Wizards and Warriors for NES Guide V1.2 10-14-2000 By DDCecil (James Tompkins) PaladinPower@aol.com http://www.webspawner.com/users/DDCecil 1. Introduction/Updates 2. Characters 3. Items 4. Main Walkthrough 5. Bosses 6. Help me! 7. Credits 1. Introduction --------------- Wizards and Warriors is a classic NES game, and is the best of the 3 WW games (IMHO). I hope this FAQ helps you beat the game or find new things! V1.2 - 10/14/00 - Actually added what the horn does, I somehow forgot on the last update. Ooops! V1.1 - 10/14/00 - Added what the horn does, I'm still unsure about the feather as many of you told me it was and some of you said it isn't in area 2. I'll find out and post the results (and the names of everyone who e-mailed me and told me). Also fixed some obvious spelling errors. V1.0 - 10/13/2000 - FAQ is finally finished. 2. Characters ------------- Kuros the Knight - He fights the evil wizard and saves the damsels in distress. Our hero. Malkil - The Evil Wizard who happens to be the final boss. (Surprise!) Damsels - There are 7 different ones to be rescued including the beautiful Princess What's Her Name (Touche Shiny! Hah!) Lucinda - 5,000 pts. Esmarelda - 10,000 pts. Galadriel - 20,000 pts. Grizelda - 30,000 pts. Penelope - 40,000 pts. Candida - 50,000 pts. Princess - 100,000 whopping pts. Evil Knight - He guards the exit doors on each level. He wants your gems to buy some manners. 3. Items -------- Normal Items: - Meat - Restores HP and gives 500 points - Little coin - Gives 200 points - Big coin - Gives 1000 points - Pink Gem - Gives 1 gem and 100 points - Red Gem - Gives 2 gems and 200 points - Flashing Gem - Gives 1 or 2 gems (found only in hidden bonus rooms) - Treasure - All bosses have this, worth 5,000 points. - Blinking Acorn - Kills all enemies - Clock - Stops the enemies! - The Potions: They do different things and last for a little while. - Blue Potion - Make you walk faster - Pink Potion - Makes you jump higher - Red Potion - Makes you Invincible - The Keys: They open chests and doors the same color as themselves. If you have the boots of force (listed below), you do not need the keys to open the chests, but you will need them to open doors. Red Key Blue Key Pink Key These are permanent items, once you get them, you can keep them forever: - Shield of Protection - Used to block projectiles - Dagger of Throwing - Throw a boomerang like knife at enemies. Invaluable. Can be upgraded to a throwing axe. - Axe of Agor - Replaces the dagger when found. - Potion of Levitation - Use the "UP" button to float, then jump! - Feather of Feather Fall - Jump and hold "UP" to float down like a leaf. - Dagger Symbol - makes the dagger go farther - Axe Symbol - makes the axe go farther You can only have one of the following items at a time: - Boots of Force - Kick enemies and open chests without the keys. Awesome. - Horn - If it plays a sound, a hidden room is very close! But I'd keep your boots! - Wand of Wonder - Freezes enemies. Yawn. Keep the boots! - Boots of Lava Walk - Keep the force boots, not worth grabbing! - Cloak of Darkness - It doesn't help! Keep the boots! - Wand of Power - Almost as good as the boots, but can it open chests? No! Keep the boots! 4. Main Walkthrough ------------------- Forest Part 1: -------------- Gems needed to beat the level: 100 Start by falling down and grabbing the blue key while attacking the eagles and dragonfly creatures. Next, you may choose to go into the blue door, or jump up and left to find a grey door which opens and closes in a pattern. Once inside either door, climb up to the top while attacking enemies for gems and other items and exit at the door you find at the top. You may find blue acorns inside the tree, you can open these pretty soon after you get the dagger. Once at the top from either door, proceed to the right (you may go left and get the red key if you want, but you will not need it) and you should find the pink key. After grabbing it, jump to the right to grab the chest containing the dagger of throwing. Jump up and you will see a red knight asking for a 100 gems. If you have enough DON'T leave yet or you'll miss 2 very valuable items! From this point, jump on the enemies until one boosts you up into the tree tops. Continue left and you'll find some gems and a chest that holds the great Boots of Force (To use them, press Select)! Go back right and open the red chest with the boots (If you don't have the red key) to obtain the Shield of Protection. If you still don't have 100 gems, go back to the blue door, enter, and stand on the very top branch and attack the spiders that drop and most of the time they'll leave gems. You may also go back down the tree and opening the blue acorns if you wish. After you are done and have 100 gems, go to where the red knight is and press down to enter the next part of the level... Fall down the shaft, grabbing the gems and the chests... -WARNING! Avoid the pink chest in the brown background area, all this contains is the Wand of Wonder, and is not worth giving the boots up. You've been warned! END OF WARNING!- Anyway, once you get to the bottom, use a hornet or jump up to the right to enter the grey door and fight your first boss (Check the "Bosses" section for tips! Blue Caverns: ------------- Gems needed to beat the level: 100 Start by going left, and kick the chest for some gems. Next, jump to the upper left to find the blue key. After getting it, fall down and hold right. Forget this area, and drop down one more time. You should find a blue fast potion. Drop down to one more level and you should find a blue chest. This contains the potion of levitation! Grab it,then go down the right slope to find a pink potion. Grab it, and jump to the far right for the red key! Next, fall down as far as you can go, and enter a little crack in the floor. Go left and enter the red door. Climb to the top of your room and grab the pink key. Walk slightly to the right and land on the platform near the key and jump. Free gems! Grab all the chests in the room, and leave. Continue to the far right and enter the door for the boss... (There is also LavaWalk boots and Cloak of Darkness in the area, but I wouldn't suggest getting them if you are a first time player, keep the Boots of Force!) Fire Caverns: ------------- Gems needed to beat the level: 50 -WARNING! Avoid the first red chest you see, all this contains is the extremely useless horn, and is not worth giving the boots up. You've been warned! END OF WARNING!- Anyways, go to the right, but do open the next chest you find. Gems! (They are sort of hard to find on this level.) Ride a bubble to the top. Once there, jump to the left to get the pink key. Enter the door. Once inside, fall to the bottom and ride a bubble. On your way up, use your dagger to grab the gems. Once at the top, jump to find some hidden gems! After that, jump to the far right and jump for even more gems! After that, fall and go right. Do not get the chest, which contains the Wand of Power. Right past that, you should see a passageway going up. Fall down to where the lava is, and ride a bubble upwards. Once at the top, levitate and jump up to get the Axe of Agor, which is stronger than the dagger! After that, fall back to the bottom, and ride another bubble back up. This time, jump to the far left (this is very hard for some people, including myself) and get the red key and a chest full of gems. Now fall down and proceed to the right and fight the boss! Purple Caverns: --------------- Gems needed to beat the level: 200 Oh boy, this is a pretty big level full of hidden rooms! Onwards! Start by following the bigger suspended platforms (The ones that look like '----', not the smaller '-' ones, hard to explain :D) to the right and jump when you reach the last one. A hidden room! After that climb upwards, staying close to the left wall. You should see a red door. Continue to the top and grab the red key. Fall back down and enter the red door. Grab the blue key and leave the room (Kick the skulls for lots of points!). Go right and skip both chests (Which contain the Cloak of Darkness and Wand of Wonder. Yuck!) Anyways, fall down and grab the chest of gems, and fall again and head left. Enter the blue door to find the pink key. Exit and go straight ahead to the last suspended platform and jump for another secret room! After that, drop to the very bottom of the area for more gems and stuff. After that, climb back to where the 2 "evil" chests are. Go upwards and search the area for the rest of the gems. Once you have 200, enter the door and fight the boss! Forest Part 2: -------------- Gems needed to beat the level: 100 Start by climbing to the top, and watch out for hidden gem caches as they can knock you down a couple of platforms! Once you reach the top, enter the door! Super Secret Spoiler!!! ----------------------- Want to beat the game a wee bit quicker? How about going through some previous levels all over again? If you answered yes to both of those, get ready to Oooh! and Aaah! Go as far left as possible, turn your back to the wall, and press up repeatedly. You are back to the first Forest! Make your way to the fire caverns and beat the boss to beat the game! Now back to our walkthrough... Let's see... Oh yes... Start by climbing the trees as far up and possible and you should find the pink key. Go back to the beginning of this area and enter the pink door. Climb up the tree to the top. Make sure to get the great Feather of Feather Fall and the Red key (I swear you can get that feather early on in the game. Did I miss it?). Now go left and jump to the nest, and then jump to the left. Grab the Pink Potion that appears and jump on the Blue Demon to reach the Blue Key. Now either enter the red door or just fall down and enter the room that the Knight is guarding! Time for the boss! Castle Part Uno: ---------------- Gems needed to beat the level: 50 Start by going left. This is where it is going to get tough. Start climbing the protruding walls and watch out for the arrows the I shaped things shoot. Keep going upwards, using your levitation if a platform disappears from under you! Once at the very top, you should find a pink door. A chailce may also come out of the ground. Grab it for 10,000 points! Jump to the very far left and use your feather. You should find the pink key. Now return to the pink door. Enter it and go as far left as possible. Jump up for a hidden room! After that, climb the platforms and head left, then down, right, and up to another pink door. Get the red key and get back to the beginning of the area. Enter the door the knight was guarding for... NOTHING! No boss, but the map seems eerie with no dots representing you and the boss since you are now inside the Castle's interior... Castle Part Dos: ---------------- Gems needed to beat the level: 200 This level is a maze filled with gems. Start by going straight ahead and kick the 2 blue chests for gems. After that, backtrack, and start heading upwards and right. You should pass a red door at one point. Continue going upwards and left until you find the red key. Come back to the red door. Enter and go right to find the pink key. After that, keep climbing left and upwards. You should pass a blue door. At the top is the blue key and a secret room directly to the right of it. Enter the blue door for a gem-filled shortcut back to the beginning of the area. Enter the blue door and fight the boss! Castle Part Tres: ----------------- Gems needed to beat the level: 100 This is it the final area! Just follow the path getting all the gems until you see the Knight. Climb to the very top, grab the red key, and make it back to the bottom. What? You don't have 100 gems? Kill some enemies for the rest! Afterwards, enter the door and face your destiny. Good luck! You'll need it! 5. Bosses --------- Forest 1 - Skull ---------------- If you have the boots of force, just kick him to death! Easy! Blue Caverns - Bats ------------------- One of the hardest bosses in the game! Start by running to the right and do not stop until you reach the end! You'll pass 5 of the harder to defeat bats. When the bats get nearby, attack them with your normal sword! Afterwards, go left and make the other bat come down. Jump in a figure 8 pattern and use your dagger on him. Do the same thing to the Giant bat, but that's not all! the bat will become small demons! Do the figure 8-dagger attack to them too! Fire Caverns - Earth Creature ----------------------------- Kick, kick, kick, kick his booty! And kick the little demons too! Purple Caverns - Wizard ----------------------- Same as the other boss. Kick!!! Forest 2 - Spider ----------------- Attack him with your axe, and go under him to the opposite side of the room. Rinse and repeat. Castle Part 1 - N/A ------------------- N/A Castle Part 2 - Small, Medium, Large, and GIANT Skeletons -------------------------------------------------------- Oh boy! 4 bosses in 1! Start by attacking the small skeleton with your axe while jumping over him. Same for the Medium one. And the big one. Avoid the bones as much as possible. The Giant one will be tough, but handle him like you did the other 3! Watch out for the tiny demons he turns into, I was on my 5th time trying to beat him, when the little boogers killed me! (note: It took me 8 lives to beat them!) Castle Part 3 - Malkil himself! ------------------------------- Run to the exit door and stand on the platform above it. The wizard will go there more often than anywhere else around the room. Fend off his projectiles with your axe and defeat him! Good luck! 6. Help Me! ----------- Still need to find out about that feather... 7. Credits ---------- Thanks to everyone at GameFAQs, and Rare for making this wonderful game.