In single player, each level has two save points in addition to the game saving at each level's completion.Д¬aptain Claw has three types of gameplay modes: single player, custom levels, and multiplayer. Bonus lives are also awarded for reaching certain milestones in total points. Some of these areas are only accessible with a high jump from a power-up, while others are only accessible through portals. Many hidden or more treacherous areas contain high-value loot, power-ups and bonus lives. Also scattered throughout levels are health items, power-ups, and treasure, the last of which awards points. These items are limited-use, and the player can refill these by collecting spare bullets, dynamite sticks and magic in levels. Claw also has a pistol, dynamite and a spell called 'Magic Claw'. Claw's main weapon is his sword, though he can also punch or kick when close enough to an enemy. The objective for Claw is to reach the end of each level, fighting through various enemies and obstacles along the way. The game ends with Claw on his ship with the amulet, alongside his crew and Omar.Д¬aptain Claw is a 2-D sidescrolling platformer, with simple melee combat. Omar is sworn to defend to the holder of the Amulet, thus becoming Claw's bodyguard. She gives Claw the amulet, granting him 9 lives, after summarizing his adventure.

Claw places the gems on a pedestal, and Princess Adora appears. There he fights the highly trained tiger guards, avoids the many death traps in the lava-filled temple, and defeats Omar, the captain of the tiger guard, who holds the final gem. Claw enters the Tiger Temple at the heart of the island to claim the amulet. Claw manages to bring Red Tail down and acquire the final two gems, yet Red Tail escapes. Claw manages to defeat Aquatis with explosives.Д¬law resurfaces to face Red Tail and his crew on Tiger Island. The Captain takes the shortcut through the caverns, where he fights through a race of merpeople, who fight him in order to defend their king: a giant frog-like creature called Aquatis. The crew offers to accompany him through the caves to Tiger Island, but Claw insists on going alone, telling his crew to acquire a ship and meet him there. Claw takes the crew's gem as well as a piece of the map, which shows a path to Tiger Island through the labyrinth of underwater caverns. The crew then reveals that Red Tail has set sail for Tiger Island, a legendary place most doubted even existed, including Claw. The crew informs Claw that they were given three gems by a merchant in the tavern, but were forced to give two of them to Red Tail they managed to keep the third as Red Tail believed there were only two in their possession. Claw descends into the caves, where he discovers his old crew, presumed dead after the attack on his ship. Claw goes through the rickety wooden structures of the pirate cove, defeating the pirates and their leader, Marrow, Claw's former friend.

He also hears that Red Tail might have more himself.Д¬law quickly makes his way through the port and jumps on Red Tail's ship, where he defeats the seamen (Gabriel among them) and hides in the ship until it sets port near the Pirate's Cove. He learns that Red Tail is looking for the gems of the amulet as well, and that Red Tail's first mate, Gabriel, has one of them in his possession. After running through the city, escaping the guards, and defeating Wolvington himself, the Captain stumbles into a bar and overhears a conversation between two of the crew of Captain Red Tail, a lion who is Claw's arch enemy. He manages to defeat them and finds his way out of the forest, and into the nearby port town of El Puerto del Lobo, where he is hunted down by the magistrate, Wolvington, and the city guards. In the forest, he encounters a gang of thieves, headed by his former love interest, Katherine. As he progresses through the prison, he eventually gets to the outer wall and escapes to the forest after defeating the warden, Le Rauxe. The game begins with Claw outside his cell. Breaking out of his cell, Claw sets out to collect all 9 gems of the amulet and retrieve it for himself. The note tells of the Amulet of Nine Lives-a mystical artifact that grants its wearer near-immortality. In the prison cell, waiting for his execution, he finds a note and a piece of a map hidden in the wall. A famous cat pirate, Captain Nathaniel Joseph Claw, is imprisoned by the Cocker-Spaniards (a dog species, a pun on Cocker Spaniel) after they attack and sink his ship.

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