Flying Warriors (1991). Play online

Summary

Flying Warriors blends side‑scroll action and tournament fighting on the NES. You dash through stages tossing fireballs and kicks at odd monsters while the background scrolls.
When you reach one‑on‑one duels, the game shifts to a timing‑based “mark” system that forces you to strike a glowing spot on your opponent or guard when it appears on you—directly echoing Culture Brain’s earlier Flying Dragon.
Occasionally the combat becomes RPG‑style command battles, letting you choose attacks, defenses and special techniques against bigger boss monsters.
The key twist is the ability to switch into a Flying Warrior form, giving access to magic attacks and defenses against the mystical Tusk Soldiers and other supernatural foes.

Storyline

In the NES game Flying Warriors, the ancient Dark Dimension demon Demonyx once tried to invade the Light Dimension, but the hero Dragonlord sealed him with the Mandara Talisman. Centuries later a red evil star appears and five shooting lights descend, leading Rick Stalker, a kung‑fu disciple of Master Gen Lao‑Tsu, to discover the Orb of Courage.

Guided by the monks of the Shorin temple, Rick earns the Mirror of Mercury, the Sword of Vijaya and learns to become a Flying Warrior. He then enters a Hong‑Kong tournament, defeats a series of Tusk‑soldier opponents, and wins the right to join an investigation team with Mary Lynn and Hayato Go.

The trio flies to Peru, rescues the surviving researcher Greg Cummings, and gathers the broken pieces of the Mandara Talisman—Sword of Kan, Mirror of Venus, and several dragma—while freeing the thief Maradora. With the combined orbs of Courage, Wisdom, Justice and Love they confront the revived demon Narga and later Demonyx in the Dark Dimension, where the five Flying Warriors merge into Dragonlord to reseal the evil.