Magician lord help!!!!!!

peterr928

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alright, i'm on this level in ml and its fucking impossible, you start out going down like three steps then there is some thing you step on that floats over to the other side and there are all these doors and stuff you can go into to get extra powerups ect... this bord is insane, anyone have a strategy to beat it? i'm gonna kill someone, damnit!!!
 

sadoanarcho

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Sure, played it just today. Where exactly is your problem? First, I recommend not to go into the second door as there are just bonus points and you won't have enough time if you don't know the level well. The only real problem I see are those black tentacle things. Remember where the come from and shoot at them before they appear on the screen (quite essential on that moving platform). Don't get mad about this game, although it is about as unforgiving as it can get. Just keep playing...
 

Fran

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Originally posted by peterr928:
<strong>do you know if that's close to the end of the game?</strong><hr></blockquote>

level 3

there are eight
 

peterr928

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Fran

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Originally posted by peterr928:
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heh

worry not

lord isnt difficult once you know EXACTLY what to do

its a matter of dedication,really
 

CHRiZ-77

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"Magician Lord" is a difficult ONE!!!

Won´t make ya mad Peter, but Stage 3 is ONE of the easiest Stages in ML!!! :D
 

Herzog Drei

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There is still an 'easy' version of that game where you just continue from where you die-even in the boss fights!
You just march through the game.A little pointless,though... :(

Sadly,there is no way to distinguish these versions from the outside...you'd have to ask before you buy...
 

lslphish

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Easiest way to beat Magician Lord...


Play it on the Neo CD <img src="graemlins/smirk.gif" border="0" alt="[Smirk]" />
 

Freeman--

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The ML is for me personaly good game,but I find it to difficult and don't play it much, so sorry but I can't help! :) :)
 

Neo Rasa

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Originally posted by peterr928:
<strong>alright, i'm on this level in ml and its fucking impossible, you start out going down like three steps then there is some thing you step on that floats over to the other side and there are all these doors and stuff you can go into to get extra powerups ect... this bord is insane, anyone have a strategy to beat it? i'm gonna kill someone, damnit!!!</strong><hr></blockquote>

Alright man, you know those floating head/squid things that float around and shoot at you? What you have to do is, once you're on the floating platform, be jumping up and firing off a couple of shots before they even enter the screen. Even if you don't perfectly memorize how high up they appear you're better off this way because eventually there are simply too many for you to do it on reaction.

Once you're on the other side you don't HAVE to go into all the doors, the only one you need to go into is the one all the way at the end of the level. I would, however, go into the first and third doors, as I recall they have some useful stuff in them (not just bonus points). The subboss fortunately only has two attacks, and if you keep your distance from him you can beat him without a scratch.

There's a combination in this level in one of the rooms that turns you into the Raijin. That's the golden colored man that uses short range electricity for his attacks. AVOID THIS. It's a gold/yellow-ish sphere.

For the actual boss of the level you basically just have to duck in the low areas of the jaw-like cliff you're on to avoid the dragon-head's projectiles, then jump up and shoot his nose a couple of times, repeat. There's spikes that come out of the top part of the "jaws" you're in too but you have enough time to reposition yourself.

To save some time, when you get up to level four (I LOVE the BGM for this level) it's the first of the much more mazelike levels you'll be in the for the rest of the game. There's MANY ways and places you can go here and I really haven't mapped them all out yet.

Fortunately though there's an easy way to the end, the level begins with you going through this corridor before you're out on the castle ramparts. One of those skeleton things will materialize on a platform, just take it out, and then get onto the platform and work your way up the platforms above it til you can go left (you'll be about four "levels" or so over where you began the stage). There's a door there, go in it and there'll be a ton of ladders connecting places. Just keep climbing and working your to the right and then down and you'll get to the end pretty quick. The guardian here is a pain in the ass, he's a floating wizard thing that createst tons of big purple monsters that hop around and kill you. :( It gets tough towards the end of the battle cause of the sheer number of these things that he's throwing out.

The final boss here is easy though, it's this bigass hellhound that can only be on two positions on the screen (far right or far left). It alternately jumps from side to side and spits projectiles at you. It's very easy once you figure out its timing. This boss and his room is also a perfect example of how they put more work into the backgrounds than into the sprites themselves for most of the game. ;)

Just fight him for a minute or so and before you know it...

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"YOU PERSISTANT, GOOD GUY. YOU DEAD DOWN HERE."
 

orochidan

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I used to until I relized the game was too damn hard! those fuckin cat bitches fuck that shit I quit! <img src="graemlins/veryangry.gif" border="0" alt="[Very Angry]" /> <img src="graemlins/veryangry.gif" border="0" alt="[Very Angry]" /> <img src="graemlins/veryangry.gif" border="0" alt="[Very Angry]" /> <img src="graemlins/veryangry.gif" border="0" alt="[Very Angry]" /> <img src="graemlins/veryangry.gif" border="0" alt="[Very Angry]" /> <img src="graemlins/veryangry.gif" border="0" alt="[Very Angry]" />
 

ChosenOne

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Well, I feel mean saying this but I just got my neo working about a month and a half ago, and Magician Lord was the only game that came with. Maybe I was just pumped over the working neo but I played ML for like 5 hours and made it to level 7. I don't know if that's good or bad. But Rasa is right on lvl 3. When you hit that first floating platform just keep jumping and shooting. Which ever guys make it through just pick off when they get close. And he is definately right about the doors. You want 1 and 3 and then just all the way to the right to the last door. And for the tentacle thingies that just keep coming I've found it best to just move fast. I don't think they ever stop. And even if they do, I doubt you'd live long enough to see it.
 

Fran

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dunno guys

always thought ML wasnt that hard after all


<img src="graemlins/eek2.gif" border="0" alt="[Eek 2]" />

its difficult to finish the game with ONE life,
but....

well,thats it really
 

sadoanarcho

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Fran's right. If you want to finish it with one live, you have to accept some special backup on the enemy's side. And they reappear all the time.
 

CHRiZ-77

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Originally posted by Neo Rasa:
<strong>Oh c'mon there's gotta be more people that still play this!</strong><hr></blockquote>

HEY BUD, iS MY ALLTiME-FAVORiTE... ;)
 

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Sure ML is hard but u can make it.
Anyway i die at the end where u must fight all Bosses one after another. If u continue u have no chance to get them.
 

peterr928

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are you guys still here? i sold my ML last month, about a week after this post :) funny how that happens
 
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