You missed the running in the beginning of stage 5.
You mean the weird running at the beginning? I could've done that over, but I figured it didn't cost me any time anyway.
You can roll up trough the wall just as the screen fades out in the ninja house. Just for fun.
I did that before, and it actually costs you time (the screen doesn't fade until you start walking).
When you grab someone and do the flurry, and someone else comes in between so you drop the guy, you can do the flurry again when you grab them directly after. I've never seen you use it. This might both be because you didn't know or because it hasn't been useful.
Pretty much the latter. I occasionally used it throughout the run, but it was usually just 1 extra hit on an enemy I needed to hit 3 times and throw to kill.
Testing both is probably the easiest way to find out.
I tested the other option numerous times, and the results were just unsatisfying to me.
Done through
Stage 6 now. At the beginning with the robots, the reason I do the weird and (what looks like) time-consuming method is because I could make the two robots with large health self-destruct that way.
Also, the first set of karate guys just did not want to cooperate no matter what I did. I ended up having to wail on one while the other camped outside the screen.
