We need to rescue a couple of Smurfs. Let's get Smurfin'!
This guide assumes you're playing on the Normal difficulty.
Act 1: The Forest
Left and Right let you move around, Down ducks, A jumps, B lets you run.
On the heads-up display at the top of the screen, you have your current amount of lives and health on the left. If you get hit with no hears left, you'll lose a life. To the right of that is your current time (which you can't get more of, by the way), and the current amount of sarsaparilla leaves you have.
Enemies to watch out for include Black Smurfs (known as Purple Smurfs in America for obvious racial reasons), nuts thrown to the left by the squirrels in the trees, and flies that move around in a circle. If you get hit by an enemy, there is Castlevania-style knockback.
Despite what I say in this video, if you get killed by a Black/Purple Smurf, you just die. Other games based on the Smurfs property do turn you into an infected Black/Purple Smurf, though, as the spores that make them evil pass on via contact.
The leaves are sarsaparilla leaves, which Smurfs love to eat. Getting 25 nets you a 1-Up. You can also grab a Smurf Doll for an extra life, too.
The leaves that fall down can be used as platforms, but they fall faster when you stand on them. Hold the A button down while on the jumping board to jump higher (and also get out of the room).
If you press down while standing on a tree stump, you'll find a hidden room, with pick-ups. The berries are called Smurfberries, and picking one up refills one heart.
There are five stars in every act. If you get all five stars, you'll get a bonus area before starting the next act.
The interesting thing about using the B button to run is that it works in weird ways. You can change the speed at which you are moving left or right even if you are in the air, and because of that, you can use that to your advantage and suddenly go faster while in mid-air to make it easier to reach a platform.
Bonus Stage: The Bubbles
For this one, jump into the bubble blower to the left to get in a bubble, then use the Control Pad to move around in the air while avoiding the butterflies. Use the very limited amount of time you have to grab all that you can, whether it be sarsaparilla leaves, Smurfberries or the Smurf Doll.
Act 2: The River Smurf
Use the Control Pad to move in eight directions while avoiding fish as well as being crushed on the left side of the screen. Things in this act can be rather tough to get, so you'd better be ready to move in order to get all five stars and even pick up some Smurfberries while avoiding the fish. Thankfully, this act is pretty short.
Bonus Stage: The Mushrooms
Jump from mushroom to mushroom as the bonus stage automatically scrolls and get all the things you can. Holding down B is essential here. See if you can get the Smurf Doll; you'll need all the lives you can get in this game.
Act 3: The Swamps
The water is instant death, so don't fall in.
The frogs' heads act as platforms, but they dip in and out of the water. The mosquitos, on the other hand, just move back and forth on the water but stay on the surface.
To grab a vine, simply move into it. From here, you can use the A button to jump, and you can also use Up and Down to climb up and down the vines.
If you go up a long vine, you may be able to find a hidden room. Carefully jump from vine to vine to get everything, then climb down the vine leading to the bottom of the screen that you came in from to get back to the main stage.
The flies move around in a circle, and you can use them a stepping stone to a vine or another platform if you time your jumps right and land on them where you need to.
After the score-tallying up (and the bonus stage, if you got it), you'll face Azrael. Go all the way to the vine in the upper-right corner and climb all the way up. When Azrael jumps towards, hop to the left and land on Azrael's head when Azrael is on the ground, then get back up the vine with both the A button and Up on the Control Pad. If Azrael is in the air when you land on her head, you'll take damage. After a couple of hits, Azrael goes down. Go up to the key and press Down to pick it up, then move towards the cage to save Brainy Smurf. You'll get a password, and it will differ depending on what difficulty you're playing on.
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