Sakura Taisen 3 - Koubu Knuckle FAQ! V 0.1
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FAQ History

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August 19, 2002 - Guide Submitted to GameFAQs
August 19, 2002 - Guide Updated with a few tidbits and grammar fixes
August 17, 2002 - Guide Finished
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Table of Contents
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1 - Info about Koubu Knuckle
2 - Getting Koubu Knuckle
3 - General Koubu Knuckle Game Info
4 - Controls
5 - Starting a New Game
6 - Assists
7 - Items
 7(a) - Food items
 7(b) - General items
8 - End of level points
9 - Enemies
10 - Strategies
 10(a) - General Strategies
 10(b) - Bonus Level Strategies
 10(c) - Boss Strategies
11 - Super Secret Special Move
12 - High Scores
13 - Special Thanks

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1 - Info about Koubu Knuckle
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Koubu Knuckle is a game very similar to that of Streets of Rage or
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:  Turtles in Time. The Main differences
between those games and Koubu Knuckle is that Koubu Knuckle is on
Dreamcast... And that you don't really progress through the levels but
start out in a rectangular-ish stage where enemies and crates appear. And
that you can walk around the entire stage from the start and you win by
killing all the enemies in a  certain amount of time.

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- Getting Koubu Knuckle
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If you don't know Japanese (which I don't) this is going to be one of the
least entertaining parts of your gaming career. But you do want to get
Koubu Knuckle don't you?

First of all you need to beat the game.

Doing this unlocks the first quiz in the 'An elegant day in Paris' mode,
which can be found at the church. At the church Father Reynard asks you
questions about the game and you have to answer ten in a row. What makes
this difficult is that (a) the questions orders are random, (b) the
answers orders are random, (c) there are about thirty answers to pull
from, and (d) you have limited amount of time to answer them.

After beating the church quiz the next two are at the Bleumer Mansion
entrance and the police station respectively.

My suggestions to unlock this is for you to clear about 30-45 minutes for
each quiz out of your schedule and just sit there answering the questions
until you memorize the answers. But be aware (although I think this is
only in the last quiz) that two or more questions might have the same
list of answers but the correct answer is different.

One thing to keep note of is that if the question has a movie in it you
can press start to skip the movie so it doesn't waste a whole lot of your
time.

You can find Koubu Knuckle at the Chattes Noirs entrance where Gran Mere
will talk to you.


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- General Koubu Knuckle Game Info
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The default high score in Koubu Knuckle is 130000 if you beat this you
get the picture!!!

The menu (as with all other mini-games) is like so.

When you first enter the game:
Start the Game
Practice mode
Quit

After finishing a game (either dying or beating the game):
Start a new game
Quit
Score erase

If you pause the game it has a different menu than the other mini games
so be careful:
Resume
Quit
Retry

Be aware that when you first enter the game in the top right corner
(below where is says Koubu Knuckle) displays instructions of how to play
the game and only after you finish by either losing or beating the game
it will display your scores, so just keep in mind that your scores have
not been erased!

Finally you can only use Ogami's Koubu and you can only play one player :
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- Controls
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A - Attack (up to five can be combined just as in the normal game)
B - Jump
X - Use an assist item
Y -  Not in use
Analog Stick - Move
D-pad - Not in use
L and R triggers - Not in use

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5 - Starting a New Game
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When you start a new game you get the option of choosing which Koubu you
would like to use the Koubu F or the Koubu F2. Here are details of each.

Koubu F

Power * * *
Speed * * * * *

You may ask yourself why you would need speed in a game that has
absolutely miniscule levels, the enemies come to you AND are pretty easy
to get away from even if you were a blind tortoise with no legs that had
just been eaten. And the truth is you don't, and while playing the game
with the Koubu F you will notice absolutely no difference in speed then
if you were playing with your F2. But something that you will notice is
how much less damage you do compared to the amount done with an F2.

So why would you use a Koubu F? Well believe it or not it has its
advantages.

(1) You have to attack the enemies more so you can get more points
(although this is not always true -see below-)
(2) You are lighter so if you jump onto an enemy while they are doing an
upswing you get knocked high into the air. This is most noticeable
against the final boss where you can get knocked so high that you can see
the sky outside and that for some reason the building has no roof : P
(3) For some strange unknown reason, the Koubu F can absolutely murder
the final boss and does something around 3 times more damage to it than
the F2 (doing jump-kicks though)

Koubu F2

Power * * * * *
Speed * * *

The Koubu F2, what are its advantages?  Well:

(1) You do a significant amount more than the Koubu F
(2) You look much cooler than the Koubu F. You have jet packs!!! (but you
don't get to use them) What does the Koubu F have??? Absolutely nothing.
(3) Your attacks look much more neater.

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6 - Assists
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There are five different assists in the game,  one for each girl. All of
the assists are the same shape (but I have absolutely no idea what shape
that would be...) but they are different colours depending on the character
of whom the assist belongs to. These are not to be confused with the
diamonds which are a dark purple and are a different shape (but you may
still get confused I guess...). These are the different assists.

Coquelicot: This assist is orange and it stops time!!!! But don't get to
excited because the enemies are immune to time stop so basically what it
does is tints the screen blue and stops the timer. This is only in effect
while the music is changed and the screen is blue.

Glycine: This assist is blue and it adds +2 to your defense. This is only
in effect while the music is changed.

Lobelia: This assist is green and adds +2 to your attack. This only stays
in effect while the music is changed.

Hanabi: This assist is purple and doubles your points. This only stays in
effect while the music is changed.

Erica: This assist is pink and fully heals your character.

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7 - Items
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7(a) - Food Items:

These are your health items, and can help you significantly,  although
you can beat the game quite easily without ever picking up any.

(Just on a side note if you have full health and you collect one of these
items you get points which are listed after the description of the item.)

Chocolate Bar: The worst of the health items. It restores around 25% of
your health bar. Picking this up with full health will net you 2000
points.

Apple: This restores over half of your health which I think is pretty
significant for an apple, but then again it's a pretty big apple. With
full health it gives you 3000 points.

Meat: I am pretty sure this gives you full health by picking it up. With
full health it gives you a whopping 10000 points!!!!!!


7(b) - General Items:

The only thing these are good for are points, so don't get too excited.

Necklace: 1500 points - See you would figure a necklace to be valuable
but this nets you less than a chocolate bar...

Hammer: 500 points - This is the least valuable of all items in the game.

Hat: 2000 points - This is the hat that Coquelicot wears during her
circus acts.

Cat: 3000 points - This is the cat that Coquelicot draws on her Koubu in
episode 3, and the cats she shoots at the enemies with her special move.

Diamond (Amethyst): 1000 points - its purple!

Teddy Bear: 2500 points - I think it is Iris's teddy bear but then again
what do I know?!?!?

Bomb: This gives you no points and takes off half your life if you are
hit by it.

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8 - End of level points
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After each level you get a bunch of points and here I am going to explain
what they are for.

Life - How much life you have remaining

Assist - The only tricky one. You get 1000 points for every assist that
you have at the end of the level that you didn't use

Destroy - For everything that you destroy

Time - For having lots of time remaining

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9 - Enemies
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Blanche: These are the most common and least difficult enemies. They are
also the only ones that don't have any weapons. They are a silver-ish
colour with red stripes, which is a bit strange because blanche means
white in French.

Gris: These are the second most common enemies, and I think they actually
have less or at least the same amount of health as the Blanche pawns. The
difference is that these carry a sword, have longer range AND do lots
more damage. They are a grey colour with purple stripes.

Orange: These only show up after the bonus stage. They carry a double-
sided lance and can dish out a bunch of damage while also having quite
long range. They have a huge supply of health although jumping on their
heads tends to drain it quickly. They are the only enemy named after
their stripes colour, which is obviously Orange and their body colour is
black.

Leon: The final boss and also a big irritation. He has extremely strong
attacks that you should definitely avoid wherever possible. He uses his
same steam beast as in the normal game the 'Marche'. It is a lion model
that attacks with fire punches. The Steam Beast also has some pretty big
gun turrets (seriously) in the most surprising (or least surprising
depending on how you look at it) of places. (The gun turrets and the
final boss model are probably the two things that won't make it to the US
version.)

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10 - Strategies
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10(a) - General strategies:

Normally try to use combos of three against enemies because you can
easily link them together and keep the enemies stunned. Against the
ORANGE pawns (that's their name, they are the ones with the double sided
lance) you may want to use your five linked combo because the final
attack does a significant amount of damage.

If there is one enemy isolated and against a wall (even better if they
are in a corner) try jumping on their head and continue jumping on their
head, because you can do a ton of damage quite easily. BUT don't bother
jumping on a group of enemies heads because usually they can hit you
still and can leave you very vulnerable.

For the most points get links of around 20 or 30 and then do the combo of
5 because it gives you around 5000-10000 points.

And finally travel by jumping (or jump kicking if the mood suits you)
because you go faster.


10(b) - Bonus level strategies:

The blue and black cars (top and bottom row respectively) can be easily
destroyed by normal attacks, while the white cars take a lot punishment
before they explode. But the white and black cars (middle and bottom row
respectively) can be destroyed easily by jumping on them but the blue
cars can take a lot of it.

For the utmost points walk in a straight line to the right and
continuously use combos of 3 attacks until you get around 20 or 30 points
and then do one combo of 5 attacks. If you continue to do this until the
time is up you can rack in 30000 or more points.

I have yet to be able to destroy all cars but I can get it down to three
cars left. It is very possible to do though if you are able to jump from
one car to the other without hitting the ground. I don't know if you get
more points for destroying all the cars than you would if you just used
the above suggestions. But if I find out I will update the guide. Feel
free to e-mail me if you find out before me.


10(c) - Final boss strategies:

Use jump kicks against him, if you are using a Koubu F you should finish
him off in no time. If you are using a Koubu F2 you tend to be able to
get right on top of him and bounce on his head. This is the ideal
position for you to be in and I recommend you utilize it to the fullest
if you are ever in such a position.

What I would definitely advise against is trying to kill the pawns before
you fight the boss because you end up wasting a ton of time trying to do
it.

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11 - Super secret attack (because I haven't seen anybody post it anywhere
else)
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To do this attack press the jump and attack buttons at the same time and
Ogami will do a whirlwind type of attack. But be aware that this does sap
away a fair amount of life.

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12 - High scores
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This is my high score which I think is very beatable so if you get a
better one e-mail me and I will post it up next time I update.

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~202330~
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13 - Special Thanks
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I would like to thank:

Kayama (for making the translation guides to help me through the game,
and so I could copy a few names so I made sure I got the spelling right)

Gundam dubya (for giving me some of the quiz locations)

THE_GuyLS (for checking it over)

Major Gamer (for also checking it over)

And finally if you have any questions about Koubu Knuckle feel free to e-
mail me at [email protected].

Copyright Falcon Flame 2002

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