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Ninja Gaiden II: Dark Sword of Chaos is an action video game developed and distributed by Tecmo for the Nintendo Entertainment System published in Japan in 1990 and in the USA the same year, in Europe it was released in 1994, the game is the second installment of the Ninja Gaiden series.

The game made a leap in graphics and control compared to the previous game while maintaining a high level of difficulty, as characterizes the games in this game saga, the game retains its appeal as it presents a challenging experience.

This is the content you will find throughout this guide

The Story of Ninja Gaiden 2 NES
The Display Section
The Controller NES
Operation for Ryu
Techniques advances in Ninja Gaiden 2
The Items in Ninja Gaiden 2 NES
Power Boosting Items
The Characters Ninja Gaiden 2
The Demon Clan
Walkthrough of Ninja Gaiden 2
Tricks and Secrets in Ninja Gaiden 2

The Story of Ninja Gaiden 2 NES

The story of Ninja Gaiden 2 takes place one year after the events of the first Ninja Gaiden. The story of the game tells that an evil emperor named Ashtar who, upon learning of Jaquio 's defeat, devises a plan to take over the world and plunge it into darkness by means of an evil sword known as the Dark Sword of Chaos.

A US Army agent named Robert T. Sturgeon recruits Ryu Hayabusa and tells him that he is the only one who can stop the threat.

The Display Section

1. Your present score is displayed here, you get an extra player for every 100,000 points you score.
2. The number of the present stage is displayed here.
3. When the timer reaches zero you lose one of your players.
4. When the number of your players reaches zero the game is over.
5. Your ninja power is displayed here.
6. The variety of power boosting items that you can use is displayed here.
7. Your player strength is displayed here, when this value reaches zero you lose one player.
8. The enemy boss's strength is displayed here.

The Controller NES

This is a single player game. The controls that we use throughout the game are: START: used to start the game, it is also used to pause the game and to skip the Cinema Display; D-PAD: used to move Ryu in the indicated direction; Button A: used to jump; Button B: controls sword thrust.

Operations for Ryu

In this game you can jump in the air and grab onto a wall or a ladder also by moving the control pad up and down you can climb a wall and ladders.

When you are holding onto a Wall or a ladder, you can press the D-PAD in the opposite direction that your player is facing and press the A button to make a jump by kicking-off of the wall.

When you are holding onto a wall or a ladder, you can only attack with the power boosting items that you have in your possession. To make an attack with one of your power boots, press the D-PAD to left or right then press the B button, and the item will go to the direction you have chosen with the D-PAD.

Techniques advances in Ninja Gaiden 2

Split your body for multiple attacks: Ryu has the power to split his body into three. use this special technique to attack enemies that fly toward you We can also use the extra images to attack the enemies that come at Ryu from both sides.

Make effective use of the fire Wheel: when you perform the invincible fire wheel, a wheel of fire will come flying from the bottom of the screen toward Ryu.

Use a swift kick-off jump from the wall to get out of tight pinches: when you can’t jump all the way across a chasm, it´s very difficult to scape once you have gotten into this position. Climb to the top of the wall and make a kick-off jump from the wall, move the D-PAD quickly in the opposite direction, while holding down the A button and you will be able to jump high up to into the air.

Eliminate your enemies with the windmill throwing star: throw the windmill throwing star, and then jump up into the air so that the throwing star won’t come around and hit Ryu, and the windmill throwing star will keep flying around the screen continuously.

The Items in Ninja Gaiden 2 NES

With the sword we can cut the Dragon Spirit Crystal Ball and an item will appear, use the items to your advantage as you fight the numerous battles ahead.

Ninja Powers (a): we need this item to be able to use the Ninjutsu Fighting Techniques, when we grab this item our ninja power will increase, there are two classes of this item the Red will build our ninja power up to its maximum level while the Blue is worth ten points.

The Scroll of the Spirit of the Dragon (b): by obtaining this item our level will increase to the maximum. splitting your body (c): with this item we will have two extra players who will join us in battle and follow us. Medicine for Recovery (d): when obtaining this item our strength meter will be increased by six times. 1-Up (e): with this item we increase the number of players by one. Bonus (f): there are two types with the Blue we add 1000 points to our marker and with the Red we add 2000 points.

Power Boosting Items

All the Power Boosting Items are used with the control pad up + B button, this consumes ninja power when the ninja power runs out we can not use more items.

Throwing Star (5 points): throw this throwing star and it will fly straight in the direction that your player is facing and injure the enemy when it hits.

Windmill Throwing Star (10 points): this throwing star will cut through your enemy and keep on flying to the edge of the screen. When it reaches the edge it will come flying back. This weapon will injure every enemy that it touches.

The Art of the fire wheel (8 points): with this ability Ryu throw at fire wheel and his foes and burn them up.

Fire Dragon Balls (8 points): use this skill to transform the power that is contained in the sword into balls full of electric power, and then throw these balls at the enemy.

invincible Fire Wheel (15 points ): This ability is used for four seconds with this Ryu's body is wrapped in a wheel of fire that defeats any enemy that makes contact.

The Characters Ninja Gaiden 2

Ryu Hayabusa: Ryu is a member of the Dragon Clan, he was engaged in a fierce fight with Jaquio over the statues of the evil demon, emerging victorious after a difficult battle, Ryu is known as the "Ninja Dragon " and is the possessor of the secret " Dragon Sword ”.

Irene Lew: she is one of the CIA secret agents, she knew Ryu a year ago when the battle against Jaquio occurred, after the battle she was assigned to a new mission.

Robert TS: this mysterious man meets Ryu during the game he wants to use the Dragon Sword together with Ryu, although the reason is not clear.

Ashtar - the evil lord: Asthar is the leader of the Demon Clan, he is planning to bring back the Word of Chaos and open the Gate of Darkness to gain absolute power and control the world.

The Demon Clan

Dando -the cursed: Ashtar gathered up the wandering spirits of the Vikings, ancient warriors who were lost in sea battles, and gave them new life as a monster under his control, he is especially skilled in hand to hand combat.

Baron Spider: This half-man half-spider creature is the result of the Xabil biological Research Institute, he can jump through the air and control his pet spider monsters.

Funky Dynamite - This cyborg was created based upon the giant commodore lizard, this creature this equipped with a high output propulsion mechanism and has fantastic mobility, it also has a fire bomb which it uses as a weapon attacking.

Nagas Sotuva – the underworld toilet dragon: since ancient times this dinosaur has lived in the waters of the underworld, he attacks with his large claws.

A large number of enemies we meet throughout the game.

Ninja Gaiden 2 Walkthrough

Act 1

We start this adventure, first we advance laterally left and right with the d- pad, we jump with the A button and use the sword with the B button, we start and defeat the enemy 1, we climb and at the top we find a spirit crystal ball which gives us an item the Fire Dragon balls.

Continue and find several blue ninja power in the magic crystal, later we find a new enemy, enemy 2, in this part we can change the power boosting item for a windmill power star, we find the enemy 3 to defeat him we crouch down, we continue grabbing the items that are useful to us. Later we find a magic crystal protected by an enemy 1 we jump between the buildings to get there here we find an item with which we can splinter our body.

We continue defeating the enemies and grabbing items, a little later we are attacked by two enemies 4 we must be careful when returning since they reappear and are quite annoying, a little later we find another item that gives us the second clone, we continue and when we reach the end we jump and grab the ladder and go down, we should not jump as we will lose a life.

In this part we continue down the stairs when we reach the bottom we grab the items and when we enter the door we meet the first boss Dando- the cursed. Defeating this enemy will not be complicated at all, we simply attack him with the sword and when he is going to attack us we jump on him or climb the wall and jump to the opposite side, to do more damage we use the clones and in this way we defeat him more easily.

A mysterious man wants to help us his name Robert, he gives us a clue as to where Irene can be.

Act 2

We take the train that takes us to the tower of Lahja as soon as we start, we find a new enemy, enemy 5, this enemy appears unexpectedly and advances quickly across the screen, either to the left or to the right, if it reaches us, it hurts us, we advance grabbing the items to help us in this mission. In this part we also find enemy 6, this enemy is quite annoying since it moves along the entire screen and we must find the best moment to attack it, without him doing it first.

After getting off the train we arrive at a new area, first we notice that it is raining depending on whether the direction of the wind will move us forward or backward. We start we make the jump with the rain after defeating enemy 8 we make the jump with the rain in our favor we continue and find enemy 7, we wait for the help of the rain to make the jump after doing so we find a new enemy enemy 9 throws us some balls that hurt us we must dodge them.

We continue forward and grab the ladder on the wall and climb when we reach the top we must jump to the platform and wait for the wind to help us after crossing we reach an area where we find a scroll of the spirit of the dragon here we find enemy 10 this enemy It is quite annoying since it jumps and chases us all over the screen, higher up we find enemy 11 to this enemy we must approach to be able to defeat him since his attack is from a distance we must be cautious.

We continue doing the jumps when the wind is in our favor, when we reach the end we climb the ladder when we reach the top we go to the left being careful of enemy 12 this enemy comes from behind and runs across the screen so we must defeat him when he is at our reach, a little further on we find enemy 13 this does not represent difficulty.

When we go up we face the boss Baron Spider this enemy attacks us by throwing spiders from the platform where he is, we must defeat the spiders and climb the wall from there we jump to the platform where the boss is and take the opportunity to attack him at this moment the It will go down to the bottom and we do the same, if possible we leave a clone on the platform so that when the boss goes up we can attack it, if we do it correctly in the end we will defeat it.

Who is this enemy who attacked us? Who is Ashtar? We must find Irene rumored to be in Lahja's tower.

Act 3

The first part of this act takes place in the dark, the best we can do is wait for the lightning to illuminate the path, in the first part we find enemy 10, after defeating her we find a new enemy, enemy 14 after lighting this flame we It will continue all over the screen until it hurts us, so we must be very careful.

We will continue defeating the enemies and grabbing the items of interest, in this part we find an area where there are some very small platforms we must be careful since enemy 2 and enemy 9 will try to launch us from the platform, after passing through this part we arrive at an area where the enemies will take us by surprise so sharpen the reflexes.

We enter the tower and find a new enemy, enemy 15 is a very annoying enemy since he jumps on us and drops projectiles that hurt us to defeat him, we wait until he is on the ground and we attack him in this way we get rid of him, A little further on we find a new enemy, enemy 16 throws blades at us in our direction, we can go up and attack him until we defeat him.

We continue and climb to reach the second part of the tower here we find at the end the enemy 11 that surprises us with an attack that can make us fall and lose a life, we continue climbing and reach a quite dangerous part, here we find several enemy 6 that tried to make us fall we must be very alert since at the minimum touch it throws us into the void.

We continue facing the enemies that we find after going up to the top floor we find enemy 17 this enemy has a shield with which he can protect himself we must wait for him to be discovered to quickly attack him, in this same part we find enemy 18 this enemy does not represent any threat, we continue to defeat the enemies and in the end we climb to the top of the tower.

ninja gaiden 2 act 3-2 final aproach of the tower

We got to the boss of this tower Funky Dynamite this boss moves horizontally and sometimes falls to the ground when we attack him, this boss will attack us launching four fire bomb and a projectile, the easiest way to defeat this boss is to place a clone on top and we attack him from the bottom this will make the boss go into a loop and we can easily defeat him.

Irene has been rescued but the dark forces of Ashtar do not give up, Robert intervenes and saves our lives, the dark sword of chaos has terrible power, we must find Ashtar and end this threat.

Act 4

After leaving the tower we go to the underground labyrinth in the first part we find enemy 17, this enemy awaits us on the prowl and sometimes he will jump on us to hurt us, a little later we find enemy 18; this enemy jumps from the lava and launches four projectiles in our direction, in any case we must be hit by one of them, then we find enemy 19, this enemy is a great vampire who will launch himself at us to hurt us.

We continue and when we reach the end of this area we go up the stairs when we reach the intermediate zone we will be careful since enemy 14 will try to throw us into the void, after defeating him we continue climbing, in this new part we find enemy 7 we continue defeating the enemies.

Later we reach an area where we must jump between some pillars we must be careful enough since there are enemies that can throw us into the void at the end we climb the stairs and enter the cave.

In this cave we find rivers of water that will drag us depending on the direction of the water flow, we advance avoiding the enemies and taking care not to fall into the void when we reach the end we go down the stairs.

In this new part we go through an area of three levels in all we must pay close attention to the enemies that we find since there are some very small platforms that at the slightest hit will launch us into the void.

Once the previous area is over, we go down the stairs to an area where we will find a large number of enemies that, according to our ability, we will defeat, almost at the end we find enemy 20, this enemy attacks us by throwing fireballs at us from its mouth, we advance and in the end We enter the cave where the boss is.

The boss of this area is Naga Sotuva, this boss attacks us with his claws, his movement is quite predictable, what can complicate a bit is the water that he throws from his mouth, if we manage to calculate his attacks, we will defeat him in the end.

Who hides in the shadows?

Act 5

After leaving the underground labyrinth we must find a passageway that takes us to the frozen land of Ashtar. In this first part we leave the labyrinth we find different enemies that we will defeat, in the end we go down and find the passageway we are looking for.

This new area is full of a large number of spikes on the ceiling that will hurt us if we touch them, at the beginning we find a new enemy, enemy 21, this enemy does not represent a great threat and we can easily defeat him, we advance through this area defeating enemies and avoiding dangers.

Hurry Ryu Irene and humanity needs your help.

After leaving the cave we reach an area covered with ice, the ground is frozen and we slip so it will be difficult to control the character, it is recommended to advance step by step in this way we avoid falling into the void.

With great caution we continue advancing facing the enemies and avoiding falling into the void at the end we find a cave that takes us to Asthar.

Closer to the end now we meet Asthar, but… he hurts Irene, Robert takes care of Irene while we ask for justice.

The battle against this boss is not complicated at all, this boss attacks us with fireballs that appear and then launches them, the place where they appear is random, we simply calculate when it appears and take the opportunity to attack it, we must be patient, in the end we will be able to defeat it.

Act 6

In this new part we find ourselves in a cave, part of the path is occluded by a wall so we must pay attention when we are in this part. We advance this part facing the enemies and grabbing the items that are useful to us, after going down the wells later we find a new enemy enemy 22 attacks us throwing fireballs we simply have to calculate the moment in which it attacks us and attack it when do not do it.

We are approaching our destination, but our friends Robert and Irene face an unknown danger.

We go out and find the path that takes us to the Gate of Darkness, we cross this area defeating the enemies that we find on the way at the end we enter the cave.

ninja gaiden 2 act 6 the road to the gate of darkness

Upon entering the cave we find an old boss Kelberos, this enemy attacks us by throwing pink balls at us and jumping from one side to the other, to defeat him we must avoid his attacks and attack him as soon as we have the opportunity until we defeat him.

A strange feeling surrounds Ryu, memories of the past, although there is not much to think about as Robert tells him that they took Irene.

Act 7

We arrive at this area that leads us to the Gate of Darkness in this part we find a greater number of enemies which will move a little faster.

We have made progress, unfortunately Robert has not made it in his last effort Robert asks us to save Irene and prevent the world from turning into chaos.

We advance facing the enemies that we find along the way, always with great care since there will be a large number of them that we will find at the end we find a cave that leads us to the boss of this area.

We reach this area and find an altar, there is an old enemy Jaquio, the power of evil cannot be defeated, Jaquio has been reborn and is willing to open the Gate of Darkness with the help of the Dark Sword of Chaos.

Surprisingly the boss is Jaquio the boss that we had already defeated in the first Ninja Gaiden now with the Dark Sword of Chaos has managed to come back to life and become much stronger, unlike the first game, this time the boss will move all over the screen, being very difficult to defeat him, we must be very agile to defeat him.

We have defeated Jaquio and rescued Irene but Jaquio 's life essence has reached the sword and it has managed to awaken and open the Gate of Darkness bringing Jaquio back to life in a new form.

In this second form, Jaquio attacks us by dropping drops from the ceiling that hurt us as well as throwing a ball from his mouth that will hurt us. We look for the right moment to attack him, we must be patient enough to defeat him.

This is not the end the forces of evil will not stop but neither will the forces of good Ryu asks for the help of his clan and the Dragon Sword takes more power to deal with evil.

Jaquio 's final form will attack us with two hands and from his mouth launching a chain of balls in this part with great care we attack him in the head until we defeat him.

Once defeated, his heart is exposed, however from the top a large number of projectiles attack us, we must dodge them in order to reach the heart until we defeat him.

Jacquio has been defeated the Gate of Darkness has closed, the place falls apart, evil has been defeated but at a high price, Irene has departed but with the help of the Dragon Sword will come back to life.

Tricks and Secrets in Ninja Gaiden 2

Sound test mode: if on the home screen we simultaneously press the UP, Left , A, B, SELECT and START buttons, the sound test mode is activated, to exit we press the B button.

ninja gaiden 2 nes sound test mode 1 ryu

If after the title screen disappears we press A and do the button combination again, the sound test mode will appear again but this time it will be different.

ninja gaiden 2 nes sound test mode 2 irene

Doing the button combination again but this time letting the title screen disappear twice will bring up a new sound test screen.

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Reference: manual of the game.

Ninja Gaiden 2: Dark Sword of Chaos | guide and review