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KARATEKA by Jordan Mechner
Solución por strategywiki.org
Outdoors
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Running to the palace
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The beginning. Your mission begins at the edge of the cliff which you just
climbed. After walking forward a few steps, you will encounter the island
guard, who greets you in front of the island gate. This will be your
first, and easiest fight. Once you defeat the guard, you will be treated
to a cut scene where an informant alerts Akuma to your presence. He
immediately dispatches his army to attack you.
Fighting in front of the palace entrance
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Race to the entrance. Now the level begins in earnest. It is recommended
that you run as much as possible. The longer that it takes for you to
reach the palace entrance, the more guards you will encounter along the
way. As you run along the walkway (with a picturesque view of Mt. Fuji in
the background) the game will cut back and forth between the scene of you
running forward, and the guard rushing to stop you. Once you are close
enough, the game locks on you and commences the fight. Make sure that you
stop running before you reach the guard, or he will instantly kill you
with a single blow. As soon as you defeat one guard, the next one will
leave the palace, you begin running right away to close your distance to
the entrance of the palace. The next guard will be a little stronger and a
little smarter. Continue this pattern until you are fighting in front of
the palace. It is difficult, if not impossible to defeat just three guards
before you are inside, but four is a very achievable target. Once you beat
a guard with the entrance in view, you will have a few seconds to run
inside before Akuma sends another guard to fight you. Don't waste the
opportunity.
Palace Hallway
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The battle continues indoors. The Palace plays in a manner similar to the
outside. You begin with one guard at the entrance which you must fight and
defeat. At that time, another guard will inform Akuma that you are inside,
and he will send his more talented fighters to defeat you. Once you're
back in control, you must continue running since the same rule for outside
applies here: the longer it takes for you to reach the dungeon, the more
guards you will have to fight. You have one more concern to deal with
inside the palace. A sound plays when you are presented with a new enemy
entering the floor, but at certain intervals, you will hear an additional
indication that something is about to attack you. That something is
Akuma's hawk.
The hawk attacks inside the palace
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Akuma's hawk. Just like regular fighters, if the hawk hits you as you are
running, you will die instantly. When you hear the indication that the
hawk is about to appear, stop running, and get into fighting stance. If
you time your strike correctly at the right height, you can hit the hawk
and avoid taking any damage from the encounter. However, even if you do
not manage to hit the hawk, as long as you are in fighting stance, you
will take two hit points worth of damage, which you can easily withstand
and eventually regain.
The trap gate before the dungeon entrance
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The Gate Trap. The most pivotal moment on the floor occurs at the very end
where a spiked gate stands in front of the entrance to the dungeon where
Mariko is kept. The enemies can't trigger the gate, but you can. If you
try to rush through the gate, walking or running, the spikes will
immediately slam down on you and kill you instantly. In order to bypass
this death trap, you must inch towards the gate until your foot is right
by the edge of the entrance. Then you must advance your fighter just
enough to trigger the gate, and pull back in time to prevent the gate from
killing him. If you do it correctly, the gate will fall just in front of
your face. Now you can back up, wait for the gate to rise, and run through
it once it is high enough for your head to clear. If you hit it while it
is still a little low, that's all right, you'll simply lose a hit-point or
two, and you'll get it back anyway. In most versions, simply advancing as
far forward as safely possible, and then kicking, will cause the gate to
fall.
Dungeon
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The final floor. By now, Mariko is convinced that the noise she has heard
means that help is on the way, but there's no promise of rescue yet
because you still have the most difficult battles ahead of you, including
with Akuma himself. The good news is that there is no more need to rush
from one area to another. You will never be forced to fight more opponents
if you take your time. This is important since you want to be at full
strength for every fight, and you don't want to unexpectedly walk into any
traps, although there are very few.
A fight in the dungeon
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Expert combat strategy. You will first fight a guard at the bottom of the
steps. By now, you will need to employ a lot more strategy in your
fighting if you haven't begun to do so already. Since the warriors here
are smarter and stronger, you must time your attacks with better precision
than before. By throwing kicks continuously, the enemies will eventually
settle just out of your kick range. They will throw kicks of their own in
hopes that you will walk into them (which is more common than you'd
expect). The trick here is to stand still until the first kick is thrown.
Once the first kick ends, start edging closer to your opponent. As long as
the fighter doesn't get in one of those rare four-kicks-in-a-row attacks,
you will end up inside of his strike range by the time his attack is done,
presenting you with an opportunity to get in a few hits before his attack
resumes. Use this strategy carefully and cautiously, and don't be afraid
to back up in case you are low on health and need to regain your health.
Your enemy will regain health too, but it's better than dying and starting
all the way over after having come so far.
Hawk combat strategy. Once you beat the first guard, you will pass through
a doorway that locks behind you. From here on out, you will encounter
closed doors that must be kicked in order to open. You will have to fight
three more guards, using the strategy described above. Once you defeat the
third and final guard, you will receive a large amount of health. Proceed
to kick the door down and you will immediately be attacked by Akuma's
hawk. This time, the hawk will not give up until you or it is defeated.
You must successfully attack the hawk. The best way to do that is to stand
just left of the center of the room so that you have enough time to judge
the height of the hawk and time your attack properly. Remember that your
attacks have a bit of a delay to them, and you must time them accordingly
or you will miss the hawk and it will gain another chance to damage you.
If you can hit the hawk five times, it goes down, leaving no one but Akuma
between you and Mariko. Clearly you don't want to run into the next room
because Akuma is waiting for you right on the other side.
The final fight versus Akuma
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The final fight. Your fight with Akuma clearly will be the longest and
hardest fight of the whole game, but Akuma is susceptible to the same
strategy described above. You need to modify it slightly because Akuma is
quicker, and the time between his attacks is a lot shorter. So you must
react to the start of his attacks sooner and edge closer to him as soon as
it's safely possible. However, Akuma has one problem that his other guards
don't have: he's a bit more impatient. If you keep standing outside of his
range, he will advance on you and open himself up for attack. Take
advantage of this and give yourself a breather if you're taking a beating
and need to gain some health back, you will only have a maximum of eight
hit points. Once Akuma goes down, you're almost done with the game. All
you need to do now is rescue Mariko, but remember your place when you find
her.
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