Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom perfect boss run
6CHALLENGE: No Damage, No Sword Upgrade, No Ninpo
Here’s my perfect boss run for Ninja Gaiden III on NES. WARNING!!! THE VIDEO CONTAINS RAPID FLASHES!!!
00:00 1. Mantis Warrior
Run up to it, slash at it for a bit, then jump to avoid its fire waves and slash while you’re at it.
00:27 2. Night Diver
Don’t even need to jump here. Its movement seems to depend on yours, but I’m not sure. Catch it on its way down and slash away. Be careful when it moves towards you.
00:57 3. The Great Kogane
Only the one on the left can be damaged. Try to slash it as much as possible while it’s jumping, then be prepared to move away when it’s about to start shooting shurikens. Try to lead the projectiles in such a way that would make it easy to dodge between them.
01:25 4. The Sandeater
Slash at it while it’s walking, climb up while it’s burying in the ground. Stay above where it buried and wait for the boss to fire 5 waves of projectiles, then move away to dodge, it always jumps out from underneath you. Rinse and repeat.
02:01 5. Doppelganger Ryu
He throws two shurikens, then jumps over to the other side of the room while raining down fireballs with each jump. Dodging is easy, so just pick whichever method is the most comfortable for you.
02:32 6. Doppelganger Ryu 2nd
Requires a little bit of luck to pull off. Climb the wall, then jump off just as the boss is about to hit it. There will be stones falling down from above in semi-random patterns, there seems to be some logic to them. When the boss turns around, move towards the wall on the opposite side. Rinse and repeat.
03:07 7. H.P. Clancy
50 seconds to kill the final boss! Let’s go!!
PHASE ONE: Hug the left wall at the start to bait the fireballs to offscreen themselves. When you hit Clancy, he will stop moving and summon three bolts of lightning. You can bait them with good positioning. Catch the boss as he’s descending near the left wall and slash away.
PHASE TWO: Get on the platform, jump and slash. You can easily dodge the rising fireballs by back-jumping in-between two of them, then move towards the opposite platform. Ideally you should land five hits per pass on second pass onward.
PHASE THREE: Technically has two HP bars. First you need to slash at the glass hiding his “face”. Be careful with the yellow wave: its hitbox doesn’t align with its sprite and it can hide behind the floor graphics. The lasers also have some hitbox dissonance, but aren’t dangerous otherwise. Once you break the glass, you need to attack the red core. The boss will start firing bigger lasers to trap you, but surprisingly there’s a lot of space to maneuver and the boss’ sprite only has a collision hitbox on some parts but not the others.
04:26 ENDING