Samurai Master is a fun game where you are a samurai who is under a brutal and ambitious warlord. Unable to just sit by and watch the warlord is doing to the citizens, you decide to go to Tokyo(Edo) to warn the Shogun of the warlord’s evil plans. You must fight many samurai on the way to the capital and prove your honor and skills. This is truly one game I really enjoyed and did not get bored of the hacking and slashing quickly. The journey is broken up into several mini-levels from city to city.

First, you will face swordsman and archers. I suggest you go to the two ends of the map first to find the archers and kill them first, otherwise you will lose life by their arrows. Just jump over the swordsman to get to the archers and watch for the arrows as they fly close to you and jump over them too. Once you eliminate the archers, its easy to kill the swordsman at leisure going from one side to the other. Use that super-dash in emergencies.

Also don’t forget the three guys at the bottom of the map screen, the ones that heal and give upgrades, they are vitally important. The old guy heals you 1000 HP for 2000g. Wait until you lose 1000HP first before you go to him. Don’t go to him whenever you lose 50 HP. I’d get the +70 damage upgrade first before I get the aura and fatal strike upgrades, damage is pretty key. It’ll take you a while to get to Tokyo, buy its a a lot of fun on the way. I’ll post up a video if I can find one. Feel free to discuss.

Straw Hat Samurai is a fun game of drawing lines with the mouse to slash through your enemies and defeat the evil lord. In this game you are a samurai who will use both the Katana and the bow to kill enemies, take out towers, and accomplish your mission. The main game depends on how fast you are with the mouse at drawing but there are some general tips that you should know about this game. In particular, how to avoid damage in the later levels. The trick is to keep your lines as precise as possible. I would also try to see as many enemies as possible before you make a strike.

Except when dodging arrows, I would try to stay as close to the middle of the screen as possible. Wait for the meelee enemies to come towards you so you can see how many there are and how far they are apart from each other. When you do slash to one side of the screen, make sure to quickly slash back to the center. Remember that you move by drawing slashes. When there are archers, look to see where the arrows are coming from and take that side out first. When all the archers are dead, then use the stay-in-the-middle strategy to take out melee enemies. Don’t forget you can jump in the air and slash downwards.

In order to take down towers, you must use the arrow to kill to people in towers. You can’t just run and slash up there. Use the arrow by holding shift and using the mouse to aim. Just aim in the general direction, you do not have to be very accurate to pluck off the defenders. On the tower levels, its more about multi-tasking your slashing with your shooting than anything else. This game depends a lot on being able to see where your enemies are and quick mouse movement. Have your reflexes ready!

The last thing is the power-ups you can get from the treasure chests. You have the choice of +10 HP or +10% chance to dodge. I suggest stacking everything on one of these skills instead of trying to balance both. The HP increase is probably the safe route but the dodge might be more powerful in the long run if you can stack enough of them together.

Happy Fighting!