This was an interesting set of levels to play, as was the "a-ha" moments for what I needed to do to get through them.
Toy Factory
The conveyor belts here will move you around, but they are the least of your worries here. The fire pits will instantly kill you if you fall into them, and the rotating platforms, as much as a help as they are of keeping you out of them, rotate fairly fast, so pay attention.
The openings in the background will produces boxes and enemies that will fire at you. Keep firing as you go and you won't have to deal with them for very long.
When the game provides you a ladder here, use it. It is possible to fall too far and die in this place.
After some fire jets, you'll need to drop down and to the left towards some crushers that you will have to avoid. After the crushers, fall down and to the right, and stay to the left as much as possible while fighting the claw so you don't get burned or grabbed. Once the claw is down, be ready to jump over the gap.
There is a yellow elevator platform that you will have to ride near the end. As you go down, there will be a crystal with an extra life inside. If you're going for it, you'd better be ready to jump off the edge to the left back onto the elevator, because if you do it before you reach the edge, you'll hit your head on the platform above and you won't make it.
Toy Factory Mid-Boss
Avoid the balls that the boss shoots at you as you shoot at the big red hand on the right side of the boss. When the boss' mouth opens, shoot at it to destroy the slug that jump out. Once the big red hand goes down, you'll be shooting at the cannon arm. After the cannon arm goes down, you'll go for the face. After that, the boss will be unable to move or do anything as you shoot at the panel in the center.
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Jump over the tornadoes as you shoot down the small samurai. The big samurai will shoot projectiles at you, so take them down as soon as you see them. The further away and the more firepower you have, the better.
You can ride on the turtles, but if you stay on them too long when they come to a complete stop, they will dive into the water and take you with them, and it will cost you a life.
If you see a gap in any of the wooden bridges that you cross, jump over them! Failure to do so will result in a plank falling down and you falling into the water with it to your death.
You'll face a few mini-bosses as you go through this level. The first is a cannon. Once you shoot the door down, the cannon will alternate between high shots and low shots. Duck the high shots, jump the low shots and keep shooting at the cannon no matter what.
The samurai you'll face after the cannon has a mastery of fire. Start shooting at him, and when he gets in the air, get under him and shoot. If any of your shots bounce off of him, he is invulnerable at the current time. When you see the fireballs rotating around him, go all the way to the left side of the screen and duck to avoid getting hit. Once the mid-boss flies to your side and back again, get under him and fire at him again. When the shots start bouncing off, go all the way to the right and duck to avoid as many of the raining fireballs as possible. There is a third attack where the mid-boss shoots two fireballs that land at opposite ends. When that happens, avoid the fire spread when the fireballs hit the ground. The mid-boss will then cycle through the three attacks in the same order, but the mid-boss dies before we even see the third attack.
You'll soon face another samurai mid-boss that flies around and creates tornadoes. Get under him and shoot him at the start, and when he starts making tornadoes, get all the way to the left and jump over the tornadoes when they come at you. The mid-boss will then bounce around the screen at 45-degree angles; move around so you don't get hit by this guy. Once he is done, he will teleport to the top center, where you can get under him and shoot at him again. He'll do the same attacks again, but you'll need to be ready to jump over the tornadoes the instant they hit the ground. After more bouncing around, he will teleport to the left side, where it's easier to not get hit again. I destroy this mid-boss before he can do much there.
After jumping onto some rocks and small bridges while taking out large samurai, you'll get some food and one more samurai mid-boss. He will fly to the top center and start shooting thunderbolts down. There are gaps between the bolts, and whenever a bolt hits, walk to where it struck after the thunderbolt disappears. You'll be able to inch your way back and forth across the screen and get your shots in on the mid-boss from underneath as you do this. After this, the boss will teleport everywhere into random locations. Stay on the move to avoid him, and when he is at the top center of the screen again, get under him and start firing once again. This mid-boss has an attack where he fires down two thunderbolts - one on the left, one on the right - that move towards the center. If you've done enough damage by the time you reach this attack, you more than likely won't have to deal with it.
After this battle, you'll get more food, then you'll need to keep firing to shoot at the gears and raise up the wooden log platforms that you'll have to jump on to clear some gaps. After a few instances of this, it's time for one more mid-boss: an alien statue. Keep shooting at the head. The big pink projectiles that come out of the eyes will simply freeze you in place, and they will not damage you. The smaller pink projectiles that come out of his back, however, do hurt, and you want to stay away from those. If you know what you're doing, you can find a gap in the pattern in which the big projectiles fly so you can keep moving back and forth to shoot at the statue as much as possible and make this battle go faster.
Mega Lizard
There are three platforms to the left; you'll need to stay on the lowest one. The Mega Lizard will shoot its flame breath either high or low. Wait for the Mega Lizard to duck its head down and shoot low before jumping to the top platform and shooting at the red button in the upper-right corner of the screen. When you hit it, go back down to the lowest platform. The more you shoot the button, the more you will bust up the nearby liquid nitrogen tanks, and when the Mega Lizard is light blue, the battle is over.
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