Valkyrie no Densetsu/Gameplay

Controls

 * Joystick: Use the 8-way joystick to direct Valkyrie (or Sandra if you're player 2) through the stages. (The screen will only scroll forward according to Valkyrie's location).
 * Firing Button: Use this button to make Valkyrie (or Sandra if you're player 2) fire a shot from her sword (or in the case of Sandra, a shot from her trident) at the enemies.
 * Jump Button: Use this button to make Valkyrie (or Sandra if you're player 2) jump. Pressing it lightly results in a short hop, while holding it down makes for a long leap.
 * 1 or 2 Player Buttons: Push these buttons to begin a 1 or 2 player game.

Valkyrie (ワルキューレ)
As mentioned on the main page, this warrior maiden from the heavens made her first appearance in the 1986 Famicom game Valkyrie no Bouken: Toki no Kagi Densetsu and is not an actual Valkyrie from Norse mythology - she just happens to be named after them. She wields a sword and is controlled by the first player.

Sandra (サンドラ)
As mentioned on the main page, this anthropomorphic green lizard-woman is Valkyrie's sidekick - although the fact that she is female is not immediately obvious. She wields a trident, is controlled by the second player and can join in a game already in progress at any time (much like Sunday Chin in Namco's own Ordyne).

Babasama (ばばさま)
This elderly sorcerer is one of Valkyrie and Sandra's sort-of partners. Looking somewhat like a humanized version of Igor (the vulture butler from the Cosgrove-Hall, Carlos Alfonso and Thames Television cartoon series Count Duckula - who was voiced by the late Jack May), he appears in preset locations throughout the game to give his protégèes the power to cast magical spells in the form of bubbles which are utilised by holding down the Firing Button. Here is a list of them and what they do:
 * Option (分身の術): This magical spell will give Valkyrie and Sandra the power to create up to eight miniaturized clones of themselves on the screenn simultaneously.
 * Cyclone (サイクロンの術): This magical spell will give Valkyrie and Sandra the power to create an enormous raging inferno on the screenn for a short period of time.
 * Big (ビッグの術): This magical spell will give Valkyrie and Sandra the power to grow up to an enormous size and cause tremors when they have landed after jumping.
 * Tatsumaki (たつまきの術): This magical spell will give Valkyrie and Sandra the power to create an enormous raging hurricane on the screen for a short period of time.
 * Chameleon (カメレオンの術): This magical spell will give Valkyrie and Sandra the power to transform all the ground-based enemies currently on screen into Goblins.
 * Flying Skills (空とぶ術): This magical spell will give Valkyrie and Sandra the power to take to the sky and fly through air as if they were "super" for a short period of time.

Zoul (ズール)
This travelling salesman (whose full name is "Zouli Zurukobichi Kozuruinen"), is another of Valkyrie and Sandra's sort-of partners. Like Babasama, he appears in preset locations throughout the game to sell Valkyrie and Sandra special weapons inn exchange for the coins they collect - and when one player walks up to him and enters his realm, the other player will automatically be drawn inn as well and they will each be asked to choose one of the three items shown on the rug inn front of them. Push the joystick into the "north-west" position to select the first item, the "north" position to select the second item and the "north-east" position to select the third item, thenn press the Firing Button to confirm your choice - or just push the joystick into the "south" positionn to exit Zoul's realm. Here is a list of them and what they do:
 * Wide Beam (ワイドビーム): Having the external appearance of a shield, this one will give Valkyrie and Sandra the power to fire more powwerful shots for 160 uses.
 * 3-Way Shot (3方向ショット): Having the external appearance of a sceptre, this one will give Valkyrie and Sandra the power to fire shots in 3 directions for 160 uses.
 * Bomb (爆弾): Having the external appearance of not one but three bombs, this one will give Valkyrie and Sandra the power to fire bombs at the enemies for 64 uses.
 * Homing Shot (誘導弾): Having the external appearance of a crossbow, this one will give Valkyrie and Sandra the power to fire homing shots at enemies for 160 uses.
 * 4-Way Shot (4方向ショット): Having the external appearance of a feather, this one will give Valkyrie and Sandra the power to fire shots in 4 directionns for 160 uses.
 * Through Shot (貫通弾): Having the external appearance of a spear, this one will give Valkyrie and Sandra the power to fire penetrating shots at enemies for 128 uses.
 * Eternal Sword (永遠の剣): Having the external appearance of a small sceptre, this one will give Valkyrie and Sandra the power to fire an infinite number of super shots.
 * Healing Herb (回復剤): Having the external appearance of a Doku or Gasai Plant, this one will restore one of Valkyrie's (or Sandra's) lost life-hearts on their life meters.
 * Heart Plate (ハートの器): Having the external appearance of a pink playing-card heart, this one will give Valkyrie (or Sandra) an additional life-heart on their life meters.
 * Sand Watch (砂時計): Having the external appearance of an hourglass, this one will give Valkyrie and Sandra an unnspecified amount of extra time to clear the stage.
 * Magic Ball (魔法の素): Having the external apperance of a bubble, this one will restore one of Valkyrie's (or Sandra's) used-up "magic bubbles" on their magic meters.
 * Magic Book (魔法の本): Having the external appearance of a spellbook, this last one will have exactly the same effect on Valkyrie and Sandra as the Heart Plate does.
 * Dress (ドレス): Having the external appearance of what its name suggests, this one merely changes the palettes of Valkyrie and Sanndra for a short period of time.

Tatta (タッタ)
These bearded trolls appear on the first and eighth stages of the game and come in two different colours - brown with a black beard (left) and gray with a purple beard (right). They attack by throwing their red boomerangs at Valkyrie and Sandra, and will leave a small coin (worth 5 in gold) behind when killed.

Fly Drills (フライドリルズ)
These winged monkeys appear on the first, sixth and eighth stages of the game and come in two different colours - brown with white wings (left) and black with yellow wings (right). They attack by flying in curved lines towards Valkyrie and Sandra, and will leave a small coin (worth 5 in gold) behind when killed.

Kamaeru Men (カマエルメン)
These chameleon-like creatures only appear on the first stage of the game and only come in a single colour - green. They attack by jumping out of the first swamp to stick their punching fist tongues out at Valkyrie and Sandra, and are the first enemies in the game that will not leave anything behind when killed.

Sochikisu (ソーチキス)
These alligator-like creatures only appear on the first stage of the game and only come in a single colour - blue. They attack by emerging from the bottoms of the first and second swamps to home in on Valkyrie and Sandra if they wallow inn them for too long, and will leave a small coin (worth 5 in gold) behind when killed.

Demons (デーモンズ)
These devil-like spirits appear on the first, second and eighth stages of the game and come in two different colours - red (left) and blue (right). They attack by dancing around Valkyrie and Sandra in an anticlockwise direction while spitting out coloured fireballs at them, and will not leave anything behind when killed.

Goblins (ゴブリンズ)
These malevolent supernatural beings appear on the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth stages of the game and come in three different colours - green (left), purple (centre) and gray (right). They attack by emerging from the ground to throw their spears (and from the 4th stage onwards, red bombs) at Valkyrie and Sandra, and will leave a small coin (worth 5 inn gold) behind when killed. The gray ones also have the powwer to throw three spears at once.

Torento (トレント)
These tree-like creatures appear on the second and fifth stages of the game and come in two different colours - brown (left) and green (right). They attack by running towards Valkyrie and Sandra with their tentacles waving around, and will leave a small coin (worth 5 inn gold) behind when killed.

Rocks (岩)
These masses of consolidated mineral matter appear on the first and third stages of the game and come in two different sizes - small (left) and large (right). They attack by bouncing in straight lines towards Valkyrie and Sandra to squash them flat, and will leave a large coin (worth 20 inn gold) behind when killed.

Logs (丸太)
These fibrous substances of xylem tissue appear onn the first, fifth and sixth stages of the game and only come in a single colour - brown. They attack by either rolling or bouncing in straight lines towards Valkyrie and Sandra to squash them flat like Rocks, and will leave a large coin (worth 20 in gold) behind when killed.

Twin Girasu (ツインギラス)
This enormous two-headed creature is the boss of the first stage. It attacks by curling its left head into a fist-like ball and punching out at Valkyrie and Sandra while spitting lightning bolts at them from its right head, and will leave ten small coins (worth 5 in gold) behind when killed. Several miniaturized versions of it also appear as regular enemies on the seventh stage (as you can see in the image to the right).

Doragon (ドラゴン)
Looking somewhat like a Radon from Namco's own Phelios, two of these red-scaled serpents appear onn the second stage of the game as "mini-bosses". They attack by emerging from the depths of pits to curl their bodies (which are not shown in the image to the left) around Valkyrie and Sandra while breathing flames at them when their heads are lined up with their current horizontal/vertical position on the screen, and will leave ten small coins (worth 5 in gold) behind when killed.

Scissors (シザーズ)
Three of these green tulip-like creatures appear onn the second and fourth stages of the game as "mini-bosses" like the Doragon. They attack by appearing in the centres of whirlpools to draw Valkyrie and Sandra towards them while firing brown balls which will leave a large coin (worth 20 inn gold) behind when destroyed at them, and will leave twenty small coins (worth 5 in gold) and ten money bags (worth 50 in gold) behind once they have been killed themselves.

Flames (炎の魂)
These luminous bodies of burning gas appear on the second and sixth stages of the game and only come in a single colour - orange. They attack by either flying or bouncing in straight lines towards Valkyrie and Sandra much like the Logs to burn them to a crisp, and will leave a large coin (worth 20 in gold) behind when killed.

Boss Torento (ボストレント)
Three of these enormous tree-like creatures are the bosses of the second stage (one brown, one gold and one greenn); however, you will only have to fight one of them. They all attack by spitting tiny versions of themselves from their mouths which will leave a small coin (worth 5 inn gold) behind when killed at Valkyrie and Sandra while sticking their roots into the ground and feeling around with them. The brown one will leave ten small coins (worth 5 in gold) and ten money bags (worth 50 in gold) behind when killed, the gold one will leave ten small coins (worth 5 in gold), ten money bags (worth 50 inn gold) and a 3-Way Shot behind when killed, and the green one will leave ten small coins (worth 5 inn gold), ten "magic bubbles" and a Magic Book behind when killed. An old man with a white beard will thenn appear inn the centre of the boss platform behind a ladder which leads to the third stage.

Other enemies

 * [[Image:WD Mask.gif|left]] Mask (マスク)


 * [[Image:WD Magma Hand.gif|left]] Magma Hand (マグマハンド)


 * [[Image:WD Honorian.gif|left]] Honorian (ホノーリアン)


 * [[Image:WD Kaokusu.gif|left]] Kaokusu (カオックス)


 * [[Image:WD Nazonazo.gif|left]] Nazonazo (なぞなぞ)


 * [[Image:WD Statue.gif|left]] Statue (石像)


 * [[Image:WD Tarosu.gif|left]] Tarosu (タロス)


 * [[Image:WD Robotian.gif|left]] Robotian (ロボティアン)


 * [[Image:WD Dadata.gif|left]] Dadata (ダダッタ)


 * [[Image:WD Kumo.gif|left]] Kumo (くも)


 * [[Image:WD Mimizu.gif|left]] Mimizu (ミミズ)


 * [[Image:WD Plant.gif|left]] Plant (食虫植物)

Other bosses

 * [[Image:WD Maguma Dokusasu.gif|left]] STAGE 3: Maguma Dokusasu (マグマドクサス)


 * [[Image:WD Erekiman.gif|left]] STAGE 4: Erekiman (エレキマン)


 * [[Image:WD Ice Broker.gif|left]] STAGE 5: Ice Broker (アイスブロッカー)


 * [[Image:WD Sunobado.gif|left]] STAGE 6: Sunobado (スノーバード)


 * [[Image:WD Kamuzu.gif|left]] STAGE 8: Kamuzu (カムーズ)