Around 2 hours 57 minutes to beat. I put "LEGIT" in the title because this is one of those tough arcade games that has alot of fake and cheated videos online. ALL my playthroughs are legit. This tutorial breaks down all the strats, including some safe spot boss strats that I found and used.
I beat this game back in 2013, 9 years ago, the US or World ROM. I decided to beat the Japanese ROM this time around, just to add it as another entry on the KILL LIST. I beat the game before I had recording capabilities in 2017, so wanted to get it on the channel. Dragon Breed and Ninja Spirit are two others I plan to complete again for the channel.
I spent around 1 hour 22 minutes on the final stage, which was much quicker than it took me in the past. My skill has improved more than I realised since then. That part felt extreme for me at the time. It probably took well over 3 hours back then. I was going in fresh since I forgot the layouts of the stages since.
I edited out all unsuccessful continues, where no new progress was made. I show the deaths to show which parts I died on. I show the first death on a new checkpoint but the rest are edited out. This shows the checkpoints better. If its the beginning of a stage I dont show the death prior to getting to the first checkpoint, since it would be redundant.
This game has 1 hit deaths and unlimited continues, starting you at the last checkpoint you got to. With this playthrough you can see how to do nearly all checkpoints with no starting power ups, since this is a legit run and mostly checkpoint by checkpoint.
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