Okay, a key strat is knowing when to save your magic and when to use it.

The developers learned a thing or two from Ninja Gaiden and designed stages around enemies knocking you into pits. That is something that never gets old, haha.

Keep in mind too that at the end of basically every level (though not all of them) there is a chest with a blue bottle in it which will restore your health to full. So sometimes you want to save mana and sacrifice health, lest you be stuck on a hard boss with no mana and the spear, which sucks ass as a weapon. Two blasts w/ Fire will do in most bosses though.
 

I see 4-1 as being the sticking point for a lot of people. Don't be shy about using magic to deal with the annoying enemies here.

I've tossed together a little chart from my notes to give a general idea of how low it's possible to go with this.

It's rather rudimentary, but it's helpful to me. The Projectiles row is to denote whether a boss has projectiles which can be destroyed for points. These range from 100 points, to 1000, and even 5000 each on the last boss (who funnily enough himself awards a whopping *zero* points).

As you can see there's still room for improvement on my current lowest score. That said, it'll get tougher and tougher as you get lower and lower (obviously), as much of it will come down to killing bosses more quickly to lessen the amount of points earned from destroying projectiles.

Ideally you get to every boss with as much mana as possible and just blast them away. This is easiest to do on the levels with only a mini boss (the chart may help some of you to plan in this regard).

I've liked this game since I was a kid, so really tearing it apart has been quite enjoyable.

 

Level	Boss Type	Points	Projectiles?
1,1	Mini	10000	Y
1,1	Main	50000	N
2,1	Mini	10000	N
2,2	Mini	10000	Y
2,2	Main	60000	Y
3,1	Mini	15000	Y
3,2	Mini	10000	Y
3,2	Main	45000	Y
4,1	Mini	10000	Y
4,2	Mini	30000	N
4,2	Main	70000	Y
5,1	Mini	20000	N
5,2	Mini	20000	Y
6,1	Mini	40000	N
6,1	Main	0	Y
7,1	Mini	20000	Y
7,1	Mini	20000	N
7,1	Mini	20000	Y
7,1	Mini	20000	Y
7,1	Mini	20000	N
7,1	Mini	50000	N
7,1	Main	0	Y
Total		550000

This game is not too difficult when you're already used to Ninja Gaiden type games and you've seen it all before. I'm at 5-2 right now.

4-1 is probably the hardest level.

EDIT: 5-2 was easy as hell. Now at 6-1. Getting close to the end. Yay.
 

Game Completed - 589,500


 

Hopefully this is ok. I totally forgot that my phone was in the other room, so I wasn't able to get a photo while playing. That said, I DID record the whole run, and it's uploading to Youtube now. So I hope that'll be proof enough? I took a photo of me playing back the recording for reference...

I'll post the video once it's done uploading. I'm pretty confident that there is very little room for improvement, and I think once you watch the video you'll see why. I can probably shave another 10k off, maybe, if I am smarter with a couple of Bind casts to get a skeleton or two off-screen rather than having to kill them, and a little extra luck with projectiles.

A chunk of the extra score is from me forgetting that there is no main boss on 5-2, so I didn't cast any spells on the mini boss, and had a bunch of health and mana left over. That added like 2-3k to my score, which could have been easily avoided.

Progress: Clear
Score: 589,500 (+100 from that one heart)

Here's the video of my latest run. Note: I had to pee so I paused at the start of 3-2. >_>

Okay, this game is pretty easy. I just wanted to 1CC it this week, and I did. I came close to a no death. I think I only died once.
 

You can pause right after killing the final boss in order to get the camera ready. I recommend doing that.

No no no buddy, you can't pause the game to pee, you need to hold it till the end of your run, disqualified (kidding).

Seriously, someone should do an indie remake/update of this called Nasty Ax. That would be awesome.

There is no round 1-2. It goes from 1-1 to 2-1.  

Glovsie! Your so nastyyyyy nax!!!

Get to work BOIIIIII.
 

I never used bind, only the fire magic, and it was almost a no death run. I didn't even think to switch to another magic. I'm still proud of that. I know that the game is easier if you abuse bind.

I’m playing shooting king for the ps1 right now lol
 

Ok I just fired up Nax Nasty

If you watched my video you have a template to work off! ;P

Remember that a skeleton kill is like 5k points I think on later levels at least (color dependent), so that one skeleton I killed instead of knocking off a ledge really bumped my score. It's those few little things I did that don't seem like a big deal but really are. Some are ridiculous - the fire that the Black Dragon (last boss) spits out are 5k each! Imagine how much points you probably earned right there just trying to stay alive!
 

Oh man I didn't think about the spit fire. I already destroy a shitload of those seeds that plant thing boss spits out.

Skinny doesn't watch other people's walkthroughs!!! I didn't even know they exist. on the planet earth each will choose his own! Pick up thy weapon Nax Nasty and Fight! Cutie needs you to be Nasttyyyyyyyyy NNnnaaaaaa...aa..x.x..x...

Just checking in.

Nax nasty!

Check in with a better score, SUCKA!
 

I’d stay logged out if I had an avatar like yours. Fancy compruter technology recordings of gameplay?! You just wait fancy city boy! The grinder has a place of solitude. FOCUS! Precision! Skill! FOCUS! 
 

Just kidding btw I like your avatar glovsie

Thanks I made it myself! ;P

Recording my sessions makes me focus up my dude! It's like the world is watching, so I do my best!