Hello everyone and welcome to another walkthrough. This month, I decided to make the walkthrough of a game I played a long time ago, when I was a kid. I haven't beaten this game seriously because I was stuck in the second dungeon for some reason. Don't ask me why, I was a kid at that time. Anyway, I wanted to make this walkthrough, really. It's a Game Gear game I enjoyed playing and I wanted to beat it this time. Do you know which one? Well, let's start this walkthrough without wasting anymore time, shall we? Let's go to the world of Ax Battler - A Legend of Golden Axe.



CHAPTER 1: BLOWING UP THE MOUNTAIN

I’m not kidding, your first destination is the first town surrounded by the mountains. As Ax Battler can’t climb up the mountains (don’t ask me why, I don’t know), you’ll need something in order to go in the town. One of the guys inside the castle told you (if you did talk to him of course) that there’s a cave to the east. Ready for a cave raid? So head to the east. You might encounter some enemies on the way, mainly some barbarians and amazons. Try to get hurt the least you can during your progress, that’s the only advice I can tell you. Locate the entrance of the cave and go in (1).

 

CHAPTER 2: THE TOWER

First thing to do: go to the dojo in order to get a new skill. The dojo is the building with the letters “TR” written on a signboard. In this dojo, you will fight an improved barbarian called “Neo. Barbarian”, tougher than his little brother. At the beginning of the fight, go to the left to avoid the first strike of the Neo. Barbarian and strike back. Then all you have to do is three other hits and this enemy will die. You will get the high jump (2). Now you can jump higher if you press the up button with the jump button. Now leave the town and go to the next to town located to the south. Find the dojo, fight the Neo. Amazon (the improved version of the regular amazon, tougher than the little sister) and get a new skill: the upper swing. Now you can attack while you are crouching. Talk to the pink beast, he will tell you something useful later. Now, proceed to the tower located to the western peninsula.

Hmm, the tower is quiet… Beware of the statues: once you passed by them, they will move and will attack your back. Turn back and kill them with the upper swing in order to kill them instantly and make an elevator appear. Go up, kill the ghosts and use the hyper jump to go to the other side of the wall. Fun fact: when I was a kid, I was stuck at this point and couldn’t carry on. My grand brother was stuck here too. My surprise when I saw I missed something really obvious in order to make this part… that was a huge facepalm but it was kinda funny. Anyway, the next floor has some statues to kill once they move. Go up, kill the blue hedgehog (Sonic? Is that you, Sonic? XD ), avoid the gate, kill another hedgehog and go up. The next enemy is a pain in the butt. He throws bombs and is on a platform. If you don’t have enough magic vases to cast a spell, you will have to jump and strike when you are midair. Carry on, avoid the next gate, go up, kill the last enemy and open the chest. You will get the crystal (3). Now, go to the village close to the shore, take a nap in the inn if you need to recover your health, get the skill from the dojo if you still haven’t got it and go outside the town. Remember what the pink beast said earlier? Step on the sand square and use the crystal to summon the legendary turtle.

CHAPTER 3: THE NEW CONTINENT AND THE GREAT PYRAMID

Man, the legendary village on the turtle does exist! And apparently, the creatures live here now, oh well. This level is not really hard, you can easily rush this level if you pay attention to the enemies’ pattern. You can kill some enemies on your way if you want but they will drop nothing so it’s kinda pointless. Just use your jumping skills to go from platform to platform until you reach the end of the stage. You will land next to a new town. As you usually do when you come to a town, go to the dojo, beat your opponent (which is mister annoying skeleton). How to beat this enemy? First go to the left, then use the upper swing, go back to the left and do another upper swing to kill the skeleton. You will learn a new skill: the jump swing. Now you can do a powerful attack while you are jumping. Go take a nap in the inn if you need to recover some health, go outside the town and find some dunes next to the oasis. This is the next dungeon: the great pyramid. Kill the snakes, avoid the sand worms, kill a pink beast and jump on the platform. No, you don’t go inside the pyramid, you climb it up. You’ll see why. Oh look, a treasure chest! Is it the treasure of the great pyramid? Open it and get the key (4). Proceed to the next part of the desert. You’ll find a town to the west. Go to the dojo, beat the bad barbarian with some upper swings (don’t forget to go to the left when he wants to tackle you), learn the super swing, go to the inn in order to recover some health if it’s necessary and go to the cave to west, outside the town.

CHAPTER 4: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAINS

The cave is quite tough. If you don’t have the super swing, you won’t be able to kill the skulls. That’s why I told you to go to the dojo. The second threat is the spider. This enemy spits deadly fireballs from its… hmm hmm (butt is correct? ). However you can stay right underneath the spider because the shots go to the left and to the right. Ok, we’re going to start this level. Go up, killing the skulls, then kill the first spider and carry on. Beware of the fishes when you are walking in the green goo. Down, you will encounter two pink hedgehogs. The one on the platform can be killed with a super swing. Jump from platform to platform in order to avoid the other one, go down, crouch in order to avoid the arrow and jump on the platform. A pink hedgehog will fall down. Don’t jump at this point, stop the arrow with your sword and jump on the other platform. Let the other hedgehog fall down, jump on the other platform, go down, carry on avoiding all the hedgehogs and the fishes. Crouch in order to make the gap. Use your magic powers to get rid of the next enemies (it will make the things easier) and go up to end this part.

 

CHAPTER 5: THE FRUIT AND THE MOUNTAIN

The forest is a bit hard to go through. You can’t see the bats unless you jump. Otherwise, the level is really linear and the other enemies are not a big threat. The only thing I can tell you is this advice: be careful, use the tackle to get rid of the werewolves and it should be ok. Once you made this part, you are to the other side of the forest. The fruit is located in the little forest tile surrounded by the grey square (6). Use the “search” command when you step on the forest tile and you’ll get the fruit. Now, go back to the town, recover your health if it’s necessary and cross the bridge next to the town. Follow the sand road to the west in order to reach the next dungeon: the mountain.

Remember the goblins throwing some bombs? Now they throw some boulders. Just jump over the boulders, ignore the next enemy and tackle the barrier to carry on. Jump from log to log, avoid more boulders thrown by the goblins then reach the top of the mountain. Proceed to the next part of the level avoiding the falling boulders. An eagle come to your rescue. This part is really easy. You will have to fight some skeletons and face the wind. The wind blows at some points and you will move backward. Not a big deal though: if you hold the right direction, you can move forward but slowly. The three last enemies at the end are the same like in the pyramid. Kill them and end the level.

LAST CHAPTER: THE LAST DUNGEON

It’s almost the end of the game. Things will become harder now. The road to the last town of the game is mainly full of Neo Skeletons and Neo Knights. You will have to cross a bridge kept by a Neo Knight. Use the tackle four times or the thunder spell if you have enough magic vases to get rid of him and go to the town. You’ll need a magic stone in order to make the last dungeon appear and an elder mentioned something about this item. Interesting, we should find it. However, let’s go to the dojo and face the said bad guy of the game (who is supposed to be the final boss but no sadly): Death Adder. This guy is really hard to beat. It takes eight tackles to get rid of him. You know what you must do: use the tackle power, go back and repeat this method eight times. Yeah, eight times! You’ll get the last skill of the game: the jump attack (7). Time to find this magic stone now. Hmm this little grey square to the west is a bit suspicious, don’t you think so? Let’s go there and check this place. You will fight either Death Adder, a Neo Skeleton or a Neo Knight on the bridge. Abuse the tackle on both of those enemies. Use the “search” command on the grey square to get the magic stone. Now go back, go to the inn if you need to recover some health and go to the south. Cross the bridge and go to the snowy mountain. Kill the two arctic wolves, go down, kill more enemies and carry on. Jump and go back in order to avoid the avalanche (or else you’ll die horribly), then jump from platform to platform in order to go up. Another avalanche will fall. This time, run and jump at the end otherwise you will fall down and you will have to make the part with the moving platforms one more time. Once you are on the world map, carry on until you reach the castle.

  

Well, that's all for this walkthrough, I hope you enjoyed it and I see you at the next one. Bye bye