Knife road

Knife road is a time-and-space travel game where you use weapons to complete challenges in different settings. Your scores earn honorary titles, with 13 titles in total and Time And Space Guardian as the highest.

Challenges and modes

The Game Guide introduces basic operations through prompts, which you can follow step by step before trying the game freely. Bar Shooting is a four-level challenge mode:

• Level 1: Hit the love and glare balls thrown by the woman at the center of the stage to score. Hitting lightning balls costs points. You can use Flying Knife, Lightning Ball, Aura Sphere and Light Sword.
• Level 2: Hit dart targets that appear at random on the roulette while a woman is tied to it. Avoid hitting her. Flying Knife, Lightning Ball and Aura Sphere are suggested.
• Level 3: Hit the green hats worn by women running toward you to score; hitting the women deducts points. You can use Flying Knife, Lightning Ball, Aura Sphere and Light Sword.
• Level 4: Hit the hats thrown by a woman on stage to score. Hitting her deducts points. Flying Knife, Lightning Ball, Aura Sphere and Light Sword are available.

Guardian Life Crystal and Test Of Tolerance are endless modes. In Guardian Life Crystal, evil forces continually attack Narwu, the crystal of life, and you fight alongside the Guardian Templar to protect it. You can attack a prop chest with ranged weapons to obtain items. In Test Of Tolerance, ninja warriors approach you in an arena, where you face them in a one-against-many fight. You start with the ranged Flying Knife and melee Light Sword; as your kill score rises, you can unlock the ranged attack weapons palms and wave missiles.

Huyi Temple is an entertainment mode set in a mysterious area where magical creatures appear. Use melee weapons to strike jelly-like creatures for points; hitting an eye earns double points. Chopper bombers explode when hit and deduct three points.

Settings and weapons

The challenges take place in several settings: the Game Guide leads into the journey through time and space; Bar Shooting is a bar with music, a crowd and a stage; Guardian Life Crystal centers on the threatened crystal Narwu; and Test Of Tolerance is set in a mysterious ninja village in the mountains. Huyi Temple is a sacred place that, after two thousand years of exposure to nature and weather, has become a proving ground for warriors of time and space.

Flying Knife, Lightning Ball and Aura Sphere are ranged weapons, while Light Sword is used in close combat. The Flying Knife gains forward speed when you swing your arm while holding the trigger, and flies when you release it after reaching a certain speed. To use Lightning Ball or Aura Sphere, switch to the weapon, generate it by bringing your hands together while holding the triggers, then aim and throw it without releasing the triggers beforehand. Light Sword appears while you hold its trigger and disappears when you release it.

Honorary titles

Scores earned across the challenges award one of 13 titles, from Beginner's Guide to Time And Space Guardian: Beginner's Guide, Rookie One, Excellent Newcomer, Elite Knife, Flying Kife Master, Sharp Knife Master, Hellboy, Cracker, Earl Of The Sky, Star Marquis, Duke Of Empire, Imperial Guardian, Cosmic Guardian and Time And Space Guardian.