PrinceWatercress plays The Ninja Warriors (U.S. Version) - Part 3 of 4

In this entry, we meet Banglar for the first time, bosses get downgraded to normal enemies, and the bosses get even tougher.

Stage 5

You'll be fighting some more guys at the beginning of the stage, until you reach the door to the inside of this nice house. When this happens, you'll fight a white version of the first boss with a pink mohawk. Yes, he blows up when he explodes. Once again, throw, throw, throw.

You'll also meet a small, white robot that tries to shoot at you, but if you keep throwing other enemies at it, you shouldn't have much of a problem.

The second section is another floor of this building. You'll soon enter what looks like a conservative Japanese house, complete with rice paper walls. You'll be fighting a lot of those little guys with the claws as well as what looks like kabuki-masked guys in white bathrobes before you meet the boss: some martial artist.

He teleports behind you a lot, and he even sends two big guys to back him up. Thankfully, their higher amounts of HP lets you use them as weapons a little more often. When he glows red, watch the floor and stay away from the green geysers of fire that come up out of it. If you can get between them shortly after they show up, you should be okay.

Don't expect to combo him, since he'll block your attacks after about two punches. Use dashing shoulder rams, dashing kicks and also combo into your blaster in order to get the jump on this guy.

Stage 6

Yes, you can destroy the statuettes in the background. It takes a bit of doing, but it can be done.

You'll meet the small white robots here again. When you reach the end of the stage, you'll meet up with two robots...one is the gold one you've been seeing throughout the game, while the second one is a crimson recolor of the gold one.

This section isn't very long at all, as you'll fight the bosses soon afterwards. You'll see Benglar, but he'll run away and leave you with two bodyguards of his. They look like the first boss, but they have an even more robotic appearance to them. One is blue, the other is gold.

If these guys aren't jumping around and trying to punch you, they'll usually try to surround you at any given time. Comboing into your blaster power-up is a must here, since the chances are about 50-50 that they'll block your regular combo attack. They also have a nasty slide attack that can not only take you off guard but also works as an embarrassing way of taking your blaster power all the way down if you get hit while it's less than full. If you can stay at one side of the screen and fend these two guys off, you'll have a much easier time as they won't be able to get behind you. Doing a Down+Y throw on one of them works well if you can do it, but if you can throw one into the other, that's good enough.