Kung Fu Chaos Ninja Challenge Five-Star Rating Guide Copyright 2003 Version 1.0 Written by White_Pointer e-mail: whitepointer@blood-sports.net Contents of this Guide: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Legal Information 3.0 About the game 4.0 What’s in this guide? 5.0 Gaining those Five stars! 6.0 Acknowledgements and Credits 1.0 Introduction ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Without a doubt, the hardest thing to achieve in the single player mode of Kung Fu Chaos is gaining Five stars on each of the Ninja Challenge scenarios. For the average player, gaining three stars on most of them shouldn’t be a problem, but five stars can prove to be problematic. Well, this guide has been written to help you get those elusive five- star ratings in each of the Ninja Challenge scenarios. 2.0 Legal Information ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This guide is intended for personal use only. No profit can be made from this guide under ANY circumstances, it is to be used for non- profit only. This guide will ONLY be hosted on Gamefaqs and Blood- Sports.net, unless you have my written consent to publish it on your own site and you MUST e-mail me to request my permission to use it. Please explain in your e-mail what the theme of your site is, the approximate amount of unique visitors you receive each month and what materials the site covers. This guide may not be altered in any way, shape, or form. 3.0 About the game ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kung Fu Chaos in a party game for up to four players for the Microsoft XBox. The game shines as both a multi player and single player game and is definitely one of the best multiplayer games currently available for the XBox. 4.0 What’s in this guide? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Obviously Kung Fu Chaos is great as multiplayer but it also has a solid single player element in it as well. In the following section I’ll be detailing each scenario that you encounter during the Ninja Challenge Mode in the order from first to last and giving tips on how to achieve that elusive five-star rating for that scenario. I’ve also provided a guide to how difficult it is to achieve three stars, and how difficult it is to achieve five stars, so you can compare the two. In most scenarios it’s significantly harder to achieve five stars than it is to achieve three. 5.0 Gaining those Five Stars! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is the reason you started reading this FAQ. A guide on how to achieve your five-star rating on each of the Ninja Challenge stages. Let’s get started! Obviously I haven’t included the training stages because those aren’t star rated. Note that you don’t NEED to gain five stars on every stage to unlock everything, but it sure makes you feel good! :) 5.1 RIOT ON THE SET Three Star Rating Difficulty: Easy Five Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate For the first stage naturally this is the easiest stage to get your three stars required to pass, but is actually a little difficult for a five star rating. The main thing you need to keep in mind is that you want to kill the enemies quickly. Build your super up as quickly as possible, but don’t use it if there’s only one enemy left to kill. Wait until a group of enemies spawn before using it, and as for the other ninjas, make sure you knock them down and throw them off the stage as quickly as possible. Gaining five stars shouldn’t be too difficult if you are quick enough. 5.2 LEGEND OF THE DRUNKEN BASTARDS Three Star Rating Difficulty: Easy Five Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate Believe it or not but the fact whether you get five stars or not in this stage is decided near the beginning. Once the initial platform falls and you are fighting on the ground level of the building, this is the time to rack up as many ninja kills as possible. Don’t bother picking them up and throwing them off the edge when you knock them down, just knock them down and taunt, then do the same for the other ninjas until you have built up your super. Use it immediately, then repeat for the next wave of ninjas, but you need to be quick. You know you’ve done enough when those red-clad ninjas start appearing and you kill a few of them before you even leave the building and jump onto the first boat. After that it’s pretty smooth sailing, just pick them off as they appear and quickly kick or toss them into the water, use your super whenever you build it up, take out the boss at the end and the five stars will be yours. But you must kill enough ninjas while you inside the building you start in. 5.3 A FEW GOOD STUNTMEN Three Star Rating Difficulty: Easy Five Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate This isn’t all that difficult to get three or five stars. Keep your eye on the flying stuntmen and watch out for cows. Note that you move faster if you jump, but don’t worry too much, you won’t need to use it much, and only use it when a stuntman flies out at the opposite side of the window that you are standing on. Be quick however because you’ll often need to jump back to the other side immediately. There’s usually a little room for error too (although sometimes you may be unlucky and only 65 stuntmen will fly out) so don’t panic too much if you miss one. You should have more than enough time to catch the 65 stuntmen you need to gain a five star rating here. 5.4 WATERWHIRL Three Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate Five Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate You might initially think that this is pretty hard to get five stars on, but not so. If you can manage to get three stars, you shouldn’t have any problems getting five. I actually found a neat little trick that is almost guaranteed to net you five stars. Start the stage by jumping the pole every time it gets near you. Keep your eye on the timer, and continue jumping the pole until there’s about half the time left. By now it should be getting faster, and this is when to pounce. Begin hitting the pole (using black is easier than hitting A+B) and if you waited long enough, it should be going fast enough to start catching the CPU ninjas off guard. In fact, it should spin all the way around and knock them all off, in which case just hit it back in the opposite direction. Keep doing this for the remainder of the round, but keep your guard up because one of the ninjas may manage to whack the pole back at you. If the pole is spinning fast enough though they won’t have much of a chance to know what hit them and the five stars should be yours. 5.5 THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY PRINCESS Three Star Rating Difficulty: Easy Five Star Rating Difficulty: Easy This is actually easier to get five stars on than LEGEND OF THE DRUNKEN BASTARDS. Kill as many ninjas as you can in the first section, but the area where you can really cash in is just after this. Once the first section falls down you’ll run across a bridge that also crumples and then you’ll be left fighting on a square wooden platform for a while. This is your chance to rack up the ninja kills. Use the knock-down and taunt strategy, but don’t throw them off the edge if there’s a large group of them. Just build up your super and let it rip. If you kill enough ninjas on this square platform, just kill the rest as normal by throwing them off the edge or into the poison gas at the end, just make sure you don’t waste any time smashing open the door that leads into the final section. 5.6 TO CATCH A PRINCESS Three Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate Five Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate As with the WATERWHIRL stage, if you can net three stars here then it isn’t a huge leap to hit five. The trick is to catch the princess as she bounces back after knocking out a ninja. If you let her hit the ground, you’ll waste valuable time trying to get to her and you’ll never kill enough ninjas. Just be patient, catch the princess on the rebound and make sure you aim your throw. Don’t panic when you seem to be surrounded by ninjas, if you catch the princess you’ll have enough time to turn around and kill them all. 25 ninja kills will give you five stars. 5.7 FOUR POLES AND A PRINCESS Three Star Rating Difficulty: Easy Five Star Rating Difficulty: Easy This one shouldn’t be any problem for you once you know when to time your princess catches. The only tricky part comes in knowing when to press B to catch her. Even when the poles swing closer together, if you have the timing right it’s no problem. You can also try and jump across onto the other poles to knock the ninjas down that way, but it’s easier just to stay on your pole, catch the princess and hurl it back at a random enemy. Don’t bother jumping over it when it’s thrown at you, it just wastes time. You only need to knock 12 ninjas off the poles to gain five stars. Not hard at all, you can do it with more than half the time still left on the clock. 5.8 LIGHTS! CAMERA! ATTACK! Three Star Rating Difficulty: Easy Five Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate Again, as with RIOT ON THE SET, it’s not hard to hit three stars on this one, but it can be a little tricky to hit five, especially when those annoying white ninjas start spawning. Use the same strategies I provided for RIOT ON THE SET though. You’ll meet some different enemies but the same rules still apply. Knock down, taunt, throw off edge, save your super attack when lots of ninjas are on screen, repeat. 5.9 NIGHT OF THE LIVING FOG Three Star Rating Difficulty: Easy Five Star Rating Difficulty: Hard This scenario is weird. Weird in the fact that it’s not all that difficult to hit three stars, but finding enough ninjas to kill to hit five stars seems to be elusive. First things first, you obviously need to kill quite a lot of ninjas in this one. Secondly, don’t use the spike traps to kill them. That’s right, you heard it right here folks...don’t use the spike traps to kill the enemy ninjas. Your star rating doesn’t go up very far at all if the ninjas are killed by the spike traps. You can find at the end that you’ve killed 60 or so ninjas but only have four stars, and this is why. Instead, knock them down, taunt them and toss them into the fog. Once your super is built up, use it as soon as you can, even if you’ve only got one or two enemies on screen. You need to kill a lot of ninjas, and you need to kill them quickly. The first section is where you’ll need to get the most ninja kills. You’ll need to be over three stars by the time you reach the Ying/Yang and you begin your downward fall. If you aren’t, then forget it because you won’t get enough ninjas to kill in the final section. In the final section, again don’t use the spike traps to kill the ninjas…knock down, taunt, throw them off the edge and use your super as soon as you can. Also with this one, you only get about the equivalent of half a star after you defeat the boss, which means you’ll need to do all the work as you make your way up to him. Good luck. 5.10 TOMB ROBBER Three Star Rating Difficulty: Easy Five Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate Enter the Pac-Man! Or, Pac-Fu…anyway, you’ll probably find three stars to not be a problem here. Five stars can be somewhat more difficult, but here’s the trick. Read what it tells you before you start. Use the directional pad, not the analogue stick. When you use the D-Pad you can turn much more sharply. The Vampires will actually chase you, they don’t follow random patterns, but you move faster than them. So try luring them away from where the rings are, then run away and grab the rings. Sometimes though it’s actually faster to allow yourself to be killed by a Vampire than to try and take the scenic route to avoid them. To get five stars, you’ll need to collect 94 rings, which is ALL of the rings. 5.11 FRY HARD Three Star Rating Difficulty: Easy Five Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate This one isn’t too hard. Knock the ninjas down, taunt, and then throw them into the mouth and hit the switches, using your super when there’s a lot of enemies on the screen. You’ll no doubt need to try a few times to get the five stars, but it’s not too hard. 5.12 GIGANTIC CRACK Three Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate Five Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate The difference whether you get five stars or just four on this stage comes right at the beginning. This is where you’ll need to kill as many ninjas as you can. Don’t throw them off the edge after you knock them down. Knock them down, taunt, then knock another down and taunt until you have built up your super. Kill all the ninjas on the screen and repeat. You should be able to do this at least twice before you are forced to need to start moving. If you manage to do that, you’re well on your way to gaining five stars. Kill the rest of the ninjas by throwing them into the water after taunting them, use your super whenever you build it up, and knock some of the ninjas off the railing when the ship begins to sink. Take care of the boss at the end and the five stars are yours. 5.13 SEAL OF DESTINY Three Star Rating Difficulty: Easy Five Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate Welcome to what can be one of the most annoying mini-games. You’ll need to throw out lifesavers to the drowning ninjas, but watch out for the seal that’ll throw them back at you. A useful tip is that when you see the ninjas pop out of the water, they will be waving their arms. If they are not waving their arms, it means a seal is about to pop up in front of them, so don’t throw the lifesaver. Don’t wait until the seal goes though, throw lifesavers out to the other ninjas while you are waiting, but keep in mind that two or even three seals can pop up at once and you won’t have a choice but to wait. You can afford to be hit by a seal once near the beginning, but not near the end, so if you are hit at the beginning, don’t worry too much, you’ll probably still get five stars as long as you don’t get hit again. You’ll need to rescue 50 ninjas to get five stars on this one. 5.14 BIG TROUBLE ON LITTLE ICEBERG Three Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate Five Star Rating Difficulty: Hard Oh yuck. I really despise this stage in Ninja Challenge. This one is actually pretty damn tough to get a five star rating on, although it wouldn’t seem like it at first glance. Obviously, before you do anything else at the start, you’re going to need to run into the walls and knock the ice down to open up some gaps. Run along the outside and hit as many walls as you can and open up a couple of holes and knock the first three ninjas off as soon as you can. While you’re waiting for the second wave to spawn, use the opportunity to knock down a few more walls. Again, knock off the second wave as quickly as you can but be sure not to get knocked off yourself. It’s also very easy to slide off without anyone touching you, make sure you turn in the opposite direction to where you are sliding and use X to try and keep yourself on the ice. After the second wave you’ll need to attend to two more waves on ninjas, make sure all the outside ice walls are knocked down and don’t show any mercy. You’re actually more likely to lose all your lives here than to run out of time, so be careful because the ninja AI here is surprisingly good. You’ll need to defeat four waves, or 18 ninjas to get five stars. 5.15 BEHIND THE SCENES BRAWL Three Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate Five Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate You’ll be facing all of the tougher types of ninja in this fight so you wouldn’t expect it to be all that easy. But thankfully, it’s not all that hard. Just use the same strategies as RIOT ON THE SET and LIGHTS! CAMERA! ATTACK! Knock the ninjas down, taunt, then throw them off the edge, and save your super attack for when a lot of ninjas are on screen. As long as you don’t take too long to kill the ninjas, this shouldn’t be all that difficult for you. You’ll probably need to kill about 32 Ninjas to get five stars, depending on how often you use your super. 5.16 ENTER THE DINO Three Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate Five Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate This can be a confusing level at first, but once you know what’s coming, you shouldn’t have too many problems. You’ll probably notice at the beginning of the stage that your star power doesn’t increase all that much when you kill ninjas, so taunt and use your super as much as possible. Obviously don’t use it when there’s only one ninja on screen, but you get the idea. Stay out of the water, and if you do accidentally fall in, tap A quickly to try and jump out. When you get to the large frog heads, this is the best and easiest time to rack up the ninja kills. Even the white ninjas won’t stand much of a chance here. Just hit them a few times and even if they block your hits, they’ll be pushed into the piranha infested water where they’ll jump out or be eaten. If they jump out, just repeat the process, they normally wouldn’t be able to jump out a second time. After the frog heads get back on the raft, rack up a few more kills and if you played your cards right and killed enough ninjas with your super at the beginning, you’ll have five stars by the time you reach the boss. Dispose of him and that’ll be that. 5.17 CLIMBING FISH, FALLING TURTLE Three Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate Five Star Rating Difficulty: Hard This is undoubtedly one of the hardest scenes in the game to gain a five star rating on. You need to grab the turtles as they reach the top of the waterfall, and throw them down at the fish that’s sweeping from side to side. You don’t have very long to grab the turtles though, and there isn’t much margin for error when throwing them. You can miss him once or twice at the beginning, but miss him even once after you’ve hit him 4 or 5 times and it’s goodnight. Keep in mind that if you get hit by a turtle you’ll drop the turtle you are carrying. If you see a turtle sliding across to attack you, jump over it, but you can throw the turtles in mid-air so don’t let that stop you. You cannot throw the turtles at an angle, you can only throw them straight down. That combined with the fact that you don’t move very quickly makes this level very tough. You’ll no doubt be bashing your head on the control with this one, it definitely isn’t easy to gain five stars. Once the fish starts getting faster, time your turtle throws so that he actually moves into them. For example, if the fish is moving left, throw the turtle down slightly to his left so his moves into it. If you try throwing it directly at him once he’s moving faster, you’ll miss. You’ll need to hit mister fish 14 times to gain five stars. 5.18 FISH OF FURY Three Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate Five Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate Our friend the giant fish is back and this time you’ll be fighting ninjas on giant lily pads. This one actually isn’t all that difficult. Knock the ninjas down when you can and taunt them, and save your super for when a lot of ninjas are on the screen. You can gain a lot of kills by using the frog head strategy in ENTER THE DINO, hit the ninjas, even if they are blocking, and you should knock them into the water where they’ll be promptly eaten by the little fishies. Just avoid falling into the water yourself, avoid the big fish when it comes up to eat the lily pads and use your super whenever possible and you’ll have five stars in the bag. 5.19 REVENGEANCE DAY Three Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate Five Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate Ah…a fun level. Provided you don’t take too long killing the ninjas at any point in the stage, gaining five stars shouldn’t really be much of a problem. Use the bombs at the beginning to rack up some easy kills, and try to get your super powered up inside the elevator and let it loose before it crashes. Always try and keep ahead of the CPU ninjas when making the big jumps, because you can pummel them before they hit the ground on the other side and kill them easily. Once you’re on the flying saucer, build up your super and use it as much as possible. By the time you reach the boss it’s possible to have five stars already, so just get rid of her and end the level. 5.20 INVASION OF THE BRAIN SNATCHER Three Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate Five Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate This is a fun little mini-game. You’ll need to chase the brains around the flying saucer, pick them up and throw them into the box on the far side of the screen. Herd them like sheep so they are all in a group and pick them off one by one. Once there isn’t a large number anymore it gets a little tougher but the same rules still apply. If you can get three stars here, it won’t take much more to get five. Throwing 14 alien brains into the box will land you a five star rating, which means you need to get all of them in there. The clock is your biggest enemy here, don’t waste time! 5.21 CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE WORST KIND Three Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate Five Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate The main thing to remember with this one is kill the enemies as quickly as possible. Build up your super and save it when there are a lot of enemies on the screen. The white ninjas can be real pains here with the wobbly flying saucer, but if you’ve got this far it shouldn’t be anything you can’t handle. You don’t need to kill that many ninjas here…If you use your supers wisely you’ll only need to kill about 13 to get the five stars. 5.22 EVERYBODY’S A CRITIC Three Star Rating Difficulty: Easy Five Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate This level is actually quite easy. Keep in mind that three stars isn’t the pass mark in this level, the pass mark is four stars. But we are after five stars so here’s how you go about it. You’ll be fighting each of the characters but they will also attack you with their stunt double. It’s not that hard at all to nab five stars here. Knock them down, taunt, throw them off the edge, repeat until you have your super built up. You need to make sure you use your super often though (at least three times…that is, six kills using your super) or you won’t get the five star rating you are after. Wait until you have two enemies on the screen before using your super, and five stars on this scenario are as easy as that. They will very rarely attack you simultaneously, it’s normally just one at a time, which makes your job a lot easier. 5.23 SHAO TING’S BIG END Three Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate Five Star Rating Difficulty: Moderate You don’t have a choice here, it’s get five stars or else. But don’t worry, it’s not that difficult. You have five lives, but Shao Ting has some pretty strong attacks to the extent that he can kill you with just a few hits, and he enjoys taunting you a lot meaning you really need to watch out for his super attack. Keep him on the defensive as much as you can. When you knock him down taunt away, and use the opportunity to pick up boxes or whatever else has fallen into the ring to throw at him while he’s on the ground as it does some damage to him. Don’t bother throwing things at him when he’s on his feet though because he’ll just catch them and throw them straight back. Knock him down with combos, taunt him as much as you can and let those super attacks go as soon as possible. As long as you don’t allow him any room to move he’s pretty much yours. Don’t allow him to get on the offensive though because he can really hurt you. 6.0 Acknowledgements and Credits ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Just Add Monsters, for making this really fun game! Myself, for writing this guide :) If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about this FAQ, feel free to e-mail me. 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