=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [0122200907501950] Document #16 M.U.S.H.A Walkthrough Version 1.0 Sega Genesis By: Blueberry Buttface blueberrybuttface(at)gmail(dot)com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Powerups Guardian Capsules Level One Level Two Level Three Level Four Level Five Level Six Level Seven Thanks =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Powerups =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Friendly jets appear at various times in the levels. If shot, they will release a powerup that will float about the screen for a while. These powerups may be used to provide extra offense or defense. As you collect more of the same powerup, the benefit of the powerup is increased. There are three powerups: Fire, Thunder, and Water. Fire provides bombs. Thunder provides a constant beam of energy shooting in front of you. Water provides a protective shield. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Guardian Capsules =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Throughout your journey to destroy the enemy scum, you will encounter various capsules that float about the screen. Shooting them produces four multi-colored objects that drop down the screen. Collecting enough of these will provide you with a guardian, a miniature ship at your side that will help you defeat your enemies. You can have multiple guardians. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Level One =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- You start off flying with a squad to fend off the advancing robots, but your comrades are shot down. Alone, you continue the mission. Incoming will be flaming skull enemies. Dispatch them easily with a few rounds. After a few groups of them, come upon a giant yellow tank. The giant yellow tank starts its engines and heads off the top of the screen. Prepare for the barrage of enemies ahead. A few enemy jets will fly toward you as well as some eye robots. Again, take them out with ease. Destroy the lone jet to earn a weapon upgrade. Spiked skulls will appear on your left and right. They will move in front you, so be careful to prevent flying into them. Ahead will be rows of eye robots. Ships will move down the screen on the left and right, accompanied by spiked skulls. Shoot the turrets of the ships and pick up another upgrade one of the enemies leaves behind. After a few jets fly toward you, a group of ships moves down the screen. Shoot their turrets and dodge their shots to remain safe. Once they are done, a group of flaming skulls welcomes you. Beware the flying missile-launching robot ahead. A few of the ships ahead have turrets. More spiked skulls, missile-launching robots, and enemy jets await you. By now, you know what to do: take them out. Engage a group of eye robots after a few squadrons of enemy jets. A jet offers an upgrade when you approach the giant turrets of a ship. Take out the giant turrets with a few bursts and attack the oncoming spiked skulls, missile-launching robots, and flaming skulls. After a few waves of jets, skulls, and turrets, say hello to the two giant turrets arriving on the left and right sides of the screen. Watch your back as missile-launching robots fly in. Avoid or shoot the incoming flaming skulls and turrets on the ships. Multiple waves of the common enemies listed above await you ahead. After defeating them, two tanks start moving on the tracks on the right and left sides of the screen. Take them out with direct fire to their fronts while avoiding their fire. They fire is a quarter-circle toward your position, so stay back and move through the gaps between the shots. After the mini-bosses and some more waves of common enemies, rendezvous with the yellow tank from the beginning of the level. The yellow tank has a pyramid structure of cannons. The bottom three cannons shoot bursts of slow-moving small shots. The middle two cannons each shoot one small, fast round, and the top cannon fires three, giant, slow-moving round. The middle cannons' shots can be defended against by shooting them. Take out the bottom cannons and work your way up since the bottom cannons pose the greatest threat. Once the three levels have been taken out, the skull at the top of the tank becomes visible. It shoot what starts as one ball but spreads to become five flaming faces. To dodge them easily, just stay directly in front of the skull at the bottom of the screen. When the first wave of faces comes, move to the right or left. Wait for the second wave, then move across to the opposite side using the gap between the waves. Level over. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Level Two =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- You start off flying down a tunnel. The mission objective is to destroy the power chamber. Eye robots approach from the top of the screen. A new enemy jumps out of the background, a ninja robot. More waves of eye robots approach, a couple more ninja robots jump out of the background, and you are introduced to crawlers. These enemies crawl up and down the walls of the left and right sides of the screen and shoot lazers horizontally at you. They also can jump across to the other wall, so be careful. More ninjas appear, as well as a dual-machine gun-toting robot, called gunny from now on. Some ninjas also are riding spiked skulls. After a wave of eye robots, crawlers, and ninjas, greet the giant robotic head and the suicide bombers. I assume they are suicide bombers since they attempt to fly into you and blow up bigger-than-usual when shot. As for the robotic head, it shoots metal and gears at you while pillars push horizontally across the screen. Fly into safe spots while avoiding or shooting the scrap metal coming your way, and fire at the head when you can. None of the pillars seem to move all the way across the screen, so I expect you can seek safety at the extreme edge of one of the rows. After some well-placed, the robotic head explodes. Directly after the robotic head, suicide bombers fly in to deliver their goods. Kill or avoid them and duel with the gunny. A wave of eye robots approaches soon after. Pillars start to move horizontally across the screen as single-shooting gunnies appear. However, they should not prove to be too much trouble for a seasoned fighter such as yourself. Ninjas riding spiked skulls move up from the bottom of the screen as normal ninjas fall from the top, and a new enemy bursts out of its armor and lobs flame shots at you. Crawlers, spiked skulls, and suicide bombers await you up ahead. Eye robots, ninjas riding spiked skulls, normal ninjas, and a gunny add some flavor to the mix. Pillar and suicide bombers make a return right before the boss fight. The boss moves on a track horizontally at the top of the screen. The large guns on the side of its head shoot short-distance flames meant to defend against your shots, as guns elsewhere on the robot shoot at you with normal shots. Avoid the shots and shoot ahead of the boss to destroy the flamethrowers. Once those are taken out, the guns elsewhere fire normal shots more rapidly. Water powerups can defend against these normal shots. After a few more shots to the face, the boss is out for the count. Level over. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Level Three =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- You are flying over a metallic area. Your mission is to destroy the enemies' secret weapon. Eye robots welcome you right away. Yellow robots appear on the left and right sides of the screens and shoot at you. They are essentially upgraded crawlers, but are just as easy to deal with. Yellow missile-launching robots also appear. A giant red demon robot fires a dark orb at you. The dark orb trails you for a little while and then explodes. After a while, the demon robot fires three white-gray orbs. These can be blocked with the water powerup. Keep shooting the red demon robot until its destroyed. After the demon robot, the floor breaks away and all hell breaks loose. Yellow and red missile-launching robots invade, along with snake robots and flying fast-bullet shooting heads. The common spiked skull enemies have upgraded to become flying skulls. they fly on to the screen, stop, turn, and shoot at you, a process which leaves a lot of time for you to take them out with relative ease. Land bridges start to appear on the left and right sides of the screen, severely limiting your mobility and producing some challenging maneuvers if you are not prepared. After the land bridges, red missile-launching robots and yellow crawlers arrive and unload their arsenals. New enemies fly up from the depths of the background. They look a little like fortune cookies, so they will be called red cookies from now on. A flying fast-bullet shooting head, along with its Symphony of the Night-esque ectoplasmic guardians, accompanies them. Yellow missile-launching robots, flying skulls, eye robots, snake-like robots, and more yellow crawlers complement the enemy forces. After a hefty amount of slaughtering, prepare for the boss fight. The boss is a flying two-devil masked robot. It shoots white-gray orbs like the demon robot mini boss, so the water powerup makes for easy defense against this attack. Spiky guardians also fly around the boss to provide some protection. After you defeat the first form, by simply shooting the robot directly, the second form appears. The second form resembles a snake, only a demon is the head and the body and tail are made up of the spiky guardians of the previous form. The main attack is still the white-gray orbs, so the water powerup is still excellent for defense. This time around, the boss also charges your position, so be ready to move quickly or face death. Level over. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Level Four =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- You are flying above what seems to be a town. Your mission is to destroy the enemy's long range attack bomber. Again, eye robots welcome you right away. A group of flying spiked skulls equipped with the equivalent of your thunder powerup attack. Do not make the mistake of flying directly in front of them while they are shooting it. Other new enemies appear including missile-launching robots that look like they are wearing dresses, called dames from now on. A flying baby head with a thunder weapon flies in from the top. Unlike the flying spiked skulls equipped with the same weapon, the flying baby head tracks you for a little while, so be on the move. Small missile-launching jets appear as well as flying spiked skulls. Dames and eye robots reinforce the jets and the skulls, and a double-thunder cannon- equipped flying spiked skull comes to play. Ninjas jump up from beneath the clouds and throw grenades at you as jets zoom down from the top of the screen to release their loads. A thunderstorm begins. Mace ninjas leap from below and charge you with their weapons after swinging them threateningly above their heads for a few seconds. Two jets emerge from the darkness carrying via tow lines a heart-looking robot. The heart robot shoots rapidly providing a challenge for dodging. Additionally, it is equipped with four thunder cannons it fires every now and then. However, it shoots these straight down, so limit your time directly in front of the robot and you will have little to worry about. Flying spiked skull robots congratulate you afterwards. Jets return, as well as dames and another baby head. Dual-wielding spiked skulls, eye robots, and more dames approach. After a few waves, the boss greets you. The boss has a blue back and red head. The front half of the robot moves forward to reveal the weapon arsenal the boss is equipped with. A volley of missiles heads towards you. When the midsection is visible, the boss can be damaged by your weapons. When the body is covered again, the head shoots a stream of bullets at you. After a while, the front half of the boss detaches and falls to the depths below. The boss now fires missiles and periodically spreads open to reveal a mysterious green center. After charging, this green center releases a wide and powerful beam of energy you most likely want to avoid, so do not stay directly in front of the boss and be ready for evasive maneuvering. Again, the boss is only susceptible to damage when it opens its hidden compartment. Level over. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Level Five =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- You are flying over a heavily-forested area. Your mission is to attack the enemy supply lines. Once again, eye robots welcome you warmly. A new enemy approaches, this time a multiple-missile-launching jet, called multijets from here on. Another new enemy appears, flying toward you and then gliding back to the top of the screen, called gliders from here on. Jets with two missiles each arrive, as well as more multijets and a gunny-derivative with a giant rifle, called rifler from here on. After a few waves of those, riflers riding gliders descend along with various missile-toting jets. The mini-boss arrives, a robot with floating hands a face like a geisha. The hands shoot a spread of three shots, charge your position, and move and shoot thunder periodically. Just focus your fire on the face and the robot will go down in no time. Riflers riding gliders and a flying ship greet you up ahead, and red Critters- like robots drop down the screen, called critters from now on. Shoot the turrets off the ship or face a dodging nightmare. You encounter more ships, more riflers, more gliders, and more crawlers ahead, as well as blue-ish flying skull. After a few more waves of these enemies a drone-spawning robot, which is easy to take care of if you kill the spawns quickly, you have a rematch with the geisha robot. After going through the first phase of the boss, which is exactly like the previous encounter with her, her face dissolves to show a red skull. The skull fires three green rounds from its mouth in rapid succession followed by missiles from its four cannons between mouth shots. Dodging the missiles is simple, dodging the shots may not be. If you position yourself directly in front of the mouth and at the bottom of the screen, you may be able to sweep to the left or right to dodge the shots. Just be prepared to avoid the imminent missile being launched from the cannon close to you. Level over. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Level Six =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- You are flying over what looks to be lava. Your mission is to catch the enemy battleship. Never skipping a beat, eye robots welcome you at the start of the mission. Mace ninjas leap from the depths below, followed by a blue version of the flying head and ectoplasmic guardians seen in a previous level. More mace ninjas challenge you, as well as a flying blue head with a spinning rapid-fire cannon on its head. Small blue jets which move quickly complement the enemy waves. A few more waves of these enemies and you encounter a devil-face embroidered battleship. Atop the ships are several quad-thunder cannons. Avoid their line of sight and deal with the small blue jets invading the screen. After the battleship, face a rematch with the guardian-spawning robot from before the final geisha fight. The robot fires blue flames at you periodically and prefers to stay near the center of the screen. Avoiding the blue flames is easy since they move relatively slow, or you can just shoot them. Soon, he will bust out his blue ball mace. When he swings his blue ball mace, it bursts into several blue flames. Be ready to avoid them or shoot them. Level over. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Level Seven =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- You are at the last stretch. Your mission is to infiltrate enemy airspace and find and destroy the enemy headquarters. Desperate to succeed, more eye robots welcome you. A wave of small, blue jets and black and yellow jets arrives from the top of the screen. A gunny-like robot and souped-up suicide bombers also approach. Spinning gray and blue mines float in your path and the black and yellow jets seem to have missiles now. Blue and yellow barely-visible enemies circle around you as well, so be sure to avoid them. A giant gunny with two rapid fire triple-shot cannons rises from the background. Wait for the break between shots and get some well-aimed bursts off. Beyond the super gunny lie more mines, more black and yellow missile-shooting jets, more gunny-like robots, and new enemies that rise from the background. Encounter another mini-boss, this time a multiple-missile launching red robot. Move to the left or right and stay there while the red and black missiles are launched and travel off-screen. Then move in for the shots while the white missiles are trailing back to you. After the second mini-boss, face the final boss. The first form of the final boss involves moving the blue box away from the blue panel behind it. When it isn't covering it anymore, shoot the blue panel. Watch out for the lazers that pop out on the left and ride sides. They shoot across the screen while the blue box shoots down the screen. The second form of the boss involves shooting two green orbs, one on either side of the central part of the boss, as a giant purple orb bounces around the screen and the green orbs shoot smaller green orbs at you. Avoid the orbs as best you can and shoot the green orbs until they are destroyed. The final boss form involved moving up a tunnel shooting at the purple orb from the previous form. The boss shoots green orbs down the tunnel at you. Avoid them as best you can. If the green orbs hit the walls, purple pillars shoot out horizontally, so be sure not to be next to where the green orbs hit. An extra boss awaits after the final boss. He is a pushover for the most part and rewards you ten extra lives. Just avoid his thunder attack, a frontal attack, and shoot him until he dies. Level and game over. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Thanks =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'd like to thank Da Hui for providing an example shooter full walkthrough so I knew what to include in this document. http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/recognition/43828.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This document is restricted to personal, private use only. 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