Basic Info

How The Game Works:

You play as Akira, a psychic. As you kill enemies they drop red orbs. Collecting these orbs will advance your EXP meter. Every third of the way to full EXP your weapon gets upgraded damage, speed, and distance. A full XP meter is required by the end of the game. There are side rooms not related to the main area, but most rooms contain minibosses that you have to kill to continue moving down the main path. Many of these rooms are not marked by doors.

EXP is similar to score, but not based on it. I've gotten the level 2 weapon at 60,000 and at 68,000. So while it's not accurate, you can gauge XP by your score. 60K is a good barometer for level 2, 120K for level 3.

You need full EXP by the middle of the last stage, some Holy Glasses, and two Hand items, or you cannot progress to the final boss.

Usable Items (Below EXP bar):

Note: You have to press start and use left/right to select an item, unpause to select it, and press Up+B in-game to use it. If one item or powerup is in use, its effect has to end before you can use another. It's effect will end instantly if you pick up a powerup.

Flashlight - Stops all non-boss enemies. Causes lots of flashing. Incredibly helpful in cheesing the stage 5 boss since its spawns count as normal enemies.

Bomb - Deals damage to all enemies on screen. Normal enemies die instantly, bosses and minibosses take heavy damage. 3-4 bombs wipes out the first Dracula boss and 1-2 take out the second.

Hands - This pushes specific colored boxes in the last stage. It costs EXP to use, and you need a full gauge. You need two of them, and there are only two in the game. The first one is in the purple/turquoise room in stage 3 by the room exit. The second is in the room with all the pits and mummies in the last stage, and it only appears if you DO NOT pick up the Star powerup before it.

Holy Glasses - Allows you to see invisible enemies, aka the hands that come from the ground. Killing the hand monsters that rise from the floor nets you an EXP upgrade, so they are very important in the last stage, and you can only see them with the glasses.

Powerups (instant-use items found on the map): 

Note: If you grab one of these, you have to wait for its effect to stop before you are allowed to use an inventory item.

Bigger note: If one of these items has a prolonged effect (it plays a special song), all other powerups and items will NOT display onscreen until the effect ends. Sometimes it despawns those items altogether. This is why you don't grab the star near the second Hand item, it will despawn and you cannot win the game.

Tablet - Adds a bar of EXP. Found in stages by themselves, or dropped from minibosses. The hand monsters that rise up from the floor always drop a tablet.

Star - Creates mirror images behind you that also shoot your weapon, like Ninja Gaiden 2.

Shooting Star - You run really fast. Very dangerous item given the platforming.

Potion - Temporary invincibility.

Speedrun notes

Three main things make this a faster run:

1. There is a block clip in stage 1 that is frame perfect (or at least a tiny window). When you collect the invincibility potion in stage 1, above it is a moving block. If you can jump right and get squished by the block, you'll clip on top of it. This only saves a few seconds.

2. The Hand: when you get the first hand in stage 3, use it immediately. It will give you max XP. This saves having to farm to max by the endgame.

3. The despawn: In the last stage in the last room before the boss, there is a witch and a centipede-like thing. If you get the witch to drop two flames, and then walk right to put the column to the right of the centipede into view, the block that you need to use the hand with will vanish. This is temporary and if the flames land to where they disappear when you walk offscreen, the block will come back.

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