In this entry, we head to Shikoku Island. There's a festival going on, but the festivalgoers are acting somewhat peculiar.
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The men in the pink masks just dance around. They take one hit to defeat. These are the Hyotoko people, and right now in Shikoku Island, there is a festival happening. The Hyotoko people head to it every year, making it a lively place right now, if talking to the woman at the travel agency at the beginning is any indication. However, as you talk to the people here, you'll find out that they are acting more strangely than usual as they dance in the square on the south side of town, and that the lantern man has also shown up.
The Straw Coat and Straw Hat allows you to take a few hits without losing health. You will still lose sandals and weapon power levels, however.
Enemies here also include angry samurai in red who charge at you and men in orange shirts who run forward, jump up and throw money at you.
The judo teacher will teach you Jutsu Strike if you come into his dojo with full health and you have the money. Until you pay enough money for a Jutsu Strike and automatically train your way into getting one, you can't perform a Jutsu Strike at all. The Jutsu Strikes will allow you to attack all on-screen enemies, ride a tiger (a cow if you're Ebisumaru), fly around and make your melee weapon ultra-powerful. Be sure to learn them all!
The game center allows you play a mini-game for $100. There is no benefit to playing these, but it can be fun. Why there is a huge television with huge spears is anybody's guess. "Break Down The Wall" is a game of Breakout. You can pick a power-up at the beginning of the game, such as slowing down the ball, starting with a limited number of laster shots, decreasing the size of the wall or start without any advantages at all. If you pick the lasers, save the lasers for the grey blocks in the back that take multiple hits to destroy. The hockey game is an air hockey game.
If you destroy the tree to the far right of the area where the sauna is, you'll find a Twinbee Icon you can pick up for $100. The man in the house in this area tells you that the lantern man has a weak point: destroying his lanterns makes him weak. As for the sauna itself, you can spend $100 to refill your health completely. There is also a door to the left of the sauna that you can destroy to find a hidden area. Here, you can find a Golden Lucky Cat for the Warlock Zone.
There is a place where you can fill out a diary, and if you fill in the diary, you can get a password. Keep the password handy for later so you don't have to play again from the very beginning.
Back at the non-electronic game center (also known as the employment center), we see the Paint mini-game. This is like the lightcycle game from Tron; you have to move the paint roller with the D-Pad and paint the whole white area while not running into anything. If you move into the same place twice or run into the borders or a solid block, you lose. All you can do is move the paint roller with the D-Pad, and it get faster the longer you go. If you can paint enough of the white area on the screen, you can make your money back and then some. In case of a two-player game, the person who survives gets double the money compared to the one who doesn't.
The lottery game allows you to win money if you can luck out. You pick your animal, then you pick from one of four sets of numbers. If you get the number right, that's the third place prize of $50. If you match the letter and the number, you get the second place prize of $200. If you match the animal, letter and number, you get the first place prize of $1,000.
At the town square where everyone is dancing around, attack all of the dancers top open up the boss room. Go inside, and you'll fight the lantern man.
When you meet the lantern man, hang back and wait for the lanterns to drop down. You'll need to attack the white lanterns first; if you have to, throw coins/stars at them and avoid or attack the projectiles that they shoot that come at your current position. Watch out for the lantern man as he jumps around.
Hearts replenish your health, should you find them.
After destroying the white lanterns, you'll have to destroy the red ones. The red lanterns will shoot flames that slowly fly to your current position. Thankfully, you can destroy multiple red lanterns with your melee weapon, provided you have it at max power and you don't get hit.
Once the lanterns are gone, it's just the lantern man. Hit him in the face and watch out when he jumps around so you don't get hurt. After you beat him, you'll free Koban. He will tell you that he is a boss of a band of ninja cats that protect Edo, and that Princess Yuki, the only daughter of the ruler of Edo, has been kidnapped, and that she has been taken by a mysterious group of masked men with special weapon who have crippled their transformation spell. He also mentions that the Otafu Clan of Awaji Island have taken Princess Yuki, and asks you to save Yuki.
After this, you'll see fireworks, then it's on to Warlock Zone III.
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