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Way of the Samurai 4 FAQ Author: EVERYTHING26 Version: 1.00 Intro: Welcome to my 2nd FAQ, I intend this FAQ to cover getting not only the platinum of the game but eventually getting every unlockable as well. Right now this guide is not complete I still need to cover Night Crawling, fishing, swords and minor jobs and likely need to check and make sure a lot of these things are 100% correct so feel free to contribute my info is at the bottom of this FAQ. Spoiler warning! There are small spoilers here and there, my endings are bare minimum and I never really describe the plot in the events however be warned that some facts will come out and ruin events, try to get things yourself 1st it's part of this game!

Controls You can see the basic controls in the main menu under Manual before selecting new game or load, so this is to explain in detail what you need to know. Basic gameplay controls are left stick for movement, right stick camera control. direction buttons are used to select items/ sword and stances mid battle. Fighting controls: L1 draws or sheathes your sword. Square and triangle are both used to attack, you can check what your current style can do by going into the menu, go to styles and select your equipped style. It shows moves with arrows, this is not referring to left and right, if the arrow points left such as left + square it means to pull the direction stick away from the enemy and hit square. Right would mean towards the enemy. R2: R2 brings up the quick change menu, the most important option in here is reversing your sword. When you reserve your sword you can't kill the enemy and do damage to their vitality instead of life. You can also switch swords, styles go unarmed and dual weild here, so get used to what does what if you want to be able to switch quickly in battle. L2: L2 lets you free run during battle, it's extremely helpful in you're ignoring combat during events, or trying to pick up an item, style or sword. Jumping You jump with circle. Apart from a few shortcuts there's really never a good reason to jump. Some attacks are done mid-air, must notably guns have a quick and powerful mid-air attack.

Talking: In and out of battle using the X button lets you talk to someone when the chat bubble is on screen. Some events require you to use this function to end a battle without someone dying, so during the 1st event try hitting X to see what it does. Kicking: With R1 and square together your samurai will do a small kick. In battle this can be used to interrupt an enemy (or do good damage with the Big Shot charm). More importantly it makes your samurai pick up any items or/ and swords you end up kicking. This is especially useful at the end of scenes to pick up the enemies sword or style before the game transitions to another scene. Spring Harvest: During battle hold R1 and hit L1 to go into spring harvest mode, you hit harder and break guard easily in this mode.

How to Play So we're just starting our adventure in Amihama and have no idea what to do! To help I'm going to hopefully give you a good idea.

Gameplay basics Some basic non-combat concepts to help you understand what to do before and after the initial tutorial events:

Difficulty This game at it's core is action/ adventure. However your sword can be leveled and needs to be leveled for normal and more so hard. Start your 1st game on easy, it's not a matter of skill or ability you just simply do not have a sword that will make any ending possible on normal. Using the default weapon on easy without upgrades would be pretty hard at that. Easy can be done with a sword around 50 attack, normal you want 100ish, hard probably 300+ and Harikiri mode you want the max attack of 500.

Events When you start you're already in the middle of an event, events happen in certain areas and at certain times of day. What and when can be easily figured out by going into the menu, selecting journal then events. This shows a flow chart of all the

events, including where you're at so you can figure out what to do next for the faction you're working for. I've detailed all events in my Events section, but feel free to experiment it's half the fun of this game!

Vitality and Life If you look at the lower left corner of your screen you'll see 2 bars: 1 purple, 1 green. The green bar is your life, if this runs out you die. The purple bar is new to WotS4 its vitality, and a few things affect it. 1st when you're injured the life bar is restored after a few seconds of not attacking/ being attacked at the cost of vitality, so as you can imagine having 0 vitality in a battle is a bad thing. Vitality can also be depleted by spamming powerful attacks (moves that use triangle mainly) as well as quick traveling costs 100 vitality each time you travel. Some styles have an ability to reduce vitality costs, including quick travel. Now the big question: How to keep vitality up? Eating and sleep restore a lot, you can sleep outside on marked locations as well as in the inn on Main Plaza . Also the charm Life & Death on a sword makes you restore vitality as you stand still, see the Smith section for more details on creating Charms.

Where to start As I mentioned above your starting sword sucks... right now. It has 5 attack power and 1/9 degradation which means it can be good, we just gotta spend some of those degradation points to up its base stats, so let's make it better! In the town area is the Smith, for a fee he can make the sword stronger or more durable. So to get some upgrades we need some cash. If you speak to the random people walking around they can give you jobs to get the cash you need. Upgrade the durability once if you want (it does help) but what we want to get to right away is 50-75 attack, enough to stand a chance against the named characters. Once I finish the jobs section you can find out about all the jobs and how to compete them. At this time I can really only say after accepting a job, save and try things.. if it doesn't go well restart. After getting that initial sword, check the events under journal then events. This shows the flow chart, following this you can on your own get many of the games endings without any difficulty. I do seriously recommend trying things on your own, this guide will be here later if you can't figure something out.

In-game reset Well there isn't exactly one... however if you ever want to quickly restart the game there are two options: 1) Go to the harbor, in the south west area where you start you can speak to the boatman and choice to leave Amihama. Just don't save when given the option. 2) Exit and restart the game. I find this is a lot faster and despite going though the menus I can generally do this faster then leaving in game, especially if you're in forced combat.

Network If you want to try fight off other players characters (not controlled by them), at the bottom of the menu under options, is a setting called network settings. Here you can enable it so others can invade your world and your character will invade other worlds.

Boxes When a box drops on you or an enemy you take massive damage. To this end you can in fact throw boxes to do massive damage to enemies, it's hard to do and probably never worth it... but kindva funny. Also destroying boxes is as easy as jumping on them.

Combat basics

Below are some tips to help with combat. Not the be all end all but some things to help those new to the series.

Square versus Triangle In previous Way of the Samurai games square was a basic move you'd mainly only use when your sword was too hot or was a new blade. In this game square can be the main attack and likely should be as well.

Square is your lighter attacks, generally are faster but do less damage. Triangle related moves on the other hand can do a lot of damage but also drain your vitality. So which should you use? Both, just be aware of where your vitality is at since running out can easily mean death.

Blocking and Dodging R1 blocks most normal attacks. There are powerful moves that break guards, as well grabs cannot be guarded against. Now if you're forced to take a hit it's better to dodge, with the guard button held down, using the direction buttons + circle makes your samurai hop away from danger. I highly recommend getting used to dodging since on hard and more so on Harikiri mode enemies can one shot you and not being hit is a lot better then hoping to guard it.

Pushing and Pulling If the enemy is guarding, using forward moves can break their guard if their aren't pulling away from you. Using moves that use back when attacking can knock people off balance if they're not pulling. This can be complex, but basically what you need to know from pushing and pulling is that when you guard you can try to push and pull. Moving the stick towards the enemies or away from them when they attack you will put them off balance depending on the move they use. I'm not great at this, mainly because the dodging system in this game is great. Why take a move when you can jump out of the way?

Spring Harvest You activate Spring Harvest by holding guard (R1) and hitting L1. You attack faster, most of your attacks break guard and get a nice cinematic end when you either sheathe your sword with L1 or re-hold R1 hitting L1 to keep your sword out. In the middle of your life/ vitality is your spring harvest gauge, it needs to be at least 50% full to activate and slowly depletes as you use it. It fill with time and also with kill both while using spring harvest and outside. Certain items really help maintaining spring harvest. Chocolate is my favorite, it makes you gain more gauge for 2 minutes which normally means you can use your spring harvest for the rest of the battle you're in. The Amana Mushroom is also a great item, it does the same as chocolate but for only 30 seconds, it also gives you 500 extra points (50%) so you can right away rip into any enemy around.

Styles Style is a moveset and unlike previous titles in the series it's separate from the sword. In battle when you're not mid-animation you can change your style in the menu. Also styles can have multiply movesets, only 2 of the default in game ones I know of have multiply movesets but custom sets can have up to 3 different stances in one style. Making a custom stance requires a blank book (can be purchased in the casino, as well as Dojima sells them after the tournament with a great crime rate) and being the owner of the Dojo. The Old Fossil will help you create your own style of destruction.

Free Run As mentioned above free running is done by holding the L2 button. Why do it in battle? Ignoring enemies is the 1st reason, but I've found that enemies that are armed with guns will get off a shot or two when approaching them the normal way, using free run you're faster and can get right next to them sometimes before they get a single shot off.

Town Overview Below is a list of all the area and significant facilities, the shops and job brokers in each area.

Little Britain

The area for the Foreigners to gather and not make any sense for your character (until you get the Language School up and running)

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Consulate Located at the very north of the area, this is where you'll find the british characters of the game most of the time.

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Hospital Not functioning to begin with and located in the south eastern corner of this area. Hospital is needed for certain events, and while it's up all items cost 10% more.

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Gramps job giver The king of the homeless! Gramps gives you jobs that help the homeless of the city, these are mostly good intended with some bloody results. He's right in the middle (somewhat south east) below the tracks.

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Lost and Found shop When you 1st come across this guy beside Gramps below the tracks, he won't be able to sell you anything. The only things he can sell you are items you've lost when you died on a previous playthough, so hopefully he get little to no business from you. Some unlockable are also sold here.

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Sweets shop Located on the western side of the map you 1st need to english to use this shop. And as it's name suggests, you get sweets here.

Cemetery

Really nothing noteworthy here, Dojima starts here unless on a previous playthough you got him to be the blacksmith. If you face off against another player and they *ahem* cheat their way to victory... when you select retry a "revenge horse" will be here (literally a horse) and when you talk to it you can offer to get revenge which enables you to fight against that player again.

Back Roads

Nothing too special about this area, quests happen and are started here.

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Teahouse in the middle of the map lets you eat some food.

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Onigiri-ya Surprising this place sells all kind of Onigiri.

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Also of note is there is a place in the middle of the map where you can jump done into the Magistrate area, this is the only one way and is kindva funny when you use it.

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Sensei is also located here in the beginning of the game, near the sleep location on the east side of the map.

Magistrate

Home of the magistrates/ the center of law in town.

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Used Goods A shop with various goods, how food can be used somewhat worries me about what I'm going to end up feeding my samurai... I'm sure he can take it though.

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Nodobotoke Middle of the map he gives you missions that are against the Yakuza. Really more about him pushing his job on you, but completely the missions help order regardless.

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Sakotsu Located above Nodobotoke he lets you know what the order in the city is, as well hates Yakuza a lot and is willing to repeatedly pay you to massacre Yakuza, 25 to 100 at a time depending on the crime rate.

Main Plaza

The city hub, plenty of events end up happening here

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Inn Umeya In the north west side of this area, for a fee you get a different type of room healing 500, 750, or 1000 Health/Stamina. Staying here instead of sleeping outside also increases the towns Order.

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Curio Shop (Tanukiya) On the west side of town heading toward the Town this place will sell you hair styles, clothing and some accessories.

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Restaurant (Low-end) In the north East side, eat here for recovery.

Town

This is the home of some of the most important thing, the smith as well the dojo you can be in charge of.

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Dojo Located in the south western corner when you enter here you can choose to become the master of the dojo. Check the Dojo Section for help on what to do here.

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Smithy In the south slightly East you can find the smith, he can strengthen your sword help you create new ones but most importantly is the only cheap way to repair a sword. Check the Smith Section for help knowing what does what.

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Language School In the very south eastern corner is the school that somehow makes you instantly understand english when opened. It's closed at 1st and you have to complete a certain event to get it opened.

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General Store Right near the dojo this sells you various helpful items.

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Bait & Grub On the South western corner this guy as the name suggests sells you items to help you fish.

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Eatery (Rice Bowls) Restaurant in the north end of the map

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Pharmacy West of the Eatery this place sell medicine... and booze, which is medicine to some...

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Western Noodle House Located east of the Eatery this is yet another restaurant.

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Bar (Toasty Truth) Open at only at night and located on the western side of the map. Eating/ drinking here gives various stats boosts, so worth considering before a big fight. This is owned by Akemi and a few events involving the Prajnas happen here.

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Gambling Den In the north eastern corner and only open at night you can gamble playing Koi-Koi if you want (if you have no idea what this game is I suggest looking at barticle's Hanafuda guide under the Yakuza 3 FAQs, he does a good job describing the game)

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Kobato, Mistress The anti-law/ Yakuza job brokers, this guys will give you jobs that lower order. They're right outside the gambling den in the north east corner of the map. Kobato gives you various types of mission and Mistress just want you to massacre the magistrates.

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"I'm looking for work." "My you're rude. It'll be fun killing you."

Shrine

The home turf of the Prajnas. They have a store out front that sells items and hang out in the back of the cave

Harbor

Where you start the game and where you can end your game at any time. If you even want to leave to start fresh speak with the Boatman in the south west corner.

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Casino On the south east corner and open only at night this is a place where you can play western style casino games. I do believe this is the only place you can get scroll to instant learn moves for a stance.

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Thief A job broker located at the very north, and as the name implies the thief wants help stealing stuff, so expect order to drop as you help him.

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Curio Shop North side of map this shop sells some of the games accessories.

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Souvenir Shop Not sure how healing items are souvenirs, but they are, this is on the east side of the map west of Soba-ya

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Soba-ya On the east side of the map north of the casino, this is a restaurant to eat to restore some of that stamina.

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Sushi-ya West side of the map, yet another restaurant for the area.

Black Ship

Nothing much here, in the interior is a bar that sells items. Have to have the language school open to use of course.

Endings

Below is a list of all endings and set of events to get them. Most normal endings don't require you to do every event for a faction but for simplicity I'm listing every event so if you do all steps you will end up with that ending.

The Light of Hope

Basic: Unite the people against Kinugawa! To get this ending the casino must be closed, while the language school and hospital must be open Before attempting this ending I highly recommend a few things. You have to endure all 3 tortures one after another during this, so trying them out 1st when nothing is on the line isn't a bad idea. As well you are forced into a fight completely unarmed, so mastering an unarmed stance is really useful especially Moro's style Yubari Martial Arts (you'd have to kill him in a different playthough).

My Method: 1) Harbor - Amihama Harbor Skirmish -Say "Fight! Fight and win!" to Akemi, then "Take your hands off her!" to Akagi. During the fight with Akagi you must kill the 2 prajnas manning the cannon! I suggest doing this by holding down L2 to free run and attack one of the 2, they'll stand up and draw their sword so fight them normally then do the same for the 2nd one. 2) Harbor - Meeting with the Three Sisters Just beat them, same scene as above 3) Main Plaza - A Speedy Arrival All you have to do is beat Kotobuki here. 4) Shrine - Praying for Recovery When you get the chance suggest bring Akagi to the hospital saying '"Let's

take him to a British hospital."

5) Shrine - Ability to Lead Doesn't matter what you choice here Kogure just doesn't lead well 6) Black Ship - Down for the Count Tell J.J. "Certainly not cooped up in here!", lead him into the Harbor then to Sushi-ya (west side restuarant), then he asks what it is say: "It's a very

stimulating place."

7) Shrine - Strike in the Dark Kogure informs you he wants to kill Moro, so go into town and near the language school during night for Kogure to attack Moro. Speaking with Kogure saying: "Let's not be hasty, Kogure..." then "But it's true, isn't it?

About Akagi?" Kogure will then attack both of you so deplete Kogure vitality with blunt attacks and then speak with him to say "You've lost, Kogure!"

8) Language School (town) - Pursuit of Knowledge Doesn't matter what you do, feel free to mock Kogure attempt to hid who he is. Just win the fight with the demonscales 9) Sushi-ya (harbor) - In Need of Encouragement Once again doesn't really matter what you say, J.J. ends up getting arrested. 10) Inside Magistrate - Rescuing the Count Head towards the torture chamber, after the events say to J.J. "I'm here to save you." then beat the human pigs and rescue J.J. 11) Main Plaza - A Day at the Spa Simple plot event, but once you see this you're set for the ending! When asked to go after Laura select "Okay" 12) Magistrate - Laura's Determination and The Fighting Spirit Never Dies Speak with Laura near the entrance and say "Let's go. We're in this together.", then enjoy Laura's failed attempt to stop Kinugawa before killing some demonscales and getting captured. This also leads us to likely the worst situation in a WotS game yet, 1st endure all 3 tortures then defeat the 3 sisters without a weapon 13) Main Plaza - Rescuing Laura Simple battle, only one chance to say anything to Kinugawa so say "Have you lost your honor as a samurai?!". 14) Harbor - In Pursuit of Kinugawa and Black Ship Battle well this is it, beat Madara and Toguro then onto a one on one fight with Kinugawa.

The Flames of Prajna

Basic: Side with the Prajnas and Take over from Akagi after his death.

My Method: 1) Harbor - Amihama Harbor Skirmish -When siding with Akagi it doesn't matter what you say/ however I do suggest when he takes Laura say "Let me in on this!" then say "I don't fight with Dogs!" to side with Akagi. 2) Shrine - Encounter with the "Patriots" Nothing to do here, get introduced to all those Prajnas people 3) Toasty Truth Bar (Town) - Violent Behavior of the Marine Corps Get rid of the marines, be sure not to attack Melinda as that fails the event for you. 4) Shrine - Sneaking into the Magistrate's Office

-Doesn't matter how you do this, you can get one crate and leave or go for more to earn more money. 5) Toasty Truth Bar (Town) - A Deceptive Price -Once again doesn't matter how it's complete, though I really wouldn't see the need to get Kogure to help even on Harikiri mode. -If the language school is OPEN and you want to keep it open, skip the next event by sleeping either at the inn (if you're concerned about crime rate) or on one of the mats outside 6) Shrine - We Don't Need No Stinkin' Language School! or The Lecturer Is a Dead Man Simple events, click the links for details if you need em. -If the Casino is OPEN and you want to keep it open, skip the next event by sleeping either at the inn (if you're concerned about crime rate) or on one of the mats outside 7) Shrine - Destroy the Casino or Put an End to the Casino's Reconstruction Simple fights, J.J. seems to not care enough about his casino. 8) Main Plaza - Chief Minister Onsen Kinugawa Auto event but don't draw your sword, but you can enjoy a random comment or two. 9) Shrine - Washing Blood With Blood Agree to help 10) Toasty Truth Bar (Town) - Kill the Traitor This event is important, you must see this for the ending. 11) Cemetery - The Truth The deciding factor between this ending and getting The Flames of Prajna, you must kill Akemi. So say you overheard everything then she'll attack you. 12) Harbor - Break the Snare I'm not 100% sure if this one matters, but every time so far I've chosen to speak with Akagi and spare Moro. -auto event The Chief Minister's Big Move13) Shrine - Blades of the Patriots Agree to being in the tournament under the Prajnas name. 14) Main Plaza - Battle Tournament Opens and We Are the Champions After winning the 3 rounds in the tournament, leave the tournament grounds saying "I wish to be excused" 15) Shrine - Loss of Nerve and Mutual Rescue After agreeing to help, save the captured Prajnas 16) Inn (Main Plaza) - Raiding the Consulate and The Samurai Spirit Follow the flow of battle, you fight a lot of people during these events with no chance to save. When fighting J.J. it doesn't matter which option you choose nor does it matter which option is picked when Akagi gives you his dying wish.

Fevered Spirits

Basic: Side with the Prajnas and die with Akagi. This is about the same as above, you just skip the event The Truth.

My Method: 1) Harbor - Amihama Harbor Skirmish -When siding with Akagi it doesn't matter what you say/ however I do suggest when he takes Laura say "Let me in on this!" then say "I don't fight with Dogs!" to side with Akagi. 2) Shrine - Encounter with the "Patriots" Nothing to do here, get introduced to all those Prajnas people 3) Toasty Truth Bar (Town) - Violent Behavior of the Marine Corps Get rid of the marines, be sure not to attack Melinda as that fails the event for you. 4) Shrine - Sneaking into the Magistrate's Office -Doesn't matter how you do this, you can get one crate and leave or go for more to earn more money. 5) Toasty Truth Bar (Town) - A Deceptive Price -Once again doesn't matter how it's complete, though I really wouldn't see the need to get Kogure to help even on Harikiri mode. -If the language school is OPEN and you want to keep it open, skip the next event by sleeping either at the inn (if you're concerned about crime rate) or on one of the mats outside 6) Shrine - We Don't Need No Stinkin' Language School! or The Lecturer Is a Dead Man Simple events, click the links for details if you need em. -If the Casino is OPEN and you want to keep it open, skip the next event by sleeping either at the inn (if you're concerned about crime rate) or on one of the mats outside 7) Shrine - Destroy the Casino or Put an End to the Casino's Reconstruction Simple fights, J.J. seems to not care enough about his casino. 8) Main Plaza - Chief Minister Onsen Kinugawa Auto event but don't draw your sword, but you can enjoy a random comment or two. 9) Shrine - Washing Blood With Blood Agree to help 10) Toasty Truth Bar (Town) - Kill the Traitor This event is important, you must see this for the ending.

12) Harbor - Break the Snare If you want you can view The Truth event before this, so long as you don't kill Akemi it should be fine, however for simplicity I recommend skipping it. So just kill Moro and deal with the 3 sisters afterwards. -auto event The Chief Minister's Big Move13) Shrine - Blades of the Patriots Agree to being in the tournament under the Prajnas name. 14) Main Plaza - Battle Tournament Opens and We Are the Champions After winning the 3 rounds in the tournament, leave the tournament grounds saying "I wish to be excused" 15) Shrine - Loss of Nerve and Mutual Rescue After agreeing to help, save the captured Prajnas 16) Inn (Main Plaza) - Raiding the Consulate Follow the flow of battle, you fight a lot of people during these events with no chance to save. You end up fighting Madara with some of the black masks. After this fight enjoy the ending

Road to Ruin

Basic: Side with the Magistrate and help Kinugawa's mad plot to take over the world!

My Method: 1) Harbor - Amihama Harbor Skirmish -Doesn't matter what you 1st say, when Akagi takes Laura hostage say "Take your hands off her!" follow the flow of combat, but don't take out the 2 Prajnas manning the cannon during the fight with Akagi. 2) Magistrate - The Magistrate's Offices Simple intro event 3) Main Plaza - Hikaru Kotobuki's Explorer's Club Doesn't matter if you run ahead or stay with Kotobuki, just win the fight at the end 4) Harbor - Stop the Opium Smugglers Once again how you deal with it doesn't matter, though I do suggest attacking the smugglers to increase the reward you earn. -If the hospital is OPEN and you want to keep it open, skip the next event by sleeping either at the inn (if you're concerned about crime rate) or on one of the mats outside

5) Magistrate - Denying Western Medicine or Plan to Shut Down the Hospital Easy fights, just be sure to take cash from the sisters as playing with them would be them torturing you... not much of a reward imo, but if you're into it... -If the language school is CLOSED and you want to keep it closed, skip the next event by sleeping either at the inn (if you're concerned about crime rate) or on one of the mats outside 6) Harbor or Town (respectively)- The Lecturer Arrives or The Language School Opens The lecturer is slow, protect him as best you can. Click links for more details. 7) Main Plaza - Gaijin & Geisha Your target should be strong enough to not die so long as you kill the Prajnas fast enough. 8) Main Plaza - Chief Minister Onsen Kinugawa Auto event but don't draw your sword, but you can enjoy a random comment or two. 9) Magistrate - The Might of the Demonscales Simple fight, beat Akagi and Kogure. 10) Magistrate - The Chief Minister & The Three Sisters Just agree with him, easier that way... 11) Main Plaza - Preparing for the Battle Tournament Agree to help Moro, and fight off Akagi and Kogure -auto event The Chief Minister's Big Move12) Magistrate - Imperial Sword Seems you are worthy to be under Kotobuki's name... yay! 13) Main Plaza - Battle Tournament Opens and We Are the Champions After winning the 3 rounds in the tournament, leave the tournament grounds saying "I wish to be excused" 14) Magistrate - A Dark Will Just sit there and hear Kinugawa out 15) Consulate (Little Britain) - Chief Minister At War Poor trusting Laura, anyways just a plot event 16) Shrine - Annihilation of the Prajnas Easy enough fight, just be aware of the cannon, they can hurt you and fast. 17) Consulate (Little Britain) - Black Ship In Hand Plot event 18) Black Ship - Shigeru Moro, Swordsman One on One fight with Moro, go into the interior of the ship and all the way to the most western room (south of the kitchen)

A Change of Heart

Basic: Side with the Magistrate and stop Kinugawa's madness.

My Method: 1) Harbor - Amihama Harbor Skirmish -Doesn't matter what you 1st say, when Akagi takes Laura hostage say "Take your hands off her!" follow the flow of combat, but don't take out the 2 Prajnas manning the cannon during the fight with Akagi. 2) Magistrate - The Magistrate's Offices Simple intro event 3) Main Plaza - Hikaru Kotobuki's Explorer's Club Doesn't matter if you run ahead or stay with Kotobuki, just win the fight at the end 4) Harbor - Stop the Opium Smugglers Once again how you deal with it doesn't matter, though I do suggest attacking the smugglers to increase the reward you earn. -If the hospital is OPEN and you want to keep it open, skip the next event by sleeping either at the inn (if you're concerned about crime rate) or on one of the mats outside 5) Magistrate - Denying Western Medicine or Plan to Shut Down the Hospital Easy fights, just be sure to take cash from the sisters as playing with them would be them torturing you... not much of a reward imo, but if you're into it... -If the language school is CLOSED and you want to keep it closed, skip the next event by sleeping either at the inn (if you're concerned about crime rate) or on one of the mats outside 6) Harbor or Town (respectively)- The Lecturer Arrives or The Language School Opens The lecturer is slow, protect him as best you can. Click links for more details. 7) Main Plaza - Gaijin & Geisha Your target should be strong enough to not die so long as you kill the Prajnas fast enough. 8) Main Plaza - Chief Minister Onsen Kinugawa Auto event but don't draw your sword, but you can enjoy a random comment or two. 9) Magistrate - The Might of the Demonscales Simple fight, beat Akagi and Kogure. 10) Magistrate - The Chief Minister & The Three Sisters Just agree with him, easier that way... 11) Main Plaza - Preparing for the Battle Tournament Agree to help Moro, and fight off Akagi and Kogure

-auto event The Chief Minister's Big Move12) Magistrate - Imperial Sword Seems you are worthy to be under Kotobuki's name... yay! 13) Main Plaza - Battle Tournament Opens and We Are the Champions After winning the 3 rounds in the tournament, leave the tournament grounds saying "I wish to be excused" 14) Magistrate - A Dark Will After Moro gets up, you'll be given a chance to leave as well. Do so. 15) Magistrate - Patriots Simple plot event, sets up the plan 16) Shrine - The Three Kataneers Love J.J.'s definition of stealth ... anyways just fight your way and beat Akagi and Kogure. 17) Shrine - Hikaru Kotobuki, Military Man Be aware of the cannons, overall this is an easy final fight imo.

Setting Off to Foreign Lands

Basic: Side with the foreigners and agree to leave with Laura

My Method: 1) Harbor - Amihama Harbor Skirmish -Doesn't matter what you 1st say, when Akagi takes Laura hostage say "Take your hands off her!" follow the flow of combat, but don't take out the 2 Prajnas manning the cannon during the fight with Akagi. 2) Little Britain - Audience with the Littlest Public Servant Simple intro event 3) Little Britain - The Telegraph Simple event followed by a simple fight. 4) Consulate (Little Britain) - Killing Casual Killing Another simple killing event -If the hospital is CLOSED and you want to keep it closed, skip the next event by sleeping either at the inn (if you're concerned about crime rate) or on one of the mats outside 5) Little Britain or Consulate - OWH (Occupy Western Hospital) or Hooray! The Hospital's Grand Opening Easy events, not much too them. 6) Consulate (Little Britain) - A Dumpling Tale Simple plot event, agree and beat up the thugs that attack

-If the casino is CLOSED and you want to keep it closed, skip the next event by sleeping either at the inn (if you're concerned about crime rate) or on one of the mats outside 7) Harbor/ Casino - Rising Sun or Hurrying to Rebuild the Casino Simple and easy events. 8) Main Plaza - Chief Minister Onsen Kinugawa Auto event but don't draw your sword, but you can enjoy a random comment or two. 9) Little Britain - The Little Public Servant & The Big Minister Plot event, nothing for you to do make comments if you want. 10) Consulate (Little Britain) - The Ambassador Collapses After the event head to town and get the medicine from the Pharmacy at the north end (west of the Eatery). Head right back, fight the ronin along the way if you want but you do have to beat the Prajnas at the end. 11) Little Britain - A Risky Gamble Purely plot event, not sure why he'd want any of those sisters let alone all of them... -auto event The Chief Minister's Big Move12) Consulate (Little Britain) - The Eastern Knight Unlike the other 2 factions Laura just wishes you luck. 13) Main Plaza - Battle Tournament Opens and We Are the Champions After winning the 3 rounds in the tournament, leave the tournament grounds saying "I wish to be excused" 14) Consulate (Little Britain) - Wasted Wish After events, delivery Laura message to the Prajnas in front of the cave. 15) Main Plaza - Kinugawa's Evil Influence The fight with Akagi is simple enough. Once you're dealing with the demonscales though you have to protect Laura. I found the best method is to eat chocolate or an Asura Mushroom and just let lose with spring harvest. Every 5 or so kills use the L1 + R1 to stop the spring harvest to see if you've managed enough kills with the event ending. 16) Black Ship - Twilight On Board Plot event, do nothing and you get this ending.

Samurai Straight

Basic: Side with the foreigners and either let Laura die or jump off the ship

My Method:

1) Harbor - Amihama Harbor Skirmish -Doesn't matter what you 1st say, when Akagi takes Laura hostage say "Take your hands off her!" follow the flow of combat, but don't take out the 2 Prajnas manning the cannon during the fight with Akagi. 2) Little Britain - Audience with the Littlest Public Servant Simple intro event 3) Little Britain - The Telegraph Simple event followed by a simple fight. 4) Consulate (Little Britain) - Killing Casual Killing Another simple killing event -If the hospital is CLOSED and you want to keep it closed, skip the next event by sleeping either at the inn (if you're concerned about crime rate) or on one of the mats outside 5) Little Britain or Consulate - OWH (Occupy Western Hospital) or Hooray! The Hospital's Grand Opening Easy events, not much too them. 6) Consulate (Little Britain) - A Dumpling Tale Simple plot event, agree and beat up the thugs that attack -If the casino is CLOSED and you want to keep it closed, skip the next event by sleeping either at the inn (if you're concerned about crime rate) or on one of the mats outside 7) Harbor/ Casino - Rising Sun or Hurrying to Rebuild the Casino Simple and easy events. 8) Main Plaza - Chief Minister Onsen Kinugawa Auto event but don't draw your sword, but you can enjoy a random comment or two. 9) Little Britain - The Little Public Servant & The Big Minister Plot event, nothing for you to do make comments if you want. 10) Consulate (Little Britain) - The Ambassador Collapses After the event head to town and get the medicine from the Pharmacy at the north end (west of the Eastery). Head right back, fight the ronin along the way if you want but you do have to beat the Prajnas at the end. 11) Little Britain - A Risky Gamble Purely plot event, not sure why he'd want any of those sisters let alone all of them... -auto event The Chief Minister's Big Move12) Consulate (Little Britain) - The Eastern Knight Unlike the other 2 factions Laura just wishes you luck. 13) Main Plaza - Battle Tournament Opens and We Are the Champions After winning the 3 rounds in the tournament, leave the tournament grounds saying "I wish to be excused" 14) Consulate (Little Britain) - Wasted Wish

After events, delivery Laura message to the Prajnas in front of the cave. 15) Main Plaza - Kinugawa's Evil Influence I'd suggest after you defeat Akagi to simply let Laura die. If this doesn't agree with you then save her, and during Twilight On Board say "I can't leave yet" 16) Magistrate - The Raid Fight your way to the upper floors, there the 3 sisters greet you and you gotta deal with them.

As a Demonscale

Basic: Enter the tournament as an independent.

My Method: 1) Harbor Amihama Harbor Skirmish or After the Storm Doesn't matter if you participate in the skirmish or not. 2) .. anyways, sleep until Day 3 daytime. 3) Main Plaza - Chief Minister Onsen Kinugawa Auto event but don't draw your sword, but you can enjoy a random comment or two. 4) again sleep, daytime day 4 -auto event The Chief Minister's Big Move5) Town - Idle Chatter Auto plot event. 6) Main Plaza - Battle Tournament Opens and We Are the Champions After winning the 3 rounds in the tournament, the ending will auto kick in

Boiled Samurai

Basic: Side with any of the 3 sides and during the tournament climb the stairs to the other "winners"

My Method: Do events for any one side until the tournament if you want a step by step follow any of the other endings: Fevered Spirits, The Flames of Prajna, Road to Ruin, A

Change of Heart, Setting Off to Foreign Lands, Samurai Straight. Doesn't matter who you side with just pick a colour and go. 1) Main Plaza - Battle Tournament Opens and We Are the Champions After winning the 3 rounds in the tournament go up the stairs and be a "winner"!

The Chief Minister Lived

Basic: Start down The Light of Hope ending but fail in any way.

My Method: This is the fastest method to get the ending, not the only way though. 1) Harbor - Amihama Harbor Skirmish -Say "Fight! Fight and win!" to Akemi, then "Take your hands off her!" to Akagi. During the fight with Akagi you must kill the 2 prajnas manning the cannon! I suggest doing this by holding down L2 to free run and attack one of the 2, they'll stand up and draw their sword so fight them normally then do the same for the 2nd one. 2) Harbor - Meeting with the Three Sisters Just beat them, same scene as above 3) Main Plaza - A Speedy Arrival All you have to do is beat Kotobuki here. 4) Shrine - Praying for Recovery Kill Akagi, then Kogure (who is somewhat upset with your actions) 5) Main Plaza - Plot to Assassinate the Chief Minister Once you agree to help Kotobuki you're off to fight Kinugawa

Events Below is a list of all events, choices within and what may be required for the event to happen. Before each section I have a small chart which is setup to look like what you see in the events menu option under journal.

Day 1

Day 1 events are mostly intros to the various characters of each faction. Daytime Samurai On Board

Amihama Harbor Skirmish After the Storm

Evening Violent Behavior Encounter with the of the Marine "Patriots" Corps The Magistrate's Hikaru Kotobuki's Offices Explorer's Club Audience with the Littlest Public The Telegraph Servant All Wrapped Up

Night Sneaking into the Magistrate's Office Stop the Opium Smugglers Killing Casual Killing

Samurai On Board Place: Harbor Time: Daytime Description: Take a tour of Amihama The unavoidable event that eventually doesn't even happen... This is basically the boat ride into town where you can speak to the driver or yourself asking questions about the town. If you're 1st starting ask all of them, otherwise you'll likely simply skip this event.

Amihama Harbor Skirmish Place: Harbor Time: Daytime Description: Participate in the conflict. After getting off the boat approach the crowd in the harbor. After the 1st two scenes, you're given a choice of what to say: 1st choice "What would you have me do?" gives you the full tutorial helping you figure out combat, 2nd choice "It would be futile to interfere." skips the tutorial but is basically the same. A 3rd option appears after your 1st few playthoughs saying "Fight! Fight and win!", this option makes it so you fight Akagi, Melinda then Kotobuki one after another after the normal parts of this event.

After beating a few groups of Prajnas you have to confront Akagi who now has Laura. The 1st option "Take your hands off her!" has you save her, the 2nd ("You cowards...") and 3rd ("Let me in on this!") makes Kotobuki jump in. If you do the later you can side with Kotobuki or Akagi. Fight till the end and people will try to recruit you depending on who you ended up helping (I suggest saving Laura since everyone will try even though you went against Akagi). To get the hidden path during this event while fighting Akagi you can kill the 2 Prajnas who are manning the cannon. After a cutscene you need to finish off Akagi, fight Melinda then Kotobuki. Finally the 3 sisters arrive and you have to beat all of them. This set you off to a totally different set of events where you arrives at either The Light of Hope ending or The Chief Minister Lived ending.

After the Storm Place: Harbor Time: Daytime Description: Ignore the dispute. After getting off the boat, you need to hug the building avoiding the crowd and head north to the exit to the town. After completing this re-enter the harbor to see the aftermath of the battle. You can quick travel away as well, if you don't mind losing the vitality.

Encounter with the "Patriots" Place: Shrine Time: Daytime Description: Day 1 - Head to the cave. After meeting Akagi at the entrance to the cave you can go to the back to have an intro to him and Kogure, then it changes to the Toasty Truth Bar to introduce Akemi.

The Magistrate's Offices Place: Magistrate Time: Daytime

Description: Day 1 - Visit the Magistrate's Office. Requirement: You must participate in the Amihama Harbor Skirmish event and either save Laura or side with Kotobuki. Another intro event so no combat, proves that Kotobuki is a little weird though...

Audience with the Littlest Public Servant Place: Little Britain Time: Daytime Description: Day 1 - Visit the Consulate. Requirement: In Amihama Harbor Skirmish save Laura. The final intro, again no combat.

All Wrapped Up Place: Little Britain Time: Daytime Description: Beg forgiveness from the Prajnas. Requirement: During Amihama Harbor Skirmish talk to a Prajnas and select the 2nd option "Heeelp! I don't wanna die!". They leave you to die on the tracks in Little Britain, and you will die unless Dojima is not the smith. If he isn't you can call out to him and he'll save you... for a fee, all your swords equipped. If you want to fill this spot in be sure to start the game with no swords or a really crappy one. The exact text to get him to save you is:   

3 times of the 1st 2 options "Save me!" or "Somebody! Help!" to get his attention When asked "Please save me." Finally "I'll give you whatever you want!"

Your swords will be gone but you will be alive

From there this is the only event in which you can go backwards to get the event After the Storm.

Violent Behavior of the Marine Corps Place: Toasty Truth Bar Time: Evening Description: Day 1 - Visit the bar in town. After entering the bar approach the 3 marines harassing Akemi, and tell them "Stop what you're doing." Outside you have to fight them 1st with swords, and then a second time with them using their rifles. However if you draw a weapon other then a katana they'll not it's not a sword then right away draw their rifles. I did this with claws, would have to experiment to say what other things work but I'd guess any weapon under the other category would work.

Hikaru Kotobuki's Explorer's Club Place: Main Plaza Time: Evening Description: Day 1 - Accompany Kotobuki in his search. He'll ask you to him to explore the Shrine area. After agreeing you, Kotobuki and 3 thief-takers start at the beginning of the shrine and slowly walk until you find the Prajnas. Mid way though you can say to Kotobuki "I'm running ahead" to speed things along. You end up fighting a bunch of normal Prajnas , after the fight Kotobuki thanks you gives you a reward and seems to give the Shrine back to the Prajnas... When you unlock the option of play as a female, when 1st starting this event you can then say "Actually I'm a women" this bums out Kotobuki and cancels out the event. While somewhat comical this actually counts as failing the event.

The Telegraph Place: Little Britain

Time: Evening Description: Day 1 - Participate in Laura's experiment. Once you say you're interested in the experiment you Moro in the harbor before having to rush back to save Laura. Simple combat ensues against a few Prajnas.

Sneaking into the Magistrate's Office Place: Shrine Time: Night Description: Day 1 - Go along with Akagi's plans. Stealing weapons sounds like something that should be where you sneak around... I suggest not trying to sneak during this. After Akagi kills the 1st look out, draw your sword and kill the 2 lookouts that get in our way (one is near the entrance to the Magistrate office, you can ignore him). You'll see the 1st on west of the entrance, he doesn't move but if he sees you you might get into combat anyways. The final one roams, from beyond the storehouse in the north to the main gate. With the lookouts killed you can pick up the crates with square and run them to the exit. Each crate you get gives you some money, most I've gotten is 1500 mon. Also worth noting after the 1st crate you get end the event successfully by running back Akagi and saying that it's enough.

Stop the Opium Smugglers Place: Harbor Time: Night Description: Day 1 - Participate in the defense of the harbor. After the deal goes down the foreigners claims diplomatic immunity. If you do nothing he gets away and you get a reward of 500 mon. For the full reward draw your sword and just attack the foreigner. You'll take him and the buyer down and get 1500 mon, with Kotobuki saying he didn't see anything.

Killing Casual Killing

Place: Consulate Time: Night Description: Day 1 - Listen to J.J.'s request. Not much to this event, J.J. just watches as you massacre the 10 attackers. This event offers the ability to easily earn the "get 10 kills with spring harvest" requirement for moves for a style.

Day 2

Todays events are all about setting up and destroying the 3 facilities: the hospital, the language school and the casino. So each playthough you can close/ open all 3. Daytime A Deceptive Price Denying Western Medicine Plan to Shut Down the Hospital OWH (Occupy Western Hospital) Hooray! The Hospital's Grand Opening

Evening We Don't Need No Stinkin' Language School!

Night Destroy the Casino

The Lecturer Is a Dead Man

Put an End to the Casino's Reconstruction

The Lecturer Arrives

Gaijin & Geisha

The Language School Opens Rising Sun A Dumpling Tale

Hurrying to Rebuild the Casino

A Deceptive Price Place: Toast Truth Bar Time: Daytime Description: Day 2 - Head out to take down Kenzaki Simple event accept by saying "As you wish.", then run out and kill Kenzaki and the 2 Prajnas to get your 1500 mon reward. If you want to make things easier talk to Kogure and say "Let's do this", he scares the 2 Prajnas away and the two of you can kill Kenzaki together. The down side is the reward becomes 500 mon instead.

Denying Western Medicine Place: Magistrate Time: Daytime Description: Day 2 - Accept the three sisters' request. Requirement: The hospital must be closed. After you arrive in Little Britain you'll be confronted by a few marines. To succeed at this event fight them. After this you'll fight Melinda in the hospital itself.

Plan to Shut Down the Hospital Place: Magistrate Time: Daytime Description: Day 2 - Accept the three sisters' request. Requirement: The hospital must be open. You'll be on the road for this one, re-claiming the money to be used for the hospital. Again you fight Melinda for the money itself.

OWH (Occupy Western Hospital) Place: Consulate Time: Daytime Description: Day 2 - Accept Laura's request Requirement: Hospital closed. After going to the entrance of the hospital you'll have to fight the protester's "sensei". Despite what you say to Laura you seem required to kill him. After this you go into the hospital, tell them instead "This hospital will help save lives" to get them to let the hospital be opened.

Hooray! The Hospital's Grand Opening Place: Little Britain Time: Daytime Description: Day 2 - Visit the hospital Requirement: Hospital is open. Melinda will confront you on the road, say you're there to help and what seems like 15-20 bandits will attack to take the money. Fight them you need to kill most of them for them to run off. This is another event where earning the "get 10 kills in spring harvest" is a lot easier to get with so many enemies right there.

We Don't Need No Stinkin' Language School! Place: Shrine Time: Evening Description: Day 2 - Take part in the plot to kill the lecturer. Requirement: Language school is closed. Despite the name once you attack the group at the harbor you need to defeat all the named enemies (Melinda, Moro and Kotobuki) not the lecturer himself. Once they're all defeated the lecturer chooses to leave. I've attempted to just kill the lecturer and he seems immortal during this event.

The Lecturer Is a Dead Man Place: Shrine Time: Evening Description: Day 2 - Take part in the plot to kill the lecturer. Requirement: Language school is open. Unlike the above event this event we want to just attack the lecturer himself. After a few attacks he should go down. Since the lecturer doesn't have a sword you need to hold down R2 to free run and be able to attack him.

The Lecturer Arrives Place: Town Time: Evening Description: Day 2 - Meet with Moro. Requirement: Language school is closed. This one is annoying. The lecturer has a limited amount of health, you need to make sure he follows you and you'll succeed by getting him to the bridge to town in the north west corner. To get him to follow you speak with him in battle and select "Follow me!". I do suggest since you start on the docks use your spring harvest to deal with the beginning Prajnas and depending on the difficulty you might want to finish off Kogure and Akagi. Once you get away from the main fight a few Prajnas will show up now and again, and since the lecturer is slow be sure to keep your eye on him as you run to the town.

The Language School Opens Place: Town Time: Evening Description: Day 2 - Meet with Moro. Requirement: Language school is open.

Not nearly as bad as getting him though the harbour, but basically the same: Tell the lecturer to follow you and going clockwise from the language school (cause of barriers) get to the main plaza area.

A Dumpling Tale Place: Consulate Time: Evening Description: Day 2 - Listen to Laura's request Laura takes you to the back roads and the event is basically dealing with a group of thugs who attack, simple clean and easy.

Destroy the Casino Place: Shrine Time: Night Description: Day 2 - Aid in the destruction of the casino. Requirement: Casino is open. Simple fight in the middle of the casino, you fight J.J. and a group of his casino guards.

Put an End to the Casino's Reconstruction Place: Shrine Time: Night Description: Day 2 - Prevent the rebuilding of the casino. Requirement: Casino is closed. Select "I'm Ready!" to start the event which is like the above event but outside the casino. Marines also the fight so prepared to be shoot a bit as them in addition to J.J.'s shooting.

When you regain control of your character you can right away attack J.J. or someone on his side to start the battle if you wish.

Gaijin & Geisha Place: Main Plaza Time: Night Description: Day 2 - Serve as escort for a VIP. Another protect mission. I don't know at this point of Moro's VIP can be killed, I'd assume so. Either way this is a quick fight against a group of Prajnas.

Rising Sun Place: Casino Time: Night Description: Day 2 - Meet with J.J. Requirement: Casino is open Basically playing games with J.J. until the Prajnas come to destroy the casino. Fight them off and save the casino.

Hurrying to Rebuild the Casino Place: Harbor Time: Night Description: Day 2 - Meet with J.J. Requirement: Casino is closed Outside of the casino as you might imagine you're going to be fighting of the Prajnas to help open the casino.

Day 3

Day 3 we get some revelations about some of the main characters as they prepare for the tournament. All Daytime Chief Minister Washing Blood Onsen With Blood Kinugawa The Might of the Demonscales

Evening Kill the Traitor

The Chief Minister & The Three Sisters

The Little Public The Ambassador Servant & The Big Collapses Minister Clash At Midday

Night At the Cemetery, In Planned Raid the Night The Truth Break the Snare Preparing for the Battle Tournament A Risky Gamble

Chief Minister Onsen Kinugawa Place: Main Plaza Time: All Description: Day 3 - Mingle with the crowd. Intro scenes for Kinugawa, he announces the tournament here. This event must happen, if you sleep/ get arrested or w/e to skip time you need to do this the next day.

Washing Blood With Blood Place: Shrine Time: Daytime Description: Day 3 - Meet with Akagi A simple fight event, named enemies are Kotobuki and the 3 sisters. You only need to beat Kotobuki and one of the sisters (the other 2 will run away).

The Might of the Demonscales

Place: Magistrate Time: Daytime Description: Day 3 - Kotobuki on his rounds. After killing a few normal Prajnas you need to take out Kogure and Akagi.

The Little Public Servant & The Big Minister Place: Little Britain Time: Daytime Description: Day 3 - Visit Kinugawa with Laura. Simply plot event not much to it, no combat just talk.

Clash At Midday Place: Town Time: Daytime Description: Day 3 - Wander into town. Requirement: Refuse to help in either events Washing Blood With Blood or The Might of the Demonscales and enter town. Select "I am providing backup...but not to you" to side with Akagi or "I am at your service, Kotobuki." to side with Kotobuki. The event then runs like Washing Blood With Blood or The Might of the Demonscales but in mid battle (you still get a reward at the end). Select the middle ground "I'm just ing through" Makes it so you simply fail the event.

Kill the Traitor Place: Toasty Truth Bar Time: Evening

Description: Day 3 - Meet with Akemi. Talk event that sets up the next 2 Prajnas events in the night.

The Chief Minister & The Three Sisters Place: Magistrate Time: Evening Description: Day 3 - Meet with Kotobuki. Purely talking event, haven't said I disagree with the torture the sisters/ Kinugawa enjoy but I doubt they'd attack you.

The Ambassador Collapses Place: Consulate Time: Evening Description: Day 3 - Meet with J.J. Laura needs medicine, so head to town and the pharmacy in the north end of the city (west of the Eatery). After getting the medicine on you way back Yakuza/ thugs will attempt to steal the medicine from you if you let them finish what they're saying. So just run all the way back to the consulate (unless you want to fight them...) where some Prajnas will attack you. After you defeat them Laura takes her medicine and goes soundly asleep.

At the Cemetery, In the Night Place: Cemetery Time: Night Description: Day 3 - Visit the cemetery. Requirement: Do not see the event Kill the Traitor Basically you find Akemi in the cemetery alone. The only thing this event could enable is to night crawl with Akemi if you've met the conditions to do so.

The Truth Place: Cemetery Time: Night Description: Day 3 - Visit the Cemetery. Requirement: Have seen the event Kill the Traitor Akemi is seen speaking with the 3 sisters, as you approach her you're given options to speak if you pretend you didn't hear anything she'll simply leave. If you say "I heard everything." you have to fight her.

Planned Raid Place: Harbor Time: Night Description: Day 3 - Meet with Akagi. Requirement: Do not see the event Kill the Traitor Here you 1st need to kill Moro, followed by fighting off the 3 sisters and a lot of demonscales.

Break the Snare Place: Harbor Time: Night Description: Day 3 - Meet with Akagi Requirement: See the event Kill the Traitor If you did the event The Truth you can inform Akagi that Akemi by saying "Stop Fighting!" then "This is clearly a trap!" and finally "Akemi is a Shogunate spy!" changing the fight to be just against a bunch of demonscales. Otherwise you're basically doing the same as Planned Raid. You get a 1500 mon reward at the end.

Preparing for the Battle Tournament Place: Main Plaza Time: Night Description: Day 3 - Visit the construction site. After you agree to help Moro Akagi and Kogure continue to cause trouble by attacking you. Again fight them off to end the event.

A Risky Gamble Place: Little Britain Time: Night Description: Day 3 - Meet with J.J. Purely a plot event to explain some things later.

Day 4/Tournament

The tournament itself!

The Chief Minister's Big Move

Daytime Blades of the Patriots Imperial Sword The Eastern Knight Idle Chatter

The Chief Minister's Big Move Place: none Time: Daytime

All Battle Tournament Opens

Evening/Night We Are the Champions

Final Warning

Description: Spend more than 4 days in Amihama. An auto event that happens on the morning of the 4th day (or the day the tournament is to start if you skipped Chief Minister Onsen Kinugawa )

Blades of the Patriots Place: Shrine Time: Daytime Description: Day 4+ - Meet with Akagi Requirement: Do enough Prajnas events Plot event, you just agree to go into the tournament under the Prajnas name by saying "Leave it to me!".

Imperial Sword Place: Inside Magistrate's Time: Daytime Description: Day 4+ - Meet with Kotobuki Requirement: Do enough Magistrate events Kotobuki gives you the honor of entering the tournament under his name.

The Eastern Knight Place: Consulate Time: Daytime Description: Day 4+ - Meet with Laura Requirement: Do enough Foreigner events. Like the others Laura gives you her blessing before the tournament

Idle Chatter Place: Town Time: Daytime Description: Day 4+ - Swagger your way into the town. Requirement: Don't meet the required events for any of the 3 factions (like if you where to sleep though each of the 1st 3 days). Small plot event, not much to it.

Battle Tournament Opens Place: Main Plaza Time: All Description: Day 4+ - Visit the tournament grounds at midday. Enter the tournament on the west side of the grounds (across from the exit to Town). The tournament opponents are determined by which faction you sided with before. During the tournament you can give up by talking to your opponent and selecting the 2nd option. As well if for whatever reason you don't wish to kill your opponent you can deplete their stamina, speak with them and a 3rd option "I call this match" will appear, this ends the fight with your opponent still alive.

We Are the Champions Place: Main Plaza Time: Evening Description: Ace three rounds in the battle tournament. There are 2 endings associated with this event Boiled Samurai happens if you did side with one of the 3 factions and you choice to ascent the stairs with the other "winners". As a Demonscale happens auto if you entered as an independent (previous event being Idle Chatter).

To continue the plot and go for the other endings after winning the 3rd round exit the tournament grounds to the west, when asked select the option "I wish to be excused."

Final Warning Place: Harbor Time: Daytime Description: Give up in the battle tournament. Requirement: During one of the 3 rounds in the battle tournament, talk selecting the 2nd option "I give up". Toguro the non-unique black mask will tell you to leave Amihama. If you refuse him twice he'll leave then, but every night in each area several black masks will attack you. Only way to end the game after this event is to choice to leave the city or die.

Normal Ending Events

These are the after tournament events, apart from a few choices in these events you're pretty set in what you're doing. Events Loss of Nerve

Endings Raiding the Mutual Rescue Consulate

The Samurai Spirit

The Flames of Prajna Fevered Spirits

A Dark Will

Wasted Wish

Chief Minister Annihilation of Black Ship At War the Prajnas In Hand The Three Patriots Kataneers Kinugawa's Twilight On Evil Influence Board The Raid

Shigeru Moro, Road to Ruin Swordsman Hikaru Kotobuki, A Change of Military Man Heart Setting Off to Foreign Lands Samurai Straight

Loss of Nerve Place: Shrine Time: All Description: Meet with Akagi after the tournament. Requirement: Side with Prajnas during tournament. Simple plot event once you agree saying "Absolutely. Let's get this show on the road!" it leads you to the magistrates exterior... You're fighting lots of Constables and demonscales here. 1st outside, once you kill enough you move inside where you need the key. It'll on the Demonscale general, who has demon masks on but otherwise looks like a standard demonscale member. N ext head to the torture chamber on the west side of the map (you need to open the door with the general's key)

Mutual Rescue Place: Magistrate Time: Daytime Description: Set off to rescue the captured Prajnas. Requirement: Complete Loss of Nerve Continue from above you have to get out of here. You have to use the south exit, the north doesn't work. Also it seems the angle that you can hit to use the door is weird, so just keep hitting X on the door it'll let you out eventually. Outside now you have to simply leave, the south exit of the compound is closed so go clockwise around the building to the north exit then to the main plaza exit. You end up getting award, not sure if it changes based on how you do things, I got 3000... if anything changes it I'd imagine how many of the prisoners dying would be key.

Raiding the Consulate Place: Inn Time: All

Description: Initiate a raid upon the consulate. Requirement: Complete Mutual Rescue Agree to the attack by saying "Anytime." or say "Let me make some preparations first..." if you wish to repair your weapon, get items, save etc. This is the last chance to save before either Prajnas endings. The battle itself starts in Little Britain. Melinda will stand against you if still alive, otherwise a generic New Commander (literally her name...) with a unique fighting style fights you. Once you're in the consulate you either fight J.J. in the event The Samurai Spirit or you fight Madara if you missed the events Kill the Traitor and The Truth to kill her previously (getting you the ending Fevered Spirits).

The Samurai Spirit Place: Consulate Time: Evening Description: Settle the score with J.J. Requirement: Compete Raiding the Consulate and have previous killed Madara/Akemi in the event The Truth. You can fight J.J. one or one by saying "You two... leave this one to me." or as a group by saying "Quit your bellyaching and fight like a man!" ... either way it's one on one... (note that the J.J. fight may be considered part of Raiding the Consulate but it's easier to put it here). After you beat him you fight the 3 sisters and Kotobuki in the main hall of the consulate. This is followed by the ending sequence of The Flames of Prajna.

A Dark Will Place: Magistrate Time: All Description: Meet with the three sisters after the tournament Requirement: Side with Magistrate during the tournament A plot event, when Moro leaves you can choice to as well. This determines which ending you get from the magistrates.

Chief Minister At War Place: Consulate Time: Daytime Description: Endorse Kinugawa's plan. Requirement: During A Dark Will stay during the event. Simple plot event, what could possible go wrong with giving Kinugawa cannons.....

Patriots Place: Magistrate Time: Daytime Description: Oppose Kinugawa's plan. Requirement: During A Dark Will leave when Moro does. Plot event, sets up your plan to ensure Kinugawa does no more evil.

Annihilation of the Prajnas Place: Shrine Time: All Description: Eliminate the Prajnas. Requirement: Complete Chief Minister At War You're attacking/ destroying the Prajnas. I found this event really annoying since cannons are constantly attacking everyone. But it is a simple combat kill everyone event ending with killing the leaders Kogure and Akagi.

The Three Kataneers Place: Shrine

Time: All Description: Endorse Moro's idea. Requirement: Complete Patriots Instead of attacking the Prajnas with an army J.J., Moro and you end up attacking them with just the 3 of you. I found it a lot easier then with the army since you cannons to hurt you.

Black Ship In Hand Place: Consulate Time: Evening Description: Destroy the Prajna base. Requirement: Complete Annihilation of the Prajnas Simple plot event, and if only Laura wasn't so trusting...

Shigeru Moro, Swordsman Place: Inside the Black Ship Time: Night Description: Defend the Black Ship. Requirement: Complete Black Ship In Hand This is a one on one fight with Moro. He uses a waki (side) stance sword, so it's a little different but is simple enough.

Hikaru Kotobuki, Military Man Place: Shrine Time: Night Description: Take over the Prajnas' base with Moro.

Requirement: Complete The Three Kataneers You meet Kotobuki at the entrance to the shrine and have to take him out despite just finishing his job. This is simple enough ultimately but the cannon can prove fatal if you continue to ignore them hitting you.

Wasted Wish Place: Consulate Time: All Description: Meet with Laura after the tournament Requirement: Side with the foreigners during the tournament. After J.J.'s demise you're to deliver Laura message to Akagi. A Prajnas member will be outside the cave, tell him you have a message then you can return to the consulate to continue to the next event.

Kinugawa's Evil Influence Place: Main Plaza Time: Evening Description: Emerge victorious in the battle against the Prajnas. Requirement: Complete Wasted Wish This is a the 2nd worst event in the game. The 1st part against the Prajnas isn't so bad, beat Akagi (likely Kogure as well if you didn't kill him in the tournament). After this you have to deal with a lot of demonscales, which wouldn't be bad if you didn't need to protect Laura during this. I recommend eating chocolate and just killing as fast as possible, after every 5-10 end your spring harvest to see if the event will end (it doesn't mid spring harvest). Also use free run (R2) to check on Laura, after being hit once she goes to the ground, so try to attack her attackers then... she can die from your attacks as well as enemy attacks! So you may want to use a style that doesn't have a wide area of attack.

Twilight On Board

Place: Black Ship Time: Daytime Description: Listen to Laura's request. Requirement: Save Laura during Kinugawa's Evil Influence Purely plot event, if you do nothing you get the ending Setting Off to Foreign Lands you can also say you won't leave leading to the event...

The Raid Place: Magistrate Time: All Description: Meet with the three sisters after Kinugawa's Evil Influence. Requirement: Leave the ship during Twilight On Board or fail to save Laura during Kinugawa's Evil Influence. 1 man (or women) makes the choice to end Kinugawa. Simple battle against Constables/ demonscales until the inner most room. Here you find the 3 sisters, and have to fight them to end up with the ending Samurai Straight

Hidden Events

You can't see these events at 1st but they're below the initial events starting at day one and going all the way across the screen. Meetin g with the Three Sisters

A Praying Abilit Speed for y to y Recover Lead Arrival y

Down for the Count

The Sting of Hatre d

Dice of Destin y

Strik Pursuit of In Need of Rescuin e in A Day at Knowled Encourageme g the the the Spa ge nt Count Dark

The Sad Boat Home

Plot to Assassina te the Chief Minister

Cause of size a continuation of events that are exclusive to The Light of Hope Ending, note that A Day at the Spa is a single event, I just copied it down to better show where we're continuing. A Day at Laura's the Spa Determination

The Fighting Rescuing Spirit Never Dies Laura

In Pursuit of Kinugawa

Black Ship Battle

Meeting with the Three Sisters Place: Harbor Time: Daytime Description: Calm the violent waves. Requirement: During Amihama Harbor Skirmish select "Fight! Fight and win!", and while fighting Akagi kill the 2 Prajnas men who are manning the cannon. This is the fight with the 3 sisters, so pretty much the same scene as Amihama Harbor Skirmish just the extension.

A Speedy Arrival Place: Main Plaza Time: All Description: Mingle with the Crowd. Much like the announcement of the tournament just the crowd to start this event. After the conversation you're in a fight with Kotobuki and a bunch of demonscales, all you need to continue after this is beating Kotobuki.

Praying for Recovery Place: Shrine Time: All Description: Save Akagi's life This happens right after the above, after the doctor says there isn't anything to be done if the hospital is open you can suggest bringing him to the British hospital

("Let's take him to a British hospital."), or if it isn't (or you aren't interested in getting The Light of Hope) ending you can say "It's just a flesh wound. He'll be fine!" and Akagi will end up dying. Also if you want to get the ending The Chief Minister Lived attacking Akagi here will kill him instantly and jump you right into that ending (you will have to kill Kogure as well for obvious reasons).

Ability to Lead Place: Shrine Time: All Description: Check on Kogure. Requirement: Hospital open, have brought Akagi to the hospital in Praying for Recovery. Kogure can't lead, this is made clear right away. Doesn't really matter what you say, the demonscales (along with rifle equipped infantry) will attack and once they're dealt with Kogure will ask you to check on J.J.

The Sting of Hatred Place: Shrine Time: All Description: Confirm Akagi's death. Requirement: Kill Akagi in Praying for Recovery by not taking him to the British hospital. The event is basically a one on one fight with Kogure to the death, you can't convince Kogure to stop the fight in this.

Down for the Count Place: Inside Black Ship Time: All

Description: Check on J.J. Requirement: The casino must be closed. J.J. is depressed. Say "Certainly not cooped up in here!" and he'll follow you. Leave the Black Ship by the boat to the Harbor. From there take him to the restaurant on the west side of the map "Sushi-ya", when he asks what it is say: "It's a very stimulating place.".

Dice of Destiny Place: Casino Time: All Description: Meet with J.J. at the casino. Requirement: Casino must be open. J.J. has two bodyguards tormenting a poor villager... so tell them to stop and you'll end up killing the bodyguards before taking out J.J. himself. This event may be the only means to get J.J.'s gun, though I could be wrong about that...

Strike in the Dark Place: Shrine Time: All Description: Meet with Kogure Requirement: Saved Akagi in Praying for Recovery Kogure will decide he can't lead with words but with action, so he decides killing Moro would help the Prajnas out. We won't want that to happen, so head into Town towards the Language School. During the event speak with Kogure and tell him:  

"Let's not be hasty, Kogure..." then "But it's true, isn't it? About Akagi?"

This start a fight with Kogure so using the back of your sword deplete his vitality, once done you can tell him "You've lost, Kogure!" to end the event.

Pursuit of Knowledge Place: Language School Time: Daytime Description: Lead Kogure to Moro. Requirement: Defeat Kogure using the back of your sword during Strike in the Dark and tell him he's lost. A slightly comical event imo, followed by a fight with some demonscales... simple and easy.

In Need of Encouragement Place: Sushi-ya Time: All Description: Check on J.J. Requirement: Completed Down for the Count Doesn't matter what you say, poor J.J. will end up getting arrested for making rather weird looking sushi.

The Sad Boat Home Place: Harbor Time: All Description: See off Laura. Requirement: Complete Dice of Destiny Seems weird you'd see Laura off since you where the one to kill the count... but after she's gone Melinda will attack you in a death match, so kill her and continue on to the ending The Chief Minister Lived.

Rescuing the Count Place: Inside Magistrate's Time: All Description: Set off to rescue J.J. Requirement: See In Need of Encouragement After the initial events say to J.J. "I'm here to save you." you have to fight the human pigs who enjoy the tortures they endure. I didn't find them at all threatening but you do have to deal with a lot of them.

A Day at the Spa Place: Main Plaza Time: All Description: Meet with Laura. Requirement: Complete Rescuing the Count The event is when you're finally set into doing The Light of Hope, this is a purely plot event where Kinugawa shows how evil he is.

Plot to Assassinate the Chief Minister Place: Main Plaza Time: All Description: Lose to the gathering of righteous power. Requirement: Fail any of the conditions to get The Light of Hope Ending while on the hidden path. After agreeing to assassinate the chief minister (saying "All affairs are in order.") you end up fighting your him in the Magistrate's office. This gets you the ending The Chief Minister Lived so as you might imagine your efforts don't go so well.

Laura's Determination

Place: Magistrate Time: All Description: Visit Kinugawa with Laura. Speak to Laura outside and say "Let's go. We're in this together.". Laura speak with Kinugawa, she realises how evil he is before you have to fight some demonscales/ get captured. This event links directly to the next one without a chance to save. This event ends with you being in the grasp of the 3 sisters. Basically you have to endure the 3 tortures in a row (see Torture section for details, starting with Hell Horse then Super Rock Press finally Human Waterwheel

The Fighting Spirit Never Dies Place: Inside Magistrate's Time: Night Description: Visit Kinugawa with Laura. This is hell. A fight with all 3 of the sisters and you don't get to keep a single bit of your equipment. Pick one and try to not get hit... every, I don't have good advice for higher difficulties other than having custom stances that can counter what the sisters have equipped. After the fight pick whichever speech option you want, after you have control and all your equipment back to pick up the sisters weapons if you already had them (you drop everything you picked up during the fight). Also this is your last chance to save before the ending, there's a naked camera man in the north jail cell while exiting here.

Rescuing Laura Place: Main Plaza Time: Night Description: Escape from the three sisters. A large series of fights. After the first fight on the ground level you have a cinematic fight with Kinugawa at the end say "Have you lost your honor as a samurai?!", then a larger fight in the plaza below against elite of the demonscales (who will hit closer to a named character then a normal demonscale, so be warned).

In Pursuit of Kinugawa Place: Harbor Time: Daytime Description: Stop the public execution. This is basically the battle with Madara and Toguro, shouldn't be too hard after all you've been though.

Black Ship Battle Place: Harbor Time: Daytime Description: Settle the score with the root of all evil. So Kinugawa just won't die, and he's taken the Black Ship! This is the final fight with Kinugawa. Once he's beaten you've finally earned The Light of Hope ending!

Jobs Below are a list of all jobs, currently I'm focusing on the major jobs not the minor jobs you can get from random people. When you have a job and go to the destination of that job, you'll get a message either saying that the job is on site or not. Generally the reason why a target isn't available is because a plot event is present and you can't have 2 events in a single area (or 2 jobs, you'd have to leave and come back for a 2nd job in the same area). Then your target is present it will be displayed on the mini-map as a target so you can easily find where you need to go.

Sakotsu The 1st of the two massacre mission givers. He's located in the magistrate office near the center of the map by the entrance to the main castle (unless you've completed all of Nodobotoke's mission and he'll be in the horse stalls then).

He gives missions involving killing Yakuza in town. This is extremely helpful for gathering lots of ore as well as Creating an ultimately weapon. I say this cause you can kill the lot of them and at least 35 swords remain on the ground, so if you pick up 10 you should get nearly 50 ore per mission (unless you're doing Underbelly Recon as it caps at 25).

Underbelly Recon Issuer: Sakotsu Destination: Town Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 1250 mon Summary: Improve public order by killing 25 yakuza near the gambling den. How to: To get this mission public order must be very strong. Go to the town area and near the gambling hall in the north-east corner will be a Yakuza, identify yourself as the assassin being the nice samurai you are and let the massacre begin! If you do need/ want to leave mid mission feel free to do so. Though to exit to another map you can't be near any enemies, so either use spring harvest to clear enemies around you (and likely use quick travel before more appear) or run in large circles to hopefully create enough distance to either quick travel or exit normally.

Underbelly Call Issuer: Sakotsu Destination: Town Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 2500 mon Summary: Improve public order by killing 50 yakuza near the gambling den. How to: To get this mission public order must be strong.

Go to the town area and near the gambling hall in the north-east corner will be a Yakuza, identify yourself as the assassin being the nice samurai you are and let the massacre begin! If you do need/ want to leave mid mission feel free to do so. Though to exit to another map you can't be near any enemies, so either use spring harvest to clear enemies around you (and likely use quick travel before more appear) or run in large circles to hopefully create enough distance to either quick travel or exit normally.

Underbelly Attack Issuer: Sakotsu Destination: Town Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 3750 mon Summary: Improve public order by killing 75 yakuza near the gambling den. How to: To get this mission public order must be normal. Go to the town area and near the gambling hall in the north-east corner will be a Yakuza, identify yourself as the assassin being the nice samurai you are and let the massacre begin! If you do need/ want to leave mid mission feel free to do so. Though to exit to another map you can't be near any enemies, so either use spring harvest to clear enemies around you (and likely use quick travel before more appear) or run in large circles to hopefully create enough distance to either quick travel or exit normally.

Underbelly Smash Issuer: Sakotsu Destination: Town Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 5000 mon Summary: Improve public order by killing 100 yakuza near the gambling den. How to: To get this mission public order must be weak or very weak.

Go to the town area and near the gambling hall in the north-east corner will be a Yakuza, identify yourself as the assassin being the nice samurai you are and let the massacre begin! If you do need/ want to leave mid mission feel free to do so. Though to exit to another map you can't be near any enemies, so either use spring harvest to clear enemies around you (and likely use quick travel before more appear) or run in large circles to hopefully create enough distance to either quick travel or exit normally.

Mistress The 2nd of the two massacre mission givers. Located by or in the gambling den in the north-east corner of the town map. Each mission you've given is all about killing 25 to 100 Constables/ government workers. These are normally simply enough, but because the site of the attack is the Magistrate area it is possible to get arrested if a thief-taker/ constable walks in the area, though generally they'll draw their swords themselves anyways. As mentioned in my area overview section to get jobs speak to the Mistress and say:  

"I'm looking for work." "My you're rude. It'll be fun killing you."

To start any of the 4 missions speak to the mistress and say "Death to all government officials!" the mission you get depends on the crime rate, the lower it is the easier the mission will end up being. Also all of these missions reduce public order, so if you want the crime rate to be weak keep doing these.

Government Recon Issuer: Mistress Destination: Magistrate Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 1250 mon Summary: Diminish public order by killing 25 government officials near the magistrate's office. How to: To get this mission public order must be very weak.

Head to the magistrate and speak to your target outside, once you say you're the assassin the government officials will continue to pour in. So kill away! If you do need/ want to leave mid mission feel free to do so. Though to exit to another map you can't be near any enemies, so either use spring harvest to clear enemies around you (and likely use quick travel before more appear) or run in large circles to hopefully create enough distance to either quick travel or exit normally.

Government Call Issuer: Mistress Destination: Magistrate Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 2500 mon Summary: Diminish public order by killing 50 government officials near the magistrate's office. How to: To get this mission public order must be weak. Head to the magistrate and speak to your target outside, once you say you're the assassin the government officials will continue to pour in. So kill away! If you do need/ want to leave mid mission feel free to do so. Though to exit to another map you can't be near any enemies, so either use spring harvest to clear enemies around you (and likely use quick travel before more appear) or run in large circles to hopefully create enough distance to either quick travel or exit normally.

Government Attack Issuer: Mistress Destination: Magistrate Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 3750 mon Summary: Diminish public order by killing 75 government officials near the magistrate's office. How to: To get this mission public order must be normal.

Head to the magistrate and speak to your target outside, once you say you're the assassin the government officials will continue to pour in. So kill away! If you do need/ want to leave mid mission feel free to do so. Though to exit to another map you can't be near any enemies, so either use spring harvest to clear enemies around you (and likely use quick travel before more appear) or run in large circles to hopefully create enough distance to either quick travel or exit normally.

Government Smash Issuer: Mistress Destination: Magistrate Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 5000 mon Summary: Diminish public order by killing 100 government officials near the magistrate's office. How to: To get this mission public order must be strong or very strong. Head to the magistrate and speak to your target outside, once you say you're the assassin the government officials will continue to pour in. So kill away! If you do need/ want to leave mid mission feel free to do so. Though to exit to another map you can't be near any enemies, so either use spring harvest to clear enemies around you (and likely use quick travel before more appear) or run in large circles to hopefully create enough distance to either quick travel or exit normally.

Nodobotoke The magistrate job giver, who's missions are more about protecting him then enforcing the law. Regardless completing his missions does improve the crime rate so it's worth doing a few of his missions each playthough if you need a bit of money. To start his missions speak with him selecting the 1st option twice. All of his missions will have criminals wandering the area, they're dressed in a full black outfit so should be easy enough to spot. Each kill is worth 1000 mon. When you find one speak with him and select the 1st option (it changes) to start a fight.

Subpoena Issuer: Nodobotoke Destination: Town Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 1500 mon Summary: Issue subpoena to the ronin suspected of murder. How to: Kill any criminals if you find them, once done approach your target and speak with the samurai in the back, then speak with one of the people kicking/ yelling at him: 

"I work at the magistrate's office" to get them to leave then speak with the ronin again:

  

"Didn't you kill a government official?" "I'm taking you in to the magistrate's." "The scary constable will be mad at me!" to complete this mission.

Demand Note Issuer: Nodobotoke Destination: Harbor Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 2000 mon Summary: Be wary of the outlaw who refuses to pay his fines, but don't kill him! How to: Kill the bounties if you want, some won't be wandering around, so look in the corners of the map to find those ones, but some still can be walking around. Once you're done climb the stairs to your targets Speak with the bodyguard, Ahara as the lawbreaker is confident until you defeat Ahara. Say:   

"I have something to discuss with your boss." "I don't care about you."

Fight Ahara, I suggest backing away from him to avoid accidentally hitting his boss

After that speak with the lawbreaker and say "Pay up." to compete the mission

Plea Bargain Issuer: Nodobotoke Destination: Cemetery Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 2500 mon Summary: Cut down the scumbag who conducts false transactions. Do not make any transactions. How to: Kill bounties again, once ready approach your target near the bell and either just start attacking him or select which ever speech option (they all seem to end in you letting him know why you're really there) and kill him.

Warning Issuer: Nodobotoke Destination: Harbor Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 3000 mon Summary: Be wary of the outlaw who refuses to pay his fines, but don't kill him! How to: This is literally the same mission as Demand Note, as Ahara has come back from the dead to get you. So again, kill bounties 1st if you want then speak with Ahara and say:    

"You survived?! Damn!" "Whatever."

Beat him again without hurting the lawbreaker, speak with the lawbreaker after: "Consider this a warning." to complete this mission.

Shadow of What Once Was

Issuer: Nodobotoke Destination: Back Roads Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 3500 mon Summary: Cut down Nenza Tsumasaki, former warrior of the magistrate. How to: This is a really easy mission. So 1st thing again, kill those bounties if so you wish. Speak with Tsumasaki near the entrance to the Magistrates area and say (pretty much every 2nd option):         

"Nenza Tsumasaki I presume?" "We'll call that a last resort..." "I'd like to chat for a moment." "You hate the Prajnas, right?" "Do you have any proof?" "Why not just kill the sisters, then?" "Must be tough..." "What do you plan to do now?"

He'll kill himself completing the mission for you.

Time to Pay the Tax Man Issuer: Nodobotoke Destination: Harbor Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 4000 mon Summary: Find the outlaw who refuses to pay his fines and collect the money from him through any means necessary. How to: Kill bounties, kill Ahara and now you can kill the lawbreaker if you want. It's set another copy of Demand Note/Warning

Highly Desired Secret Weapon Issuer: Nodobotoke

Destination: Cemetery Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 4500 mon Summary: Destroy all the abandoned baggage. How to: A simple mission, you can take as much time as you like to complete this mission but after about 30 seconds Prajnas will continuously poor in. So if you want to get the bounties feel free to do so, but I do suggest making sure all the crates that are on top of graves are off the graves before the Prajnas arrive. The only warning I have for this mission is crates will easily kill you if they fall on you. The stack in the middle is about 10 high, you'll want to nudge it off the grave and get out of the way, it's really easy to kill yourself here. Also if you're unsure of where the crates are, they're all marked on the minimap, so use the select button to show the map in the corner to easily find the right crates.

True Culprit Issuer: Nodobotoke Destination: Inn (Main Plaza) Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 5000 mon Summary: Find the head manager of the Deathbringers and standout member of the Yakuza Quartet, Gozo Hiyoko, and bring him in dead or alive. How to: Go to the inn, the bounties will be here generally cramped into a corner of the 1st floor. When ready enter the room on the 2nd floor and speak with Hiyoko:   

"Get in mah ropes and sit still!" "Resistance is futile. You will be eliminated!"

Defeat Hiyoko, doesn't matter if it's with blunt attacks or not the result is the same he takes a knee so speak with him to complete this mission.

After completing this one go back to speak with Nodobotoke, who after a somewhat comical event releases the prisoner from the stables you captured in Subpoena. Speak with both Nodobotoke to complete the thief-taker mission line then speak with the prisoner to learn his identify (you should see him right outside the south gate).

Kobato This guy hangs out in the Town area right near the Gambling den, he basically is the yakuza or organized crime job giver of the game. As you might imagine the crime rate will get worse as you complete jobs for him so be aware of that before you start to spend the cash you earn from his missions. As mentioned in my area overview section to get jobs from him speak with the Mistress beside him and say:  

"I'm looking for work." "My you're rude. It'll be fun killing you."

During his missions black crates appear all over the place, breaking one earns you 300 mon. However breaking crates is a crime, so expect Magistrates to come after you if they see you breaking them.

Brutish Constable Issuer: Kobato Destination: Main Plaza Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 1500 mon Summary: Dispose of the constable who harassed the yakuza underling and took his money. How to: It can be annoying the break the creates here, no matter how low public order is a few constables will be in the area so break away if you wish. So as you approach the target he tries to get the poor girl to sleep with him. Speak with him saying pretty much anything will result in a fight, kill him to complete the mission.

Easy Task Issuer: Kobato Destination: Back Roads

Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 2000 mon Summary: Dispose of the minor Bodhislaughtva nuisance. How to: Break the crate you see along the way as you make your way to the group of targets. I'd simply recommend drawing your sword near them as it starts the fight without having to speak to them 7-8 times (which you can do as well). Win the fight to complete this mission.

Four Samurai Lords Issuer: Kobato Destination: Cemetery Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 2500 mon Summary: Dispose of the four ronin who harass the yakuza. How to: Be sure to break up those boxes here as you shouldn't have any lawmen here. Once you're done again either speak to one of the "samurai lords" and pick the 1st option "Killing you, actually." to start up the fight to kill them completing the mission.

Amihama's Womanizer Issuer: Kobato Destination: Main Plaza Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 3000 mon Summary: Dispose of the lady-killer who dared to lay a hand on a yakuza woman. How to: As usual break boxes if you want, just beware that constables are generally here no matter time of day or crime rate. When ready speak to the man getting followed by all those women and say: 

"You laid your hand on a yakuza babe."

  

"I have to kill you on principle."

He'll then summon a bunch of half naked kunoichi girls to defend him so beat the bunch of them. Speak with the lady killer again to fight him, once beaten you've completed the mission!

Annoying Task Issuer: Kobato Destination: Back Roads Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 3500 mon Summary: Dispose of the Bodhislaughtva menace who came to get revenge for last time. How to: Like Easy Task break crates, draw your sword on your targets to start the fight (or continue to speak with them) to beat them and complete the mission.

The Empress Needs No Competition Issuer: Kobato Destination: Inn (Main Plaza) Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 4000 mon Summary: Dispose of the sisters who have a bad influence on profits in the gambling den. How to: In the main plaza head to the inn. In here there will be crates and no one to arrest you! so break away for an easy bonus. The sister are upstairs seemly having fun, speak with Ekubo (the dual ninja chick) and say:   

"You seem to be on a winning streak." "The mistress of the gambling den." Kill them to complete this mission.

Favored Child of the Times Issuer: Kobato Destination: Harbor Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 4500 mon Summary: Dispose of the merchant who used dirty methods to acquire the plot of land on which the gambling den stands. How to: In the harbor your target is in the south western area, so destroy crates 1st if you want, Constables can appear here after all.. when ready speak with the "Winners" and say:    

"No. And they won't." "A scrap of paper means nothing." "How about I teach you what it's like to die?"

Fight the bodyguards if you want, all you need to do here is kill the winner. So using free run (R2) line up your target and hit/kill the winner to complete this mission.

Wicked North-South Struggle Issuer: Kobato Destination: Back Roads Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 5000 mon Summary: Emerge victorious in the general offensive initiated by the Bodhislaughtva. How to: Like Easy Task or Annoying Task go to the back roads, destroy those creates if you want though this time you must speak with Miroku and say:      

"Bodhislaughtva alert!" "Well met." "I'm more than enough, believe me." "I cannot let that insult go unanswered!"

Kill her 5 boy toys and speak with her again:

"Hell no."

 

"My loyalty is not for sale."

Defeat Miroku to complete the mission.

I'd suggest returning and speaking with Kobato now to get the all clear message for the yakuza mission set.

Thief Spending his time in the harbor, right next to Uchimada's house in the north of the map (leader of the clean samurai from missions from Gramps) as his title suggests he wants you to steal things. So as you might imagine the crime rate will worsen as you complete his missions. To start his missions speak with him and say:     

"Thief! Thief!" "That is a good point..." "I'm a samurai." "Sounds good."

He'll then start you right away in his 1st mission.

During his missions on the ground will be green furoshiki (cloth bags which apparently are filled with junk...) each one you pick up gives a bonus of 300 mon.

Preliminary Test Issuer: Thief Destination: Main Plaza Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 1500 mon Summary: Acquire the geisha's treasure How to: 1st thing you should do is check for the green sacks, each one you pick up adds to the bonus, when you're done the Geisha will be walking around so find her and walk in front of her. Every once in a while the thief-takers will not be paying attention, you'll get a message to run into her ("Hint: Now!") from the front, if you're successful she drops the purple furoshiki. If not it'll say why you failed and eventually you can try again.

Alternatively attacking her makes her right away drop the treasure, the thief-takers will attack you and you may get arrested, but so long as you get away it can be much faster.

Stealing Is Winning Issuer: Thief Destination: Back Roads Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 2000 mon Summary: Acquire the treasure from the sumo stable. How to: Back Roads is big, so pick up the green furoshiki if you want for the bonus, the purple furoshiki will simply be on the ground for the taking... however when you enter the small area it's in the sumo guys right away attack you. You can grab and run if you want, however this is a great location to attempt to get 10 kills in spring harvest for a style as the enemies spawn fast and I got about 12 of them.

Souvenir From Hell Issuer: Thief Destination: Cemetery Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 2500 mon Summary: Acquire the Buddha's treasure. How to: Finding the green furoshiki around can be hard here but feel free to search for them all. The dead body you have to kick is in the south-western corner guarded by 4 constables and one will ALWAYS be watching, so I simply recommend killing all four, it doesn't affect your reward and makes the entire quest a lot easier. Once you've dealt with the constables kicking the corpse causes your player to pray each time.. after about 6 kicks the purple furoshiki will drop.

I Am a Bandit Issuer: Thief Destination: Back Roads Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 3000 mon Summary: Acquire the merchant's treasure. How to: Back roads is big, find green furoshiki if you want but I'd recommend just going for your targets. As you approach each merchant speak with them saying "Leave everything you own right here." you'll then have to kill the bodyguard. Follow up by speaking with the same merchant and saying the same thing, he'll drop an item or two and after dealing with a few of the merchants (likely the last one) you'll get your purple furoshiki to complete the mission.

Pack of Beasts Issuer: Thief Destination: Cemetery Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 3500 mon Summary: Acquire the beasts' treasure. How to: This is annoying. Again 1st search for the green furoshiki away target where all the dogs are. Once ready my method is a bit dangerous but doesn't require an onigiri to distract the dogs. Basically what I suggest is getting near the dogs from one extreme side , once they all start chasing you make a circle around to the other side of where the treasure is, the one dog guarding it shouldn't prevent you from kicking the treasure to pick it up. If the dogs do start hitting you they cause a lot of damage, so if you do it this way be prepared to re-load if you have to. Once you have completed the mission to prevent getting killed from dog bites quick travel anywhere else to get out of the situation.

The Way of the Fighter Issuer: Thief Destination: Back Roads Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 4000 mon Summary: Acquire the bodyguard's treasure. How to: Search for green furoshiki if you want, but with back roads again it's likely a bit of a waste of time. Speak with any of the bodyguard's around and say "Give that here." to start a big battle with all of them (and there are more then 5 btw). As you kill them they can drop one of the purple furoshiki and you need 5 of them. If you don't see one drop don't worry, they got marked on the map so feel free to deal with the combat 1st then make a search for all of the treasures after. This is a great mission to try for 10 kills during spring harvest, they tend to group right at you in the beginning.

Jobs (Continued) The Last Heist Issuer: Thief Destination: Town Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 4500 mon Summary: Acquire the final treasure. How to: Avoid the building in the middle where your target is if you want to find the green furoshiki for the bonus. When ready enter the building and start going around (you don't need to speak with the girl). Once you reach the other side constables will come to attack you, and this is very much like a kill 100 type mission as you need to kill 25 constables before the flow stops. Once you're done head back into that house's area and pick up the purple furoshiki. If you do like I did once and forget to pick up the purple furoshiki after killing the constables, go into menu, journal and missions and fully cancel the mission. If you just re-kill the constables after exiting the area the purple furoshiki will not drop.

Recovery Issuer: Thief Destination: Inn (Main Plaza) Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 5000 mon Summary: Get back the final treasure. How to: Get the green furoshiki on the 1st floor as this is a really small area. Once ready head upstairs and enter the room to speak with Suzume:    

"You the ones who sacked the shop?" "You need to give something back." "Maybe I'll take it off your corpse!" "Do your worst!"

Defeat Suzume in battle, once he's beaten everyone will take a knee. Speak with Suzume and he retreats leaving the final treasure! Once you're done with this mission speak with the thief back at the harbor to have him check out the final treasure, you'll have to leave the harbor and go back to get the all clear message for the thief line of quests though.

Gramps He's located under the tracks in Little Britain and most of his missions involve good intentions with bloody results. In the area for each missions are 2 homeless men. Each time you help them you get 300+ mon. They each require 1 item, you to tell the other homeless person how they are and finally some cash. The bonus can be nice but for the larger areas like the Back Roads I'd suggest not bothering since it can take a lot of time. To start getting missions from him you must say to gramps:   

"I'm sick of life" he'll give you a mushroom then say "I want to die." "I may just take you up on that."

He'll give you missions from there on. Also, mission for gramps will improve public order/ the crime rate.

But a Single Onigiri Issuer: Gramps Destination: Back Roads Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 1500 mon Summary: Deliver an onigiri to a friend of Gramps'. How to: As you might think from the name you'll need more then the onigiri Gramps gives you. Get/ buy 2 of your own and select when you speak to any one of the 3 Destitute: 

"I'm here at the behest of ol' Gramps"

  

"This is an onigiri from Gramps. ONE onigiri." "I only have one." "How about I add two onigiri of my own?"

I'm Not Your Enemy Issuer: Gramps Destination: Main Plaza Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 2000 mon Summary: Talk to the vagabond who's associating with bad seeds. How to: Because of how small the Main Plaza is be sure to help the 2 beggars here, they generally want glass bottles which can be found towards the entrance to Little Britain on a carpet. Speak to one of the 4 Ruffian's who are surrounding the target and say:  

"Release that man at once!"

   

"You're the only one left."

Defeat the four Ruffians (kill or deplete their vitality up to you) Once the four of them are gone speak with the Kindly Tramp and say: I doubt it matters which options from here you say to him but I said:

"Celebrations aren't bought, they're experienced." "Just go see her."

Something Simple Issuer: Gramps Destination: Town Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 2500 mon Summary: Deliver thanks to the townie who showed kindness, along with a simple token of appreciation. How to: Like the above mission the town is simple enough that you should help those poor beggars to get more money from Gramps.

Speak to your target by the dojo and say:           

"The homeless are in your debt." "I brought something for you." "Oh, just take it!" "Why won't you accept it?" "Gramps isn't THAT dirty." Speak the Wealthy Man and say:

"It doesn't concern you." "Wait a second..." "Don't change the subject!"

Defeat the clean samurai and speak with the Kindly Merchant and say: "I'm sorry..." to complete the mission.

The Players Issuer: Gramps Destination: Cemetery Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 3000 mon Summary: Help the little girl get revenge for the murder of her parents. How to: Gonna remind you again, the cemetery is small... help those beggars and get that bonus! One of the beggars is likely to ask for a straw doll, it's on the shrine/ hut next to the damaged bell, otherwise the item will be on the ground, just where is the question. Speak with the Murderer and say     

"What are you doing here?"

Speak to him again: "She's not coming."''' Defeat him and wait for the daughter to come then say to her:

"Yes. I am."

Now just keep backing up/ or use free run to get away from her, don't attack her. Every 5ish seconds you can speak to her select the top option each time, after 4 times you get the option "UWAAAGH, I AM BESTED!" and after your fake death she kicks you a bunch (for no damage) then leaves completing the mission.

Protest

Issuer: Gramps Destination: Harbor Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 3500 mon Summary: Express feelings of regret to Uchimada. How to: After going to the harbor (and helping the beggars for bonus if you want, rubber boots if they ask are south of Sushi-ya on the wooden deck past the stairs) speak with Uchimada at his house in the north end of the harbor:      

"There's something I want to say." "I actually came to complain." "Stop killing the homeless." "Lives are neither clean nor dirty!"

Deal with those clean samurai again and speak with Uchimada again: "That was payment for the homeless you killed." Completes the mission!

Grandpa's Memories (Part 1) Issuer: Gramps Destination: Back Roads Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 4000 mon Summary: Confirm the safety of Gramps' acquaintance. How to: There are no beggars here cause of this being a 2 part mission (no reward for the 1st part full for the 2nd). So just meet up with Gramps' friend near and say:         

"I've come from the tracks" "Gramps sent me." "Just came to check up on you." "All right, then. Guess Ill be off." "Please be gentle..."

Fight him with blunt attacks, doesn't matter if you're unarmed or not.

"What's wrong?!" "Is there anything I can do for you?"

Here ends part 1 with part 2 auto starting below:

Grandpa's Memories (Part 2) Issuer: Gramps Destination: Harbor Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 4000 mon Summary: Deliver Gramps' bequeathment to Grandma. How to: There will be the beggars here so help them 1st, then find Grandma at the south end of the map saying:     

"I have some bad news for you." "The old man is dead..." "I have something for you from him." "Why did you break up with him?" "He's gone." to complete this 2 part mission.

Mud On Your Face Issuer: Gramps Destination: Harbor Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 4500 mon Summary: Borrow the bath in Uchimada's house. How to: As you might imagine this isn't going to end well, so after helping those beggar speak with Uchimada:     

"I need to use your bath." "May I use your bath?" "I thank you on behalf of my friends." "Sorry."

Beat Uchimada and his clean Samurai, sadly you can't kill Uchimada but feel free to try anyways, speak to Uchimada after to complete the quest.

A Lid On Something Stinky (Part 1)

Issuer: Gramps Destination: Magistrate Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 5000 mon Summary: Voice your objections to the local government. How to: As this is another part 1 no beggars here, just find your target and say to him:        

"Need to ask you something about the homeless." "I want to protect the homeless." "Actually, that's why I came." "I've come to ask you to repeal it." "To whom should I speak, then?" "Which way did he go?" "What?!" Head off to Little Britain starting the next part...

A Lid On Something Stinky (Part 2) Issuer: Gramps Destination: Little Britain Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 5000 mon Summary: Protect the area under the tracks from the government. How to: The two beggars will be here so feel free to help 1st when ready speak to the constable (and be ready for a big fight):    

"Stop this!" "Do constables habitually oppress the weak?" "I don't stay out of ways. I get in them!"

Fight off a lot of constables to complete the mission

You should also speak with Gramps after this to get the all complete for finishing the last of his well intended missions!

Amihama Eight To start the ultimately mission you must 1st have completed all the missions for Gramps, Nodobotoke, Kobato and the Thief and gotten the all clear message after their respective final missions. Also to do the final mission the hospital must be open. After this head to the Back Roads where you'll find a job giver sign near the exit to the magistrate, speak with him and say:      

"This your hometown?" "Talk to me. I'll be your friend." "You one of the Four Samurai Lords?" "Why not get revenge?" "You afraid you'll lose?" "If you run, then that's it. You've lost!"

Now you have to find the 3 remaining Samurai Lords: 1) Kotetsu is the ronin from Subpoena and will be in the north-east corner of the town just west of the shrine exit in the ally. Select "Two words: Leaf Root." then "Kirisame is waiting on the back roads." to recruit him. 2) Orochi is the Thief job giver and is easily found in the harbor (since he'll still have the job sign over his head). Speaking with him select "Psst. Hey, buddy. Leaf Root." then " then "Kirisame is waiting for you on the back roads." to recruit our 3rd Samurai Lord. 3) The final samurai lord is Gramps from the tracks, if the hospital is open he'll be in there otherwise he'll be where he normally is. Speak with him and say:     

"Gramps! What's going on?!" "No!" "Have you left something...undone?" "Wait, so, Gramps... Are you ...?" "Oh, wow, I had no idea!"

You are able to start the 1st half of the final set of missions, to be able to go onto the Amihama Eight mission speak with the Physician in the south-west corner of the hospital and say:     

"Sensei, give it to me straight..." "Come on! Look harder!" "Please, save him! I beg of you!" "Why didn't you say so earlier?" "How about you lend me the money?"

From there head to the Town and speak with the Mistress in the north-east corner by the gambling den:

      

"Please lend me some money." "There's someone I'm looking to save." "A man who saved me is dying." "He needs a foreign drug to cure him." "It's too expensive. I can't afford it." "It'll work! The hobo must be saved!" "That's the guy!"

After this head back to Kirizame and say:     

"He's on the verge of death..." "He was sick even when you knew him." "He gave me something." "I will do my best to fulfill that role." "I am ready!"

FINALLY you'll start the final mission.

Four Samurai Lords vs Yakuza Quartet Issuer: Kirisame Destination: Cemetery Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 10,000 mon Summary: Team up with the Four Samurai Lords to take down the Yakuza Quartet. How to: If you didn't get the mistress to get the medicine for gramps this is a simple kill mission where after speaking with each of the Yakuza Quartet you fight them to the death. After you defeat the Quartet I do suggest attacking the remiaing samurai lords to get their unique weapons and styles. If you did save gramps again speak with all four of the quartet the fight will begin however the mistress will interrupt the duel before anyone goes down (you can deplete their health they just won't die). Speak with her and say:  

"We'll lend you guys a hand!" "Four Samurai Lords, let us be off!"

Which start the real final mission in the back roads. Before you leave for it do know this is the only chance to kill the mistress for her style and weapon, I suggest taking it (reload if she doesn't drop her style or you can't pick it up).

The Amihama Eight Issuer: Deathbringer Boss Kazumi Mozu Destination: Back Roads Time Period: All/ Indefinite Reward: 30,000 mon Summary: Work with your companions to wipe out the invading force. How to: Speak with Kobato and say:   

"The more companions, the merrier." "Everybody ready for this?" "We are the Amihama Eight!"

Speak with the commander and say:   

"What is your dream?" "We're not going to hand over our country." "You don't understand samurai at all!"

Now we start the slaughter. You have to kill about 250-300 enemies (based on the number of kills I got and the fact that ally kills count as well ... can someone confirm?) to get to the next part. Thankfully the game gives you messages letting you know what percent you're at (every 10%). The game save each kill! It gives these messages to let you know how far you are but I've confirmed that you can leave at any point and it saves your current kill count. So if you want to leave every time you have 10 swords in your weapon sack feel free to do so. The enemies you face here will be tough, but they can drop several styles as well they're all equipped with decent weapons. So come in with nothing in your weapon sack and every checkpoint leave full for either melting down or saving to create your own weapons. Also at about 25% killed Dojima s the fight (if he's your smith, and obviously needs to be alive but don't worry he'll still be at the forge when you leave), around 45% Sensei will if she's in charge of the dojo and finally at 65% Gramps s in as well... not that you need any help... Once you get the all clear message you'll be in the small rest area, I'd suggest leaving and saving to ensure you get the commanders style (and your allies styles if you decide to kill them all after the mission). Once ready speak with the commander and say: 

"Let's do it."

You'll fight the commander one on one, after killing him you'll complete the mission and earn yourself a nice trophy in the process! Also worth noting you can use blunt attacks and he'll commit Harikiri to end his life, which can be easier then killing him yourself. After the battle you can speak to your allies to have them leave, so if you want to kill the All eight samurai lords/ Yakuza Quartet for their styles and weapons I'd suggest 1st sending Dojima and Sensei away so you don't have to kill them (unless you do want to kill them...).

Styles Styles are basically the movesets of the game, unlike previous way of the samurai games the styles are separated from the swords. So any sword can you any stance, and can be swapped on the fly. Earning new styles is simple, kill the of that style and pick up their style book. you can only have 20 extra styles at a time! If you have your 20 extra, go to the Dojo in town, there you can store styles to make room for new ones. Below is a list of the styles in the game as they appear in the in-game menu, so some of the styles are a bit out of order, but they're all there.

Sword style List

Yato Swordfighting Location: Stance: Jo-dan

Asahi Noir-Draft Swordfighting Location: Kirizame one of the Four Samurai Lords (during Four Samurai Lords vs Yakuza Quartet (betraying him after the event or The Amihama Eight) Stance: Jo-dan

Note it requires the Alebarrow sword to master it, get it from Gramps after The Amihama Eight mission.

Ayade Swordfighting Location: Kanzaki during A Deceptive Price on hard Stance: Jo-dan

Sadaha Swordfighting Location: Akagi's stance, kill him during endings Road to Ruin , A Change of Heart, Setting Off to Foreign Lands or Samurai Straight. Stance: Jo-dan

Hoodlum Swordfighting Location: Stance: Jo-dan

Hassu Swordfighting Location: Yakzua during mission for Nodobotoke. Stance: Jo-dan

Impenetra Swordfighting Location: Dojo challenger (appearance?) Stance: Jo-dan

Goshi Swordfighting Location: Gramps The Amihama Eight

Stance: Jo-dan

Jackson Swordfighting Location: Kotetsu one of the Four Samurai Lords (during Four Samurai Lords vs. Yakuza Quartet (betraying him after the event or The Amihama Eight) Stance: Chu-dan

Mushin Swordfighting Location: Default Stance Stance: Chu-dan

Zabi Swordfighting Location: Mistress after accepting The Amihama Eight (you have to kill her after everyone else has left for the big fight) Stance: Chu-dan

Gan Swordfighting Location: Sensei's style, find her on the back roads near the rest area or in the Dojo if you've already recruited her. Stance: Chu-dan

Shamei Swordfighting Location: Mayu one of the 3 sisters. Fight her during endings The Light of Hope, Fevered Spirits or Samurai Straight. Stance: Chu-dan

Kudoi Swordfighting

Location: Kototaki's stance killable late game during endings/events The Flames of Prajna/ The Samurai Spirit , A Change of Heart / Hikaru Kotobuki, Military Man Stance: Chu-dan

Invinciba Swordfighting Location: Random Yakuza enemy Stance: Chu-dan

Tsubo Swordfighting Location: Kobato one of the Yakuza Quartet, (during Four Samurai Lords vs Yakuza Quartet (betraying him after the event or The Amihama Eight) Stance: Ge-dan

Osha Swordfighting Location: Bodhislaughtva during Annoying Task for Kobato Stance: Ge-dan

Nightly Delights Swordfighting Location: Random Yakuza (gotten during Underbelly attack) Stance: Ge-dan

Bokunen Swordfighting Location: Suzume one of the Yakuza Quartet (during Four Samurai Lords vs Yakuza Quartet (betraying him after the event or The Amihama Eight) Stance: Ge-dan

Tenshin Swordfighting Location: Dojima, either in the Cemetery or at the smithy if you've gotten him there. Stance: Ge-dan

Kuki Swordfighting Location: Random invader During The Amihama Eight Stance: Ge-dan

Sekoi Swordfighting Location: Bounty in Cemetery while on mission for Nodobotoke. Stance: Ge-dan

Cantgetmi Swordfighting Location: Stance: Ge-dan

Flannel Swordfighting Location: Moro's sword stance, only available during the ending Road to Ruin during the final event Shigeru Moro, Swordsman. Stance: Waki

Tokyu Fighting Style Swordfighting Location: Given by the old fossil in the Dojo when you take over. Stance: Waki

Notes: You can't earn moves/ exp with this stance in any other way then dojo challengers.

Bugyo Swordfighting Location: Commander at the end of The Amihama Eight Stance: Waki

Windsor Swordfighting Location: Melinda's stance, during many later events/ endings. Most easily gotten by attacking the consulate, she never runs away. Stance: Waki

Kinugawa Swordfighting Location: Kinugawa's stance , beat him during The Light of Hope ending Stance: Waki, Chu-dan, One-handed

Isobe swordfighting Location: Constable during thief mission Souvenir From Hell Stance: Waki

Hanima Swordfighting Location: Stance: Waki

Noble Swordfighting Location: Assassin during Killing Casual Killing

Stance: Waki

Sa-Muraitto Iai Swordfighting Location: Sugamo during Magistrate tournament Stance: Iai

Hanza Iai Swordfighting Location: The bookmaker in the gambling den within the town. Stance: Iai

Jochaku Iai Swordfighting Location: Stance: Iai

Kasshin Iai Swordfighting Location: Kogure's stance, kill him during endings Road to Ruin , A Change of Heart as well during the tournament ing the foreigners. Stance: Iai

Sexua Iai Swordfighting Location: Dojo Challenger (appearance?) Stance: Iai

Kinen Iai Swordfighting Location: Clean samurai during Gramps missions

Stance: Iai

Victorious Iai Swordfighting Location: The bodyguards during one of the thief missions. Stance: Iai

perfect Iai Swordfighting Location: Random Ronin (I found him in main plaza, probably doesn't matter, just a ronin with Iai stance) Stance: Iai

Torikata Swordfighting Location: thief-takers Stance: One-handed

Wisdom Swordfighting Location: Melinda replacement if you killed her during the tournament while doing the endings Fevered Spirits or The Flames of Prajna. Stance: One-handed

Senba Swordfighting Location: 1st round opponent for the magistrate during the tournament. Stance: One-handed

Ulster Swordfighting Location: J.J.'s sword stance, gotten during Fevered Spirits ending.

Stance: One-handed

Kyoji Swordfighting Location: Kinugawa during The Chief Minister Lived ending Stance: One-handed

South Range Swordfighting Location: Clean samurai during missions helping gramps Stance: One-handed

Goyo Swordfighting Location: The target for the mission Plea Bargain. Stance: One-handed

Saiga Swordfighting Location: Black Masks (seems like a rare drop) Stance: ninja

Urahara Swordfighting Location: Madara's stance, during The Truth event or The Light of Hope, The Flames of Prajna endings. Also can be your final opponent during the tournament for independent. Stance: Shinobi

Genba Swordfighting Location:

Stance: Shinobi

Asuka Swordfighting Location: Orochi one of the Four Samurai Lords (during Four Samurai Lords vs Yakuza Quartet (betraying him after the event or The Amihama Eight) Stance: Shinobi

Toho Swordfighting Location: The 5 star challenger, one member of the dojo must be male (cannot have all females) Stance: ninja Note it requires the sword Morning Moon to master, this is a hard drop from Orochi after Four Samurai Lords vs Yakuza Quartet or The Amihama Eight you have to betray him either way.

Oniwa Swordfighting Location: Clean Samurai during Protest for Gramps Stance: Shinobi

Fumo Swordfighting Location: Bounty in Cemetery during Nodobotoke mission Stance: Shinobi

Climactic Swordfighting Location: One of the female bodyguards during Kobato's missions Stance: Shinobi

Common Swordfighting Location: Guard in the hospital. Stance: Waki

Spear Styles As you might guess all spear styles, are ... spear style, can't change stances with a spear.

Blossom Spearfighting Location: Hiyoko one of the Yakuza Quartet (during Four Samurai Lords vs Yakuza Quartet (betraying him after the event or The Amihama Eight)

Aido Spearfighting Location: Yuri, Fight her during endings The Light of Hope, Fevered Spirits or Samurai Straight.

Fukuo Spearfighting Location: Random Prajna (may be a rare drop)

Masuo Spearfighting Location: Erika during the tournament

Scripturist Spearfighting Location: Prajna

Kongo Spearfighting Location: Erika during Foreign tournament

Daido Spearfighting Location: I've been told this is from the bodyguards in the casino.

Gekisho Spearfighting Location: Default Stance

Dual Arms To use dual arms you have to have a licence. Normal stance requires 1000 kills, ninja stances require you to defeat Toguro. To get to Toguro either do The Light of Hope ending or kill Madara during The Truth and fight him as an independent during the tournament (Sensei and Dojima must be at their respective jobs for this to work)

Harmonious Swordfighting Location: Mozu one of the Yakuza Quartet (during Four Samurai Lords vs Yakuza Quartet ( or betraying him after the event or The Amihama Eight) Stance: Dual Arms

Haten Swordfighting Location: Mozu one of the Yakuza Quartet (during Four Samurai Lords vs Yakuza Quartet ( or betraying him after the event or The Amihama Eight) Stance: Dual Arms

Kantetsu Swordfighting Location: Demonscale commander during tournament. Kill Melinda and he'll repalce her during the Prajna tournament Stance: Dual Arms

Gokon Swordfighting Location: Chika one of the 3 sisters, fight her during endings The Light of Hope, Fevered Spirits or Samurai Straight. Stance: Dual Arms

Dual Manifest Swordfighting Location: Default Dual style, unlocked by unlocking the stance. If not you can get it from the 5 star challenger while having at least one male student. Stance: Dual Arms

Junky Swordfighting Location: Dojo challenger, the 2 bikini girls (the one in dual ninja stance) Stance: Shinobi Dual arms

Kogara Swordfighting Location: Dojo challenger, the 2 bikini girls (the one in dual ninja stance) Stance: Shinobi Dual arms

Mosu Swordfighting Location: Dojo challenger, the 2 bikini girls (the one in dual ninja stance) Stance: Shinobi Dual arms

Hara Swordfighting Location: Toguro either during independent tournament (having seen both Kill the Traitor and The Truth events to kill Madara before hand as well as having Dojima and Sensei at their respective jobs/dead) or during The Light of Hope ending.

I believe this is also the default dual shinobi arms stance if you get it before normal dual arms. Stance: Shinobi Dual arms

Gun Like Dual arms there are 2 requirements for guns. For pistols, kill J.J. either at the end of Fevered Spirits or during the hidden path get the Dice of Destiny event. Rifles require you to defeat Charles on hard, you fight him in the tournament if you side with the Prajnas.

Ulster Gun Arts Location: J.J. when he has his gun equipped (Dice of Destiny event is the easiest) Stance: Pistol

Sailor Rifle Arts Location: Earned when you unlock the rifle option having defeated Charles on hard in the tournament. Stance: Rifle

Charlie Rifle Arts Location: Defeat Charles, again in the tournament under the Prajnas flag Stance: Rifle

Hand-to-hand Hand to hand work by hitting L2 and Square, they do less damage but can be really fast. Also you can get claws on hard/Harikiri by siding with the foreigners and fighting in the tournament that let you increase your unarmed damage by a lot.

Adamantine Martial Arts

Location: Casino Bodyguards

Cachinko Martial Arts Location: Onigawa during tournament

Shoji Martial Arts Location: The smithy at the smith. If Dojima is your smith you need to kill him and restart to be able to get to this guy. Notes: This style has a middle move that requires you to equip the tiger claws.

Casual Martial Arts Location: Your starting stance

Yubari Martial Arts Location: Moro's stance, during Planned Raid, Break the Snare while siding with the Prajnas or siding with Kogure during Strike in the Dark during the hidden path.

Nightly Pleasure Martial Arts Location: Dojo challenger, must have a 5 star dojo of just women. Challenger is a half-naked man.

Asasho Martial Arts Location: Sumo during thief missions.

Learning moves Below is a list of some of the common things to do to earn new moves. While checking your style in the menu hit X on the unknown moves to see the requirement.

Also at the top of each sword are a set of ive, I'm not listing requirement and will likely list the ives with the stances on a future update. hit an enemy with a base move Simple enough, just hit them with the move before this one hit an airborne enemy with a base attack This is harder. Each stance that has this has a move that makes the enemy airborn, so use that then the combo where you need to unlock the move (like if your just triangle knocks them up and your just square is where you need to unlock, hit triangle then bash square). Also a dead enemy is still considered airborne until they come to a complete stop, so don't give up when they die. achieve a 30-hit combo during a Spring Harvest Use a bad sword, if you need to hit an enemy 10-15 times to kill them with spring harvest you'll reach 30 in no time. finish off an enemy during a Spring Harvest Easy enough, activate spring harvest and kill the 1st enemy to get in your way defeat 10 or more enemies during a Spring Harvest Much harder. The events Killing Casual Killing or Hooray! The Hospital's Grand Opening work well. Also during the Yakuza/ Constable massacre missions you can get to 10, just use chocolate before you start the combo, and have a few asura mushrooms in case you start to run out of spring harvest. Finish off an enemy You'll end up getting these without even thinking, swords level in battle and you get kills quick depending on the event you're in. perform 250/400 or more damage With a high attack sword this will happen without any effort. With a lower end sword use the guard breaker (back to forward to triangle) or grab (L1 + triangle + forward). hit an enemy with a base move when HP is lower then 250/500 These annoy me. Your life bar must be below 500 or worse yet 250 health, so chances are you'll need little to no vitality since any enemy that can take you down to health or less health easily is someone you don't want to fight with so little health. I'd recommend on easy do the massacre yakuza mission, they hit for very little damage, so wait til they get you done to less then the 500/250 you need and use the base move. parry or counter an enemy attack. This can be annoying to do when trying, but you basically need to clash, so attack when they attack. I find these just happen more then work when I try really hard.

Lists of unlockables Instead of creating a bunch of sections below is a bunch of lists of items to help you get everything in the game.

Trophies Below is a list of all the trophies in the game, their descriptions and my tips to earn them.

Platinum Trophy Rank: Platinum Acquired all trophies. The big one, requires probably 90ish hours of work to get this one. The biggest/ most annoying time sink is 100 Girls and Runnin', night crawling a single girl doesn't take a lot of time, but 100 is a huge pain. The most difficult thing is finishing the ending The Light of Hope on Harikiri, which isn't too bad if you're properly prepared.

Happy Ending Rank: Gold Watched the "Light of Hope" ending. Check my ending guide for The Light of Hope if you need help.

Normal Ending Rank: Silver Played through to the ending. Any ending completed other then The Light of Hope (maybe it works too..)

10,000 Pts Samurai Rank: Silver Acquired 10,000 samurai points.

Follow my ending guide for As a Demonscale on the hardest difficulty you can manage. You should end up with the Samurai Lord title so long as you don't commit any crimes (don't kick bodies!) and this can get you up to 3100 points on harikiri. Repeat until you have your 10,000 points.

Title King Rank: Silver Acquired all titles. See my Titles sections, you have to get all 15 titles so at least 15 playthoughs.

While It's Hot Rank: Bronze Strengthened own weapon for the first time. This will be gotten quickly, you'll want a powerful weapon soon enough.

Alchemist Rank: Bronze Melted 100 weapons total. Just continue using the Extract option with useless weapons. You'll want plenty of ore for ultimately weapons.

My Weapon My Way Rank: Bronze Forged an original weapon. Again something you'll get soon enough, use Create at the smithy.

My Very Own Style

Rank: Bronze Created a new fighting style. At the dojo speak with the old fossil with a Blank Book and create a style.

First Disciple Rank: Bronze Enlisted a new disciple for the first time. See my section Getting recruits section for details.

Bested Challenger Rank: Bronze Defeated a dojo challenger. If you own the dojo and have a single disciple challengers will start coming/ annoying you soon enough.

Undying Style Rank: Bronze Mastered the Tokyu fighting style. This stance can only be mastered fighting dojo challengers or using scrolls.

Cherry Move Rank: Bronze Mastered a new move for the first time. Should be one of your 1st trophies earned.

100th Move Rank: Silver Mastered 100 moves total. It takes a while but will be earned long before you start thinking of getting platinum.

Skillful Rank: Silver Acquired 9,999 skill points. Pretty much anything you do earns you skill points. So this simply takes time, and other takes will take longer.

Collector Rank: Silver Acquired 100 different weapons. I don't have a sword section atm, so either check Pang Tong's guide or go to the forum to see a list of swords.

Artist Rank: Silver Acquired 50 styles, not including My Style. See my Styles section for locations, but ultimately you need all 82 styles to platinum the game anyways so this trophy should be easy enough.

Jo-dan Master Rank: Bronze Learned all moves associated with the high-ready position.

Master the following stances: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Yato Swordfighting Asahi Noir-Draft Swordfighting Ayade Swordfighting Sadaha Swordfighting Hoodlum Swordfighting Hassu Swordfighting Impenetra Swordfighting Goshi Swordfighting Kudoi Swordfighting

Chu-dan Master Rank: Bronze Learned all moves associated with the mid-ready position. Master the following stances: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Jackson Swordfighting Mushin Swordfighting Zabi Swordfighting Gan Swordfighting Shamei Swordfighting Kudoi Swordfighting Invinciba Swordfighting Kinugawa Swordfighting

Ge-dan Master Rank: Bronze Learned all moves associated with the low-ready position. Master the following stances: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Tsubo Swordfighting Osha Swordfighting Nightly Delights Swordfighting Bokunen Swordfighting Tenshin Swordfighting Kuki Swordfighting Sekoi Swordfighting

8. Cantgetmi Swordfighting

One-Handed Master Rank: Bronze Learned all moves associated with the one-handed ready position. Master the following stances: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Kinugawa Swordfighting Torikata Swordfighting Wisdom Swordfighting Senba Swordfighting Ulster Swordfighting Kyoji Swordfighting South Range Swordfighting Goyo Swordfighting

Waki Master Rank: Bronze Learned all moves associated with the side ready position. Master the following stances: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Flannel Swordfighting Tokyu Fighting Style Swordfighting Bugyo Swordfighting Windsor Swordfighting Kinugawa Swordfighting Isobe swordfighting Hanima Swordfighting Noble Swordfighting Common Swordfighting

Spear Master Rank: Bronze Learned all moves associated with the spear style.

Master all Spear Styles

Hand-to-Hand Master Rank: Bronze Learned all moves associated with hand-to-hand combat. Master all Hand-to-hand styles

Iai Master Rank: Bronze Learned all moves associated with the quick-draw style. Master the following stances: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Sa-Muraitto Iai Swordfighting Hanza Iai Swordfighting Jochaku Iai Swordfighting Kasshin Iai Swordfighting Sexua Iai Swordfighting Kinen Iai Swordfighting Victorious Iai Swordfighting perfect Iai Swordfighting

Shinobi Master Rank: Bronze Learned all moves associated with the shinobi style. Master the following stances: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Saiga Swordfighting Urahara Swordfighting Genba Swordfighting Asuka Swordfighting Toho Swordfighting Oniwa Swordfighting Fumo Swordfighting Climactic Swordfighting

Dual Arms Master Rank: Bronze Learned all moves associated with the dual arms style. Master all dual arms being: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Harmonious Swordfighting Haten Swordfighting Kantetsu Swordfighting Gokon Swordfighting Dual Manifest Swordfighting

Shinobi Dual Arms Master Rank: Bronze Learned all moves associated with the shinobi dual arms style. Master all shinobi dual arms styles: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Junky Swordfighting Kogara Swordfighting Mosu Swordfighting Hara Swordfighting

Gunslinger Rank: Bronze Learned all moves associated with the gun wielding style. Master all 3 styles associated with Guns.

Midnight Meeting Rank: Bronze Made a night crawling appointment.

This is the 1st step of nightcrawling, so speak to a random female and have her agree.

King of the Night Rank: Bronze Succeeded in a night crawling mission. Go all the way with someone.

100 Girls and Runnin' Rank: Silver Successfully completed 100 night crawling appointments. This is hell. Literally this will take 10+ hours on it's own. Have fun continually night crawling!

Happy Pains Rank: Bronze Survived the torture game. Get arrested have one of the sisters attack you. Ultimately you need to survive torture 20 times so this is easy enough.

Labor Union Rank: Bronze Successfully completed a job mission for the first time. Doesn't matter who gives the job just complete a single side job.

Worker Bee

Rank: Bronze Successfully completed 100 job missions. Again a matter of time, if you complete missions for money this will happen naturally.

First Kill Rank: Bronze Killed an enemy for the first time. Probably your 1st trophy... why is this a trophy anyways?

Fashionista Rank: Silver Unlocked all fashion items. You need to complete The Light of Hope on harikiri for this, as all fashion items include all accessories, all clothing options, all hair and skin colours. also you need all male clothing as well as all female clothing, you have to be a male to get male stuff and a female to get female clothing at the Curio Shop (Tanukiya) store in the main plaza on the west side.

Fish On Rank: Bronze Caught a fish for the first time. Get some bait and catch something, fishing is easy enough in this game.

Great Angler Rank: Bronze Caught a total of 100 fish.

A matter of time really. This is annoying but doesn't take too long.

Fishing Legend Rank: Silver Caught the legendary fish. I don't have great advice for this. In town one of the bodies of water has a chance to have a golden fish in it. Use Earthworms as bait and try all the water bodies. This includes the river on the east side, Dojima water bucket (if you're behind him you get a good angle), the well north of Dojima, the well north of the Toasty truth bar (behind the fences to the east side), the moat south of the toasty truth bar, and well in the north east corner beside the gambling hall as well as the pool there too. Again this is a bit of luck, if you keep catching other fish , you need to catch 100 of them after all.

Swift Killer Rank: Silver Completed 100 combo strikes. Use a crappy sword on a harder difficulty during a big fight. Doesn't take long, if you're worried about running out of spring harvest gauge either use a Chocolate before the battle or have a few Asura Mushrooms just in case.

Weapon Breaker Rank: Bronze Destroyed 10 enemy weapons. Yubari Martial Arts has a counter move (back + triangle + R1) that can break swords in 2 to 3 uses depending on difficulty. Can also done by just having an enemy continuously attack you while you guard, but better to use a hand to hand counter move (there are a few just mentioning Yubari).

Lucky Streak

Rank: Bronze Won 10 times at gambling. Play poker or Koi-Koi at the gambling hall, eventually you'll get your 10 wins even if you get 100 loses before it (they aren't that bad though...).

World Wide Warrior Rank: Bronze Defeated 15 invading duelists. In the options there is an option to have online play. This trophy is earned by having your character invade other players games and killing them in their game not killing other players in your game. I suggest you keep a good sword equipped, and if you're using a mastered stance with a good damage reduction this should come soon enough. Having a sword with 3x big shot can almost auto win this trophy too.

You Look Familiar Rank: Bronze Defeated your character from a previous playthrough. Every time you complete an ending for a faction your character gets saved and can appear in various areas. This is one of those trophies that you'll be happy to earn soon enough, but annoyed by the amount of clones you have to deal with eventually.

Foodie Rank: Bronze Ate all the food from restaurants and food vendors. Check the Food list section for a full list of food you need to eat.

Eight Samurai

Rank: Bronze Successfully completed the final job mission. Complete the side job The Amihama Eight, start at Amihama Eight if you don't know the conditions to get to this massive mission.

Sensei's Destiny Rank: Bronze Changed Sensei's destiny. See Getting Sensei for details.

Dojima's Redemption Rank: Bronze Changed Dojima's destiny. See Getting Dojima as your smith for details.

Hardened Samurai Rank: Bronze Finished the game in hard mode. Any ending will do but it must be an ending.

Master Samurai Rank: Bronze Finished the game in harakiri mode. Like above, you have to do The Light of Hope on Harakiri to platinum, but doing As a Demonscale can earn you this easily enough.

Titles Below is a list of the titles and the approximate % you need at the end of the game to get it. Doing good and bad missions effects this a lot, but more so "Unsuitable Conduct" reduce the % fast, and any crime counts as one. So each time you kick a corpse, destroy an object... pretty much anything that can get you arrested you get one more "Unsuitable Conduct". To get a specific title I recommend following my ending guide for As a Demonscale. So long as you don't do any crime you should hit 120% on normal or harder, even on easy I got 116% which is enough for the highest required title Samurai Lord. So what we want to do is complete step 5 and save, if you complete the tournament from here you'll get samurai Lord, but since we want to get different titles we're going to drop our percent by kicking a corpse to get whichever title you want. So create a corpse by killing pretty much anyone and kick it. 5-10 kicks should drop you a single title (do more if you need something lower, less if you're 1 or 2 titles away). Save then complete the tournament and see if you got the title you want. If so you're done, if you're still too high on the list create a new corpse and kick it a bunch repeating until you get that title you need.

Samurai Lord Description: Become a model of all samurai yet to come. Percent required: 115%+

True Samurai Description: Strive to find the samurai essence within you. Percent required: 105 to 115%

Great Samurai Description: Live the way of the samurai at all times. Percent required: 95 to 105%

Splendid Samurai

Description: Continue to act always as a samurai should. Percent required: 85 to 95%

Almost Samurai Description: Strive to act as a samurai should Percent required: 75 to 85%

Pseudo-Samurai Description: Do as a samurai should. Percent required: 65 to 75%

Apprentice Description: Do more and more good deeds. Percent required: 55 to 65%

Incompetent Description: Live a half-assed existence. Percent required: 45 to 55%

Drifter Description: For the love of Buddha, do something already! Percent required: 35 to 45%

Good-For-Nothing Description: Live for yourself, and no one else.

Percent required: 25 to 35%

Delinquent Description: Better (and easier) to do bad than to do good. Percent required: 15 to 25%

Shameless Description: Do more and more bad deeds. Percent required: 10 to 15%

Miscreant Description: Distance yourself from humanity bit by bit. Percent required: 5 to 10%

Foul Heretic Description: Master antisocial behavior and wrongdoing. Percent required: 1 to 5%

Lord of the Damned Description: Become heartless and cruel in all you do. Percent required: less then 1% This basically requires you to do more then 1000 "Unsuitable Conduct", so create a pile of corpses and start kicking... it will likely take 5 to 10 minutes of pure kicking depending on how many corpses you have to earn this, the most annoying title to earn.

Lists of unlockables (Continued) Unlockables Below is a list of all unlockables from the main menu, the requirement to unlock them and their costs (in samurai points). Name Weapon Chest 1 Weapon Chest 2 Weapon Chest 3 Weapon Chest 4 Hard Difficulty Harakiri Difficulty Skin Color Dark Skin Color Red Skin Color White Skin Color Green Skin Color Blue Hair Color Red Hair Color Yellow-Green Hair Color -

Description Gives the ability to store more weapons in the dojo Gives the ability to store more weapons in the dojo Gives the ability to store more weapons in the dojo Gives the ability to store more weapons in the dojo Access to start a new game+ on hard Access to start a new game+ on harikiri During character creation gives a skin colour During character creation gives a skin colour During character creation gives a skin colour During character creation gives a skin colour During character creation gives a skin colour new hair colour during character creation new hair colour during character creation new hair colour during

Requirements

Cost

From Start

50

Get Weapon Chest 1

100

Get Weapon Chest 2 and 30% of all swords (about 35-40 of them)

150

Get Weapon Chest 3 and 50% of all swords (about 55 of them)

200

From Start

100

Finish the game on hard

300

From Start

50

Complete The Light of Hope Ending

100

Complete The Light of Hope Ending on 100 at least normal Complete The Light of Hope Ending on 100 at least Hard Complete The Light of Hope Ending on 100 Harikiri Clear game once

50

Clear game 3 times

50

Clear game five times

100

Pink Hair Color Indigo Hair Color Purple Change Body Type Samurai's Face Carpenter's Face Thief-taker's Face Old Man's Face Punk's Face Prajna Member's Face Royal Marine's Face Foreigner's Face Girl's Face Maid's Face Harlot's Face Lady's Face Old Lady's Face Foreign Lady's Face J.J.'s Face Melinda's Face Akagi's Face Kogure's Face Akemi's Face Kotobuki's Face Moro's Face

character creation new hair colour during character creation new hair colour during character creation Allows you to slightly change your samurai's height and weight A new face during character creation A new face during character creation A new face during character creation A new face during character creation A new face during character creation A new face during character creation A new face during character creation A new face during character creation A new face during character creation A new face during character creation A new face during character creation A new face during character creation A new face during character creation A new face during character creation J.J.'s face Melinda's face Akagi's face Kogure's face Akemi's face Kotobuki's face Moro's face

Clear game seven times

100

clear game 10 times

100

Get the ending The Light of Hope

500

From Start

100

From Start

100

Clear game once

100

Clear game once

100

Clear game twice

100

Clear game twice

100

Clear game 3 times

100

Clear game 3 times

100

from start

300

From start

300

Clear game once

300

Clear game once

300

Clear game twice

300

Clear game twice

300

100 kills with Ulster Swordfighting 100 kills with Windsor Swordfighting 100 kills with Sadaha Swordfighting 100 kills with Kasshin Iai Swordfighting Nightcrawl Akemi 100 kills with Kudoi Swordfighting 100 unarmed kills (any stance)

200 300 200 200 300 200 200

Mayu's Face

Mayu's face

Chika's Face

Chika's face

Yuri's Face Kinugawa's Face Madara's Face Dojima's Face Sensei's Face J.J.'s Hairstyle Kotobuki's Hairstyle Moro's Hairstyle Kinugawa's Hairstyle Akagi's Hairstyle Kogure's Hairstyle Dojima's Hairstyle Mayu's Hairstyle Chika's Hairstyle Yuri's Hairstyle Melinda's Hairstyle Akemi's Hairstyle Sensei's Hairstyle Akagi's Outfit Akagi's Outfit Bandaged Kogure's Outfit

300

Yuri's face

100 kills with Shamei Swordfighting 100 kills with Gokon Swordfighting (requires Dual arms below) 100 kills with Aido Spearfighting

Kinugawa's face

100 kills with Kinugawa Swordfighting

200

Madara's face Dojima's face Sensei's face

100 kills with Urahara Swordfighting 100 kills with Tenshin Swordfighting 300 kills with any katana Get the ending Setting Off to Foreign New hair for character Lands, (or just the event Twilight On creation Board not sure which one New hair for character Get ending Road to Ruin creation New hair for character Get the ending A Change of Heart creation New hair for character Get the ending The Light of Hope creation New hair for character Get the ending The Flames of Prajna creation New hair for character Get the ending Fevered Spirits creation New hair for character Get the ending As a Demonscale creation New hair for character Get ending Samurai Straight creation New hair for character Get ending Samurai Straight creation New hair for character Get ending Samurai Straight creation New hair for character Get ending Setting Off to Foreign Lands creation New hair for character Get the ending Fevered Spirits creation New hair for character Get a 5 star Dojo rating creation New outfit for Defeat Akagi on hard or Harikiri character creation Unlock J.J.'s Boxing and do the event New outfit for Rescuing the Count during The Light of character creation Hope Ending New outfit for Defeat Kogure on hard or Harikiri character creation

300 300

300 200 300 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200

Akemi's Footwear

Just her footwear

Use of Akemi's apron Akemi's Apron during character creation Akemi's Top of her outfit Kimono - Top Akemi's Kimono Bottom of her outfit Bottom New outfit for J.J.'s Outfit character creation J.J.'s Outfit New outfit for Injured character creation New outfit for J.J.'s Boxers character creation Contains both Melinda's Outfit Melinda's armour and Blondie armour Kotobuki's New outfit for Outfit character creation New outfit for Moro's Outfit character creation Kinugawa's New outfit for Outfit character creation Kinugawa Top of their non battle Sisters' Kimono clothing - Top Kinugawa Bottom of their non Sisters' Kimono battle clothing - Bottom New outfit for Mayu's Outfit character creation New outfit for Chika's Outfit character creation New outfit for Yuri's Outfit character creation New outfit for Sensei's Outfit character creation New outfit for Dojima's Outfit character creation Demonscale New outfit for Kimono character creation Madara's Outfit New outfit for

Nightcrawl Akemi

300

Nightcrawl Akemi

200

Nightcrawl Akemi

300

Nightcrawl Akemi

300

Defeat J.J. on hard or Harikiri

200

Unlocked J.J.'s outfit and see Wasted Wish event Unlock J.J's outfit and see the event Rescuing the Count

200 200

Nightcrawl Melinda

200

Defeat Kotobuki on hard or Harikiri

200

Defeat Moro on hard or Harikiri

200

Defeat Kinugawa on hard or Harikiri

200

Either Nightcrawl Mayu, Nightcrawl Chika or Nightcrawl Yuri

300

Either Nightcrawl Mayu, Nightcrawl Chika or Nightcrawl Yuri

300

Defeat Mayu on hard or Harikiri

300

Defeat Chika on hard or Harikiri

300

Defeat Yuri on hard or Harikiri

300

Nightcrawl Sensei

300

Defeat Dojima on hard or Harikiri

200

Kill 200 demonscales (should naturally 200 happen over time) Defeat Madara on hard or Harikiri 300

character creation Black Mask Outfit

New outfit for character creation

Human Pig

New outfit for character creation

Human Pig Set Foreigner Set Kinugawa's Eboshi Melinda's Helment Down Melinda's Helment - Up

Kill 200 black masks (I suggest giving up during the tournament ala Final 200 Warning event and run around at night to massacre them). Endure torture 10 times, can be during The Light of Hope ending or just 100 getting arrested

clothing options based 20 times tortured, see above on human pigs Nurse and Foreign From start Lady clothing options Kinugawa's little hat names says it, her helmet while it's covering your face names says it, what her helmet looks outside of battle

Melinda's Her left earring Earring (Left) Melinda's Her right earring Earring (Right)

100 600

Road to Ruin ending

100

Defeat Melinda on hard or Harikiri

100

Defeat Melinda on hard or Harikiri

100

Defeat Melinda on any difficulty

50

Defeat Melinda on any difficulty

50

Defeat Madara during the tournament The mask she always Madara's (side with Magistrate or independent if has on to hide her Patterned Mask both Sensei and Dojima are at their true identity jobs) Complete 50 sidejobs, something that Moro's Hat His hat! should happen naturally Her hat that she Laura's Hat seems to almost get ending Setting Off to Foreign Lands always have on A Doll of Laura that Laura's Doll Nightcrawl Laura rides on your back His small ear Play poker (not sure if you even have J.J.'s Ear Cuffs accessory to win at it...) Endure Human Waterwheel torture Mayu's Hair Small hair accessory (good/great crime or during The Light Ornament of Hope ending Endure Super Rock Press torture Chika's Hair Small hair accessory (average crime or during The Light of Ornament Hope ending Yuri's Hair Small hair accessory Endure Hell Horse torture (bad/very

100

100 100 100 100 100

100 100

Ornament

bad crime or during The Light of Hope ending

Human Pig Mask

What the human pigs Survive all 3 types of torture have on their faces Kill 100 black masks (I suggest giving Iron masks that all Black Mask's up during the tournament ala Final Black masks have on Iron Mask Warning event and run around at night (including Togro) to massacre them). Allows you to use J.J.'s gunstyle Gun License Defeat J.J. on any difficulty (pistols)/ allows you to pick up pistols Allows you to use the 2 styles associated Defeat Charles on hard or higher Rifle License with rifles/ ability to (Prajna path tournament opponent) pick up rifles Dual Arms Allows use of dual arm Kill 1000 people total, can be over License stances multiply playthoughs Defeat Toguro (either during The Light of Hope ending or by killing Madara Shinobi Dual Allows use of Shinobi before the independent tournament Arms License dual arm stances (having Dojima and Sensei's at their jobs or dead too) Can purchase the Chief Minister's Ogre Isle gun from Get the ending Fevered Spirits Gun the lost and found in Little Britain

50

100

400

400

400

400

1000

Accessory List Below is a list of all the accessories in the game as their appear in the main menu.

Head Accessories Accessory Name Bandana (Red) Casino Bandana (Blue) Casino Bandana Casino (Green) Bandana Casino (Yellow)

Location

Description A standard A standard A standard bandana A standard bandana

red bandana blue bandana green yellow

Bandana (Purple) Bandana (White) Bandana (Black) Bandana (Pink) Beard

Casino

Beard (White) Beard (Blond) Black Mask's Iron Mask Blondie Helmet Blacksmith's Glasses Blue Mask Bowler Hat

Casino Casino

A standard purple bandana A standard white bandana A standard black bandana A standard pink bandana An old style mustache (even though it's called beard...) An old style mustache An old style mustache

Unlockables kill 100 black masks

Mask of a black mask

Foreign Restaurant in Main Plaza

Bonnet

Foreign Restaurant in Main Plaza

Cat Ears Chika's Hair Ornament

Gambling Den in Town Unlockables (Endure Super Rock Press torture)

What Blondies have on What Dojima has on all the time Blue opera looking mask Old style hat A lot of foreign women wear this Set of Cat ears

Casino Casino Casino Casino

Casino Casino Foreign Restaurant in Main Plaza

Chef Hat

Foreign Restaurant in Main Plaza

Cowboy Hat

Foreign Restaurant in Main Plaza

Collar

Casino

Demonscale Head Guard

Casino

Dojima's Bandana

Casino

Eboshi Eyepatch Fox Mask Foreign Sunglasses Green Mask

Hair ornament Basically you'll be looking at it when you buy it from him A .... cowboy hat.... Metal collar, what a prisoner would wear Forehead protector of all demonscales As you might guess, What Dojima puts on when he's the smith

Unlockables complete the ending Road to Kinugawa's weird hat Ruin Casino Simple eyepatch Face mask designed like Curio Shop in Main Plaza a fox Casino

Yellow tinted sunglasses

Casino

Green opera looking

Hachimaki Curio Shop in Main Plaza Hair Ornament Curio Shop in Main Plaza 3 Hay-kasa Curio Shop in Main Plaza Hair Ornament Curio Shop in Main Plaza Hair Ornament Curio Shop in Main Plaza 1 Hay-kasa Casino (Black) Hair Ornament Curio Shop in Main Plaza 2 Hood

Curio Shop in Main Plaza

Human Pig Mask

Unlockables endure 20 times torture

Hyottoko Mask Curio Shop in Main Plaza J.J's Ear Cuffs Unlockables, play poker Katsura Maki Laura's Hat

Curio Shop in Main Plaza Unlockables, get ending Setting Off to Foreign Lands

Lady's Hat

Curio Shop in Main Plaza

Long Pipe Magistratekasa

Curio Shop in the Harbor Curio Shop in Main Plaza

Unlockables Endure Human Waterwheel torture (good/great crime or during The Light of Hope ending Marine Hat Foreign Restaurant in Main Plaza Melinda's Unlockables Defeat Melinda on hard or Helmet (Down) Harikiri Melinda's Unlockables Defeat Melinda on any Earring (Right) difficulty Melinda's Unlockables Defeat Melinda on any Earring (Left) difficulty Melinda's Unlockables Defeat Melinda on hard or Helmet (Up) Harikiri Mayu's Hair Ornament

Monocle

Casino

mask a headband Flower design on the left side of head Hay hat Name says it all, hard to really see though Flowers on top of head Black hay hat Not sure how to discribe, goes on side of head Piece of cloth that goes on your head weird mask that makes you look like a pig in a way Weird human faced mask Weird thing J.J. has on his ear Full covering headband Her hat Large hat, doesn't cover much of the face A pipe for smoking Something Kotoboki sometimes has as a hat Simple hair accessory What marines have on Her helmet as it covers her face Her right earring Her left earring Her helmet when she's not in battle One eye lens, exactly as you'd think it looks

Unlockables Complete 50 sidejobs, something that should happen naturally Nirayama-kasa Curio Shop in Main Plaza Moro's Hat

His standard hat

Noh Mask

Curio Shop in Main Plaza

Nurse Hat

Foreign Restaurant in Main Plaza

Okame Mask Oni Mask (Blue) Oni Mask (Green) Oni Mask

Curio Shop in Main Plaza

Small rain hat Mask that looks like a women's face Again what the nurses have on Theater mask

Casino

blue shaded demon mask

Casino

green shaded demon mask Demon mask

Curio Shop in the Harbor Unlockables Defeat Madara during the tournament (side with Magistrate or Patterned Mask Madara's Mask independent if both Sensei and Dojima are at their jobs) Scarf that covers the face Prajna Scarf Gambling Den in Town in Prajna red Prajna Mask Curio Shop in Main Plaza Demon like mask Prajna Bandana the Prajna's Gambling Den in Town Bandanna wear Red Mask Casino red opera looking mask Ronin-kasa Black hat that covers Casino (Black) most of the head A hat that covers the Ronin-kasa Curio Shop in Main Plaza entire face, worn by dueliest Sando-kasa Curio Shop in Main Plaza Bamboo hat What the sailor's all have Sailor Hat Foreign Restaurant in Main Plaza on Blue scarf that covers Scarf Mask Curio Shop in the Harbor face A red scarf that hides the Scarf (Red) Casino face A blue scarf that hides Scarf (Blue) Casino the face A green scarf that hides Scarf (Green) Casino the face A yellow scarf that hides Scarf (Yellow) Casino the face A purple scarf that hides Scarf (Purple) Casino the face

Scarf (White)

Casino

Scarf (Pink)

Casino

Scarf (Black)

Gambling Den in Town

Silk Hat Small Mustache (White) Small Mushtache (Blond) Small Mushtache Smoking Pipe Spectacles

Foreign Restaurant in Main Plaza

A white scarf that hides the face A pink scarf that hides the face Black Scarf used by bikini dojo challengers A top hat

Casino

Name says it all

Casino

Name says it all

Casino

Small Mushtache

Casino Curio Shop in Main Plaza

Stalk

Curio Shop in the Harbor

Sunglasses

Casino

Tengai

Curio Shop in Main Plaza

Tengu Mask

Curio Shop in Main Plaza

Standard looking pipe Pair of glasses A twig you put in your month Standard looking part of shades Basically a basket worn like a mask Face mask like a demon Black monk mask, covers entire head A rather large toopick you put in your month

Tengai (Black) Casino Toothpick

Curio Shop in the Harbor

Twisted Hachimaki

Curio Shop in Main Plaza

a headband

Yellow Mask

Casino

Yellow opera looking mask

Yuri's Hair Ornament

Unlockables Endure Hell Horse torture (bad/very bad crime or during The Light of Small hair ornament Hope ending

Chest Accessories Accessory Name Bamboo Cane Camera

Location Curio Shop in the Harbor Casino

Description Cane in your right hand the camera all those people use to save

Circular Wrapping Curio Shop Cloth Harbor Curio Shop Cloth Wrap Harbor Curio Shop Construction Tools Harbor Curio Shop Fishing Pole Harbor

in the in the in the in the

Fish Monger's Kit Casino Foreign Cane Giant Shuriken Laura's Doll Mail Carrier Box Medal (Silver) Medal (Gold) Medal (Bronze) Medicine Box

Foreign Restaurant in Main Plaza Casino Unlockables Nightcrawl Laura Curio Shop in Main Plaza Casino Casino Casino Curio Shop in the Harbor

Muffler (Yellow)

Casino

Muffler (Purple)

Casino

Muffler (White)

Casino

Muffler (Black)

Casino

Muffler (Pink) Muffler (Red) Muffler (Blue)

Casino Casino Casino

Muffler (Green)

Casino

Nipponichi

Casino Curio Shop in Main Plaza Casino Casino Casino

Paper Umbrella Ribbon (Green) Ribbon (Yellow) Ribbon (Purple)

your game. Green bag on back (what the Thief Job broker has blue wrap worn from right shoulder to left side What the carpenters always run around with Worn on the back, you should know what it looks like... Double set of baskets all the fishermen carry Cane defaulted to the right hand Name says it all Massive doll worn on the back What the Couriers carry, doesn't look right not grabbing it though Silver medal, basically a military medal Gold medal, basically a military medal Bronze medal, basically a military medal Massive backpack, likely full of medicine that doesn't help you... A yellow muffler that goes around the neck A purple muffler that goes around the neck A white muffler that goes around the neck A black muffler that goes around the neck A pink muffler that goes around the neck A red muffler that goes around the neck A blue muffler that goes around the neck A green muffler that goes around the neck A sign on your back Umbrella worn on the back A green ribbon A yellow ribbon A purple ribbon

Ribbon (White) Ribbon (Black) Ribbon (Pink) Ribbon (Red) Ribbon (Blue) Stethoscope Sumaki Tenka Muso Wallet Yui Ga Dokuson

Casino Casino Curio Shop in the Harbor Casino Casino

A white ribbon A black ribbon A pink ribbon worn in the middle of the chest A red ribbon A blue ribbon What the doctor uses to check your Casino heartbeat Gambling Den in Town Straw that covers most of the body Sign on your back, boosting your Casino strength appearently Curio Shop in the A wallet worn around the neck (lays Harbor middle of chest) Sign on your back claiming you're the Casino center of everything...

Waist Accessories Accessory Name Bamboo Flute Calabash Cat Tail Fish Basket

Location

Description

Curio Shop in the Harbor Curio Shop in the Harbor Gambling Den in Town Curio Shop in Main Plaza Foreign Restaurant in Leather Pouch Main Plaza Medicinal Pouch Curio Shop in Main Plaza Pocket Watch Curio Shop in the Harbor Sake Bottle

Curio Shop in the Harbor

Textbook Wind-catcher Belt

Casino Casino

Flute that is keep on your back A different style of bottle A cat tail... A small basket worn on the waist Small Pouch that defaults to your waist on the back Small pouch worn in the front left Watch worn on your waist Bottle carried on the waist on your back side A big book A weird looking belt with a fan in the middle

Arms Accessories Accessory Name Boxing Glove (Right) Boxing Glove

Location

Description

Casino

Big red boxing glove

Casino

Big red boxing glove

(Left) Bracelet

Casino Gambling Den in Cat Paw (Right) Town Gambling Den in Cat Paw (Left) Town Foreign Lady's Curio Shop in the Parasol Harbor Curio Shop in the Japanese Parasol Harbor Curio Shop in the Paper Lantern Harbor Curio Shop in the Pinwheel Harbor Gambling Den in Rope Town Curio Shop in the Sushi Box Harbor

a fancy bracet Massive Cat paw on right hand Massive Cat paw on left hand What the foreign ladies have in Little Britain all the time Umbrella that is rather massive and gets in the way (imo anyways) Held paper latern Small pinwheel held in your hand Rope that is warpped around the right hand Small box held in hand by a ribbon

Food list Below is a list of locations that sell food and what they do. As well as the cost with average crime rate and the hospital being closed. If you don't see an option make sure your crime rate is great. If you eat everything here you'll earn the Foodie trophy.

Soba-ya in harbor Located on the east side of the map, a restaurant you can enter. Dish Name Hot Soba

Approx cost 150 mon

Kitsune Soba 200 mon Tanuki Soba 180 mon Egg Soba

150 mon

Hot Udon Kitsune

160 mon 220 mon

Effects 150 vitality 200 vitality time 180 vitality time 150 vitality time 160 vitality 220 vitality

restored restored and strength increased after short restored and increased strength after short restored and increased strength after short restored restored and increased defense after short

Udon

time 200 vitality restored and increased defense after short time 160 vitality restored and increased defense after short time

Tanuki Udon 190 mon Egg Udon

180 mon

Sushi-ya in harbor On the west side of the map, a restaurant you can enter. Dish Name

Approx cost

Tuna

180 mon

Sea Eel

180 mon

Shrimp

180 mon

Cooked Egg 150 mon

Effects 300 vitality time 400 vitality time 500 vitality time 150 vitality time

restored and increased defense after short restored and increased defense after short restored and increased defense after short restored and increased defense after short

Bait & Grub in town Near the exit to the harbor, this stall doesn't exactly offer a lot of options. Dish Name Approx cost Effects Grilled Sweetfish 200 mon 500 vitality and increased vitality retention for 3 min Toasty truth bar in town West side of town the Prajna's favorite hangout.

Hot Sake Cold Sake

Approx cost 180 mon 180 mon

Willow Leaf Fish

100 mon

Turnip

120 mon

Sashimi Assortment

250 mon

Dish Name

Effects double strength half defense 2 minutes double defense half strength 2 minutes 100 vitality restored and increased defense after short time 120 vitality restored and increased defense after short time 250 vitality restored and increased defense after short time

Stewed Taro

200 mon

Tea Rice Akemi's Stewed Potatoes

150 mon

Special Hot Sake

180 mon

250 vitality and increased vitality retention for 3 minutes 300 vitality 500 vitality and increased vitality retention for 5 minutes 100 vitality and increased spring harvest rate for 5 minutes.

200 mon

Eatery in town restaurant top of map. Note that Tempura Bowl is only avaiable for a few days. According to the Japanese wiki days 2,3, 5 and 6. Approx cost

Dish Name Eel Bown

400 mon

Tempura Bowl

500 mon

Tuna Bowl

300 mon

Effects 400 vitality and increased vitality retnetion (no idea of the time limit 500 vitality and increased vitality retnetion (no idea of the time limit 300 vitality and increased vitality retnetion (no idea of the time limit

Western Noodle House in town On the east side of the eatery this is a simple stall. Dish Name Spicy Stir-fried Soba Hot Sake Cold Sake

Approx cost 500 mon 180 mon 180 mon

Effects 500 vitality and increased vitality retention for 5 minutes double strength half defense 2 minutes double defense half strength 2 minutes

Teahouse in back roads Right in the middle of the back roads Dish Name 3 flavor dango

Approx cost 170 mon

Effects 100 vitality and increased vitality retention for 3

Sweet Bean Mochi Steamed Bun Cake

200 mon 50 mon

minutes 100 vitality and increased vitality retention for 3 minutes 200 vitality and increased vitality retention for 2 minutes

Restaurant in Main Plaza On the east side of the main plaza, you must have the language school open to eat here. Approx cost

Dish Name Big Steak

800 mon

Haunch of Meat

1000 mon

Effects 800 vitality restored and increased strength after short time 1000 vitality and increased vitality retention for 6 minutes

Weapon list Below is a list of the weapons and where to find them. Been a while since I've gotten some of these so let me know if there are any problems. For platinum you need 100 types of weapons. There are 109 total, meaning you need a majority of them for platinum. However swords in this game are purely cosmetic, all swords can get max stats... so feel free to pick up a sword and drop it if you don't like the look of it, you don't need to keep the sword for it to count just have picked one up at some point.

Sword list The bulk of the weapons are sword, most NPC's will be using these. ability Obtained From: Yakuza on hard or higher, from Sakotsu massacre mission for easy getting. Appearance: small blade, green grip and sheath.

Alebarrow

Obtained From: After The Amihama Eight mission you must kills Gramps. This is his hard weapon so play on hard or harikiri to get it. Appearance: Standard blade, but the guard is rather large. grip and sheath are dark brown.

Aleshaft Obtained From: After The Amihama Eight mission you must kills Gramps. This is his normal weapon so play below hard to get it easily. Appearance: Standard blade, but the guard is rather large. grip and sheath are dark brown.

AruKinza Toothpick Obtained From: Sensei on normal before she's part of the dojo. Also during The Amihama Eight mission the Foreigners have this weapon commonly. Appearance: standard blade, brown grip and a red sheath.

Asura Obtained From: Akagi's normal weapon. Fight him on Road to Ruin, A Change of Heart, Setting Off to Foreign Lands or the Samurai Straight endings on less then hard to easily obtain it. Appearance: Large blade, brown and gold grip and sheath.

Basal Blade Obtained From: Starting the game! This is the default weapon, it's also gotten from random enemies on normal. Appearance: standard katana with the standard black grip and sheath.

Bamboo Sword Obtained From: Sensei when she's at the dojo teaching.

Appearance: Standard bamboo sword.

Beeline Obtained From: Kotobuki's normal weapon you fight him during The Flames of Prajna, Fevered Spirits, Samurai Straight and the A Change of Heart endings. Play on easy or normal to have a good chance at it. Appearance: unique blade, brown/green grip and sheath.

Big Deal Obtained From: Mayu's normal weapon. You fight her and her sisters during The Light of Hope, Fevered Spirits and Samurai Straight endings. Play on normal or lower to easily get this. Appearance: normal blade, grip is a fancy purple and light brown. Sheath is purple.

Big Bertha Obtained From: A weapon that various people will have on normal. Do side quests and eventually you'll find it. Appearance: standard katana length, gray grip and sheath.

Blazelet Obtained From: One of Chika's normal weapon. You fight her and her sisters during The Light of Hope, Fevered Spirits and Samurai Straight endings. Play on normal or lower to easily get this. Appearance: Standard blade, dark grip and sheath with red lining.

Black Mark't Obtained From: Dojima's normal weapon before he's the smith. If he's already the smith you'd have to kill him and kill him again next playthough. Appearance: Standard blade, black grip with some details. sheath is black and gray.

Bloomer Obtained From: Suzume after The Amihama Eight mission. Appearance: Short blade with a standard sheath(black one). grip is dark green or brown.

Blunt Sword Obtained From: Pretty much everyone on easy. Even on Harikiri random enemies will sometimes still have it. Appearance: Default black, this is meant to look like a standard katana with nothing special about it.

Boy Howdy Obtained From: One of Muzu weapons, fight him after either Amihama Eight mission. Appearance: standard blade, grip and sheath are both wooden coloured.

Breakright Obtained From: Kenzaki during A Deceptive Price (Prajna event day 2) make sure you kill Kenzaki 1st as a cut screen will prevent you from picking up the blade if you leave him for last. Appearance: normal blade with a brown grip and sheath.

Cavitater Obtained From: Mayu's hard weapon. You fight her and her sisters during The Light of Hope, Fevered Spirits and Samurai Straight endings. Play on hard or Harikiri to get it. Appearance: standard blade with a fancy guard. Black/brown grip with a fancy red sheath.

Centurion Obtained From: Melinda's normal weapon. Pretty much anytime you see her you can kill her for it. Appearance: A large Claymore, brown grip and a purple sheath.

Ceiling Cut Obtained From: Random enemies, got it doing Hooray! The Hospital's Grand Opening Appearance: Large blade, black sheath and grip.

Chieftan Obtained From: Melinda's hard weapon, find her on hard or harikiri to kill her for it. Appearance: Another claymore, grip is the same but the sheath is red.

Choking Earl Obtained From: Low end weapon, yakuza and random enemies can have this. Appearance: short blade, brown grip and a gray sheath.

Cicadian Schism Obtained From: Opium dealing on harikiri gave this for me during Stop the Opium Smugglers, can be found elsewhere still on hard/ harikiri. Appearance: short blade, dark brown grip and sheath.

Critical Frame

Obtained From: One of Chika's hard difficult weapon. You fight her and her sisters during The Light of Hope, Fevered Spirits and Samurai Straight endings. Play on hard or Harikiri to have a good chance at it. Appearance: Slightly fancy standard blade. gray grip and sheath with green lining.

Crusader Obtained From: Blondie's all carry this weapon in their attempts to emulate Melinda. Appearance: a smaller claymore then Melinda. grip is silver or gray. sheath is black and blue.

Cyclone Obtained From: Kotobuki's hard weapon you fight him during The Flames of Prajna, Fevered Spirits, Samurai Straight and the A Change of Heart endings. Play on hard or harikiri to have a good chance at it. Appearance: A bit of a unique blade, black grip and black sheath.

Devotion Obtained From: Madara's normal weapon. Fight her during the endings The Light of Hope, Fevered Spirits, The Flames of Prajna or during the tournament if you fight for the magistrate/ as the independent path having both Sensei and Dojima either dead or at their respective jobs. Fight her normal or easy to get it from her. Appearance: unique short blade, grip and sheath are both black.

Demonbane Obtained From: In the Gambling Den in town the bookkeeper who sells accessories has this equipped. Also is dropped during The Amihama Eight mission. Appearance: Long blade, black grip and sheath is black with a purple cloth on one end.

Diet Slice Obtained From: One of Sensei's weapons. Normal or lower before she's part of the dojo. Also drops during The Amihama Eight mission Appearance: Standard blade, black grip and sheath which has a brown end.

Dragonfly Obtained From: Generic ninja weapon, any time you're facing a group of ninja one of them is bound to have one of these. Appearance: A fancy short sword. Black grip with a mostly black sheath(has a design on it).

Fever Obtained From: Kazumi Mozu after giving you the The Amihama Eight mission is the best chance for this. Also drops from some enemies during The Amihama Eight. Appearance: A straight fencing style blade, grip and sheath are purple.

Finisher Obtained From: Kamon during the Prajna tournament ... though you don't really want to leave those poor kids without a dad... do you? Appearance: Standard katana, black grip and sheath.

Flesh Spelunker Obtained From: Kotetsu after The Amihama Eight. Appearance: Standard blade, red grip and sheath.

Full Moonflower Obtained From: Prajna on harder difficulty

Appearance: Large blade, black grip with a blue sheath with white stripes on it.

Garuda Obtained From: Akagi's hard weapon. Fight him on Road to Ruin, A Change of Heart, Setting Off to Foreign Lands or the Samurai Straight endings on hard or harikiri to obtain it. Appearance: Long blade, white grip and a golden sheath.

Goro Doe Obtained From: decently common weapon on normal+ from random enemies. Appearance: standard blade, black grip and mostly black sheath with a brown end.

Great Tengu Obtained From: I know it's from one of the swordsman after The Amihama Eight mission. Not sure which one but it's apparently gotten on normal. Appearance: haven't gotten it... only sword I don't have.

Haruyuki Obtained From: Moro on easy or normal and only during the end of Road to Ruin ending (everywhere else he just uses his hands). Appearance: Normal blade with a blue grip and blue and brown sheath.

Heatsink Obtained From: Kill Melinda before either Prajna ending (Fevered Spirits or The Flames of Prajna) and instead of Melinda a new commander will be there with this weapon. Appearance: A fencing sword. Grip and sheath are pink.

Hundred-Year Itch Obtained From: Random ninja blade from random ninjas Appearance: short blade, grip and sheath are both red.

Icy Glare Obtained From: One of Chika's normal weapon. You fight her and her sisters during the Fevered Spirits and Samurai Straight endings. Play on normal or lower to easily get this. Appearance: Standard blade, black grip and sheath with blue highlights.

Integrity Obtained From: Sugamo the blind swordsman during the magistrate tournament follow Road to Ruin or A Change of Heart to get this route in the tournament, doesn't matter what difficulty you choose. Appearance: gray grip and sheath, normal sized blade.

Ipscalibur Obtained From: The leader of the invaders during The Amihama Eight mission. Appearance: A claymore, purple grip and green sheath. Also had a large guard.

Josephine Obtained From: J.J. uses this during The Flames of Prajna ending. Play on normal or easy to get it. Appearance: A rapier, green and silver grip, guard and sheath.

Joanna Obtained From: J.J.'s hard weapon he uses during The Flames of Prajna ending. Play on hard or harikiri to get it.

Appearance: Rapier, golden and black grip and sheath.

Last Rites Obtained From: A generic sword, many enemies will have it on the harder difficulties. Appearance: Standard katana with a brown grip and a blue sheath.

Laundry Pole Obtained From: Standard weapon for many thugs around town (and others). Appearance: Long blade, red grip and guard.

Lost Prayer Obtained From: One of Sensei's possible weapons before she becomes head of the dojo. Appearance: standard blade, black grip and sheath. sheath has a bit of purple on it.

Longshaft Obtained From: Kogure's normal weapon kill him during Road to Ruin, A Change of Heart or during a foreign playthough during the tournament (also could kill him after). Play on easy or normal for this. Appearance: normal katana, purple grip with a blue, black and silver sheath.

Longarm Obtained From: A generic weapon, constables seem to have it. Appearance: Large blade, green grip and sheath.

Lucky Bamboo

Obtained From: I've only seen this from students at the dojo.. so you'll have to kill one of your students to get this. Appearance: A yellow bamboo sword.

Masatoshi Obtained From: Moro on hard or harikiri and only during the end of Road to Ruin ending (everywhere else he just uses his hands). Appearance: Red normal sized blade, red grip and sheath.

Marigold Obtained From: Ninja weapon so fight those ninjas! Appearance: Short blade, dark green grip and sheath.

Manjusaka Obtained From: Ninja enemies on harder difficulties Appearance: Short blade, black grip and sheath, sheath has a string on it.

Monkeytail Obtained From: Another ninja blade randomly equipped by ninja. Appearance: Short blade, red grip and sheath.

Morning Moon Obtained From: This is a hard drop from Orochi after Four Samurai Lords vs Yakuza Quartet or The Amihama Eight you have to betray him either way. Appearance: short blade, black grip and sheath.

Morning Vainglory Obtained From: Random enemies will have this. Appearance: Long blade, dark red grip and red sheath.

Muramasa Obtained From: Random enemies during The Amihama Eight mission. Appearance: short red blade, black grip and sheath.

Nerveknive Obtained From: Kinugawa during The Light of Hope ending, this is his hard weapon so play on hard/ harikiri for it. Appearance: sawtooth blade, golden grip with a gold/ gray sheath.

New World Obtained From: Sensei before she's part of the dojo. Appearance: Standard blade, brown grip and sheath.

New Religion Obtained From: Another random blade Appearance: standard blade, green grip and sheath.

Nihonbashi Obtained From: Generic large sword from random enemies. Appearance: Large blade, grip and sheath are both a brown tone.

Norris Obtained From: Hosokawa during the magistrate tournament follow Road to Ruin or A Change of Heart to get this route in the tournament, doesn't matter what difficulty you choose. Appearance: Long blade, grip is black sheath is mostly red.

Ogrenip Obtained From: A few enemies during The Amihama Eight mission use this. Appearance: Long blade, gray grip with a red/orange sheath. sheath also has a white cloth over it.

Pain' the Town Obtained From: Kinugawa during The Light of Hope ending, this is his normal weapon so play on easy/ normal for it. Appearance: Sawtooth blade, grip is purple and gray, sheath is dark green with purple and sliver.

Poison Viper Obtained From: Another ninja blade. Appearance: Short blade, green grip and sheath.

Raincloud Obtained From: I believe this is Orochi normal weapon, someone you must betray after either Amihama Eight missions. Appearance: Short blade, black and purple grip and sheath.

Red Viper Obtained From: Toguro's weapon kill him during The Light of Hope ending.

Appearance: Short blade, orange/red grip and black sheath.

Rice Burner Obtained From: Random enemies, harder difficulties should make it more common. Appearance: standard blade, red grip with a orange sheath

Rose of Sharon Obtained From: Common weapon. Appearance: short blade, black grip and sheath.

Scapulator Obtained From: Muzu after The Amihama Eight, Appearance: unique normal sized blade, red grip and sheath.

Sharkfin Mk. 9 Obtained From: Kirizame after The Amihama Eight mission. Appearance: Unique normal blade, red grip and sheath.

Shady Deal Obtained From: Dojima's hard weapon before he's the smith. If he is the smith you'll have to kill him and in the next playthough find him at the cemetery. Appearance: normal blade, fancy red grip and a red sheath.

Sharkfin Sluicer Obtained From: Kinugawa during The Chief Minister Lived.

Appearance: Unique blade, Black grip and black sheath.

Silent Song Obtained From: Another random ninja weapon. Appearance: Short blade, dark brown grip and sheath.

Smackuza Obtained From: Lots of random enemies will have this short sword. Appearance: short blade, wooden grip and sheath.

Snowcloud Obtained From: Can't if this was Toguro only or can be random ninja... Toguro can be found during The Light of Hope ending. Appearance: short blade, gray sheath.

Snatcher Obtained From: Generic weapon, Prajna have it. Appearance: Standard blade, brown grip with a red/orange sheath.

Soul Culler Obtained From: Kogure's hard weapon kill him during Road to Ruin, A Change of Heart or during a foreign playthough during the tournament (also could kill him after). Play on hard or harikiri for this. Appearance: Standard blade, Gray grip and a black sheath with a bit of a pattern on it.

Spindler

Obtained From: Toguro weapon, fight him on The Light of Hope ending. Appearance: Red blade, dark brown grip and a black sheath.

Strike Two Obtained From: Kyouemon during independent tournament. Appearance: Massive blade, purple grip and no sheath.

Strike One Obtained From: Kyouemon during independent tournament Appearance: Massive blade, red grip and no sheath.

Tailbwnd Obtained From: The chief minister during The Chief Minister Lived also a common drop from the enemies during The Amihama Eight. Appearance: unique blade with no guard, black grip and sheath.

Two-Face Obtained From: generic weapon, Demonscales have it a lot. Appearance: standard blade, green grip and sheath.

Two Heart Obtained From: Madara's hard weapon. Fight her during the endings The Light of Hope, Fevered Spirits, The Flames of Prajna or during the tournament if you fight for the magistrate/ as the independent path having both Sensei and Dojima either dead or at their respective jobs. Fight her hard or harikiri to get it from her. Appearance: short blade with a unique look, dark grip and dark red sheath.

Warhead Obtained From: One of Chika's hard difficult weapon. You fight her and her sisters during The Light of Hope, Fevered Spirits and Samurai Straight and endings. Play on hard or Harikiri to have a good chance at it. Appearance: Slightly fancy standard blade. gray grip and sheath with red lining.

Wyvernfly Obtained From: Mostly ninja's have this, but it can drop from others. Appearance: short unique blade, dark brown grip, kindva a stone pattern sheath.

Xerter Obtained From: Kobato after The Amihama Eight mission. Appearance: standard blade, gray grip and steath,

Spear Weapons Should be obviously who's using the spears, Prajna seem to be a major source of them. Black Lion Obtained From: Random enemies Appearance: Standard spear, black and green grip.

Borrower Obtained From: Pretty common spear. Appearance: Standard spear, grip is mostly red with a bit of light green.

Fat Messenger

Obtained From: This is one of the blunt sword of spears, very common Appearance: Spear, grip is brown with a bit of green near the tip

Hellgirl Obtained From: Hiyoko after The Amihama Eight mission. Appearance: spear blade with a half moon guard. grip is white with gold decal.

Ice Needle Obtained From: A bit rarer, but still a common enough spear. Appearance: Curved blade (naginata) and a white grip.

Kiritampo Obtained From: Pretty common weapon, may require you to be normal or above. Appearance: Curved blade (naginata) and a white grip.

Prodigy Obtained From: This is one of the blunt sword of spears, very common Appearance: Standard spear, green grip.

Rakshasa Obtained From: Erika during the foreigner tournament follow either Setting Off to Foreign Lands or Samurai Straight endings for a step by step to get here. Appearance: spear blade with a half moon guard. handle is red and green.

Snowdrift

Obtained From: A bit rarer but a common spear. Appearance: A curved blade (naginata) with a black grip with a bit of purple.

Wisterianum Obtained From: Yuri's normal difficult weapon. You fight her and her sisters during The Light of Hope, Fevered Spirits and Samurai Straight. Play on easy or normal to have a good chance at it. Appearance: Curved blade (naginata), yellow/black handle with a bulb at the end.

Wisteriam Obtained From: Yuri's hard difficult weapon. You fight her and her sisters during The Light of Hope, Fevered Spirits and Samurai Straight. Play on hard or Harikiri to have a good chance at it. Appearance: Curved blade (naginata), red/purple handle with a bulb at the end.

Other weapons All other weapons, rifles, pistols and claws. 53 Rifle Obtained From: You must first have the firearms licence (gotten from the unlockables menu after defeating Charles in the Prajna path tournament), then defeat any marine walking around with it. It's common, the hard part is getting the firearms licence. Appearance: A rifle, pretty easy to spot.

Angel Obtained From: Charles in the Prajna tournament. Like above you must get the firearms licence 1st, so to get this weapon you must defeat Charles at least twice. Appearance: A black version of the standard rifle.

Bamboozler Obtained From: Dojima, his hammer when he's the smith. Appearance: A large hammer for smithing and crushing people.

Cutlette Obtained From: Outside Sushi-ya in the harbor (east of the entrance). Appearance: A large fish... likely frozen.

Dragon Claw Obtained From: Onigawawa during the foreigner tournament follow either Setting Off to Foreign Lands or Samurai Straight endings for a step by step to get here. The difficulty must be set to harikiri for a chance for these. Appearance: Very large claws, you use your unarmed style while using them.

Hooked Truncheon Obtained From: Thief-taker weapon, rather common. Appearance: A blunt tool to help catch criminals.

Jacqueline Obtained From: J.J.'s pistol, if you go though the true ending path but have the casino open you'll face J.J. with him having this pistol. To grab it you must have already defeated J.J. and unlocked pistols as an option. Appearance: a six shot revolver.

Maidenmaker Obtained From: Chika sometimes equips this during The Light of Hope ending (Mayu too maybe). Also during Kobato mission The Empress Needs No Competition your target sometimes uses this.

Appearance: A large blunt tool for punishment... or fun?

Ogre Isle Obtained From: Buy it from the Lost and found shop after unlocking it from the unlocks menu. Getting the option there requires you to get the Fevered Spirit ending, as well you'll need to have defeated J.J. to unlock the pistol licence. Appearance: Another revolver.

Sharp Knife Obtained From: One of the dojo challengers always has this. Can also be gotten randomly in some quests/ events. Appearance: A standard house knife with a brown grip, extremely short ranged.

Tiger Claw Obtained From: Onigawawa during the foreigner tournament follow either Setting Off to Foreign Lands or Samurai Straight endings for a step by step to get here. The difficulty must be set to hard for a chance for these. Appearance: A set of claws, a bit smaller then the Dragon Claw, but like it you use your unarmed style while equipped with them.

Items Below is everything you need to know about items, where to get them and what shops sell what.

Shop list Below is a full list of what each shop offers. If you don't see an item at that shop then either your crime rate less then great or you haven't waited enough days. So to get a full item list be sure to wait till day 5 (more maybe) and have a great crime rate.

Souvenir Shop in Harbor This shop is the stall on the east side of the harbor map, offers basic healing items that somehow are considered souvenirs. He has for sale:       

Onigiri Dried Fish Steamed Cake Mushroom Asura Mushroom Whetting Stone Polishing Powder

Casino in Harbor The casino is in the south-east corner of the harbor and open only at night. Also all items are prizes so you need chips that you must 1st buy then can win, if you're lucky at the poker mini-game. I'm listing costs here since they don't really fit in with the normal mon costs. The prizes in the casino are: Prize Cost in chips Chocolate 10 Medicine 100 Blade Oil 50 Moves Scroll 300 Special Moves Scroll 600 Legendary Moves Scroll 900 Blank Book 1500 General Store in Town Shop stall in the south side of the town area between the dojo and the smith. As it's name suggests has a lot of general type items She has for sale:   

White Radish Egg Umeboshi (L)

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Umeboshi Plum Wine Straw Doll Rotten Onigiri Poison Mushroom

Dojima in Town Or the smithy, either way at the south end of the town towards the language school The smith offers weapon related items. He has for sale:    

Whetting Stone Polishing Powder Blade Oil Blank Book

Dojima also offers a few basic weapon parts, but this section is about the items so I'm not going to list them.

Pharmacy in Town Stall at the very north end of town, as the name suggests he'll sell you various medicines. He has for sale:      

Sake Umeboshi Asura Mushroom Carrot Red Pepper Medicine

Bait & Grub in Town His stall in on the south-west corner of the map right beside the exit to the harbor. He sells various baits to go fishing with. He has for sale: 

Earthworms

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Sandworms Krill Shrimp Minnow Lure Organic Bait Mochi Super Earthworms

Emporium at Shrine Stall right outside the entrance to the shrine, unmissable. He has for sale:         

Onigiri Dried Fish Mushroom White Radish Sake Umeboshi Plum Wine Carrot Red Pepper

Onigiri-ya in the Back Roads Stall right in the middle of the map (west of the exit into the Magistrate area) He has (lots of Onigiri) for sale:      

Rotten Onigiri Onigiri Onigiri (Sour Plum) Onigiri (Salmon) Onigiri (Takana Pickles) Onigiri (Dried Seaweed)

Used Goods at Magistrate His stall is directly north of the entrance way to the Main Plaza. I do have to wonder why anyone would want a used Onigiri or egg though....

He has for sale:     

Onigiri Egg Steamed Cake Whetting Stone Polishing Powder

Sweets Shop in Little Britain Her Stall is on the west side of the map and is rather hard to miss. The language school must be open to shop here. She has for sale:  

Chocolate Soda Water

Lost & Found in Little Britain Below the track you'll find this guy, at 1st he won't have anything for sale. When you die and choose not to reload he'll sell you your items back to you. He also sells Ogre Isle when unlocked as well as the key to Laura room for night crawling her.

Items (Continued) Hospital in Little Britain More so, the nurse inside the hospital. She sells items that kindva relate to healing. She has for sale:      

Chocolate Wine Bottle Asura Mushroom Carrot Red Pepper Medicine

Bar in Black ship Inside the ship itself this guy is located in the far west corner. Since he is a bar he won't be open in the afternoon. He has for sale:    

Chocolate Wine Bottle High Grade Wine Vintage Wine

Item list Below is a list of all items, their effects and where to get them. The base cost of each item is what it would cost with a normal/ average crime rate and the hospital being closed. If the crime rate is strong the cost deceases by 25% (weak increases by 25%) and if it's great crime rate the item costs are dropped in half (1.5 costs for very weak crime). The hospital being opened adds 10% to the cost of each item regardless of crime rate. So an Onigiri costs 100 mon with average crime would cost 50 mon with great crime and 150 with very weak crime rate. If the hospital was open though, it's cost 110 mon for average, 55 for great crime and 165 for very weak crime.

Asura Mushroom Description: Restores half your spring harvest gauge (500 points) and makes the gauge raise quicker when you get kills/ combos during spring harvest for 30 seconds.

I recommend trying to keep a few of these on you at all times as spring harvest can turn a hard fight into a joke fast. Found: Constables drop them with some regularity, not found on the ground though. Purchased From: Souvenir Shop in Harbor, Pharmacy in Town, Hospital in Little Britain Base cost: 500 mon

Blade Oil Description: When used this makes your sword indestructible for 5 minutes. This is great when combined with guns, as their main draw back is how much each shot costs in durability. Found: A rare drop, if you want some buy it. Purchased From: Dojima in Town, Casino in Harbor Base cost: 750 mon

Blank Book Description: This is needed to create your own style at the dojo Found: Toguro rarely drops one who you fight during The Light of Hope ending as well as can be a substitute during the independent tournament. Purchased From: Dojima in Town, Casino in Harbor Base cost: 15,000 mon ... you may want to steal 10 of these before finishing up a playthough (as Dojima won't help you if you steal from him)

Carrot Description: Doubles defense for 30 seconds. I believe this actually gives a 50% damage reduction and like the style skills the largest % is the only one used. So if you have a sword with Toughen - Expert, this item is useless to use. Can also be used for fishing. Found: One in the harbor (behind Sushi-ya up the stairs on some crates).

Purchased From: Pharmacy in Town, Emporium at Shrine, Hospital in Little Britain Base cost: 500 mon

Chocolate Description: Restores 50 vitality but more importantly makes spring harvest raise quickly when getting kills/ comboing in spring harvest for 3 minutes! I generally always have 1-2 of these on me as one gives enough bonus for most large fights, well worth the low cost. Found: A rare drop, far easier to buy them. Purchased From: Sweets Shop in Little Britain, Hospital in Little Britain, Bar in Black ship, Casino in Harbor Base cost: 150 mon

Dried Fish Description: Great early game healing item, restores 500 vitality. Also can be used for fishing. Found: Enemies will drop it time to time, one or two can be found on the ground. Purchased From: Souvenir Shop in Harbor, Emporium at Shrine Base cost: 300 mon

Earthworms Description: Fishing bait, can be stacked up to 10 in a single item slot Found: Can be found near trees in a few maps Purchased From: Bait & Grub in Town Base cost: 50 mon

Egg

Description: restores 150 vitality and slowly vitality use for 2 minutes. Useful item, but there are better options. Found: Off the top of my head I don't know if I've seen it dropped by an enemy, it does seem to be the most common successful night crawling "proof of love". Purchased From: General Store in Town, Used Goods at Magistrate Base cost: 120 mon

High Grade Wine Description: Double strength for 3 minutes and 200 life. The life restore is pretty useless, but double strength can be beyond helpful in large fights. Found: The Foreigners during The Amihama Eight mission drop these. Purchased From: Bar in Black ship Base cost: 500 mon

Krill Description: Fishing bait, can be stacked up to 10 in a single item slot Found: Only from the bait & Grub in town Purchased From: Bait & Grub in Town Base cost: 100 mon

Legendary Moves Scroll Description: Teaches a single move on a sword regardless of level requierments. Keep it for moves with level 5 requirements you just can't be bothered to do yourself. Found: Dropped by rare enemies. Purchased From: Casino in Harbor Base cost: 900 chips, can't be purchased with Mon.

Lure Description: Fishing bait, can be stacked up to 10 in a single item slot Found: Only from the bait & Grub in town Purchased From: Bait & Grub in Town Base cost: 100 mon

Medicine Description: A must have item. When you die this fully restores your life to 1000. On Harikiri especially enemies are capable of one shotting you if you don't have a good style to go against them. Even on easy it's nice to have one or two of these just in case you mess up big time in a major fight. Found: A rare drop from named opponents. Purchased From: Pharmacy in Town, Hospital in Little Britain, Casino in Harbor Base cost: 3000 mon

Minnow Description: Fishing bait, can be stacked up to 10 in a single item slot Found: Only from the bait & Grub in town Purchased From: Bait & Grub in Town Base cost: 150 mon

Mochi Description: Fishing bait, can be stacked up to 10 in a single item slot Found: Mainly from the bait & Grub in town, I believe it's randomly dropped don't where though. Purchased From: Bait & Grub in Town Base cost: 100 mon

Moves Scroll Description: Teaches a move that requires up to lvl 2 (maybe 3) on a style. Useful if you don't like a style and want to get rid of it fast. Found: Can be randomly dropped by a lot of different enemies Purchased From: Casino in Harbor Base cost: 300 chips, can't be purchased with Mon.

Mushroom Description: restores a bit of the spring harvest gauge (150 points) but I wouldn't suggest keeping a lot of them on you, there are far better options. Found: Some enemies can drop them, they also grow in some areas (back roads have some, as does the cemetary) Purchased From: Souvenir Shop in Harbor, Emporium at Shrine Base cost: 100 mon

Onigiri Description: Basic healing item that is required for a few side quests. Restores 300 vitality. Found: Lots of enemy can drop these, also can be found on the ground in a few areas. Purchased From: Souvenir Shop in Harbor, Emporium at Shrine, Onigiri-ya in the Back Roads, Used Goods at Magistrate Base cost: 100 mon

Onigiri (Dried Seaweed) Description: Restores 350-380 vitality, not a bad idea for it's cost, Dried Fish is better.

Found: Only purchasable at Onigiri-ya. Purchased From: Onigiri-ya in the Back Roads Base cost: 170 mon

Onigiri (Salmon) Description: Restores 350-420 vitality, for it's cost might as well get a Dried Fish. Found: Only purchasable at Onigiri-ya. Purchased From: Onigiri-ya in the Back Roads Base cost: 200 mon

Onigiri (Sour Plum) Description: Restores 320-370 vitality, this could be usable more so then the other custom Onigiri, but again Dried Fish is a better main item. Found: Only purchasable at Onigiri-ya. Purchased From: Onigiri-ya in the Back Roads Base cost: 150 mon

Onigiri (Takana Pickles) Description: Restores 370-400 vitality, this is worth considering if you want something different for your samurai. Found: Only purchasable at Onigiri-ya. Purchased From: Onigiri-ya in the Back Roads Base cost: 180 mon.

Organic Bait Description: Fishing bait, can be stacked up to 10 in a single item slot

Found: Only from the bait & Grub in town Purchased From: Bait & Grub in Town Base cost: 150 mon

Plum Wine Description: Restores 200 vitality and increases spring harvest by 300. Found: I believe it's a rare drop only from powerful NPC's, if you want some of this you're likely better off just buying it. Purchased From: General Store in Town, Emporium at Shrine Base cost: 300 mon

Poison Mushroom Description: Increase the spring harvest gauge for then you can't gain anymore for 30 seconds. I'd probably only consider using it if I was against a named NPC and just needed a small boost, that being said there are far better options out there. Found: On the ground in the cemetery/ back roads. Enemies can drop it. Purchased From: General Store in Town Base cost: 70 mon

Polishing Powder Description: Makes your weapon's durability decease slower. Use them if you find them, don't buy them as Blade Oil is a far better option if you want to prevent your weapon from breaking. Found: Rare enemy drop Purchased From: Souvenir Shop in Harbor, Dojima in Town, Used Goods at Magistrate Base cost: 600 mon

Red Pepper Description: Double attack for 30 seconds and gives 300 life. The life is nice but the reason to consider keeping one of these on you is increased attack without a negative. Found: Yakuza will try to eat these when injured, so attack them to get them to drop em. Purchased From: Pharmacy in Town, Emporium at Shrine, Hospital in Little Britain Base cost: 500 mon

Rotten Onigiri Description: restores between 100-200 vitality but you'll end up losing that vitality quickly. Never use it, vitality retention is key to winning hard fights so don't make it easy to lose it. Found: On the ground in the cemetery, enemies can drop it too. Purchased From: General Store in Town, Onigiri-ya in the Back Roads Base cost: 50 mon

Sake Description: Double attack and half defense for 30 seconds. Although not a bad idea to use the deceased defense makes this item not that good, especially compared to others (like Red Peppers). Found: Yakuza and thugs drop it. Purchased From: Pharmacy in Town, Emporium at Shrine Base cost: 300 mon

Sandworms Description: Fishing bait, can be stacked up to 10 in a single item slot Found: Only from the bait & Grub in town

Purchased From: Bait & Grub in Town Base cost: 50 mon

Shrimp Description: Fishing bait, can be stacked up to 10 in a single item slot Found: Only from the bait & Grub in town Purchased From: Bait & Grub in Town Base cost: 250 mon

Soda Water Description: Restores 200 vitality and increases vitality retention for 3 minutes. For it's cost this can be a great purchase, espically early in when you don't have a Life & Death charmed sword. Found: Not sure it's ever just dropped for me. Purchased From: Sweets Shop in Little Britain Base cost: 120 mon

Special Moves Scroll Description: Teaches a move that requires up to lvl 4 on a style. Useful if you don't like a style and want to get rid of it fast. Found: Can be randomly dropped by a lot of different enemies Purchased From: Casino in Harbor Base cost: 600 chips, can't be purchased with Mon.

Steamed Cake Description: Likely the best basic healing item. Restores all 1000 of your vitality.

Found: Enemies rarely drop it, demonscales seem to the most but I wouldn't try to farm them. Purchased From: Souvenir Shop in Harbor, Used Goods at Magistrate Base cost: 1000 mon

Straw Doll Description: You basically throw this item when used, if it connects with an enemy their defense is lowered Found: In the cemetery where the bell is. Also can be gotten while fishing. Purchased From: General Store in Town Base cost: 250 mon

Super Earthworms Description: Fishing bait, can be stacked up to 10 in a single item slot Found: Only from the bait & Grub in town Purchased From: Bait & Grub in Town Base cost: 100 mon

Umeboshi Description: Helps with vitality retention for 1 minute. Can be useful, but 1 minute just isn't enough to justify the use of the item slot imo. Found: I think it's a rare drop, and can be "proof of love" after a successful night crawling. Purchased From: General Store in Town, Pharmacy in Town, Emporium at Shrine Base cost: 50 mon

Umeboshi (L)

Description: Doesn't give extra vitality but does help with vitality retention for 3 minutes. Can be useless depending on your style, I never used one myself. Found: Can only be purchased. Purchased From: General Store in Town Base cost: 120 mon

Vintage Wine Description: Restores 500 life and vitality, useful but not really worth the cost. Found: Rare drop from named NPC's. Purchased From: Bar in Black ship Base cost: 750

Whetting Stone Description: Restores 400 durability to your current weapon. To use the item your weapon must be drawn, so be careful outside of combat as some NPC might see you as a threat and attack. Found: A rare drop from enemies. Purchased From: Souvenir Shop in Harbor, Dojima in Town, Used Goods at Magistrate Base cost: 500 mon

White Radish Description: Restore 150 vitality, use it if you find it don't buy it as an Onigiri costs the same but restores twice this (and there are other options that are all better). Found: sometimes dropped, also something I commonly get after night crawling as "proof of love". Purchased From: General Store in Town, Emporium at Shrine Base cost: 100 mon

Wine Bottle Description: 3 minutes of double attack and 300 points to spring harvest make this a good item to carry around. Found: I believe it's a rare drop, can't to be sure (as I haven't really tracked items along the way). Purchased From: Hospital in Little Britain, Bar in Black ship Base cost: 500 mon

Smith In the town area you can get Dojima (or his master) to work on your blade. It's the main way to repair your sword and the only way to make it stronger. Below is a list of what he can do to help you make your ultimately weapon of destruction. Also he does sell some weapon related items and you can sell him anything as well. Note to all vets and new people alike, you can only get 2000 durability and 500 attack power nothing you do can make a sword exceed those numbers.

Refine Refining is basic work on the sword, making a sword stronger or harder can be done to the max degradation, after that you can still increase a sword's power with recasting. make stronger This will increase the attack power of the sword, it gets better with higher degradation levels so expect up to 16 until the 10th degradation, then it jumps to about 25ish max, then up to 32 max then with 17+ you can actually see 40+. Feel free to reset if Dojima doesn't give you a big enough number per upgrade if you want, but you can Recast until you get max stats easily. make harder Increases how much a sword can take, up to the max of 2000 durability. For your 1st one or two swords it's fine to use this option instead of recasting the durability up but after that you'll want to refine the strength and use recasting for durability since the increase for durability is the same for both refining and recasting.

polish I'd say incorrectly named, but this repairs your sword and should be done regularly regardless of how damaged your sword is as you never know when you'll end up in a big enough battle to need the full durability.

Recast Recasting does the same as refining, only it can be done beyond the max degradation. I do recommend this only after you've hit the max degradation since you'll eat though your iron fast. Each upgrade costs a certain amount of iron gotten though extracting sword (below). This means you can make any sword godly, just some take a lot more effort then a sword with a better stat. make stronger Again same as above, this is why you're recasting. The bonus is typically around 10-15 attack each time. maker harder Do this right after hitting the max degradation to hit the limit of 2000 durability. The ore you select doesn't have an effect on the stats, each ore above iron ore just takes less ore to do the upgrade. If you needed 40 iron ore to upgrade you'd need 20 Ground Metal and 10 Dojima steel. This is to a limit of 99 iron ore, 50 Ground Metal, and 25 Dojima steel. The final type of ore is called Hihiirokane and each one gives an upgrade on it's own, however to get it you need to complete The Light of Hope ending on Harikiri... which makes it not worth trying to get to upgrade things. Below is a chart that is taken from the Japanese Wiki, it shows how much each upgrade would cost based on how many above the max degradation (so 1st costs would be when your sword is at 12/12 while 26/12 would be now maxed out), I don't doubt that it's right as I've checked a few of these stats: Type of 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th+ Ore Scrap 10 12 14 17 21 25 30 36 43 52 62 74 89 99 99 Metal Ground 5 6 7 9 10 12 15 18 21 26 31 37 45 50 50 Metal Dojima 2 2 3 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 12 15 18 21 25 steel So as you can see Dojima steel will max out at 25, though they aren't as easy to come by and basically require you to be on hard or harikiri to show up regularly. Iron ore eventually takes up 99 but most swords should be maxed out before hitting that mark.

Appraise When your sword reaches certain levels in things you can appraise it to give it special properties. The only working titles are the increased damage (that gives more attack power based on the number of kills the sword has) and the increased durability swords that is based on how much damage the sword has taken in it's life. Titles can be replaced with better titles, so if you have enough kills for the assassin title when you get 50 more kills you can replace it with the crazy eyes title. You lose the effect of the title you replace though! So if you want to make a sword indestructible you can't also use the oddity title to get a lot of attack power.

Titles for swords Increased Damage titles You get these titles by getting a certain number of kills with the sword you're using. You can tell how many kills you've already managed just by looking at the sword menu. Now if you want the Oddity title with its massive 250 increase your sword cannot have more than 250 attack power. None of these titles can be applied to a sword if the result will be greater than 500. So for road to Hell the sword's base attack cannot be more then 380. This also means that if your sword has 476+ attack you cannot get any of these titles as the lowest increase of attack is 25. Title Name Increased Attack Required kills Assassin 25 50 Crazy Eyes 50 100 Bloodbath 75 250 Road to Hell 120 500 Oddity 250 1000 Increased Durability titles These are gotten by repairing your sword again and again. Unfortunately you can't tell how much damage your sword has taken, if you check out the sword with the Appraise option you can see if you've met any of the requirements below (for example if you see the stone head titles you've repaired your sword for at least 20,000 but below 40,000). Title name Percent of damage reduction Required repair points Stone Head 10% 20,000

Iron wall 25% Platinator 50% Adamantator 75% Unbreakable 100%, can't be damaged!

40,000 70,000 100,000 200,000

Extract Extracting breaks down a sword into iron ore, this means your sword is destroyed when you extract it. Expect swords you've gotten on easy or normal to give mainly iron ore. Swords gotten on hard or Harikiri more commonly give Ground Metal or Dojima steel. You use this ore to Recast your sword after fully upgrading it with Refine.

Create Here you can take 3 sword parts (or 3 spear parts) and create your own sword. Charms are basically what it takes to create an ultimately sword, so instead of spending hours resetting when Dojima fails to give proper stats we're going to end up resetting when he fails to give us the right charms!

Charms So when you have a part it has 3 spots for charms. These can be combined to create special effects on swords. You have to vertically align or horizontally align 3 of the same name. So a little table to show what I mean (since I have no skills with paint...) Blade Life & Death Guard Life & Death Grip Life & Death Or Blade Life & Death Guard Life & Death Grip Life & Death You can have 3 charms on a sword, though I doubt 3 different ones could be done without going insane... To get 3 of the same there are several potential patterns (replacing Life & Death with whatever charm you desire):

Life & Death Life & Guard Death Life & Grip Death

Life & Death

Blade

Life & Death

Life & Death Or the flipped version:

Life & Death

Life & Death

Life & Death

Life & Death

Life & Death

Life & Death Life & Death Life & Death

Life & Death Life & Death Life & Death

Life & Death Life & Death Life & Death

Or Life & Death Life & Guard Death Life & Grip Death Blade

Life & Death Life & Death Life & Death

Or the flipped version:

Also the grip could have the 3 while the blade has 2. Or Blade Life & Death Life & Death Life & Death Guard Life & Death Grip Life & Death Life & Death Life & Death So what do these charms do? Able-Bodied Having a few of these makes it so your sword's durability deceased extremely slowly, which would be useful if it wasn't for the fact you can make your sword indestructible. Backwater Increased attack as your health drops, never pick this up as you should never want to have anything less then the full 1000 life. Big Shot Increases damage of guard breaking/ unguardable attacks, this can make even Harikiri very easy. Dark Sword Increased power during the night, no effect during the day or evening.

Fortune Set chance to revive on death and given 250 life when killed, I haven't tested but apparently it's about a 70% chance to revive when you have 3 Fortune charms on a sword. Life & Death If you do nothing (including guarding) after a few seconds your vitality will increase on it's on. This is a must on at least one equipped sword to prevent the need to spend a lot of money on items/ eating. Light Sword Increased power during the day, no effect during the evening or night. Midas Increases the money earned on money sacks. Pitching Make it so you guard grab attacks automatically. For those that have played previous WotS game this is like you've matched the grab moves. Squall Makes it so certain attacks will though you when you dodge. Imo this is completely useless, as your dodge should have you get out of the way completely, if you can't then you should be guarding not hoping the attack will go though you.

Getting Dojima as your smith We want to get Dojima as the blacksmith, he does slightly better with swords but more importantly he doesn't leave Day 4. The basic idea to convince him is to continue finding out about his and Hanpei's past. After a while he fights you and when you deplete his vitality he decides to go back to work

Detailed method to get him: 

Have the Smithy inform you he's closing say to him: o o o

"Why are you closing it down?" "don't you have a successor?" "I'd be happy to."

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In Cemetery speak to Dojima saying: o o o

"The smithy's been looking for you." "You need to take over the business" "He's waiting for you."

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Dojima makes up his mind, speak with Smithy next:

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Go back to Dojima:

o o o o o o 

"This Hanpei's grave?" "Hanpei didn't have an eye for quality." "Why do you think that?" "So you tricked your boss..." "Why was Hanpei targeted?" (I think this is optional...)

Back at Smithy o o o o

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"whose grave was that?"

"Hanpei was a good man, huh..." "(Insert epic and heartfelt tale here.)" "Huh?" "Why did Hanpei the Prajnas?"

Back with Dojima o o o o

"You'd crush all of Hanpei's dreams?"

Defeat Dojima using the back of your sword then say:

"Hanpei had a dream, you know." "To save Japan with a Dojima blade."

After you speak with him again he'll let you know he's heading back to be retrained.

Creating an ultimately weapon So what we really want to do is create a weapon that can take you though the hardest difficulties. This takes several steps and can take a LOT of time.

Getting the parts/look of your sword 1st thing we need to do is get the parts. If you want to re-create a sword I suggest getting 5+ copies of the sword. If you want to create a sword with mismatched parts (say you want to combine Akagi and Kogure's weapons) make sure you have, again 5+ of each of the 3 parts (the blade, guard and grip). If you don't care what the sword looks like you can skip to Getting charms on random parts.

Getting the Charms you want This is the step that'll take the most time. What we want to do is get 3 of the same charm on your sword. So check the Charms Section above to figure out what charm

you're most interested in getting on your sword, Life & Death is imo an absolute must on a single one of your swords. Big Shot and Fortune are also amazing options, the rest are so-so to me, but if you want to try them go ahead. The 1st step is to start a fresh game preferably on Harikiri. If you haven't unlocked it yet then be sure to do this on hard, as the difficulty will greatly affect how good the starting stats are for your sword. Skip the battle at the harbor (unless you have plans to continue on this difficulty) and go into the Town area, from there get your swords/ parts out of storage that you gathered above. Now we're going to dismantle all of the swords you gathered (select them in your Weapon Sack and select the option to dismantle) this will add the 3 parts that make up the sword into your inventory, and more importantly each one of the parts will be randomly given charms. To check the charms quickly I speak with Dojima, select create and part bag*. Since you just started fresh the only parts in here should be from your swords you just dismantled. Check each one and if it has 2 or more of the charm you want in the correct formation (see the Charms section again, basically the guard must have the middle slot while the blade and grip can be either to the side or split) we're going to put that part away and get a temp on in it's place. Save after each good part! This process takes a long time and no reason to make it take longer if you're lucky to get a good part. What I mean by this is take the part to the dojo's storage and put that part away. Either buy a filler part from Dojima or take one out of your own storage, we want to keep an even amount of all 3 parts. Now chances are pretty high on your 1st time Dismantling all your swords apart you didn't get a single part with all the right charms so we're going to put all these parts together using the create option with Dojima. It doesn't matter what you name the swords you create because all we're going to do is create them then right away dismantle them. From here it's repeatedly checking the parts to see if you've gotten a good part then creating a sword to dismantle. This can be painful to do and you can see the math below in my Math behind charms. So a simply step by step would be: 1. Decide which charm you want, start a game on the highest difficulty possible. Skip the harbor battle (or fight in it if you want...) 2. Dismantle all your swords to have parts in your inventory 3. Check the parts at Dojima, if a part has a good combo of charms replace it with a filler part and save the good part in the dojo storage (save game after!). 4. Create swords with the parts that don't have the right charms/ filler parts.

5. Dismantle them, repeating steps 2 to 5 until you have a blade, guard and grip that will allow you to create a sword with 3x of the charm you wanted.

Getting charms on random parts This can be easier, but is no means a guarantee. Start a game on the hardest difficulty skip the harbor battle and go into the town area. Instead of creating and destroying the sword over and over, take out some money from the Dojo bank then speak with Dojima and see what he has for sale. His parts aren't great but every time you re-enter his shop option the parts he has will have different charms. So keep checking his parts until you find something that works. I really haven't tried this myself but I do imagine it wouldn't be as painful since it's fast to re-check things.

Leveling your sword So now having our 3 parts with the right charm, we want to create the sword. Name it whatever you want and finally you'll have the basic sword. After saving, our next step to make it have perfect stats by selecting Refine from Dojima's forge option. Select Make Stronger and keep selecting it until you are at max degradation (i/e 15/15). Now Dojima has a random chance for each have a high number or a low number, so to max things out quickly you can choice to restart the game every time he gives a low number saving each good upgrade but I prefer to aim for a total upgrade of 300 to 350 attack depending on degradation (14 to 15 max degradation for about 300, 16+ hard to say what you want to aim for but from 15 on each upgrade can be above 30 attack). Either way unless your sword had 20 degradation (max possible) chances are you're a ways from the max of 500. From here we're going to be Recasting. I'd 1st suggest selecting make harder until you have max durability from there we're selecting make stronger until again you hit the max attack. You'll gain up to 16 each time you recast your sword so expect each 100 attack you need to take 7-10 upgrades (especially if you accept a lesser number, which is fine!) so this requires a lot of ore, hope you saved some up!

Making it unbreakable

So we have a sword with max stats, now to give it the best title in the game! To make a sword unbreakable we need to repair the sword repeatedly. Specifically we need to break and fully repair the sword 100 times. Thanks to ReignOfDestiny for posting an "easy" method to do this. We need a few things 1st. Toho swordfighting from the level 5 dojo challenger. The sword Morning Moon that is the hard weapon drop from Orochi during the during Four Samurai Lords vs Yakuza Quartet or after the event The Amihama Eight mission (you have to attack him after either mission) When we put the 2 together we can learn Toho's secret move Kuruhi Kabuki and eventually get it on a custom style (once you learn it check it again, basically get 10 kills with this move during spring harvest). We'll also need money so for each sword make sure you at least have 5000 mon for great crime and the hospital closed, though I'd suggest getting 10K each sword just in case. So now we want to create a custom ninja stance, I suggest just adding Kuruhi Kabuki and the best -vit use (not needed but can be helpful), naming the stance something like sword breaker... since we're only using this stance to break swords. I suggest this cause ReignOfDestiny has managed to freeze his game hitting the mountain of bodies we're about to create with different moves. With our custom style in tow we need a bunch of corpses, I'd suggest taking the mission from Sakotsu while the crime rate is great. The mission will have you kill 25 enemies, and since the game will only allow about 8 corpses kill 16 to 17 of them before heading to one of 2 spots I suggest. The 1st area as part of the original strategy is right outside the exit to the main plaza, on the south side of this ally near the end is a small room. On the side of this room that's a triangle is where we want to gather our corpses. Enemies fighting you will continue to walk around you, so enter this small room and try to kill them as close to the corner you want them in. From there you can use Kuruhi Kabuki to move the ones that didn't end up close enough to the corner. The 2nd area I somewhat prefer myself is right outside of the language school, in the south-east corner to be exact. This area isn't as good to keep the corpses in line so you might have to gather them up again using Kuruhi Kabuki but the reason I prefer this area is the small room from the main method has camera issues. Here you're really close to Dojima, few people will bug you (more then the 1st area) since they can see what you're doing. Really this method works in any corner ultimately, but the closer to Dojima the better (not too close though, he doesn't like you having a drawn weapon near him...). Once you have a small corpse pile stand a few steps back from it and use Kuruhi Kabuki. As it slashes back and forth it doesn't do a lot of damage to your sword, but

the final swing will do at least 150 damage per target hit. If you're positioned right you can destroy a sword with a single move. Also guarding makes it so you don't move while using the back to forward that Kuruhi Kabuki needs. Once you've destroyed your sword (or swords if you're doing more then one at once) repair them by selecting Refine then polish. To get indestructible title without doing anything else you'll need to do this 99 more times (100 total). This can take 45+ minutes depending on how good you are. While it's a pain to re-create the corpse pile feel free to do this a few times instead of all at once, as this is pretty boring but will be worth the effort imo. I also highly suggest saving every 5-10 times you break your sword, I've yet to have my game freeze but I don't doubt it's possible as Kuruhi Kabuki has made my game go slower. Simple Step by step: 1. Get Toho Swordfighting and Morning Moon Sword to master Toho fighting. 2. Put Kuruhi Kabuki on a custom style to be able to use it on a sword other then Morning Moon 3. Start a Yakuza massacre mission given by Sakotsu (preferable the 25 one having great crime already) 4. Kill until less then 10 kills needed to finish the mission. Head to either the small corner room on the way to the main plaza or just outside the Language school. 5. Kill the rest trying to get all the corpses to gather in a corner. 6. Use Kuruhi Kabuki to gather the corpses up. 7. Again use Kuruhi Kabuki on your corpse pile, start a few feet away and hopefully each time you can destroy your sword in a single use. 8. Get Dojima to repair your sword. 9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 until Dojima offers Indestructible! (saving every once in a while) Also this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cECaEQHdV84 shows off this method pretty well, so if my description aren't good enough hopefully this video will be around long enough to help you.

Math behind charms ReignOfDestiny made a great post explaining the math behind charms, unfortunately from my own experiments I believe there to be a worse chance for any individual charm to appear then the 1/11 he used (based on 1 blank and 10 different charms as possibilities). So before I go into explaining the chance I'm putting a simple chart down of what I tired. I dismantled and checked the charms on 8 swords worth of parts (so 24 parts, 72 charms per run) on Harikiri during the day, and recorded what came up each time.

Able Life Ligh Big Dark Blan - Backwa Fortu & t Mid Pitchi Squ Tota Sho Swo k Bodi ter ne Dea Swo as ng all ls t rd ed th rd 1st set: 2nd set: 3rd set: 4th set: 5th set: Totals : Perce nt:

25

6

5

6

5

5

3

10

4

1

2

72

31

5

6

4

5

4

6

3

5

2

1

72

30

5

6

4

3

5

3

5

2

4

5

72

29

5

7

4

2

2

6

3

3

5

6

72

34

5

4

1

5

1

0

9

3

7

3

72

149

26

28

19

20

17

18

30

17

19

17

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41.39 7.22 7.78% % %

5.28 5.56 8.33 4.72 4.72 100 4.72% 5% 5.28% % % % % % %

So what does this mean? Well if all 11 possibilities had an equal chance they'd all be around 9% of the total. As you can see blank spots take up over 40% of the total, so what I'm using is a bit pessimistic but one of the lowest numbers. So for my math I'm using 5%, or 1/20 chance to get a single charm as well as mentioning what it would be like if the chance was completely equal (1/11). So while creating an ultimate sword each part must have 2 of the same charm. Ideally you'd have a 1/121 chance for each part with the lowest odds to be about 1/400. As you can imagine this is a HUGE difference, and no matter where the odds are on a single try you'll get the combination you want 0.8% of the time down to .25% chance. On that note, the chances of getting a 3 charm combo (all the same charm or a specific combo of 3 different charms on a single sword) would be 1/1331 ideally or down to 1/8000 with our lowest odds, so I suggest NEVER trying to create a sword that has 3 different charms, it will take forever. Ok so now for a bit of hope, sure your chances to get that part the way you want is less then a single percent for a single try but we're trying many times over! so for 5 tries the formula would be: 1- ((120/121)^5) or 4.06% probability for ideal conditions, with the 1/20 chance it drops to 1.24% which isn't that great but this only takes a few minutes to do if you do as I suggest and have 5+ sets of parts to take apart and put back together. So keep at it: with 50 tries the odds for ideal condition jump to 33.96% while the 1/20 odds jump to 11.76%. 100 tries makes ideal odds 56.39% and 1/20 odds to 22.14%.

So yes, the odds to get the part right will never be extremely high without a lot of effort. All we can do is keep trying, I've made several 3 charm swords with specify parts in mind and each one has taken hours to make. It takes a long time to get things right, but don't worry it will happen so long as you keep at it! I'm also going to note here that ReignOfDestiny used 3/121 for a lot of his calculation, while he may disagree with me using 1/121 the fact is my math is success per part not per sword, as eventually you'll get 1 part done, then 2... and be left just wanting to get that final part done.

Dojo Located in the town area, in the south/ south-west corner the dojo offers a few things to do regardless if you own it or not. 1st you can store items/ weapons and styles on the shelf in the corner to your left as you enter the room Speaking with the Old Fossil (only person here right now) you can ask to own the Dojo. Once you do you can recruit diciplies, face off against challenger and create your own style. Also the style he'll give you Tokyu Fighting Style Swordfighting can only be leveled by fighting challengers here.

Getting recruits To get a recruit beat any random person in the streets with the back of your sword. They'll take a knee and you're given 3 options, the last option "I'm making you my disciple!" will make you attempt to recruit them. One of 2 things will happen: 1 they accept and your dojo, 2 they kick you. If you're kicked, kick them back! they'll take a knee again and you can try to get them to again. If they refuse a few times they'll run away rather fast and you can't get them. To get a 5 star dojo you need quality recruits, and I do believe what the Japenese wiki says about recruits is true. They have a ranking of 1-4 random people have a set ranking and armed people like the Constables, demonscales, Prajnas, yakuza, ronin etc have a random rank of 1-4. So who do we want? I've recorded the citizen ranks but basically we want women! (below is taken from http://samurai4.wiki.fc2.com/wiki/%E9%81%93%E5%A0%B4?sid=5c743e5c40a34d 6c4ead24f1f0f9d44a)

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Level 1 o Old man Level 2 o grandma o foreigners o foreign nurses (consulate) o merchants o carpenters o tradesman o express messenger Level 3 o sailor Level 4 o nurse (hospital) o Harlet o geisha o maid o Wife o Daughter

So apart from the nurses in the consulate, and Blondie soldiers all women are gold for your dojo. In fact you need 20 women to earn the Nightly Pleasure Martial Arts

Challengers The challengers offer several of the styles in the game, they depend on dojo rank. I plan to lay out all the challengers here in a future release, for now just know each rank offers 2 new challengers, and it seems like the higher rank you go the better your students are at beaten back challengers without dying.

Getting Sensei You might notice when you get the dojo there's a challenger nearly every 10 seconds. Each time you go from one area to the next there's a chance of a challenger arriving. Having sensei in your dojo will make it so that each time a challenger appears they're nearly instantly defeated. To get sensei you have to make her take several jobs, my detailed method is below: 

On the back road see Sensei in the east side near the rest area, say to her: o o o

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"Are you all right?" "What will you do now?" "There's work available in the Clothing Store."

In The Main Plaza west side in Curio Shop say to her:

o o 

Head to the Harbor, Sushi-ya on the south-west side to say: o o

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"...is it fun?" "Security at the gambling den?"

Head into the gambling den at night (in Town, north-east corner) to give her the next job: o o

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"How's Retail?" "I hear the sushi shop is doing well..."

"How are you liking it?" "Maybe you should work with children."

If the language school is closed she'll be outside, otherwise she's inside with the kids in the evening so tell her: o o

"How are you enjoying it?" "You could always teach at my dojo..." (you have to own the dojo to get her to )

And there you have it, Sensei has ed and should right away start destroying all challengers!

Creating your own Style As the head of the Dojo talking with the Old Fossil he offers you the ability to create your own style. You have to have a blank book (can be purchased in the casino, as well as Dojima sells them after the tournament with a great crime rate), and enough skill points. Skill points are earned by just playing, eventually you'll have the max of 9999. I'd recommend just worrying about create a single stance that's really strong, the ives are what we really want, reducing vitality costs and damage by 75% will eat up a lot on their own. While experimenting I took all the ives and this adds up to several thousand of the 9999 cap without taking a single offensive move. Of course this is up to you, after all you're creating your own style.

Getting the Dojo back in future playthoughs I know of 2 ways to get it back. If you've gotten Sensei to be the head of the Dojo you can challenger her and beat her with the back of your sword, after that speak with the Old Fossil to get the Dojo back. Otherwise you need to pay the Old Fossil 3000 mon to get it back.

Night Crawling

The section I just don't really care to explain! Basically this is a mini-game where your character tries to get in bed with all the women of Amihama! In order to successfully night crawl someone you must 1st make an appointment, which is simple for random women (but annoying) but can be complex for the 7 women who you can night crawl. After that during the night you must go to the person's home and find them without getting caught by anyone else in the house. If you're not sure where the house is within the journal under night crawl it shows the area it's in, and within that area will be a double heart icon to indicate it's for the night crawl mission. When you get to the women both go to the inn and have to fight to undress them (doesn't everyone wins at this point normally?). This section details the basic how's of it, you're likely going to have to try it out to really grasp it... overall this is a really simple mini-game that you have to do 100 times over for the platinum, so if you're not going for platinum I'd suggest not really bothering with this mini-game in the 1st place.

Making the appointment As mentioned above normal girls are different then the named characters, if you're looking to night crawl a main character look below. To make an "appointment" speak to any of the female characters and select the bottom option I think I'm in love. From here you need to say the right pickup lines to have her agree to go with you. The 1st two sets of questions I have a decent idea what they do, the next 2 are more about the reaction you get from the girl you're hitting on and I can't really say what they do. The 1st set of lines is about the time of day. The 2nd set of lines is about the women's age, I think I know what you need to use for which age but some models of NPC's seem to be able to fit in 2 of the categories. From there depending on their reaction you seem to have to select different options for the next 2 responses... I honestly never found a good pattern to say exactly which option is the right one. The exact lines are: Set 1 time of day If it's morning select:

What nice weather we're having... If it's the evening select:

The setting sun is so beautiful... If it's night time select:

The moon is absolutely stunning... Set 2 age If she's young select:

Your voice alone can cure my ills. If she's mid-aged select:

Those clothes suit you well! If she's older select:

You have a nice, firm ass. I'm listing the 3rd and 4th set but honestly I'm not sure what to select, it's based on the reaction of the NPC. Set 3 based on reaction from above:

You seem like an elegant person. You seem like a gentle person. You seem like a reliable person. Set 4 the closer line, likely based on above again but I can't be sure:

Open your borders. allll of them. I would gladly cut my belly for you. My ship docks at your harbor tonight. I'm Hikikata of the Shinsengumi...

Night Crawl Now that you've set a date it's time to get her out of her home! I suggest saving before attempting this as the NPC's can be weird at times. Basically this makes it seem like you're a kidnapper trying to take their women away! What you have to do

here is find the bed that is hiding the women you're trying to be with and take off the covers of her bed (by pressing square). You'll know you're near the right bed by the turtle in the lower left corner (near your health). As he comes out of his shell you're close to the right bed... when you're right beside the right bed he's completely out of his shell. All this is made difficult by the other NPC's that are still awake, if you're found they'll either attack you or run to call the thief takers. So .... we don't want that to happen so we can do one of two things, either stay out of their sight or knock them out. Knocking out an NPC is pretty easy, just get behind them and hold R1 and triangle, if your chop connects they're knocked out. What I suggest doing is 1st put the mini-map in the corner so you know where you're going. Then start going around, trying to see if the turtle reacts (if it does you're close). When you see an NPC I suggest simply avoiding them if you can... a lot of them are just looking at the wall and will never see you, and if you knock them out they'll make a sound as they hit the ground somewhat alerting others. If the NPC is patrolling then it's a decent option to knock them out, just move on fast. When you do find the right area get close to the bed's, you should be able to tell if they're right just by getting close. Now if an NPC does find you make sure to knock them out fast. If they start attacking you try to circle them to knock them out. If they go for the thief takers chase them, they eventually take a knee (since no one apparently has any stamina) for you to catch them. If they manage to leave the house you'll need to either find your target fast or get ready to leave since as soon as the thief takers come you either end it by leaving the house or getting caught, you fail either way when they appear.

Sexy time Yup that's right the final part to successfully night crawl someone is called sexy time. Apparently you need to fight the girl you're night crawling to remove her clothing. You can do this in one of 2 ways, either attacking with square until she runs out of health or use the grab (R1 + triangle ) and throw her onto the bed. All the while you're doing this your partner will attack you as you get near them, you have a limited amount of health but if you do have some Medicines you'll use them if you run out of health. If you're night crawling a normal women it really doesn't matter what you try, the square combo will likely win the entire match if it all connects. If you're night crawling one of the main character they'll have a LOT of health. So it's far better to simply grab and throw them.

to throw an enemy I generally try getting near them to get them to attempt a move while being far enough away not get hit, the delay for the "partner's" move should let you grab them no problem and throw them, if you didn't manage to get them on the bed try again as normally I can grab them a 2nd time if needed... but that can be hard to aim. Once you've managed to undress your partner you win! Afterwards you're outside the inn being given a random item and most of your vitality will be gone.

Main female character appointments Below is a list of how to night crawl all the female characters in the game

Nightcrawl Mayu For all 3 sister you must get arrested 3 times at a specific crime rate. Basically you must endure their form of torture 3 times, the last time you must get a high score (above 100 I believe) and they'll set a date that night. All 3 of them have the same layout for night crawling, they'll be up the stair in the north-east corner of the building. For Mayu the crime rate must be good or great.

Nightcrawl Chika See above, for Chika you must keep the crime rate neutral. This can be annoying since you need to commit crimes to get arrested.

Nightcrawl Yuri See above, for Yuri the crime rate must be bad or very bad.

Night Crawling (Continued) Nightcrawl Melinda Melinda is really annoying to get, basically you must defeat her with blunt attacks in every event possible she's in, and find her after the battle tournament. I'm going to write a step by step because of the possibility of just missing one event so... This method involved closing the hospital, if you want to keep the hospital open you'll have to re-open it on another playthough. My Method: 1) Harbor - Amihama Harbor Skirmish -Be sure to tell Akagi to "Take your hands off her!" when prompted and beat the Prajna fast enough so you have to fight Akagi, Melinda then Kotobuki. 2) Little Britain - Audience with the Littlest Public Servant Simple intro event.. which you're going to ruin by drawing your blade on Melinda! you need to use blunt attacks against her from here on it, as she will die if you use regular attacks. 3) Toasty Truth Bar (Town) - Violent Behavior of the Marine Corps Get rid of the marines, then attack Melinda.. Akemi is a little scared of this failing the event... but that doesn't matter. 4) Shrine - Sneaking into the Magistrate's Office -Doesn't matter how you do this, you can get one crate and leave or go for more to earn more money. -For this method you must close the hospital as you fight Melinda during it. 5) Magistrate - Denying Western Medicine or Plan to Shut Down the Hospital Easy fights, just be sure to take cash from the sisters as playing with them would be them torturing you... not much of a reward imo, but if you're into it... -If the language school is OPEN and you want to keep it open, skip the next event by sleeping either at the inn (if you're concerned about crime rate) or on one of the mats outside 6) Shrine - We Don't Need No Stinkin' Language School! or The Lecturer Is a Dead Man Simple events, click the links for details if you need em. -If the Casino is OPEN and you want to keep it open, skip the next event by sleeping either at the inn (if you're concerned about crime rate) or on one of the mats outside 7) Shrine - Destroy the Casino or Put an End to the Casino's Reconstruction Simple fights, J.J. seems to not care enough about his casino.

8) Main Plaza - Chief Minister Onsen Kinugawa Auto event but don't draw your sword, but you can enjoy a random comment or two. 9) Shrine - Washing Blood With Blood Agree to help 10) Toasty Truth Bar (Town) - Kill the Traitor This won't be important for the ending, but do the next few events so that the Prajna will you for the tournament. 11) Cemetery - The Truth You don't have to kill Akemi here really, we're not going for the ending.. but do so if you want. 12) Harbor - Break the Snare Spare Moro if you like, doesn't matter for getting Melinda in bed... -auto event The Chief Minister's Big Move13) Shrine - Blades of the Patriots Agree to being in the tournament under the Prajnas name. 14) Main Plaza - Battle Tournament Opens and We Are the Champions Be sure not to kill Melinda in the final round... otherwise this is the same as always, finish the 3 fights then leave the tournament grounds saying "I wish to be excused" 15) Main Plaza - inside the restaurant on the east side of the area Melinda will be in here say to her "Because I want to fight you again." to set the date! Save before attempting to night crawl Melinda. The area will be crawling with marines and blondies... anyways Melinda will be in the south-west corner room... it's hard to get here without being spotted so you might want to rush it but to each his own.

Nightcrawl Akemi To night crawl Akemi 1st thing we need to do is give her fish. 10 to be exact most types will work, some don't (she doesn't like crawfish for example). Doesn't matter when this is done so long as it's done before the event The Truth. And since we need to see that event following my guide for The Flames of Prajna is what I'd recommend. Save after step 10 the event Kill the traitor (it's your last chance since it locks you into doing the night crawling after the next event). At step 11 instead of saying you overheard her say in order when prompted:   

So, there are actually four sisters... It's dangerous out here, May I escort you? Let me escort you to your bedroom.

Which apparently works... anyways you'll be in the bar, upstairs to nightcrawl but you can't leave the bar as time advances if you do. Akemi will be in the southern most room, in the western bed.

Nightcrawl Laura Do events for the foreigners until day 3 midday (follow my ending guides Setting Off to Foreign Lands if you want step by step, basically up to step 10). After you get Laura her medicine completing the event The Ambassador Collapses it might not be required but speak to J.J. Leave Little Britain so it becomes night and come back, The lost and found shop below the tracks should have an item for sale called mysterious key. Purchase this and then save (just in case you're caught). You now need to enter the consulate, but you can't get close to J.J. so hug the east side wall and you should get in without triggering the event. From there go to Laura's room on the 2nd floor to attempt to nightcrawl her. She'll always be on the west side room of the house, but there are a lot of Blondies/ marines here, so I suggest just running past them to the bed Laura's in. Now I'm pretty sure the somewhat comical event that happens next is the only possible thing that can happen... for clear reasons they took out the ability to do it with Laura...

Nightcrawl Sensei First and foremost Sensei must not be at the dojo at the start of a playthough where you intend to night crawl her. So if she's at the dojo you'll have to kill her. I suggest following The Light of Hope ending path and just going as far as getting Akagi to the hospital, as it's easier then the other endings to deal with Getting Sensei, however you can work getting her in any ending. Once she is at your dojo you need to get a 5 star rating. It doesn't matter who's in your dojo just so long as they're good quality (see Dojo section for tips of who to get). When you get the 5 star rating with Sensei at your dojo speak with her and say: 

Glady. Any time!

Go to the road, before the fight say to Sensei:

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I'm listening... Partake of my loins.

Defeat her with the back of your sword and speak with her, you should get the scene that you made the appointment. Sensei will be in the north-west corner of this house, once again there are a lot of towns people here, you'll likely be caught, so run past them and get Sensei out of bed!

Main male character appointments All you need for all the guys is the right style, Nightly Pleasure Martial Arts. To get this style you must have a 5 star dojo with all females. There'll be a challenger who uses it. Equip this style and attack one of the below 7 male characters. Doesn't need to be a blunt attack and you should see a unique animation when you attack.

Nightcrawl Shigeru Moro Moro is easy enough to find we normally is in the Magistrate area. Find him beat him with Nightly Pleasure Martial Arts until he agrees to go with you.

Nightcrawl Reddo Akagi Akagi and Kogure both are normally in the Shrine area except during certain events. Again using the Nightly Pleasure Martial Arts beat him till he agrees to it.

Nightcrawl J.J. J.J. spends pretty much all his time in the consulate in Little Britain. Find him and use the Nightly Pleasure Martial Arts to get him to go with you.

Nightcrawl Jinrai Kogure Akagi and Kogure both are normally in the Shrine area except during certain events. Again using the Nightly Pleasure Martial Arts beat him till he agrees to it.

Nightcrawl Hikaru Kotobuki Kotobuki spends all his time at the Magistrate inside the building. Attacking with the Nightly Pleasure Martial Arts to set the date with him.

Nightcrawl Gunji Dojima It's a lot easier to get Dojima as your smith so he's always in Town. Once again attack with the Nightly Pleasure Martial Arts until he agrees to the date.

Nightcrawl Onsen Kinugawa Kinugawa can be rather annoying to get since he isn't always there. I suggest following the Road to Ruin ending, after step 10 the event The Chief Minister & The Three Sisters you can find him upstairs in the center area. So for the final time attack him with the Nightly Pleasure Martial Arts style till he agrees to go with you.

Crime Rate Crime rate determines a few things, who appears everywhere (Constables are really common with a great crime rate, yakuza with bad crime) and more notable the cost of things. With average crime, to repair your blade at the smith it costs 100 mon. With Great crime rate it drops it to 50 mon, while a horrible crime rate will up it to 150 mon. Repairs costs aren't that bad, but upgrades can cost several thousand, so 50% more adds up fast. Also the crime rate affects what a store has for sale. As the crime rate gets better stores can offer more items. So a rule of thumb, keep the crime rate at great if you can.

Now what effects crime rate: 

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Missions for the Yakuza in town, or the Constables in the Magistrate area have the greatest effects. (the kill X for Mistress and Sakotsu let you easily manipulate fthe rate) Sleeping outside raises the crime rate, sleeping at the inn lowers it

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Attacking lawmen raises the rate, not sure if killing random Yakuza lowers it at all Destroying things can raise the crime rate

So basically don't do things that can get you arrested.

Torture Getting Arrested Getting arrested is easy, attacking people, drawing your weapon, destroying crates in front of thief-takers or constable will have them blow their whistle and they'll attempt to kick you down. Each kick that connects on you takes about 1/4 of your vitality, and if they take it all and kick you again you're done and arrested.

Torture Types There are 3 types of torture, done by a few plot events but mostly seen as punishment for doing something bad. If you don't want to deal with the torture if you're done something bad, when the sister comes, you can talk to her and pay 1000 mon to skip out of the torture (time still es) What you endure/ and who does it is determined by the crime rate so: When crime is bad/very bad Super Rock Press is done by Chika I find this really easy. There are 5 spots to move between using the left stick. I stick to either side of Chika, as Chika in the middle will randomly attack you as the stones fall. Moving left or right I can do this torture without every needing to brace myself.

When crime is normal/neutral Hell Horse by third sister Yuri Use circle to raise, not too high as you can hit the ceiling. Brace with X when Yuri goes to hit you with her weapon, also be aware she can kick you 3 times in a row.

When crime is good/great

Human Waterwheel done by 1st sister Mayu This is annoying. You need to bash circle when you're above water, and as you're about to go understand hit/bash X to brace which you'll to take no damage. This is the hardest one so don't feel bad if you don't do so well.

After torturing you depending on how many points you got the sister who just tortured you may attack you again, so be prepared to brace again with X as this CAN kill you.