Furthermore, when he is defeated, the screen will briefly turn to black and white and the action will turn into slow motion, just as it did when the Mysterious Warrior was defeated in the NES version of Double Dragon II. Besides using many of the Mysterious Warrior's characteristic moves, such as the spinning clothesline and the ability to become "invisible" (shadow trail), the Mysterious Warrior's theme, "The Fight Continues/Fight of Fate", will start playing when he enters the battle. While all of their members borrow traits from the Mysterious Warrior, their leader, Raymond, is strongly implied to be the Mysterious Warrior himself (or at least his counterpart or successor). They are known as the " Five Emperors" and appear as the end bosses of the penultimate stage. In Double Dragon Advance, a group of enemy characters modeled after the Mysterious Warrior appear as an elite group that serve as Willy's bodyguards.
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The only other time the term "Shadow Warrior" appears in the English script is when the player character uses it to address the Mysterious Warrior himself prior to their final confrontation.
DOUBLE DRAGON 2 NES SOUNDTRACK MANUAL
His techniques include a thrust, a roundhouse kick, a backflip kick, and a spinning clothesline. After he has sustained enough damage, the illusion breaks and the background changes to the interior of what appears to be an ancient temple, in front of an altar. During the first phase, he fights on a green battlefield in the middle of the night featuring a demonic statue and a pair of eyes staring in the background (in the PC Engine CD version, this illusory backdrop is even more surrealistic, resembling an alternate dimension). The battle against the Mysterious Warrior consists of two phases. In the Famicom version of Double Dragon II, the Warrior always appears regardless of the difficulty the game is set on, whereas in the NES version he only appears on the hardest setting ("Supreme Master"). "If the illusion spreads the evil will live again.Īfter dying, that night Marian miraculously comes back to life and is returned to the Double Dragons alive and well.