Play Catapult

"Straw Hat Samurai" is a fun Flash game that tests your reflexes and strategic skills. For most of the game, you'll be slashing through opponents using mouse drags to symbolize sword slashes. After beating the first portion, you play through a strategy mode before facing the game's final boss.

Instructions

The Beginning

1 Follow the tutorial at the beginning of the game to learn the basics. For most of the game, you'll use your mouse to draw lines through enemies, slashing and defeating them.
2 Click on a new tile after you complete each level to move to that tile. Each stage you beat unlocks new areas. When you finish an area, the screen goes black and red and "Area Clear" appears.
3 Go to tiles with treasure chests to unlock bonuses upon beating that level. The bonuses let you choose between 10 extra hit points or a 10-percent chance to dodge attacks.
4 Follow the "Bow Tutorial" when offered the opportunity to learn how to pick up arrows and use your bow. Hold "Shift" to ready your bow and use the mouse to aim it, holding down the left mouse button to ready a shot. Release the button to shoot the bow. Use the bow when facing archers in a tower. Simply slash through ground archers.
5 Slash under the shields when you encounter enemies carrying shields. If they're kneeling, get behind them and slash their backs. When you encounter the catapult near the end, slash through the catapult balls before they hit the ground to send them back to the catapult, destroying it.
6 Choose to fire the catapult at the gate to enter strategy mode. Alternatively, choose to fire it at enemy troops to make strategy mode easier, but then you must defeat the remaining enemies covering the rest of the tiles.

Strategy Mode

7 Select white sectors, which are unoccupied. Your sectors are blue, while enemy sectors are red. The number on each sector indicates the strength of the troops stationed there.
8 Click red sectors next to your blue sectors to attempt to take over the sector. Your chances of success are higher if the number on your blue tile is larger than the number on the red tile. Click "End Turn" when done to receive reinforcements and let the enemy go.
9 Click the Samurai after each turn and move him as close as you can to the tent in the middle of the five others. Continue taking over red tiles until you reach the tent, then move the Samurai there to begin the final battle.