The Monthly Rag

Graveyard (Part I) (Appears after all previous screens have played. Always proceeds to Graveyard II)

This is a two-parter, location wise. Lightning strikes as you enter the cemetery, reviving a band of six skeletal warriors assemble from bony piles. Sancho and your steed flee and leave Don to do battle by himself.

It's the walking dead.

First dodge the initial attack from the facing skeleton by going RIGHT. Next hit SWORD to draw your sword and block another swing, following quickly with another SWORD that cleave down your opponent. Don turns to face two more Skeletons…hit SWORD to attack and make one of them block with their shield, and SWORD again to chop them both into dust. Dramatic lightening will strike as another pair move toward you. Dodge RIGHT as one swings at you, then push SWORD as you’re grabbed from behind by a third. Don will wrangle the light enemy over his head and throw him into the other two, which crumble back into parts.

Dismount him the old fashioned way.

Cue more lightening as the Skeleton King atop his dead horse advances. Press SWORD to parry his first strafe, then SWORD for his second and another SWORD to cut the legs off his ghostly stallion. The King will now be on foot, leveling the playing field. Use SWORD to clash weapons, SWORD again to hit his shield, and SWORD one more time to parry. This will knock Don off his feet. Go RIGHT to avoid being skewered from above, then SWORD as you stand back up. The King will block your attack again, so push SWORD one more time to finish him. After he is vanquished, the remaining skeletons hauntingly collapse.

Onward to the second part:

Graveyard (Part II) (Always follows Graveyard I. Leads to Anaconda or Tornado/Sand Dragon)

You’re not out of the woods yet. A blast of lightning strikes a headstone ahead in your path, breaking it in two, and then a large dead hand stems from the ground underneath.

Here lies "Thing", apparently.

Go RIGHT to dodge a swipe, and watch more zombie hands unearth. When indicated, press UP to dodge again, then SWORD to slash one down. Immediately hit LEFT to get out of harms way and jump up on to a flat tomb, and another SWORD when you’re met with another hand. The moves are fairly fast and strung together. Don will jump down back on to the path. Push SWORD to destroy another arm, then quickly LEFT to escape yet another. It’s all striking from here. SWORD cuts down another that appears, then SWORD again for two more at once.

It's all slicing after this last left dodge.

He checks his right and left, and then runs into another hand. SWORD it. Last but not least, the underused SWORD. Now the final hand is no more and, lucky you, Sancho and your ride are waiting at the exit. Some help they were.

At this point, any scene you’ve died on within the cycle is replayed in the chronological order you first encountered them in. Once they are all completed, you’ll advance to the second set of sequences.

CONTINUE ON!