Valkyrie no Densetsu/Walkthrough

Namco's Japan-only 1989 platform/shooter arcade game Valkyrie no Densetsu (which is the sequel to an old 1986 Famicom game entitled Valkyrie no Bouken: Toki no Kagi Densetsu) is divided into eight stages: Sand Land, Fire Land, Magma Cave, Golden Castle, Farthest Village, Ice Cave, Northern Land and Earth Internal. One player can play alone as sword-wielding Valkyrie (who, as mentioned on the main page, is not an actual Valkyrie from Norse mythology - just a warrior maiden from the heavens who happens to be named after them) or a second player can join in at any time as her trident-wielding sidekick Sandra (who, as also mentioned on the main page, is an anthropomorphic green lizard-woman - although the fact that she is female is not entirely obvious). The amount of life-hearts the pair will possess at the start of the game depends on what the arcade owner has set the "Life" option on the dip switch menu to: 2, 3, 4 or 5. Therefore, if you are using MAME to play this game (which you almost certainly will be unless you are a native inhabitant of the "Land of the Rising Sun"), you may wish to set the "Life" option to 5 in order to increase your chances of survival.