Here's an odd little game where the main protagonist is a sumo wrestler. It may not be the best platformer for the Game Boy, but it's still enjoyable in its own way.
You are a sumo wrestler Bontaro Heiseiyama aka Bon-Chan, and you have to sav your love Kayo, who has been kidnapped by ninjas.
Easy - Stage 1
Stage 1-1
Left and Right let you move, and double-tapping either direction lets you dash. Down lets you duck. B lets you attack with a palm strike, especially if you press it repeatedly, and pressing it while running performs a headbutt. A lets you jump, and holding Down while pressing A lets you perform a stomp move that stuns some enemies and kill others.
At the bottom of the screen is your current health, your current experience, your current lives and your current score.
The pause screen shows the current strength of your strikes, your stomps, and your health meter.
As you go through the stage, you'll beat up enemies with rods that run towards you as well as tiny sumo. As you attack enemies repeatedly with the palm strike, you'll eventually throw them into the stratosphere to get rid of them for good. You'll need to beat up all the enemies and pick up what they leave behind. Rice bowls give you one point of experience, while the thing that looks like either a butterfly or a black four leaf clover gives you five. You'll need ten experience points to get to the next level. When you reach ten, the number on the right for your experience will flash. Pause the game and select one of the three things you want to strengthen: your strikes, your stomp or you health meter. You'll then have to get more experience to level up again. I recommend starting with strikes and health first, and saving the stomp for last.
Spikes do one hit point worth of damage. Don't walk on them.
Strike rocks in order to find things and pick them up. The drums gives us fist projectiles that you can throw out by holding Up and pressing B, and you have a limited amount of projectiles. That number is directly underneath your health, if you have them.
The kebab pick-ups replenish one point of health.
The gift box gives you a lot of points and also makes you temporarily invincible.
The arch above one of the platforms in the middle of the level leads to a bonus stage, and you'll need to select one of three cards to see what you'll get. There are three games: an arm wrestling game, a sumo wrestling game, and a thumb wrestling game. There is also an "Oh no!" card that gives you nothing. Besides giving you a game that you can play for more experience, you can also use the bonus stage to refill your health and skip part of the stage, even if you don't get a game.
To beat the sumo wrestling game, keep pressing the A button when the black cursor reaches the center of the bar at the bottom of the screen. With timing and practice, you'll be able to press the A button and stop the cursor as close to the center of the bar as possible and win the game and a lot of experience. You'll have three rounds of this to do, and you'll need all of them to win all the experience points, which will definitely be a help at this point.
The salt basket completely refills your health.
The stone at the end is the end of the level. When you beat a level, you'll get a password. Be sure to write it down, as it also saves your stats. Also, break the rocks at the end for more experience.
Stage 1-2
There are bottomless pits here, so be careful.
When you see the man with the hat, keep your distance and wait for him to throw his hat, then get up to him and attack him. They can knock you into pits much like any enemy, so know when to back off and know when to strike.
The guys with the sheathed swords will jump at you if you get close enough to them. They also wal
The bonus area is at the end of the second spike pit with the platforms. Just jump up to find it and get to it.
The mawashi gives you a super stomp that works for only one stomp. If you have the fist projectiles, it will replace them.
Break the rocks at the end to find some experience as well as a sumo fighter doll. The sumo fighter doll gives you an extra life.
Stage 1-3
Stage 1-3 scrolls vertically. Be very careful when making your way up the level, as the level does not scroll back down and falling beyond the bottom of the screen will cost you a life.
Watch out for the Ronin that run at you.
The arch is on the right side of the screen about halfway through the level.
The arm wrestling game plays just like the sumo wrestling game: stop the cursor as close to the center of the bar as possible and win the game and a lot of experience.
The boss is a martial artist. You can either get caught inside of him and position yourself so you can stay super-close to him and keep hitting him, or you can do the safer option: wait at the side of the screen opposite the boss and move under the boss as soon as he does the jump kick - which will be unable to hit you at the extreme ends of the screen - and then hit him. (Thanks One Credit Classics) Once you take him out, it's on to Stage 2.
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