PrinceWatercress plays Sumo Fighter - Part 9 of 15

The lyric I forgot to mention was "It was not a night to be with birds" from "Christmas Time in Motor City" by Was (Not Was).

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Hard - Stage 4

Stage 4-1

The angry white birds start showing up in numbers here. Be careful not to get knocked into the pits on the way to the end. One of the pits even has a guy dropping straight down from the sky as you jump over it. Not fun.

Stage 4-2

Remember that thing I said about leaving the pots near the pits alone so you can make better jumps? You'll be doing it here, especially when you'll have the parasol yokai showing up on the other sides of these jumps. Be sure to scroll the screen as far to the right as you can as you do this.

Stage 4-3

This is where it gets hard.

When you reach a pit with blocks on the left side of it, leave the blocks alone. You'll need them to make longer running jumps. Just like with Stage 4-2, scroll the screen as far to the right as you can so you can spawn the hawks from Stage 1-1 whenever possible. The hawks don't really show up until near the end of the stage, but they can definitely send you plummeting into a pit if you don't see them coming.

To beat the boss, get up to him and hit him. Avoid the rocks that he throws when he jumps into the air and buries himself in the ground. Wait for the dust to kick up under your feet. This will be where he will pop out. Move slightly to the side and hit him so you can do damage when he comes up, then stand still to avoid the first rock and jump up to avoid the second, and land where the boss is burying himself. It will take some practice to get the timing down, but if you can get it down, it makes beating this boss much easier. You'll have to keep doing this until he dies.

Near the end of the boss battle when you have the boss down to about one or two units left, you'll stun the boss instead. Keep palm striking him and he will be done.