Something I wanted to point out me and Apollo noticed when we were running the game. You keep the health and upgrades that you get in the game unless you turn the console off, then on. Not sure if it affects anything else in the game.

So maybe "Start from power on" should be part of the rules. This is so for the rules in Sword Master.

This is Stage 1 with just a reset

This is Stage 1 with powering off then on