Ninjutsu: The Art of Flames

Ninjutsu: The Art of Flames
Level code	Ninja-2
World	4F
Game	Princess Peach: Showtime!
Primary power-up	Ninja Peach
Boss	Large boulder creature
Music track	Assassin's Disco (Ninja Peach)
Music sample Normal Interior Bell Section
Level progression ← Previous Darkle Boss: Purrjector Cat Next → The Stolen Statue The Dark Ninja & the Legion of Guards Princess Peach: Showtime! levels

Ninjutsu: The Art of Flames is a level in Princess Peach: Showtime!, located in the lower right on the fourth floor of the Sparkle Theater. This stage is unlocked after clearing all of 3F. It is the second level where the Ninja Peach transformation is used.

Layout

The show starts out with Peach in her Ninja transformation, as two Ninja Theets ask her for help to reclaim an invaded castle, now infested with Mihari Musha carrying lanterns, and with a large contraption attached to the top of the castle. With the main gate locked and guarded, Peach must sneak past the Mihari Musha and enter the castle through a small rooftop further back.

Once inside, Peach enters a loft with naruko bird scarers set up like a security system; walking past these will alarm spear-wielding Mihari Musha in the room directly below the loft. Peach must distract the Mihari Musha with the naruko by sneaking away quickly before they can detect her with their spears, and defeat them from behind. After saving a Ninja Theet from the spear-wielding Mihari Musha, Peach can move on to the next area back outside, where Peach must climb the castle roofs while getting past the lantern-wielding Mihari Musha using rotating walls; she can also make some of them dizzy by using the rotating walls.

Afterwards, Peach makes her way to a roofed area closer to the top, where it is revealed that the contraption is a Dūke-shaped turret, which is currently bombing the area with large cannonballs, with the intent to get rid of Ninja Peach and the Theets that have snuck inside. After getting across the collapsing roofs and floors in an auto-run segment while avoiding cannonballs and Ninja Dūke, Peach makes her way to to a spire on the castle. As he runs inside, she encounters two tired Theets, one of which gives her a secret scroll that turns a nearby cogwheel into a fiery dragon made of multiple cogs. Peach rides the dragon as it flies up to the roof, smashing through any Ninja Dūke and their invasive cogs along the way, as it breaks through the roof and destroys the large turret on top.

Sparkle Gems

Sparkle Gems marked with an asterisk ⁽*⁾ will always be obtained during regular gameplay.

Image	Location
	In the lower left of the first indoor sneaking section.
	After saving the caged Theet that is guarded by two spear-wielding Mihari Musha.*
	In the first "Rotating walls" subsection, trapping the lantern-wielding Mihari Musha inside so that a dresser appears outside, then jumping up to the left roof.
	Spin the set of three rotating walls, so that Peach and the Gem ends up on the outside at the same time.
	After the three rotating walls, the Gem is between two Mihari Musha.
	In the autorunner bomb section, the Gem is on the far right of the first (left) cogwheel.
	Eight Sparkle pieces during the section with bouncing flat floors. Requires a quick-timed jump to get up to the wall-jump where four of the pieces are.

Stella ribbon

Ribboner's location

Ninja Ribbon: Ribboner is found after a very tight jump to the left inside the two-floor rotating door, with a Mihari Musha shining a lantern light on him. He awards the Stella ribbon for Stella.

• Help request: "So bright!"
• Rescue message: "Agh! That light left me seeing spots!"

Postgame hidden Ninja Theets

The stage has three Ninja Theets when it is played in the postgame:

Image	Location
	On the face of the stone hill immediately after the start.
	On the staircase next to the purple-yellow sign, behind the first lantern-wielding Mihari Musha.
	To the immediate left after releasing the caged Theet.

Gallery

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  Pictioneer's photo of the stage

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  The poster next to Ninjutsu: The Art of Flames' entrance door after 4F has been saved

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  Peach obtaining the Sparkla Spirit

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Note(s)	Ref.
Japanese	烈火忍法帖れっかにんぽうちょう Rekka Ninpōchō	Blaze Ninja Technique		[?]
Chinese	烈火忍法帖 Lièhuǒ Rěnfǎ Tiè	Blaze Ninja Technique		[?]
Dutch	Ninjutsu: vlammentraining	Ninjutsu: Flaming Training		[?]
French	Ninjutsu : le parchemin du feu	Ninjutsu: the scroll of fire		[?]
German	Ninja-Künste: Weg des Feuers	Ninja Arts: Way of Fires		[?]
Italian	Tecnica ninjutsu: fiamme roventi	Ninjutsu technique: red-hot flames		[?]
Korean	인법 두루마리 '열화' Inbeop durumari: Yeorhwa	Scroll of the Arts: Blaze		[?]
Portuguese	A Arte Ninja das Chamas	The Ninja Art of Flames		[?]
Russian	Техника ниндзя: Путь огня Tekhnika nindzya: Put' ognya	Ninja technique: Way of fire		[?]
Spanish	La técnica ninja del fuego	The ninja technique of fire		[?]