knock the garbage into the furnace to recycle it. The more items Zen recycles, the greater the bonus!"

This is pretty easy when you've gotten a bit of practice in. You have three chutes in the ceiling shooting down garbage. Move around and whack them into the furnace with the B button. If you get everything into the furnace, you'll get all five bonuses. The bonuses are pretty good, since you have health replenishments, shields, 1-ups and even bonus points, which are always useful in a Konami game! :D

The Meditation items can be used by pressing Select. This lets you replenish all your energy in the middle of an intense fight, so stockpile as many of these as you can!