The Legendary Axe/Zone 3

Part A
Right from the start, you'll be attacked by a green nomad, accompanied by some poisonous moths. When you start descending down a set of steps, the first eagle will show up. Eagles fly back and forth through the air a few times until they reach the right side of the screen, and begin to descend to your level. When they are approximately even with your head, they fly forward. This is your chance to strike them and keep them away from you while possibly removing them entirely with a full strength strike. It's always safer to stop advancing when an eagle appear, and remove it from the screen before continuing. If you don't, you risk allowing the screen to become filled up with too many enemies to deal with. A second eagle will attack when you approach the bottom of the steps.

After you jump across the gap, you will see more ledges ahead of you to jump on. However, it is possible to safely fall down to the floor below. There is an item statue on the floor that is easy to miss if you stay along the top. Either way that you go, you will encounter your first golem. Golems initially look like plain square rocks until you get close, and then they pop up to attack. Their main form of attack is to swing their arm out at your head. You are generally safe from their attack if you squat down. Strike at them before they get too close. The item statue along the bottom contains a health item.

Across the next gap, you should traverse the top path to find the next item statue. Along the way, a green nomad will attack, and another eagle will appear. Approach the statue when they are cleared away and destroy it to obtain another health item. If you stay along the top when you cross the gap, you will be forced to deal with a golem and two eagles. You can avoid the golem by dropping down to the floor first. If you remain on the low path all the way, you will find a set of item statues that you might otherwise miss. You have to jump over several gaps to reach each one, and you will be forced to backtrack after you collect them, but you will obtain some health items, several jewels to increase your score, and at the very end, one of the statues will contain an extra life. After you collect them, you must return to the left until you are able to jump up to a ledge above the floor and continue along the higher path to the right.

Along the high path, you will have to defeat a golem before the leap to the next ledge, and another one after the leap. In both cases, you must defend yourself against getting knocked back too far, or you will be at risk of getting pushed off the ledge and losing a life. After collecting a health item from a statue (or an axe power-up if you died and continued from here) you will encounter a blue skinned nomad. Blue skinned nomads are hardier than the ones you've encountered in the past, and they know a new trick: throwing their axes. Not only will they throw them at you, but they can throw them high or low. You can actually swat them out of the air with your own axe, but be prepared to face them. If you don't knock them out with a single 50% strength hit, they will perform backflips when you hit them to put distance between you, and throw another axe.

For the next portion of the stage, you must clear a large number of blue nomads from your path. Try to hit them at full strength to reduce their chances of throwing more axes at you. After the jump, you must choose between another high path and low path. Like before, choosing the low path puts you on a track to some items and a dead-end. You'll have to ride a floating platform across a gap to get there, and all you will find is some health items (unless you're missing a Speed increase, in which case you'll find one here) before you have to go back and take the higher path.

Along the higher path, you'll be attacked by two green nomads and an eagle. Then you must jump up and grab the swinging vine. You must leap over to a second swinging vine, and your timing must be correct or you'll miss the vine and plummit to your death. The vines move at slightly different rates, and you want the second vine to almost start approaching you when the first vine is nearing the end of its trip to the right. Beyond the second vine, you will be attacked by bears who resemble the two you fought as the boss of the first zone. These gray bears take more hits to defeat. When the second one appears, it will be near a golem. Don't approach it and wake up the golem or you will have two threats to deal with (three if you count the eagle overhead). Instead, lure it to the left and deal with it alone, and then return to destroy the golem. Then attack the item statue for a health item before proceeding to the end of this section.

Part B
Upon reach the next section, you will be greeted by two new nomads: blue nomads and red nomads. They each know a different trick; blue nomads like to leap through the air when they attack, and red nomads will only ever squat down and attack you low. Having a mix of them on the screen is potentially dangerous. Try to deal with them individually when they appear before you get overwhelmed. Before you reach the first item statue containing a health item, you will be attacked by one of each type.