Appendix
Annex to guide below.
General: Don't fall through more than one floor at a time. It'll kill you more often than help you spare some time.
Bonus rooms: Some are protected by metal blocks, which can only be bombed. For strategy, think like that : if you have more than 20 seconds on the counter when you see them, engage. It counts ESPECIALLY with backdoors, as they take a lot of delay between entering and travel. Doesn't matter with golden clock rooms - take them always, especially if you normally can't keep up with time. Eye seems like the worst of all powerups, so if you have trouble with timer - don't take it.
Life gambit: Like in all arcade games with Life powerup system, risking your life to pickup a life MAKES sense. Worst situation: you get life, you die . You get few bonus seconds (as timer restarts) and lose all Pixies (see below). Best: +1 Life. Yeah.
Pixies: They serve for SCORE MULTIPLIER. So, having one DOUBLES score you'll get. Having 3 QUADRUPLES it. And you can have EVEN MORE. If you haven't figured out yet, they're the most important f'ing thing in the game. Also,*!IMPORTANT!* they make exception for the Life Gambit above: if you have more than one Pixie, risking (like, heavily) your life STOPS making sense.
Now, for the enemies tips annex:
Niji and Deezi (aka NinjaWannabes): easy kill. Shuriken preferred. Remember to take stars back.
Badoomba (aka Fatso): Jump and downthurst. Evade when unneeded. Neext.
Kinne (aka FoxMoFo): Atually, tip you'll find in in-game manual, "when you see him, DUCK!" makes sense. A LOT. Also, when you see his knife when you are falling, DOUBLEJUMP! You'll stay in the air, and knife will pass. Preferred: Shuriken. REALLY.
Giz (aka: $^&#* FROG!!!) Not really nice *author twitches* enemy. Rrr. Downthrust bugger when falling, when on floor I suggest throwing one star when ducked, then IMMEDIATELY standing up and throwing some more. Otherwise bugger may JUMP and evade them.
Nomit:(aka BleedingBones) Not so dangerous as it looks. Shuriken or sword. Actaually, his falling skill may be more dangerous than his running speed.
Knives:(aka GrassTopDragon) Inicknamed it for its "grasstop" horns visible when he's hidden. Remeber, true ninja is PARANOID. So be PARANOID and watch out for every sprinkle of GREEN. Argh. Otherwise, entry from below review works (crouch and star) PROTIP! Although it may not seem obvious, downthrusting him works.
WumWum (aka PurpleGrass): LOL. Oneshot form sword... Not so funny when combined with Eki (spiky balls).Crap. Luckily, it doesn't happen often.
Gror (aka HemorrhoidBlock*): Throw bomb on floor ABOVE him. Splash damage will take him too. Cool.
*if you don't get joke, watch "VG Cats Animated 2", here on NG.
Magicloke: (Aka Rincewind): Actually I hated him too, unless I read the ingame manual (do it too! "Read Manual" entry in MainMenu! It'll save your ass more than once...) and realised... that he isn't hostile.
HE'S NOT HOSTILE.
He will NEVER attack you first. Never. That's why you get so many points for killing him: BECAUSE IT'S OPTIONAL. Just jump over him (you still get Collison Damage if you walk on him) and that's all. When you feel you MUST kill him, spam shurikens like mad.
Dainon: (aka IceCube): When his eye is low (in his lower half), then DOWNTHRUSTING HIM DOESN'T WORKS. Argh. But, doublejump control will allow you to evade him, won't it?
That's all, folks. Aha, and tips from jbloom88's review apply as well.