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  1. Narrative Structure

  2. Analysis of each level

  3. Gameplay

  4. Controls

Narrative Structure

1.1. Characters

1.2. Special Characters

1.3. Game's Plotline

Characters

Sengoku Blade contains a roster of colorful and attractive characters. This time things are a bit different because instead of the cast of characters flying with the help of ships, in Sengoku Blade they fly about the screen all by themselves. From Sengoku Ace, we can enjoy again with characters like Koyori, Tengai and Ayin and meet new ones like Sho, Junis and Katana. Each one of these characters has its own storyline with different endings.

Character Name Description
Miko Koyori/ Miko She is 17 years old voluptuous kunoichi shrine girl. She is accompanied by her spirit called Basaro that helps her a lot during the combats.
Shoumaru / Sho a young ninja who is in love with the hijacked princess Futsuhime and wants revenge for the death of his family esppecially his mom. He throws some kind of daggers or blades and during all game we can observe that his father is the main villian fo the game.
Tengai is a 50 years old Buddhist warrior-sacerdotist who travels around the world with the main mission to find and destroy the evil to predominate the peace over the world
Junis she is a cool 12 year old ninja girl with a pet lemur called Socrates that throws shurikens; she has an older sister called Jane, who disappeared in the previous Tengai game but she believes that she is still alive.
Hagane / Katana She is a samurai robot attempting recover its human body. To recover its body it has to defeat the evil forces and she has a laser spears machine gun to fight against enemies. Katana is really a swordswoman called Hagane and during some of her endings, she reveals her first name: Kirie.
Ayin / Kain He is an archer samurai who appears as a secret character in Sengoku Blade. His main mission is looking and find where is his sister Asuka. To unlock and play with this Ayin character we need to move the cursor to the random selection box an input this code: UP x3, DOWN x3 and UP x7.

Special Characters

At this time, Sengoku Blade contains several characters which come from another Psyko game like Gunbird. This characters are Marion and Ash.

Character Name Description
Marion a 13 years old witch from England. She flies on a boomstick and is always together with his magic bunny who talks a lot with her called Pomme-Pomme, that frequently suffers mistreats and abuses verbally and physically. Marion is an important character from Gunbird but appears as a playable character in Sengoku blade. To unlock Marion you have to beat the game with all the characters (including Ayin) in a one-player mode without switching characters on any difficulty level during each game. After that, go to the far right Random Select symbol and press Up. Marion will appear as a playable character (only in Sega Saturn version of the game).
Ash a 28 year old German inventor. He flies thanks to a Jetpack. He is an important character from Gunbird but has another appearances to Tengai. He appears in all the team endings with Marion (only in Sega Saturn version of the game). Therefore, he is not a playable character and, as we can see in his appearances, he has an insane interest for Marion because he is attracted to young girls.
Feudal King He is the king of the Esast Lands, who request a rescue offering a great reward to recover his hijacked daughter
Princess Futsuhime She is the princess of the East Lands who was hijacked by the Villian, so she become the main plotline of the game

Game's plotline

As it mentioned above, Every character of the game has his own plotline and there are two ending for each one. The cooperative mode of the game has several alternative plotlines according to combination of two characters. In the final stage, the user will have to decide which way he faces and gets his respective ending.

The main plotline where all the characters match is the rescue of the princess Kuzuhime they accept from the request of the feudal king. Before being hijacked, the princess Kuzuhime sends a message to Eastern Lands to prevent the villian's plan to destroy the world at the beginning of next dawn.

In the most individual and cooperative mode endings we can observe the different reasons of each character which they accept to save the princess.

  • Miko wants the reward offered by the king
  • Sho wants to take revenge on his mother and kill his father (the villiant). He also wants to save Kuzu because he falls in love with her.
  • Tengai has a the moral mission to travel around the world to find and kill evil. He just wants to save the world and predominate peace forever.
  • Junis' personal mission is to find her lost sister calls Jane, who still alive
  • Katana's wants to break free her stolen body by the Villian
  • Ayin wants to find her lost sister calls Asuka.

There are two types of routes that the user can choose once he reachs the final stage. In first hand, there is the "Break Through The Front Gate" route, which user picks if he follows in a straight line and he will fight to main boss. In second hand, there is the "The Secret Passage At The Bottom" route, which user picks if he entered into the secret path and he will be redirected into an alternative ending which ends in a completely different way than the main one.

Diagram of the plotline. Also Marion has her own ending

Single Player Mode

Cooperative Mode

Miko's endings

  • Ending 1

In this route Miko has to defeat the last boss of this path that will lead you to the ending scene in which the princess dies and Miko makes Basaro pretend to be her. After this Miko escapes.

  • Ending 2

In the second ending with Miko you will defeat the monster being an alternative final boss and in the scene after you defeat him she will decide a gift for saving princess Futsu. The result of this decision ends with Miko choosing princess Futsu as her gift and Futsu accepting.

Tengai's endings

  • Ending 1

If you choose Break Through The Front Gate Route, Tengai would think that he had saved the country, but at the end an explosion will destroy the entire region.

  • Ending 2

If you choose to go through The Secret Passage At The Bottom route, Tengai will save the country.

Junis' endings

  • Ending 1

If you choose to go through The Front Gate route, the King will think that Junis is dead, but that's not tru, Junis is getting away from the palace to blow it up.

  • Ending 2

If you choose to enter The Secret Passage At The Bottom in the final stage with Junis, the result of this alternative path is that Jane saves Junis and loses the opportunity to tell her that she is her sister.

Katana's endings

  • Ending 1

With Katana following the main route, after defeating the boss, she will proclaim her real body, but she will be told it was lost a long time ago, leaving an open final not knowing if Katana is dead after the castle explosion or if she is alive.

  • Ending 2

If you take the alternative route Katana will find her real body and she will be once again Hagane.

Sho's endings

  • Ending 1

In the Break Through The Front Gate route Sho will find out that his father was possessed by an evil spirit. After this the castle crash against the ground and leaves an open ending not knowing if Sho and his father are alive or not.

  • Ending 2

If you choose to go through The Secret Passage At The Bottom Sho will get his revenge in this ending by killing his father and letting his mother rest in peace.

Ayin's Endings

  • Ending 1

In the main route Ayin will be searching for his sister like in the first edition of the saga, and yet again he will find out that she was home safe, his sister will punish him burning him in the stake.

  • Ending 2

If you enter The Secret Passage at the Bottom, the ending will be slightly different but the main plot for Ayin is to find her sister not knowing she is back home, in this ending he will go to outer space trying to fins her and his journey will never end.

Marion's Endings

  • Ending 1

In this ending with the secret character Marion, after defeat the Villian, the king offers her any reward she wants. She asks for being the main character in Gunbird 2. After the plug she discovers she has been in a dream recreating the story of Sengoku Blade II. She only has one main ending.

Bad endings

Upon losing, all characters will have the same bad ending where the world will have to face the cruelty of the beast and all the creatures will be burnt.

Team endings

Depending on the combination of the characters you choose in the teamplay mode there will be different endings.

Miko & Ayin

In the cooperative ending with Miko and Ayin, Miko will cheat on Ayin and send him to space to obtain alone the reward. But when she personates Ayin she will find out a maiden has already taken al the reward. And while Ayin is in outer space whining about himself being a complete fool.

Miko & Katana

In the ending with Miko and Katana, as a winning gift Katana gives Miko the armor but Miko does not want it, while complaining she wakes up from the "nightmare" she was having noticing that it was all a dream.

Miko & Tengai

The princess is dead and Tengai suggest to Miko that she disguise herself as the princess. Miko does it and Tengai continues with his journey to save the world while Miko is in the castle.

Katana & Ayin

Katana gets her body back and discusses with Ayin what she¡s going to do to get back on it. She tells him to meet her in six days and if she becomes human again she wil be there. They meet six days later and they begin a journey together.

Katana & Junis

The story behind this team play ending is that Hagane (Katana) becomes human again and proclaims the kiss Junis promised, beginning a new journey both women being "together".

Katana & Sho

In this ending Katana gets back her body. Sho is surprised by the fact Katana is a woman. As the evil lord is his father, he have lost his family and evrything. Katana asks him to be part of his family, but Sho's asks her to be his mother.

Tengai & Katana

In Tengai & Katana Ending, Tengai transfers Katana's soul into her body and he discovers that Katana is a woman. He dresses Katana with a schoolgirl uniform.

Tengai & Sho

Sho is sad because of his father's death. Tengai tries to cheer him up by taking Sho in a journey where they will defeat evil spirits.

Tengai & Junis

Tengai advises Junis to quit being a ninja and to have an ordinary life. After this, he dresses her as a schoolgirl.

Junis & Ayin

Junis asks Ayin how he can fly without a magical crystal device. He says that he actually got one from a witch.

Junis & Miko

Junis and Miko will begin a story together when they finish saving the hostages and finding out that Junis's sister wasn't one of them. They will begin an "interesting" new story together.

Sho & Miko

Miko and Sho will end the story and Miko will decide that both of the, are about to start a journey to gain knowledge together.

Sho & Junis

Junis will try to comfort Sho telling him she can be his mother if he wants it, and Sho doesn't hesitate a second and tells her to take a bath with him as she is his new mom.

Ayin & Sho

Sho's master Ayin will die in his arms, but his memory will alwyas rest in Sho's heart.

Ayin & Tengai

They both together will begin a new journey with 20,000 brave soldiers and conquer the 7 continents, but that's another story...

Marion & Miko

The first image we see is Miko dressing-down Marion, after this Ash appears and Miko falls in love with him asking him to marry her, Ash refuses because Miko has big boobs and he only likes little girls with little boobs.

Marion & Tengai

We observe Tengai blaming Marion because of her actions, suddenly Ash appears from out of nowhere stoping Tengai and telling him not to seak in that rude way to his beloved Marion, beating him and escaping with Marion back to "their own game".

Marion & Katana

Marion and Katana's ending is the same as Tengai and Sho's, it ends up with Ash coming to rescue Marion, beating Katana up and taking her home with him.

Marion & Sho

With Sho the type of ending is similar to Tengai's because Ash appears and tries to "rescue" Marion from him and ends up beating him and returning home with her.

Marion & Junis

This ending is different because when Ash comes to rescue Marion he falls in love with Junis because he observes that she is "better" than his beloved Marion, ending up with Ash taking Junis with him.

Analysis of each level

Enemies:

2.1.1. Temple's Stage

2.1.2. Water's Stage

2.1.3. Forest's Stage

2.1.4. Air's Stage

2.1.5. Feudal Town

2.1.6. Castle's Stage

2.1.7. "Break Through The Front Gate" Route

2.1.8. "The Secret Passage At The Bottom" Route

2.1.9. Mid-Bosses

2.1.10. Second Loop

Temple's Stage

Image Name Description Score Type Item
Green ship easy enemy to kill with one shot. 100 no hit none
Red ship easy enemy to kill with one shot 400 no hit power-up
Demon wheel weak enemy who shoots one small bullet at the player 200 hit none
Demon peg-top fast enemy who has very resistance and shots one small bullet 2.500 hit coin
Pagoda a a turret that shoots a small bullet 6.500 hit coin
Demon cannontank strong tank enemy that shoots one missile 14.600 hit power-ups/bomb
Wolf's float a float who shoots a three bullets burst when wolf opens his mouth and small bullets following one pattern 10.000 hit power-up
BOSS: DEVIL'S FACE a kind of big wheel that shots small bullets in two different patterns and fire wheels 30.000 hit powe-up/bomb

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Water's Stage

Image Name Description Score Type Item
Red ship easy enemy to kill with one shot. 400 no hit power-up
Green ship easy enemy to kill with one shot. 100 no hit none
Green rooster ship a weak enemy who dies with one hit 200 no hit none
Samurai cannonmen tank robot who shots a two bullets burst with slow speed at the player. 8.000 hit bomb
Oriental genie A tough flying man that shoots a lot of small bullets at the player. 1.400 hit coin
Robot Fish small and weak robot who quickly moves forward and attack the player 200 melee none
BOSS: TURTLETANK strong machine that shots several missiles and small bullets thrown diagonally 30.000 hit power-ups/bomb

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Forest's Stage

Image Name Description Score Type Item
Green ship easy enemy to kill with one shot 100 hit none
Velociraptor robot enemy that jumps with single small shot 400 hit none
Ninja Weak enemy that fires shurikens 500 hit none
Big Pagoda Normal bullet wave shot, high health 10.000 hit bomb
Red seed Low health with small shot burst 100 hit none
Worm single small shot 4.000 hit none
Earthworm tank High health, big bullet waves, medium bullet shot, small bullet shot 20.000 hit power-up
BOSS: QUEEN BEE High health, small, medium and big bullet shot, dron spawn 30.000 hit power-up/bomb

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Air's Stage

Image Name Description Score Type Item
Double dagger drone Low health, single small shot 200 hit none
Bee drone Low health, single bullet shot 400 hit none
Samurai archer Medium bullet shot 1.000 hit none
Death's ship Big bullet shot, high health, has turrets that shot small, medium and small bullets 40.000 hit power-up
Balloon Medium health, small bullet shot 1.500 no hit none
Crystal Gunner Small and medium bullet shot 2.000 hit bomb
BOSS: FLYING LIONBOT High health, small and medium bullet wave shot 20.000 hit power-up/bomb

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Feudal Town Stage

Image Name Description Score Type Item
Green ship easy enemy to kill with one shot 100 hit none
Red ship easy enemy to kill with one shot 400 hit power-up
Samurai hornmen Medium shot, high health 16.500 hit bomb
double dagger drone Low health, single small shot 200 hit none
Samurai cannonmen Slow, high health, 2 bullet burst shot 8.000 hit bomb
Priest small shot 800 hit none
Mid-boss: dagger sharpener shuriken shot in all directions, shuriken shot waves 4.000 hit powe-up
Mid-boss: Red space High health, spawn red drones, small bullet wave 4.000 hit power-up
Mi-boss: straw hat throws hat, high health, shuriken burst, shuriken wave 4.000 hit power-up
BOSS: DEVIL'S MANE Small, medium, big bullets, Punch 20.000 hit power-up
BOSS: DEVIL'S MANE 2nd phase Medium bullets, spawns towers that shot small bullets 20.000 hit power-up

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Castle's Stage

Image Name Description Score Type Item
Double dagger drone Low health, single small shot 200 no hit none
Green ship easy enemy to kill with one shot 100 no hit none
Red ship easy enemy to kill with one shot 400 no hit power-up
Demon peg-top fast enemy who has very resistance and shots one small bullet 2.500 hit coin
Samurai hornmen Medium shot, high health 16.500 hit bomb
Samurai cannonmen Slow, high health, 2 bullet burst shot 8.000 hit bomb
Lantern fast and weak enemy that shots slow bullets sometimes 200 hit none
hand bot High health, charge at hte player and shots a burst of 4 bullets quickly in each nail 10.000 hit and melee coins
BOSS: GUARDIAN SCULPTURE Hight health, if he link its hands he throw a lot of bullets in spiral shape 25.000 hit power-ups/bomb
BOSS: GUARDIAN SCULPTURE phase 2 Hight health, he shots waving of spherical bullets over her mouth and waist 20.000 hit power-ups/bomb

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Break Through The Front Gate Route

  • Mecha's stage
Image Name Description Score Type Item
Grenn ship weak enemy that shoots small bullets 100 hit none
Red ship weak enemy that shoots small bullets 400 hit power-up
Green katana weak green samurai that shoots small bullets and dies with two hits 2.000 hit none
Bull a kind of mechanical bull that shoots small bullets slowly 4.000 hit coins
Samurai hornmen medium health, he shoots a burst of three fast and big balls 16.500 hit bomb
BOSS: GIANT SAMURAI BOT strong samurai robot that uses different patterns to shot in all directions fast fullets and skulls that end up in a burst of two bullets. 8.000 hit power-ups
BOSS: GIANT SAMURAI BOT phase 2 Helmet remaining to kill. Hight health aand shots more difficult patterns of fast and spherical bullets. 10.000 hit power-ups

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  • Inside Castle Stage (FINAL STAGE)
Image Name Description Score Type Item
Green ship weak enemy that shoots small bullets 100 hit none
Red ship weak enemy that shoots small bullets 400 hit power-up
Skull Priest medium health, shoots small bullets 3.000 hit none
Blue Samurai archer medium health that shoots a quickly burst of three bullets 4.000 hit none
Guardian Ninja fast enemy that shots a lot of shurikens, difficult to kill because his speed 5.000 hit power-up
Orange ship weak enemy that moves forward at the player and shoots small bullets 1.000 hit none
FINAL BOSS: MECHANICAL DEMON SKULL Hight healht. He has a lot of bullet patterns that moves in all directions wih different size of bullet 10.000 hit power-up/bomb
FINAL BOSS: MECHANICAL DEMON SKULL 2nd phase In this phase he follows shoting different burst of bullets and throw slowly bombs 30.000 hit power-up/bomb

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The Secret Passage At The Bottom Route

  • Dungeon's stage
Image Name Description Score Type Item
Samurai archer Medium bullet shot 1.000 hit none
Green ship weak enemy that shoots small bullets 100 hit none
Red ship weak enemy that shoots small bullets 400 hit power-up
Green katana weak green samurai that shots small bullets and dies with two hits 2.000 hit none
Lantern fast and weak enemy that shots slow bullets sometimes 200 hit none
Demon peg-top Fast movement, high health, single small bullet 2.500 hit coin
Pagoda strong turret that shots small bullets when he open his green compartment 6.000 hit none
Blue demon Medium health enemy that he takes four steps back and spits in spherical shape at all directions small bullets 5.000 hit bomb / coins
Double dagger drone Low health, single small shot 200 hit none
BOSS: FEUDAL BUDDHIST SCULTURE Hight health enemy boss that has several patterns of bullet behaviour and throw sharp tree trunks 20.000 hit power-ups/bomb
BOSS: FEUDAL BUDDHIST SCULTURE 2nd phase a kind of alien who has a horn where he executes diferent shots of small and fast bullets 8.000 hit power-up/bomb

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  • Sanctuary Stage (FINAL STAGE)
Image Name Description Score Type Item
Samurai hornmen Medium shot, high health 8.000 hit bomb
Green ship weak enemy that shots small bullets 100 hit none
Red ship weak enemy that shots small bullets 400 hit power-up
Samurai archer Medium bullet shot 1.000 hit bomb
double dagger drone Low health, single small shot 200 hit none
Orange ship weak enemy that moves forward at the player and shots small bullets 1.000 hit none
Skull priest a priest above electrical structure that throws small bullets when the bottom area is electrocuted 3.000 hit none
FINAL BOSS: ALIEN PARASITE High health, small, medium and big bullet waves 10.000 hit power-up/bomb
FINAL BOSS: ALIEN PARASITE and phase (dinosaur) This paraside converts to a monster who splits a lot of bullets burst and has hight health. 30.000 hit power-up/bomb

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Mid-bosses (Random enemy)

Each one of this enemies appears randomly in each one of first three stages. In these first levels, they are a bit weak with the score gaining of 2.000 points each one of them. When the player arrives in Feudal Town level, this enemies reappear but togheter in the same level this same and stronger than the last time player faced them. That explain why in Feudal Town level the player gain 4.000 points from each other.

Image Name Description Score Type Item
Knife sharpener Enemy that shoots shuriken shoots in all directions with shuriken shot wave patterns 2.000 hit power-up
Red Space High health enemy that spawns red drones and throws small bullet waves 2.000 hit power-up
Straw hat Enemy that throws his hat with high health. Also fires a shuriken waves burst 2.000 hit power-up

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Second Loop (1-7)

In Second loop there are some enemies that not only change their difficulty like the others. That enemies also change their aspects in color but appears exactly in same stages

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Items:

Item Name Description Bonus
Power up the standard shot of the character takes an upgrade that improve it and gives it more damage burst. If the player has taken all the power ups (four times max), he/she will receive 4000 score points. Upgrade shot/ 4000
Bomb It adds a bomb attack on player if he takes this power up. Every time player respawns he starts with two bomb attacks Bomb attack
Coin If player take the coin it increases his score 200/500/1000/2000 points

Difficulty

In Sengoku Blade's Sega Saturn version, there is an option to choose a difficulty between 1 and 7. If user completed all stages at first loop, when he jumps to sencond loop, each one of enemies player faced to before increase their difficult to kill them and their bullets patterns will be more dynamic and difficult to avoid them.

Gameplay

Tengai Sengoku Blade is an arcade horizontal scrolling shoot 'em up with a much more complex gameplay system than his predecessor (Sengoku Ace) including impressive parallax scrolling effects and detailed and well-animated characters and backgrounds, in which there are five playable characters with different type of shots each of one fly around on the screen by themselves. The mainly objective is getting through the stage killing as many enemies inside as possible and gainning as many points as possible in each stage to obtain the best possible score. There are three types of shots: the standard shot, powerful shot if user holding down the standard shot button and the bomb button. Scattered items by the stages include a power-up to increase standard shot power level in number of shots and that can be upgraded up to four times, bombs, and bonus coins to increase score. If the player touches an enemy ship, he will drop one power-up shot item and will lose a life if he get a hit by an enemy bullet until lose all lifes and insert coins to play again in the same place player dies.

Miko

She still throws ofuda at her enemies, but this time she has with her a strangespirit creature to shot homing bubbles at her enemies. When her shot is charged, the spirit will release a small projectile slowly with where it depends on the potency. Her bomb attack creates a huge sphere of electricity with symbols appears inside it.

Miko's standard attack

Miko's bomb attack

Tengai

He shots a Shinto beads at his enemies and he has the support of a hawk as his familiar. When hawk is charged, it becomes a phoenix and goes forward to attack at the enemies. His extremely effective bomb attack sends huge and shining kanji streaming forward for a few seconds.

Tengai's standard attack

Tengai's bomb attack

Katana

Katana fires very small and ineffective lasers but he has the support of his magical spear as his familiar that multiplies with his power level and launch an important amount of spears. When spear is charged, they can be thrown forward with a very short range, but an incredible amount of damage. His bomb is a screen-filling lightning.

Katana's standard attack

Katana's bomb attack

Sho

Sho rapidly throws blades that goes forward and he is supported by his familiar who's a pair of magic mirrors with the image of his beloved in them. When the mirrors are charged, they will stay in place wherever the button was released and fire beams forward continually for a few seconds. For his bomb attack, he sends a massive swarm of giant swords at his enemies.

Sho's standard attack

Sho's bomb attack

Junis

Junis throws kunais and shurikens in a different three-way. Her charge attack calls her familiar lemur called Socrates, who breathes flames directly forward. Her bomb attack is a cinematic cherry blossom storm.

Junis' standard attack

Junis' bomb attack

Ayin

The weapons he uses is a bow and infinite arrows. Although his main weapons are his arrows, his familiar is a floating sword that fires energy waves. His special attack shoots out an extended projection across the screen.

Ayin's standard attack

Ayin's bomb attack

Marion

The standard attack of Marion is a lighting blue laser with a short range but with the support of his familiar Pomme-Pomme, when she gets a power-up her standard shorts become more powerful. If Marion uses her charged attack, she fires her bunny Pomme-Pomme to enemies. When Marion uses her bom's attack, she throws a several lighting shooting arcs that moves into different directions.

Marion's standard attack

Marion's bomb attack

Controls

The controls of the game are very simple and intuitive which get familiar quickly with the user. At first, on left of arcade machine table, you got a stick to move the player in any direction. In its right side, there are two buttons. A button called "fire" for executing the normal shots when being pressed once and executing a charged shot when being held and released. also there is a "bomb" button for basicly throwing bombs. There is a third button but it doesn't work. At Second, we can see that this game can be played for two players, so that there are on the right side of arcade machine table the controls for the second player exactly the same as player one's controls. At last, there are obviusly a "start" button to start the game and a "coin" button to play again the game after having paid.