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~Introduction~
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Welcome readers! I'm Deathborn 668 on the message boards and this is
a walkthrough for Okami, the beautiful Japanese mythology game on the
Nintendo Wii. Hopefully you'll enjoy this walthrough as much as I enjoyed
playing this game. Some Do's and Don'ts to keep in mind:
DO:
-Use this walkthrough as a refrence tool
-Tell people about it
-Print it for personal use
-Give to other people for no profit
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-Sell this walkthrough for profit
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-www.gamefaqs.com
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Anybody else wishing to use this walkthrough will need to e-mail me at
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I generally won't respond to e-mails, and probably won't update if you send
me a correction unless it extremely important. Don't feel offended if I
don't respond or update with a change.
Thanks for your concern.
And remember, use Ctrl+F to search for what you need.
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| ~Table of Contents~ |
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|1.Basic Storyline |
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|2.Controls |
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|3.Facets of Okami |
| 3A.Exploring Nippon |
| 3B.On Screen Items |
| 3C.Fan Menu |
| 3D.Praise |
| 3E.Celestial Brush |
| 3F.Item Collection |
| 3G.Battling Enemies and Weapons |
| 3H.Saving |
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|4.Celestial Walkthrough |
| 4A.Cutting the Sacred Fruit |
| 4B.Exploring Kamiki Village |
| 4C.Restoring Shinshu Field |
| 4D.Running through Shinshu Field |
| 4E.Reviving Sakuya's Tree |
| 4F.Investigating Agata Forest |
| 4G.Rescuing Ume in Tsuta Ruins |
| 4H.Taka Pass--Restore and Explore |
| 4I.A DOG-Gone Search Quest |
| 4J.Gale Shrine and Crimson Helm |
| 4K.Facing the Dreaded Orochi |
| 4L.The Road to the Capital |
| 4M.Wandering through Cursed Sei-an |
| 4N.Fox Rods in the Sunken Ship |
| 4O.The Imperial Palace and the Green Mist |
| 4P.Sidequests in Sei-an |
| 4Q.Finding a Passage through Lava |
| 4R.Wandering through N. Ryoshima Coast |
| 4S.Finding the Entrance to the Dragon Palace |
| 4T.The Dragon Palace and the Evil Island |
| 4U.Oni Island--The Dark Lord's Fortress |
| 4V.Exploring Kamui's Snowlands |
| 4W.The Secrets of Wep'keer and Ezofuji |
| 4X.The Large Yoshpet and its Small Secrets |
| 4Y.A Trip through Time |
| 4Z.Climbing Wawku Shrine |
| 4AA.Whirlwind Tour Around Nippon |
| 4BB.The God of Darkness and the Rising Sun |
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|5.Animal Locations |
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|6.Devil Gate Challenges |
| 6A.Ryoshima Coast Devil Gate Challenge |
| 6B.N. Ryoshima Coast Devil Gate Challenge |
| 6C.Kamui Devil Gate Challenge |
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|7.Stray Bead Locations |
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|8.Divine Instruments and Holy Artifacts |
| 8A.Reflectors |
| 8B.Rosaries |
| 8C.Glaives |
| 8D.Holy Artifacts |
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|9.Celestial Brush Techniques |
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|10.Wanted Lists |
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|11.Bestiary |
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|12.Credits |
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~1.Basic Storyline~
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There is a legend that dates back a long, long time. It is about a god who
flew through vast fields and watched over the verdant life all across the
land. This god became known as Okami, and was honored by all of the people
in the land.
However, in the present day the dragon Orochi has been resurrected, 100
years after it managed to kill Okami. Its return cursed the land of Nippon,
swallowing the green plants and verdant plains until the land was shrowded
in darkness.
Only the small Kamaki Village was able to avoid this terrible fate thanks
to the wood sprite Sakuya who inhabited a sacred tree that watched over the
village. Distressed by the disaster, she had to request help from an
ancient god.
Performing a ritual, she drew the spirit of the god Amaterasu into the
statue of Okami that rested in a shrine next to the sacred tree. Amaterasu
was the world's only hope of restoring the land to its former glory, and a
long quest awaited her.
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~2.Controls~
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The controls for Okami are easy to learn. The game uses both the Wiimote
and the Nunchuk, so make sure you have both pieces of the controller to
play the game.
A Button--Jump (press again in midair to double jump once you have the Holy
Eagle skill), press while against a wall to wall jump (can only do once
per jump), hold to paint while using the Celestial Brush, confirm options
B Button--Hold it to use the Celestial Brush, cancel options
Control Pad--Move camera around
- Button--Open the Options menu
+ Button--Open the Fan menu
1 Button--Display map
2 Button--Zoom camera near/far from Amaterasu, hold to view in 1st person
perspective
Z Button--Talk to people, examine objects, bark, hold to draw a straight
line while using the Celestial Brush, use Sub-Weapon, save game at Origin
Mirror
C Button--Keep pressing to dig a hole in the ground, press in battle to use
Golden Fury, hold in battle to use Brown Rage (Ammy must learn those last
two techniques from the Dojo first)
Control Stick--Move Amaterasu
Wiimote--Shake outside of combat to perform a tackle which makes you run
faster if you are already running (and can be used to destroy certain
objects), shake in combat to use weapon
Nunchuk--Shake to dodge in the direction you shake (requires the Fleetfoot
skill learned from the Dojo)
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~3.Facets of Okami~
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There are many features to the extremely large world of Okami. This section
breaks down the majority of the features you will be using on your long
quest. Get to know all of these features relatively early and you won't
have much trouble on your journey.
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~3A.Exploring Nippon~
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The majority of the game will be spent exploring new areas and discovering
how to reach selected destination. There is generally only one main route
to get to any destination, but there are a ton of distractions that will
quickly get you sidetracked on your journey.
Nippon is large and vast, and there are plenty of hidden locations and
people to talk to. As a rule of thumb, it's best to talk to everyone that
you encounter. Many people will have useful information to provide, such as
clues to nearby hidden locations or items, or tricks in reach an already
visited destination faster. Some people will even ask you to do small tasks
for them, which should be completed in order to earn Praise.
And since the game is so focused on exploring the land, not to mention the
game encourages it, you should seek out every nook in cranny that you can
find. Almost everything that is hidden in the game will often give you some
reward, whether it is money, an item, or more Praise. Collecting everything
will make your journey easier, and can help power up Amaterasu.
Over the course of the game you will enter many "dungeon" like areas. Such
areas always end with a boss, and for some of these areas you can't return
to them once you complete them. There are no critical items in the no
return dungeons, but even so you should still make sure you don't miss any
free items that the dungeon hands you. You never know when they'll be
useful.
Finally, always keep certain items with you at all times. Always have
healing items with you incase you get into a tough battle. Steel Fist Sake
and Vengence Slips are also good items to keep with you. You'll obviously
want these to avoid getting killed in combat.
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~3B.On Screen Items~
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It's best to get familiar with the objects and icons that are present on
the screen at almost all times.
Solar Energy--Displayed in the top left corner as little suns, this is
Amaterasu's health bar. Whenever she takes damage from enemies, the bar
decreases by making the suns fade to black. Enemies late in the game are
capable of knocking two or three suns per attack, so it's always a good
idea to keep an eye on your health and keep it conserved. Restore health by
grabbing Solar Energy pickups that enemies may drop, or by using a health
restoration item. You start with three units, but can expand it up to 20
units.
Ink Bottles--This bar is kept below the Solar Energy bar. It displays the
amount of Ink Bottles that you currently have, and if they are full or not.
When you use a Celestial Brush technique, one Ink Bottles is used (some
techniques may use two or three bottles). When you aren't using a brush
technique, the bottles will fill back one at a time. It takes about five
seconds for one bottle to refill. You start with three bottles but can
increase it up to a total of 10 bottles.
Astral Meter--Once you obtain the Astral Pouch, you can begin filling it
with food. When Amaterasu eats food, a small pouch will appear on the
bottom left side of the screen, along with a number. Each food eaten will
increase that number (some foods make it increase more than others). When
it reaches 200, the pouch will turn red and will be full. If you have
additional pouches, they can then be filled (the game switches to them
automatically). If you ever die, and you have at least one full Astral
Pouch, all of the food from that pouch will be used to fully restore
Amaterasu's life without getting a game over. You can get a maximum of four
Astral Pouches.
Command Window--When you get near certain things, you may be prompted to
push the Z button to initiate the command listed in the window in the
bottom left corner of the screen. This could be talking to people,
examining scenery or signs, or feeding wild animals. Issun does all of the
talking/explaining for you, so all you need to do is listen to what he
says.
Yen Purse--Displayed in the bottom right corner, this number shows the
amount of Yen you currently have on hand. You start with a five digit
purse, but can expand it into an eight digit purse capable of storing
millions of Yen. You'll use Yen to purchase all sorts of items throughout
the game.
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~3C.Fan Menu~
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When you hit the + Button you will bring up the Fan Menu. There are
several different screens of information to look through when you open the
menu.
The first screen is iconed by a yellow bag with a red swirl at the top of
the screen. This is the items screen. Amaterasu's currently equipped
weapon and sub-weapon, equipped holy artifacts, current health, Yen, Demon
Fangs, and amount of Sun Fragments are shown on the right side of the
screen. The left side has the Tools and Equipment button.
Tools leads to your current inventory of items and key items. You can use
your normal items if it is possible to do so (such as health restoring
items, something only possible if you aren't at full health). Equipment
leads to your stash of Divine Instruments and Holy Artifacts. You can
equip your weapons and artifacts as you see fit.
The second screen is iconed by Amaterasu's head. This screen lists your
Divine Attributes--Solar Energy, Ink Pots, Astral Pouches, and Yen Purse.
Your current amount of Praise is listed here. You can spend Praise
upgrading these four stats. Hodl the A button to inject Praise into the
stat of your choice, and when it fills up it will increase. The required
amount of Praise needed for each upgrade is also listed. Remember, each
upgrade will require more and more Praise.
Solar Energy can be increased twelve times, Ink Pots seven times, Astral
Pouches three times, and Yen Purse three times. Upgrade however way you
want. There's enough Praise in the game and then some to max out every
ability. If you want my opinion, upgrade on order of important: Ink Pots-->
Solar Energy-->Purse. Astral Pouches aren't necessary--only one should be
needed, and you should always have plenty of healing items with you anyway.
The third screen is iconed by the Celestial Brush. The list of brush
techniques you have learned, as well as pictures on how to draw them, are
listed here. Look at this screen if you've forgotten how to draw something.
The fourth screen is iconed by a scroll. There are eight different points
of data here. The first is the Logbook, containing three different lists.
The first is the Journal, which records recent key conversations noting on
what task or location you need to visit next. The second is Fortunes. One
character in the game will offer you fortunes on where to go next in your
request. Her answer is listed here. Third is the Wanted List. Several
characters in the game will want you to kill certain monsters, and there
names will be marked on Wanted Lists viewable here.
The Travel Guide brings up a list of 30 scrolls to read. You'll find these
scrolls throughout the game. They contain info on how to use brush
techniques, battling, among other things.
The Bestiary shows pictures of enemies you have encountered, as well as
descriptions of the enemy. Methods on how to kill them easily are listed
for most foes as well. It's useful to read.
The Move List describes how to perform each hidden technique you have
learned from the Dojo. Look here if you've forgotten how to pull them off.
The Animal Tome lists the percentage of each type of animal in the game you
have fed. The Fish Tome lists how many of each fish you have in your
inventory, and the Treasure Tome lists how many of each treasure you have
in your inventory. fish and Treasure serve no other purpose other than easy
cash for selling them to merchants.
Finally, there's the Stray Beads. There are 100 Stray Beads in the game,
and each one you find is recorded here. Look here to find which numbered
beads you do and don't have.
The final screen is iconed by a map. It lists, obviously, a map of Nippon,
or the current city/village/dungeon you are currently in. Amaterasu's
location is shown by her head, and locations of any Origin Mirrors,
Ultimate Mirrors, and Mermaid Springs are also shown. Red X's are the
locations of places you should investigate at some point.
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~3D.Praise~
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Throughout the game you will be earning Praise. Praise is faithful power
received from reviving nature and helping people or animals. There are
many places through the game where you can earn Praise, and it is something
you will want to constantly be wanting to find.
In the Divine Attributes section of the Fan Menu you will find the total
amount of Praise you have accumulated thus far. The amount of Solar Energy,
Ink Pots, Astral Pouches, and Purse size are shown here. You can spend your
hard earned Praise increasing these stats. The amount of Praise needed to
upgrade each stat is listed next to each ability.
You'll collect Praise by helping people out. Giving them items they request
or completed a task they wish they were able to accomplish themselves is a
good way to get Praise.
All over Nippon you will find animals on the ground or flying around,
landing on the ground occasionally. You can feed groups of animals using
food pouches you can purchase from merchants (seeds, herbs, meat, and
fish). You can feed each group of animals only once, however. If the
animals have hearts above their heads, then they have already been fed.
You can check the Animal Tome in the Fan Menu to see the percentages of
each animal fed. Around 1000 Praise can be earned total from feeding all
the animals in the game.
Also around Nippon you can find a pillar of green light bursting from the
ground. Dig a hole with the C button in these spots to make a wilted clover
grow. Use Bloom brush technique in order to revive the clover and receive
Praise. Clovers that appear towards the end of the game tend to give a ton
of Praise than clovers early in the game, but regardless you should always
Bloom one whenever you find the green light. It's easy Praise.
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The Celestial Brush is an ability unique to Amaterasu. At the push of a
button you can bring up a screen where you can draw various shapes and
figures, changing the world around you.
You'll get it near the beginning of the game. To use it, hold the B button
to bring up the canvus. The screen will turn a musty brown, and the brush
will appear. Now, pointing the Wiimote at the screen, hold A to draw
whatever you wish.
You can only affect the world by using the abilities you have learned.
Drawing a plant isn't going to make one appear, basically. There are a
total of thirteen abilities you will learn throughout the game, and several
hidden techniques that aren't required for your success but are necessary
for sidequests.
All brush techniques can be used in combat, too. Most enemies have at least
one technique weakness, so exploit them whenever possible to make your
progress easier. Remember, each ability uses one ink pot (although several
hidden techniques may use more ink pots), so wait for them to refill
before using more techniques.
Finally, Amaterasu is the focus point when using the brush. That means that
you have full control of the camera, and can rotate around Amaterasu as you
see fit. It's useful in some areas when you can't normally get the camera
to view something, as the camera while using the brush is a bit more free.
It's a lifesaver in enemy and boss battles as well. Don't forget it.
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~3F.Item Collection~
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Throughout the game you will collect a large variety of items. All of them
are useful, but many are also situational.
Most of the items are in the Tools section of the Fan Menu. They can used
at any time (except for the key items on their on row at the bottom), but
only in certain situations. Items that increase strength/defense can only
be used while in combat, and health items can't be used when you are at
full health.
Other items can be used at any time, such as the Gold Dust which increases
the power of one weapon. Most items are purchased from various merchants
around Nippon, which can be found under their trademark umbrellas. Items
can also be found in treasure chests also located all over Nippon. Explore
everywhere to find the items. Treasure chests can also contain, well,
treasure itself. These items serve no purpose other than easy money when
sold to merchants.
Weapons are also items you'll want to collect. You will obtain most of the
Divine Instruments through the story, but a few of them will need to be
purchased from merchants. They are expensive, and only certain merchants in
Nippon sell them. Search for them--the more powerful the instrument the
easier it will be to kill foes.
Finally, there are Holy Artifacts. These are very rare items with special
effects. You can only have a maximum of three equipped at a time. You are
given one of them midway through the game. The rest need to be traded for
Demon Fangs. The effects of the items will only occur if equipped,
obviously. For instance, one items allows you to walk on water while
another refills Ink Pots at a very quick rate. Get them all--they are very
useful.
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~3G.Battling Enemies and Weapons~
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All across Nippon you will find floating Demon Scrolls. These don't appear
in major areas likes towns or villages, just main routes connecting them.
Any Demon Scrolls you do find in cities or villages are either scripted
battles or result in some reward.
If Amaterasu touches a Demon Scroll, a wall of energy will appear around
you and several enemies will spawn. As with any fight in a video game,
simply drain the health of a foe to kill them. Kill every foe to end the
battle.
You can escape battles, however. If the wall is blue/purple, then in
multiple section of the wall you can find a glowing circle. Attack this
several times with any weapon to make it wide and red, allowing you to jump
through it and escape battle. Escaping battle has no repercussions, but it
lowers your Godhood (your shield), so be careful. If the wall is red, then
the battle can't be escaped from.
When enemies are defeated they will drop Yen over the ground. Run near it
collect it. When all enemies are defeated, you will receive a cash bonus
depending on a few things. First, there's the base amount of money you
received. You are capable of doubling it in each battle. This is based on
how quickly you completed the battle, and how much damage you received.
For time, it's different in each battle depending on the type of enemies
and how many you encounter. For damage, simply put if you never get hit you
receive the best rating (losing Godhood doesn't count as being hit; only
losing Solar Energy units matter).
In each stat a tree represents your rank. The worst is a wilted seed, a 0%
bonus. Next is a small tree, giving a 10% bonus, then a bigger tree giving
a 20% bonus, a tree with green leaves giving around a 25% bonus, and
finally the best ranking, a cherry blossom giving a 50% bonus. The
percentages for each bonus is added up, taken from your base earnings, and
then added together to form a total. For instance, if you earned 5000 Yen
from enemies, got a green leaf tree for time and cherry blossom for damage,
that's a 75% bonus. 75% of 5000 is 3750, so the total Yen earned from that
battle would be 8750.
Also, each enemy in the game has a "floral finisher". When you strike the
lethal blow on an enemy, you have a short second or two to draw a certain
brush technique on that enemy. If you do the right technique based on the
enemy, they will give you a Demon Fang (some enemies drop two, and even
three fangs). There are several Demon Fang traders across Nippon that'll
give you neat items in exchange for them, and one trader that will give you
very rare and useful items for them. It's wise to save them up.
Note that in the Wii version of Okami you can only get Demon Fangs from
enemies, whereas in the PS2 version you were also able to get them in
loading screens. This is because the Wii version has significantly shorter
loading screens, and thusly obtaining Demon Fangs from them would be quite
hard.
There is nothing else to gain from battling besides cash and Demon Fangs,
so if you want you can just avoid Demon Scrolls altogether. Just be careful
at nighttime because if you get near a Demon Scroll it will chase you for a
few seconds, making battles a little harder to avoid.
Around Nippon you can also find Devil Gates, which look like small haunted
shacks. Enter them to enter an unescapable fight with several waves of
enemies. Defeating all the enemies and purging the world of the Devil Gate
will restore the local environment, netting you some Praise. Also hidden
around Nippon are three special Devil Gates with ten waves of enemies.
These gates contain enemies with more health and power than normal, and are
hard to beat. They net special rewards if you can find and destroy them,
however.
Finally, the last thing to note in combat is your Godhood. It's the symbol
in the bottom left corner of the screen. There are five stages of it--
green, yellow, red, none, or a skull. As you score combos on enemies, your
Godhood will increase from nothing to red, then yellow, then green. Getting
hit will reduce Godhood one level (the lowest level is nothing, however).
It's a shield in this sense. Losing Godhood won't hurt your health at all.
It's best to keep Godhood up so you can take several hits before actually
losing health.
If you every fall into a bottomless pit in the overworld, or you escape
from battle, Godhood also decreases one level. However, doing this is the
only way to reach the skull level of Godhood. In this stage, Amaterasu's
attacks are weaker and she will take about 50% more damage than normal. Use
a Traveler's Charm or any other Godhood increasing item to escape the skull
level, or just combo enemies until you return to normal. Try to avoid
falling into pits to not enter this stage.
Now, throughout the game you will encounter three different types of
weapons. These are your source of attacks when fighting. All of the attacks
require you to shake the Wiimote in order to attack. The three different
types of weapons are:
Reflectors--Morderately hard timing, pretty powerful, reflects enemy shots
as a Sub-Weapon
Rosaries--Easiest timing, weakest weapon, can quickly combo multiple
enemies, various Sub-Weapon abilities (such as Ink Bullet)
Glaives--Hardest timing, most powerful, has a charge ability for stronger
attacks, does a quick forward spike as a Sub-Weapon
All players will have their own favorites type of weapon to use. I prefer
Rosaries, but others like Reflectors or Glaives more. Regardless, you're
still killing enemies with weapons, so take your pick on whichever type
you prefer using.
Reflectors have a certain timing to them. When you shake the Wiimote,
Amaterasu will do a small hop dash towards the enemy and strike them with
the Reflector. When she lands back on the ground, shake the Wiimote again
to attack again. If you flail the Wiimote, Amaterasu will generally stall
on the ground and won't attack. Once you find the right rhythm to
attacking, using Reflectors becomes very easy.
For Rosaries, no timing is necessary. Flail the Wiimote to send out the
beads, which home in on the nearest enemy. Keep shaking it to continue
attacking and scoring huge combos. Rosaries have enormous range, and they
are capable of striking many enemies at once if you are at the right angle.
They don't do a whole lot of damage in one shot, but if you keep up the
combo you can kill enemies just as fast as you would with other weapons.
These are the weapon of choice for those who don't want to time their
attacks.
Glaives are hard to use, but are very powerful. You can shake the Wiimote
for a single slice, or wave it up to lift the sword and charge an attack.
You can't move while charging, however. Swing the Wiimote down to make a
powerful impact, severely injuring all enemies in the way. The timing is
tricky to learn, but once mastered players can end battles quickly with
these powerful weapons.
To switch weapons, open the Fan Menu and select "Equipment". You can equip
one Weapon and one Sub-Weapon. Sub-Weapons are used in combat with the Z
button, and have various effects. Experiment a bit. Each Divine Instrument
you recieve can be used as either type of weapon, so customize Amaterasu as
you see fit.
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~3H.Saving~
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All across Nippon, and in dungeons, you will be wanting to save. Luckily,
Origin Mirrors are in many major locations in Nippon. Step up to a mirror
and the camera will focus on it. When it zooms in to show the mirror, press
the Z button to bring up the list of save files. From there you'll need to
overwrite a file to save the game. Entering the podium of the mirror
fully restores your health and ink.
There are two types of mirrors--normal Origin Mirrors which are just white,
and Ultimate Mirrors which have a black X across them. There's no saving
differences between the mirrors, but if you buy the Fog Pot for a large
amount of Demon Fangs, you can warp between any Ultimate Mirrors in areas
you've visited (just the areas--you don't need to have ever stepped on the
Ultimate Mirror of the area to warp there). To do so, paint an X on the X
of the mirror. The game is finicky about this (the Wii version, that is),
and drawing a + on the mirror instead has a far higher success rate.
Remember to save whenever possible! You never know when something may go
wrong (such as the game freezing...) and you'll need to restart from the
last save point.
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~4.Celestial Walkthrough~
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And now to cover the actual game itself. This walkthrough is essentially
a 100% walkthrough. I don't go out of my way to do long sidequests,
however. If there is anything that can be collected on the path to a
destination, I will make note of it.
The walkthrough is split into sections, each one being one of the key
objectives of the game from start to finish. This should make finding where
you are stuck much easier. The second to last section will be a whirlwind
tour of Nippon, collecting every item and doing every sidequest that was
not included in the main walkthrough. Since you're the player, you aren't
required to do that. Performing just the bare minimum to complete the game
is always acceptable.
Things included in this walkthrough besides just the path to get from point
A to point B are animals to feed, ways to get Praise, special items to be
found, hidden areas on any route, and other things of the sort. Nippon is
huge and is awaiting exploration!
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~4A.Cutting the Sacred Fruit~
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Overview--Beginning the game, you need to cut the ripe fruit atop Sakuya's
tree in order to restore life back to Kamiki Village. She hints at an
ability of yours that may be able to slice the fruit. You'll get used to
how the game works in this "tutorial" of sorts while you go find a method
of cutting.
Be sure to watch the entire introduction to the game. Yes, it's about
fifteen minutes long, but this game has an amazing story and you should at
least pay attention to how it starts. Issun the wandering artist will be
accompanying you, and he's...interesting to listen to, to say the least.
Enter the tree through the glowing opening.
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~River of the Heavens~
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A beautiful place, no? Issun talks about camera controls when you enter.
The Control Pad moves the camera, while pressing the 2 button will zoom the
camera in and out. Holding the 2 button will go into a first person view,
and holding the 1 button brings up a map. You can still move while holding
the 1 button, so it's useful for getting around.
Head forward and Issun will comment on the mirror near the bridge. It's an
Origin Mirror, used for saving your game. Step onto the mirror podium and
the camera will focus on the mirror itself. Press Z to bring up the list of
save files, and overwrite one to save the game. Be sure to save often.
Once that's done, cross the bridge. Issun will mention that you can swing
the Wiimote to perform a tackle. Using a tackle you can break those pots
for a few Yen, but it isn't much so you don't need to waste your time.
Remember that tackling while running will make Ammy sprint, so do that when
running long distances.
Around the corner Issun will notice a chest atop the cliff. It's a bit
high, but you can reach it. Wall jumping is quite simple. Perform a jump,
and while holding the control stick against the wall, press and hold A
again to wall jump. Grab the Holy Bone S from the chest and head to the
next bridge.
It's been destroyed, though. Issun is luckily capable of just drawing a new
bridge with his brush, so now you can cross on over it. He mentions that
this is a brush power, and how gods are said to have them. Hmm. Crossing
the reformed bridge, Issun notes the would-be river nearby. Since you can't
cross that, head up the hill.
You will gaze into the starry sky and several blue stars will light up. One
of the stars is missing. After Issun fails to draw it, it'll be your turn.
Hold the B button and just tap the A button on the left end of the
constellation to draw the dot to complete it.
The god Yomigami will come out and hand over the power of Rejuvenation, one
of the thirteen brush techniques. Head back down the hill and to the small
puddle of water. Look straight ahead to the gap in the fence at the other
side. Now, draw the river but scribbling all over the pathway. It's not too
hard. If done right, water will appear. Now, simply swim across to the
other side. Break open the chest by tackling it to grab an Astral Pouch.
Fill this with two hundred points of food, and it will fully restore your
health once if killed in combat. Once used, you'll need to refill it with
food. Now, enter the glowing gateway.
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~Cave of Nagi~
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Head up the path with stairs ahead of you. There isn't much here except
more beautiful scenery. Right before you cross the bridge, look to the
right. There should be a small bit of land to the left of the waterfall.
Behind the brown rock is a chest with Stray Bead #1 in it. Get back on land
and cross the bridge.
Further up the path is a small cave. Once you enter it, the path behind you
will seal up. The giant statue's sword is broken, so you should know what
to do. Scribble over spot where the rest of the sword would be if it wasn't
broken in order to restore it.
When you do, another constellation will appear in the sky. Fill in the star
on the left to make the god Tachigami appear. He bestows upon you the Power
Slash brush technique. Issun tells you to practice it on the nearby rock.
All you need to do is draw a straight, horizontal line to perform the Power
Slash. With the Wiimote, it may be difficult to pull off. Luckily, you can
hold the Z button to make the brush be forced to move straight regardless
if you move it up or down at all. Move it left to right to form the line,
cutting the rock. And good news, Issun is sticking with us! Woo!
Huh, the Power Slash cuts, yeah? Looks like we can cut Sakuya's fruit to
restore the village. Head back out of the cave. You can use the Power Slash
to cut through the wooden gate that once blocked your exit. Follow the
arrow back to the entrance of the Cave of Nagi. As you get down the stairs
from the shrine, you'll be ambushed by enemies.
Time to learn how to battle foes! Swing the Wiimote to attack foes with the
Divine Instrument upon your back. You need to time it, however. Swing each
time Ammy finishes her attack. If you flail the Wiimote, she will often
stall in her attacks. Also, sometimes after striking foes several times
they may turn black and white. When this happens they are weak to brush
techniques. Use a Power Slash to inflict a lot of damage. Green Imps are
pretty weak, and only attack by sticking a long stick out towards you
(which will easily miss if you keep moving). Green Imps' floral finisher is
the Power Slash. Use it on them as soon as you deal the lethal blow on them
to receive a Demon Fang. Collect these for later in the game.
Now continue down the path back towards the glowing gate. Just before you
reach it you will be attacked by two more Green Imps. Kill them, then enter
the gate.
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~River of the Heavens~
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Simply sprint all the way through this area to end up back outside Sakuya's
tree.
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~Kamiki Village~
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Walk out until the fruit is in view. All you need to do is Power Slash it
to cut it open, restoring life to the village. And there you go, your
objective is complete.
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~4B.Exploring Kamiki Village~
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Overview--Now that the town has been revived, it's time to explore and see
what there is to do. There's some ways of getting Praise, and you'll have
to find a way to destroy a boulder that blocks the exit of the village.
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~Kamiki Village~
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The village has been restored, right? It still seems a bit quiet. Anyway,
leave the tree area and head down the hill. When you reach the bottom,
examine the statue with the Z button. Weird, it looks just like a person.
Let's ignore it for a bit. Head up the spiraling hill to the left. When you
reach the top, walk out onto the end of the wooden platform. Issun comments
that the village isn't what it's supposed to be right now. Run back down
the hill and head right when you reach the statue to reach the lower area
of the village.
When you reach the bottom you'll find a few more statues as well. Examine
two of them and Issun will tell you to look at the village again from
higher ground to spot what's wrong. Run right back up the hill and to the
wooden platform again. Perhaps if the sun was out then maybe the dark curse
on Kamiki Village would lift. To draw the sun, as simple as it is, simply
draw a circle in the sky.
It seems to have worked on the village as the elder, Mr. Orange, will come
up to greet Ammy. As he's talking to you, three Green Imps will ambush you
on the platform. These guys still aren't terribly hard, so get some free
Demon Fangs from them. Once killed, the nearby pond will flow with water
again, and you'll earn 20 Praise. When you restore nature to its former
beauty, feed animals, and help people, you'll earn Praise. You'll see how
it's used a little later, though.
Break open the chest to obtain a Seed Feedbag. Feedbags are used to, well,
feed animals, earning you Praise. Try it out right now. Walk around the
pond and as soon as you reach get near the spiraling hill you should see
several sparrows on the ground. Press Z when near them to bring open the
Fan Menu, then use the Seed Feedbag. You'll feed the sparrows, as well as
earn five Praise.
Head back down the hill now. You can talk to Kumoso, the guy between the
hills leading to the top and bottom of the village who plays the flute
horridly, getting you into a fight with several Green Imps. Complete the
fight fast enough and you'll begin a sidequest. You won't understand the
sidequest until much later, so this isn't necessary right now.
At the bottom of the village you can help the villagers with some of their
problems. You'll want to do it for some easy Praise, no less. Talk to
Mushi, the kid playing with his dog next to the turnip field. Talk to him
a second time and he'll challenge you to beat his dog's record by asking
you to dig up all ten turnips without leaving the crop field or getting hit
by his mother.
To dig a turnip, just stand over one and keep pressing a C button to dig
the hole. Mushi's mother is annoying to avoid, so you'll want to stall her.
Dab her with some ink by drawing on her and she'll be stunned for several
seconds trying to clean it off. This'll make it easy to get all ten
turnips.
When you dig the last one, an Oddly Shapped Turnip will appear. Bite it
with the C button and bring it to Mushi. You'll get 7 Praise as a reward.
Now, go visit the houses and talk to the people, including Kushi in the
nearby corn field. Whenever you see a green arrow appear over someone's
head after talking to them, it means they have more information to give
you, so talk again. Keep this in mind throughout the game.
To the left of the bridge you will find Mrs. Orange doing her laundry.
After talking to her several times she'll mention her drying pole has gone
missing. Should be simple to figure out. Draw some lines between the two
vertical poles to Rejuvenate the laundry pole. After doing so, talk to her
again and she'll wish the sun would appear close to the laundry so it could
dry faster. Draw the sun in the sky (it doesn't matter where) to please
her, as well as netting 7 Praise. Also, you can talk to her at nighttime to
receive Cherry Cakes, which fill up the Astral Pouch a fair amount.
Head across the bridge and save at the Ultimate Mirror. Head up the path to
find a giant rock blocking the exit, as well as a merchant. Talk to him and
a Red Imp and two Green Imps will attack you. Red Imps will occasionally
shield themselves with their weapon, making them invulnerable briefly.
Otherwise, they aren't much different than Green Imps. Their floral
finisher is also the Power Slash.
After defeating them, some trees and plants will be restored, and you'll
earn 30 Praise. Issun will open up the Fan Menu and turns to the Divine
Attributes section. Using Praise you can enhance your stats--Solar Energy,
Ink Pots, Astral Pouches, and purse size. I advise going with Solar Energy
for now, and later on increasing Ink Pots a lot (increase purse size twice
when you get the chance, and don't bother with the Astral Pouch).
The merchant tells you to go find Susano, the man that Kushi mentioned if
you talked to her. Just follow the red arrow to his house right next to the
boulder. Enter his house and fall into the basement via the hole under the
large pot (tackle it to break it). Once you find Susano, tackle him to wake
him up. Ammy isn't going to accept Susano's excuses to not come with you,
so he'll now be riding atop her. Leave his house and head to the boulder.
For some fun, feel free to talk to the villagers while Susano is riding you
for some comical dialogue.
Susano will, uh, run off again to avoid having to break the boulder. Head
back to his house to find him sleeping at his training ground behind it. If
you talk to him he'll mutter that he's all out of sake. Hmm, perhaps if we
get him more? If you talked to Kushi you'd know that she's the one that
brews the sake.
Kushi can't make sake while her mill's water wheel is broken, though.
Scribble all over it to Rejuvenate the broken bit, then head inside the
mill. Talk to Kushi and she'll thank you for fixing the mill, and as a
reward will drop the Vista of the Gods sake. Bite it to pick it up, then
leave and head back to Susano.
After approaching him, he'll be ready to start training. Finally! Talk to
him to get him to train by slicing straw dummies. Susano isn't exactly a
competent swordsman, so when he slices the dummies (and the rock at the
end), you'll need to Power Slash them to destroy them instead. Well,
whatever builds self-esteem I guess. Repeat this process for the boulder
blocking Kamiki's exit.
Sakuya will talk to you after Susano runs out of the village. She'll
mention that she has several Guardian Saplings across Nippon, watching over
and protecting the land. The evil curse around the land has wilted away the
power of these trees, though, and they have lost the power they provide to
the land as well as Sakuya herself. She'll mark the location of two nearby
saplings you need to recover.
You have two choices now. You can either leave the village and head to
Shinshu Field, or buy some Feedbags and feed a few more animals in Kamiki
for some Praise. I advise the latter first, but it's up to you. You
probably won't have enough cash, so fighting some Demon Scrolls in Shinshu
Field and coming back may be necessary. You'll want to buy some Seeds,
Herbs, and Meat. You'll only need four, one, and one respectively for the
animals in Kamiki, but it's best to stock up for the road. You'll be seeing
a ton of animals.
Near the Ultimate Mirror you will find a group of hares. Feed them with
herbs to earn 6 Praise. Head back over to Mushi after this and find his
dog Hayabusa. Feed him some meat to earn 10 Praise. You can also find a
flock of sparrows walking around Mushi's mother in the turnip field, so
feed them some seeds for 3 Praise. Continue up the hill and back to where
Komuso is playing his flute. Feed the sparrows there for 4 Praise. Finally,
head back to Susano's house. Behind the house and to the right of his
training grounds are some more sparrows, giving 3 Praise.
There's nothing else left in the village, so save the game and head out to
Shinshu Field.
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~4C.Restoring Shinshu Field~
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Overview--Shinshu Field is the most beautiful field in Nippon, but it's
currently cursed. You'll need to find a way to revive Guardian Saplings in
order to restore beauty to the field.
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~Shinshu Field~
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Once you enter the field, note all the creepy black and red area. Head
forward a bit and you'll find the Guardian Sapling that Sakuya mentioned.
However, Ammy doesn't have any power that allows her to revive the saplings
at the moment, so we can't quite revive the field just yet. The green
scrolls you see floating around are Demon Scrolls. Touch one and you will
enter a battle with enemies. Defeat them and collect the money they drop.
Battling is the best way to earn cash, and if you wanted to feed the
animals in Kamiki and ran out of cash, farming through Demon Scroll is a
good plan.
Also, whatever you do don't wander into the cursed zone. If you do, you
will begin to lose ink at a quick rate and a Solar Energy unit appears
above Ammy's head. If it runs out, you'll black out and appear back outside
the cursed zone and will have lost an entire unit of health. Avoid that.
At least ink will refill itself on its own. Just don't go into the cursed
zone. Ever.
All you can do is head left to Nameless Man's cabin. Head past him and go
left and into the cave where the purple mist is coming from--Hana Valley.
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~Hana Valley~
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Pretty creepy place. It's all dark and musty. There must be something here
that can help us, then. Save at the Origin Mirror right from the start.
Obtain the Traveler's Charm from the chest up ahead, then cross the bridge
to find a group of Imps dancing around a fire. When you approach them you
will be flung into a fight with all of them. Once all of them have been
killed, the nearby lake will be restor--, er, I suppose not. This curse is
a bit too strong for that.
Head through the tunnel now. Up on the next pathway you will encounter
Cursed Trees. These trees have flames around them, and will shoot fruit at
you when you get near them. You can Power Slash the fruit back at them to
stun the tree, but simply running is also an easy way to just avoid them.
Head across the next bridge and around the bend, avoiding another Cursed
Tree.
You should be able to spot Susano in the distance, but before you reach him
you will have to fight a Yellow Imp and two Green Imps. Take the Green Imps
out first. The Yellow Imp will dig and move underground, occasionally
surfacing. When it does, spot where the drum and top of its head appears.
Jump behind it before the imp fully surfaces, and it'll be confused. It's
severely weak to a Power Slash, so draw one. If you can't do that, it'll
beat its drum several times before charging a big thump on the drum, which
will hurt you if you don't jump in time. The floral finisher for the Yellow
Imp is also a Power Slash.
The nearby wall painting will also be revealed, and you'll talk with
Susano. He can't move the boulder blocking the path. For now, step onto the
pedastal to the right, infront of the painting. Examine it and Issun will
note something is missing. Draw a sun at the top right corner of the
painting. This will make the boulder nearby explode, so you can continue
on the path.
Wall jump up onto the higher ledge once you reach it, then you'll find a
small green sapling on the ground. Hmm. To the left of the sapling are some
wooden bars. Power Slash them away, then follow the path. Save at the
Origin Mirror if you need to, then enter the dead end room where Susano is.
Apparently this sleeping bear here is disrupting Susano's "training", so
we need to teach it a lesson. Like the last bout with Susano, just Power
Slash all of the torches, then the sleepy bear once he attacks it. The bear
will fall off the ball it was balancing atop of.
The ball will turn blue, and now you can start pushing it. It's the same
ball that was shown in the wall painting. Push it back to the room with the
small sapling. It may take awhile due to how the ball like to roll in the
direction you don't want it to very often. Once you reach the room, push
the ball up one of the ramps at the top end of the room. Then tap the ball
onto the small puddle of water up there. This will make a small fountain
appear, holding the ball in midair.
Now to complete the painting. Step on the sun symbol and the camera will
zoom out, showing the sky. Paint the sun to make the light shine through
the ball, causing the sapling to grow into another wilted Guardian Sapling.
Just then, another constellation will appear. Draw both missing stars at
the top end to make Sakigami appear, granting you the power of Bloom. Draw
a circle on any withered plant to make it bloom with life again, and
scribble over small patches of cursed land to restore their beauty.
Try it out on the Guardian Sapling. Just draw a circle on it. This will
restore the Guardian Sapling into a beautiful cherry blossom, as well as
restoring all of Hana Valley back to it's former glory. You'll also get 30
Praise from doing this.
Leave the sapling area. As you make your way back down the valley you
will be ambushed by another Yellow Imp. Dispatch it and a small path of
grass will be resotred, netting you 15 Praise. Feed the Boar and the Boar
Piglet some Seeds to earn 9 Praise. Continue down the path and you'll pass
the Cursed Tree again. This time, Power Slash its projectile. When it gets
stunned, use Bloom on it to turn it back into a regular tree. You'll get 3
Praise for each restored Cursed Tree.
Further down the path you'll go past a cursed path of grass. Bloom works on
this too. Instead of a circle, scribble all of the grass. If you did it
enough, you'll restore it and earn the Greensprout Tips scroll. Just past
the grass is a second Cursed Tree. Bloom it up. Now, head across the
bridge. There are two more Cursed Trees down this path, but also note the
black wilted trees. You can Bloom those too. You'll get 1 Praise for each
wilted tree you Bloom in the game. Just past this Cursed Tree is a small
rock you can jump on (the wall is green behind the rock). You can wall jump
up to a high ledge here. Dig the green spot and Bloom the clover that
appears for 5 Praise.
After blooming these trees, continue back down through the tunnel to
encounter the dancing Imps again. After this fight you'll get 15 Praise for
restoring the nearby island on the lake. Monkeys will also appear here, so
feed them some Seeds to get 9 Praise. Jump onto the island you restored.
Dig up the green spot on the ground to make a clover appear, then Bloom it
for 5 Praise. Grab the Digging Tips scroll from the chest as well.
Now, Bloom the wilted tree on the island as well as the other seven trees
around the entrance area. If you've followed this guide you will have
Bloomed all of the wilted and Cursed trees in Hana Valley. This will make a
chest appear next to the wall painting. Go back and open it up for a Sun
Fragment. Collect three of these to earn an extra Solar Energy unit. This
is your first.
There's only one thing left in Hana Valley. It's best to do this at night
because specific direction aren't easy to describe. Just past the tunnel
where you fought the dancing Imps, look at the first tree on the left. Next
to the base is a spot where you can dig up a chest containing Stray Bead
#11. At nighttime, this spot will be lit up with a white light, making it
much easier to find.
In any case, head back to Shinshu Field when your tasks are done here.
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~Shinshu Field~
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Head straight directly for the Guardian Sapling. Use Bloom on it to turn it
back into a cherry blossom, as well as fully restore Shinshu Field to it's
former glory, ridding it of the entire cursed zone. You'll also earn 30
Praise for your efforts.
Sakuya's tree also appears to have sprouted back to life a bit. It appears
restoring Shinshu Field helped her as well. Grab the Fleeing Battle scroll
from the chest under the sapling, then save the game at the Ultimate
Mirror.
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~4D.Running through Shinshu Field~
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Overview--Now that the entire field is open to us, there is a lot to
explore. Issun has marked several key locations you will want to check out
in the field, and there are still several cursed areas you can clear up
for Praise, not to mention all the animals that are roaming around. There
is a lot to do.
Near the Guardian Sapling, between it an Kamiki Village, is a patch of
cursed grass. Bloom it to earn 10 Praise. You should also feed the Boar
Piglets that appear for 15 Praise.
Also near the path leading to Kamiki Village and up a short hill you'll
find an old gate. This is a Devil Gate, and they are all over Nippon. They
are teeming with evil power as you could probably guess. Enter it and you
will face off against several waves of enemies. There's a bunch of Red Imps
in this fight. Once they are all defeated, the Devil Gate will be destroyed
and part of the land will return. Grab the Vengence Slip inside the chest
that has formed.
Now, head up the winding path up the nearby hill. Head right at the top and
go for the building that you see. A Devil Gate should be pretty obvious to
see (it's pretty much right infront of the building). Enter the gate and
you will have to fight several Yellow and Green Imps. A pond will be
restored once you destroy the gate, and you will earn 15 Praise for your
efforts. Feed the pigs near the door for 9 Praise, then head inside the
building.
Talk to Onigiri Sensei, the master of the Dojo. He'll teach you new combat
techniques, for a price. Most of these moves are expensive, or require you
to have a different type of weapon equipped that you don't even have at the
moment. Also, despite Fleetfoot sounding promising (and at the measly price
of 10000 Yen), it's a very bad ability. It'll just irritate you the rest of
the game if you buy it. Buy at your own risk, however. Golden Fury is the
best ability here as you can "insult" enemies to earn free Demon Fangs in
combat. But it's terribly expensive at this point in the game, so you'll
just have to wait. Don't forget about the Dojo--you'll likely come back
later to learn something.
Back outside, head behind the Dojo. Look for three clumps of grass arranged
in a triangle. Dig at the center of the triangle they form to find a chest
containing Stray Bead #6. If you can't find it, wait until nighttime and
look for the pillar of light to know where to dig.
Head back to the path, leaving the Dojo area. At the intersection of paths
you can find several horses. Feed them herbs to obtain 8 Praise. Now, jump
up to the ledge higher than you and look in the sky and find the Agata
Forest sign. Head towards it. You'll just reach a dead end--a river you
can't swim all the way across. Issun comments a ferry should be leading to
the forest, but isn't right now. Bust open the chest for the Feeding
scroll, then Bloom the grass path on the left. You'll reveal a crack on the
ground. How do we bust that open? Let's go find a way. Before you leave,
feed the boars and boar piglets next to the sign that talks about Agata
Forest for 15 Praise.
Check the map. See the house on the bottom right of the map with the red
circle? Head over there. After heading down the wooden staircase, a Dead
Fish will ambush you before you reach the house. To kill these foes, Power
Slash their wings off, then quickly kill them. When they get low on health
they will try to grab you, and if you do they will explode, causing some
damage. Kill the fish before they do that. Their floral finisher is the
Power Slash.
Go ahead an Bloom the wilted trees near the house, as well as getting the
Legend of Orochi scroll from the chest. Now, you can't enter the house
until it's nighttime, so go explore Shinshu Field some more until then.
Once it's nighttime, return and enter the house.
Talk to Tama several times. He'll say that he's a pyrotechnist, and he's
trying to set off a huge chain of fireworks. He points you to a drawing on
the wall. It's a circle with a line through part of it. Keep the drawing
in mind. Tama will now throw a bunch of small bombs into the barrel, and
then he'll expect you to draw something. Draw that bomb shape you just saw
on the wall. First, draw a circle. Let go of the A button and move the
brush to the top right part of the circle. Draw a line extending from a bit
above the top right part to the center of the circle. If done right, a
large bomb will appear.
After the fireworks show, another constellation will appear. Paint the
missing two stars and you will talk to Bakugami, granting you the Cherry
Bomb ability. Issun will ask to demonstrate the new ability on the cracked
wall nearby. Just draw the symbol again to place a Cherry Bomb next to
crack. It'll explode, making a hole in the wall. You can go inside the hole
and grab the Rat Statue from the chest. Also near the dock near Tama's
house you can find some sparrows to feed for 4 Praise
Remember that cursed grass near the Agata Forest entrance and how there was
a crack below it? Now you can bust it open with the Cherry Bomb. It'll
reveal a chest containing a Coral Fragment.
Head back towards the entrance of Hana Valley. To the right of the entrance
you will find a Devil Gate. Walk into it. You'll fight against a lot of
Green and Red Imps. Once the gate is gone, you'll recieve 15 Praise for
restoring the Nameless Man's Kiln. Go behind the kiln and to the left
corner of the wall. Three clumps of grass can be found in the shape of a
triangle. Dig in the center of this triangle to find a chest (wait until
its nighttime if you're having trouble spotting the location), containing
Stray Bead #8. Infront of the kiln you can also find and feed some herbs to
some hares, earning 10 Praise.
Now, follow the path next to the river, then follow the left path going up
the hill next to the wall. You'll stumble across a man on the ground. To
help Ida, hand him a Traveler's Charm. He'll give you 10 Praise as a result
of helping him. Instead of continuing up the hill, head due right. You'll
run straight into another Devil Gate next to the Guardian Sapling. You will
face several Red and Yellow Imps here. The restored land will hand over 15
Praise, and you can earn 8 more by feeding the hares that appear.
From where you fed the hares, jump up the ledge on the left. See the three
clumps of grass that form a triangle shape? Dig in the center of the
triangle (you can even see part of the chest above ground), revealing a
chest with Stray Bead #7.
Now, head up the hill. On the left is a clover spot that'll give 5 Praise
when Bloomed. Head left from here and around the cliff so you can continue
climbing the hill. When the path evens out you should find several more
hares, worth 6 Praise.
Head back to the Agata Forest river. However, just before reaching it you
should see a large red gate. Head through it and down the hill. At the
bottom, turn around and head to a ledge to the left of the hill. Bloom the
two wilted trees, then dig up a chest at the center of the triangle
pattern of grass to find Stray Bead #5 inside. Now, turn around again and
enter the house at the base of the hill.
Talk to Mika inside. The second time you talk to him he'll give you a
wanted list of enemies. If you can kill all five of them, talk to Mika for
a reward. The way this works is that these five enemies are all Red Imps,
and are in certain Demon Scrolls in Shinshu Field. They only appear at
night, however. For an example, step outside. You'll be forced into a fight
with Biwamaru the Vandal. Don't worry--named monsters don't run away or
anything. Once you beat him, you'll need to cross him off the monster
list. Just draw a line across his name (it can be pretty tricky, so be sure
to use the Z button to make a straight line).
Finally, head to the right and towards what appears to be the empty lake.
As soon as you pass through the gate...shrine thing, everything will
change. You'll appear at the Moon Cave. At least, that's where it should
be. Now there's a mountain here. Run up to the entrance and you'll...hit a
force field. Seems that we can't enter this place. Ah well. Leave the Moon
Cave area. We'll be back.
If you've investigated every red spot Issun marked, he'll comment that you
should have back to Kamiki Village. First, head back to the Guardian
Sapling in Shinshu Field. A little behind the merchant you can find a
clover that'll give you 5 Praise when Bloomed. Now, save at the Ultimate
Mirror.
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~4E.Reviving Sakuya's Tree~
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Overview--A very short objective here. With our exploration of Shinshu
Field done for now, return to Kamiki to revive Sakuya's once glorious tree.
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~Shinshu Field~
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Head back to Kamiki Village now. If you didn't investigate everything in
Shinshu Field (every red dot should have disappeared). Before entering the
village, Bloom the six trees for 6 Praise. If Issun stops you from
entering the village because you didn't explore enough, keep trying to
enter and tell him you are done exploring, and he'll quit being stubborn
and let you in.
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~Kamiki Village~
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The village seems to be quite lively at the moment. Next to the red bridge
you'll find Kumoso again. If you talk to him, he'll note that something
amazing will happen if all fifteen trees in the village are in bloom. Hmm.
Bloom the tree next to him. There's fifteen wilted trees in the village,
and you need to Bloom them all. The second tree can be found next to
Susano's house. Head across the red bridge and you'll find the third tree
on the right, as well as another further to the right near Mrs. Orange.
The fifth tree can be found infront of Kushi's house, the sixth behind
Kushi's house, and the seventh outside Mr./Mrs. Orange's house (feed some
seeds to the chickens here for 8 Praise if you want). Now, head up the hill
leading to the top platform you visited near the beginning of the game.
Bloom trees eight, nine, ten, and eleven on the left as you make your way
up the first hill. Head to the top observation platform. Around the small
pond at the top are the last four trees.
If you bloomed all 15 trees, talk to Mr. Orange on the observation deck.
He'll perform a dance to fully restore Sakuya's tree. He'll do half the
work--you gotta do the rest. Obviously, manually Bloom the buds yourself.
This part can be infuriatingly hard due to have only one chance at blooming
the bud, and if you fail you have the watch the entire dance all over
again. Try not to lose patience. Just make nice smooth, quick circles with
the bud as the focus point. As for the final bud, make sure the paint
mostly covers the leaves and not the sky. If it covers mostly the sky you
may end up doing Sunrise by accident, and then you'll just need to start
the dance over again.
If you bloomed all five buds successfully, Sakuya's tree will become an
amazing cherry blossom. She will also talk to you and hand over 30 Praise
for your success. After she leaves, another constellation will appear.
Paint the two missing stars to have Hasugami hand over the Water Lily
ability. Now you can create lily pads on water and use them to cross long
stretches of water. Hmm, wonder where we can use this?
Try out the power in Kamiki as Issun asks. All you need to do is draw a
circle on the water. This will make a lily pad. After Issun is done
talking, jump to the island. Make another lily pad closer to it if you
can't make the jump, then grab the Sun Fragment from the chest. You should
be able to see another island a bit further out. Make more lily pads to
reach it, dig and Bloom the clover to receive 5 Praise.
Wait until nighttime on this island and you'll find two glowing lights on
the ground. Dig them up to discover an Inkfinity Stone in one chest (a
useful item that grants infinite ink for about two minutes when used), and
Stray Bead #3 in the other.
The only thing left in Kamiki is to head back to Sakuya's tree. Every time
you revive a Guardian Sapling she will grow a fruit on the tree that you
can cut down (remember that you must walk under the grey arch to reach the
tree, not walk around it). The fruit contains a Bull Horn, worth some cash
if you sell it to a merchant.
Your tasks are finished here. Buy some more feedbags if you are running
low, and some health items will also be quite useful a little later on.
Save the game at the Ultimate Mirror.
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~4F.Investigating Agata Forest~
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Overview--Agata Forest is a large place, but you'll need to restore the
Guardian Sapling to explore it. That won't take very long, but you may
spend a lot of time looking through what the forest has to offer.
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~Shinshu Field~
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Leave Kamiki Village and head back to Shinshu Field. Remember the waterway
that led to Agata Forest? Now you can cross it. If you forgot where it is,
Issun marked it again on your map. Just follow the hill west of Kamiki and
at the top, jump up the ledge nearby and you will be close to the waterway.
It's to the right of the large red gate leading to the Moon Cave, remember?
You know what to do. Use the Water Lily ability to make lily pads on the
water. After about half a dozen of them you will reach a ledge you can wall
jump up to. At the top, enter Agata Forest by using a Cherry Bomb on the
large crack.
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~Agata Forest~
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Almost the entire forest has been cursed, so I guess that makes finding the
Guardian Sapling easier, yeah? Follow the path down the hill on the right
and continue all the way until you reach the beach. There is a tunnel on
the right, so head through it. You'll find a house sitting beside a small
pond. Save at the Ultimate Mirror if you wish, and ignore the chest that
are on fire. You can't get their contents for quite a while.
The house is home to Madame Fawn. Open the chest near her desk for Stray
Bead #12, then talk to her. For a few hundred Yen, she'll tell you your
fortune. It is basically a hint at where you are supposed to go. There
isn't any need to get your fortune told right now since you know what to
do, but if you ever get stuck in the future feel free to come here. Her
most recent fortune is recorded in the Logbook section of the Fan Menu.
Head back to the beach. Instead of going up the wooden stairs, head past
it. There's a very thin path attached to the wall and next to the water.
Follow it all the way to the waterfall. There is a tunnel behind the
waterfall, so run through it. Cherry Bomb the crack at the end and, viola,
there's the Guardian Sapling. Bloom it to fully restore Agata Forest.
You'll earn 30 Praise for the intervention, and a chest will appear under
the tree. Open it to earn the Devout Beads, a rosary. Issun will now
explain how to equip a main weapon and a sub-weapon. Select the Devout
Beads in the Equipment part of the Fan Menu, then choose either Main or
Sub-Weapon. I prefer rosaries to every other type of weapon, so using them
as the main weapon is probably for the best. Plus, they require NO timing
in combat. Just flail the Wiimote wildly and you'll kill enemies. Really
cool. Equip the Divine Retribution as a sub-weapon for now. You can use it
in combat with the Z button.
Now, dig up and Bloom a clover behind the sapling for 5 Praise, then feed
the hares for 6 Praise. Leave the cavern and head back through the
waterfall. Not soon after leaving the cave you will encounter Waka. He
seems to be an...interesting fellow. And like all nice fellows, he'll pull
out two swords and will challenge you to a duel. Sweet.
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~Waka~
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Waka can be an annoying boss, especially if you don't have very many units
of Solar Energy. Almost all of his attacks takes off a single unit, and the
damage will add up quickly if you can't dodge his attacks.
The Devout Beads are the best weapon to use here. Waka has quite a lot of
health, while you most certainly won't. Attacking from a distance is best
here as all of Waka's attacks are very short ranged. As long as you spam
the beads, and keep a safe distance from him, you'll win within a few
minutes.
That doesn't mean you can be careless, as some of his attacks are a bit
tricky to dodge even at range. He can swing his sword and send a small
orange missle at you. It's quite annoying, as due to the color of the wall
it can be almost impossible to see occasionally.
Next he can hold his green sword above his for a split second before
charging at you. Jump to avoid his attack.
Occasionally he will pause and make three quick swipes. He'll lose color
after this attack, at which point you should use a Power Slash or Cherry
Bomb to inflict a lot of damage.
Other than this, just keep pelting him. Use healing items when you get low
on health and he should fall in no time. Remember, jumping avoids pretty
much all of his attacks, so always jump when you are afraid of getting hit.
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The two-bit prophet will predict something about a big log and thrills, but
you should just put it at the back of your mind for now. Well, with Waka
out of the way we can explore what Agata Forest has to offer. Checking the
map, you'll notice that the lake has several small islands on it. A few of
them have giant buds on them. These are buds with colored dots inside.
You can't miss them. If you use Bloom on them you will make them sprout,
earning you the treasure they were guarding. Most of items are just useless
treasure you can sell for case, but some of the stuff is healing items and
temporary strength increasers (the Steel Fist Sake), useful for later.
On one of the islands you can find Kokari, a small boy fishing. Keep
talking to him and he'll say that he was with his dog Ume, exploring the
Tsuta Ruins. He got scared in the temple and ran out of it, but ended up
trapping Ume inside. The key he used to get in was dropped into the lake.
He'll start crying about how he's broken all his fishing gear.
Tackle him to snap him out of it. You'll now get to play a fishing
minigame, and it doesn't suck compared to many other fishing minigames you
may have played. All you have to do is draw a line from the pole to the
fish you want to try catching. When you do that, the fish will be hooked
and two meters will appear. One is the power gauge, the other the life
meter. Hold the control stick in the opposite direction the fish is moving
to reel it closer, making the power gauge rise. Once it's deep in the green
section, keep tapping the control stick in the opposite direction instead
of holding it.
This will make the face above the meter stay still in the green section.
The higher it is, the faster the fish will get reeled in. However, if it
is in the red section you will begin losing energy. Run out and you'll
fail the minigame. Once the fish is close enough, shake the Wiimote when
the icon appear to make the fish leap out of the water. Power Slash it to
catch it.
After catching two fish, only one large fish will appear in the water. This
one's a bit tougher as it'll make the power gauge increase quickly, making
it harder to keep deep in the green section. Be patient and reel in the
Giant Salmon. The fish will spit out the Ruins Key, the item you need to
enter Tsuta Ruins. You'll grab it from Kokari, so now run away and jump to
the mainland nearby with two giant buds and some cursed grass.
The Exorcism Slip is useful and the Wooden Bear sells for some cash. Draw
over the cursed grass to bloom it, netting you 10 Praise. Several hares
will also appear, so be sure to feed them for 4 Praise.
Nearby is a home with a large arrow at the top of it. Nobody is inside of
it, but you can feed the Nightingales some seeds for 3 Praise. Also behind
the house on the sand you can find the top of a chest handle poking out of
the ground. Dig it up to find Stray Bead #13 inside. If you can't find it,
wait until nighttime and the spot will be lit up.
Now, head towards Tsuta Ruins (the red dot on the map marks it). Instead
of going down the hill, jump onto the cliff to the left and head towards
the crack in the wall. Infront of the wall you can find a chest handle
poking out of the ground. Dig it up to obtain Stray Bead #14. If you can't
find it, as always just wait until nighttime and it'll be lit up. You can
bomb the crack, but nothing is inside but a pillar you can't climb.
Head to the entrance of the ruins. Open them up if you wish, but there's
a little more to do still. Feed the deer infront of the ruins door for 8
Praise. There's some more deer a bit left of the door, good for 8 Praise.
Open the chest for the Enhancing Weapons scroll. More info on that to come
later. Nearby is a Devil Gate. You'll find two Red Imps and a Yellow Imp
inside it. Nothing too hard to kill. 15 Praise is your reward for restoring
the land, and another 3 Praise for feeding the sparrows.
Oh, and it appears Susano is here. Talk to him to find out the bridge to
Taka Pass nearby is out, and keep heading right. Feed the deer here for
another 8 Praise. Keep heading right and you'll encounter more deer for 12
more Praise.
A little further ahead is a merchant, but he's actually a Demon Fang
trader. Grab the Battle Tips scroll before talking to him from the chest.
You can trade Demon Fangs you've collected for rare treasures. The Golden
Peach fills one Astral Pouch instantly, so that's useful in a bind. The
Golden Bell is a holy artifact that drive Demon Scrolls away from you when
equipped. The Wood Mat is a holy artifact that, when you sleep (don't touch
the control stick for about 15 seconds), you'll restore health for about
150 Yen per Solar Energy unit. Finally, the best of all, is the Golden
Lucky Cat holy artifact. When equipped, any items (in battle or in the
overworld) will automatically be dragged into you. You'll never have to
manually collect anything ever again. However, the 50 Demon Fangs needed
is a bit steep, and you'll only have that amount if you've floral finished
pretty much every enemy you've fought so far.
Get the Golden Lucky Cat if you can. The Wood Mat is also useful. Besides
that, don't get anything else. Kiba will always be here, so you can come
back later when you have more Demon Fangs.
Head up the fenced pathway leading towards Taka Pass. Near the beginning of
the path are some sparrows you can feed for 3 Praise. Follow the riverbank
right of Kiba and you'll encounter a Devil Gate. You'll face two Dead Fish
and a Yellow Imp here. You will receive 15 Praise for restoring the land,
and 9 more for feeding the monkeys.
Nearby you can find Karude, Kokari's father. He'll talk to you about Kokari
and how he found Ume. Near him you'll find an actual merchant booth. Buy
the Gold Dust here--it can be used once to power up any weapon you have.
Save it for later, though. This is the cheapest you'll find it, too. Stock
up on feedbags as well if you need to.
Head right of the merchant and up the hill on the left with a fence on the
side. At the top you'll be at Hitoshio Spring. Feed the deer on the right
side of it for 12 Praise. Swim under the waterfall dumping into the
spring to find a hidden cave. Bloom the cursed grass at the end to make a
giant bud with an Incense Burner inside appear.
Jump down the the beach and head through the tunnel to Madame Fawn's house
again. Feed the hares to the right side of her house for 4 Praise.
Everything in Agata Forest has been accounted for. Head back to Tsuta
Ruins' entrance and enter it. If you lost the key, go back to Kokari and
tackle him to make him drop the key. Then, bite it to grab it and head back
to the entrance to open the door. When you get in, save the game.
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~4G.Rescuing Ume in Tsuta Ruins~
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Overview--Tsuta Ruins is the first "dungeon" area of the game. You will
need to solve several puzzles to reach the end of th dungeon, and then
defeat the boss that lurks there. Watch your step!
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~Tsuta Ruins~
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Save your game at the Origin Mirror on the left. Issun notes the purple
water. As he (and you, I'm sure) guess, it's quite poisonous. Lily pads
will just deterioriate instantly, and you'll lose a unit of energy if you
fall into it. Avoid the purple water at all costs.
Head left at the beginning. You will reach a dead end, however there's a
Cursed Tree you can Bloom for some Praise. There's also an island in the
water with a giant bud on it, containing an Exorcism Slip S. Get a running
start, then jump to it to avoid falling in the water.
Back at the mirror, now head right. Grab the Enhancing Divinity scroll from
the chest, the Traveler's Charm from the giant bud next to it, then keep
heading right. Bloom the Cursed Tree up ahead, and get the Steel Soul Sake
from the giant bud right next to it. Get the Vase from the chest up ahead,
then enter the door to the next room.
There are two Cursed Trees in here. One of them is right next to the door
used to enter this room (on the left, don't miss it). The second Cursed
Tree also has a clover next to it which'll give 5 Praise when Bloomed. Once
that's all done, move into the next room.
Head forward in this room until you reach a ledge. Grab the Incense Burner
from the giant bud, then wall jump to the ledge above you. Turn around once
you get up there and follow the path on the wall. At the end of the path is
a clover you can Bloom for 5 Praise. Head back to the ledge and continue
forward now. Use lily pads to cross the water, then wall jump up the
ledges. At the top, grab the Steel Fist Sake from the giant bud, then head
past the stone ball to find an odd enemy.
This is a Bud Ogre. To defeat it, keep attacking it until it falls over an
a red circle encompasses it (using the Power Slash on one of the
projectiles it spits will also do this). Use Bloom on it to grow the bud,
revealing an inner core. Bash at this to lower its health. After a few
seconds the bud will close and you'll need to repeat the process again to
expose the core. Their floral finisher is Bloom.
Once defeated, the stone ball will turn blue. You can now push it, just
like in Hana Valley. See the switch in the ground near where you fought the
Bud Ogre? Push the ball onto it. This will lift the nearby door so you can
proceed into the next room.
Not long after entering this room you will be ambushed by two Bud Ogres.
Just repeat the process for defeating these guys. Dodging both of their
attacks as you try injuring them can be a bit difficult, but just remember
to keep jumping if you are afraid of getting hurt.
Once killed, the land will be restored and you'll get 15 Praise. A log with
some mushrooms will appear. Move the camera so you can see the sky above
you, then paint the sun. This will make the mushrooms grow into large
platforms you can use to reach the ledge above. Before going up there,
break the wooden bars nearby with a Power Slash and Bloom the giant bud to
get a Vengence Slip.
On the ledge above you can move past a few blue rocks to reach a cracked
wall. Cherry Bomb it and head into the next room. Head through this lonely
hallway and into the next room. There's a wooden bridge here, so follow it
to the next room (and don't fall down or else you'll have to go through
the previous five or so rooms to get back to this point).
In this room you'll see a huge bridge. As soon as you step forward, Issun
sneezes and it'll start to break. Start dashing towards the end of it! If
you don't dash right away you probably won't make it to the end in time.
Once you dash for a few seconds and Ammy starts sprinting, you will know
that you'll make it to the end and into the next room.
Past the small bridge is a locked door. Interesting lock. Fall down to the
bottom of the room. Once there, talk to the stone wall with a face that
seems to be blocking a hole. This is Blockhead. To destroy him, tackle him.
Two dots will light up. Bring up the canvus and paint the two dots in the
order they appeared. The spots they appear is random, but there's only two
of them so there's not a terrible amount of memorization. If done correctly
he will be destroyed. You know have access back to the room you started in.
Save at the Origin Mirror if you wish.
But the big thing about destroying Blockhead is that a key appears on the
ledge nearby. Grab it, and head up the wooden platform around the room.
They are thin, so take your time so you don't fall. After the second log
you should see a black statue in the wall. Tackle to destroy the three
small statues infront, then Cherry Bomb the statue. Bloom the giant bud for
Stray Bead #18. Now, keep heading up the logs. At the top, walk to the
locked door to place the key inside, destroying the lock, and enter the
next room.
Grab an Exorcism Slip S from the giant bud on the right when you get to the
main area of the room. Avoid the blue Demon Scroll unless you want a bunch
of Imps, then head left. You'll come to a broken bridge, so paint all over
it to rejunvenate it. Up ahead is an Origin Mirror. Head up the ledges to
the left to enter a room you were in earlier. On this previously
unaccessable ledge, there's a clover on the left worth 5 Praise. Head back
to the mirror and go into the next room.
There are three Devil Gates in this room. Grab the Lacquerware Set and a
Holy Bone S from the giant buds behind the Devil Gates, then destroy all
three of them. None of them are terribly hard--just a bunch of Imps and
some Bud Ogres. Nothing you can't handle at the moment. Once you have
purged all of the gates you'll restore the area and earn 15 Praise. Some
small mushrooms will also appear, so like before turn the camera to find
the sky and paint the sun.
The camera will show some statues puking the purple poison into the water
after growing the mushroom. Jump onto the ledge and run over to the
statues. Destroy them all with tackles or Power Slashes and you'll earn 20
Praise for purifying the water. You can grab the chest nearby for the Tsuta
Ruins Map, but it's useless now as we're almost done. Jump down the
waterfall and as soon as you do turn around.
There's a tunnel through the waterfall. Swim into it and Cherry Bomb the
wall back there to reveal a small cave with a giant bud. Bloom it to earn
Stray Bead #19. Now, swim down the stream. Make lily pads to restore your
oxygen meter when needed. When you fall down the huge waterfall, hold right
and try to land on a small ledge below. Bloom the clover here for 5 Praise.
You're back in the starting room, and you should notice several platforms
in the water leading to the center of the giant statue. Enter it. Bloom all
three patches of cursed grass and earn 10 Praise from each of them. When
you do, the floating flower will open up, and a new constellation will
appear. Paint the two missing stars to have Tsutagami teach you Vine. See
the Konahana Blossom? Simply draw a line from it to Ammy and you'll be
grabbed by the blossom and pulled ontop of it. Now you can use them as
platforms and ways of crossing large gaps when they appear!
Climb to the top of the room using the blossoms, then head back outside.
You'll be high up on the statue. Follow the spiraling pathway to the right
until you can't anymore, then use the Konahana Blossoms to make your way
to the top of the statue. Once there, attach the blossoms to the four hooks
on the statue's head. When all four vines are connected, the hatch will
lift off, and you can jump into it. Save at the Origin Mirror down there,
then head into the next room.
Grad the Holy Bone S and Godhood Tips scroll at the end of the long
hallway, then head up the stairs. Choose to go into the next room when
Issun asks to. Up ahead is a Golden Gate. When you step through one the
game is temporaily saved. If you die you'll restart from the gate. Be
warned that it only works if you don't turn the Wii off, otherwise you'll
just restart from the last actual save point. Jump into the pit below and
get ready for the boss.
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~Spider Queen~
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This boss is relatively simple. All of her attacks are easily dodged, but
figuring out how to hurt her is a bit difficult. Her attacks consist of
shooting energy balls at you, running towards you, stomping on the ground,
and shooting a massive web at you. You will dodge all of these attacks if
you stay on the outside of the arena and keep running in one direction.
You should notice the hooks on the Spider Queen's back. Also, there's a
bunch of Konahana Blossoms. Bring up the canvus and move the camera behind
the queen. Attach a vine to one of the hooks. After attaching two vines the
Spider Queen will be stunned, and her bulb will open up. If getting the
vines attached is too difficult, there's another way to stun her and give
you a chance at attach them while she's stunned.
Occasionally she will spawn a tree atop her claws. When she does, Power
Slash it to stun her. The other way to stun her is when she occasionally
shoots a string shot to the ceiling and climbs it. Power Slash the string
and she'll fall to the ground, stunned.
When the bulb is open you'll see eight eye things. Power Slash all of these
at the same time with one line. Keep doing this to deal a ton of damage to
the queen. After several seconds she will close the bulb and you'll have to
repeat the process to hurt her. After all the eyes are destroyed, she will
be dead.
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You'll have saved Ume, and will earn Snarling Beast, the second reflector
in the game. I prefer, rosaries, but use whatever you wish. Save when
prompted and you'll be taken back outside the ruins.
**Note--You can obtain Stray Bead #20 inside Tsuta Ruins now if you wish.
Remember the room where you had to roll the blue ball? It's not too far in
the ruins. There's a Konohana Blossom in there as soon as you jump up the
ledges across the pond. Vine up to it, follow the path to the end, and
Bloom the giant bud to get the Stray Bead.
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~Agata Forest~
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There's a little left to do in Agata Forest and we'll be done for awhile.
On the southwest island you can find a Konohana Blossom. Vine to it and
the blossom will drop you onto a branch with Stray Bead #15. Now,
remember Hitoshio Spring? Head left and go to the merchant. Run up the
hill with a fence next to it to the right of the merchant to reach the
spring. Look at the top of the tree the water is pouring from. Vine to the
blossom to drop into the water, draw a lily pad, then tackle the chest for
Stray Bead #16.
Okay, we're done here. Time to go forward to Taka Pass. Look on the map and
find the arrow on the left side of it. That's the entrance to Taka Pass. It
is right next to the Demon Fang trader (all of this is west of Tsuta
Ruins).
When you reach the raging river, Kokari will use his fishing rod to lasso
a rope to the other side. Sadly, Susano will come barreling by on a giant
log, and he'll end up dragging everyone else along.
You need to stop the log before it goes tumbling over a waterfall in two
minutes. This minigame can actually be frighteningly difficult. You'll need
to use six Konahana Blossoms and vine them to each of the six hooks on the
log. The blossoms will appear on the left and right edges of the stream,
but only one at a time.
Worse, they rush by quickly. Like, you only have one second to react to
them. Any longer and you'll miss it. Note that whenever you hit the B
button you use up one Ink Pot. You start with 15 and earn 5 more for each
vine you attach. Waste all the pots and you'll have to start the minigame
from the start.
You have plenty of time, so just pay attention. Blossoms only appear on the
side of the river to log is drifting to. When it's drifting left pay
attention to the left shore, and vice versa. As a final note, connecting
the vines can be a real pain because they occasionally tend to not
register. There's nothing that can be done about that. Just let go of the
vine and try again with the next one.
Once you attach all six vines, the log will fly back to where you were
standing earlier, now making a nice bridge. Whee! You'll also earn 10
Praise. Feed Ume for 10 more Praise. Cross the bridge and feed the hares
on the other side for 4 Praise, then grab the Ink Bullet Tips scroll from
the chest. Head straight into Taka Pass now.
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~Taka Pass~
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Ah, it appears this place is cursed too. Talk to the Tea Master to learn
that she's lost something because of some moles, and feel free to restock
on supplies with the merchant. Just ahead is an Ultimate Mirror, so save
the game.
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~4H.Taka Pass--Restore and Explore~
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Overview--We're going to have to restore the Guardian Sapling somewhere in
Taka Pass. Judging by the size of the cursed zone, you can imagine that we
are going to have a large area to explore once the curse is lifted.
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~Taka Pass~
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Follow the path past the Ultimate Mirror. You'll find a crack in the wall.
Cherry Bomb it and head down the cavern hallway that opens up. You will
come up to an open area, but it appears Waka already beat us here. It seems
the last fight with him wasn't enough, so here's the rematch.
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~Waka~
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The rematch is almost exactly the same as the first fight. Fighting from a
distance with rosaries is the best way to kill him. He retains all of the
same attacks as the previous fight, so basically whenever he stops moving
you should jump to avoid the oncoming slash or missile he shoots at you.
His new attacks is where he will swing wildly several times, and where he
will hold his sword infront of him and dash three times across the arena.
He gets stunned at the end of both attacks, so Power Slash him here to chip
away a decent amount of his health bar.
Speaking of which, Waka has a lot of it. It's a good idea to use a Steel
Fist Sake to make the battle go a lot quicker because he has a ton of
health. Just make sure that you use healing items whenever necessary. In
such a long battle like this, you are bound to need them at some point.
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Well, we need the Serpent's Crystal to reach Orochi. We can go find that
later. First, look in the glistening pond to the right. See how some
bubbles are rising in an odd spot? Power Slash the water where the bubbles
are rising from. If done right you will break an unseen chest an Stray Bead
#21 will float to the top. Swim and grab it.
On the left side of the room is a wooden structure. Run all the way up it
to the top of the room. Run through the hallway. Like in Agata Forest, just
ignore the burning chests for now. When you are back outside, follow the
simple path all the way to the Guardian Sapling. You can Bloom three wilted
tress on the way there for some Praise. Scribble over the broken bridge to
rejuvenate it, then walk across so you can Bloom the sapling. You'll get 30
Praise for doing so.
And Taka Pass is now finally restored! You can jump back down the bridge to
end up near the merchants are the start of Taka Pass, but you'll miss
feeding some animals. First, feed the Nightingales to the side of the
sapling for 8 Praise. Now, head back across the bridge and towards the
cave where you fought Waka.
On your way there you can find some deer to feed standing around the
middle wilted tree for 16 Praise. Once you feed them, head back down the
path. Next to the tunnel's entrance, go right. You'll encounter some horses
that you can feed as well for 8 Praise. Turn around and face away from the
entrance. In the air is a Konohana Blossom. Vine up to it, and keep vining
through several more blossoms higher in the air. When you get high in the
air you can continue along the path or vine yourself to a blossom that will
drop you onto a ledge with three clovers, giving 5 Praise each. Vine back
to the blossom and continue along the blossom route and you will eventually
drop onto a rock with a Tiger Statue in a chest.
Head back to where you fought Waka in the cave. Behind the tree you can
find a clover worth 5 Praise. There are also some foxes nearby. Feed them
some meat for 6 Praise. Head down the tunnel and back outside. Save at the
Ultimate Mirror nearby.
A Devil Gate rests close to the Ultimate Mirror. You will find two Dead
Fish and a Bud Ogre inside. Nothing too challenging I'd assume. Beat them
all and you'll get 15 Praise for restoring the land. Feed the tigers that
appear some meat to earn 10 Praise. Head left from them and go for a group
of holes. Moley the mole will talk to you, and challenges you to a game. He
stole an item from someone, and you need to tackle him to get it back.
Follow the paths of dust from Moley's hole to track which hole he'll move
to next. Since he's likely to intersect with other moles, you may get a
bit confused as to which cloud is his. In that case, just guess. There are
no special tips for this game other than hope you get lucky with his holes
and just tackle him three times. After that he will drop the Teacup on
the ground. Pick it up and bring it to the Tea Master near the entrance of
Taka Pass. You will receive a Golden Mushroom in return, an item that won't
have any use for a very long time.
Now, follow the path past the tunnel leading to Waka. Near the intersection
of several paths is a whiteish rock. Behind it is a dog you can feed for 3
Praise. Head to the intersection of paths now and you'll find a second dog
worth 3 Praise as well. Now, head down the hill and towards the Cutters'
house.
The sky turns a creepy red. If you get near Mrs. Cutter she will start
chasing you, so just run away. In the pond you can see a spout of water
with rising lines and bubble, right? On the ground near it is a chest
handle poking out. Dig it up to find Stray Bead #22 inside. There's nothing
else you can do here right now, so just leave back to the intersection.
Go back to where you fought Moley. You can find some Boar Piglets near the
holes, so feed them for 6 Praise. Back at the intersection, head down the
path that doesn't have a sign next to it. We'll go down that path later.
Up ahead at the next intersection you can either go straight to City
Checkpoint or right to Sasa Sanctuary. You can't progress anywhere in the
latter, and there's nothing in the former right now (but there are some
things on the way there, though). But, head down the path to Sasa
Sanctuary. To the right of the grey arch are some sparrows you can feed for
3 Praise. Back at the sign, jump up the ledge on the left. Jump to another
ledge on the left.
Next to the empty spring is a Devil Gate. Enter it to fight a Bud Ogre and
Yellow Imp. You'll get 15 Praise for fully restoring the spring. Talk to
the girl and she will describe Mermaid Springs. These springs are all over
Nippon and they have a green swirl in them. Toss a coin into it and you can
warp to any other spring you've visited. You don't have any coins right
now, so ignore it.
Near the sign talking about the spring are some deer you can feed for 8
Praise. Run back to the Sasa Sanctuary/City Checkpoint intersection and
head towards the checkpoint. On the grass a little right of the sign are
some horses to feed for 8 Praise. Jump on the ledge to the left again and
Bloom a wilted tree, then follow the path some more. On the left is a Devil
Gate containing two Dead Fish and a Yellow Imp. You'll get 15 Praise for
restoring the land, and 12 more for feeding the deer that appear.
Now, head towards a man named Bingo across the path. Near the two wilted
trees is a dig spot where you can find a chest with Stray Bead #23. Wait
until nighttime to find the lit up spot. Also feed the foxes near Bingo for
6 Praise. We can't do anything with him right now, so don't waste your time
trying to figure him out.
Head back to the intersection of several paths, and now head up the path
with the sign reading Kusa Village. As you make your way up the hill with
stairs, feed some monkeys on the right for 9 Praise. Enter the village at
the top.
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~Kusa Village~
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What? Why is this place cursed too? We'll have to find some answers. Save
at the Ultimate Mirror ahead.
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~4I.A DOG-Gone Search Quest~
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Overview--It appears Waka wasn't kidding when he was making his prohecy.
This segment will be quite long, and there's a lot to do before and during
the search for these dogs.
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~Kusa Village~
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The curse in Kusa Village won't hurt you, but it will drain your Ink Pots.
You can't draw anything here even if you wanted to because of the curse, so
don't worry much about it. At the merchant, purchase a lot of meat (at
least six of it), and the Pinwheel for some Praise later. The Infinity
Judge is a third tier reflector, and is quite powerful. Stick to rosaries
if you like them more. It costs a whopping 50,000 Yen, so you aren't likely
to be getting it for awhile. Just keep it in mind incase you want it. The
Gold Dust is also handy. Buy one or two of it and save it for when you get
more powerful weapons.
Head up the stairs and take the right path up the hill. It's a bit winding.
Across the wooden bridge and up some stairs, talk to Princess Fuse. She
will say that she's being possessed right now. A Blue Imp and two Green
Imps will attack. Since you will have lost all of your Ink Pots by now, you
can't use your weapons. Just tackle everything until it dies. In the
future, Power Slash the paper kite Blue Imps use to ground them. Their
floral finisher is Galestorm, an ability you don't have yet.
After defeating them, Kusa Village will be rid of the curse. Keep talking
to Princess Fuse and she will talk about the monster Crimson Helm that
controls the monsters in Kusa Village. He resides deep in the Gale Shrine
nearby. She says only the help of the Satomi Canine Warriors can break the
barrier over the entrance to the Gale Shrine. She'll hand over the Canine
Tracker, which will lead you to each warrior.
Turn around and head down the stairs. Go left a bit and feed the chickens
for 8 Praise. Follow this path a bit and near a wooden bridge you can feed
some sparrows for 5 Praise. Head across the wooden bridge next to this
spot and vine to the blossom. Vine to a higher blossom, then jump onto the
platform. Feed the monkeys for 6 Praise. Now, cross the thin wooden beam to
an altar on the other side.
Hey, it's Blockhead again! Tackle him and he will reveal four weak points.
Paint them in order to destroy him. It may be a bit tricky, so just keep
tackling him until you get an easy to remember layout. Enter the cavern he
was blocking to find a chest with a Bull Horn and two clovers worth 5
Praise each.
Now, head back to the wooden bridge you used to reach Princess Fuse to
begin with. Don't get on it--jump over the side on the right. You'll fall
into a grove of bamboo and the Canine Tracker will start spinning fast.
Feed the raccoons meat for 6 Praise, the Cherry Bomb the crack around the
corner. Near the raccoons there's a clover worth 5 Praise, too.
Enter the cave. At the end is Canine Warrior Rei. Open the Fan Menu and
feed him some meat. You'll get 10 Praise, and he will take his leave. Just
four more dogs to find! Leave the cave and fall down the ledge near the
clover. Head down the hill, feed some sparrows for 5 Praise.
Continue down the hill and talk to Mr. Bamboo. Seems the only way to help
him is to get the sparrow clan to reopen Sasa Sanctuary. For now, enter his
house at the bottom of the hill. Inside you can find a chest handle poking
out of the ground. Dig it up to discove Stray Bead #28. Outside, use a
Power Slash on the glowing part of the tree. This will reveal Canine
Warrior Chi. Open the Fan Menu and feed him as well. That's two down!
Head up the hill and you will find Susano near the top, mumbling in his
sleep about some monster. Jump over the fence on the right to find a clover
worth 5 Praise. Continue to the main area of the village again. Near the
merchant is a cursed patch of grass. Bloom it up and you will get 10 Praise
and discover that Canine Warrior Shin was hiding there. Feed him meat as
well for 10 Praise too. Just two dogs left! Also, between two of the
houses here is a man growing gourd on ropes. Feed the pigs near him for 6
Praise.
Now, head back up the path leading to Princess Fuse. Before the wooden
bridge you should spot a Konohana Blossom on the left. Vine to it and feed
the chickens at the top for 8 Praise. Also, you should see a cave in the
wall near the chickens. Jump into it to find Canine Warrior Ko at the end.
Feed him meat for 10 Praise. Issun will note you should see Princess Fuse
again, so follow his advice.
Well, there's the last warrior. He doesn't look happy, either. Choose to
pick a fight to begin the battle.
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~Canine Warrior Tei~
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Tei can be an annoying boss. All of his attacks are quite quick and
painful, so you will need to be very careful, as well as quick with your
own attacks.
Every time the ball around his neck glows he will either perform a quick
dash across the arena or make five quick swipes, moving in one direction.
Those are his only attacks. Just remember to jump whenever his ball glows
and you should be able to avoid any damage.
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Princess Fuse will say that although you have found five of the warriors,
there are still three more. She'll mark the locations on your map. First,
walk next to Tei and choose to feed him meat from the Fan Menu for 10
Praise.
Time to find the last three warriors, ja? You're done with your business
in Kusa Village for now, so head back to Taka Pass.
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~Taka Pass~
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Remember the Cutters' house? It's the house in the valley a bit right of
the entrance to Sasa Sanctuary. Wait outside of their house until it's
nighttime. There's nothing in Taka Pass for the moment to divert your
attention, so just be patient until night arises.
Once it does, hop on down to their house. Avoid Mr. Cutter, then go to the
right side of the house. A wooden plank can be walked on to the top of
their house. You can see a bunch of wooden boards are hastily trying to
cover up a hole in the roof. Use a Cherry Bomb to destroy them. Drop down
the hole to enter their house. Mrs. Cutter is inside, sharpening her knife.
Grab her (you'll need to hold the C button) and drag her into the moonlight
shining into the house.
Her shadow is a bit...creepy. This will trigger a fight against Mr. and
Mrs. Cutters' true forms--Crow Tengus. These guys aren't terribly hard to
take down. Use a Power Slash to knock off their wings. When you try
attacking them, they will block themselves. Power Slash them again to make
them vulnerable to attack. Repeat this process until they die. Their floral
finisher is also Galestorm, and you still don't have it. Ah well.
Once defeated, Mrs. Cutter's cage will be left behind. Inside is Chun,
the sparrow clan's princess. Well, that'd expain why they didn't want any
visitors since she was missing. Now just follow her to Sasa Sanctuary. It
is just up the path nearby, through the grey gate. You must go through the
gate, not around it, to reveal the entrance to the sanctuary.
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~Sasa Sanctuary~
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After entering the sanctuary, the boss of the tribe will be happy to see
his daughter returned. As a reward you'll get full access to Sasa
Sanctuary. Save at the Ultimate Mirror near the entrance. What a nifty
looking place.
Before entering, wall jump up the two ledges infront of the Ultimate Mirror
to find a clover worth 5 Praise. Jump back down. Stand on the Ultimate
Mirror and walk due left. You should near a piece of bamboo with water
flowing into it. Stand infront of that and dig there to pull up a chest
containing Stray Bead #30. Now, to the left and right of the actual
entrance of the building are sparrows you can feed, for a total of 10
Praise. Now, enter the inn.
There are some things to explore in here before actually progressing. Head
to the second floor and enter the first room on the left. There's a
merchant in here, so refill your feedbags. Also, notice the odd looking
round doll thing. It's missing an eye on the left. Paint a dot on the white
hole and the head will fly off, dropping Stray Bead #31.
Head to the other room on the left side of the second floor. Feed the mice
in here for 2 Praise. Back in the lobby of the inn, walk into the elevator
on the second floor to reach boss Jamba's room. Walk up to him and you'll
talk with him, and they'll mention the hot spring out back. First, grab all
ten chests for a bunch of items and treasures. Useful for some selling
money.
Head back to the lobby and go behind the stairs to find some mice you can
feed for 3 Praise. Head down the right hallway and into the next room.
Talk with the bath attendant several times an Mr. Bamboo will appear. He
knows a way to bring water back to the hot springs, and asks you to partake
in a minigame. Choose yes, naturally.
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Digging Minigame--Round 1
Base Time Limit--3 Minutes
In the digging minigame your objective, regardless of who it is, is to get
your escort to the bottom row of rocks. Once there the escort will point
out which rock has the water in it, and you can dig it up to complete the
game.
Getting the escort down there is a lot more difficult. You have a time
limit, but if you Bloom the giant buds around the maze you can collect a 20
second refill.
To play, dig through the rocks with the C button. Light brown rocks need to
be dug through once to be destroyed, dark brown rocks twice, brown rocks
with cracks in them need to be Power Slashed, and black rocks can't be
destroyed. Spiky rocks can't be destroyed either, but if you or your escort
touches one then you will lose 5 seconds (and as a note, light brown/dark
brown rocks can also be broken with one and two tackles respectively).
There are brush techniques to help you, too. If you Power Slash your
escort, they will turn around. If you use Bloom on them, they'll run
faster. Keep it in mind. Now for the maze itself:
From the rock you start on, dig through it. Dig through the next rock below
you, the Power Slash another rock below you. You and Mr. Bamboo should fall
into a small bed of water. Power Slash to rock on the left and get Mr.
Bamboo to follow you there. Dig through the rock on the ground left of the
water, then repeat for the next rock below you. You'll want to go through
the next three rocks below you (a Power Slash rock, diggable rock, and
another Power Slash rock), cross the waterbed to the right, and dig
through one last rock to the right of the water.
You'll be at the bottom bed of rocks. From where you fall, get Mr. Bamboo
to walk on the rock one to the right. When he sticks his cane in the air
and glows, dig through the black rock to clear the minigame.
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With victory comes the revival of the spring. Also, another constellation
will appear. Paint the three missing stars to have Nuregami teach you
Waterspout. Now you can control water. Just paint a line from the water to
a target to send water there. Try it out by drawing a line from the spring
to the flaming bath attendant.
Also, see the bubbling part of the water? You've seen them before. Draw a
vertical line from them to turn them into a fountain of water you can float
on. Use them to reach new, high places! Try it out now as Issun instructs.
When you land on the ledge, Bloom the clover for 5 Praise.
Jump back down. See the enormous bamboo shoot near the locked door? Stand
need it to make the camera zoom out. Now use Waterspout to make water flow
into the open shoot. This will get the shoot to press a switch, opening the
door.
Head out the door and through the hallway. Up the first set of stairs feed
the sparrows for 4 Praise. Up the second set of stairs feed some more
sparrows for another 4 Praise (if you followed this guide, that was the
final set of sparrows). Now, talk to the sparrow that's crying. Tai will
say that his dog is lost. Hmm. The Canine Tracker appears now, too. Head
up the last stairway.
At the top on the right are some tigers you can feed for 10 Praise. Before
focusing on the flashing bamboo, feed some more tigers to the left of those
large bamboo trees for 10 more Praise. Now, Power Slash a tree when it has
the glowing spot on it. You'll find Canine Warrior Gi inside. Choose to
pick a fight to prove you're worthy.
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~Canine Warrior Gi~
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He is almost exactly identical to Canine Warrior Tei. His neck ball will
glow whenever he is going to attack, but the difference here is that he is
rather quick with his attacks and he like to jump all over the battlefield.
As such it can be a bit of a long fight if he keeps jumping away from you.
Also, he does three slashes and not five like Tei does in one of his
attacks.
Since he has a lot of health and normal attacks take a while, spam Cherry
Bombs. Whenever he stops moving just lay a Cherry Bomb right next to him.
If it's drawn right next to him it'll explode right away. It takes about 15
Cherry Bombs to kill him.
When he's lost half of his health he will start digging holes. If you fall
into one, keep trying to jump out of it. If you don't in time Gi will come
over an pee all over you. What a bizarre attack.
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After the fight Gi will hand over the Duty Orb. The warrior won't return,
but you have his power, and that's good enough. Now there's only two more
to find. Before leaving, feed him meat from the Fan Menu for 10 Praise.
Also, head to the top right corner of this area to find a small altar with
hares you can feed for 6 Praise. There are also two dig spots infront of
the lights. Wait until nighttime to see them if you can't find them
yourself. One contains a Golden Peach, the other Stray Bead #32.
Head back to the hot spring. Mr. Bamboo will talk about the Kamiki Festival
that's approaching, and then hands off a Mermaid Coin. Swim into one of
those swirling green circles in Mermaid Springs and use the coin from the
Fan Menu and you can teleport to any other Mermaid Spring you've visited.
Very handy.
That's all for Sasa Sanctuary. Head back to Taka Pass. Save on your way
out.
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~Taka Pass~
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Don't use the Mermaid Spring here to go to Agata Forest--it's a short walk
and there's something on the way there you'll want to do. Head to the
entrance to Agata Forest. Before entering, talk to the man next to the Tea
Master. If you bought a Pinwheel from Kusa Village, he'll take it and give
you 10 Praise in return. Now enter the forest.
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~Agata Forest~
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Head across the log bridge and back into the forest. You'll find Kokari at
the water's edge. Talk to him several times and he'll say he thinks Ume was
eaten by the legendary fish Whopper. He'll mention a lady next to Hitoshio
Spring, and that's where you'll want to head next. Remember it? Head left
down the path and up the hill next to the merchant.
You'll find that Kushi is gathering water here for the festival. Talk to
her several times to learn more about the festival, then stand behind the
barrel to make the camera zoom out. Use Waterspout to put water in the
barrel. Do this three times to make it full, and several Imps will ambush
you. No need for an actual fight, though, as Susano will come to save the
day! And by that I mean you need to Power Slash all the Imps he attacks,
much like his training targets.
After Susano takes his leave, Kokari's yell will echo through the forest.
The Canine Tracker will appear, too. Jump off the cliff infront of the
spring and down to the tunnel leading to Madame Fawn's house. Head over
there. Remember the burning chests? You can put them out with water. Use
Waterspout on all three chests. The center one contains Stray Bead #17.
Remember the island you first found Kokari awhile ago? It's the
southeastern one, and it has the red circle on the map highlighting it.
You'll see the monstrous Whopper leap out of the water breifly after
talking to him. Talk to Kokari again and choose to help catch Whopper. You
remember how to fish, right? Draw a line from the fish, keep tapping the
control stick in the opposite direction of the fish to reel it closer and
raise the power gauge (keep it as far right as you can, but not in the red
section!), then shake the Wiimote when instructed and Power Slash the
fish to catch it.
After catching two fish the Whopper will appear. You'll have to reel him in
two times to catch the sucker. When you do, another constellation will
appear. Paint the three missing stars and Yumigami will teach you Crescent.
Now you can make it nighttime whenever you wish my drawing a half circle in
the sky to make the moon appear. Great for all those night-only events.
Try it out now. After making the moon appear, Ume will pop out of the
Whopper's mouth. Choose to pick a fight against Ume to test your strength.
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~Canine Warrior Jin~
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Jin is exactly like the previous warriors you have fought against, but like
the last one he employs one new attack. He has the same attacks as Gi, but
now he can also drop turds on the ground. There's not any other way to
describe it, really. Don't get near his poop--it explodes after several
seconds and has a rather large blast radius.
Also like Gi, Cherry Bombs are the best way to whittle down his health. He
rarely does any actual attacks (as usual, neck ball glows), and instead
prefers to make holes and drop log bombs the entire match. Remember that
dirt he kicks up when making holes hurts you too, so keep your distance.
Spam Cherry Bombs and you can win easily.
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You'll obtain the Justice Orb for beating him. Only one more warrior
remaining and we can finally enter the Gale Shrine. Now, make your way back
to Shinshu Field. There's two entrances to it, but it doesn't matter which
one you choose. It's at the north end of Agata Forest on the upper level if
you forgot.
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~Shinshu Field~
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Remember Ida? If you don't, he's laying near Nameless Man's kiln. Give him
a Traveler's Charm to make him start running. Leave the field or enter/exit
a building to refresh the area. You'll find him running around the field.
Talk to him and challenge him to a race. This is probably the most
misleading minigame in the entire game. He says "race" but you don't race
anywhere. He'll jsut keep circling around the field, and you lose if you
lose sight of Ida. To "beat" him, run up to him and tackle him. It can be
quite hard, so try sidewiping him. If you manage to tackle him, you will
earn 10 Praise.
Nothing else left in Shinshu Field besides some sidequests that are
meaningles to start now since you can't complete them yet. Head over to
Kamiki Village.
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~Kamaki Village~
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Phew, almost done! The Canine Tracker will appear not long after entering
the village. Save at the Ultimate Mirror, then look up at the nearby
waterfall. See the Konohana Blossom? Vine up to it, jump onto the ledge to
Bloom a clover worth 5 Praise, then get back on the blossom. There's
another blossom higher up to the right of the waterfall. Vine there and
jump onto the ledge. Follow it, and next to the top of the waterfall is a
chest containing Stray Bead #4.
Remember Hayabusa, Mushi's dog? Head over to him. He's actually Canine
Warrior Chu. You can't pick a fight with him unless it's nighttime, so draw
Crescent in the sky, then begin the fight.
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~Canine Warrior Chu~
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Chu will attack more often, and tends to dig a lot of holes once he is
running low on health. He also tends to jump all over the place, making
spamming Cherry Bombs quite difficult. It's still the fastest way to kill
him because he has quite a large amount of health.
Just be patient. His attacks are exactly identical to Tei's. Except now he
digs holes. Just keep wailing on him and jumping over his attacks (and
staying away from the dirt clumps he flings at you while digging) and you
can get by without any damage.
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The Loyalty Orb is yours once you defeat him. That's all eight warrios (and
orbs) collected, so now we can finally enter Gale Shrine. You can head to
Sakuya's tree and cut some fruit down for a few items if you wish. Head
back to Shinshu Field once you're ready.
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~Shinshu Field~
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Head to the Mermaid Spring next to the Dojo. Jump into the water and swim
to the swirling green part. Use a Mermaid Coin from the Fan Menu and choose
to warp to Taka Pass. As a note, you can only warp there if you revived the
spring by destroying the Devil Gate in Taka Pass. Otherwise, warp to Agata
Forest and run to Taka Pass.
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~Taka Pass~
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Head up the nearby hill and enter Kusa Village again.
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~Kusa Village~
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With one quest finally over, save the game.
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~4J.Gale Shrine and Crimson Helm~
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Overview--It's time to finally enter the Gale Shrine and defeat the
monsters lurking within. Luckily for you it's short and easy, and shouldn't
very long at all.
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~Kusa Village~
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Head through the village and go into Princess Fuse's house. Talk with her,
as if you've gotten the three Power Orbs then all eight of them will
surround you. You can now use them as a key to open the entrance to the
Gale Shrine.
Leave and go to the left side of Princess Fuse's house. There is a dig spot
near the wooden bridge arcing over the pond (it's on the side away from
the house). Wait until nighttime and it'll light up, and you can obtain
Stray Bead #27 inside. Now, head to the tunnel to the right of her house.
When you get into the open area, head right of the Gale Shrine entrance to
Bloom a clover worth 5 Praise. There's also some monkeys nearby worth 9
Praise. Now, enter the shrine.
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~Gale Shrine~
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Head right and follow the path hen you enter. Watch Susano talk in his
sleep when you reach him, then walk forward to the door with the red
barrier. A eight orbs will break the seal on the door so you can enter the
main area of the shrine. Now, enter the dungeon. In the next room you can
Power Slash the chests underwater and collect their treasures if you wish.
Don't bother going forward and down the hill through the red gate. You
can't do anything down there yet. Instead, go through the tunnel on the
right. At the end is a Devil Gate. You will fight a Chimera inside. They
are almost identical to Bud Ogres--just attack until the collapse. You
don't need to Bloom them or anything when it turns grey to injure it,
however. Just be careful because when it drinks sake it will breathe a
wall of fire, so keep running to avoid it. The Power Slash is their floral
finisher.
A key will appear after clearing the gate, so grab it. Head back to the
main room, then go down the hill through the red gate. Walk across the
wooden bridge with some windmills on it and you will reach the locked door.
Open it and save at the Origin Mirror, then head through the door to find
you will be on an elevator.
See the symbol in the middle? As you could guess, place a Cherry Bomb there
to make the elevator go up a floor. Before doing so, stand near the gate so
the camera zooms out to see the elevator, but you aren't standing on it.
Cherry Bomb the center and the elevator will leave without you. Jump down
the exposed hole where the elevator used to be and you'll be in a lower
area of the shrine.
Down here are three chests, one containing Stray Bead #33. Open the other
chests and Bloom the two clovers for a total of 10 Praise, then feed the
mice near one of the clovers for 8 more. Enter the green light to appear
back on the elevator. Cherry Bomb it and head to the second floor. Up here
you will find a Demon Scroll, so fight it. Defeat the lone Chimera inside
to make a key appear. Grab it, fall down the elevator, then Cherry Bomb it.
On the second floor, Cherry Bomb it again to rise to the top.
The locked door will appear right away. Unlock it then walk onto the
balcony. Quite dark up here. Head right, avoid the chest, then climb the
numerous amount of stairs. You'll reach a flat area, then will climb one
last staircase. As soon as you reach the top of it, turn around to find a
long hallway in the wall with a chest at the end. Jump to the hallway (it's
easiest to jump from the middle of the staircase) and open the chest for a
Sun Fragment.
Now climb the staircase again and walk onto the balcony. The door will
lock. You will view the entire windmill, as well as the evil wind that is
making it stop. You'll need to purge the three sets of evil wind. First,
draw a loop, moving right to left. For the second wind, draw over the evil
wind exactly, moving right to left again. For the third wind, make a left
to right loop.
And hey, another constellation will appear! Draw the three missing stars to
make Kazegami teach you Galestorm. Simply draw a left to right or right to
left loop to make a gust of wind blow right or left respectively. The
bigger the loop, the longer the wind will last. Try it out on the small
windmill above the door. Draw a left to right loop and the door will open.
Nice.
Run down the windmill. Near the elevator you'll find the chest is still
burning. Now you're able to use Galestorm to snuff out the chest, though.
Yay! Open it up to find the map inside (again, useless since we're very
close to the boss now).
Jump down the bottom of the elevator shaft. Cherry Bomb it and rise to the
second floor again. Outside you will find the burning chest. Snuff it out
with Galestorm and grab Stray Bead #34 from inside. Fall back down the
shaft and leave the elevator for good. Step onto the wooden bridge outside
with the windmills on it. At the first windmill draw a right to left
Galestorm to make the bridge rotate, allowing access to a new area.
Grab the Brush Tips scroll from the chest infront of you when you get off
the bridge, then continue ahead. Ignore the fallen pillar for a moment and
open the burning chest ahead for a Pearl. Return to the fallen pillar and
climb it to the top. Jump off onto a ledge with a Lacquerware Set in a
burning chest. Use the Konohana Blossom behind you to land right next to a
chest containing a Steel Soul Sake.
Turn around to find a blossom lower down. Vine to it and open the burning
chest for an Inkfinity Stone. On the rafters to the right of the chest are
some mice. Walk over to them carefully so you don't fall off and feed them
for 4 Praise.
Jump back down and climb the pillar. This time use the blossom infront of
you to Vine up to a high rafter. There are no more blossoms and a huge gap
ahead. What to do? See the banners on the left wall? Use a left to right
Galestorm to make the banners float infront of you, forming a bridge. Make
a large loop to make the wind last longer so you have enough time to cross
it. On the next rafter is a chest with a Wooden Bear inside. On the rafter
after that is an Exorcism Slip S. Jump down to the platform below and save
at the Origin Mirror, feed the mice for 7 Praise (That's all the mice in
the game if you're following along). Now, enter the door, head down the
hallway by Galestorming the fire pillars, and enter the battle.
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~Crimson Helm~
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This battle couldn't have been made much easier. The Satomi Power Orbs will
surround you for the battle, acting as a level 8 Godhood. Basically, you
get eight free hits before you start taking damage. Yeah, simple.
Crimson Helm's attacks consist of charging towards you (just run out of the
way to avoid him), slamming his swords on the ground to send a wave of fire
at you (jump or run out of the way to avoid), and making a big leap towards
you, making a large fire shockwave when he lands (jump over it).
To hurt him, keep attacking him. It may appear you aren't hurting him, but
you are--his armor, at least. After enough damage his armor will fall off,
revealing a firey body. Galestorm him to reveal his skeleton, at which
point you should bash him to inflict damage. After several seconds he will
regrow his armor and the process will begin anew. Nothing else happens in
this battle, making it short and easy.
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After the battle, he'll back away and Orochi's heads will appear. Susano
comes in and you'll have to help him clear out the heads. Power Slash each
one as he comes up to it. Once all eight are down, you'll need to help him
finish off Crimson Helm. Perform a right to left Galestorm three times and
the boss will be finished. You earn the Life Beads for beating him, and
Waka will take the Serpent's Crystal. What a jerk.
You'll get 30 Praise for helping Princess Fuse. Leave the Gale Shrine now.
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~Kusa Village~
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Issun says you should head back to Kamiki Village for some of the sacred
sake that intoxicated Orochi. Looks like we're fighting him soon. But
first there are a few tasks in Kusa Village and Taka Pass we can do now.
Head back down the village. Just past the curved wooden bridge, Vine to
the Konohana Blossom above. Follow this wooden bridge and head past the
tunnel that led to a Canine Warrior earlier. At the end you'll find a chest
with Glass Beads inside. Off the side of the platform are some banners.
Like in Gale Shrine, Galestorm them (right to left) to have them form a
bridge. It's easy to fall off one of these, so be patient if you miss and
need to climb back up here again. At the top are two chests containing a
Sun Fragment and Stray Bead #29.
Feed the chickens up there as well for 4 Praise. That's all the chickens
in the game. Also, this should be your third Sun Fragment. That means you
earn an extra unit of Solar Energy. Nice. The last thing to do is enter the
inn in the main area of the village. Go to the second floor and tackle the
door to find Haruka bathing. She'll tell you to leave. Leave the inn and
reenter. On the second floor tackle to door on the right to make it fall.
Haruka is inside here. Talk to her twice and she'll hand off a Dead Fish
wanted list. They are in Taka Pass. See the Wanted List section to find
their locations. It's not very important right now.
Anyway, now leave for Taka Pass.
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~Taka Pass~
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There's a few things to do here. Fall down the cliff ahead to be standing
at the Mermaid Spring. Near the water is a pile of leaves. Galestorm them
away to reveal a chest in the ground. Dig it out and open it to earn Stray
Bead #24.
Now, head towards the City Checkpoint entrance at the west end of Taka
Pass. To the right of the entrance you'll still find Bingo trying to dig up
some treasure. Blow the leaves next to him away with Galestorm to discover
a hole. Time for another digging minigame!
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Digging Minigame--Round 2
Base Time Limit--1 Minute
This digging maze is more horizontal than vertical. Now, there are some
things to know. First, if you bring the escort to the bottom row of rocks,
you can get screwed if surrounded by unbreakable rocks. You can't make your
escort jump, so the only way to continue is to restart the minigame (do so
by pushing the + button and choosing Start Over).
With the strict time limit, you'll need to keep Blooming giant buds for
more time. Also, you can use Waterspout on water holes to lift your escort
to new areas (note that it will NOT lift you. Ever. You can wall jump to
the place it lifts them to, though). Finally, Galestorm will make your
escort hover a few feet--one full rock length, to be be exact. Use it to
get them to cross over spiky rocks.
From the starting rock, dig through it (Bloom the giant bud on the right
first, though). When you fall, Bloom the giant bud then Power Slash the
rock below. Tackle the rock on the right, Bloom the giant bud, then tackle
the next three rocks on the right. Bloom a fourth giant bud, then lead
Bingo into the water hole. Waterspout him (make sure he's facing right when
you do this) and wall jump yourself up to a higher row of rocks.
Bloom the giant bud, then dig through the brown rock. Power Slash the rock
below it, then tackle the rock on the right, Power Slash the next one on
the right, then run right some more. There are three more rocks on the
right, so tackle them all and continue to another water hole.
Waterspout to the top again (make Bingo face right before doing so). Bloom
the giant bud, then dig through the rock below. Dig through a second one to
fall down a bit, then Power Slash the rock on the right. Bloom the giant
bud, then dig the rock below you. You'll be on the bottom row of rocks.
Now, simply tackle every single rock to the right of you, Power Slashing
when needed. The last one will be a Power Slash rock too. The far right
bottom row rock will be the one you need to get Bingo to. When his
pendulam reacts to it, dig the rock to complete the minigame.
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Phew! Your reward for getting through that will be a Sun Fragment. Nice.
Now, remember that cave you fought Waka quite some time ago? Head all the
way back to it. Head through the tunnel and up the wooden ramp. At the top,
head through another tunnel. The chests here are still burning. Use
Galestorm to put them out. The second chest contains Stray Bead #25.
And that's it for Taka Pass. Head back to Agata Forest now, or just use the
Mermaid Spring to go to Shinshu Field.
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~Agata Forest~
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Head to the north end of the forest and head back to Shinshu Field.
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~Shinshu Field~
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Wow, it looks really stormy here. Better hurry back to Kamiki. Save at the
Ultimate Mirror near the Guardian Sapling first, though.
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~4K.Facing the Dreaded Orochi~
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Overview--The time has come to seek out Orochi in the Moon Cave and end his
reign of terror just like in the legend form 100 years past. The path to
him is quite tedious, but you can handle it.
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~Shinshu Field~
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Head right back to Kamiki Village.
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~Kamiki Village~
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It's the night of the full moon, and a festival should be going on. Huh.
Head to Susano's house where the villagers are gathering. You'll hear
Susano's story and how you're pretty much screwed against Orochi. Lovely.
Kushi gets chosen to be sacrificed to Orochi, and she's going to bring
along her Thunder Brew sake. She'll leave the village now, and you should
too.
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~Shinshu Field~
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Meet up with Kushi near the main area of the field. You'll need to take her
to the Moon Cave. Surely you remember where that is, right? Just head to
the top of the field and go down the hill through the red arch. It's a
little left of the river leading to Agata Forest. Head through the gate at
the bottom of the hill.
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~Moon Cave~
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Kushi will get swiped by Orochi, and Waka will trap you by the barrier.
He's still a jerk. All you can do is proceed forward and--damn, the stairs
are out. Well, leap before you think, right? Jump into the purple abyss.
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~Calcified Cavern~
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You'll be greeted by a few Imps when you fall, but they both think that
you're just a dumb looking wolf, so they won't attack. Lucky. Now, look at
the map for this place. You're at the northern end of it. You want to make
your way towards the southern end, near the small pool of water. There
isn't a single thing of interest on your way there, save a few chests
containing some treasures if you want them real bad. You'll pick up the
Thunder Brew on your way there. You'll be needing it later.
At the south end of the cavern is a Devil Gate. Enter it to face off
against a Black Imp. These guys will have four skills float around them.
The skulls will attack using laser beams and flat out ramming into you. To
destroy them, Power Slash them. If all four are gone the Black Imp is
completely helpless to attack (you can harm him with the skulls floating
around, but you'll likely take damage). Their floral finisher is the Power
Slash.
Once defeated, a chest appears. Grab the Mask inside. Now you can disguise
yourself as an Imp! Draw whatever you want on your mask, it doesn't matter.
Be creative if you want. Once you're done, head back to the Imps you landed
near earlier. They'll accept you as one of their own, so you can now enter
the Moon Cave.
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~Moon Cave~
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This is the central room of the cavern, and you'll be visiting it
frequently. The center is filled with water, but you can see some doors
in the water. Hmm. The left door on land is locked, so head through the
curtains on the right to enter the kitchen.
Head up the stairs and around to the top of the big pot. Use the Konohana
Blossoms to attach vines to both of the pot's handles to open it up,
revealing the chef inside. Chef Ajimi will explain that he's cooking the
appetizer for Orochi's sacrifice, but he's missing four secret
ingredients. All of them can be found within the Moon Cave, luckily.
He hands you a key, so bite it and save at the Origin Mirror next to him.
Head back to the central room and open up the locked door, proceeding
through. You'll be in a glowing green room with a canyon of purple poison
at the bottom. At the end of the land you will have to Vine to a blossom
to continue.
As the cinematic shows, the remaining Konohana Blossoms are facing down--
they will drop you into the poison after they latch on to you and swing
you over to them. As such, while in the air you'll need to keep vining to
the next Konohana Blossom. Remember that you can only Vine when close
enough to a blossom so that it is open, not closed.
Vine to the next blossom. If you use the blossom on the right, you'll land
on a ledge. Cherry Bomb the crack behind the stalagtites and Bloom the
giant bud for a Vengence Slip. Back outside, Vine to the next blossom you
would have gone to if you didn't want to land on the ledge. The final one
will drop you onto land near a door (if you have only 3 Ink Pots for
whatever reason, stand on the ledge leading to the Vengence Slip. Look
towards your destination. There's an open blossom near it. Then there's
only one more to land on the ledge, using two pots total. Do this if you
absolutely must).
The door is locked, however. Next to it is an eye statue. Power Slash to
eye to make the door open. Inside the next room is a Devil Gate. Enter it
to fight two Red Imps and a Bud Ogre. Very simple fight. Once beaten, a
chest containing Ogre Liver appears. That's one ingredient. Now, Vine
across the canyon again. It's a bit harder because the blossoms are
ascending now, giving you less time to react to them opening. Once you get
back to the area where you started, head towards the main room of the
cavern.
Before reaching it, the camera focuses on a Power Spring that newly
appeared. Use Waterspout on it to make a fountain, then enter it and ride
to a high ledge. Proceed through the tunnel to arrive in the main room,
but this time on the second floor. Go left and Waterspout the spring in the
bowl of water to make a fountain. As soon as you reach the third floor,
head left and through the door.
Run across the bridge. There's ice covering the door, so we can't enter.
Run back across the bridge and...oh, Ammy...what hath thy been eating? The
bridge snaps and you'll tumble into the basement, landing right next to a
Devil Gate. Enter it to face off against two Red Imps and a Black Imp. Once
defeated, a nearby pond will fill with water and you'll earn 30 Praise.
Jump up the ledges to the bamboo chute. It's hard to get a good angle to
do this, but you need to Waterspout water into the chute. Once you do so,
it'll lift up and down, pressing a switch. This opens a nearby valve,
releasing water into the basement, flooding it. This empties the water from
the main room, so you can enter that area.
Head over to the valve and use Waterspout on the spring and ride the
fountain into the valve. As soon as you reach the main chamber, a Black Imp
ambushes you. Kill him and Power Slash the eye statue nearby. This will
open the chamber door below you, revealing a huge pool of purple water.
Ugh. You can't jump down there, obviously.
Use the nearby spring to make a fountain to return to the first floor of
the room. Walk onto the elevator and talk to the Imp about taking us to the
bottom level. He's not into it, really.
Too bad. Power Slash him to make him lose grip of the crank, and you'll
slowly start descending into the pit. He will grab it again after a few
seconds, so Power Slash him again. It'll take six of those to reach the
bottom. Jump onto the ledge on the left and enter the next room.
Two Red Imps and a Blue Imp ambush you here. Also nothing to worry about.
The puzzle in this room is figuring out how to open the door. You need to
Power Slash all four eye statues simultaneously. To do so, move the camera
so all four eyes are in one line. Then, make one long Power Slash that hits
all of them. If done right, all of the statues' eyes close and the door
will open. Take your time adjusting the camera--it can be a bit tricky. And
the Wiimote may be stubborn in allowing a straight line.
In this room is a huge iced statue. Examine it and an Ice Mouth will
attack. These guys are annoying to dispose of. You can either wait until
the layer of ice around it disappears briefly, allowing you to attack it,
or try Cherry Bombing it (which is hard considering how fast it moves).
Their floral finisher is Inferno.
Once defeated, the statue will thaw and erupt into glorious flames. A
constellation? Here? Draw the three missing stars (there's one at the
intersection of lines if you can't tell) to have Moegami teach you Inferno.
Now you can paint a line from any fire source to direct fire there (much
like Waterspout). Try it out by drawing a line from the fire to the ice.
It'll melt, granting you access to the next room. Ignore the elevator for
a second and burn the ice using the fire on the walls. Cherry Bomb the
crack to reveal a hidden room with an Inkfinity Stone in a chest. Now, talk
to the Imp to ride the elevator up.
Enter the door when you arrive to be in the back area of the kitchen. Enter
the Devil Gate here to fight two Ice Mouths. Draw a line from the torch to
them to get rid of their icy coating briefly. If you attack them without
their icy coating they will be stunned for a few seconds. Whack them good
and take them down.
A chest containing the second ingredient, Lips of Ice, will appear. Burn
the ice nearby with Inferno, save at the top of the kitchen, then head back
to the central room of the cavern. On the left side of the room you can
find a Bloomable clover worth 30 Praise, and a blue flower. Jump into the
flower. It acts like a trampoline of sorts. Jump out of it when the flower
dips down to land on the second floor. Head right, use a fountain on the
spring, and reach the third floor. Enter the room on the left.
The bridge is still broken, but we can Rejuvenate it! Once fixed, head
across it again and burn the ice using the fire on the wall. In the next
room you'll find a Devil Gate. Enter it to fight an Ice Lips and a Fire
Eye. The Ice Lips is standard fare, but Fire Eye's are easier. First, use
the fire on the wheel as a source to hurt to harm the Ice Lips. Once he's
killed, use Galestorm to blow the fire out of the Fire Eye. Then just wail
on them until it dies. Galestorm is its floral finisher.
A chest containing the third ingredient, Eyeball of Fire, appears after the
fight. Melt the ice behind the chest and enter the room to find a key. You
can't melt the fire in here just yet. Head back, cross the bridge, and back
to the main room. Head left and open the locked door with the key, then go
to the next room.
This room contains a lot of sand. Midway through it you'll find a large
boulder. You must tackle it to move it. If it falls off into the abyss, the
ball will just fall down again pretty close to you, so don't worry much
about missing. Tackle it to push it forward and around the corner. You'll
reach a dead end...or is it? Power Slash the eye statue and wind will blow
sand into the abyss infront of you, revealing that the path ahead is
invisible. It is a straight line to the other side, so keep tackling and
don't do so at an angle.
On the other side, Bloom a clover on the left for 5 Praise, then push the
ball around a sand hill and onto the red switch. This opens the door and
lights all the round torches in the cave on fire. Grab the map from the
chest if you want (we're almost done here anyway), and enter the door.
Back in the main room, eh? Head up the stairs on the left, burn the ice on
the chest for an Incense Burner, then buy anything from the merchant that
you need. Look the the fifth floor above to the right and use the Konohana
Blossom to reach it. Run around the corner, and you'll find part of the
floor is missing. Make a left to right Galestorm to make the banners form a
bridge to the other side.
You'll reach a platform with a cannon. Look across the room to see the wall
with a crack under it (it's under the white sign with a dragon-esque
painting on it). Wait until the cannon is facing 90 degrees right of the
wall, then use Inferno on the rope. This'll make it fire into the wall,
destroying it. Galestorm the banners again and run into the exposed room.
As soon as you enter the room a Black Imp will attack. Continue through the
tunnel. On a ledge on the left side you'll spot a flaming ball. Use
Galestorm to knock it off its ledge, then keep Galestorming it to push it
through the tunnel. Towards the end of it you will find two icebergs on the
right ledge. Inferno them and wall jump to the ledge. You'll find the final
Devil Gate here. Two Red Imps and a Black Imp are in it. A chest containing
the final ingredient, Black Demon Horn, awaits.
That's all four items. Took long enough. Run back through the tunnel, back
to the main room and jump off the edge to land on the first floor. Near the
clover and blue flower are two chests now (one is encased in ice). Earn
their contents if you wish, then head to the kitchen and give the
ingredients to Ajimi. He'll finish his dish using then. I can't believe we
did this entire quest just for...that. Save the game, naturally.
Head back to the main room and go to the large blue bell. Jump tackle it
eight times to break the seal leading to Orochi. An elevator will take the
dish to him. When that's done, talk to the elevator Imp yourself and
request to visit Orochi. At the top, ascend the spiraling pathway to end up
fighting...
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~Orochi~
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This fight is painful. Painfully easy, that is. And boring. To start with,
attack one of the heads. Use a rosary or just Power Slash it. Issun will
comment that Orochi has a barrier protecting him. Susano then appears, and
he totally does something useful for once--piercing the barrier. Awesome.
The sake nearby dumps into the puddles infront of each head. Hmm. Now you
will need to get the heads drunk. To do so, stand infront one and dodge its
attacks. After attacking, the head roars at you. Waterspout the sake into
the mouth. Do it twice and the head will become confused, so move to the
next head. After intoxicating three heads, all of the heads will collapse
to the ground. Run up a head to the center of Orochi to find a bell. Use
Power Slashes on the bell to drain its health, then normally attack it if
you run out of Ink Pots. If you don't do it in time, you'll need to
intoxicate three heads again.
Once you do destroy the bell, Orochi's barrier is completely diminished.
Now, all you need to do is kill each head. Again, after doding an attack
you can feed them sake when they roar. This time the head will collapse for
several seconds, allowing easy damage. Note that after destroying the
first head that fire will rain down onto the field. Keep moving and it
will rarely hit you. Here's the attack for each head, starting with the
Fire head and moving clockwise:
Fire--Brethes two rows of fire at you. Run left or right to dodge it.
Earth--Slams his body onto the ground.
Poison--Spits poison at you. Use Galestorm to blow it away.
Light--Shoots large lasers at you.
Thunder--Shoots several bolts of electricity at you (very short range
attack).
Water--Floods the area. Stand on a lilypad that appears near him and attack
his head to drain the arena. Also sends small worms at you when he floods
the arena.
Wind--Sends small tornadoes at you.
Dark--Shoots two purple giant buds. If you don't Bloom both of them they
will curse the arena, draining you of brush abilities (and ink) for about
10 seconds.
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Once you've beaten Orochi, you'll need to help Susano finish him off. Make
the moon appear by using Crescent, then just cut off all the heads with a
Power Slash as he attacks them. And with Orochi's departure, it's time to
celebrate! Nagi's sword, Tsumugari, is yours for the keeping.
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~Kamiki Village~
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Well, time to explore the village again! Everyone here is being festive,
so you should enjoy yourself. Nameless Man, Karude, and Mr. Bamboo are
drinking sake out of a green barrel. If you Waterspout the sake onto them,
they'll get drunk and pass out. Quite funny.
Talk to everyone if you wish. You'll find out Kushi and Susano are nowhere
to be found. They are actually hiding in the Cave of Nagi, so head there to
talk to them if you want. They are infront of the statue of Nagi, and they
will hint at wanting to be alone. Heh.
Buy a Mermaid Coin if you don't already have one, then leave for Shinshu
Field when you're ready. If you didn't talk to everyone, Issun will bother
you about not wanting to leave. Keep trying to leave and he'll eventually
let you. He mentions that you should head for the capital city now.
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~Shinshu Field~
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Save at the Ultimate Mirror near the Guardian Sapling.
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~4L.The Road to the Capital~
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Overview--It's time to head to the capital--Sei-an City. There are quite a
few things to do on the way there, namely some Stray Beads and a bunch of
animals to feed, but other than that it'll be a relaxing stroll on the
beach.
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~Shinshu Field~
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Use the Mermaid Spring and warp to Taka Pass.
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~Taka Pass~
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Head to the City Checkpoint at the west end of the area.
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~City Checkpoint~
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Well this is a pretty area. You should notice right away the giant
drawbridge isn't lowered, but we'll get to that soon. Save at the Ultimate
Mirror nearby. There's also a merchant here. To the right of the merchant
and near some trees are nightingales you can feed for 3 Praise.
To the left of the bridge is a wooden ramp. Head down them to the grassy
hill at the end. Look under the ramp to find a chest containing the Mother
Tree scroll. Continue down the hill, and close to the waterfall you can
find some Boar Piglets to feed for 6 Praise. Now, head to the waterfall. It
is hard to see, but there's a cave behind it. Swim into it and follow the
tunnel to find a 5 Praise clover at the end.
Outside the waterfall, head past it and continue down the beach. Use
Waterspout to douse the flames on the chest nearby and obtain Stray Bead
#37 from within. A little past the chest and on the left are some raccoons
you can feed for 6 Praise.
Continue down the beach. At the very end is a clover worth 5 Praise. There
is also a chest handle poking out of the ground nearby. Dig it up to find
Stray Bead #36 inside. Make it nighttime if you can't find it easily. Now,
head back to the top area of City Checkpoint.
Talk to the man firing arrows. This is Yoichi, a proud archer. Talk to him
a second time and he'll mention that a flaming arrow signals the lowering
of the drawbridge. The phoenix statues will be aflame if you've beaten the
Moon Cave. If you haven't, there's nothing you can do here.
In any case, when an arrow is in the air, use Inferno on it. This will make
the village on the opposite end completely explode, and the bridge will
lower. Sweet. Now cross the bridge.
About halfway over, though, look to the left and high in the air. See the
Konohana Blossom? If you jump and move the camera while the canvus is up,
you can Vine to it. There is a long string of blossoms in the air here,
15 to be exact, and if you can Vine to each one without falling in you can
reach the very end and drop onto a tall pillar containing a chest with
Stray Bead #39 in it. You MUST have an Inkfinity Stone to do this. You can
only have 10 Ink Pots max, not 15. After the fourth blossom you can fall
onto a pillar with a Dragon Statue on it, but you still have 11 blossoms to
go.
They start off going straight, move right and drop onto the first pillar,
then go left. Then the go straight, slightly turning left. When you reach
the rock wall, they go far right. Then there's one last turn to the right
to the final blossom which will drop you onto the pillar with the bead.
Swim back to shore, run up the hill to the bridge, and actually cross it.
On the left side you can find two patches of cursed grass. Bloom both of
them for a total of 40 Praise. You'll get an additional 20 for restoring
the entire left side of the bridge area. Feed the horses that appear for 8
Praise. Near the horses a chest handle is poking out of the ground. Dig it
up to find Stray Bead #38 inside.
Now repeat this process for the right side of the bridge. You'll get 40
Praise total from the two cursed grass patches, 20 for restoring the area,
and 2 for feeding the Nightingales that appear. With everything in City
Checkpoint accomplished, head on over to Ryoshima Coast.
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~Ryoshima Coast~
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Dang, why does this beautiful place have to be cursed? Firstly, save at the
Ultimate Mirror nearby. Now, head right of the mirror and follow the path.
Not the one leading into the cursed zone, but to the right of it. A sign is
pointing towards the path. It reads Ankoku Temple if you read it.
If you follow the path you will encounter a Headless Guardian at an
intersection up ahead. These guys are exactly like Red Imps, except they
have a bit more health. Their floral finisher is the Cherry Bomb (which is
hard to hit them with if the placement of the bomb is off a bit).
Once defeated, continue forward. At the end of the path is a crack in the
wall. Cherry Bomb it to find a cavern with a red barrel and a pond. Fill
the barrel with water using Waterspout, then wall jump up the ledge. There
is an empty pond up here. Waterspout water from the barrel into the pond to
fill it.
Find the hill against the wall and run up it. Wall jump to the top ledge of
the area. Waterspout water from the below pond into the empty pond up here.
Now, run around the corner to find another hill. Run up it and jump to the
high ledge. Waterspout water from below to the empty pond here for the
last time. This will make the Guardian Sapling grow, so now all you have to
do is Bloom it to restore Ryoshima Coast, earning 50 Praise with it.
Feed the nightingales that appear right next to the Guardian Sapling for 4
Praise (these are the last nightingales in the game, too). Leave the cave
area and follow the path. Soon on the right you can find some cows. Feed
them herbs for 12 Praise. Further down the path when you see an opening on
the left, near a large lake, head down it. Right before a tunnel is a
clover worth 10 Praise. The tunnel is merely a shortcut to Madame Fawn's
house in Agata Forest. Handy if you don't have Mermaid Coins.
Head further along the path back in Ryoshima Coast and head right along a
black stoned path. Talk to the Itinerant Monk if you wish, then head up the
stairs. On the right ledge of the temple is a cat you can feed for 2
Praise. Head back down the stairs and leave the temple. Near a Demon Scroll
at the bottom of the last set of stairs are some foxes you can feed for 12
Praise.
Head back to the Ultimate Mirror. To the left of it are some dogs you can
also feed for 9 Praise. Back at the mirror, head down the path adjacent to
it that was impossible earlier due to the cursed zone. Up on a ledge to the
right is a bell. Tackle it many times to earn a Holy Bone S, M, and L. Back
on the path, head down near the Fisherman. Talk to him to hear about the
Water Dragon and the sunken ship with valuable treasure on it.
Head left, towards a tall platform at the edge of the cape. Some foxes are
nearby, worth 9 Praise when fed. A clover worth 10 Praise is infront of the
platform. Head back to the path, following it around the cliff leading to
the beach. Near a Demon Scroll on the right are some hares worth 8 Praise.
Keep following the path to the beach. Talk to the merchant and refill any
supplies that you need.
Walk onto the beach and head down in the direction you came from. Right
away on the beach you'll find some monkeys to feed for 12 Praise. There are
also three patches of cursed grass near the merchant. Bloom all of them for
a total of 45 Praise, then feed the two groups of boar piglets and the pigs
for a total of 9 more Praise.
Now, see the island in the water with a building at the top? Swim on over
to it. Feed the monkeys near the entrance for 6 Praise, then enter the
second Dojo. You MUST learn the techniques Holy Eagle and Digging Champ to
complete the game. Holy Eagle is a double jump, while Digging Champ allows
you to dig through black dirt. It's a total of 50,000 Yen, an amount you
should have right now. If not, fight enemies until you do.
Outside of the Dojo you can find a chest handle poking out of the dark
dirt. Dig it up to find Stray Bead #43 inside. Double jump onto the tall
wooden platform for a Crystal if you wish. Head back to the mainland and
go to the sunken ship. Lilypad your way to the stern of the ship and get
onto the deck, then walk near the front of the ship. See the huge fallen
piece of wood you can walk on that leads to an upper area of the stern?
Walk up it, jump over the fallen debris, and land in the back. Open one of
the chests for Stray Bead #41.
Head back to the mainland you were at before going to the Dojo then keep
following the path. Talk to the Animal Lover to find out he's missing his
pet, then keep going. Walk up the stone pier and head left to the very end
of it. Grab the Dragonfly Bead from the chest and feed the kitties for 6
Praise.
Head back along the pier and up the ramp onto land again. You'll be
ambused by an Ubume. To kill them, Power Slash them to cut their wings,
then attack them to make the Ubume guard with an umbrella. Use Galestorm
to blow them against the wall, leaving the defenseless for a few seconds.
Repeat as necessary. Their floral finisher is Veil of Mist, which you don't
have yet.
Head right of the open gate to find a chest with a Steel Fist Sake inside,
and further right is a Devil Gate. Inside you'll fight two Ubume's. You
will get 30 Praise for restoring the area. A bunch of hares will appear,
so feed them for 8 Praise. Notice the black eared/foot one? You can feed it
individually for another 2 Praise. Pick up the black eared hare and walk to
the Animal Lover to return him. You'll get 20 Praise for your efforts, as
well as Stray Bead #42.
Head left of Sei-an City's entrance now. Near the closed gate at the end
are some horses to feed for 12 Praise (and these are the last horses in
the game). Nearby is a Devil Gate, so fight the Thunder Ear and Ice Mouth
inside. Use Cherry Bombs to finish them off, and you'll earn 30 Praise for
restoring the Mermaid Spring.
Now, finally head through the gate leading to Sei-an City. As soon as you
pass the wooden gate, head right and onto a ledge. Dig up the clover and
Bloom it for 20 Praise, then jump down to the lower ledge past that and
feed the cows for 12 Praise. Now, go enter the city.
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~Sei-an City (Commoners' Qtr.)~
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Eww...funky green mist. That can't be good. Save the game at the Origin
Mirror nearby. We'll need to figure this out.
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~4M.Wandering through Cursed Sei-an~
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Overview--The capital is cursed with the green mist, and it will take
quite awhile to fix it. We must do what we can in the city for now.
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~Sei-an City (Commoners' Qtr.)~
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Near the Origin Mirror are two different merchants. One will sell the
typical items, while the other is a weapons dealer. He sells the Seven
Strike glaive, so buy it if you wish. Also, fish can be sold for a higher
price at the tools dealer, so do so. The tools dealer sells four unique
items--two fishing rods, Herbal Medicine, and Charcoal. All you need to
buy now is the Blinding Snow rod. Buy the Marlin Rod for a sidequest later
if you wish, but it'll always be available here.
Jump into the canal behind the tools dealer. It's all empty. There are
many chests in the canal, ripe for the taking, but the chest in the canal
behind the tools dealer contains Stray Bead #46. Now, follow the canal to
the top left corner of the Commoners' Qtr's. On the wooden platform near
some rocky holes you'll find Naguri. Speak with him several times and
choose to help him dig. Yes, it's another digging minigame. Yay!
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Digging Minigame--Round 3
Base Time Limit--3 Minutes 30 Seconds
From where you land, Power Slash the rock on the right. Fall down it and
dig through the rock you land on. Bloom the giant bud on the right and
Power Slash the rock it was on. Dig through the rock below, Power Slash the
one below that, and dig through yet another rock to land on a black rock.
From here, tackle and destroy the four rocks to the left. Then dig the rock
below you. Use Galestorm to blow your escort over the spiky rock on the
left and he'll land on another rock, so dig through it. Power Slash the
rock below and Bloom the giant bud. Tackle the rock on the right, then
dig down through three rocks.
Power Slash the rock on the right, then dig through the rock below you to
be at the bottom of the maze. Get your escort to run right. The rock you
need to dig to clear the minigame is under the spiky rock. When your escort
reacts to it you are able to dig to clear the game.
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A bit simplier than other mazes. The canal through Sei-an will be flooded
again thanks to your efforts. You get 20 Praise as well.
**Note--All of the chests in the canal disappear when the water floods it.
The chests will reappear once you lift the mist covering Sei-an, so don't
worry about anything you missed.
Head to the center of the town and up the middle red bridge. Proceed into
the next area of Sei-an.
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~Sei-an City (Aristocratic Qtr.)~
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Cross the large bridge infront of you. Turns out that it isn't raised and
you can't actually access the other side of it just yet. Talk to Benkei the
fisherman. He'll say he wants to catch a living sword in this lake. You
will need to buy the Blinding Snow rod. Talk to him when you have. Also
note that you need to have restored water to the canal in order to play
the minigame coming up.
As you may have guessed, you'll be doing the fishing for him. As with
Kokari, draw a line to the fish, then hold the control stick in the
opposite direction the fish moves. Keep tapping it when the power gauge is
far right in the green section. Shake the Wiimote when instructed and Power
Slash the fish to catch it.
After catching two fish, a huge fish will appear. It'll take three Power
Slashs to pull it out. After catching the Cutlass Fish, Benkei will restore
the bridge. Now you can fully cross to the other side. Issun notes the
tower of mist eminating rising from the emperor's palace. Hmm. Enter the
building across the bridge after a brief chat with Waka.
Save at the Origin Mirror and talk to Rao. After the second time you talk
to her, follow Issun's words and use any brush technique (Power Slash,
Galestorm, whatever). She'll mention that she'd help, but she has lost her
Prayer Slips. Open the chests containing an Exorcism Slip M and the Land of
the Gods scroll. Leave via the back exit.
Head across the yellow bridge ahead of you, then turn right. At nighttime
you can find a dig spot in the middle of the three clumps of grass,
revealing a chest with Stray Bead #51 inside. Cool. Go across the next
yellow bridge and head for where the green mist is coming from.
When you get near the guards they will talk about how they think the
emperor is the cause of the sickness, and a girl he locked up for no reason
at all. Go right of the guards to find the Prayer Slips near a crack in the
wall the mist is coming out of. Pick up the slips and take them back to
Rao.
Keep talking to her, listen to the story, and choose to help her search for
the treasure. She says that you can only access the ship when the new moon
is out. Leave her house, and go back across the large bridge.
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~Sei-an City (Commoners' Qtr.)~
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Leave the city. We'll be back later.
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~Ryoshima Coast~
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Head all the way down the coastline and to the large bell infront of
Ankoku Temple. Near the bell is a cape. Remember it at all? At the end of
the cape is a clover you should have Bloomed already, as well as a tall
wooden platform. Double jump up to it.
When you land on it the camera will zoom out to view the entire sunken ship
as well as the platform. There's also a moon shape in the ocean. Should be
fairly obvious what to do. Draw a Crescent in the sky to bring out the
moon. This will drain all of the water around the sunken ship, so now you
can jump down to the seabed below. Head through the entrance at the bow of
the boat.
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~Sunken Ship~
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Looks like Rao is here as well. She'll ride on Ammy's back, and you can use
her to break cursed doors and injure ghosts. Just draw a line from her
Prayer Slips to any target. Try it out on the cursed door to destroy it.
Save at the Origin Mirror nearby.
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~4N.Fox Rods in the Sunken Ship~
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Overview--We're in the ship, and we know what we're looking for. The only
question left is just where in the ship these rods are. The ship isn't
very big, so how long could it take?
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~Sunken Ship~
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Head up the staircase. There are three ghosts blocking the way, so Prayer
Slip all of them to kill them (and get a Demon Fang from each for free). At
the top you'll be in a huge room. There are some treasure chests at the
bottom, so jump on down. There are five chests down here--three in the
middle and two in opposite corners of the room. The three in the middle
contains treasure which you should grab, but don't try opening the other
chests--they are enemies.
Grab the Holy Bone M, Celestial Envoy scroll, and the Bull Horn. In the
left corner of the room are the stairs leading to the next room, but a
ghost blocks the way. It's unkillable, so just charge on through. Yes, its
creepy as all hell face will block the screen for about ten seconds. There
is nothing you can do about it. However, if you bring up the canvus the
ghost will leave you for a second so you can run away from it. Eh.
Walk down the hallway and avoid the spikes that'll pop out of the ground.
Should be fairly obvious where their locations are, as you can see. In the
next room you will get into a battle with Jiro and Saburo. These two crabs
are fairly simple to dispatch. All you need to do is keep attacking them
until their shells fall off, then you can kill them off with two Power
Slashes. Fairly simple. Their floral finisher is Thunderstorm, an ability
you ain't getting for a long time.
Head around the bones and up the stairs. Use the golden gate, then open the
cursed door with a Prayer Slip. In the next room you'll find starlight
shining into the ship. Examine the barrel to find out it's connected to a
large scale. Bloom the clover nearby for 10 Praise. This a dead end. What
to do?
Ignore Rao's pleas and use Sunrise in the sky. This will flood part of the
ship again, allowing access to a new area. Head back the way you came, use
the golden gate if you must, and into the room where you fought Jiro and
Saburo. They're back, but this time they merge into the large shark Ichiro.
See the barrels? Best not to stand on those. Stand on the bones in the
center of the room instead. When Ichiro goes near a barrel, Power Slash it
to make it explode. He has armor, so it takes two or three barrels to knock
it off. Alternatively, just Power Slash him three times. When the armor is
off, Power Slash him three more times for victory. Thunderstorm is also his
floral finisher.
Head back to the hallway with the spikes. They won't attack you now that
they are submerged underwater. Proceed over the crates and back into the
room with the chests. Remember how a barrel was here earlier? It's still
here, but it's floating. You can jump onto it and hop ontop of the wall you
couldn't reach when the ship wasn't flooded. Lookit that, new area
accessed.
Use the golden gate, then hop to the cannon. You can stand at the head of
the cannon to lower it, and anywhere else to make it rise back up. Place a
Cherry Bomb at the back symbol to make it fire. There are three wooden
doors the cannon is facing. Destroy each of them. The middle one can be
tricky since you'll need to balance the cannon not too high and not too
low.
The top contains a Sun Fragment, the middle a Pearl, and the bottom reveals
a key on the ground. You can't get it right now since the ship is flooded,
but we'll return to it later. Now swim down the hallway behind the cannon.
Kill the four ghosts with Prayer Slips, then turn the corner. Jump onto the
nook in the wall on the right and open the chest for Stray Bead #57. Keep
jumping along the platforms and around the next corner.
Near the end is another nook on the right. Jump into immediately, even if
you don't care about the Crystal in the chest. A giant seaweed hand...thing
will pop out of the water and will try to slam on you. Yeah. Wait for it to
miss, then enter the large room and head left immediately. The hand will
keep trying to slam you as you try heading up the ledge, so try avoiding it
as best as possible.
Up the hill and near the bridge you'll find a barrel suspended by rope. Cut
it with a Power Slash then jump onto the barrel. Walk on it in the opposite
direction you want it to spin. Obviously, spin it right. At the end the
barrel will hook onto the other side of the scale. Neato. Wall jump to the
ledge above for a Monkey Statue if you wish, then make a lily pad and jump
back to the bridge you passed a minute ago.
You'll need to cross it. The seaweed hands will attack you by making their
fingers form barriers. Either keep running or jump over them like hurdles
as they come. If it's high, run. If it's low, jump. Pretty simple. They'll
stop attacking you when you cross the bridge. Head left, up the ramp, and
you will be back in the room where you caused the sun to rise.
Now make the Crescent to deflood the ship again. The barrel scale will be
fully active now. Jump onto the barrel and wait for it to bob up. At the
top, wall jump onto the ramp you used to get back to this room. You will
find the seaweed hands are sleeping on the ground and won't bother you in
here. Nice.
Head down the hallway the hands first attacked you and back to the cannon
room. If you haven't already, stand on the cannon's head to lower it, then
Cherry Bomb the back to fire at the lowest door. This will reveal a key.
You can now pick it up. Turn around the behind the cannon to the left is a
locked door. Unlock it and head through.
Head up the stairs behind the lock and open the cursed door. Inside you
will find a bunch of treasure chests. Several of them are enemies, so
beware. The one in the top right corner holds Stray Bead #58. The center
chest holds the treasure of the ship--the Lucky Mallet.
Wait, that ain't no Fox Rods! Leave the treasure room and you'll
automatically leave the ship.
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~Ryoshima Coast~
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Ammy will start swimming away, but as the waves swell you will find the
Water Dragon is in hot pursuit. Rao will leave and you'll be stuck in the
waters while the dragon chases you. You can escape by jumping away with a
bunch of lily pads, but just let the dragon eat you. Nothing bad will
happen and you'll get put on shore anyways. Saves you time.
Now all you gotta do is follow the Lucky Mallet. As you could guess, it's
headed back to Sei-an City. After it!
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~Sei-an City (Commoners' Qtr.)~
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Save at the Origin Mirror.
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~4O.The Imperial Palace and the Green Mist~
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Overview--The Imperial Palace is the source of the mist, but we don't know
what is causing it just yet. We'll need to find the source and destroy it
to restore Sei-an from the torture it's undergoing.
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~Sei-an City (Commoners' Qtr.)~
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Follow the hammer into the aristocratic area.
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~Sei-an City (Aristocratic Qtr.)~
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Follow the hammer to the Imperial Palace. You will end up at the exact same
spot that you found the Prayer Slips. Choose to get hammered and you'll be
shrunken and fit through the tiny hole.
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~Imperial Palace~
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Well, we're tiny now although you may not notice it right away. Hey, who's
that? Ah, it's just Issun. He looks much different close up. I like it. He
will ride Ammy as usual, but you can now draw a line from him to any chest
covered in locks and he'll steal the treasure inside. Try it out on the
test chest provided.
Once you've got that done with, head on forward. After passing the large
foot, save at the Origin Mirror. You can't head left due to a locked door,
so go right. Issun notes the Blocking Spider above you. They tend to lower
themselves to block doorways. Luckily, they won't be bothering us for a
little while, so pass on through.
Head on through the rock garden. Midway through you will hear someone
crying, guessing it's the girl trapped in the jail cell. Continue through,
collect the charms from the two chests if you want, then jump back to the
main land.
You will get into a fight with a Thunder Doom Mirror. Just defeat him like
any other mirror--Cherry Bomb to your hearts content. It can be tricky due
to how fast he rolls around the arena, so put it further ahead in his path
so he rams into the bomb. Their floral finisher is the Power Slash.
Proceed through the entryway and the golden gate. Several people will be
walking around here. You can't go far down the hallway because a woman with
a broom will block your path. Instead, head right of the broom to where
water is falling from a high alcove. Jump to a foot and jump to the cover
when it reaches the apex of its lift and grab the key in the cove (or just
have Issun grab it). You can Cherry Bomb the crack behind the key for a
Golden Peach. Head back and look for another alcove on the opposite wall,
lower to the ground and with water coming from it. Cherry Bomb the crack
and grab the Exorcism Slip S inside.
Head back to the rock garden and you will talk to the trapped girl. This is
actually Kaguya, Mr. Bamboo's granddaughter. If you talk to her again, she
will hint that the Emperor his some treasure in his garden. Let's go dig it
up. Head to the first room of the area and open up the locked door.
In here just Cherry Bomb the dirt hill and fall through the hole. At the
bottom you'll enter a secret area. You will find some spiders with red
platforms on them. You can use them as platforms to reach higher areas.
Ride the first one near you to the top ledge to find a clover worth 20
Praise.
Jump back down and continue along the path. Jump across the gaps, head down
the twig hill, and jump to the top of some mushrooms. From there you can
jump to a yellow spider. Quickly jump off of him and to the higher ledge,
otherwise the spider wall fall to the ground and you'll need to try again.
Climb the nearby ledges to find another clover worth 20 Praise, and around
the corner is a chest behind a web Issun can grab for a Steel Fist Sake.
Jump onto the red spider near the clover, leap to the yellow spider and
then quickly onto the last ledge. Bloom this clover for a final 20 Praise.
Now, jump to the lowest area of the room. Cherry Bomb the crack in the wall
and step into the next room.
A large flask is roped to the ceiling. The Blocking Spider will lower,
preventing escape. Power Slash the ropes to bring the flask to the ground,
then hop inside it. Now, use Galestorm inside to bring the funky mist out
of it. Make it point towards the exit, though. So if the exit's on the
left, you'd make a right to left Galestorm.
Once the mist is out, another constalltion will appear. Fill in the four
missing stars and Kasugami will teach you the most spammable technique in
the game, Veil of Mist. All you need to do is draw two horizontal lines.
Doesn't matter where in the screen, really. Just two of them. Yes, this is
completely abusable in battle and NO enemy in the game won't be slowed down
from it. Awesomeness.
Now, draw Veil of Mist while the spider is up, then quickly run under him.
In the previous room, a Wind Doom Mirror will attack. Spam Veil of Mist.
You'll win. Coincidentally, Veil of Mist is their floral finisher. Proceed
back up the ledges and to the pillar of light to leave this area.
Go back down the tunnel and to the rock garden. Head past Kaguya and to the
area with several people walking about. You can get past the woman with the
broom now by, obviously, using Veil of Mist to sneak past. Use it again to
sneak past another broom person, then head down the tunnel to the pond
area. Make Issun grab the Inkfinity Stone from the chest on the water, then
proceed over the rocks.
At the dead end, use Waterspout water from the waterfall into the bamboo
chute to make it tip over, forming a bridge. Head up it and repeat the
process for the next bamboo chute, this time creating a ramp to reach the
next ledge. At the end, jump onto the red spider and ride it to a higher
ledge.
You'll be at the Emperor's bedroom. Stand on the red box near the middle of
the room (ignore the enemies if you wish, but note this is the ONLY place
in the game a Fire Doom Mirror appears. Galestorm is their floral
finisher), and use the four spiders as platforms to reach the top ledge.
Up here, head up the ramp to the rafters of the room.
Head left at the first intersection, past a swinging spider (Veil of Mist
to get past the numerous amounts of these guys in the rafters), then past
another spider. At the end you'll find two white spiders moving back and
forth. If you step on them, they will start moving at crazy speeds. Veil of
Mist to time your jumps properly and land on the opposite rafter.
Take a right, then another right. You'll be infront of three swinging
spiders, all moving at different speeds. Run past them all carefully and
you'll be above the wave of green mist floating into the sky. Like Issun
hints at, jump on into the Emperor.
You'll be inside his body now. Ignore the giant thingy that looms at the
top of everyone's throats (tackle it if you want to leave the body for
whatever reason), then move down the throat. Save at the Origin Mirror,
then move to the next room. Jump on down to his belly.
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~Blight~
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This boss fight isn't very challenging in the least. Blight has two main
attacks. He will either pause for a second and zoom across the field
towards you, or he will send a spiral of swords at you.
When he prepares to zoom across the field he will stop moving and shake
for a brief second. When he does this, use Veil of Mist. As he is moving
across the field, attack the defenseless boss. After enough hits he will
drop his blue sword, which shares the same health bar as Blight for
whatever reason. Spam Power Slashes and Cherry Bombs on that thing.
Blight's other attack, as mentioned, was sending a bunch of swords at you.
One of them is his glowy blue sword. Use Veil of Mist and attack that sword
while it is circling over Blight. If you did that, he'll drop the sword on
the ground and you can repeat the same process as with the other attack.
Blight doesn't get any harder as the fight goes on, and he won't be making
his attacks any harder to dodge. Just repeat this process three of four
times and victory is in the bag.
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The Exorcism Beads is your reward for purging the Emperor of the virus, as
well as clearing the city of the mist. You'll have brief control of the
Emperor's body now. All you need to do is make your way to Kaguya's cell.
Not very hard since there is only one path over there. After freeing her,
save the game when asked.
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~4P.Sidequests in Sei-an~
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Overview--With Sei-an all cleared of evil mist, you can perform a ton of
sidequests in the large city. I will start with the one and only thing that
is actually required of you to progress through the game; everything else
will be tasks for earning Praise or Stray Beads.
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~Sei-an City (Aristocratic Qtr.)~
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You'll start off talking to the Emperor. He'll mention something about
Kaguya and an item that lets you cross a path of fire, then he'll mention
that he collects Demon Fangs. Yes, the Emperor is the main Demon Fang
trader in the game, and damn does he have some goods. For 80 Fangs, buy the
Fog Pot. Know how Ultimate Mirror's have an X on them? With this, draw an
X on the mirror (a + works better, though) and you can warp to any other
Ultimate Mirror. Insanely useful, and it's required for two Stray Beads
later. Collect the Veil of Mist Tech scroll when you buy it.
The Golden Ink Pot, at an expensive 100 Fangs, is also great. It'll refill
your Ink Pots at an absurd rate (about one per second) when equipped. Buy
it after the Fog Pot whenever you get the chance. Nothing else is really
worth purchasing, so leave the room. Outside of the Emperor's room you can
find a chest handle poking out of the ground on the right. Dig it up to
obtain Stray Bead #59 from inside. Now, leave the palace.
Talk with Kaguya outside. Keep talking to her to find out that she thinks
the key to her lost memories lies in Sasa Sanctuary. She'll head there and
that's your next destination. But you want Stray Beads and Praise, right?
Right? Good! We're gonna be in the city for awhile and milk out everything.
All the withered trees in this area can be Bloomed for Praise. Facing the
door leading to the Imperial Palace, head left to find a Mermaid Spring.
Behind it is a clover worth 10 Praise. To the left of the spring and on a
ledge by the lake is Benkei. Talk to him at any time to play the fishing
minigame again. You can always sell fish for cash, you know.
Now, it's time to pay the Queen a visit. The Queen's palace is in the
north-center of this area. It's the large red gates. Pretty hard to miss.
Two guards block the entrance. To sneak past them, just use Veil of Mist.
Infront of the palace, head right of the stairs. Jump over the fence and
follow the lone pathway to a dead end. You will find a clover worth 10
Praise there.
Head back infront of the stairs, but this time head left and over the
fence. Follow this path to a dead end to encounter a chest with Stray Bead
#54. Head back to the stairs and this time actually climb them. Infront of
the entrance to the palace, head around to the back. You will find a chest
here containing a Holy Bone M.
To the left of the entrance are some stairs leading to a door. Enter them
to be in a room containing a chest with a Crystal. The doors right of the
entrance lead to a room with three chests--two tresures and the Northern
Land scroll.
Enter the palace now. Head around the elevator tower to find a chest
containing Stray Bead #55. Cool. Now enter the elevator. At the top you
will be greeted by a pool of lava. Yeah...you can't swim through it. Don't
even bother. We need to figure out a way to do so later. Leave the palace.
We'll be back. Be sure of it.
Head to the northwest corner of the quarters to find three withered trees.
Behind them you can find a clover worth 10 Praise. There's one last clover
in the bottom left corner of the area. You'll need to jump across a short
river to a ledge to reach it. It's worth 10 Praise. Well, nothing else is
in the Aristocratic area for now. Boring, eh? But, a lot of tasks lie in
the Commoners' Quarters. First, head to the large bridge infront of Rao's
house. Stand at the end of the bridge, facing her house, then jump off the
right side. Swim through the water to the far right wall. A chest can be
found in the deep water near the wall. Power Slash it open and collect
Stray Bead #53 that floats up. Now, head to the Commoners' Quarters.
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~Sei-an City (Commoners' Qtr.)~
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For starters, head left and into the cafe. Head right inside and into the
kitchen. Talk to chef Yama. If you have the item he's looking for, the
Golden Mushroom, then give it to him. If you don't, be sure to stop at Taka
Pass at some point, head to the Moles' play area (a bunch of holes) near
the Ultimate Mirror, beat their game, and bring the Tea back to the Tea
Master near the entrance for the Golden Mushroom.
Your reward is the Fireburst technique. When the camera points at his
stove, paint an infinity symbol. You know, the sideways 8? This creates a
burst of fire, and Moegami appears to grant you the technique. Get the
scroll from the chest to learn how to use it anywhere. Nifty. You'll get 50
Praise for all of this work. Remember that this technique will always use
three Ink Pots.
Now, make it nighttime and head back inside the cafe. Talk to the man
sitting at the table. Talk to the drunken Masu on the right and he'll give
you his Monster Manifest wanted list, the third in the game. It is composed
of Thunder Doom Mirrors, and they can be found in Ryoshima Coast. Look at
the Wanted List section here for their locations.
Now, run to the house in the bottom left corner of the map. There is a
cracked wall on the side of the house, so Cherry Bomb it and head inside.
Grab all of the treasure chests in here, then double jump to the left side
rafter. Double jump to even higher rafter nearby (just follow the red
ladders to find where you're supposed to go). Open two more chests, then
head right. Open another chest, then head along the south rafters. Walk
carefully and fall into a caged room at the bottom right. Open the chest
for a Sun Fragment. Jump up the boxes to reach the main area of the room
again, then leave.
All around the city there are various docks with people on them. They say,
when talked to them, they wish to go to a different dock but there is no
ferry. Draw a lily pad right next to them and they'll hop on. You will have
a time limit to make them reach their destination. Use Galestorm to blow
the lily pad, and enter the flashing green zone at the dock they want to go
to to clear. You'll get Praise based on finishing time--finishing in a
minute or less gets the most Praise, while every 20 or so seconds after
that receives less and less Praise. Here are the people:
Bottom left corner--Take to Carpenter's Dock (top right dock)
Top right corner--Take to boss Carpenter's house (top left dock) (You only
have one chance to ferry him--he leaves forever if you fail)
Top left corner--Take to East Street (bottom right dock)
Middle left dock--Take to Weapons Dealer (middle right dock)
You might want to use an Inkfinity Stone for each transport. If you are
perfect for each person, you can earn a total of 120 Praise doing this.
Head over to the tools dealer and purchase the Herbal Medicine and
Charcoal. We'll be using these in a second (the latter, at least). Now,
with your charcoal, head to the middle right side of the city to find some
little girls with umbrellas. Talk to the purple umbrella girl to find her
drawing the picture you drew on your Imp mask onto the ground. Her charcoal
breaks and she'll ask for more. Give some to her.
Talk to her again and after she finishes you'll see a pattern appear over
her head. It'll be a star. Now, head to the bottom left corner of town.
Head inside the house with blue curtains at the door to be in the kimono
shop. Walk right, to the next room. Talk to Mr. Chic twice. He'll ask you
to draw a pattern on the kimono. Draw anything. Afterwards, talk to him
again and ask to draw a pattern. Now, draw the star the girl was thinking
of.
You'll know you draw it correctly because Mr. Chic will state "That pattern
almost seems as if it could make something happen." The star is tricky.
Most people start with the bottom left point, but that rarely works. Start
with the top point, go to bottom right, then top left, top right, then
bottom left.
Head back to the girl. You'll get 20 Praise. Talk to her again and the
pattern she's thinking of will be a heart. Head back to Mr. Chic and draw
the heart. This pattern is also stupid hard to draw "correctly". What you
want to do is start at the bottom point, draw a straight diagonal line,
curve to the top, make the other curve, then another straight diagonal line
to the bottom point to finish the heart. It doesn't always work, but it
occasionally does for me. Don't lose patience--keep trying! You'll get
that bastard to accept it eventually.
Talk to the girl again for another 20 Praise, as well as learning the third
drawing--a V. Hmm. Wonder what the catch is now? There is none. It's the
simplest drawing to make. Just start at the top left, make a line to the
bottom point, then make a line to the right. Simple as that. Try not to
smear the bottom point. If you do it often won't register it, and you'll
need to try again.
After receiving 20 Praise from the girl (and a blatant Viewtiful Joe
reference), you'll see the fourth drawing is a clover. You need to draw
four circles, all relatively close to eachother. For this drawing you must
lift the brush to draw each circle--don't draw the clover in one stroke
because you'll never come close to registering it properly. It's not
terribly hard to draw, and the circles can overlap eachother a little,
giving some leeway.
20 Praise later, the girl will give you your final drawing--the heaven
kanji. The game even goes as far as how to draw it. You know what? Screw
the game. It will NEVER register the way it draws the kanji. If it does for
you, well, you're lucky. The way to draw it (poorly, but it registers so I
ain't complaining) is to draw the top line, the line under it, then from
the middle of the top line a diagonal line to the left, and from the same
point a diagonal line to the right. Yes, this isn't how you should draw it
in real life, but the game accepts it (it always does for me, at least).
Hold Z to make the straight lines. It's a total of four lines you are
drawing.
It's bizarre as all hell. You may get it on the first try, or you could be
stuck here for a while and lose your patience. Just keep trying different
methods if mine doesn't work for you. I ensure the game WILL register
something.
Talk to the girl again once finished. She'll hand you 20 Praise as well as
Stray Bead #48. Well, I'd say it's worth the effort.
Now, head right of the girl. Near a city guard is an empty hole. The camera
zooms out when near it, so Waterspout some water into it. You can use the
spring that appears to fountain up to a floating house with some Waka
followers, but there's nothing to do there right now.
The guard, if you talk to him, mentions the thief Hayazo. Catching him is
a sidequest as well, but you can't finish the entire thing right now. We
will come back to it later. Instead, head to the middle left wall of the
area and talk to Blossom. She'll ask for Herbal Medicine to help heal her
father. Buy some from the tools dealer, then talk to her. You'll get 20
Praise for helping. You can get another 20 for waking him up by tackling
him, but only by completing the last sidequest in the city (for now).
Head to the house in the top right corner and talk to Mr. Flower. He'll
ask you to Bloom the twenty withered trees in the Commoners' Quarters so
he can lift the curse on the cursed trees in the quarters and bloom them
too. Here are the tree locations:
-The one on his head
-One in his house
-Six around his house
-One near the three umbrella girls
-Six near the entrance of the city
-Four large trees near the previous trees
-One on the left side of town
Talk to him once they are all Bloomed and you'll need to follow him around
town and uncurse all of the cursed trees. You need to Bloom the trees when
he points at it an blossoms pop out of his hand. He'll start with one near
his house, then jumps across the river and runs to the tree near the
entrance of the city. He'll then run to a tree near the center of the
Commoners' Quarters. After that he jumps across the river on the left and
to a tree at the bottom left corner of town. Bloom that and he will jump
across the river again and run to a tree northeast of the entrance to the
city. Finally, he will run back to his house to uncurse the tree atop his
house. You'll get 20 Praise for helping him.
Enter his house now and tackle the screen doors in the back wall to knock
them down. Dig up the chest where you see the handle poking out of the
ground and earn Stray Bead #47 from inside.
Your tasks are completed. Finally save the game near the entrance of the
city.
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~4Q.Finding a Passage through Lava~
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Overview--On this short quest we are going to find a way to get through the
lava in Queen Himiko's palace.
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~Sei-an City (Commoners' Qtr.)~
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Leave the city.
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~Ryoshima Coast~
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Head all the way to the entrance of this area on the far left. If you
bought the Fog Pot, draw the + on the Ultimate Mirror and warp over to Sasa
Sanctuary. If not, you'll have to run there the long way. Note that you can
race Hayate on the beach much like Ida in Shinshu Field. Tackle him to beat
him at the race. Just don't run into the spiked balls he drops behind him.
You'll get 30 Praise for beating him. There are three races total with him,
but you can race him the other two times yet.
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~Sasa Sanctuary~
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Head into the inn, run down the right hallway into the hot springs, then
leave the building through the other exit. Head up the flights of stairs to
the area where you found a Canine Warrior so long ago. Kaguya and Mr.
Bamboo are here. Follow the text and, well, you know what's coming...
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Digging Minigame--Round 4
Base Time Limit--Four Minutes
This digging minigame has some annoying factors to it, as well as plenty
of routes that will force you to restart if you take them. Break the Power
Slash rock next to where you start, then dig through the two rocks below
you. Tackle the rock to the right, Galestorm your escort over the spiky
rock on the right, then dig through the rock next to it.
Tackle the rock to the right, then dig through two rocks below you. Power
Slash the tock on the left, Galestorm over the spiky rock, tackle another
rock left of that, then dig through the rock on the ground past it. Dig
through the next rock below you after falling and you'll drop into the
water hole. Power Slash the rock on the right so you can stand somewhere,
then fountain the water hole up (make sure Kaguya is facing left), then
jump up to where she lands.
Tackle the rock on the left, then dig through three rocks below you. At the
bottom, Power Slash three rocks on the right, then tackle another to reach
a water hole. Fountain Kaguya to the right, then jump there yourself. Dig
down through three rocks and Power Slash the last on the bottom to reach
the lowest row of rocks. From where you land, the goal rock is two to the
left. Get Kaguya over there and when she reacts dig the rock to clear the
minigame.
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I'm not sure how completing that minigame made a freaking ROCKET SHIP
appear, but whatever. Before departing, she'll hand you the Fire Tablet.
When equipped as a Holy Artifact, you can swim through lava. Yeah...
Well, looks like we found the item we need. Mirror warp back to Ryoshima.
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~Ryoshima Coast~
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Rush back to Sei-an.
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~Sei-an City (Commoners' Qtr.)~
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Head for the Aristocratic area.
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~Sei-an City (Aristocratic Qtr.)~
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Go across the bridge, through Rao's house, straight some more, Veil of
Mist past the guards, up the stairs, and into the royal palace. Head up the
elevator, equip the Fire Tablet if you haven't already, pick up the Holy
Artifacts scroll, then swim through the lava, run through the doors, and
into the Queen's chamber.
Talk with her. It's a long conversation, but an important one nonetheless.
When she's finished, talk to her again and listed to her request. After
talking several times, choose to help her. She'll hand over the Border
Key, allowing access to N. Ryoshima Coast, where the Water Dragon lives.
You're finished here, so leave the area.
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~Sei-an City (Commoners' Qtr.)~
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Leave the city.
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~Ryoshima Coast~
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Left of the entrance to the city is a border gate. Talk to the guard on the
right and he'll notice the Border Key, and opens the gate for you to pass.
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~N. Ryoshima Coast~
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The only area in the game where the Guardian Sapling doesn't need to be
restored. Cool. Waka will appear a few steps in, so talk to the annoying
freak, then keep going. A little more ahead an Earth Nose will attack. Use
Veil of Mist to slow him down, then bash the crap out of him. Veil of Mist
is their floral finisher.
Head left of where you fight him to find what looks like a fallen
staircase. A little left of the rubble you can find a chest handle poking
out of the ground. Dig it up and collect Stray Bead #60 from within. Jump
across the river to the small ledge of land on the other side. Bloom a
clover for 10 Praise, then feed the kitties for 6 more. Jump back to the
mainland and proceed along the path and save at the Ultimate Mirror.
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~4R.Wandering through N. Ryoshima Coast~
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Overview--There's a lot to do in N. Ryoshima Coast. There's also the task
of figuring out where the Dragonian Domain is, but we can worry about that
later.
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~N. Ryoshima Coast~
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Head down the path left of the Ultimate Mirror. Near the restaurant's
entrance at the beach you will find some cats you can feed for 8 Praise. If
you enter the restaurant you can talk to chef Umi in the kitchen. He'll
mention a special fish he wants brought in. We can get that for him later
to learn a hidden brush technique. Head left of the restaurant, and head
left at the end of the beach to stumble upon some foxes you can feed for
12 Praise.
Head back outside and to the Ultimate Mirror. Paint the + on it if you have
the Fog Pot and choose to warp to the N. Ryoshima Coast (Rocky Area). The
only way here is by warping with the mirrors. You will appear atop a cliff
in the area. Bloom the two clovers up here for a total of 20 Praise, then
open the chest for Stray Bead #64.
Jump off the cliff behind the chest to land near the Ultimate Mirror.
Follow the path right of it and across the bridge. Dig up the clover to
earn 20 Praise from it, then talk to the merchant. You will REQUIRE one
fish feedbag soon. If you don't have it you will be kicking yourself later,
trust me. Also, buy the Marlin Rod if you haven't already for a short
sidequest we can tackle later.
Follow the path and near the intersection you can find some dogs to feed
for 9 Praise. Now, follow the path that doesn't head towards the beach.
Follow it until you see a ledge and hill on the left. Climb them to find
Yoichi. Talk to him and he'll say he's targeting a stone fruit attached to
the Guardian Blossom. Let's help him a bit. When he fires an arrow, use
Waterspout to weten the arrow. This will ripen the fruit, and Yoichi will
leave. Feed the cows near the pond for 12 Praise (these are the last cows
in the game, too). Finally, dig up the chest whose handle pokes out of the
ground right next to the cows. Collect Stray Bead #61 from within.
Jump off the ledge to the right. You can find a crack in the ground. Dig
through it to reveal a hole. Fall into it. Inside are a ton of hares you
can feed for 30 Praise. You can also earn a total of 44 Praise by Blooming
all of the clovers and withered trees. Finally, collect the chests in this
room to earn some treasure, as well as Stray Bead #63. Sweet. Enter the
light at the front of the room to return to the surface.
When you appear, look left to find a Devil Gate. Head over to it to face
two Halo Guardians and an Executioner Guardian. Cherry Bombs are all of
their floral finshers. When defeated, a large tree will appear and you'll
get 30 Praise. Be sure to feed the hares walking behind the tree for 6
Praise.
Now, head back to the split paths near the merchant, but this time head to
the beach. Head towards the house and feed the pigs infront of it for 15
Praise. Head left of the house to find a couple of kids bullying Urashima.
After they leave, tackle him to get him to get off the ground. He talks
about the Dragon Palace under the ocean. He also says that those worthy of
going should stand on the nearby pier and it's sunrise.
Simple to figure out, yes? Stand at the end of the pier and draw Sunrise.
Orca will come swimming up to the pier. Jump onto the red basket on his
back, talk to him, and choose to ride him. Steering is simple, and you can
go faster if you keep pushing the A button. You can't visit the Dragon
Palace just yet. All you need to do is find the whirlpool leading to the
Dragon Palace. Shouldn't be hard to find it, right? Right?
Swim to the island with the Guardian Sapling. If you helped Yoichi riped
the fruit, you can Power Slash it down for 30 Praise. You can also Bloom a
clover on the island for 10 Praise. Now, head for the island with the
enormously tall tower. It's impossible to miss. Get off Orca by talking to
him and climb the hill. Feed the cats near the top for 6 Praise, then save
at the Origin Mirror.
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~4S.Finding the Entrance to the Dragon Palace~
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Overview--The whirlpool has to be somewhere, and you've gotta find it. It's
a whirlpool. How hard to something like that be to find? Surpisingly, a bit
tricky. We can also explore the vast sea far from the coastline as well.
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~N. Ryoshima Coast~
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Perched outside the huge tower, walk inside.
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~Catcall Tower~
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Funky place. Walk ahead and a Poltergeist will attack. No, it's not a
ghost, but rather another wheel type enemy. Slow it down with Veil of Mist,
then bash the hell out of it. It has three different elements to it--Wind,
Fire, and Ice. Inferno the ice, Veil of Mist wind, and Galestorm fire. Veil
of Mist slows them all down anyway, making it the most useful regardless.
Galestorm is its floral finisher.
Grab the Mark of Kabegami scroll up ahead. Head right, feed the cat for 2
Praise, then Bloom the clover nearby for 10 more. Behind a pillar on the
right is another 10 Praise clover and 2 Praise kitty. There's another 10
Praise clover and 2 Praise kitty behind a second pillar. Finally, there's
one last 2 Praise cat just right of the entrance.
Stand on the podium facing the tall tower (the orange part of the tower).
Jump to the orange part and press A again to stick to the wall. This is the
Catwalk ability. Your objective? Climb to the top of the tower. Yes, it is
actually taller than it is outside. It's about a 7 minute climb to the top.
Have fun~! And before you start climbing, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AT LEAST 1
FISH FEEDBAG! This can't be stressed enough.
As you climb the tower you will often have to switch paths that go left or
right. Just jump in that direction, double jump if needed, and grab onto
the wall with a third A press. Once you cross a red line some brown clouds
swirl around the tower. You can walk on the brown swirl. Now if you fall
you'll just end up here. Think of it as a checkpoint. There's about half a
dozen of these, so don't worry. Walk on the clouds around the tower until
you see a branching platform with a cat on it, worth 2 Praise.
Continue climbing. When you pass the second red bar more clouds will form.
Jump onto them and walk around the tower until you find another kitty on a
branched platform. Worth 2 Praise as usual. Keep climbing when that's
finished. At the third red bar you can find a chest and another 2 Praise
kitty on a platform.
You'll come to a large circular platform a little while later. This is
about the midway point of the tower. You've still got a ways to go! At the
fourth red bar you can find some treasure in a chest on the extended
platform. Keep going after that.
A little ways more up the tower you can find another extended platform,
but no clouds. Be sure not to miss it. There's no way to describe where it
is but it's about 30 seconds up from the previous red bar. The chest on
the platform contains Stray Bead #67. At the next red bar you can find a
Cat Statue in the chest on the branched platform. Keep climbing.
You'll finally reach the top. Next to the Mermaid Spring is a Mermaid Coin
in a chest if you wanna warp down later. Climb the red spiraling staircases
nearby. At the top, walk outside and around to a branching ledge. Walk
across it and on the platform at the end will be the final kitty cat in
the game. Feed it. I don't care if you don't care about the Praise--you
HAVE to feed it.
When you do, a constellation will appear. Paint this four missing stars to
make Kabegami teach you the Catwalk technique. You can draw a line from the
Kabegami statues, which I'm sure you've noticed before, up walls to create
Catwalk spaces. Try it out now. Yes, you drew it correctly if you make a
straight vertical line. However, to make Issun shut up draw a really thin
backwards S.
Climb the wall with the Kabegami marks you made to find a huge cat statue.
Behind it is a long thin paht leading to a platform with a Sun Fragment
inside. Now, just jump off behind the chest to take a plummet all the way
back to where you started. Haha. Remember the two pillars down here? You
can use Catwalk to climb them. One of them has a chest containing Stray
Bead #69 in it. Now, leave the tower.
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~N. Ryoshima Coast~
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If you want to, reenter Catcall Tower and climb the tower a second time. If
you put yourself through this torture, you will find a chest containing
Stray Bead #68 at the top. You must climb the tower--taking the Mermaid
Spring will not count.
Anyway, hop back on Orca. We have some sightseeing around these nearby
islands to take care of. Check the map. See how there's seven islands far
from the coast? We've just explored the first of them. Head to the island
a little left of Catcall Tower.
You can dig up a chest here if you wish. Otherwise, hop back on Orca and
sail to the next island on the left. Put out the burning chest at the
bottom with Waterspout and collect the Crystal from within. At the top is a
crack in the ground. Cherry Bomb it and fall through. You can collect 44
Praise from Blooming all of the clovers and withered trees. Step onto the
black tile by the spring and press Z. You can donate money to the fountain.
If you donate 120,000 Yen, you will earn the Cherry Bomb 2 brush technique.
It basically allows you to make two Cherry Bombs on the field at once
instead of one, waiting for it to explode, then making another. I'd say
don't buy it, but if you have a ton of cash to spend then go ahead.
Get back on Orca outside and swim over to the next island on the left.
Bloom the clover on the ground for 10 Praise, then break the brown rock at
the top. Fall into the exposed hole. You can earn anoher 44 Praise by
Blooming all of the clovers and withered trees in this room. There's
another fountain where you can donate some cash. This time, if you donate
60,000 Yen you will learn Power Slash 2. This allows you to cut metallic
rocks you've seen around Nippon. I'd say go for it. All of those metallic
rocks generally have clovers below them, so trading 60,000 Yen for a lot of
Praise is a good deal. Try it out on the metal rock outside on this island,
then dig up the clover for 40 Praise.
Get back on Orca and swim to the top left island. This island is insanely
hard to jump onto. What you have to do is double jump from Orca to the
island, then at the peak of the second jump you tackle in the air to get
some extra distance. If done right you'll land on the island. All that's
there is a clover worth 10 Praise, though.
Head to the next island below it. A Golden Peach is in a chest, but you
have to dig it up. Look for the chest handle. Also, there's a hard dirt
spot you can dig through and fall through a hole to fight a Spider Bandit.
I wouldn't advise doing this now. Beating it activates the Devil Gate
challenge for this area. Basically it's a living hell. We can tackle all
that stuff much later.
Swim over to the final island nearby. Two clovers, worth a total of 30
Praise, are here, as well as a Holy Bone M in a chest. At nighttime look
around for a lit up dig spot and dig up Stray Bead #62. Walk onto the dock
and talk to the fisherman. He says that chef Umi wants him to catch a
Marlin. You'll need to give him the Marlin Rod. If you bought it, great.
If you didn't, this isn't necessary to progress with the game, but if you
wish just head to the merchant on the mainland and buy it.
You'll play the fishing minigame again. You should know what to do. Paint
the line to the fish, keep tapping in opposite direction to reel in, shake
Wiimote, Power Slash fish. Rather simple. The third fish will be the
Marlin. He makes the power gauge rise extremely fast, so watch out. He also
needs three Power Slashes, so be patient.
Head back to Umi's restaurant on the mainland. Talk to Umi and he will
slice the Marlin. When he pauses, paint three horizontal lines. You'll
learn the Whirlwind technique by doing this. It's basically a stronger
version of Galewind. Pretty nice to have. You also get 20 Praise for
helping Umi.
Now, remember the broken staircase debris near the entrance to N. Ryoshima
Coast? Head back there. It's near the Ultimate Mirror. Jump across the
river and to the small land ledge on the other side. Use the Kabegami
statue to Catwalk to the top ledge above. Head right and feed the last
tigers in the game for 15 Praise.
Try to walk out to the far end of the plateau and you'll be attacked by a
Blue Cyclops. These guys ain't friendly. All you want to do is bash him as
hard as possible. If his pipe flame goes out, he will freak out and
transform into a completely badass killing machine. He shoots electricity
here and is invincible, so just run away. If his pipe goes out you have a
few seconds to reignite it by linking the torch with his pipe. His floral
finisher is Deluge, an ability you don't have yet.
Talk to Watcher after the battle. He'll say he wishes the whirlpool galaxy
was visible. Talk to him again and he mentions if he wishes upon a star it
might make the galaxy appear. Make it nighttime, then paint a dot into the
sky and it'll turn into a star. At the edge of the cape the whirlpool
galaxy will appear in the sky. You'll get 20 Praise for this.
Run down to the viewing platform. View the galaxy, then use Galestorm
several times to get it spinning. This will create a whirlpool in the
water. Bingo, our ticket to the Dragon Palace. Run back to Orca, hop on
him, then ride him into the whirlpool.
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~Dragon Palace~
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Pretty place. Save at the Ultimate Mirror ahead.
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~4T.The Dragon Palace and the Evil Island~
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Overview--The key to unlocking Oni Island is somewhere in the Dragon
Palace. We just gotta find where exactly.
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~Dragon Palace~
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Head into the palace itself. Issun will do some smooth talking to grant
access to the building itself. Head forward and around the staircase. There
is a crack in the wall behind it. Cherry Bomb it open, then jump into the
hole that is discovered.
Feed the boar and boar piglets for 45 Praise. After that, Bloom all of the
clovers and trees for 44 more. Don't forget to grab the chests, too! One of
them contains Stray Bead #70. I'd say that's all a nice reward for bombing
a little hole. Return to the surface now.
Head up the staircase now. If you want you can head into the room on the
left to find a merchant, and after that walk onto the center elevator to be
taken to Otohime's room. Walk up to her to trigger a long conversation that
pretty much recaps everything you've heard so far about Oni Island. After
the story, talk to her again and refuse to listen to the story again. She
says you'll need to go fetch the Dragon Orb...straight from the Water
Dragon's stomach. Whoa.
Keep talking to her and choose to help her. She'll hand you to Shell
Amulet so you can enter the rooms on the side of the palace. Head back down
the elevator. Face the staircase, then head down the right hallway. Dig
through the dark rock and choose to help the dancer. By the way, this is
completely optional. Don't do it if you hate these...
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Digging Minigame--Round 5
Base Time Limit--6 Minutes
Well, this is different. You start at the very bottom while your escort
starts at the top. Your objective is to reach the top, then bring her to
the bottom. And you've got six minutes. No time to screw around, actually.
Head to the far right and break the Power Slash rock. Double jump and
tackle the rock on the right to break it, then jump up to its spot. Repeat
this process with the dark rock on the left. Power Slash the rock on the
left and stand in its place, then Power Slash the rock up to the right.
Jump up there to find a rock above you. Draw a Cherry Bomb on the rock you
are on and wait for it to explode to break the rock. If you push the bomb
off by accident, get off the rock and draw the bomb so you can't
accidentally knock it off, wasting time.
With the rock above destroyed, do a double jump tackle to break a rock on
the upper left, then jump to the spot. Power Slash a rock to the upper
right, then jump there too. Power Slash another rock above, then double
jump tackle a rock above and to the right. Jump to the spot and Power Slash
the rock above.
Double jump tackle the rock on the left so you can land there. Power Slash
another rock on the upper right, jump there, and double jump tackle the
rock on the left. Power Slash the rock above it and jump up there. Power
Slash the rock on the upper left, Cherry Bomb the rock above you, then
jump tackle the rock on the right. Power Slash the rock on the far right
and jump to the spot. Power Slash the rock above you, then double jump to
the high ledge. Cherry Bomb the rock above you and then jump up. Power
Slash the final two rocks above you and head left at the top.
Phew, halfway there. Head left to find the dancer. Time to go down (which
is considerably easier). Power Slash the rock below her, then dig through
the three rocks below you. Power Slash through two more below you, dig
through one below you, tackle the rock on the left, then Power Slash and
dig through the two rocks below that.
You'll drop down to a black rock. Galestorm the dancer over the spiky rock
on the right, then dig through the rock she'll fall onto. Tackle the rock
to the left, then dig and Power Slash through the two below you. Tackle the
rock on the left and fall down to a Power Slash and diggable rock below
you. After falling through them, Power Slash the rock on the right, dig
through the one below you, tackle the rock on the right, then dig through
two more below you.
Now Power Slash the rock below you, tackle the one on the left, Galestorm
over the spiky rock on the left, then dig through anothe rock. After
falling, Power Slash the rock on the right, dig through a rock below you,
and Power Slash the final rock below you to be at the bottom row of rocks.
The goal rock is one right of where you land. Get the dancer there and dig
it up to be finished. Phew!
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Talk to the dancer again when you finish. When they start spinning, draw
Galestorm into the water several times and you will learn Fountain. Just
draw a swirl in Mermaid Spring to use them for free. It's like Fog Pot,
only this is free. Yay! You also get 20 Praise for helping.
Now, jump onto the red drums behind the spring. The third drum is broken,
so scribble over it to Rejuvenate it. Use it to reach the highest drum,
with a chest containing Stray Bead #71. Head back into the main room and
take the left hallway. It's the Water Dragon's home. Double jump onto the
cliff right of where you enter. Tackle the clam to make it release Stray
Bead #72.
Now, look at the Water Dragon's gaping mouth. Err, yeah. Jump right in!
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~Water Dragon~
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Somehow I don't quite think this is what all dragons' insides look like.
This place is simple to navigate. Just go straight ahead. Fight the blue
demon scroll if you wish, then continue along the pathway to be above a
large lake area with tall platforms. Jump into the water and swim to the
north end of the lake to find three platforms, one of them with a key.
Grab it and swim back to the tall platform area. Along the left wall look
for some power springs. Waterspout a fountain so you can reach the high
ledge above. Once you are up there, defeat the demon scroll if you wish,
then continue along the path. You'll find another power spring on the right
up ahead, so Waterspout this as well to make a fountain that leads to a
tunnel containing a Crystal at the end.
Jump back down and save at the nearby Origin Mirror. Continue along the
path and head right along the curve. Wall jump onto the ledge to find the
locked door. Open it up and head inside to find some item trapped by some
tissue. Head along the path to the right. At the very end you will come to
a dead end with some creepy red liquid stuff. Waterspout the liquid into
the purple mass on the ceiling three times to destroy it.
This will flood the area with digestive juice. Good going. Don't fall into
it because it will sap your health quite quickly. However, lily pads float
fine on it, so use them to head back down the previous hallway and into
the room with that weird item trapped by some muscle.
Land on the only platform in the room and Waterspout some of the liquid
onto the ball. Do this three times to release it. The orb will clear all of
the liquid in the room. Turns out this was the Dragon Orb. Nifty. However,
a group of nine Tube Foxes will attack you here.
They aren't terribly tough. You will fight them in groups of three. There's
nothing special about them, except for one thing. They like to spit foxfire
onto the field (the purple flames). If you step in it you will lose ink at
a fast pace. Attack the Tube Fox who is sapping the ink (the ink trail
leads to it) and restore your ink. Power Slashes are their floral finisher.
And remember, spamming Veil of Mist is your friend.
After the fight, they will form the Fox Rods. Looks like we finally found
what Rao was looking for. No time to ponder this. Something is happening
to the Water Dragon, and red fluid will start raining down. You will have
three minutes to escape the Water Dragon. It's an insanely simple task.
Just run down the completely linear path to the lake, jump over a few
platforms (or use the power spring on the other side of the water if you
fall in), and rush back to the entrance to leave. Simple. Shouldn't take
more than 1:30 to finish unless you're constantly stalled by the raining
fluid hitting you. If you keep moving, it shouldn't touch you.
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~Dragon Palace~
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You totally just killed the Water Dragon. Ooooh. King Wada, king of the
Dragonians, will briefly appear, tell some stuff about the Fox Rods, then
leaves. When you arrive back at the Dragon Palace, Rao will appear to
snatch the Fox Rods from you. Head to Otohime and talk to her. In the
middle of the conversation the Dragon Orb will show Rao heading for Ankoku
Temple, a mysterious dark person following her. Huh.
Head back to the entrance of the palace. No, you're not allowed to warp to
the Ultimate Mirror RIGHT NEXT to Ankoku Temple. That'd be convenient. You
have to go the long way. Leave the palace entirely.
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~N. Ryoshima Coast~
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Use Orca to head straight for shore, then make a beeline for Ryoshima
Coast.
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~Ryoshima Coast~
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Head straight for Ankoku Temple near the entrance to Ryoshima Coast from
City Checkpoint. It's marked on your map, too. Follow Rao's ghost when you
reach the temple. Follow her and you'll eventually see her float through
the wall. Run through the false wall and jump down the hole. At the bottom,
follow the tunnel to the other side.
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~Sei-an City (Aristocratic Qtr.)~
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Leave this room to be at the side of the Queen's palace. Enter the palace.
Head up the elevator, swim through the lava, pass all of the doors, then
save and enter the Queen's chamber. Approach the crystal ball to find that
Himiko has been killed. Well, we're getting screwed left and right aren't
we? Oh, I guess I shouldn't tell you that that isn't the real Rao either.
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~Evil Rao~
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Evil Rao's main attack is summoning six arrows and shooting them at you.
Simply double jump to avoid them all. She likes to spam this move like
crazy through the first half of this fight.
Evil Rao is also quite mobile, and she'll be jumping around the arena
constantly. This makes targeting her quite annoying at times. Remember that
you can always Veil of Mist spam to take out a ton of her health.
Try not to stay to close to her, as she can make a quick jab of her sword
to deal decent damage to you.
Her final attack is where she will leap into the air and swing across the
field several times towards Ammy. Jump to avoid this very rare attack. At
the end of it she'll be stunned for several seconds, so Power Slash her
during this window of oppertunity.
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It appears that Himiko did manage to locate Oni Island. You need to head
there right now before the sun sets completely. The entrance is at
Watcher's Cape. Now, leave the palace. Hurry! Leave the quarters entirely.
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~Sei-an City (Commoners' Qtr.)~
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Leave the city. Now!
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~Ryoshima Coast~
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Head right. You know where to go.
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~N. Ryoshima Coast~
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Head left from the entrance, jump across the water to the small ledge, and
use the Kabegami statue to Catwalk back to Watcher's Cape. As you approach
it, Otohime will appear. To aid you, she will transform into a dragon in
order to break the barrier on Oni Island, as well as creating a bridge to
it. Run down her back and to the island.
**Note that you CAN run out of time before reaching the cape. If the sun
sets you will restart at the entrance of whatever area you are in. No big
deal really, but try not to waste time.
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~Oni Island~
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Cross Otohime and equip the Fire Tablet. Waterspout the fire spring to
make a fountain leading to the upper ledge appear. Cross the bridge and
jump into the sea of lava. You can head either left or right, but it
doesn't matter. All you need to do is reach the fire spring against the
stone wall and Waterspout a fountain out of it. You can use the Konohana
Blossom on each side to reach a rock with a chest containing treasure if
you wish, but head for the power spring.
Regardless of which route you took, when you reach the upper floor head
for the center doors. They're locked, and a Blue and Red Ogre will fight
you. These creatures have a huge amount of health, but they are relatively
stupid. Use Veil of Mist and run behind them, then smack their bodies. Just
spam Veil of Mist and keep doing this until both run out of health. Their
attacks consist of jumping and charging at you. Thunderstorm is their
floral finisher. You won't have that for a while, though.
Now finally enter the fortress. Save at the Origin Mirror on the right.
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~4U.Oni Island--The Dark Lord's Fortress~
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Overview--Taking down Oni Island. Simple as that. Although it will take
quite awhile to climb the fortress.
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~Oni Island~
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Next to the Origin Mirror is an Imp Merchant. Buy healing items as you
need. Head down the hallway across from the mirror and enter the only room
that isn't locked. You will fight two Poltergeists when you reach the
center of the room. Veil of Mist spam to kill them with relative ease. Once
they are killed, grab the key at the back of the room. Ignore the flashing
yellow things--they'll be important much later.
Back in the main room of the fortress take the hallway right next to the
mirror. Unlock the door and head through. Follow the path around the
corners, then leap over the downward stairway to a ledge with a Bull Horn
in a chest. Jump down to the stairs and follow them to the bottom. At the
very bottom you will find Tobi, the floating Demon Slip. He's a good
racer. Welcome to the Labyrinth of Torment.
Step on the switch under Tobi to start the race. All you need to do is
cross the golden gate ahead to beat him. You'll earn several thousand Yen
when you beat him (it appears at the gate after passing it). Just dash
towards the gate and you'll beat him. Collect the cash and head around the
corner for the next race.
You'll need to cross the floating platforms and reach the gate in the top
left corner of the room. And you can't fall into the pit of spikes,
obviously. You have a pretty good time limit here, but carelessness will
result in you falling in. Luckily, each time you fail or fall into the
spikes the platforms rearrange themselves, making easier and easier paths.
After about five failures it's practically a straight line to the gate.
You should have no trouble at that point.
Grab the Crystal in the blue tiled area, then head up the stairs on the
right. After climbing two staircases, use the Kabegami statues to Catwalk
up to the higher ledge, then turn around and jump across the platforms.
Around the corner will be Tobi. You simply need to jump across the four
platforms to reach the ledge across from you. They are easy jumps. At the
ledge, fall down and cross the gate ahead to win. Tobi will be waiting in
the next room for another race.
You will need to be sprinting pretty much the entire time to beat Tobi
here. When you jump over the spiked walls, and there's another taller wall
just ahead of it, don't land inbetween the two. Jump over the first, then
make your double jump get over the second. That conserves your speed, which
you will need to beat Tobi. Around the corner, race down the hallway and
pass the gate.
Around the corner will be Tobi, yet again. This time the race is through a
hall with spiked wheels. While dashing you'll need to anticipate the
wheels' movement. They are pretty simple to detect, but hit detection is
finicky and you could get hit even when you clearly didn't. If you get hit
once you'll lose all speed and likely won't be able to beat Tobi, and will
need to restart the course. Just try again, and remember to heal if you
take too much damage. Climb the stairs at the end and pass the gate first
to win.
In the next room there will be a short passage followed by the gate. The
catch? In the middle of the room you will have to fight three Headless
Guardians. Veil of Mist spam and wrap them all up quickly, then rush
through the gate. You have about 30 seconds for this one. Plenty of time.
Head up the stairs and face the Heat Rays from Hell. You need to cross this
room without falling into the red floor, which sends you back to the start
of the room. Also note that the puddle of water near the sign fully heals
you if you step in it.
Power Slashes will disrupt the firing of the statue you hit for a brief
moment. Use it as needed. The X panels are safe zones, so just run from one
to another and head for the other side. Feel free to take shortcuts and
hug the wall if you wish. This is fairly easy, and you have as many retries
as you need thanks to the healing puddle.
In the next room you will fight a Blue Cyclops. Remember to light his pipe
back on fire if it goes out, otherwise he'll turn invincible for a few
seconds and can really hurt you. Proceed through the nearby screen doors
when defeated and save at the Origin Mirror. Go through more screens and
past a locked door to reach Tobi. This race is very simple. Just jump over
the spiked floor and run to the finish. Don't worry about the spikes in the
wall. If you hurry they won't harm you.
Cherry Bomb the crack at the end and go through the hole to appear outisde.
Head right and use the Kabegami statue to Catwalk onto the upper roof. Up
there, head left and grab the key. Fall back down and go back through the
hole. Head back down the hallway and open up the locked door, then continue
down the hallway and through the door at the end.
On the outer ledge you will find a large tiger-like statue. Issun notes
that there isn't an arrow on the bow. Scribble in the spot where the arrow
should be to Rejuvenate it. The arrow will launch, breaking away the storm
clouds. A constellation appears, so fill in the four missing stars to make
Gekigami teach you Thunderstorm. Try it out on the nearby statue of a
sword. When lightning appear nearby, connect a line from it to the statue.
This makes the door next to it open, so head on through.
Use Thunderstorm again on the sword nearby to activate the spinning wheel,
forming a bridge as it passes. It moves quickly, so use Veil of Mist to
slow it down long enough to cross it to the opposite ledge. At the end of
the hallway, dig up the clover for 50 Praise, then head through the door.
Use the electricity on the ceiling to zap the chest on the group, opening
it for an Exorcism Slip L.
Cherry Bomb the crack ahead to fall down to the bottom floor. The banner
on the right can be walked through. Do so and grab the electrified key at
the end. When this is in your mouth, lightning panels on the ground will
light up. You can walk on them freely. Head back to where you landed and go
down the other hallway. With the key you can walk on the platforms, and
jump up to the high ledge. Use Thunderstorm, connecting the key to the
sword, to open the door.
In the next room you'll face a Headless Guardian. Head through the sliding
doors ahead, then turn the corner and you'll come to a room with three
sliding doors. This is the Sliding Doors of Hell maze (hey, the sign said
it, not me!). This is difficult to describe. You need to reach the end.
However, the maze is very confusing.
Head through the middle door, then the next two doors infront of you. Take
the left door, the right door, and the right door again to reach a chest.
Go through the left door, then straight through two doors. Head right,
left, left, right, right, left. You will find a glowing crack in the wall.
Cherry Bomb it to head back to the room you got the first key in the
dungeon. Cool.
Exit the room and look at the door on the right. Zap the sword with your
key to open the door, revealing a chest with a Pearl inside. Head back to
the main room of the dungeon. You can shove the key into the odd device
there, and it will open the large metal gate. You should probably save at
the Origin Mirror before going on.
Use the electrical keyhole machine you activated to Thunderstorm the two
chests in the opened hallway, revealing a Bull Horn and an Inkfinity Stone.
Continue down the hallway to find a statue holding a raised sword. It
should be painfully obvious what to do here. Use the electrical current on
the right wall to hit the sword, revealing a staircase leading under the
statue.
As soon as you step into the darkened room with grated flooring, the room
gets locked and lava will start rising in the room. You'll need to Power
Slash the four statues by the door and the one behind you to make the lava
recede. You don't need to strike them all in one slash (it's impossible,
actually). Just hit them all as quickly as possible. Head through the
opened door when you clear the room.
You'll be in a sidescrolling area. Head left and Thunderstorm the electric
current with the sword to make the platform on the right start rotating.
Use it to reach a high ledge on the right. Head right some more and use a
smaller rotating platform to reach another ledge. Jump to the ledge above
you and you'll spot another one of those electric keyhole machines. Head
left from it and avoid the rotating spiky platform.
Use the Kabegami statue to Catwalk up the green wall where the spiked
platform is rotating. Climb it and jump to the rotating platform on the
left. Jump to the ledge on the left to find three rotating platforms. Climb
them carefully to the right ledge, Power Slash the wooden bars above you,
and climb to a room with an electric key.
Now just run back down to the machine. Push the key into it and the nearby
wall will lower, allowing you to jump to the above ledge. Climb the small
platform, head right, climb more platforms, head left, and jump over the
spike wall traps in the ground. You'll reach a collumn of spinning
platforms with holes in them. Jump through the holes of each platform and
make your way to the top spinning platform. While doing this, be sure not
to fall through the holes a second time, wasting time.
At the top, head right and leave this area. In the new room, use the Origin
Mirror on the right. Head left and avoid the statue, then jump to the ledge
on the left to find another electric key. Head up the staircase to find a
bunch of platforms that will appear when holding the key. Walk on them and
follow the linear path along the room. Make a few jumps, and use Veil of
Mist to get past a moving Blocking Spider and you'll reach the top of a
tower.
The camera focuses on the hole you're on. Drop the key to deactivate the
platforms to fall through the hole, landing near a chest. Open the chest
for a Pearl, then hop on the nearby ledge and grab an actual key. To the
right of the chest you'll find a scroll on the wall down a hallway. Lay a
Cherry Bomb infront of it to blow up the false wall, revealing a hole.
Head through it and go left to find the locked door. Unlock it and head up
the staircase. At the top you'll find Tobi. Bet you forgot about him, huh?
Start the race and use Veil of Mist right away. Double jump over the gap
and under the Blocking Spider. Around the left corner, jump over the spike
trap infront of the stairs, then over another trap infront of the second
staircase. The finish gate is just ahead.
Head down the hallway and and the room on the left. You'll fight a Red and
Blue Ogre here. Veil of Mist spam and whack them to kill them off, then
head across the room. Open the far left screen door. Jump over the spike
trap and land on the ledge to the left. Carefully time your double jump so
you clear the spikes and avoid falling into the poisonous water.
On the ledge, go into the hallway on the right, then look left. Use the
Kabegami statue at the top to make a Catwalk path around the spikes on the
wall. Use Catwalk to reach the top of the wall. Fall off the ledge ahead of
you now. Enter the room on the left and use Veil of Mist to avoid the
Blocking Spider. You'll fight an Executioner Guardian and two Headless
Guardians in here.
Head onto the outside ledge and around the corner. You'll meet a Blockhead
here. He has five weak points this time, so it can be a bit difficult to
kill him if you get really bizarrely patterned points. Just keep trying
until you get an easy pattern. Remember to paint the dots in order. When
he's destroyed, head up the stair to find Tobi. Ignore him for a moment and
look across the gap. Cherry Bomb the wall over there to reveal a Konohana
Blossom. Start the race and Vine over to the gate. Run through it for an
easy victory.
**Note--If you simply can't beat Blockhead, you can head past him anyway.
In the room, double jump and move the camera around so you can paint a
Cherry Bomb to break the crack. From the bottom of the room you can use the
Konohana Blossom to reach the ledge. Now, jump to the ledge in the middle
of the room. To reach the ledge with Tobi, get a dash start, jump before
reaching the end of the ledge, double jump, then tackle in midair for a
little more distance. You'll barely make it to Tobi. There you go, you
completely skipped Blockhead.
After the race you'll get a ton of money from Tobi's depressing departure.
Head across the bridge to the outside ledge. Use the Origin Mirror on the
left, then go right and climb the staircase. At the top platform, fill in
the four missing stars (the junction of all the points is a star) to make
you-know-who appear.
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~Ninetails~
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This can actually be a tricky fight. Ninetails is extremely agile in this
fight, and as she gets weaker she will get even faster, so be careful. Her
main attack is rearing back and charging at you. The front of her body
glows blue during the charge, so it's easy enough to spot.
Ninetails will also stick her tails into the ground and use them to spike
the battlefield. To avoid them just keep running and they should all miss
you by a fair amount. She can also shoot some poisonous brown liquid from
her tails as well. Like the spikes, just keep running to avoid them.
Your opportunity to attack her is when she lifts her large sword into the
air. Use Thunderstorm on it using the many thunderclouds around the arena.
This will split Ninetails into nine different spirits, each one making up
for one of the tails. For your information, the first spirit you move
towards will ALWAYS be impossible to attack, so after moving towards one,
switch targets.
Veil of Mist spam and run towards groups of the spirits. For the most
effective assaults, use Exorcism Slips to hit the entire group at once, as
well as dealing a fair chunk of damage. The one thing you need to be
careful of at any time in this fight is that Ninetails can use a Celestial
Brush-like thing of her own. If the canvus is up for a few seconds she
will draw things as well. They are generally just Power Slashes of her own,
but she can use Galestorm which prevents you from using your brush for a
few seconds, as well as drawing Cherry Bombs of her own. Be careful and
quick.
After the spirits merge again, Ninetails will likely have lost several
tails in the process (one for each spirit as I mentioned). She will now use
her sword at close range to perform multi jabs which can combo you if you
are unlucky. She also gets a bit faster, so be careful.
Just repeat the stunning process and keep destroying the spirits until only
one of them remains. When Ninetails is knocked down to only one tail, she
will turn orange and goes a bit insane. You can now attack her at will to
lower her health bar, and Thunderstorming her sword when it's raised will
simply cause a lot of damage. She is extremely fast in this form, but will
only swipe with her sword and dash at you, and tends to jump a lot. Veil of
Mist spam and it should all be over in a minute.
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Upon victory you will earn the Blade of Kusanagi sword. We're finally done
with Oni Island. Well done.
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~N. Ryoshima Coast~
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Waka will appear right away, and it seems that a thunderstorm is brewing in
Shinshu Field. Better follow that advice and head there straight away. Use
the Ultimate Mirror here to warp to Shinshu.
**Note--If you have 100 Demon Fangs and already own the Fog Pot and Golden
Ink Pot, visit the Emperor in Sei-an and buy the Water Tablet. When
equipped you walk on water. Awesome!
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~Shinshu Field~
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Head north from the Ultimate Mirror. Look for a Kabegami statue against the
wall, then use it to Catwalk to the top of the cliff. At the top, head left
until you reach a Demon Gate. Destroy the variety of Imps inside (easy
enough) to restore the land and get 30 Praise. You can get 8 more by
feeding the hares that appear. The top left corner of this area has a
clover worth 30 Praise as well.
Now head back right. Follow the path and as you climb the hill you will
find a second Devil Gate on the left. Destroy the Imps inside for 30
Praise, and another 10 for feeding the hares that appear after clearing it.
Head up the hill to the large stone statue. There's a sword at the top of
it and thunderclouds to the left. I wonder what you should do?
Zap it with Thunderstorm and the statue rotates. A tunnel appears at the
side. Better go investigate.
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~Kamui~
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Run through the tunnel to the outdoor area. What a pretty snowland. This
place is cursed too. Save at the Ultimate Mirror on the left.
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~4V.Exploring Kamui's Snowlands~
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Overview--Kamui may not look very big on the map, but there's a lot to
explore, and a ton of animals to be fed. You'll be busy for awhile if you
want to see everything. If you want to continue with the game instead of
these sidequests, that'll take about five minutes.
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~Kamui~
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Head up th epathway and when you reach the clearing you will encounter
three Namahages and two Red Namahages. None of these guys have a lot of
health, and they attack just like Green and Red Imps. All of their floral
finishers is Galestorm, but they don't drop many Demon Fangs, so it's
kinda moot. Ah well.
Once those foes are cleared, proceed into the house in the clearing. A man
will glare at you in the house, and points his sword at you. Er...right.
He'll run outside after a stare off. Follow him. Well, that may not have
been such a good idea...
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~Oki~
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Oki's most spammable attack is one that you've seen a ton of other bosses
use--spawning a bunch of swords and having them home in on you. He uses
this attack a lot through the battle, so keep jumping and running to avoid
it. The arrows freeze you if they hit, so be careful.
At close range Oki will send out a flurry of ice which will freeze you. It
has decent range, so run to the side of him as he's rearing back and his
sword flashes blue. Single swipes of his sword also freeze you. Basically,
if he touches you you're getting frozen.
He can also stop for a second and make a quick lunge at you. This also
happens at close range. Rosary users shouldn't fear this attack.
To beat him, just spam Veil of Mist. Typical tactic, eh? His attacks are
fast and you can see them coming easily when time is slowed down, so
spamming it is good. Plus, he spams that sword attack! Don't feel bad about
it.
After depleting his health bar he will transform into a wolf and he
restores all of his health.
Wolf Oki fights a bit differently. If he glows blue, get the hell away from
him because he will stab his sword into the ground, creating a small
shockwave that will freeze you and do a lot of damage.
He can also create clones of himself. When he does this just avoid him for
a little while. Wolf Oki will fly into the air and dive at you several
times, which deals a lot of damage. You'll also be trying to dodge the
icicles the clones are throwing at you. Veil of Mist and attack the clones
first. After two or three hits they will die. Then go back to focusing on
Oki. Keep pummeling him to wipe him out.
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Turns out he's a member of the Oina tribe. He'll tell you a story about why
he has that sword and how Kamui is going to be a frozen wasteland soon if
something doesn't happen soon. Hero time! Head up the path some more and
you will reach the cursed zone. Now we just need to find the Guardian
Sapling. Head right to find Yoichi shooting arrows at a large rock.
Should be obvious what to do in the background. When he launches an arrow,
use Thunderstorm on it using the clouds to the side of the rock. This will
destroy the rock, revealing the Guardian Sapling. You'll get 50 Praise for
helping him. Now Bloom the Guardian Sapling to restore Kamui. You'll get
50 Praise as well for doing this.
Turn around to find some sheep next to Yoichi's house you can feed for 12
Praise. Head down the path left of his house. Feed the foxes in the middle
of the path for 9 Praise. Keep following the path and you'll find Kokari
fishing. Heh. Talk to him twice and you can fish with him. Do it if you
want to, but it's not necessary. Head left of Kokari and feed the cranes
fish for 12 Praise.
Head right of Kokari. Just past the wooden gate, look right. To the right
of the snowman ahead you can find a chest handle poking out of the ground.
Dig it up for Stray Bead #74. Now head inside the nearby building. It's the
last Dojo of the game. You can purchase new techniques here, including
those from previous Dojo's. I suggest buying the technique where weapon
power increases if both the main and sub weapons are the same type. Buy
the one for your preferred weapon type of choice. It's only 50,000 Yen.
Head back to infront of the Guardian Sapling and go left. You'll encounter
an Igloo Turtle. To kill these Bud Ogre replicas, bash them until they
collapse on the ground. Then, use the fire at the end of its tail to light
the igloo on fire, revealing a small house. Whack at it to harm the Igloo
Turtle. Inferno is their floral finisher.
With that out of the way, head to the left side of the Guardian Sapling.
Look up in the air at it to find a Konohana Blossom. Vine up there, Bloom
the 30 Praise clover, and Cherry Bomb the crack in the wall. You'll find
two cracks in the ground at the back. If you learned Cherry Bomb 2 from
N. Ryoshima Coast, draw 2 Cherry Bombs to blow up the hole so you can fall
in. By the by, if you want all the Stray Beads you'll need to enter this
hole at some point in the game.
At the bottom of the hole you can get 104 Praise for Blooming all of the
clovers and withered trees here. A spring is in here, and you can donate
money to it. If you donate a massive 300,000 Yen you will learn Cherry Bomb
3 which, as you may guess, lets you put up to three Cherry Bombs on the
field at any given time. This technique is required for a Stray Bead later
in the game. If you don't care about them (...and why is that?) then don't
waste time getting it.
Head back to the area below the ledge (where you were standing to use Vine
to get up here). A bear is walking around, so feed him fish for 5 Praise.
If you have Power Slash 2 you can break the iron rock and Bloom at 40
Praise clover below it. Head left of the bear to find a frozen pond. Bloom
the clover in the middle for 30 Praise, and feed the bears on the ice for
15 more. In the middle is some dirt you can dig through. Only do this if
you love extreme pain and torment.
You can get a total of 102 Praise from Blooming everything down here, but
the real focus is on *gulp* Blockhead Grande. And he's NOT messing around.
The strongest of the Blockhead clan has a massive EIGHT weakpoints. This is
insane. Did you know that, given only a few seconds, the average human is
capable of memorizing up to six points of simple data? Good luck memorizing
eight in only four seconds!
Of course, who the hell wants to memorize this!? Yes, it's possible. I've
done it myself. Once. Don't try it--unless you get insanely lucky and get a
really easy to memorize pattern like myself, it's not likely going to
happen. At least not for several hours. Here's some methods of "cheating"
this bastard:
1.Just memorize it yourself. Prove you're hardcore and tap those eight
spots without any other assistance than your mind!
2.Camera phone. According to many people on message boards, you can use the
recording feature of cell phones to record the dots lighting up. Then, just
replay it a few times to paint all the dots correctly. Camcorders and Flip
Videos work as well.
3.Get a friend. My method of choice first time through. You, the player,
should memorize the first four dots. Paint them, then have your friend
point at the fifth through eigth dots. Needing to memorize only four
points, it's simple for both people.
4.Home menu. You can push the Home button to bring up the Home Menu,
freezing the screen for a moment. You can see the lights as it's frozen, so
spam this button to keep the points fresh in your head.
5.Write them down. Get a four-by-four grid and write down the points in
order (combine this with tip four for best results). Then just paint them.
Simple enough. I did this on my second runthrough of the game and succeeded
on my first try. I highly advise doing this if none of the above options
are available.
6.Guess. Hahaha, not gonna happen. If you guess at random you have a
1/4,151,347,200 chance of getting it correct. Those are horrific odds.
Your prize? Stray Bead #78. 50 Praise, too. Yes, you are required to beat
him for a Stray Bead. I'm sorry...
Head right of the hole and you can find a Devil Gate. Inside you will find
three Red Namahages and a Bucket Namahage (fights just like a Yellow Imp).
Defeat them to make a Mermaid Spring appear, as well as earning you 50
Praise. Right next to the spring and a pile of snow is a buried chest (you
can easily see the top of it). Dig it up to earn Stray Bead #77.
Head back to the entrance of Kamui. Near the tunnel leading back to Shinshu
Field you can find some bears to feed for 10 Praise. You should save now.
Don't want anything bad to happen. Head back to where you were and head
past the merchant. You will find a Devil Gate past him. Kill the two Red
Namahages and the Igloo Turtle inside to earn 50 Praise. Head left from
there and to the house. Feed the sheep outside for 12 Praise.
Enter the house and talk to Wali inside. After the second time you talk to
him he'll hand you a list of monsters he wants you to kill. All of them are
Igloo Turtles. Look in the Wanted Lists section of this guide for their
locations if you want to find them.
Hug the wall behind his house and head right until you find a cave. Head
inside. Double jump to the platform on the left to find a Tribe of the Moon
scroll inside. Dash double jump and tackle for extra distance to reach the
ledge on the other side. Follow it to a dead end to find a crystal rock you
can't break, and a lone bear you can feed for 5 Praise.
Head back to the large gap and cross it again. This time follow the right
set of ledges. Bloom the clover for 30 Praise. Jump to another hole in the
wall and follow it to a dead end to find another bear worth 5 Praise. Use
the torches on the wall and use Inferno to burn the chest. Open it to
obtain Stray Bead #75.
Get out of the cave and follow the frozen river straight ahead. Under the
bridge you can find some hares to feed for 4 Praise. Follow the river a
little more, and on the left you can find some icy ledges. On the first
one are some cranes worth 9 Praise.
Back on the path, break the iron rock with Power Slash 2 to find a 40
Praise clover beneith it. Further up the road are some bears you can feed
for 10 Praise. Now, finally head up the hill leading to Wep'keer. After
passing the first pair of wooden signs on the path, jump off to the right.
Grab Stray Bead #76 from the chest where you land. Don't bother blowing up
the nearby crack in the wall. We'll do that later.
Now, climb the hill and actually enter Wep'keer.
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~Wep'keer~
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Save at the Ultimate Mirror.
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~4W.The Secrets of Wep'keer and Ezofuji~
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Overview--It's time to explore the two frozen areas in the north end of
Kamui. They are strangely deserted, so we'll need to get to the bottom of
that.
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~Wep'keer~
==========
Head across the pond straight across from the Ultimate Mirror to find some
hares you can feed for 6 Praise. Head to the center of the frozen pond to
find a clover you can Bloom for 30 Praise. Head up the stairs to the right
of this island, not the left, and feed some cranes at the top for 9 Praise.
You can also Bloom the nearby clover for 30 Praise as well.
Next to cranes you can find a chest handle poking out of the ground. Dig
through it and grab Stray Bead #80 from the chest. Head back down the
stairs and to the small island with the clover. Take the stairs on the
left. Head past the merchantless stand and head right at the top. Head down
the hill and go right of the house. Near a clover you can feed some sheep
for 16 Praise, and Bloom the clover next to them for 30 more.
Turn around and you should see a path of sorts on the left that you never
would have noticed while walking in the opposite direction. Head down the
path and at the end is a bear to feed for 5 Praise, as well as a chest
containing Stray Bead #81. Head back up the hill near the house and head
down the left path this time.
Head up the stairs and next to the house at the top are some sheep to feed
for 12 Praise. Head south of the door and a bit to the right. Near a tree
is a chest handle poking out of the ground. Dig it up to obtain Stray Bead
#82. Now head across the bridge behind the house. Feed more sheep back here
for 12 Praise, and earn 30 more from Blooming the clover. Now jump off of
the wooden bridge. Below it is a chest containing a Sun Fragment. Neat.
Jump off the ledge here to be back at the bottom of the village. Head up
the stairs again and go left like before. When you reach the house, follow
the thin path to the left. At the next house follow the path left again.
At the top will be Samickle guarding the entrance to another house. The
jerk won't let you talk to the village elder, nor any of the other
villagers. Blargh.
Leave the village now. Just head back to the entrance and...hey! A girl
names Kai will stop you, then invites you to rest in her house. She will
tell you the story about why the village is cursed by the blizzard, and the
twin demons that are causing it. Talk to her again and she'll explain why
Oki has the village's sacred sword. Talk to her a third time and she will
talk about how her sister is strangely missing. Samickle will let out a
howl, which is your cue to get back to his house.
Run up the left two hills and enter Kemu's house. Run around Kamu when he
tries to tan your hide, then tackle him. Talk to him a second time and he
will detail why Lika is so important in helping the village recover from
this curse. Talk to him a third time and he'll comment that Lika likely
went missing in Yoshpet. He will also grant access to the northern Laochi
Lake.
Leave his house. Back near the entrance of the village you can head to the
merchant and purchast the Resurrection Beads if you wish. They're very
powerful rosaries. I like them. It's a cheap 150,00 Yen to, so it's quite
affordable.
Head down the stairs infront of Kai's house and go through the doors in the
wall to enter the Snowy Playground. In the very back end of this area you
can find a chest handle poking out of the ground. Dig it up and grab Stray
Bead #83 from the chest. Now, you can push the snowball near the entrance
into snow clumps to make it bigger. If you get the snowball to be an
enormous size, bring it back to the boy and talk to him. If big enough, he
will give you 50 Praise. Eh, a decent reward I suppose.
With all that done, head left of Kemu's house and feed some bears for 10
Praise. Then head up the path right of his house and through to Ezofuji.
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~Ezofuji~
=========
Head through the gate ahead and save at the Origin Mirror. Grab the
Another Civilization scroll from the nearby chest. Head onto the lake and
follow the right wall. When you see a high ledge you will also spot a
Konohana Blossom appear. Vine up to the ledge to find two chests. Use
Inferno to melt the frozen chest using the fire from the burning chest,
then grab Stray Bead #84 inside. Grab the Etched Glass from the other chest
after using Galestorm to put out the fire.
Look in the air to spot another blossom. Vine there, then Vine to another
blossom ahead. Jump down to the ledge below and feed the monkeys for 15
Praise, then Bloom the clover for 30 Praise. Head back to the start of the
frozen lake, near the mirror. This time hug the left wall, and if you
follow it long enough you will encounter some cranes you can feed for 12
Praise.
Head back to the Origin Mirror and climb the hill left of it. You will
encounter some raccoons midway up the hill, so feed them for 9 Praise. A
little further up the hill you can feed a bear for 5 more Praise. When you
approach the turn past the bear, jump off the right side and fall onto the
ledge below. Feed the monkeys here for 9 Praise, then cut through the iron
rock with Power Slash 2 at the top of the hill.
Fall into the hole, then get 104 Praise for Blooming all of the clovers and
withered trees in the room. Another spring is in the room, and I bet you
can guess the power up you'll get for feeding it money. Power Slash 3 will
set you back a huge 360,000 Yen, but if you want to get a lot of clovers
under crystal rocks from earlier in the game, I highly recommend it.
Leave the cavern and cut the crystal rock if you got Power Slash 3 so you
can Bloom the clover for 50 Praise. You'll have to jump back down to the
lake and climb the hill again, this time to the very top. When you reach
it, enter the house.
Talk to Tuskle inside. Keep talking to her to learn of the fateful Ark of
Yamato that rests in the center of Laochi Lake. After her riveting tale,
she will hand you Sewaprolo, the key that allows access to Yoshpet. Leave
her house now.
Look to the right of her house to find a Konohana Blossom. Vine to it and
jump far down to the ledge below. In the dark dirt you can Bloom two
clovers, earning a total of 80 Praise. In the dirt next, to the clovers,
you can spot a chest handle poking out of the ground. Dig it up to grab
Stray Bead #86.
Look in the air in the opposite direction you came from to find another
Konohana Blossom. Vine to this, then turn around and Vine to another
blossom. Jump to the ledge you're adjacent to and open the chest for a Sun
Fragment. Now, follow this ledge to the right all the way to the end. Next
to a rock you can Bloom a clover for 30 Praise, as well as dig up a chest
whose handle you can see poking out of the ground to earn Stray Bead #85.
Run back and jump down to the ledge that had the two clovers and a Stray
Bead chest. Look towards the first Konohana Blossom used to reach the upper
ledge. Look to the right and below the ledge you're on to spot another
blossom. Vine to that one and jump down to the ledge below. Feed the sheep
for 12 Praise, then Bloom the clover for 30 more. You're done here, so jump
off the ledge to land on the lake and leave back to Wep'keer.
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~Wep'keer~
==========
Head to the entrance of the village to meet up with Kai. She says that she
will help guide you through the forest. Leave the village.
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~Kamui~
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Head down the hill and to the left. You will encounter a Bull Charger.
These guys fight just like Red and Blue Ogres. To defeat them, use Veil of
Mist and just run around them and strike from the side. They have a similar
amount of health, but these guys can take massive jumps and land ontop of
you for a good amount of damage. Inferno is their floral finisher.
Head up the hill and through the door that disappears and you'll be inside
Yoshpet.
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~Yoshpet~
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After an annoying taunt by Waka, head north and save at the Origin Mirror.
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~4X.The Large Yoshpet and its Small Secrets~
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Overview--Yoshpet isn't all it's cracked out to be. It's fairly easy to get
through it. That doesn't mean it lacks any secrets, though. Don't get lost
finding them!
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~Yoshpet~
=========
Talk to Kai. When she asks, choose to enter the forest. You will need to
get through the forest within five minutes. It can be a tad confusing if
you don't stick to the main route, but luckily Kai will guide you. All you
need to do is follow her through the forest. If you run out of time you
will have to start over.
Double jump carefully through the hole in the purple vine wall. These walls
are everywhere in Yoshpet, so get used to jumping through them. Remember
not to hold A too long in your double jump to make it a short second hop,
so that way you won't jump too high and get hit by the wall. Past the first
vine wall is a chest with a Crystal inside. Make a short jump through the
next wall, then get the gem on the ground. These gems add 30 seconds to the
clock, so get them often.
Follow the path left and make a short hop through the vine wall. The path
ahead has several cursed trees. You can fix them much later. For now, just
avoid them and get the chest past them for a Pearl. Head right and follow
Kai back on the main path. You'll need to avoid the large icebergs on the
ground, and a few more cursed trees.
Past that you'll run over a frozen lake. Near the end get the time gem, as
well as a Holy Bone S from the next island. Jump through the purple vine
wall, avoid more trees, then jump through another wall. You'll see a sign
pointing right, but if you go left you'll encounter a dead end with a Cat's
Eye Tassels in a chest. Head back to the sign and go right, and you'll
reach the second area of Yoshpet.
Head straight and follow the simple path. You'll quickly realize icicles
are falling down. All you need to do is avoid their shadows and you will
be fine. Collect a Holy Bone M from the chest, then jump up two ledges,
grab a time gem, jump up another ledge and through a vine wall. Go through
another vine wall, collect the Godly Charm from the chest, then through
another vine wall you go.
Now you'll need to cross a poisonous water pond by traversing several
slippery islands. Take your time here so you don't fall in. The first
island has a White Porcelain Pot on it. The second island has a time gem
on it. When you reach the other side you will have to run past over half a
dozen cursed trees. Past them you will go down a small hill, then find a
chest on the right containing Stray Bead #88. The sign ahead points left,
but if you go right you'll find an Etched Glass in a chest at the dead end.
Head left at the sign and into the third area.
Snowballs will be rolling down the hill. Avoid them, or use Inferno with
the torches to burn the balls. Follow the path up the hill and jump through
a vine wall to appear at a frozen lake. Hug the outside wall--it isn't
frozen and you'll run faster. The center of the lake has a chest holding
Kutani Pottery if you're interested.
On the other side, collect the time gem and follow the path right. Grab the
Steel Soul Sake from the chest, then go past a cursed tree to find a sign
pointing left. Ignore it and go right. At the dead end you'll find a chest
handle poking out of the ground. Dig it up to find Stray Bead #89 inside.
Now, back at the sign go left.
You will arrive at a small clearing safe from the blizzard. That log is
home to Ponc'tan, where the Poncles (which Issun is) live. The Lucky Mallet
will appear and Issun will ask if you wish to enter. Choose not to for the
moment. Feed the deer left of the stump for 12 Praise, and the boar/piglets
for 9 more. Feed hares right of the stump for 6 Praise, and then Bloom the
two withered trees for 2 Praise total. Now, choose to enter Ponc'tan by
standing infront of the entrance.
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~Ponc'tan~
==========
Save at the Origin Mirror inside. What an interesting place this is. Look
above the Origin Mirror. See the large flat plant hanging above? If you
double jump and move the canvus camera you can find a Konohana Blossom is
also up there. Vine to it to land near a chest containing Stray Bead #91.
Vine to the blossom a bit north of the chest to land on a leaf. Follow the
pathway right to find a chest with a Vengence Slip inside. Jump back down
to the ground below.
You'll land next to a tall white mushroom with a ring of water around it.
This is about the center of Ponc'tan, and is the center of some crossroads.
Stand on the bridge leading to the Origin Mirror and look left. Vine to the
blossom that'll drop you on a leaf, collect the Agate Tassels on the leaf,
then use two Vines on two blossoms behind you to reach land and land near
a Poncle. Head right where you land, grab the Crystal, and Bloom a huge
clover in the dirt ahead for 30 Praise.
Head back the way you came. You can follow the blue spiraling path on the
right to end up at a house with a girl who talks about Issun. Back on the
main path, go left. When you reach the mushroom, head right and up the
path. Some guards will prevent you from entering Ishaku's room. Try to
enter it a second time and they'll let you in.
Ammy will act like a jerk in the heartfelt reunion between the two. Talk to
him a second time, and a third time as well. Don't worry much about finding
a Celestial Envoy. We already got one. Leave his house.
Back outside, head back to the white mushroom and take the path on the
right. Inside the house at the top is a merchant. He sells the Eighth
Wonder for 200,000 Yen. It's a strong glaive, so get it if you like
glaives. Leave the hut and go around to the back of his house. Head down
the path on the right for an Inkfinity Stone, then head down the left path
near Kunu.
Grab a Steel Fist Sake at the end, the Vine to a blossom higher up. Jump up
several leaf ledges to find a Pearl, then use Waterspout on the power
spring in the lake to make a fountain. Climb the fountain and jump to a
leaf next to you. Grab the Kutani Pottery from the chest, then Vine to a
blossom on another nearby leaf. The chest here contains Stray Bead #92.
Now, use the series of blossoms right of the chest to reach a far off leaf
with Etched Glass inside. To the right of this chest is a blossom you can
Vine to to land next to Ishaku's hut.
Head back to the white mushroom and head to the path left from you. Enter
the house and talk to Miya several times. She will talk about what happened
to Lika, and then talks about the Spirit Gate. Talk to Ishaku again after
this. Now, leave Ponc'tan.
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~Yoshpet~
=========
After talking to Miya, head for the exit behind Ponc'tan.
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~Inner Yoshpet~
===============
A deeper, more mysterious place this be. Head forward and choose to go for
the Spirit Gate when Issun asks you to. He will be your guide through this
area of the forest. It's no different than Yoshpet--same 5 minute time
limit, same vine walls, same time gems. The path is different, obviously,
but it's not terribly hard.
Head past the two vine walls. Yes, now some of the holes in the vine walls
will be moving. Time your jumps a bit more carefully now. Grab the
Turquoise Tassels from the chest, then go past a third vine wall. You'll
need to go up an icy hill with several cursed trees. In the middle there's
a time gem. Past them is another icy hill, but with snowballs barreling
down it. Dodge and jump over and past them carefully. At the top of the
hill, stay to the right and you'll find a chest with Stray Bead #94 in it.
Head down the hill, past cursed trees, grab the time gem, and jump through
a vine wall. Keep going past some more cursed trees and over another vine
wall. At the sign pointing left, head right to find Etched Glass at the
dead end, then go back to the sign. Power Slash the Demon Scroll to stop it
from moving for a few seconds (it'll rush at you and force you into a time
consuming fight, so you'll want to avoid it). Head left at the sign and
into the second area.
Head straight through this area, through some vine walls, and up some
ledges. Grab the time gem from one of them, then grab the White Porcelain
Pot from infront of a nearby vine wall. Past the wall, you'll reach a
poisonous water pond. Cross the thin icy path across it, and jump over the
shots the cursed trees make. They are very quick. At the end, grab the
time gem on the left, then head forward. At the sign pointing right, head
left and collect Stray Bead #95 at the dead end. Go right at the sign,
avoid the Demon Scroll, and into the third area.
Head up the large hill, avoiding snowballs and falling icicles. At the top,
avoid the cursed tree and jump through the vine wall. You'll be infront of
a huge pit, with Catwalk walls on the left and right. Take the right wall.
The small ledge on the right wall has a chest containing Stray Bead #96.
Follow the wall to the other side, then head along the icy path, past some
cursed trees and a vine wall, and grab an Inkfinity Stone from the chest.
Past this jump through another vine wall to reach a sign pointing left.
Head right, and at the dead end you can find a chest handle poking through
the ground. Dig it up to get the Sun Fragment inside. Then, go back to the
sign and go left.
You'll arrive at the Spirit Gate. At the Ultimate Mirror nearby, warp to
Kamui (Ezofuji Rocky Area).
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~Ezofuji~
=========
On this normally inaccessable ledge, feed the bear ahead for 5 Praise, then
grab Stray Bead #87 from the middle chest. Warp back to Inner Yoshpet.
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~Inner Yoshpet~
===============
Save the game.
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~4Y.A Trip through Time~
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Overview--The Spirit Gate is said to be cursed, but we're going on
through anyways. What lies on the other side?
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~Inner Yoshpet~
===============
Step up to the Spirit Gate and Issun will open it. After talking with Oki,
you'll leap through the gate.
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~Kamiki Village~
================
Something odd about the village. A full moon is out. Head forward and talk
to Shakuya. Aww, so cute. Head down the hill, then up the left staircase.
Bloom the withered trees, and walk onto the observation deck. Head back
down the hill after the odd talk with Mr. Orange and into the village.
Head over to Mushi and feed his dog for 10 Praise. THIS IS MISSABLE. If you
don't feed him you'll never come back to this place again, and you can't
100% the animal tome. Beware. Now, head behind Susano's house. Ignore the
oaf for a minute and jump to the island behind his house to find a clover
worth 30 Praise. Now, head back to Susano.
Talk to him, then tackle him to wake him up. After a few words, it appears
we're fighting...Nagi.
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~Nagi~
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Pretty simple boss. He's open to attack constantly, so you just need to
pummel him. As you may guess, he's got the typical "summon a bunch of
swords that home in on you" attack. Double jump as usual to avoid them.
He also has a few short range slashes when you are close to him. Be careful
when he raises his sword above his head--that's a cue for his dash slice.
As with all bosses, all you need to do is Veil of Mist spam and you'll win
without much of a challenge. He's not terrible hard, but he does have a lot
of health.
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Orochi's arrow will fly down after the fight, picking Nami. Seems
everything is matching the legend so far. However, Nagi is supposed to kill
Orochi, and we just knocked him out. Doi. Now we gotta dress him up as the
sacrifice. Head on over to where Nami is bathing in the water, behind her
house.
You'll see the white robes on the ground near her. Barely hold the control
stick up so you walk slowly towards the robes, grab them, then slowly walk
back. If you walk too fast you'll alert Nami and you'll have to start over.
Just take your time.
With the robes in hand, head back over to Nagi. Dress him up in the robes
and you'll pick him up. We gotta bring him to the Moon Cave. Leave the
village, but if you wish you can grab the Trinity Mirror from the merchant
for 150,000 Yen.
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~Shinshu Field~
===============
Wow, the field was a lot smaller 100 years ago. Darker too. Bloom the trees
at the start, then go forward. You will face off against three Clay
Soldiers and two Clay Samurais. Use Veil of Mist to slow them down, then
beat up their large health. Veil of Mist also happens to be their floral
finishers. These guys hurt a bit, but they are all short range attacks so
you can beat them easily from a distance.
Follow the path, then follow the left path. At the dead end is a clover
worth 30 Praise. Now, head back to the split in the road and head right.
Power Slash 2 the iron rock on the left and Bloom the clover under it for
40 Praise. Head to the top of the hill and go to where the Dojo would be.
Behind it's imaginary presence is a clover worth 30 Praise.
Head back to the main path and destroy an iron rock to discover a clover
worth 40 Praise below it. Up the hill you can find another clover worth 30
Praise. Head down the path further, ignoring the hill to the Moon Cave.
Just past the end of the path and on the grassy part is another clover
worth 30 Praise. Turn back, and near the red arch is an iron rock that has
a 40 Praise clover under it.
Head down the hill. As soon as you reach the bottom, turn around. Head
right of the hill to discover one final clover worth 30 Praise. Sheesh,
that's a lot of Praise. Now, head for the Moon Cave.
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~Moon Cave~
===========
Looks creepy as usual. Save at the Origin Mirror up ahead, then proceed
forward. However, two Dogus will ambush you. These guys are similar to
Blight. However, you can attack them at any time. When they shake for a
second they'll zip across the arena and slash at you. Veil of Mist spam
like you normally would and you'll see this attack coming, and you can harm
them while they move across the field. Simple. Power Slash is their floral
finisher.
Grab the Golden Peach lying on the ground after they die, then proceed into
the Moon Cave. Luckily for you the staircase isn't broken, so you can walk
right up to Orochi.
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~Orochi~
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Holy crap, they're making us fight him AGAIN? You should remember how to
beat him. It's exactly the same as last time. Stand infront of a head,
dodge the attack, then when it roars go Waterspout some sake into the
mouth. Repeat twice for three of the heads and Orochi will collapse. Go run
up to the bell, Power Slash it about five times to destroy it, then the
real fight begins.
Just get the heads drunk again to make them collapse briefly, then pummel
them. Same old story. Heal if necessary, but if you could beat him the
first time, this battle will be pathetically easy. And painfully boring.
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After you destroy all of the heads, draw the Crescent in the sky, and then
you'll need to Power Slash them all as Nagi cuts through them. You've done
this many times before, so it should be simple, right?
Oh, and we found Lika. You'll obtain the Thunder Edge, the top tier
glaive, for beating him. You'll need to escape the Moon Cave after this, so
just run down the stairs.
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~Inner Yoshpet~
===============
Leave the Spirit Gate area, head down the path, and you'll magically end up
back at the clearing.
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~Yoshpet~
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Leave the clearing, and the forest, altogether.
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~Kamui~
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You know where to go.
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~Wep'keer~
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It's dark and the blizzard is rampaging through the village. Rush up the
stairs and hills back to the lake.
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~Ezofuji~
=========
Nobody's at the alter. Where'd they all go? Head up the hill to the left.
At the top you'll find that the entrance to Wawku Shrine has been busted
open thanks to Oki, and it's making the blizzard intense. Save at the
Origin Mirror nearby.
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~4Z.Climbing Wawku Shrine~
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Overview--It's time to enter Wawku Shrine and defeat the twin demons
waiting at the top. We need to stop the blizzard as soon as possible. Get
ready for an annoying ice palace.
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~Ezofuji~
=========
Enter Wawku Shrine and listen to Issun's story.
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~Wawku Shrine~
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First room and you already know this place is going to suck. As Issun
notes, those cannons ahead aren't going to be nice. They fire lightning
fast balls at you. To destroy them, use Veil of Mist to spot the ball
flying slowly through the air, then use a Power Slash to knock it back at
the cannon and destroy it. Repeat for the second cannon. Head up to the
ledge and you'll find buried chests where each cannon was sitting. The left
chest holds Stray Bead #97.
Head into the next room. A locked door blocks the tower ahead, so we'll
need to head right. Quickly run over the icy platforms because they break a
few seconds after you stand on them. Use Inferno to melt the ice guarding
the door with the fire on the torch to proceed to the next room.
Head down the hallway and avoid the center two icicles that fall (you can
see their shadows from the start). In the room you'll find a large scale,
and icy ball, and some trees. Walk over to the tiny saplings. Grab one and
place it on the right scale, then do it again for the second sapling. Use
Inferno to melt the two ice blocks on the right scale, then use Bloom on
both saplings to turn them into large trees. This balances the scale,
creating three platforms infront of the ice ball.
Jump to the other side and stand infront of the ice ball in a way that a
left to right Galestorm will blow the ice ball towards the hole switch.
Repeat the Galestorm several times until the ball falls in (keep yourself
moving so you don't get frozen by the ball), opening the nearby door.
The key is revealed, so grab it. Cross to the ledge on the other side
again, then leave the room. Run back across the icy platforms and to the
locked door. Unlock it and head to a hole in the ground with a large chunk
of ice. Inferno it using one of the torches, flooding the hole. Waterspout
the power spring in the middle to create a fountain. Climb it to the top,
then look left to find some icy platforms you can jump to. Cross them and
you'll be on an outer ledge that spirals around the tower.
Head right on the ledge. When you reach the wall, look to the upper left
to find a Kabegami statue. Catwalk your way around the icicles, then jump
to the ledge on the left at the top. The camera zooms in on some cannons.
Past the purple spot on the ground they will fire at you. Go ahead and
ignore them. We can disable them in a moment. Two spinning platforms are
ahead. You'll need to use Veil of Mist to slow them down so you can cross
them. Spam Veil of Mist to dodge the cannon fire. At the top of the
sprialing pathway is a switch. Step on it to permanately stop the spinning
platforms, as well as destroy all of the cannons. Cool.
Go through the yellow gate and save at the Origin Mirror to the right. Head
through the door left of the Origin Mirror. In the hallway, use Veil of
Mist to slow the spinnning gears. Once slowed you can safely cross them.
Use a second Veil of Mist to keep them slowed down, then enter the door on
the other side. Once outside, head left.
Bloom the clover in your path for 30 Praise, then continue ahead. In the
more open area, dodge the Burning Spiders and jump onto the ledge on the
other side. Keep going forward and drop down the ledge ahead. You'll fight
a Great Tengu when you fall. These bastards are annoying as all hell. They
fight similar to a Blue Cyclops, but they can spit poisonous goop at you,
as well as brethe fire. Worse yet is after about 20 seconds they get
pissed off, just like Blue Cyclops'. They'll transform into an invincible
beast and can beat the crap out of you. They'll revert to their normal
form after a few seconds, or sooner if you use Deluge (which you probably
don't have right now). Their floral finisher is Blizzard.
After the fight, examine the machine up ahead. It's a bit more complicated
that Issun assumes. We need to stop it as this is the cause of the
blizzard. To the right of the machine is a crack in the wall. Cherry Bomb
it and enter the cavern. Bloom the cursed tree inside, and Galestorm the
leaves away to discover a pattern: "Up, right, left". Head back to the
machine.
The left side of it has something frozen. Use the torch to Inferno it,
revealing a lever. Using Veil of Mist, wait until the eye of the left
wheel is at the top, then Power Slash the lever to stop the left wheel.
Repeat this process for the middle wheel, stopping it when the eye is on
the right. Do it again for the left wheel, making sure it's on the left.
If done correctly, the machine will stop blowing. The weather is all calm
now. The final constellation will appear, so paint the missing five stars
and you will learn Blizzard, as well as obtain the Solar Flare reflector.
It's the best reflector in the game. You can also use it as a source for
Inferno. It acts like fire itself!
Try out Blizzard on the nearby Flaming Spider. Draw a line from the icicle
to the spider when the spider is midway to the top of the ledge. Use the
spider to jump to the top of the ledge. In the area with three Flaming
Spiders, freeze the one moving left and right furthest from you when it is
on the far right (use those giant icicles as a source). Then freeze the
spider moving up and down next to you when it's midway up the ledge. Use
the first spider to reach the up and down spider, and jump from there to a
ledge (note that if you jump at the up and down spider when it's frozen and
you can't reach the platform on it, tackle the spider when you're jumping
through it. You'll rebound off of it and may land on the platform). The
ledge has a chest containing Stray Bead #98.
Head back down the hill after this and around the corner, the reenter the
temple. Veil of Mist to slow down the gears and jump back to the other
side. When you get back to the tower room, a Poltergeist will ambush you.
After the quick fight, save the game. Head right from the mirror and use
an icicle to Blizzard the Flaming Spider. Jump to the platform above.
Follow the pathway, then freeze the Flaming Spider at the bottom of its
path. You can barely reach a ledge above it with a double jump. The small
ledge contains a chest with Stray Bead #99 in it. Awesome. Jump left of the
ledge to be back on the main pathway, then turn the corner to find two
torches. Use one to Inferno the ice block across the gap, revealing a
Konohana Blossom. Vine to it.
Use the Kabegami statue nearby to create a Catwalk path to a ledge high
above. Change camera angles as necessary to make the path. Freeze the
Flaming Spider at the bottom of its route, then freeze the spider next to
it at the bottom of its route too. Use them as platforms to reach another
small ledge higher up. Wall jump to another ledge on the right.
Freeze yet another spider at the bottom of its route, then jump to a ledge
on the right. Go through two doors to wind up in a large room with many
fast spinning gears. Veil of Mist them and head for a ledge on the right.
Burn the frozen chest to obtain the Wawku Shrine Map (and for once we
aren't right near the end!). Face the door across the gap on the left, and
use the torch to Inferno the ice block guarding it. Veil of Mist across one
more set of gears, then go through the door.
Jump across the slowly spinning platforms, then freeze the flaming platform
when it's in a good position to cross to the other side. Avoid the Demon
Scroll and pass to the hallway on the right. See the sparkling snowflakes
rising in the gap? Draw a line across them from the icicle on the other
side to create icy platforms. The platforms last for about 20 seconds, so
hurry across them.
Back outside, head left and repeat the process making platforms across
another gap. Bloom the clover for 30 Praise, then Bloom the cursed trees
ahead. Head up the hill and through the door. In the hallway, Galestorm
the room to blow out the fire for a few seconds, then use Veil of Mist so
you can Power Slash the projectile and destroy the cannon on the wall.
Dodge another Demon Scroll, then enter the room on the left.
Cross the two icy platforms to a solid platform (icicles drop onto it, so
beware), then Veil of Mist and Power Slash the projectiles. The cannon
requires two rebounded projectiles to hit it to be destroyed. Proceed
forward and into the next room. Burn the chests and grab a Holy Bone M and
an Inkfinity Stone, then save the game. Proceed through the gate ahead and
step into the arena.
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~Nechku~
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Oh what luck! Shiranui happens to appear and will aid you by this fight.
And by "aid" I mean "she'll solo the fight". Honestly, you don't have to do
a damn thing. Shiranui can totally beat Nechku by herself. Of course, I'm
sure you want a little action, right? Nechku isn't terribly hard. He will
launch either purple balls or icicles at you, and you can Power Slash both
of them back at him.
He can also dive at you, pick you up, and slam you onto the ground. Dodge
out of the way when he dives.
After several rebounded attacks Nechku will get stunned in the air.
Shiranui will dive at him and bring him to the ground, at which point you
can pummel him. I advise helping out because the only way Shiranui can
damage Nechku when he isn't stunned is with several brush techniques, and
she doesn't draw them terribly often.
Just assist Shiranui several more times and the owl will be fallen. Not so
bad. The second time you stun him Shiranui will likely go AWOL and deplete
the rest of his health. Haha.
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Sadly, Lechku will appear before you can finish of Nechku. It seems Oki is
beating him up. Before striking the final blow, Lechku will freeze time,
then scores a critical hit on Shiranui, also knocking off a small yellow
pin to the side. After the scene, run behind Oki and grab the pin. Talk to
Oki and the giant clock you're on will lower down like an elevator, to the
top of the tower room in the shrine.
Head across the bridge to the yellow door. Fit the pin into the hole and it
will open up. Head through to the next room. Outside, look across the gap
and you'll find four enemy cannons. There's a bunch of snowflakes in the
gap, so you could cross it with ice platforms...but good luck with all
those enemy cannons. Even with Veil of Mist you wouldn't make it.
Light the two stationary cannons with Inferno and they will each destroy
one of the cannons. For the two spinning cannons, light them when they are
facing about 90 degrees to the right (with respect to the cannon they are
infront of). Lighted correctly, they'll destroy the cannon across from
them. You don't have to be terribly accurate for it to count. With all four
cannons destroyed, make some ice platforms using the icicles on the other
side and scribbling over the gap, then cross on over.
There will still be one cannon you couldn't have destroyed. In the middle
of the gap, spam Veil of Mist and reflect two projectiles at it with Power
Slashes. After two of them, the last cannon will be destroyed, and the
barrier on the other side will deactivate. Bloom a clover for 30 Praise
when you reach the opposite cliff, then Inferno an ice block on the left
to discover an ice ball. Use Galestorm to push the ball into the tunnel,
and through it to a room. A Great Tengu will ambush you infront of the
tunnel, so be aware.
In the room will be a ton of flaming fast moving gears. Use the ball to
Blizzard them, then walk over them to a ledge on the right. Cherry Bomb the
crack and grab the key in the hole that you bombed, then freeze some more
gears to reach the locked door on the other ledge. Open it and head through
to the next room.
In the room, save at the Origin Mirror, then talk to Oki (how'd he beat us
here?). Choose to fight together, then get ready for the real battle.
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~Lechku & Nechku~
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Remember the fight against Nechku? The battle here is exactly the same.
Both owls shoot projectiles, and you'll want to reflect enough of them back
at the shooter.
Nechku's projectiles are exactly the same (icicles and purple balls). He
can also spawn a giant bud above his head and fling it at you, but if you
Bloom it it will release several health orbs, and he can hold a bomb above
his head and fling it at you, so use a torch on the wall to Inferno the
fuse.
Lechku can spawn a large egg thing atop his head. Power Slash it before he
throws it at you. He can also hold a large sword above his head and slash
you with it, so Thunderstorm it using the lightning clouds while he holds
it above his head.
After enough hits on one of the owls, Oki will rush over to you. Hold C to
bite him, hold down on the control stick, then let go of C to release him
like an arrow. He will attack the stunned owl, and all you need to do is
hit it once to bring it to the ground, at which point you can freely damage
it. After a few seconds the owl will recover and you'll have to stun it
anew.
This process repeats for both owls. Obviously, the fight gets considerably
easier when one owl is gone, so focus on one of them, then the other. I
suggest going for Lechku (the golden one) first. Every now and then he can
freeze time, which allows him to damage you without any way to stop it. You
can't avoid getting frozen in time. Just hope he doesn't hit you.
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Your reward for besting the twin demons is a Sun Fragment.
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~Ezofuji~
=========
Err, looks like the Ark of Yamato has risen. You have two choices now:
1.Go back to Nippon and collect all of the remaining Stray Beads in the
game or...
2.Enter the Ark of Yamato, a point of no return, and beat the game
Your call. Save the game either way.
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~4AA.Whirlwind Tour Around Nippon~
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Overview--This section will have us collecting all the remaining Stray
Beads in the game, a few brush techniques (several required for some Stray
Beads), and finishing the animal tome. If you don't care about 100%ing the
game, skip over this section.
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~Ezofuji~
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Head for the Ultimate Mirror. Warp over to Kamiki Village.
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~Kamiki Village~
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Yes, sadly daytime is signified by this twilight. Oh well. Head over to
Sakuya's tree. Don't go through the arch and you'll find that Camille and
Camellia are standing next to the tree. Tackle Camille (the tall one) and
she will hand you 10 Praise. This starts a sidequest for a Stray Bead
later on. Head back and go through the arch this time and Sakuya will talk
to you. Cut down the fruit for a Silver Pocket Watch and Kutani Pottery.
Head back down the hill.
Talk to Komuso, the flute player, if he is still here. A fight against
three Green Imps will intiate at the end of the conversation. Defeat all of
them in 12 seconds or less and Komuso will congratulate you and hand over 7
Praise. You'll need to do this for a Stray Bead later. If he's not here,
you've already beaten the fight in 12 seconds or less, so he'll be in his
next location.
Head left up the hill and to the top of the village. Stand to the left of
the observation deck and look at the rafters below it. See the two chests?
You'll want to land on the right lower rafter. Use a careful double jump to
reach it. This is difficult to pull off. If you fall, just run back to the
top of the village and try again. Once on the rafter, jump to the one on
the left and open the chest for Stray Bead #2.
You're done with Kamiki Village for good. Warp to Shinshu Field.
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~Shinshu Field~
===============
Head up the hill near the Ultimate Mirror. Keep following the path and talk
to running Ida when you reach him. Challenge him to a race. Keep running
and tackle him when you get close to him to win the race. Yeah, it's not
really a race. If you followed this guide you may have already beaten him
once. His first race is simple. In his second race he'll drop spiky balls
behind him as he runs. After beating him, change it to nighttime and then
daytime again so you can challenge Ida to another race. The third race is
an insanely hard route around Shinshu Field, and those spiky balls will
piss you off if you can't tackle him early. After three victories (and a
total of 90 Praise won), he'll hand you the Gimmick Gear, necessary for a
secret brush technique later on.
After racing him, head down the wooden stairs nearby and into Tama's house.
Talk to Tama, then draw two Cherry Bombs next to eachother (you'll need to
have learned Cherry Bomb 2 for this). You'll get 30 Praise. Now, draw three
Cherry Bombs in his room. Don't draw two next to eachother or they'll
explode. You need to have three in his room at one time. You need Cherry
Bomb 3 for it, naturally. You'll get 50 Praise for showing him this, as
well as Stray Bead #9.
Head over to Nameless Man's Kiln now. It's to the right of the Hana Valley
entrance. Defeat a Devil Gate to make it appear if you haven't already,
then make it nighttime then daytime. Talk to Nameless Man infront of his
kiln. He'll hand you a vase he's made. Have you ever noticed odd statues
around the field? You'll need to offer a vase to all five of them. Each
time you delive a vase to a statue, head back to Nameless Man, make it
nighttime then daytime, and talk to him to get another vase.
Their locations aren't hard to find. Cross the bridge next to Nameless Man
and follow the path to find the first statue. Next, follow the path
Nameless Man is on, then head left up the hill. Next to the Kabegami
statue is a cracked wall. Cherry Bomb it to find the statue inside. After
that, head down the hill leading to the Moon Cave, then turn around and
head right of the hill to find the third statue.
Follow the curving path to the right of the Ultimate Mirror and you'll
easily come across the fourth statue. Finally, head out to the Moon Cave.
It's gone, but in its place is a small island with the final statue on it.
Once you have placed all of the vases at statues (and earned a total of 100
Praise), talk to Nameless Man again. He will hand you Stray Bead #10. That
was a bit of work, huh?
Shinshu Field is complete. Warp over to Taka Pass.
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~Taka Pass~
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Run all the way across the field to the other side. Near Bingo you can
find a dark spot of dirt with a glowing crack. Dig through it to reveal a
hole, so fall through. Bloom all of the clovers and withered trees down
here for a total of 44 Praise, then open the chests. The middle one
contains Stray Bead #26. Excellent. Feed the monkeys, the final animals in
the game, for 48 Praise.
Leave the cave, then walk over to Kusa Village. We have one little bit of
business there.
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~Kusa Village~
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Head through the village and towards Princess Fuse's house. Go through the
path to the right of her house, and into the Gale Shrine.
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~Gale Shrine~
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Follow the path into the second room. At the small pond, take the winding
path on the right. At the end you will find Princess Fuse and the Canine
Warriors. Talk to her and accept to fight the Kusa 5.
What you don't know is that's it's really the Kusa 8. The battle is split
into three parts. First you'll fight Canine Warriors Chi, Rei, Ko, and
Shin. After beating them, Chu, Gi, and Jin will spawn. Once they are down,
Canine Warrior Tei will appear. Beat them all and Stray Bead #35 will be
handed to you, as well as 48 Praise.
The fights can be tough with multiple dogs jumping, attacking, and
digging. They also have a ton of health in comparison to when you last
fought them. They all have the same attacks as before, but they do a lot
more damage.
However, if you Veil of Mist spam like never before, the fights will be
pretty easy. Also, drink Steel Fist Sake every now and then to double
attack power. That'll make the battle go by a lot faster. Always heal when
it is necessary, but you should have a ton of Solar Energy right now, and
if you avoid attacks your Godhood will continue refilling itself whenever
you take hits. Stay calm, and attack hard.
Once you have the Stray Bead, leave the cavern.
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~Kusa Village~
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Head down the hill leading to Mr. Bamboo's house. Midway down the hill you
will spot a red ladder on the left. Jump to the ledge it's leaning against
to find Komuso if you cleared his challenge in Kamiki. Talk to him and you
will have to fight against two Red Imps and two Dead Fish. Beat them all in
25 seconds or less and Komuso will apploud you, and hand over 15 Praise.
Now, use the Ultimate Mirror and warp to City Checkpoint.
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~City Checkpoint~
=================
Head over to Sei-an's Emperor and trade 100 Demon Fangs for the Water
Tablet if you haven't already. Equip it, then walk to the middle of the
bridge and jump off the right side. The Water Tablet lets you walk on
water. Walk upstream all the way to a small island. Bloom the clover and
withered tree for a total of 6 Praise, then dig up the chest whose handle
you can see poking out of the ground. Obtain Stray Bead #40 from the chest.
You need to use the Water Tablet. You can try using lily pads to reach the
island, but you'll find the current is too strong and you'll never get
close to it. Run back to land, run back up the hill and go to the Ultimate
Mirror. Warp to Ryoshima Coast.
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~Ryoshima Coast~
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Note--Following this, if you use rosaries, go to Sei-an City and buy the
Tundra Beads from the weapons dealer. For reflectors/glaive users, you
should already have gotten the Solar Flare/Thunder Glaive from learning
Blizzard/defeating Orochi again. You'll want the best weapons equipped from
here on out...
Follow the path right of the Ultimate Mirror and head to the Guardian
Sapling. On the left midway up the path you'll find an opening with some
cows. On a ledge behind them is a dark dig spot. Dig through it and fall
down the hole. You'll fight a Spider Bandit. These guys are exactly like
the Spider Queen, except they'll spawn a bomb every now and then. Light the
fuse with Inferno to stun it. Attach three vines to its back hooks (just
move the canvus camera. You don't need to stun it to attach vines), then
bash away at the yellow balls when its back opens to kill it. A Sun
Fragment is your reward.
Jump back into the hole. A Devil Gate lies in the center of this room. Time
for the first Devil Gate Challenge! See the Devil Gate Challenge section
for details on the ten fights. Enter the gate and kill the enemies. Once
you do, enter the gate again. You'll need to fight through ten waves of
enemies. Do so without leaving the cavern, otherwise you'll have to restart
from the first wave. After clearing the last wave, the chest containing
Stray Bead #44 will appear.
After that fun task, save the game and head on down to the beach. Find
Hayate, Ida's younger brother. Talk to him to race him. Like Ida, you'll
want to race and beat him three times. He's just like Ida when racing as
well (drops spiky balls as he runs). Run and tackle him to win the race.
Turn it to nighttime and daytime again to race again. You'll earn a total
of 110 Praise from the three race, and after the third victory he will hand
you Stray Bead #45. If you want tips on how to tackle him, cut him off of
his path by running to the side of him and hitting him after his turns.
Ryoshima Coast is finished. Head into Sei-an City now.
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~Sei-an City (Commoners' Qtr.)~
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If you didn't do anything in Ryoshima Coast, then I'll remind you again to
buy the Tundra Beads from the weapons dealer if you like rosaries. It's
500,000 Yen, so make sure you have enough cash.
In the Commoners' Quarters you should be able to spot several huge torches.
One is near the entrance, and another is in the bottom right side of town.
Inferno fire from the lit large torch to the smaller torches that will
eventually reach the two unlit large torches. When both huge ones are lit,
make it nighttime.
At night, Power Slash the brown rock close to the bottom right corner of
town. If he doesn't from this rock, Power Slash all of the brown rocks in
the Commoners' area until he does. If he never does, then you didn't light
the two big torches.
Anyway, you'll need to catch this thief. He will split himself into two,
and then numbers appear over them briefly. You'll need to use a specific
brush technique on them in the order given. The brown one needs to be hit
with a Power Slash, and the blue one with Waterspout. For Waterspot Hayazo,
wait until he runs near water so you have a source to hit him with. Don't
worry, they will run all over the quarters, so there's plenty of chances
to hit him with Waterspout. After defeating both of them in order, Hayazo
will collapse. Tackle him to make him drop a watch. Make it daytime and
delive the watch to blue man walking near the entrance for 20 Praise.
Make it nighttime again and cut brown rocks to find Hayazo again. This time
he will split himself into three, and the red one needs to be hit with
Inferno. Hit them in order as usual, and use one of the torches to hit the
Inferno clone. If you smack all three of them in order, tackle the dazed
Hayazo to make him drop a bag. Make it daytime and deliver it to the small
boy on the left side of town. Momotaro will give you 20 Praise for helping
him.
Make it nighttime and hunt for Hayazo a third time. No new colored clones
will appear, but he splits himself into four, making it a bit trickier to
hit them in order without messing up. Just be careful. They'll run around
the quarters constantly even if you are nowhere near them, so just keep
wandering around until you spot them. Once all four clones are hit, tackle
Hayazo to make him drop some flowers. Head over to the restaurant right of
the entrance to the Aristocratic Qtr. and give them to the man at the first
table (must be nighttime for him to be there). You'll get 20 Praise.
Make it daytime and go to the bridge near the restaurant to find the City
Dweller you gave the hairpin to jumping for joy. Talk to him and you'll get
50 Praise. Now, make it nighttime again and hunt for Hayazo. This is the
final race, and there are five clones. Also, there will be a new yellow one
that must be hit with Thunderstorm. Equip the Thunder Edge and use it as a
source of electricity. For winning the final bout, he'll drop a mask when
tackled and will give you 50 Praise. Pick up the mask.
Head to the bottom right side of town to find a small pool of water. If it
is just an empty hole, stand near it and Waterspout water from the canal
into the pond to fill it. A power spring appears, so Waterspout it to
create a fountain leading to a house in the sky.
Walk around to the backside of the house and get a Horse Statue from a
chest if you wish, then enter Waka's Headquarters. Nothing much is in here,
but you'll want to talk to the man on the left. Abe seems to have lost his
mask. It just so happens to be the one you recovered from Hayazo. For
returning it, he'll hand over 50 Praise and if you talk to him again you'll
get Stray Bead #49.
Head over to the Aristocratic Qtr. now.
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~Sei-an City (Aristocratic Qtr.)~
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Head all the way to the back side of Queen Himiko's Palace. Behind the
entrance you'll find that four large pillars were erected in the water to
mark her grave. Waterspout all four of them at once using the water in the
small pool near on the balcony should be standing on. You will learn the
hidden brush technique Deluge. Grab the scroll from the chest, then head
back to the Commoners' Qtr.
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~Sei-an City (Commoners' Qtr.)~
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Head to the right side of town. Camille and her sister will be standing
here if you tackled Camille back in Kamiki earlier (if you didn't, she's
standing next to Sakuya's tree if you don't go through the arch). Talk to
them and Camille will say she won't believe any of this god nonsense unless
she sees a tree grow next to her. Paint a dot on the ground to make a tree
grow (you've been able to do this the entire game, actually, but making a
tree grow doesn't do anything).
To make Camille really belive in gods is a bit trickier. Draw the tree
again, but right after it grows you'll need to use Deluge. To draw Deluge,
draw two vertical lines next to eachother (so it's basically a sideways =
sign). If done correctly, Camille will react to what happened and hand you
50 Praise. Talk to her again and Camellia will give you Stray Bead #50.
Go back to the Aristocratic Qtr. for one more thing.
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~Sei-an City (Aristocratic Qtr.)~
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As soon as you get out of Rao's house, look left to find Komuso (he's only
here if you cleared his challenge in Kamiki and then Kusa Village). Talk to
him to fight an Ubume and Crow Tengu. Defeat them both in 30 seconds or
less to earn 20 Praise and Stray Bead #52.
Now, on the left side of the quarters you can find a tall clock tower. Head
to the back of it to find a Kabegami statue. Catwalk to the middle ledge,
then use another Kabegami statue so you can reach the very top. Enter the
room up here.
Talk to Gen inside. He says his contraption is missing a Gimmick Gear. If
you beat Ida in three races in Shinshu Field, he will have already given
you the Gimmick Gear. Give it to Gen and he'll start his machine. Talk to
him again and when the screen stops you'll need to paint the missing wires.
See the faint dotted lines? Draw over those. It's the shape of a
thunderbolt.
I'll have you know this is next to impossible to do. I'm not kidding--many
people, have complained getting the game to register the thunderbolt is
impossible. Apparently "drawing from the top right, to the middle left,
middle right, then bottom left very quickly" is how to draw it, but I did
it calmly and somehow got it to work. The game registers the shape as
Galestorm or Inferno very often, making it nearly impossible to perform
correctly. If you do manage to complete the machine, you'll learn the
hidden Thunderbolt technique, as well as 50 Praise.
Either way, open the chest in this room using Thunderbolt or by zapping it
with electricity from the Thunder Edge. You'll get Stray Bead #56 from
within. Leave the quarters now.
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~Sei-an City (Commoners' Qtr.)~
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Leave the city for good.
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~Ryoshima Coast~
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Head right and to the north coast.
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~N. Ryoshima Coast~
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Stock up on supplies while you have the chance. Head out into the ocean
(walk over water or use Orca) and head for the three islands on the far
left. The middle one has a dark dirt spot at the top of it. Dig through it
to enter a cavern with a Bandit Spider. You know what to do. Kill it and
grab the Sun Fragment as a reward. Leave and reenter and complete the
N. Ryoshima Coast Devil Gate Challenge. This one is significantly harder
than the first one. Use Steel Fist Sakes whenever necessary, and don't be
afraid to heal. If you clear all ten rounds without leaving, collect Stray
Bead #65 as your reward. Look at the Devil Gate Challenge for more info on
this task.
Once that's done, use Orca to surf into the whirlpool.
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~Dragon Palace~
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Inside the building, head down the left hallway and into the Water Dragon's
old home. Over the hole in the ground will be a fish bone and some dead
flowers. Scribble all over this to Bloom it and get 20 Praise, as well as
make a chest containing a Treasure Box appear. Leave the Dragon Palace and
warp to N. Ryoshima Coast again.
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~N. Ryoshima Coast~
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Head down to the beach and talk with Urashima inside his house. Talk a
second time to offer the treasure box. For turning Urashima back into an
old man, he'll give you 20 Praise and Stray Bead #66. Warp to the Dragon
Palace one last time.
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~Dragon Palace~
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Go up the elevator and talk with Otohime twice and she will hand you Stray
Bead #73. With everything here done, warp to Wep'keer.
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~Wep'keer~
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You need to prepare for the final Devil Gate Challenge. Grab all of the
healing items, Steel Fist Sakes, and especially Vengence Slip L's you can
before plunging in.
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~Kamui~
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Jump off the ledge on the left right away. On the ledge you land on, look
for a crack in the wall. Cherry Bomb it and head through the tunnel. At the
end, dig through the dark dirt spot, then fall through the hole to fight a
Bandit Spider. Defeat her to obtain the final Sun Fragment in the game,
then leave and reenter the cavern.
This is the Kamui Devil Gate Challenge, the #1 hardest challenge in the
entire game. These ten rounds will be complete hell. Visit the Devil Gate
Challenge section for info on each rounds' enemies. But as a note, the
final round is composed of three Nagi's. Ironically, it's the easiest
round of all ten. Just use a Exorcism Slip L to daze them all for a few
seconds, as well as inflicting damage, hurt them, then when all three
recover, use another slip. Repeat until all are dead. This works for rounds
eight and nine, too. Good luck! Stray Bead #79 is your reward for
surviving this insane challenge.
With Kamui finished, head into Yoshpet for the final two beads.
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~Yoshpet~
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Inside you'll find Kai. If you talk to her she will challenge you to a race
to Ponc'tan's clearing. Don't accept just yet. Go into Yoshpet, ignore the
time limit, and Bloom every single cursed tree in there so they don't
interfere with your race. It's also good for Praise, so why not? Once you
have Bloomed them all, or a lot of them, return to Kai.
The race against Kai is insanely easy. She, literally, takes the longest
possible route through each area. All you need to do is follow a straight
line to the next area. Jump over ledges, and through shortcuts off the
actual path. It's the fastest route through each area. Go off the beaten
path whenever possible, as long as you're going forward, to beat Kai. She
takes roughly three minutes to reach the clearing. The biggest place to
lose time is in the third area by hitting lots of snowballs (which can
happen if you're unlucky since they fall down the ledges that are also
shortcuts.
The biggest time gainer is also in the third section. When you reach the
frozen lake, Kai will go straight across it. Going across the very slow.
The sides of the lake are solid ground, so run on that to keep maximum
speed. Yeah, for once the longest route in one area is actually the
fastest.
If you're still having trouble, make runs through Yoshpet without racing
Kai. Don't get any time gems--you need to finish in three minutes or less,
making the time gems moot. If you can reach Ponc'tan in under three
minutes in some test runs, you can beat Kai. When you beat her, she will
hand you Stray Bead #90 and 50 Praise.
Now enter Ponc'tan,
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~Ponc'tan~
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Head straight ahead and up the hill. Talk to the guards outside of
Ishaku's house to earn 50 Praise, then head inside and talk with Ishaku.
He'll talk sadly about Issun, and hands you Stray Bead #93. If you've
followed this guide, that's 99 Stray Beads down. One to go!
Whirlwind tour over. Leave Ponc'tan.
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~Yoshpet~
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Leave the forest.
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~Kamui~
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Head back to Wep'keer.
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~Wep'keer~
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Back to Ezofuji.
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~Ezofuji~
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Save the game.
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~4BB.The God of Darkness and the Rising Sun~
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Overview--It's time to defeat Yami, the God of Darkness. The final bout
is coming!
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~Ezofuji~
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Head up the rainbow bridge. When Issun comments that you're about to pass
the point of no return, choose to continue. Once you reach the top, watch
the scene with Waka, and you'll enter the ship.
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~Ark of Yamato~
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Talk to the celetial merchant on the right. You can trade cash or Demon
Fangs for items if you want, but you should still be stocked full of
items. Save the game, then head to the podium in the center of the room.
There are five branching pathways here. All of them lead to a boss, one
you've defeated before, as shown by the drawing above the door. You should
remember how to defeat them all, but if you don't, here's a quick recap:
Spider Queen--Attach two vines to the back hooks to open the bud, then
destroy all eight eyes when it opens up.
Crimson Helm--Attack it until the armor falls off, use Galestorm, then
inflict damage onto him.
Orochi--Haha, you know how to kill him by now.
Blight--Attack him when he dashes across the screen while using Veil of
Mist, or attack his glowing blue sword when he summons a bunch of swords
while using Veil of Mist, then destroy the sword when it lands on the
ground.
Ninetails--Thunderstorm her sword when she lifts it, then destroy the
spirits. After detroying eight, you can freely hurt the one-tailed fox.
When all five have been slain, the center podium will light up. Enter the
light to reach the final boss.
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~Yami~
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Phase 1:
To begin with, you lose every single Celetial Brush technique to the
glowing ball. You don't even have your Divine Intrument without any brush
techniques. All you can really do right now is tackle the giant ball, or
spam a few Vengence Slips. After losing a little health, you will recover
Rejuvenation. This is a useful ability for the first phase of the fight
because Yami will bounce around the arena, cracking the ground. If he lands
on cracked ground, it will crumble away leaving a large hole you can fall
into.
Obviously, you can Rejuvenate the missing floor to recover it. Do so to
ensure you don't fall in by accident. After a little more damage you will
recover Power Slash. Yami will be stunned right now, so attack with a
Power Slash for massive damage. As long as you keep your distance from Yami
and avoid him when he jumps and falls, you'll avoid all damage.
The third ability you recover is Greensprout. Yami will be stunned, so
Bloom him to reveal his core (a fish thing in a blue bowl...). Jump up to
the bowl and attack it for a ton of damage. After a little more damage,
phase two will begin.
Phase 2:
Yami will turn into a green ball now. He will light the ball on fire and
slowly swing himself across the field several times, so keep running to
avoid him. After a few hits, the ball splits into several sections, forming
a staircase to the core. Attack the core. After some damage, you will
recover Cherry Bomb. Use it against the stunned Yami.
Yami's core will be exposed again after the Cherry Bomb, so run to it and
bash it. After some more damage is dealt, you will recover the Waterspout
technique. Now whenever Yami lights himself on fire, douse him out using
one of the fountains on the side of the arena. Use a Cherry Bomb on the
stunned Yami.
Continue beating the crap out of Yami (or spamming Exorcism Slip L's) until
he releases the Crescent ability. This ability won't do jack in this fight.
Ah well. Continue attacking Yami, and the core whenever it gets revealed,
to move to the third stage.
Phase 3:
Now Yami transforms into a slot machine. Woo! You can either stop all of
the reels using a Power Slash on them, or continue spamming Exorcism Slips.
If you choose to stop the reels, you are aiming for the picture of an demon
face. This will make Yami spit purple balls at you, which you can reflect
back at him with Power Slashes for some damage.
After taking some damage, the reels will be rigged to land on a blue ball.
When all three of them are, Yami will give back Galestorm. Use it to clear
the field of the flames he puts on it. Note if you spam Exorcism Slips,
Yami will always leave himself with a sliver of health. He forces you to
play the slots to recover your abilities (don't worry, they're rigged as I
said).
You can recover Inferno after dealing more damage. Use the flames on the
sides of the arena to melt the ice Yami spreads. After another rigged slot,
you'll earn back Veil of Mist.
As for what you get on the slots, if you get a Solar Orb, Yami spits out
orbs that restore health. If you get and Ink Pot, he spits Ink refills that
each restore one Ink Pot. If you get a flame, fire will be spread on the
field. If a snowflake appears, Yami sends homing icicles at you. If a bomb
appears, Yami will throw a bomb at you. Jump to dodge it. Finally, if you
get the blue ball again, Yami's core will be exposed for a few seconds.
Power Slash it while you have the chance. After depleting its health, the
next phase occurs.
Phase 4:
Yami turns into a yellow electric ball. For this phase, I highly suggest
screw fighting and only hit him with Exorcism Slips. If you want to do it
the long way, attack the front hatch of the ball whenever it is exposed.
After six hits, the ball will bend over to recover; your chance to attack
for some actual damage. This is a painfully slow method. Yami can raise his
hand swords into the air to summon lightning, and can fly in the air and
shoot bombs and homing missiles at you. As always, dodge and jump to avoid
them.
You'll earn back Catwalk after some damage. You can use Catwalk to climb
the pillars around the arena for treasure if you wish. Keep attacking Yami
and you'll recover Thunderstorm. Whenever Yami raises its arms,
Thunderstorm them to make the core fall out. Power Slash it when it does.
After more attacks you will recover Blizzard. Whenever the core falls out,
Blizzard it for a ton of damage. Other than that, just keep fighting. It
will run out of health soon enough.
Phase 5:
The grand finale. Now Yami has a giant hand. Draw Sunrise to stun Yami.
The hand will fall over, so you can harm the core in its palm. From here,
all you need to do is keep attacking the core whenever possible. After
some attacks Yami may get stunned and the core will fall out.
You can also stun Yami with another Sunrise when the arena gets dark again.
This isn't a terribly difficult phase. Yami can shoot homing missiles at
you which are difficult to avoid, spread fire onto the field, and slam his
hand on the ground in an attempt to hit you. Keep yourself healed whenever
you take damage, and finish of Yami.
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You're winner! Enjoy the ending cutscene and the credits (or lack thereof),
then look at the results screen. You will earn Karmic Transformers based on
your performance in four catagories. The transformers will be in the Tools
section of the Fan Menu when you start a New Game + by saving the game.
They are used to change Ammy's appearence. Here is the list of what you
need to get the best rank in each catagory, and the transformers unlocked
by doing so:
--Need to have used 4 or less Continues (if you died and didn't choose to
continue, this number wouldn't increase); unlocks Karmic Transformer 3.
--Need to have defeated 550 of more enemies; unlocks Karmic Transformer 4.
--Need to have gained 4,000,000 Yen or more (you can spend it. If you ever
gain Yen in the game, regardless of how, it counts to the total earned,
even if spent); unlocks Karmic Transformer 5.
--Need to have earned 300 or more Demon Fangs (you can spend them. Like
Yen, it's simply the total you collected throughout the game); unlocks
Karmic Transformer 6.
--Need to have earned 4500 or more Praise (you can spend it, just the total
accumulated throughout the game); unlocks Karmic Transformers 7, 8, and 9.
**Note that these stats carry over from New Game + to New Game +, so if
you missed the mark by a little, continue in a New Game + and increase it
a bit to get the transformer!
Karmic Transformers 1 and 2, the Karmic Returner (returns you to the
original Ammy) are earned for beating the game. You also get Stray Bead
#100. The String of Beads will be an item handed to you if you collected
all of the Stray Beads. Wear it, and you have infinite health, ink, and
ten time normal strangth. True god mode!
You also unlocks the Presents from Issun option at the main menu. You can
view art, music, and demo videos. Art is of characters, enemies, the
environments (both used and cut from the game), as well as high resolution
pictures of the enemies on the scroll in the Bestiary.
The music section contains every bit of music played in the game. The demo
videos are videos showcased at places like the Tokyo Game Show and E3. Two
special videos at the bottom are obtained by getting all of the Karmic
Transformers.
Have fun!
In a New Game +, you retain everything you'd think you would retain from
any other New Game +. All stats you've increased from Praise are kept,
amount of Yen you had after beating Yami is kept, amount of Praise you had
is kept, and so are items and Stray Beads you collected.
What isn't kept is Solar Energy created from Sun Fragments. The brush
techniques are gone as well. Fifth tier weapons (Thunder Edge, Tundra
Beads, and Solar Flare) are taken away. Any weapons you've used Gold Dust
on retain their increased power (including the fifth tier weapons when you
regain them). The Water Tablet and Fire Tablet are taken away, but the
rest of the Holy Artifacts you bought are kept.
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5.Animal Locations~
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There are many animals living in Nippon. Whenever you encounter a group of
them, you can feed them. There are four types of food--seeds, herbs, meat,
and fish. Each animal only reacts to one type of food. When you feed the
group you will receive some Praise.
You can only feed each group of animals once per playthrough. Animals with
hearts over their heads have already been fed. Each time a group of animals
is fed their percentage is increased in the Animal Tome of the Fan Menu.
It's a fun task to get 100% on all the animals, plus it nets a lot of
Praise in the long run. Nearly 1,200 Praise is obtained from feeding all of
the animals, so it's worth the time.
Note that depending on the order you feed each animal in its group, the
%age may be off by 1%. If you feed all of the animals of a specific kind
it will have 100% in the end, however.
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Sparrows
Locations:
Kamiki Village--At the top of the spiraling hill leading to the wooden
platform at the top of the village. Right before you reach the pond you'll
find them (8%, 5 Praise)
Kamiki Village--Next to Mushi's mother in the turnip field (6%, 3 Praise)
Kamiki Village--Next to where Kumoso is/was standing, next to the stair
hill that led to the top of the village (7%, 4 Praise)
Kamiki Village--To the right of Susano's training grounds, behind his
house (5%, 3 Praise)
Shinshu Field--Outside Tama's house, near the dock (7%, 4 Praise)
Agata Forest--Near Tsuta Ruins' entrance is a Devil Gate. Destroy it to
make the sparrows appear (6%, 3 Praise)
Agata Forest--At the beginning of the fenced path leading to the river and
log bridge going to Taka Pass (5%, 3 Praise)
Taka Pass--To the right of the grey arch leading to Sasa Sanctuary (6%, 3
Praise)
Kusa Village--To the right of the stairs leading to Princess Fuse's house,
near a small shrine with statues of sages (8%, 5 Praise)
Kusa Village--On the hill leading down to Mr. Bamboo's house (9%, 5 Praise)
Sasa Sanctuary--To the left of the entrance to the main building, near the
Ultimate Mirror (9%, 5 Praise)
Sasa Sanctuary--To the right of the entrance to the main building, near the
Ultimate Mirror (9%, 5 Praise)
Sasa Sanctuary--Head down the hallway past the hot springs. At the top of
the first stairway are the sparrows (7%, 4 Praise)
Sasa Sanctuary--Head down the hallway past the hot springs. At the top of
the second stairway are the sparrows (8%, 4 Praise)
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Hares
Locations:
Kamiki Village--Next to the Ultimate Mirror (4%, 6 Praise)
Shinshu Field--In the northwest area of the field is a Devil Gate. Destroy
it to make Nameless Man's Kiln reappear. The hares are infront of it (7%,
10 Praise)
Shinshu Field--Behind the Guardian Sapling is a Devil Gate. Destroy it and
several hares will appear (5%, 8 Praise)
Shinshu Field--Slightly north of the wooden staircase leading to Tama's
house (5%, 6 Praise)
Shinshu Field--Use the Kabegami statue to climb the cliff behind the
Guardian Sapling and head left. Destroy the Devil Gate to make them
appear (5%, 8 Praise)
Shinshu Field--Destroy the Devil Gate near the statue leading to Kamui to
make them appear (7%, 10 Praise)
Agata Forest--Behind the Guardian Sapling (4%, 6 Praise)
Agata Forest--Appears after blooming the cursed grass near house with
nothing inside other than a fire (3%, 4 Praise)
Agata Forest--On the right side of Madame Fawn's house (2%, 4 Praise)
Agata Forest--On the other side of the bridge leading to Taka Pass, just
before the entrance (3%, 4 Praise)
Sasa Sanctuary--In the area where you found Canine Warrior Gi, there's a
small altar in the top right corner with the hares (5%, 6 Praise)
Ryoshima Coast--On the path just before the merchant, resting close to a
Demon Scroll (5%, 8 Praise)
Ryoshima Coast--To the right of Sei-an City's entrance after clearing a
Devil Gate (6%, 8 Praise)
Ryoshima Coast--The black eared/foot hard that appears after clearing the
Devil Gate to the right of Sei-an City's entrance (1%, 2 Praise)
N. Ryoshima Coast--Follow the path near the merchant, not headed for the
beach. Soon on the left you'll find a dark dirt spot. Dig through it to
reveal a hole with a ton of hares at the bottom (22%, 30 Praise)
N. Ryoshima Coast--Destroy the Devil Gate at the far right side to make
the hares appear behind the tree (4%, 6 Praise)
Kamui--Follow the frozen river. Near the end you'll go under a bridge that
leads to Wep'keer. The hares are under the bridge (3%, 4 Praise)
Wep'keer--Head to the side of the frozen pond directly across from the
Ultimate Mirror to find the hares (4%, 6 Praise)
Yoshpet--To the right of the Ponc'tan entrance
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Monkeys
Locations:
Hana Valley--After restoring Hana Valley and defeating all the Imps in it,
they appear near the entrance in the area with five wilted trees (6%, 9
Praise)
Agata Forest--After destroying a Devil Gate near Tsuta Ruins' entrance,
they will appear (7%, 9 Praise)
Taka Pass--On the stair hill leading to the entrance to Kusa Village
(7%, 9 Praise)
Taka Pass--Near Bingo is a hard dig spot. Dig through it and enter the hole
to find the monkeys (34%, 48 Praise)
Kusa Village--To the far right of Princess Fuse's house is a wooden bridge.
Cross it to a small pillar and use two Konohana Blossoms to reach a high
tower with the monkeys on it (5%, 6 Praise)
Kusa Village--To the right of the Gale Shrine entrance (5%, 9 Praise)
Ryoshima Coast--On the beach to the right of the merchant (10%, 12 Praise)
Ryoshima Coast--Infront of the Dojo (5%, 6 Praise)
Ezofuji--Head up the hill leading to Wawku Shrine. When you reach the turn
after passing the bear, jump off the right side to land on a lower ledge
with the monkeys (7%, 9 Praise)
Ezofuji--Head along the right wall on the frozen lake until you spot a
Konohana Blossom in the air. Vine to it, then jump to a ledge. On the
ledge, look for another blossom, then Vine to it and several more blossoms
ahead of it. Jump to another ledge to find the monkeys (12%, 15 Praise)
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Nightingales
Locations:
Agata Forest--Behind the house with an arrow sticking through the top of it
(15%, 3 Praise)
Taka Pass--To the right of the Guardian Sapling (40%, 8 Praise)
City Checkpoint--Right of the merchant, near some trees (15%, 3 Praise)
City Checkpoint--Cross the bridge and Bloom the two patches of cursed grass
on the right. When the land is restored, the horses will appear (10%, 2
Praise)
Ryoshima Coast--Next to the Guardian Sapling (20%, 4 Praise)
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Horses
Locations:
Shinshu Field--At the intersection of several paths on the hill near the
Dojo (18%, 8 Praise)
Taka Pass--As soon as you leave the tunnel above the area you fought Waka
and leading to the Guardian Sapling, turn left. You'll find the horses
near the wall (18%, 8 Praise)
Taka Pass--To the right of the sign at the intersection of paths leading to
Sasa Sanctuary and City Checkpoint (18%, 8 Praise)
City Checkpoint--Cross the bridge and Bloom the two patches of cursed grass
on the left. When the land is restored, the horses will appear (18%, 8
Praise)
Ryoshima Coast--Near the entrance to N. Ryoshima Coast (22%, 12 Praise)
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Chickens
Locations:
Kamiki Village--To the side of Mr./Mrs. Orange's house (28%, 8 Praise)
Kusa Village--To the right of the stairs that lead to Princess Fuse (29%,
8 Praise)
Kusa Village--Before the wooden bridge on the path to Princess Fuse, use a
Konohana Blossom to reach a high ledge with the chickens on it (28%, 8
Praise)
Kusa Village--Before the wooden bridge on the path to Princess Fuse, use a
Konohana Blossom to reach a high ledge. Follow it to the end, then
Galestorm the banners so you can reach a high ledge with these chickens
(15%, 4 Praise)
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Boars
Locations:
Hana Valley--After restoring the Guardian Sapling you'll need to fight a
Yellow Imp soon after leaving the sapling. On the restored piece of land
a Boar will appear (16%, 9 Praise)
Shinshu Field--Sitting next to the river that leads to Agata Forest
(34%, 15 Praise)
Dragon Palace--Behind the staircase is a cracked wall. Bomb it and fall
through the revealed hole to find them (16%, 45 Praise)
Yoshpet--Behind the entrance to Ponc'tan (34%, 9 Praise)
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Pigs
Locations:
Shinshu Field--Right infront of the Dojo after clearing the nearby Devil
Gate (27%, 9 Praise)
Kusa Village--Near the Ultimate Mirror is a man growing gourd. Next to the
man are the pigs (18%, 6 Praise)
Ryoshima Coast--Appear when the cursed grass near the merchant is
restored (9%, 3 Praise)
N. Ryoshima Coast--Infront of Urashima's house (46%, 15 Praise)
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Foxes
Locations:
Taka Pass--In the cave where you fought Waka, near the large tree (11%, 6
Praise)
Taka Pass--Near Bingo (11%, 6 Praise)
Ryoshima Coast--At the bottom of the stairs leading to Ankoku Temple (22%,
12 Praise)
Ryoshima Coast--Near the tall platform you must double jump to, close to
the large bell (17%, 9 Praise)
N. Ryoshima Coast--Left of Umi's retaurant, just off the beach and near a
brown rock (22%, 12 Praise)
Kamui--Follow the path right of the Guardian Sapling and you'll find the
foxes before reaching the fishing hole (17%, 9 Praise)
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Tigers
Locations:
Taka Pass--Near the Ultimate Mirror is a Devil Gate. Destroy it and they
will appear next to where it was (22%, 10 Praise)
Sasa Sanctuary--Head down the hallway past the hot springs. At the top of
the third staircase and to the right are the tigers (22%, 10 Praise)
Sasa Sanctuary--Head down the hallway past the hot springs. At the top of
the third staircase and to the left near the huge bamboo trees are the
tigers (22%, 10 Praise)
N. Ryoshima Coast--At Watcher's Cape, just to the right of where you land
when you Catwalk up to it (34%, 15 Praise)
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Dogs
Locations:
Kamiki Village--Standing next to Mushi (5%, 10 Praise)
Agata Forest--Ume, at the bridge leading to Taka Pass (appears with
Kokari near the Dojo in Kamui later in the game if you miss him) (6%, 10
Praise)
Taka Pass--Near the intersection of paths close to the cave entrance that
led to Waka is a whiteish rock. Behind it is the dog (6%, 3 Praise)
Taka Pass--At the intersection of paths near the cave where you fought Waka
is the dog (6%, 3 Praise)
Kusa Village--Canine Warrior Rei (6%, 10 Praise)
Kusa Village--Canine Warrior Chi (6%, 10 Praise)
Kusa Village--Canine Warrior Shin (6%, 10 Praise)
Kusa Village--Canine Warrior Ko (6%, 10 Praise)
Kusa Village--Canine Warrior Tei (6%, 10 Praise)
Sasa Sanctuary--Canine Warrior Gi (6%, 10 Praise)
Ryoshima Coast--To the left of the Ultimate Mirror (17%, 9 praise)
N. Ryoshima Coast--At the intersection of paths just past the merchant
(18%, 9 Praise)
Kamiki Village (100 years in the past)--Where Hayabusa normally is, to the
right of the garded (6%, 10 Praise)
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Boar Piglets
Locations:
Hana Valley--After restoring the Guardian Sapling you'll need to fight a
Yellow Imp soon after leaving the sapling. On the restored piece of land
two Boar Piglets will appear (6%, 9 Praise)
Shinshu Field--Found after Blooming a patch of cursed grass inbetween
the Guardian Sapling and Kamiki Village (16%, 15 Praise)
Shinshu Field--Sitting next to the river that leads to Agata Forest
(10%, 15 Praise)
Taka Pass--Near the holes where you fight Moley the mole (6%, 4 Praise)
City Checkpoint--Down the hill, close to the waterfall (7%, 6 Praise)
Ryoshima Coast--Appear when the cursed grass near the merchant is
restored (3%, 3 Praise)
Ryoshima Coast--Appear when the cursed grass near the merchant is
restored (3%, 3 Praise)
Dragon Palace--Behind the staircase is a cracked wall. Bomb it and fall
through the revealed hole to find them (45%, 45 Praise)
Yoshpet--Behind the entrance to Ponc'tan (4%, 9 Praise)
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Deer
Locations:
Agata Forest--Infront of Tsuta Ruins' entrance (8%, 8 Praise)
Agata Forest--To the right of Tsuta Ruins' entrance (8%, 8 Praise)
Agata Forest--A little to the left of Tsuta Ruins' entrance (9%, 8 Praise)
Agata Forest--A bit south of the Demon Fang trader (13%, 12 Praise)
Agata Forest--On the right side of Hitoshio Spring (12%, 12 Praise)
Taka Pass--On the path leading to the Guardian Sapling you will find them
standing around the middle wilted/Bloomed tree (16%, 16 Praise)
Taka Pass--Near the Mermaid Spring sign after destroying the Devil Gate
(9%, 8 Praise)
Taka Pass--Appear after destroying the Devil Gate close to the entrance to
City Checkpoint (12%, 12 Praise)
Yoshpet--To the left of the Ponc'tan entrance (13%, 12 Praise)
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Raccoons
Locations:
Kusa Village--Jump off the side of the curved wooden bridge near Princess
Fuse's house. Infront of the cave entrance that led to Rei you'll find the
raccoons (28%, 6 Praise)
City Checkpoint--Down the hill and just past the waterfall (29%, 6 Praise)
Ezofuji--Head up the hill leading to Wawku Shrine. Partway up the hill you
will run into the raccoons (43%, 9 Praise)
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Mice
Locations:
Sasa Sanctuary--Head to the second floor of the inn and enter the second
door on the left wall. The mice are walking around the table (8%, 2 Praise)
Sasa Sanctuary--Behind the staircase in the inn (12%, 3 Praise)
Gale Shrine--On the bottom floor, Cherry Bomb the elevator to make it go up
a floor but don't be standing on it. Jump down the hole that's exposed to
find the mice down here (34%, 8 Praise)
Gale Shrine--On the rafters you can jump onto after turning the windmill
bridge, use the Konohana Blossoms behind the fallen pillar. Using the
second blossom, walk on the rafters right of the burning chest to find the
mice (26%, 4 Praise)
Gale Shrine--Infront of the Origin Mirror next to Crimson Helm's room (30%,
7 Praise)
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Cats
Locations:
Ryoshima Coast--On the right ledge of Ankoku Temple (4%, 2 Praise)
Ryoshima Coast--At the very end of the long stone pier (14%, 6 Praise)
N. Ryoshima Coast--Left of the fallen staircase that would lead to
Watcher's Cape and across the river is a small area of land with a clover
and these cats (13%, 6 Praise)
N. Ryoshima Coast--Follow the path left of the Ultimate Mirror to reach a
beach. Near the entrance of the retaurant are these cats (19%, 9 Praise)
N. Ryoshima Coast--Right outside the entrance to Catcall Tower (13%, 6
Praise)
Catcall Tower--On the right when you enter (5%, 2 Praise)
Catcall Tower--Near the base of a pillar right of the entrance (4%, 2
Praise)
Catcall Tower--Near the base of a pillar left of the entrance (5%, 2
Praise)
Catcall Tower--Near the base of a pillar left of the entrance (4%, 2
Praise)
Catcall Tower--Climb the tower. It's on the first branched platform (5%,
2 Praise)
Catcall Tower--Climb the tower. It's on the second branched platform (4%,
2 Praise)
Catcall Tower--Climb the tower. It's on the third branched platform (5%,
2 Praise)
Catcall Tower--Climb the tower. It's at the very top (you're forced to
feed this cat) (5%, 2 Praise)
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Sheep
Locations:
Kamui--Infront of Yoichi's house (15%, 12 Praise)
Kamui--Infront of Wali's house (16%, 12 Praise)
Wep'keer--Head up the stairs near the Ultimate Mirror and go down the right
path. The sheep are near the water (21%, 16 Praise)
Wep'keer--Infront of Kai's house (16%, 12 Praise)
Wep'keer--Across the bridge behind Kai's house (16%, 12 Praise)
Ezofuji--To the right of Tuskle's house is a Konohana Blossom. Vine to it
and jump to the ledge below. Look right of the ledge and just below it to
find another blossom. Vine to this one and jump to a lower ledge with the
sheep (16%, 12 Praise)
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Cows
Locations:
Ryoshima Coast--To the left of the entrance to the cave leading to the
Guardian Sapling (33%, 12 Praise)
Ryoshima Coast--After passing the wooden gate leading to Sei-an City, walk
to a ledge on the right. Jump down to a lower ledge containing the cows
(33%, 12 Praise)
N. Ryoshima Coast--Follow the path near the merchant until you see a small
hill on the left. At the top is a small pond, Yoichi firing at the Guardian
Sapling, and these cows (34%, 12 Praise)
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Cranes
Locations:
Kamui--To the left of Kokari at the fishing hole (28%, 12 Praise)
Kamui--On the hill leading to Wep'keer, jump over the right ledge after
passing the first pair of signs. Jump to a lower ledge from there to find
the cranes (22%, 9 Praise)
Wep'keer--Head up the staircase far right of the Ultimate Mirror. At the
top you'll find the cranes (21%, 9 Praise)
Ezofuji--Hug the right wall of the frozen lake. Use a Konohana Blossom in
the air when you come to it to reach a ledge with the cranes (29%, 12
Praise)
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Bears
Locations:
Kamui--To the left of the Guardian Sapling's ledge (6%, 5 Praise)
Kamui--Near the entrance to Kamui (13%, 10 Praise)
Kamui--To the right of the hole leading to Blockhead Grande, on the frozen
pond (20%, 15 Praise)
Kamui--In the cave to the right of Wali's house, take the left path. It's
at the dead end (6%, 5 Praise)
Kamui--In the cave to the right of Wali's house, take the right path. It's
at the dead end (7%, 5 Praise)
Kamui--Infront of the entrance to Yoshpet (14%, 10 Praise)
Wep'keer--Head up the staircase near the Ultimate Mirror, then go right and
down the hill. Walk to the water, then turn around. Head down the path on
the left to find the bear (7%, 5 Praise)
Wep'keer--In a small area to the left of Kemu's house (13%, 10 Praise)
Ezofuji--Head up the hill to Wawku Shrine. You'll find the bear midway up
(7%, 5 Praise)
Ezofuji--Use an Ultimate Mirror to warp to Kamui (Ezofuji Rocky Area). The
bear is on the ice near the mirror where you warp (7%, 5 Praise)
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~6.Devil Gate Challenges~
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Across Nippon there are many Devil Gates, but in three special locations
you can partake in the unique Devil Gate Challenge. This is a series of
Devil Gates, ten to be exact, each with a large group of enemies. If you
pass all ten gates WITHOUT LEAVING THE AREA, you'll earn a Stray Bead.
Of course, this all sounds too easy. The catch is that all of the enemies
are seriously beefed up. Their attack power, defense, and health is
increased by about three or four times their normal amounts. Enemies will
be doing a lot of damage, and it will take a while to kill them.
"The enemies keep coming and coming...do they ever stop? I-I can't go much
further with this! Hmm? They stopped spawning...ah! Success! All enemies
cleared! Wha? The gate's back? More foes to kill...and they are even harder
than before? What madness is this challenge?"
However, these challenges are bit easier if you prepare. Firstly, you'll
want a ton of Steel Fist Sakes. They double your attack power for about 30
seconds, so you can deal a lot of damage in that amount of time. Second,
Exorcism Slip L's are insane. The deal a good amount of damage to enemies,
and stuns them (a few enemies don't get stunned, but most will). Third,
lots of healing items. If you use rosaries, this won't be as important.
With rosaries you can attack from a distance, and after scoring large
combos your Godhood will increase.
Remember, if you get hit your Godhood will go down a level. It's like
shielding. If there's no symbol in the bottom right corner of the screen,
you've got no Godhood, and attacks will actually damage you. Obviously,
dodging attacks and keeping Godhood high is the key. You'll avoid damage
completely. This becomes very hard in later fights against difficult
enemies, but stick with it, and heal whenever necessary.
Good luck. As a final note, many Okami discs LOVE to freeze in the middle
of these fights. The reason is unknown, but if it does freeze, your Wii is
likely very warm. Let it cool down for awhile before trying the challenge
again. And remember, overpreparing is better than underpreparing!
Oh, and before unlocking the challenge you'll have to defeat a Bandit
Spider in each area. Kill them exactly like you would the Spider Queen.
Your reward for killing a Bandit Spider is a Sun Fragment.
I include an "Average Yen Reward" in each description. This is simply an
estimate of how much cash you are going to earn from the challenge. The
value you get may be more or less. Depends on how well you do. The values
are based off of what I am to assume to maximum value is (getting a full
100% bonus in each fight), and what most players are likely to earn (as
some fights you'll easily only get an 80% bonus or less in).
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~6A.Ryoshima Coast Devil Gate Challenge~
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Location--Follow the path to the right of the Ultimate Mirror, the one
leading towards the Guardian Sapling. Midway on the path on the left you
will find some cows. Head near them to find a dark dig spot on a ledge.
Dig through it to enter the challenge room.
First Available--After defeating Blight
Average Yen Reward--220,000
Notes--The first Devil Gate Challenge is fairly simple. None of the enemies
in here are insanely difficult to dispatch, and with a Gold Dusted high
tier weapon, along with Steel Fist Sake, most of the rounds will go by
fairly quickly. A good place to start to realize the torture that awaits
in the last two Devil Gate Challenges.
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~Round 1--10 Green Imps and 6 Red Imps~
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Pump a Steel Fist Sake and take down off these guys with ease. They're the
starting wave and it shows--they don't pose any challenge. They don't
actually have much more health than they normally do, so about half a dozen
swipes of whatever weapon you're using should take them down. They spawn
generally in groups of five, so jump to avoid getting hit if you're afraid
of getting hurt by an enemy you can't see.
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~Round 2--7 Red Imps and 3 Yellow Imps~
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The Yellow Imps are the only challenge here. Fight Red Imps until they
appear, then spam Veil of Mist to take down each Yellow Imp individually.
Once they yellow foes are gone, you won't have much to worry about for the
rest of this round.
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~Round 3--8 Red Imps and 3 Dead Fish~
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You should know how to get through Red Imps by now. Dead Fish can be a tad
annoying, though. Power Slash their wings off, then use several more Power
Slashes to kill them. Do this especially if they attach themselves to you--
a signal they're about to explode, harming you with them. Wrap up the three
Dead Fish before turning attention to the Red Imps.
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~Round 4--9 Red Imps and 3 Bud Ogres~
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Without a doubt, start with the Bud Ogres. They are incredibly annoying to
deal with trying to avoid their shots as well as the Red Imps'. Try to
attack the Bud Ogres together so they both die at the same time, because
when one of them dies the third Bud Ogre will spawn right away. Once they
are dead, killing the Red Imps should be simple.
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~Round 5--8 Red Imps and 3 Blue Imps~
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The Blue Imps are the ones that fly around. Power Slash their kites to make
them fall. They have similar vitality to Red Imps, so they should be killed
just as easily. As long as you cut down the Blue Imps and don't give them
any air time with which they can shoot projectiles at you, this isn't a
challenging round.
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~Round 6--3 Crow Tengus and 3 Dead Fish~
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The Dead Fish should be taken care of first in this round. The Crow Tengus
aren't as annoying as the exploding Dead Fish are. Once they are dead,
focus on one Crow Tengu at a time. Power Slash them when the freeze on the
ground to be able to harm them. Not too hard.
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~Round 7--6 Blue Imps and 3 Chimeras~
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This round features two annoying enemies. As such, don't divert your
attention to just one of them. Attack them both evenly. Knock the Blue Imps
out of the sky constantly to halt them from shooting projectiles at you
while going after Chimeras.
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~Round 8--3 Black Imps and 6 Red Imps~
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The Black Imps can be extremely annoying. Take them out first, and if you
need to, Power Slash all of the skulls flying around them to stun the imp,
allowing an easy kill. As for the Red Imps, they're nothing special by now.
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~Round 9--3 Ice Mouths and 3 Fire Eyes~
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This is the worst round of the challenge. Focus on the Ice Mouths first as
they are extremely annoying. Torch them using the fire on the Fire Eyes to
stun them, then spam Veil of Mist until you can kill them. After that,
Galewind to deflame the Fire Eyes, leaving them open to attack.
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~Round 10--10 Black Imps~
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Spam Veil of Mist to prevent the Black Imps from getting many attacks out
on you. If you do this you should easily be able to get through all of them
with minimal damage. If you keep getting hurt, Power Slash all of the
floating skulls. They can't attack without the skulls, so if they're gone
you can easily kill them.
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~6B.N. Ryoshima Coast Devil Gate Challenge~
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Location--Use Orca to swim to the lefternmost three islands. The middle one
has a dark dig spot at the top. Dig through it to reach the cave with the
Devil Gate.
First Available--After clearing Oni Island
Average Yen Reward--980,000
Notes--This challenge is fairly harder than the first one. You'll want to
be prepared for this one. Many Steel Fist Sakes and Vengence Slip L's are
advised. Several rounds here, especially the last, are incredibly
frustrating.
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~Round 1--12 Headless Guardians and 5 Bell Guardians~
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Bell Guardians are just like Yellow Imps, so you'll want to take them down
first. When they are underground, focus on the Headless Guardians. There
are a lot of them. This can be a pretty long first round, so just keep
killing and jumping when the enemies signify their attacks and you will do
fine.
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~Round 2--4 Thunder Ears and 4 Earth Noses~
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Another round full of wheels. Spam Veil of Mist and keep trying to attack
the wheels. Eventually they will let their guard down so they can be
injured. Best of all, after a little damage they get stunned. If you're
having trouble, use Exorcism Slips. Several of those will stun them for a
good period of time.
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~Round 3--3 Ubumes and 9 Headless Guardians~
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Focus on the Ubumes first. Power Slash them to the ground, then Galestorm
them against the wall so you can inflict damage. As for the Headless
Guardians, if you can pass the first round you won't have trouble against
them.
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~Round 4--Jiro and Saburo~
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Attack one of them quickly to destroy the shell, then destroy the little
amount of health they have. If you don't manage to do this for both crabs
quickly, they'll merge into Ichiro. If they do that, draw a lily pad for
you to stand on, then Power Slash the giant shark six to eight times to
destroy the armor and eventually kill it. Pretty simple either way.
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~Round 5--3 Ice Doom Mirrors and 3 Wind Doom Mirrors~
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Another annoying set of mirrors. Use Veil of Mist followed by Firestorm
to attempt to stun all of the Ice Doom Mirrors. You want those guys killed
as quickly as possible. Cherry Bombs work too, and so do Exorcism Slips.
With the Ice Doom Mirrors, gone, the Wind Doom Mirrors succumb when you use
Veil of Mist. Spam it like you normally would and kill them.
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~Round 6--9 Halo Guardians and 14 Headless Guardians~
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This round is a bit excessive. Halo Guardians are like Blue Imps. Cut down
their flying wheels and knock them onto the ground, then beat them up.
Repeat this for all Halo Guardians because you won't want them shooting at
you from the air. As for the Headless Guardians, just because there are
fourteen doesn't mean it still isn't simple. Steel Fist Sake yourself and
pummel them all with a few attacks.
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~Round 7--6 Poltergeists~
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This can be a simple or hard round. Poltergeists are basically a random
wheel enemy. They can be wind, fire, thunder, or worst of all, ice. Spam
Veil of Mist and try to expose the weakness to all of them. For thunder,
though, there is no glaring weakness, so wait until you can harm it when
using Veil of Mist. Exorcism Slips work wonders as well in this round.
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~Round 8--5 Blue Cyclops~
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This round isn't terribly hard. Blue Cyclops fortunately don't have a
terribly high amount of health. Spam Veil of Mist to prevent them from
getting many attacks out. Whenever their pipe flame goes out, quickly use
Fireburst to light it again before they turn invincible. If anyone turns
invincible, just run around and stop attacking until they stop. Don't risk
harming anyone else.
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~Round 9--12 Tube Foxes~
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Tube Foxes are irritating even if you are spamming Veil of Mist. They jump
constantly, and they're hard to attack while in the air. Blargh. Worse,
they can occasionally steal your ink. Attack the fox that's clearly sucking
it up to get it back. Honestly, all you can do is take your time with this
fight unless you want to waste a ton of Exorcism Slips trying to kill them
all.
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~Round 10--5 Blue Ogres and 5 Red Ogres~
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This is, in my opinion, the worst round of all three Devil Gate Challenges.
You will fight the ogres in groups of three. Spam Veil of Mist, run behind
and ogre, attack it, keep spamming Veil of Mist, keep attacking. It's the
only way to inflict damage, honestly. Take your time. If another ogre
readies an attack that could hit you, or an ogre is jumping and will land
on you, run away. Just be patient through this fight. Try to attack ogres
when nobody else is near them, so that way you won't have any chance of
getting injured for a little while. Keep focusing on one at a time and you
will eventually clear all 10.
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~6C.Kamui Devil Gate Challenge~
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Location--On the hill leading up to Wep'keer, jump off the ledge to the
right after the second pair of wooden signs. Near where you land is a crack
in the wall. Cherry Bomb it and head down the tunnel to find the dark dig
spot leading to the challenge.
First Available--After clearing Wawku Shrine
Average Yen Reward--2,100,000
Notes--The final Devil Gate Challenge, and hardest challenge in the entire
game. Come prepared with at least 60 Steel Fist Sakes and 60 Vengence Slip
L's. Healing items are also extremely useful just incase you run out of
Godhood. Good luck, and always play it safe when you need to!
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~Round 1--12 Blade Namahages and 9 Umbrella Namahages~
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Cut down the umbrellas the Namahages use to fly with so they can't hurt
you from the air. Past that, just go on a rampage killing them all while
empowered with a Steel Fist Sake. None of these foes have a lot of health,
but there are a ton of them, so this may take a little while.
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~Round 2--9 Blade Namahages and 3 Igloo Turtles~
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An annoying round, obviously. Focus on the Igloo Turtles first. They have a
lot of health, so it may require several stunnings before you can kill off
one of them. Kill any Blade Namahages that get in your way of attack them.
Once all three Igloo Turtles are dead, the fight is much easier.
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~Round 3--5 Bull Chargers~
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These guys are the same as Blue/Red Ogres. Except they look a little
different and have more health. Again, spam Veil of Mist and run behind
them, then attack their exposed rear. Try to single out one at a time,
because fighting when mutliple chargers are around you is quite difficult.
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~Round 4--3 Clay Drummers and 14 Clay Samurai~
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The Clay Drummers are irritating. While underground they can lift their
drumsticks to harm you if they touch you. Keep jumping until they surface,
then kill them if you can. You want to kill them so there aren't any
interruptions against the Clay Samurai. These guys are simple high health
and power Green Imps, so they shouldn't be insanely challenging if you've
got a Steel Fist Sake going.
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~Round 5--8 Clay Shogun and 2 Clay Drummers~
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Once again, focus on killing the Clay Drummers first. As for the Clay
Shogun, either attack them and kill them quickly, or Power Slash all of
the floating head to disable their attacks and stun them. Repeat for the
rest of the Shogun if you need to, but otherwise the Shogun don't have a
ton of health, making for a calm fight mostly.
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~Round 6--5 Dogus and 12 Clay Samurai~
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Those tall statue Dogus are incredibly annoying, and they have a ton of
health. Spam Veil of Mist to ensure they can't attack you very often, then
just keep attacking them until they die. Jump over their homing sword
attack, and try to ignore the Clay Samurai until the Dogus are dead because
the Samurais are easy to kill off.
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~Round 7--5 Great Tengus~
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This can be a fairly annoying round. Spam Veil of Mist and attack whoever
you want. When a Great Tengu gets angry and turns invincible, just stop
what you're doing and run away until you can harm it again. It's a long
fight because of this, so just take your time. Don't make unnecessary risks
just for a little damage.
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~Round 8--2 Wakas and 2 Evil Raos~
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And now we get into the bosses. Using an Exorcism Slip L will stun the
bosses, allowing easy attacks. They all have a ton of health, but Waka has
less so focus on those two first. As for Evil Rao, be sure to avoid her
homing sword attack which she likes to spam.
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~Round 9--2 Wakas and 3 Evil Raos~
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Exactly the same as the previous fight, only with an additional Evil Rao.
The strategy doesn't change one bit here.
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~Round 10--3 Nagis~
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Oh why did it come to this? If you don't have a bunch of Exorcism Slip L's
you are in a heap of trouble for this final round. Spam them like no
tomorrow. Use one to stun all three, then focus on attacking one of them.
When they recover, use another Exorcism Slip L to stun them again, rinse
and repeat until one is dead. The other two should have lost about half of
their health from the Exorcism Slips already, making the fight much easier.
Spam Veil of Mist and more Exorcism Slips to finish off the last two. It's
a cheap method, but they all enjoy using the homing sword attack in tandem,
and that's a pain to avoid.
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~7.Stray Bead Locations~
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There are 100 Stray Beads scattered across Nippon. Some of them are easy to
find while others may require you to complete long and difficult sidequests
to obtain.
Your reward for collecting all 100 is the String of Beads, a Holy Artifact
that, when equipped, makes Amaterasu invincible, grants infinite ink, and
attack power is ten times stronger. You're essentially playing in god mode
by using that item. Needless to say, it makes the game shockingly easy.
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Stray Bead #1
Location--Cave of Nagi
Midway through the cave you will need to cross a bridge. On the side of the
bridge with a sign reading "Fountain of Nagi" next to it, look to the
right. Just before the waterfall is a small area of land. Behind the brown
rock you will find a chest containing the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #2
Location--Kamiki Village
Head to the top of the village. Stand to the left of the observation deck
and look at the rafters below it. The lower one has the chest containing a
Stray Bead. Jump to the rafter right of it with a careful double jump, then
jump to the rafter with the chest. If you fall, run to the top and try
again.
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Stray Bead #3
Location--Kamiki Village
There are two islands in the lake in the lower area of the village. One of
them has a Sun Fragment on it, but the one further back has a clover. To
the left of the clover is a dig spot which will make a chest containing the
Stray Bead appear (wait until nighttime and the dig spot will be lit up).
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Stray Bead #4
Location--Kamiki Village
To the left of the waterfall is a Konohana Blossom high in the air. Vine up
to it, then look right of the waterfall to find another blossom. Vine there
and jump onto the ledge. Follow the path to be at the top of the waterfall
with the Stray Bead in a nearby chest.
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Stray Bead #5
Location--Shinshu Field
Head towards the Moon Cave area. Once you reach the bottom of the hill and
are next to Mika's house, turn around and go left of the hill. Hop up on
the ledge to find three clumps of grass forming a triangle pattern. Dig at
the center of this triangle (wait until nighttime to see the spot easier)
to find a chest with the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #6
Location--Shinshu Field
Head behind the Dojo. Back there you can find three clumps of grass forming
a triangle pattern. Dig at the center of this triangle (wait until
nighttime to see the spot easier) to find a chest with the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #7
Location--Shinshu Field
Go behind the Guardian Sapling and up on a ledge to the right. Up here you
can see three clumps of grass forming a triangle (and the handle of the
chest should be poking out of the ground). Dig at the center of this
triangle (wait until nighttime to see the spot easier) to find a chest
with the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #8
Location--Shinshu Field
After defeating the Devil Gate close to the entrance to Hana Valley,
Nameless Man's Kiln will reappear. Head to the top left corner of the back
wall to find three clumps of grass forming a triangle pattern. Dig at the
center of this triangle (wait until nighttime to see the spot easier) to
find a chest with the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #9
Location--Shinshu Field
Head to Tama's house. Draw two Cherry Bombs in the room. You'll need to
have learned Cherry Bomb 2 to do this. Once Tama reacts to the bombs, then
draw three bombs in the room (you'll need Cherry Bomb 3 for this). After
drawing three in the room at the same time (don't draw them next to each
other or they'll explode), Tama will talk about the three bombs and hand
you the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #10
Location--Shinshu Field
After restoring Nameless Man's kiln (clear a Devil Gate right of Hana
Valley's entrance), talk to him to receive a vase. Grab it and bring it to
one of the five Guardian Statues in Shinshu Field. After giving a vase to a
statue, change it to nighttime then daytime and talk to Nameless Man to get
another vase.
Their locations aren't hard to find. Cross the bridge next to Nameless Man
and follow the path to find the first statue. Next, follow the path
Nameless Man is on, then head left up the hill. Next to the Kabegami
statue is a cracked wall. Cherry Bomb it to find the statue inside. After
that, head down the hill leading to the Moon Cave, then turn around and
head right of the hill to find the third statue.
Follow the curving path to the right of the Ultimate Mirror and you'll
easily come across the fourth statue. Finally, head out to the Moon Cave.
It's gone, but in its place is a small island with the final statue on it.
Once you have placed all of the vases at statues (and earned a total of 100
Praise), talk to Nameless Man again. He will hand you the Stray Bead.
You can't obtain all five vases until after Orochi is defeated. Wait until
after then to get this Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #11
Location--Hana Valley
After restoring Hana Valley and defeating the Imps near the entrance, walk
through the short tunnel close by their campfire. As soon as you do, notice
the first tree on the left. At the base of it is a treasure chest you can
dig up containing the Stray Bead. If you can't find it, wait until
nighttime and the dig spot will be lit up with a white light.
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Stray Bead #12
Location--Agata Forest
Inside Madame Fawn's house is a chest. It's blatantly in view, and it
contains the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #13
Location--Agata Forest
Behind the house near the middle of the forest you can find the handle of a
chest sticking out of the ground. Dig it up to find the Stray Bead inside.
If you're having trouble finding it, wait until nighttime and they spot
will be lit up.
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Stray Bead #14
Location--Agata Forest
On a hill to the left of the entrance to Tsuta Ruins you can find a crack
on the wall. Right infront of the crack/blown up hole you can see a chest
handle sticking out of the ground. Dig it up to find the Stray Bead inside.
Wait until nighttime and the spot will be lit up if you're having trouble
finding it.
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Stray Bead #15
Location--Agata Forest
Head to the north area of the forest, to the area with a bunch of small
islands. On the southwest island you can find a Konahana Blossom high in
the air. Vine up to it and you'll fall into a branch with the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #16
Location--Agata Forest
Head to Hitoshio Spring in the upper area of the forest. There is a
Konohana Blossom on the top of the tree the water is falling from. Up
there, make a lily pad so you can tackle the chest containing the Stray
Bead.
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Stray Bead #17
Location--Agata Forest
Infront of Madame Fawn's house are three burning chests. Use either
Waterspout or Galestorm to snuff the fires on the chests. The middle chest
contains the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #18
Location--Tsuta Ruins
Head to where you defeated Blockhead (go left in the first room if you've
already defeated him). In the room where you picked up the key he dropped,
climb the ledges around the room. After crossing the second wooden bridge
you should see a large black statue in the wall. Cherry Bomb it to reveal
a giant bud behind it. Bloom that to obtain the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #19
Location--Tsuta Ruins
Head through the ruins and to the top waterfall. It's where you destroyed
the statues that were pouring poison into the water. Jump down the short
waterfall and turn around. There's a cave behind the waterfall, so swim
through the waterfall to enter it. Cherry Bomb the wall to reveal a giant
bud, so Bloom it to earn the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #20
Location--Tsuta Ruins
In the room where you had to push a ball onto a switch, as soon as you
climb the ledges after crossing the lake you can find a Konohana Blossom
above you. Vine up there and follow the path ahead to find a giant bud.
Bloom it to earn the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #21
Location--Taka Pass
Head to the cavern where you fought Waka. There is a glistening pond in
there, and at one end of it there are some bubbles floating out of the
water. Power Slash the point in the water the bubbles are floating out of
and you should have cut a chest, and this Stray Bead will float to the top
of the water when you do.
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Stray Bead #22
Location--Taka Pass
Head to the Cutters' house. Go to the small pond at the side of their
house. Near the Waterspout point you can see the handle of a chest poking
out of the ground. Dig it up to obtain the Stray Bead inside. Wait until
nighttime and the spot will glow if you can't find it normally.
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Stray Bead #23
Location--Taka Pass
Near Bingo are two wilted trees. Close to the middle of the trees there is
a dig spot with a chest containing the Stray Bead. You will need to wait
until nighttime in order to see the dig spot for the chest.
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Stray Bead #24
Location--Taka Pass
Near the Mermaid Spring is a pile of leaves. Use Galestorm on it to blow
them away, revealing a chest in the ground. Dig it up to find the Stray
Bead inside.
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Stray Bead #25
Location--Taka Pass
Head to the cave where you fought Waka. Head up the wooden ramp and through
the tunnel at the top. Near the end of the tunnel is a burning chest. Use
Galestorm to blow it out, then open the chest for the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #26
Location--Taka Pass
Near Bingo you can find a dark dirt spot with a glowing crack in it. Dig
through it to reveal a hole, then fall through it. There are several chests
in the room you fall into. The middle one has the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #27
Location--Kusa Village
To the left of Princess Fuse's house is a wooden bridge. On the side of the
bridge away from her house is a dig spot where you can find the chest
containing the Stray Bead (wait until nighttime and the spot will be lit
up).
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Stray Bead #28
Location--Kusa Village
Head inside Mr. Bamboo's house at the bottom of the village. You can find a
chest handle poking out of the ground inside. Dig it up (wait until
nighttime to make the spot light up if you can't see it) to obtain the
Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #29
Location--Kusa Village
Just before the wooden bridge leading to Princess Fuse's house you can
find a Konohana Blossom in the air to the left. Vine to it and jump to the
wooden ledge. Follow the path and head past the tunnel that led to a
Canine Warrior. At the end you'll find some banners on the wall. Make a
right to left Galestorm and use the banners as stairs to reach a higher
ledge with the Stray Bead in a chest.
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Stray Bead #30
Location--Sasa Sanctuary
From the Ultimate Mirror walk due left. Infront of the nearby bamboo that
water is making rise up and down is a dig spot (wait until nighttime to
make the spot light up) with a chest containing the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #31
Location--Sasa Sanctuary
In the inn, head to the second floor and enter the second room on the left.
Inside is a merchant and a doll with a white and black eye. Paint a dot on
the white eye to make the head fly off, dropping the Stray Bead with it.
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Stray Bead #32
Location--Sasa Sanctuary
At the end of the sanctuary in the place where you fought Canine Warrior
Gi, there is a small altar in the top right corner of the area. Infront of
the two lanterns are two dig spots. Wait until nighttime so they light up.
One of them contains a chest with the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #33
Location--Gale Shrine
Head to the elevator shaft. Cherry Bomb the center to make it rise, but
don't be standing on the elevator. It'll leave without you. Jump into the
exposed hole to be at the bottom of the shaft. In one of the chests down
here is the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #34
Location--Gale Shrine
Use the elevator shaft to reach the second floor. Out on the balcony is a
burning chest. Use Galestorm to snuff out the fire, then open the chest to
earn the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #35
Location--Gale Shrine
Late in the game you can return to the Gale Shrine. In the second room,
head down the hallway right of the small pond to find Princess Fuse and the
Canine Warriors. Talk to Princess Fuse and choose to fight the Kusa 5. You
will fight four of the Canine Warriors, then three more, and finally the
last warrior. You don't get any rest between the fights, so keep yourself
healed. Use a Steel Fist Sake and spam Veil of Mist to make it an easy
fight. Princess Fuse will hand you the Stray Bead upon victory.
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Stray Bead #36
Location--City Checkpoint
Head down the hill left of the bridge. Follow the beach to the very end.
To the left of a clover at the end you can find a chest handle poking out
of the ground. Wait until nighttime if you can't find it, and dig it up for
the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #37
Location--City Checkpoint
Head down the hill left of the bridge. At the bottom you will come across a
flaming chest. Use Waterspout/Galestorm to blow out the flames and collect
the Stray Bead from within.
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Stray Bead #38
Location--City Checkpoint
After crossing the bridge you can find two patches of cursed grass on the
left. Bloom both of them and near the horses you can find a chest handle
poking out of the ground. Wait until nighttime to find it if you can't,
then dig it up to earn the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #39
Location--City Checkpoint
Stand on the middle left side of the bridge. Look up into the air left of
the bridge to find a Konohana Blossom. Jump into the air to make it let you
Vine to it. From there, Vine to another blossom ahead of it. There are
about 13 more blossoms past this one, and you'll need to Vine to each one
without falling down into the water. The path curves right at first, goes
straight, curves left, straight, and curves right one last time to reach
the last blossom. At the last one you will drop onto a high pillar with the
Stray Bead in a chest. An Inkfinity Stone is pretty much required to reach
the pillar.
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Stray Bead #40
Location--City Checkpoint
Get the Water Tablet from the Sei-an Emperor for 100 Demon Fangs after
clearing Oni Island. Then, jump off the right side of the drawbridge and
run on water upstream (you have to equip the Water Tablet to do this) until
you reach a small island. Look for the chest handle poking out of the
ground, dig it up, and get the Stray Bead inside.
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Stray Bead #41
Location--Ryoshima Coast
Swim out to the sunken ship. Near the stern of the ship you are able to
walk onto the deck. Walk to the front of the ship and you will find a
fallen wooden pillar that you can walk upon. Walk on it, double jump over
the fallen debris midway through, and you'll end up jumping at the end onto
a high platform at the stern. The Stray Bead is in one of the two chests.
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Stray Bead #42
Location--Ryoshima Coast
To the right of the wooden gate leading to Sei-an City you can find a Devil
Gate. Clear it and a bunch of hares will appear. One of them has black
ears and feet. Pick up up and bring him to the Animal Lover on the beach.
He will hand you some Praise and the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #43
Location--Ryoshima Coast
Head to the island with the Dojo on it. Outside the entrance you can find a
chest handle poking out of the dirt. Using the Digging Champ technique from
the Dojo, dig up the chest and claim the Stray Bead inside.
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Stray Bead #44
Location--Ryoshima Coast
Follow the path to the right of Ankoku Temple, towards the Guardian
Sapling. On the left you'll eventually spot a small clearing with some
cows. On a ledge behind them is a dark dirt spot. Dig through it, kill the
Bandit Spider, and reenter to face the first Devil Gate Challenge. Look at
the Devil Gate Challenge section for into, but if you clear all ten rounds
without leaving, you'll earn the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #45
Location--Ryoshima Coast
Find Hayate running on the beach and challenge him to a race. To win, all
you need to do is tackle him. You can race him a total of three times (you
can't race him a third time until after clearing Oni Island), but after
your third victory he will hand you the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #46
Location--Sei-an City (Commoners' Qtr.)
In the canal behind the tools dealer you can find a chest containing the
Stray Bead. The chest disappears when the town is cursed and the canal gets
flooded, but it reappears when the town returns to normal (at that point
you'll need to Power Slash the underwater chest).
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Stray Bead #47
Location--Sei-an City (Commoners' Qtr.)
Head inside Mr. Flower's house. On the back wall are two screen doors.
Tackle them to knock them down, revealing a small piece of dirt with a
chest handle poking out. Dig it up and open the chest for the Stray Bead.
Wait until nighttime if you can't see it.
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Stray Bead #48
Location--Sei-an City (Commoners' Qtr.)
Buy Charcoal from the tools dealer, then talk to a little girl holding a
purple umbrella. She'll break her charcoal, so offer the one you bought.
Talk to her again and after she finishes you'll see a pattern appear over
her head. It'll be a star. Now, head to the bottom left corner of town.
Head inside the house with blue curtains at the door to be in the kimono
shop. Walk right, to the next room. Talk to Mr. Chic twice. He'll ask you
to draw a pattern on the kimono. Draw anything. Afterwards, talk to him
again and ask to draw a pattern. Now, draw the star the girl was thinking
of.
You'll know you draw it correctly because Mr. Chic will state "That pattern
almost seems as if it could make something happen." The star is tricky.
Most people start with the bottom left point, but that rarely works. Start
with the top point, go to bottom right, then top left, top right, then
bottom left.
Head back to the girl. Talk to her again and the pattern she's thinking of
will be a heart. Head back to Mr. Chic and draw the heart. This pattern is
also stupid hard to draw "correctly". What you want to do is start at the
bottom point, draw a straight diagonal line, curve to the top, make the
other curve, then another straight diagonal line to the bottom point to
finish the heart. It doesn't always work, but it occasionally does for me.
Don't lose patience--keep trying! You'll get that bastard to accept it
eventually.
Talk to the girl again to learn the third drawing--a V. Hmm. Wonder what
the catch is now? There is none. It's the simplest drawing to make. Just
start at the top left, make a line to the bottom point, then make a line
to the right. Simple as that. Try not to smear the bottom point. If you do
it often won't register it, and you'll need to try again.
After talk to the girl again (and a blatant Viewtiful Joe reference),
you'll see the fourth drawing is a clover. You need to draw four circles,
all relatively close to eachother. For this drawing you must lift the brush
to draw each circle--don't draw the clover in one stroke because you'll
never come close to registering it properly. It's not terribly hard to
draw, and the circles can overlap eachother a little, giving some leeway.
Talk to the girl again and she will give you your final drawing--the heaven
kanji. The game even goes as far as how to draw it. You know what? Screw
the game. It will NEVER register the way it draws the kanji. If it does for
you, well, you're lucky. The way to draw it (poorly, but it registers so I
ain't complaining) is to draw the top line, the line under it, then from
the middle of the top line a diagonal line to the left, and from the same
point a diagonal line to the right. Yes, this isn't how you should draw it
in real life, but the game accepts it (it always does for me, at least).
Hold Z to make the straight lines. It's a total of four lines you are
drawing.
It's bizarre as all hell. You may get it on the first try, or you could be
stuck here for a while and lose your patience. Just keep trying different
methods if mine doesn't work for you. I ensure the game WILL register
something.
Talk to the girl again once finished. She'll hand you the Stray Bead for
all of this work.
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Stray Bead #49
Location--Sei-an City (Commoners' Qtr.)
In the Commoners' Quarters you should be able to spot several huge torches.
One is near the entrance, and another is in the bottom right side of town.
Inferno fire from the lit large torch to the smaller torches that will
eventually reach the two unlit large torches. When both huge ones are lit,
make it nighttime.
At night, Power Slash the brown rock close to the bottom right corner of
town. If he doesn't from this rock, Power Slash all of the brown rocks in
the Commoners' area until he does. If he never does, then you didn't light
the two big torches.
Anyway, you'll need to catch this thief. He will split himself into two,
and then numbers appear over them briefly. You'll need to use a specific
brush technique on them in the order given. The brown one needs to be hit
with a Power Slash, and the blue one with Waterspout. For Waterspout
Hayazo, wait until he runs near water so you have a source to hit him with.
Don't worry, they will run all over the quarters, so there's plenty of
chances to hit him with Waterspout. After defeating both of them in order,
Hayazo will collapse. Tackle him to make him drop a watch. Make it daytime
and deliver the watch to blue man walking near the entrance.
Make it nighttime again and cut brown rocks to find Hayazo again. This time
he will split himself into three, and the red one needs to be hit with
Inferno. Hit them in order as usual, and use one of the torches to hit the
Inferno clone. If you smack all three of them in order, tackle the dazed
Hayazo to make him drop a bag. Make it daytime and deliver it to the small
boy on the left side of town.
Make it nighttime and hunt for Hayazo a third time. No new colored clones
will appear, but he splits himself into four, making it a bit trickier to
hit them in order without messing up. Just be careful. They'll run around
the quarters constantly even if you are nowhere near them, so just keep
wandering around until you spot them. Once all four clones are hit, tackle
Hayazo to make him drop some flowers. Head over to the restaurant right of
the entrance to the Aristocratic Qtr. and give them to the man at the first
table (must be nighttime for him to be there).
Now, make it nighttime again and hunt for Hayazo. This is the final race,
and there are five clones. Also, there will be a new yellow one that must
be hit with Thunderstorm. Equip the Thunder Edge and use it as a source of
electricity. For winning the final bout, he'll drop a mask when tackled, so
pick it up.
Head to the bottom right side of town to find a small pool of water. If it
is just an empty hole, stand near it and Waterspout water from the canal
into the pond to fill it. A power spring appears, so Waterspout it to
create a fountain leading to a house in the sky.
Enter Waka's Headquarters. Nothing much is in here, but you'll want to
talk to the man on the left. Abe seems to have lost his mask. It just so
happens to be the one you recovered from Hayazo. For returning it, he'll
hand over 50 Praise and if you talk to him again you'll get the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #50
Location--Sei-an City (Commoners' Qtr.)
Head to Sakuya's tree in Kamiki Village, but don't go through the arch
leading to it. You'll find Camille and Camellia standing here. Tackle
Camille (the tall one). After she reacts to it, head to Sei-an City.
Head behind Queen Himiko's Palace entrance to find four large stones in the
water, serving as her gravestone. Waterspout all four of them using the
water in the small pool on the balcony you're standing on. Hit them all and
you will learn the Deluge technique.
Head back to the Commoners' Qtr. and to the left side of town. You'll find
Camille and Camellia standing here. Talk to them, then paint a dot on the
ground to make a tree grow. After Camille reacts to it, paint another dot,
then as soon as the tree grows, draw Deluge (a sideways = sign). If done
right, Camille will react again. Talk to the pair and Camellia will hand
you the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #51
Location--Sei-an City (Aritocratic Qtr.)
After leaving Rao's house, head across the yellow bridge to the right (when
facing away from the entrance). Wait until nighttime to find a dig spot
just across the bridge. Dig up the chest to earn the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #52
Location--Sei-an City (Aritocratic Qtr.)
In Kamiki Village, look for Komuso inbetween the hills leading to Sakuya's
tree and the top of the village. Talk to him to fight three Green Imps.
Kill them in 12 seconds or less and he will give you Praise.
If that happens, head to Kusa Village. Head down the hill leading to Mr.
Bamboo's house, and when you see a red ladder leaning against a ledge, jump
to it to find Komuso again. This time you'll need to fight two Red Imps and
two Dead Fish in under 25 seconds. Do so and you'll get more Praise.
Now head to Sei-an City (Arisocratic Qtr.). Find Komuso to the left of the
exit of Rao's house (facing away from the door when you leave). Talk to him
to fight an Ubume and Crow Tengu. Defeat them in 30 seconds or less and
Komuso will hand you the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #53
Location--Sei-an City (Aristocratic Qtr.)
Stand at the end of the large bridge infront of Rao's house. Jump off the
right side of it and swim through the water to the fall right wall of the
city. In the deep area of the water you can find a chest. Power Slash it
and grab the Stray Bead that floats to the surface.
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Stray Bead #54
Location--Sei-an City (Aristocratic Qtr.)
Head to the stairs infront of Queen Himiko's palace. Instead of heading up
them, follow the path to the left. Hop over the orange fence and follow the
lone path to a dead end containing the Stray Bead in a chest.
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Stray Bead #55
Location--Sei-an City (Aristocratic Qtr.)
Head inside Queen Himiko's palace. Head around the elevator tower to find
a chest containing the Stray Bead in the back.
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Stray Bead #56
Location--Sei-an City (Aritocratic Qtr.)
Head left of the guards infront of Queen Himiko's Palace. There's a clock
tower here. Use the Kabegami statue in the back to climb the tower to a
ledge on the left midway up, then use another statue to Catwalk to the top.
Inside, use Thunderstorm with the Thunder Edge as a source on the chest
inside to make the Stray Bead pop out.
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Stray Bead #57
Location--Sunken Ship
Head to the area with the cannon, either by flooding the ship or using the
barrel scale when dry. In the hallway behind the cannon you will find a
nook in the wall midway through. The chest here contains the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #58
Location--Sunken Ship
Head to the treasure room where you found the Lucky Mallet (the hallway is
in the cannon area). One of the chests in the treasure room holds the Stray
Bead.
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Stray Bead #59
Location--Sei-an City (Aristocratic Qtr.)
Infront of the Emperor's room you will find a bunch of chest handles poking
out of the ground. The one closest to his room, when dug up, contains a
Stray Bead. Wait until nighttime if you can't find it.
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Stray Bead #60
Location--N. Ryoshima Coast
Near the entrance to the area you can find some debris that looks like a
fallen staircase. To the left of the rubble a chest handle is poking out
of the ground. Wait until nighttime if you must, then dig up the chest to
earn the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #61
Location--N. Ryoshima Coast
Head down the path past the merchant not leading to the beach. On the left
you will find a ledge. Jump up to it, or run up the hill, and you'll be
near some cows and a pond. Behind the cows you can find a chest handle
poking out of the ground. Wait until nighttime if you can't see it, then
dig it up to get the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #62
Location--N. Ryoshima Coast
Use Orca to reach the island with the fisherman (it's on the far left).
Head to the top area of the island and make it nighttime. Look on the right
side of the island and you can find a dig spot glowing. Dig up a chest to
discover the Stray Bead inside.
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Stray Bead #63
Location--N. Ryoshima Coast
To the right of the ledge where Yoichi was shooting arrows at the Guardian
Sapling you can find a dark dig spot. Dig through it and fall into the
hole. At the bottom, the middle chest contains the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #64
Location--N. Ryoshima Coast
Use an Ultimate Mirror and warp to "N. Ryoshima Coast (Rocky Area). Up
here open the chest containing the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #65
Location--N. Ryoshima Coast
Ride Orca to the far left islands. The middle of the three contains a dark
dig spot. Dig through it and enter the hole to fight a Bandit Spider.
After killing it and leaving/reentering the cave you can fight the Devil
Gate Challenge (after clearing Oni Island, that is). Defeat all ten rounds
of enemies without leaving and the Stray Bead is yours. See the Devil Gate
Challenge for more info on this.
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Stray Bead #66
Location--N. Ryoshima Coast
After cleaing Oni Island, head down to the Dragon Palace. Go down the left
hallway and into the former Water Dragon's home. Scribble over the dead
grass and fish bone over the hole and Bloom it back to life, spawning a
chest nearby containing a Treasure Box. Go back to N. Ryoshima Coast and
go into Urashima's house. Give the box to him to turn him into an old man.
He'll hand you the Stray Bead after doing so.
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Stray Bead #67
Location--Catcall Tower
After about 30 seconds of climbing up from the fourth red bar on the tower,
you can spot a branching platform that doesn't a have a red bar signifying
that it's there. The chest at the end of the pathway has the Stray Bead
inside.
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Stray Bead #68
Location--Catcall Tower
After climbing the tower once, fall down and leave. Reenter the tower
whenever you want and manually climb to the top again. When you do, a chest
will spawn at the top of the second red staircase, containing the Stray
Bead.
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Stray Bead #69
Location--Catcall Tower
At the base of the tower, near the entrance, there are several small
pillars. You can Catwalk to the top of them. Once of them has a chest
containing the Stray Bead at the top.
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Stray Bead #70
Location--Dragon Palace
Head behind the staircase in the main room to find a crack in the wall.
Cherry Bomb it to uncover a hole. Fall down it, and at the back of the area
you can find a chest containing the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #71
Location--Dragon Palace
Head down the right hallway to reach the spring of the Dragon Palace. In
the back of the room are some red drums. Use them as platforms. The third
one is broken, so scribble over it to Rejuvenate it, and use it as a
platform to reach the fourth drum which contains a chest with the Stray
Bead.
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Stray Bead #72
Location--Dragon Palace
Head down the left hallway to the Water Dragon's home. As soon as you
enter, double jump to the ledge on the right. Tackle the clam to open it
up, revealing the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #73
Location--Dragon Palace
After clearing Oni Island, head inside the palace and talk to Otohima. She
will be pleased you made it back safely, and will hand you the Stray Bead
as a reward.
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Stray Bead #74
Location--Kamui
Head right of Kokari, towards the Dojo. You'll find two snowmen near the
Dojo. To the right of the right snowman you can find a chest handle poking
out of the ground. Make it nighttime if you need to, then dig it up to
discover the Stray Bead inside.
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Stray Bead #75
Location--Kamui
Head right of Wali's house to find a cave. When you reach a gap, head down
the right ledges and into a tunnel. At the end of the path is a frozen
chest. Melt it using one of the torches on the wall to use Inferno, then
grab the Stray Bead from inside.
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Stray Bead #76
Location--Kamui
Head up the hill leading to Wep'keer. After passing the second pair of
wooden signs, jump off the ledge to the right. You'll land near a chest
containing the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #77
Location--Kamui
Near the hole leading to Blockhead Grande and to the right is a Devil Gate.
Destroy it to make a Mermaid Spring appear. Next to the spring is a chest
handle poking out of the ground. Wait until nighttime if you need to, then
dig it up to find the Stray Bead inside.
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Stray Bead #78
Location--Kamui
In the frozen pond, near the start of it you can find a cracked piece of
dark dirt to dog up. Dig through it to reveal a hole, and at the bottom
you will have to face Blockhead Grande. This bastard will reveal a chest
containing the Stray Bead...if you can defeat him. He has eight weak
points, so it's by no means easy. Here are some methods to beat him:
1.Just memorize it yourself. Prove you're hardcore and tap those eight
spots without any other assistance than your mind!
2.Camera phone. According to many people on message boards, you can use the
recording feature of cell phones to record the dots lighting up. Then, just
replay it a few times to paint all the dots correctly. Camcorders and Flip
Videos work as well.
3.Get a friend. My method of choice first time through. You, the player,
should memorize the first four dots. Paint them, then have your friend
point at the fifth through eigth dots. Needing to memorize only four
points, it's simple for both people.
4.Home menu. You can push the Home button to bring up the Home Menu,
freezing the screen for a moment. You can see the lights as it's frozen, so
spam this button to keep the points fresh in your head.
5.Write them down. Get a four-by-four grid and write down the points in
order (combine this with tip four for best results). Then just paint them.
Simple enough. I did this on my second runthrough of the game and succeeded
on my first try. I highly advise doing this if none of the above options
are available.
6.Guess. Hahaha, not gonna happen. If you guess at random you have a
1/4,151,347,200 chance of getting it correct. Those are horrific odds.
Good luck! Victory, and the Stray Bead is yours.
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Stray Bead #79
Location--Kamui
Up the hill leading to Wep'keer, jump off the right ledge after passing the
second pair of wooden signs. In the wall should be a crack, so Cherry Bomb
it and head down the tunnel to find a dark dig spot. Dig through it and
fight a Bandit Spider at the bottom of the hole. Exit and reenter to fight
the final Devil Gate Challenge (after clearing Wawku Shrine, however). See
the Devil Gate Challenge for tips on these hard battles. Your reward is the
Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #80
Location--Wep'keer
Head up the stairs far right of the Ultimate Mirror. At the top you'll be
near the waterfall and some cranes. Near the cranes you can find a chest
handle poking out of the ground. Wait until nighttime if necessary, then
dig it up to find a Stray Bead inside.
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Stray Bead #81
Location--Wep'keer
Head up the stairs near the Ultimate Mirror, then head down the hill to the
right. Head to the water, then turn around and head down the path on the
left. Past a bear is a chest containing the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #82
Location--Wep'keer
Infront of Kai's house and a little to the right is a tall tree. Infront of
it is a chest handle poking out of the ground. Wait until nighttime if you
need to, then dig it up for the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #83
Location--Wep'keer
Head down the stairs infront of Kai's house and through the doors on the
wall to enter the Snowy Playground. At the very back end of the room you
can find a chest handle poking out of the ground. Wait until nighttime if
you need to, then dig it up for the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #84
Location--Ezofuji
Hug the right wall on the frozen lake. When you get near a high ledge, use
a Konohana Blossom above to reach it. There are two chests on the ledge.
Using Inferno to draw a line from the burning chest to the frozen chest,
grab the Stray Bead from the unfrozen chest.
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Stray Bead #85
Location--Ezofuji
From the ledge where you earn Stray Bead #86, turn around when you land on
the ledge after jumping from the blossom. You'll find another blossom in
the air. After Vining to it, turn arund and Vine to another blossom. Jump
to the ledge you're next to, then follow it all the way to the right to
find a chest handle poking out of the ground. Wait until nighttime if
needed, then dig it up for the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #86
Location--Ezofuji
Look to the right of Tuskle's house to find a Konohana Blossom. Vine to it
and jump down to the ledge below. In the dark dirt a chest handle is poking
out of the ground. Wait until nighttime if necessary, then dig it up to
earn the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #87
Location--Ezofuji
Head to an Ultimate Mirror and draw the + and choose to warp to Kamui
(Ezofuji Rocky Area). When you arrive, head across the ice to find several
chests. The center chest holds the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #88
Location--Yoshpet
In the second area you will need to cross over a poisonous water lake by
running over icy islands. On the other side you will run past about half a
dozen cursed trees, then go down a small hill. After the hill stay to the
right to find a chest containing the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #89
Location--Yoshpet
In the third area near the end you will find the sign pointing left towards
the end of the forest. Ignore it and head right. At the dead end you'll see
a chest handle poking out of the ground. Dig it up to obtain the Stray
Bead.
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Stray Bead #90
Location--Yoshpet
After clearing Wawku Shrine, return to the entrance to find Kai waiting
near the Origin Mirror. She will challenge you to a race to the Ponc'tan
clearing. Kai takes the longest possible route, so jump over ledges and
take the shortest path possible to easily beat her.
Before the race, enter the forest and Bloom every cursed tree so they won't
get in your way, making the race easier. During the race, be careful not to
get hit by snowballs and other obstacles. Kai takes three minutes to reach
the clearing, so you simply need to beat a time of three minutes to win the
race. Take practice runs if you need to. Upon victory she will hand you the
Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #91
Location--Ponc'tan
Look above the Origin Mirror to find a large flat plant. Double jump and
move the canvus camera until you spot a Konohana Blossom above the plant.
Vine to it to land on the plant, where you'll find a chest containing the
Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #92
Location--Ponc'tan
Look to the right of Ishaku's house to find a Konohana Blossom. Vine to it
and several more blossoms ahead to land on a leaf. Look to the left of the
leaf and high in the air to spot more blossoms. Use them to reach another
leaf further away. This leaf contains a chest with the Stray Bead inside.
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Stray Bead #93
Location--Ponc'tan
After clearing Wawku Shrine, talk to Ishaku. After talking about Issun, he
will hand you the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #94
Location--Inner Yoshpet
In the first area you can find a chest on the right at the top of the icy
hill where snowballs are rolling down. The chest contains the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #95
Location--Inner Yoshpet
Near the end of the second area you'll find the sign that points right
towards the third area. Head left instead. At the dead end you will find a
chest containing the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #96
Location--Inner Yoshpet
In the third area you'll come to a large pit you'll need to use Catwalk
walls to cross. Take the right wall. Jump to the ledge in the middle when
you reach it and open the chest for the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #97
Location--Wawku Shrine
In the first room there will be two cannons that shoot fast projectiles.
Use Veil of Mist to slow them down and rebound them back at the shooter to
destroy the cannon. Destroy the left cannon and head to it's original spot
to find a chest was buried under it. Dig it up to obtain the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #98
Location--Wawku Shrine
After learning Blizzard, you'll need to cross the area with three Flaming
Spiders to get back inside the shrine. Facing away from the ledge leading
to Blizzard, freeze the spider furthest from you when it is on the far
right. Then freeze the spider moving up and down when it is pretty low on
its route. Use the first spider to reach the second spider, then jump to a
ledge on the wall containing a chest with the Stray Bead.
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Stray Bead #99
Location--Wawku Shrine
Head right from the Origin Mirror in the tower room and use the Flaming
Spider to reach the pathway above. After rounding the corner you'll quickly
find another Flaming Spider. Freeze it midway up its path and use it as a
platform to reach a ledge on the wall with a chest containing the Stray
Bead.
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Stray Bead #100
Location--???
Defeat Yami, God of Darkness.
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~8.Divine Instruments and Holy Artifacts~
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Here's the list of all the Divine Instruments, ingame description of the
weapon, price if purchasable or location where it's earned, and it's use as
a sub weapon. As for Holy Artifacts, remember that only three of them can
be equipped. Locations and how to get them are also listed.
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~8A.Reflectors~
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~Divine Retribution~
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Location--The starting weapon of the game
This is the most basic weapon, and your starting one. It's incredibly weak,
and most enemies will take several hits before they are killed. There
aren't any special properties to it.
Sub Weapon--Reflects enemy projectiles; if an enemy attacks and you use it
as soon as the strike is about to hit you, you'll lift the enemy into the
air and slam them onto the ground for a ton of damage.
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~Snarling Beast~
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Location--Obtained from beating the Spider Queen
This weapon is a much stronger Reflector than the one you start with. It
doesn't have any other special qualities about it, but it is powerful, so
use it if you enjoy reflectors.
Sub Weapon--Reflects enemy projectiles; if an enemy attacks and you use it
as soon as the strike is about to hit you, you'll lift the enemy into the
air and slam them onto the ground for a ton of damage.
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~Infinity Judge~
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Location--Merchant in Kusa Village sells it for 50,000 Yen
A Reflector obtained not long after Snarling Beast. It's more powerful, and
the price isn't terribly huge, so it's affordable. It has good power, so it
you like Snarling Beast you'll like this even more.
Sub Weapon--Reflects enemy projectiles; if an enemy attacks and you use it
as soon as the strike is about to hit you, you'll lift the enemy into the
air and slam them onto the ground for a ton of damage.
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~Trinity Mirror~
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Location--Buy it from Sei-an City's weapons dealer after clearing Oni
Island for 150,000 Yen, or from the merchant in Kamiki Village when in the
spirit gate for the same price
This large Reflector is very powerful, and will suit those who like this
type of weapon for most of the remaining part of the game.
Sub Weapon--Reflects enemy projectiles; if an enemy attacks and you use it
as soon as the strike is about to hit you, you'll lift the enemy into the
air and slam them onto the ground for a ton of damage.
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~Solar Flare~
=============
Location--Obtained as soon as you learn the Blizzard brush technique
This powerful Reflector is the best in the game. Infused with fire power,
you can use it as a source for Inferno. Burn your enemies and bash them to
death!
Sub Weapon--Reflects enemy projectiles; if an enemy attacks and you use it
as soon as the strike is about to hit you, you'll lift the enemy into the
air and slam them onto the ground for a ton of damage.
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~8B.Rosaries~
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~Devout Beats~
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Location--Obtained from a chest that appears infront of the Guardian
Sapling in Agata Forest after restoring the sapling
The Devout Beads are an early obtained Rosary. With long range, it's
perfect for those who don't want to have to time their attacks, nor attack
at close range. Although slightly weak, it gets the job done without any
risk of taking damage.
Sub Weapon--Fires one bead at nearby foes for a little damage.
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~Life Beads~
============
Location--Obtained from beating Crimson Helm
These Rosaries are far more powerful than the Devout Beads. Keep them
equipped if you like Rosaries.
Sub Weapon--All of the beads scattershot into nearby enemies for some
damage.
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~Exorcism Beads~
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Location--Obtained from beating Blight
These Rosaries are very powerful. A better alternative to the Life Beads
once you obtain them midway through the game.
Sub Weapon--Fires one bead at nearby foes for a little damage.
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~Resurrection Beads~
====================
Location--Buy them from the merchant in Wep'keer for 150,000 Yen
These extremely powerful Rosaries are very useful throughout the remainder
of the game.
Sub Weapon--Fires a scattershot of beads into enemies for damage.
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~Tundra Beads~
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Location--Purchase from weapons dealer in Sei-an City after beating Wawku
Shrine for 500,000 Yen
The most powerful Rosaries in the game have an added bonus--you can use
them as a source for Blizzard. Freeze your foes and break them in half!
Sub Weapon--Fires one bead at enemies to damage them.
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~8C.Glaives~
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~Tsumugari~
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Location--Obtained after defeating Orochi
This is the basic Glaive, but it is very powerful. Although difficult to
use properly, the damage output is insane once mastered.
Sub Weapon--Lunge at enemies for a lot of damage, or use it in the air to
dive bomb them.
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~Seven Strike~
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Location--Buy it from the Sei-an City weapons dealer for 50,000 Yen
A more powerful Glaives that can be purchased at a cheap price.
Sub Weapon--Lunge at enemies for a lot of damage, or use it in the air to
dive bomb them.
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~Blade of Kusanagi~
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Location--Obtained by defeating Ninetails
A very powerful Glaive capable of defeating many foes in a single swipe.
Sub Weapon--Lunge at enemies for a lot of damage, or use it in the air to
dive bomb them.
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~Eight Wonder~
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Location--Purchase from a Poncle in Ponc'tan for 200,000 Yen
A more powerful Glaive that easily outclasses the previous one.
Sub Weapon--Lunge at enemies for a lot of damage, or use it in the air to
dive bomb them.
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~Thunder Edge~
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Location--Obtained from defeating Orochi in the spirit gate
The most power Glaive that can also be used as a source for Thunderstorm.
Zap your foes into oblivion!
Sub Weapon--Lunge at enemies for a lot of damage, or use it in the air to
dive bomb them.
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~8D.Holy Artifacts~
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~Fire Tablet~
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Location--Obtained from helping Kaguya find her rocket ship
The Fire Tablet allows you to swim through lava, and all fire attacks from
enemies will do no damage to you.
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~Water Tablet~
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Location--Buy from the Emperor for 100 Demon Fangs after clearing Oni
Island
The Water Tablet allows you to walk on water when equipped. Necessary for
one Stray Bead.
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~Peace Bell~
============
Location--Buy from the Demon Fang trader in Agata Forest or the Emperor
for 20 Demon Fangs
The Peace Bell prevents Demon Scrolls from chasing you at nighttime.
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~Wood Mat~
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Location--Buy from the Demon Fang trader in Agata Forest or the Emperor
for 30 Demon Fangs
Stop moving in the overworld and Ammy will fall asleep. With this equipped
you will restore health while sleeping, at a cost of about 150 Yen per unit
of Solar Energy.
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~Golden Lucky Cat~
==================
Location--Buy from the Demon Fang trader in Agata Forest or the Emperor
for 50 Demon Fangs
All items on the ground (Yen, food, etc.) will be drawn to you without you
needing to touch it yourself to collect it.
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~Thief's Glove~
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Location--Buy from the Emperor for 70 Demon Fangs
Draw a line from Issun (top of Ammy's head, dark green smoke will indicate
the brush is on the right spot) to enemies to steal items from them.
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~Golden Ink Pot~
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Location--Buy from the Emperor for 100 Demon Fangs
Ink Pots will turn gold and will refill at an absurdly quick rate.
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~Fog Pot~
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Location--Buy from the Emperor for 80 Demon Fangs
This item doesn't need to be equipped to be in use. At Ultimate Mirrors,
draw an X over the red X on the mirror (a + works better, though) and you
can warp to any other Ultimate Mirror in areas you've visited.
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~9.Celestial Brush Techniques~
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The following is a list of every brush technique, both normal and hidden,
as well as how to draw it and what results from it.
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~Rejuvenation~
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Learned in River of the Heavens
When you find an object that is broken or has something missing from it,
scribble over the missing section to restore it back to its former self.
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~Power Slash~
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Leaned in Cave of Nagi
Draw a horizontal line (hold the Z button to make a straight line) to slice
objects and enemies.
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~Power Slash 2~
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Learned in N. Ryoshima Coast's spring
Find the hidden spring on one of the northern islands in N. Ryoshima Coast
and donate 60,000 Yen to learn this move. The Power Slash deals more damage
to enemies, and you can now cut through iron rocks.
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~Power Slash 3~
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Learned in Ezofuji's spring
Find the hidden spring on a low ledge right of Tuskle's house in Ezofuji
and donate 360,000 Yen to learn this move. The Power Slash will deal even
more damage, and you can now cut through crystal rocks.
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~Sunrise~
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Learned in Kamiki Village
Draw a circle in the sky to make it daytime.
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~Bloom~
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Learned in Hana Valley
Draw a circle on withered trees to bloom them to life. When you find cursed
patches of grass, scribble over them to restore the land around them. You
can also use Bloom on giant buds to obtain the treasures inside.
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~Cherry Bomb~
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Learned in Shinshu Field
Draw a circle with a line starting just above the top right corner and
extending into the middle of the circle to make a bomb appear. This is used
to blow up cracks in walls, as well as damage enemies. In battle, they will
explode either after a few seconds like normal, or the instant an enemy
touches it.
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~Cherry Bomb 2~
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Learned in N. Ryoshima Coast's spring
Find the hidden spring in one of the northern islands in N. Ryoshima Coast
and donate 120,000 Yen to learn this move. You can now have up to two
Cherry Bombs out on the field at one time. You can only draw them one at a
time, however.
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~Cherry Bomb 3~
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Learned in Kamui's spring
Find the hidden spring behind Kamui's Guardian Sapling and donate 300,000
Yen to learn this move. You can now have up to three Cherry Bombs out on
the field at once. Again, you can only draw one at a time.
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~Water Lily~
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Learned in Kamiki Village
Draw a circle in the water to make a lily pad appear. You can use this as
a platform in the water. Use it to cross long water pathways.
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~Vine~
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Learned in Tsuta Ruins
Draw a line from open Konohana Blosoms to Ammy and she will be pulled to
the blossom. Used to reach high ledges and cross long gaps. You can Vine to
another blossom while in midair.
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~Waterspout~
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Learned in Sasa Sanctuary
Draw a line from water to any destination to flood it with water. Used to
fill ponds, put out fires, and make some objects move. You can also draw
a vertical lines from power springs (where water lines rise from) to form
a large fountain you can ride up to reach high ledges.
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~Fountain~
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Learned in Dragon Palace by clearing the digging minigame
Another form of Waterspout, draw a spiral in Mermaid Springs to warp in
them for free.
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~Deluge~
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Learned in Sei-an City
Head behind Queen Himiko's Palace entrance to find four stones in the water
as her gravestone (only available after Oni Island). Waterspout water from
the tiny pool on the balcony you're on and hit all four stone pillars with
it to learn this move. Deluge can distract enemies in combat with a
torrential downpour.
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~Crescent~
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Learned in Agata Forest
Draw a ) in the sky to make it nighttime.
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~Galestorm~
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Learned in Gale Shrine
Draw a left to right loop, or a right to left loop, to direct wind in the
given direction. Used to douse fires, direct banners to turn them into
bridges, and blow certain enemies into walls to allow them to be injured.
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~Whirlwind~
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Learned in N. Ryoshima Coast
Buy a Marlin Rod and give it to the fisherman on one of the western
islands. Catch a marlin and talk to the restaurant chef and when he pauses,
draw three horizontal lines to learn this move. You can blow all enemies
around with this technique. Useful in combat.
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~Inferno~
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Learned in Moon Cave
Draw a line from fire to anything else to burn it in flames. Used to melt
ice and harm enemies.
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~Fireburst~
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Learned in Sei-an City
If you obtained the Golden Mushroom, give it to the chef in Sei-an City.
Draw a sideways 8 to make a giant ball of flames appear, inflicting harm
on all nearby enemies.
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~Veil of Mist~
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Learned in Imperial Palace
Draw two horizontal lines to slow down enemies for several seconds. The
most useful ability in battle, and easily spammable.
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~Catwalk~
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Learned in Catcall Tower
Draw a line from Kabegami statues up walls to make yellow pawprints appear.
You can stick to these by press A against them. Jump up walls using the
mark to reach high ledges.
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~Thunderstorm~
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Learned in Oni Island
Draw a line from electric storm clouds to any object to electrify it,
activating switches or hurting enemies.
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~Thunderbolt~
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Learned in Sei-an City
Draw a thunderbolt to drop a torrent of electricity onto nearby enemies.
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~Blizzard~
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Learned in Wawku Shrine
Draw a line from an icicle to any object or enemy to freeze it.
A second Blizzard ability never mentioned in the game is also obtained
here. When you learn Blizzard you can also draw a + sign, with a third
line going from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. This will
drop icicles onto foes in combat. Useful if you can draw it correctly.
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~10.Wanted Lists~
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Here's the locations on how to obtain all the wanted lists in the game,
and what Demon Scrolls to check to find the listed foes. Remember, these
Demon Scrolls only appear at nighttime! Once all five have been killed,
return to the Wanted List owner to receive a Gold Dust.
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~Mika's Monster Notebook~
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Location--Head to the base of the hill leading to the Moon Cave in Shinshu
Field. Talk to Mika inside the house to get the list. Monsters appear in
Shinshu Field
They appear at:
--Outside Mika's house (forced fight)
--Infront of Tama's house
--Near the Ultimate Mirror next to the Guardian Sapling
--Near Nameless Man's house
--Across the river behind the Guardian Sapling
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~Haruka's Revenge Contract~
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Location--Head to the inn inside Kusa Village. Go to the second floor and
tackle the door in the middle. Leave the inn and reenter, then on the
second floor tackle the screen on the right. Talk to the girl to get the
wanted listed. Monsters appear in Taka Pass.
--Near Bingo's location
--Next to the brown bridge that's close to the Sasa Sanctuary entrance
--On a ledge overlooking the Cutters' house
--Head through the cave where you fought Waka and to the top. You'll find
the monster to the left of when you exit the cavern
--Near the Ultimate Mirror
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~Masu's Monster Manifest~
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Location--Make it nighttime in Sei'an City's Commoners' Qtr. Head into the
restaurant and talk to the drunken man at the right table. Masu will hand
you the wanted list. Monsters appear in Ryoshima Coast.
--On the beach, across from the Dojo
--On the beach, across from the Dojo (near the previous one)
--Next to the giant bell near Ankoku Temple
--Near the entrance to City Checkpoint
--Near the cave leading to the Guardian Sapling
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~Wali's Record of Penance~
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Location--There's a house near the entrance to Wep'keer. Talk to Wali
inside to get the wanted list.
--Right next to Wali's house
--Next to the hole that leads to Blockhead Grande
--Near the merchant
--On the ice to the side of the hill leading to Wep'keer
--Near Yoshpet's entrance
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~11.Bestiary~
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Here's the list of every enemy in the game, how to defeat them, and their
floral finisher.
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~Green Imp~
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These weak foes only take a few hits to kill. They attack by extending a
bamboo stick at you. Keep moving or jump to avoid it.
Floral Finisher--Power Slash (1 Demon Fang)
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~Red Imp~
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These more sturdy imps attack by flinging their instrument at you. Jump
over it, and again when it swings back to them, and attack while they are
wide open.
Floral Finisher--Power Slash (1 Demon Fang)
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~Yellow Imp~
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These imps burrow underground, and only surface every once in a while. When
they do, that's your chance to hit them. They will bang on their drum a few
times before holding their hands above them and slamming onto the drum,
sending a shockwave that hurts you. Jump to avoid it.
Floral Finisher--Power Slash (1 Demon Fang)
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~Blue Imp~
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These foes will use paper kites to fly around the arena. Power Slash the
kite to make them fall to the ground defenseless. While in the air, they
can shoot projectiles at you. Cut them down before they can shoot anything
at you.
Floral Finisher--Galestorm (1 Demon Fang)
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~Black Imp~
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These foes have skulls floating around them, which shoot lasers every now
and then at you. You can Power Slash the skulls to destroy them, and if
you get rid of all the skulls then the Black Imp can't attack, leaving it
defenseless.
Floral Finisher--Power Slash (3 Demon Fangs)
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~Headless Guardian~
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This enemy can jump into the air and swing his weapon at you. It pauses in
the air to signify the attack, so run away or jump to avoid it. It's
vulnerable any other time, however.
Floral Finisher--Cherry Bomb (2 Demon Fangs)
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~Bell Guardian~
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This variety of Yellow Imps are exactly the same, only the deal a little
more damage, and have signifcantly higher amounts of health. Be patient and
wait for them to surface to strike them.
Floral Finisher--Power Slash (2 Demon Fangs)
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~Halo Guardian~
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These Blue Imp imposters also fly around the arena. Like Blue Imps, they
fire projectiles while in the air. Power Slash them onto the ground to make
them defenseless and incapable of attack.
Floral Finisher--Cherry Bomb (2 Demon Fangs)
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~Executioner Guardian~
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Like Black Imps, these guys have floating skulls around them that shoot
painful lasers. Power Slash the skulls to make the Executioner Guardian
incapable of attacking, leaving it open for pummeling.
Floral Finisher--Cherry Bomb (2 Demon Fangs)
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~Namahage~
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These foes are similar to Green Imps. They possess no special attributes
other than slapping you, so quickly take down their relatively low health.
Floral Finisher--Galestorm (1 Demon Fang)
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~Blade Namahage~
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Similar to Red Imps, Blade Namahages will throw their axes at you. Jump
over them when it flies at you and when it comes back to the Namahage.
Attack it when it isn't throwing anything at you.
Floral Finisher--Galestorm (2 Demon Fangs)
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~Bucket Namahage~
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These annoying Yellow Imp-like foes burrow underground as well, but stick
up their drumsticks while moving, which hurt you if you touch them. As
usual, attack them when they surface.
Floral Finisher--Cherry Bomb (3 Demon Fangs)
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~Umbrella Namahage~
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Like Blue Imps, cut them down before they can shoot projectiles at you.
They are completely helpless when they are on the ground, so bash them.
Floral Finisher--Galestorm (2 Demon Fangs)
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~Cannon Namahage~
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This devious foe can shoot balls of energy at you from far range. Get close
to it and take it down quickly before it has the chance to shoot anything.
Floral Finisher--Galestorm (3 Demon Fangs)
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~Clay Soldier~
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These weak foes can swing their sword at you, bit it is relatively small
and weak, so it doesn't pose a huge threat. Attack them while they slowly
walk around you as they are always defenseless.
Floral Finisher--Veil of Mist (1 Demon Fang)
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~Clay Samurai~
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These stronger foes have big swords that have good range. Attack them
quickly to try and finish them off before they can inflict too much damage
on you.
Floral Finisher--Veil of Mist(2 Demon Fangs)
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~Clay Drummer~
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These powerful enemies, similar to Yellow Imps, burrow underground as well.
They have the most health of the drummer family, so it may take two or
three passes underground before you can finally kill them.
Floral Finisher--Veil of Mist (2 Demon Fangs)
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~Clay Flyer~
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Like all Blue Impish enemies, Power Slash them onto the ground, then attack
while they are unable to shoot projectiles at you.
Floral Finisher--Power Slash (2 Demon Fangs)
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~Clay Shogun~
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These foes like to jump around and play with their drums, occasionally
jumping towards you and smacking you around. Keep a keen distance when
engaged against them.
Floral Finisher--Veil of Mist (3 Demon Fangs)
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~Bud Ogre~
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Bud Ogres and fly around the arena trying to land on you, and can spit
balls that can be reflected with Power Slashes. After enough hits, they
collapse onto the ground. Bloom them to reveal a glowing core. Attack this
enough to kill the ogre.
Floral Finisher--Bloom (1 Demon Fang)
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~Chimera~
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Similar to Bud Ogres, these guys can fly, shoot blue liquid, as well as
purple balls that can be reflected with Power Slashes. After enough hits
they will be stunned and lose all color. They can be hit for damage at this
point.
Floral Finisher--Power Slash (2 Demon Fangs)
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~Igloo Turtle~
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Like previous foes, they can fly into the air and shoot balls and icicles
at you, the former can be reflected with Power Slashes. After enough hits
it'll collapse onto the ground. Use Inferno on it by using the flame on its
tail to burn the igloo cover, revealing a straw figurine. Destroy this to
kill the foe.
Floral Finisher--Inferno (2 Demon Fangs)
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~Dead Fish~
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Power Slash their wings off to make them land on the ground. They don't
have much of a form of attacking, but when low on health they will stick to
you and explode. Power Slash them again at this point to kill them.
Floral Finisher--Power Slash (1 Demon Fang)
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~Crow Tengu~
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Power Slash their wings off, and attack when on the ground to make them
guard. Power Slash the Crow Tengu when it guards to stun it, allowing you
to harm it. It can dive at you while in the air, so watch out.
Floral Finisher--Galestorm (1 Demon Fang)
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~Ubume~
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Power Slash it's wings off before it can dive at you. Attack it when on
the ground to make it defend with its umbrella. Use Galestorm to throw it
against the wall when it defends with the umbrella to stun it, opening it
to attack.
Floral Finisher--Veil of Mist (2 Demon Fangs)
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~Fire Eye~
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It'll travel around the field quickly, trying to burn you. Use Galestorm to
get rid of the flames, exposing it to attack. It'll get stunned after a few
hits.
Floral Finisher--Galestorm (2 Demon Fangs)
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~Ice Mouth~
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Burn it with Inferno, using flames from a Fire Eye, or use Fireburst. Melt
the ice and attack them before they run into you, freezing you for a few
seconds. These foes are very annoying.
Floral Finisher--Inferno (2 Demon Fangs)
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~Thunder Ear~
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These enemies have no glaring weakness. Use Veil of Mist and keep attacking
it until it finally gets stunned, at which point you should quickly try to
finish it off.
Floral Finisher--Galestorm (2 Demon Fangs)
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~Earth Nose~
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Like all wheels, it runs around the arena trying to hit you, but this wheel
is very fast. Slow it down with Veil of Mist, exposing it to attack.
Floral Finisher--Veil of Mist (3 Demon Fangs)
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~Fire Doom Mirror~
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Galestorm the flames off before it can move around the field, then attack
it while the flames are out.
Floral Finisher--Galestorm (2 Demon Fangs)
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~Ice Doom Mirror~
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Melt the ice with Inferno, or use Veil of Mist and wait for the ice to
dissapitate on its own. Once it does, take it down like any other wheel
enemy.
Floral Finisher--Fireburst (2 Demon Fangs)
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~Thunder Doom Mirror~
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Like the Thunder Ear, it doesn't have a real weakness. Thusly, just use
Veil of Mist so it can't go running around the field in an attempt to hit
you. While the mist is up you should be able to harm it.
Floral Finisher--Power Slash (2 Demon Fangs)
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~Wind Doom Mirror~
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Use Veil of Mist to expose this extremely quick wheel to attack. If it can
move around the field, you'll be dizzied by how fast it is. Don't get
confused by it's location, leaving you open to attack.
Floral Finisher--Veil of Mist (3 Demon Fangs)
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~Poltergeist~
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These wheel enemies can be of the thunder, wind, ice, or fire variety.
Apply the weakness of the wheel type you've fought in the past to get rid
of these guys (Galestorm fire, Fireburst ice, and Veil of Mist wind and
thunder).
Floral Finisher--Galestorm (4 Demon Fangs)
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~Ichiro~
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This shark is formed if you can't kill Jiro and Saburo fast enough. Power
Slash it several times to destroy the armor, then several more times to
kill it. Avoid it landing on you by jumping out of the way.
Floral Finisher--Power Slash (3 Demon Fangs)
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~Jiro~
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A crab with a hard shell. Attack it several times to destroy it, then hurt
the crab a few more times to kill it. It can shoot poisonous balls at you.
Floral Finisher--Thunderstorm (3 Demon Fangs)
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~Saburo~
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A crab with a hard shell. Attack it several times to destroy it, then hurt
the crab a few more times to kill it. It can dig up water, and if it does
then Ichiro will be formed.
Floral Finisher--Thunderstorm (3 Demon Fangs)
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~Blue Cyclops~
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These big foes spit fire at you. If you hit them a lot, the flame on its
pipe will burn out. If this happens, quickly relight it with a Fireburst.
If you don't, the Blue Cyclops will turn invincible and will shoot
electricity at you for a few seconds. Avoid until it returns to normal.
Floral Finisher--Deluge (3 Demon Fangs)
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~Great Tengu~
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These guys are like Blue Cyclops', but they spit poisonous goop too. They
don't have a pipe, and instead will turn invincible after several attacks
with little warning. They will dive at you, so avoid them as best as
possible and wait until they return to normal.
Floral Finisher--Blizzard (3 Demon Fangs)
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~Crimson Helm~
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Attack this boss until the armor falls off, then Galestorm the flames away
so you can harm the skeleton. The boss can make shockwaves of fire, swing
its sword, and make large jumps and land ontop of you.
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~Red Ogre~
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These enormous beasts cover their faces with a large mask. Use Veil of Mist
to run behind them and attack them from the back. They can jump ontop of
you, and can swing their large clubs at you.
Floral Finisher--Thunderstorm (3 Demon Fangs)
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~Blue Ogre~
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These enormous beasts cover their faces with a large mask. Use Veil of Mist
to run behind them and attack them from the back. They can jump ontop of
you, and can breathe ice at you, freezing you for a few seconds.
Floral Finisher--Thunderstorm (3 Demon Fangs)
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~Bull Charger~
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These guys are exactly the same as Red and Blue Ogres, except they can only
attack by jumping and creating large shockwaves by slamming their clubs
onto the ground. Be careful of it.
Floral Finisher--Inferno (4 Demon Fangs)
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~Spider Queen~
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Attach vines to the hooks on the Queen's back by moving the camera while
the canvus is up. When the eyes are exposed when the back of the Spider
Queen is pulled away, Power Slash all of the eyes several times to destroy
it. If you keep running on the outside of the arena, none of its attacks
can hit you.
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~Bandit Spider~
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They fight exactly the same as the Spider Queen, however they have a bit
more health, and require three vines to be hooked instead of just two. The
only new attack here is throwing a bomb at you, but if you Inferno the
fuse you'll stun the beast.
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~Orochi~
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Dodge attacks and make it drink the Purification Sake when it opens its
mouth and roars. After doing this twice for three heads, run up the neck
and destroy the bell. Then repeat this process, but after one feeding of
sake the head collapses for a bit, allowing you to attack it freely. Repeat
this process for all of the heads.
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~True Orochi~
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True Orochi is exactly the same as normal Orochi. Honestly, there is no
difference between the two fights.
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~Waka~
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The first fight against the prophet can be annoying. He attacks fast by
diving at you wish his sword, or making a bunch of blind swings. Keep your
distance, and attacking with Rosaries is your best option. If you get close
to him you can easily be hit by a swipe of his sword, which hurts you
quite a bit.
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~Waka~
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The second fight is similar to the first. Be aware of when he spawns
homing swords. Keep running and jumping to avoid them. He has more health
than the first fight, so attack hard and fast through the fight.
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~Blight~
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This boss gets his power from his sword. When he shakes he's about the
dash to another part of the arena. Use Veil of Mist to slow his movement,
then attack him as he dashes. If you hit him enough he drops his sword, and
drops it as well if you hit the blue sword while using Veil of Mist when
he summons a bunch of swords. Attack the sword to deplete Blight's health.
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~Evil Rao~
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This boss is very fast. Avoid her homing swords and dive bombs when she
flies into the air, and keep distance from here so she can slash you with
her sword. Keep attacking her and she will go down.
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~Oki~
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Most of Oki's attacks will freeze you, so be sure not to be hit. Avoid his
slices of his sword and shockwaves he makes by slamming it into the ground.
When he turns into a wolf, destroy clones he makes before going after the
real Oki, and avoid him whenever he glows blue. That's a sign he's going to
use a powerful attack that'll freeze you on impact.
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~Nagi~
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Like most sword fighting bosses, avoid his homing sword attack, and try to
keep a distance so his normal slices won't hit you. He's got a lot of
health, but he's not too challenging to kill. Just tedious.
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~Dogu~
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These tall statues have a ton of health, can dash quickly across the stage
if you aren't using Veil of Mist, and can summon homing swords.
Floral Finisher--Power Slash (4 Demon Fangs)
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~Ninetails~
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Dodge her dash attacks until Ninetails raises her sword. Use Thunderstorm
on it to split Ninetails into nine souls. Attack the souls and destroy as
many as possible before they reform into Ninetails. Repeat this process
until only one is left, turning Ninetails into a one-tailed fox. You can
freely attack her here, so bash her until she dies.
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~Canine Warrior Chu~
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Dodge the warrior when the ball glows, and obviously avoid the holes that
are dug up. Following this pattern, you can attack them freely as long as
they aren't attacking or digging up holes.
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~Canine Warrior Jin~
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Dodge the warrior when the ball glows, and obviously avoid the holes that
are dug up. Following this pattern, you can attack them freely as long as
they aren't attacking or digging up holes.
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~Canine Warrior Gi~
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Dodge the warrior when the ball glows, and obviously avoid the holes that
are dug up. Following this pattern, you can attack them freely as long as
they aren't attacking or digging up holes.
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~Canine Warrior Tei~
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Dodge the warrior when the ball glows, and obviously avoid the holes that
are dug up. Following this pattern, you can attack them freely as long as
they aren't attacking or digging up holes.
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~Canine Warrior Chi~
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Dodge the warrior when the ball glows, and obviously avoid the holes that
are dug up. Following this pattern, you can attack them freely as long as
they aren't attacking or digging up holes.
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~Canine Warrior Ko~
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Dodge the warrior when the ball glows, and obviously avoid the holes that
are dug up. Following this pattern, you can attack them freely as long as
they aren't attacking or digging up holes.
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~Canine Warrior Rei~
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Dodge the warrior when the ball glows, and obviously avoid the holes that
are dug up. Following this pattern, you can attack them freely as long as
they aren't attacking or digging up holes.
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~Canine Warrior Shin~
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Dodge the warrior when the ball glows, and obviously avoid the holes that
are dug up. Following this pattern, you can attack them freely as long as
they aren't attacking or digging up holes.
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~Tube Fox~
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These quick foxes can be highly annoying. Use Veil of Mist to slow them
down, then attack them. They can sap away all of your ink, so bash the fox
that your ink is being directed at to restore it. Avoid their close range
slashes.
Floral Finisher--Power Slash (2 Demon Fangs)
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~Golden Demon Lechku~
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Reflect his projectiles back at him, and Thunderstorm his sword whenever he
raises it. After enough reflected hits, hold C when Oki comes over, hold
down on the control stick, and release him like an arrow at the owl. Attack
the stunned owl to knock it to the ground where it can be freely damaged.
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~Silver Demon Nechku~
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Reflect his projectiles back at him, and Inferno the fuse of his bomb
whenever he holds one. After enough reflected hits, hold C when Oki comes
over, hold down on the control stick, and release him like an arrow at the
owl. Attack the stunned owl to knock it to the ground where it can be
freely damaged.
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~Yami~
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For the first form, keep attacking it. Rejuvenate any broken bits of floor,
and keep bashing it. Power Slash it when stunned. Avoid it's jumping.
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~Yami~
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For the second form, continue bashing it. Use recovered abilities whenever
it's stunned, and when the pieces of the sphere form a staircase, use it
to reach the core and freely attack it.
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~Yami~
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Power Slash the reels to stop the slot machine. Reflect projectiles back at
it. Every now and then all three of them will land on blue orbs (it's
rigged then) and you will earn back an ability. After getting back all
your abilities on this form, the blue ball will expose the core whenever it
is landed on.
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~Yami~
------
For the fourth form, attack the core when the hatch is open. After a few
attacks then machine will be stunned, allowing free attacks on it.
Thunderstorm its sword arms when raised, and Blizzard the core when it
falls out.
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~Yami~
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For the final form, make it Sunrise to stun the sphere and make it drop the
core. Attack the core when it's stuck in the palm to continue inflicting
damage. When the arena gets dark, Sunrise again to stun Yami. Dodge the
homing missiles and slaps of the hand.
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