Advertisement
Not a member of Pastebin yet?
Sign Up,
it unlocks many cool features!
- Playthrough - 1
- Game Start
- Leave starting well and reach Kuro
- Achivement: Revered Blade (Kusabimaru get) 1/34
- Complete Tutorial (skip enemies, no reason to fight)
- Die to Genichiro (no reason to attempt to fight)
- True Game Start
- Achievement: Shinobi Prostethic (From Sculptor) 2/34
- Go through Ashina Outskirts
- Pick up Shuriken Wheel (Tools 1/10)
- Talk to Old Woman for Bell
- Loot under house for Coin Purses
- Get to sculptor’s idol before Chained Ogre
- Optional Grinding Location - 1 (low yield)
- Backtrack to Dilepated Temple
- Enter Hirata Estates - Past using bell
- Get to first Sculptor’s Idol past the bridge
- Optional Grinding Location - 2 (low yield)
- Run through Hirata Estates
- Pick up Flame Vent (Tools 2/10)
- Pick up Shinobi Axe (Tools 3/10)
- Return to Ashina Outskirts
- Grind or use coin purses for 400 sen
- Purchase Robert’s Firecrackers from Memorial Mob (Tools 4/10)
- Achievement: Memorial Mob 3/34
- Return to Sculptor
- Fit Shuriken, Flame Vent, Shinobi Axe, and Robert’s Firecrackers
- Get Shinobi Arts Esoteric Text from Sculptor
- Get Prosthetic Arts Esoteric Text from Sculptor
- Return to 2nd Ashina Outskirts Idol
- Fight General Naomiri Kawarada (use a stealth Deathblow from above first)
- Gourd Seed 1/9
- Prayer Bead 1/40
- Likely to get KO’d here, whenever you do, revive
- Achievement: Resurrection 4/34
- Return to Emma for +1 Flask uses
- Warp to Sculptor’s Idol before Chained Ogre
- Kill enemies surrounding, aggro Ogre
- Run back to de-aggro Ogre
- Get a stealth Deathblow on Ogre
- Kill with stab attacks and Flame Vent/Firecracker Spam - Avoid the grabs
- Prayer Bead 2/40
- Rest/Reset
- Grapple onto roof, pick up Gourd Seed
- Gourd Seed 2/9
- Return to Emma for +1 Flask uses
- Return to Stairway Sculptor’s Idol and Grapple up
- Kill all lesser enemies in this area
- Once done, head back to Ogre’s area to drop aggro on Tenzen
- Stealth Deathblow on General Tenzen Yamauchi
- Fight normally, abuse parries
- Prayer Bead 3/40
- Head down, and do Serpent Stealth Setpeice
- Take Sculptor’s Idol
- Fight First Boss Gyoubu Oniwa
- Achievement: Gyoubu Oniwa 5/34
- Take Sculptor’s Idol
- Increase Attack Power
- Head over wall, and kill “rats”
- Return to Gyoubu Oniwa arena
- Head to Tengu Man up the back stairs
- Talk to him get Ashina Esoteric Text
- (This is mandatory, do it now to save time, otherwise Isshin won’t show up post-Genichiro)
- (Prioritize unlocking Ascending Carp, and Descending Carp from the Ashina Esoteric Text tree, as it will be fundamental moving forward)
- Head up to top of this building for another Prayer Bead
- Prayer Bead 4/40
- Head to Battlefield Memorial Mob
- Purchase Gourd Seed for 1000 Sen (Use Money Bags if you have them)
- Gourd Seed 3/9
- Increase Gourd Uses at Emma, and make 1st Prayer Necklace at Sculptor’s Idol.
- Return to Battlefield Sculptor’s Idol
- Head through level avoiding combat
- Fight Bull
- Prayer Bead 5/40
- Unlock Ashina Castle Antechamber Sculptor’s Idol
- Gourd Seed 4/9
- Return to Emma and upgrade flask
- Travel to Ashina Castle Antechamber
- Jump out window and head down to Grave Sculptor’s Idol
- Eavesdrop on Soldiers about Salt
- Return to Merchant and complete questline (increased inventory)
- Head down to Great Serpent Shrine Idol
- Jump down to Sunken Valley Idol
- Head right past enemies to get the Prayer Bead
- Prayer Bead 6/40
- Head left to pick up the Gourd Seed by tent
- Gourd Seed 5/9
- Head to Gunfort
- Ignore Snake Eyes for now
- Head to Gunfort Idol
- Optional Grinding Location - 3 - Gunfort (moderate yield)
- Grind here approximately 10 minutes (Pick up Ascending Carp and Descending Carp, as well as other favored skills like Suppress Presence) - Maybe Delay this until post-Rescue incase you die.
- Return to Ashina Castle
- Rescue Info Broker
- Purchase Gourd Seed for 2000 Sen
- Gourd Seed 6/9
- Upgrade Flask (2x if missed the first one)
- Cross Broken Bridge
- Kill Soldier for Key to get Gyoubus Horn Building
- Bypass Bell Soldier
- Take Dungeon Idol
- Head through dungeon to Senpou Temple
- Climb Temple to Gourd Seed
- Gourd Seed 7/9
- Climb to next Idol
- Collect Red and White and White Pinwheel and Bell Demon Idol
- Fight Robert’s Dad (Armored Warrior)
- Prayer Bead 7/40
- OPTIONAL - Send Kotaro to the Merchant by giving him the Red and White Pinwheel, this expands his inventory to include infinite Ako’s Sugar (The only useful sugar for combat) and will allow you to get the Promissory Note for discounts later in the game. Not required or necessary by any means as its a small discount)
- Take Idol
- Head to top of Temple
- Get Immortality Text from Priest
- Head to back Cave, collect Senpou Esoteric Arts
- Ashina Castle Antechamber Idol
- Jump down and get Sabimaru (Tools 5/10)
- Return to Antechamber
- Hidden Wall Prayer Bead
- Prayer Bead (8/40) - Upgrade Stats
- Head to upper Dojo Idol
- Fight Jinusuke Saze (wait for the flash, double parry)
- Prayer Bead (9/40)
- Return to Gunfort
- Fight Centipede Giraffe (parry spam, jump and kick off during Red grab attacks)
- Pick up Divine Abduction (Tools 6/10)
- Prayer Bead (10/40)
- Head down the cave, pick up hidden Prayer Bead at the end
- Prayer Bead (11/40)
- Return to Tutorial Area from Broken bridge
- Take Idol
- Clear out enemies using stealth or basic combat
- Collect Gyoubu’s Horn (Tools 7/10)
- Stealth to Seven Spears Shikibu Toshikatsu Yamauchi
- Prayer Bead (12/40)
- Return to Hirata Estates
- Take out Shinobi Hunter Enshin of Misen (clear enemies, de-aggro, and stealth, mikiri him)
- Prayer Bead (13/40)
- Get Mist Raven (Tools 8/10)
- Get the Key from Owl
- Jump to cave, climb up to Hirata Estate Idol
- Use accumulated Money to buy Iron Fortress and Anti-Air Deathblow (grind at Gunfort otherwise)
- Iron Fortress (Tools 9/10)
- Return to Hirata Estate Idol
- Clear Enemies
- Fight Juzou the Drunk
- Prayer Bead (14/40)
- Head to next Idol
- Collect Hidden Prayer Bead behind wall
- Prayer Bead (15/40)
- Return to Ashina Castle
- Fight General Kuranosuke Matsumoto (stealth DB and clear using firecrackers, or abuse stealth leashing to get a deathblow after clearing)
- Prayer Bead (16/40) - Upgrade Stats
- Fight Lady Butterfly
- Achievement: Lady Butterfly 6/34
- Increase Attack Power
- Return to Hirata Castle Dojo Idol
- Fight Genichiro from Dojo Idol
- Achievement: Genichiro Ashina 7/34
- Increase Attack Power
- Talk to Kuro, Isshin, and Emma a lot (Make sure to talk to Kuro by the window or Isshin won’t be there)
- Return form Isshin
- Make sure the Library is Open
- Collect Gunfort Shrine Key
- Teleport to Senpou Temple
- Enter Divine Realm
- Kill Folding Screen Monkeys
- (Immediately behind, kill invisible, then run to middle, and use bell to kill Green. Open door to put out flames, return, kill purple, chase down red)
- Achievement: Folding Screen Monkeys 8/34
- Increase Attack Power
- Collect Mortal Blade (and some rice)
- Head to Mibu via Reservoir Well
- Kill Loneshadow Longswordsman (Use hole for free deathblow)
- Prayer Bead (17/40)
- Keep right, take idol, and jump down hole
- Find second hole and take idol
- Spiderman to get a free deathblow on Shirafuji
- Pray you don’t get grabbed a bunch (jump back when you see the red flash)
- Prayer Bead (18/40)
- Head through new area, jump in tunnel and collect Prayer Bead from Buddha’s head
- Prayer Bead (19/40)
- Continue to Mist Area, take Idol
- Return to pre-Gunfort Idol
- Fight Snake Eyes Shirafuji (since you have experience)
- Prayer Bead (20/40) - Increase Stats
- Fight Tokujiro the Glutton (kill Monkeys, de-aggro for stealth deathblow)
- Prayer Bead (21/40)
- Kill Mist Noble, head down to Mibu Village
- Take Mibu Village Sculptor’s Idol
- Optional Grinding Location - 3 - Mibu Village (moderate yield)
- Potential grinding for Memorial Mob Prayer Bead here, and Terror Gourd, also carp scales optional.
- Prayer Bead (22/40)
- Run through Mibu Village
- Pick up Gourd Seed by White Tree
- Gourd Seed (8/9)
- Watermill Sculptor’s Idol
- Fight O’rin of the Water for Prayer Bead
- Prayer Bead (23/40)
- Pick up Hidden Shrine Prayer Bead in Mibu
- Prayer Bead (24/40) - Upgrade Stats
- Fight Corrupt Monk
- Achievement: Corrupt Monk 9/34
- Collect the Rock and Mibu Water Breathing
- Return to Mibu Village Idol
- Collect Prayer Bead in Chest under the Lake (kill Carps)
- Prayer Bead (25/40)
- Collect Resin Upgrade Material
- Return to Senpou Temple
- Use Mibu Breathing for 2 Treasure Carp and Prayer Bead
- Prayer Bead (26/40)
- Continue through Senpou and Kill Centipede Sen’un
- Prayer Bead (27/40)
- Return to Gunfort Idol
- Open Door
- Drop down Rope Bridge
- Sink to bottom to avoid getting killed by Snake
- Kill Carps in here for scales if you want
- Collect 1 directly before Idol
- Continue through Buddha Valley
- Fight Guardian Ape
- Swim in lake to get the Precious Bait
- Achievement: Guardian Ape 10/34
- Increase Attack Power
- Get Finger Whistle (Tools 10/10)
- Pick up Flower (this will trigger phase 2 Ashina)
- Return to Sculptor and put on final Prosthetic Tool
- Achievement: All Prosthetic Tools
- Warp to Abandoned Dungeon Idol
- Jump into Moat
- Collect Scale, and Kill Carp
- Take Ashina Castle Idol by broken bridge
- Climb back into the Ashina Castle Antechamber
- Jump down and kill the Chained Ogre (1 Stealth DB, cheese behind the door to Sabimaru)
- Prayer Bead (28/40) - Upgrade Stats
- Shinobi Medicine Rank Up
- Head to Dojo in Ashina Castle
- Take out Vilehand using Puppeteer
- Prayer Bead (29/40)
- Optional Grinding Location - 4 - Ashina Castle Dojo (2nd) (moderate yield)
- Return to Antechamber
- Jump out window into moat
- Unlock Grave Idol
- Run to Great Serpent Shrine
- Fight Masanaga (kill dogs with shuriken outside, stealth DB opportunity by sneaking around him)
- Prayer Bead (30/40) - Upgrade Stats
- Return to Poison Pool
- Fight Guardian Ape (lmao 2 Ape)
- Prayer Bead (31/40)
- Prayer Bead (32/40)
- Use Mortal Blade on corpse of Headless Guardian Ape
- Achievement: Immortality Severed (Headless Ape)
- Final Ninjutsu
- Achievement: All Ninjutsu
- Increase Attack Power
- Return to Ashina Castle Dojo Idol
- Remainder of Beads can only be gotten in Purification Ending Path
- -2 Purification Hirata
- -3 Fountainhead Palace
- -3 Post Dragon Ashina Castle/Outskirts
- Head to Ashina Castle Roof where you fought Genichiro
- Protect Kuro (Betray leads to Shura path ending, Break the Iron Code: Stay loyal to Kuro)
- Fight Owl
- Increase Attack Power
- Purification Ending Start
- Exhaust Dialogue with Kuro and Emma
- Eavesdrop on Kuro between each dialogue segment (hide behind paper wall)
- Emma will eventually head back upstairs (for some reason)
- Talk to Emma about Kuro, agree with her
- She will move to the Old Grave
- Travel to Old Grave Idol
- Talk to her
- She will move to Dilapidated Temple
- Talk to her here
- Sculptor will say the Temple is drafty
- Head behind Temple to Eavesdrop
- Return to Temple and talk to Emma
- Ask her about what you overheard
- Use the Bell at the Buddha Statue to enter Alternate Hirata Estate
- Enter Hirata Estates - Alternate
- Fight Spear-bearer Masanaga (Will call wolves, interupt with Spear, Shuriken, or a hit)
- Prayer Bead (33/40)
- Continue through Hirata Estates back to Hidden Temple
- Take the idol
- No need to fight, enemies wont follow you past a certain point
- Fight Juzou (kill henchmen, run back to waters, isolate the minister, and then get a stealth deathblow)
- Prayer Bead (34/40)
- Take the Idol
- Return to Mibu Village Wedding Cave
- Use Incense to Enter the Palanquin
- Take the Sculptor’s Idol
- Fight Corrupted Monk (True)
- (Use 2 Free Stealth Deathblows by jumping off the branches. Then lock down with Ash and Firecrackers and parries, divine confetti optional)
- Get the ability to buy Divine Confetti at this point from Info Broker for 300 Sen. Strongly recommend buying lots of it with spare sen
- Take the Sculptor’s Idol
- Head through Fountainhead to next Sculptor’s Idol
- Note: For the rest of fountainhead, The Sabimaru is your friend.
- Optional Grinding Location - 5 - Mibu Manor (High Yield) EXP and Sen for Days, also Grave Wax, Fat Wax, Adamantite Scraps, and Magnetite Ore. (Adamantite Requires Level 2 Drops from Senpou Scoll, prioritize unlocking it now)
- Grind if you want, otherwise continue to next Sculptor’s Idol past the bridge
- Fight Sakura Bull for Prayer Bead
- Prayer Bead (35/40)
- Collect drops here
- Head up Fountainhead to Great Sakura
- Take the Idol
- Take out Okami Leader (can AA deathblow, otherwise spam sabimaru)
- Prayer Bead (36/40) - Upgrade Stats
- Pillage Carp scales from around Fountainhead Lake (need at least 12, more preferred)
- Get the Water of Fountainhead and give it to the guy in Mibu, return and kill for 5 scales
- Get Precious Bait from under the building the woman is standing on (2 total for hand in (not required, 1 Precious Bait and 1 Truly Precious Bait will give you the 4 scales you can get from attendant)
- Collect Carp Scales from around the Lake (Not required)
- Head to Sculptor’s Idol
- Optional Grinding Location - 6 - Red Nobles (Low-Moderate, drops fat wax)
- -Not recommended, not high enough yield and fat wax is common elsewhere.
- Collect Gourd Seed from this house
- Give it to Emma for final Upgrade
- Achievement - All Gourd Seeds
- Get to Pot Noble’s Sculptor’s Idol
- Get to Feeding Grounds
- Feed Precious Bait x2 for scales
- Buy Lapis Lazuli x2 using Carp Scales
- Get Truly Precious Bait
- Feed Truly Precious Bait
- Talk to Attendant for Scales
- Return to Pot Noble for Lapis Lazuli
- Also buy Flowing Water skill
- Return to Guardian Apes watering hole Idol
- Find Great Carp dead
- Achievement - Great Colored Carp
- Return Whisker to Attendant (optional)
- Return to Palace Grounds Idol
- Head up the path
- Defeat Divine Dragon
- Upgrade Attack Power
- Achievement - Gracious Gift of Tears
- Ashina is Burning now, no more idols (again)
- Talk to Emma in Kuros Room for the required Key
- Take out Ashina Elite in Isshin’s Hidden Dojo
- Prayer Bead (38/40)
- Head back to Ashina Outskirts Wall to Grave Idol
- Theres a new bridge back to Ashina Outskirts now
- Skip Red Guard for now
- Return to Merchant/1st Grinding Spot pre-Ogre Idol
- If you sent Kotaro to Anayama the Peddler, talk to them on the OTHER side of where they usually are for the Promissory Note
- Optional Farming Location - 7 - Red Gunners
- Can get Yellow Gunpowder, Fulminated Mercury, and occasionally Adamantite Scrap from this location. (Requires Level 2 Senpou Text drops upgrade)
- Take out Red Guard
- Prayer Bead (39/40)
- Return the Ashina Castle
- Travel to Reservoir
- Take the Idol
- Take out Seven Ashina Spears
- Prayer Bead (40/40)
- Achievement Unlocked: All Prayer Beads
- Finished all prayer beads
- Return to Hirata Estates-Alternate
- Fight Owl (Father)
- Achievement Unlocked: Owl
- Increase Attack Power
- Kill Schinchimen for Finger Ring (mandatory for maxing upgrades achievement) in Guardian Apes Burrow (Use Lilac Umbrella, and Divine Confetti)
- Fight Demon of Hatred (may want to unlock Malcontent Shinobi Tool, which gives 3 stuns, not overly worth it, but you have to build it anyways)
- Get Lapis Lazuli x 2
- Increase Attack Power
- Achievement - Demon of Hatred
- Return to the Hidden passage
- Fight Sword Saint Isshin
- Achievement - Sword Saint
- Ending - Choose Everblossom
- Achievement - Purification
- Increase Attack Power
- Miscellaneous End Game Roundups before moving on to NG+
- Get to Feeding Grounds
- Feed the Carp 1 Bait
- Talk to Attendant for 1 Scale
- Feed the Carp 2nd Bait
- Talk to Attendant for 3 Scales
- Feed Truly Precious Bait to Carp
- Return to Guardian Ape’s Watering Hole
- Collect Great Whisker
- Achievement: Great Colored Carp
- Free Attendant (optional)
- Go to pot noble for another Lapis Lazuli (5 total)
- Purchase Flowing Water Skill (5 scales)
- Purchase Red Gourd (2 Scales)
- Purchase Purple Gourd (1800 Sen from guy in Mibu)
- Kill Schichimen in Fountain Head for Lapis Lazuli (need it for upgrades, by doing this you won’t have to fight Demon of Hatred again in NG+ for more Lapis Lazuli)
- Kill Schichimen in Sunken Valley for Ceremonial Tanto (optional)
- Kill All Headless for Sugars/Items (optional)
- Playthrough - 2 - Shura
- (This is where we start cutting out everything non-mandatory, all optional mini-bosses are no longer worth fighting as they only provide exp and heavy coin purses. Therefore, they arent worth the time, you’ll be swimming in Sen once we do the mandatory grinding for All the skills we need)
- Complete Tutorial
- Fight Genichiro: Lose (fight if you want, no difference)
- Head through Ashina Outskirts
- Fight Chained Ogre (stealth deathblow)
- Run through to Snake Stealth Setpeice
- Complete Snake Setpeice
- Fight Gyoubu
- Increase Attack Power (from now on, every attack power upgrade is only a marginal one, so feel free to skip non-mandatory bosses)
- Kill Rats, talk to Tengu (cant skip this at all)
- Fight Bull
- (Strongly recommend at this point unlocking the Gunfort Idol and Mibu Village Idol as after you start killing bosses more phantom enemies spawn making traversal more difficult)
- Fight Genichiro
- Increase Attack Power
- Run around for Mortal Blade info
- Get Gunfort Key
- Run to Senpou Temple
- Kill Folding Screen Monkeys
- Increase Attack Power
- Head to Ashina Reservoir Well
- Kill Vilehand
- Jump down the hole
- Fight Snake Eyes Shiranagi
- Head through Mist Forest ignore everything
- Kill Mist Noble
- Drop through to Mibu
- Buy 2 Scales (optional)
- Fight Corrupt Monk (pocket sand and seeds)
- Increase Attack Power
- Pick up Stone
- Head to Gunfort
- Fight Centipede
- Continue through Buddha Valley
- Kill Guardian Ape
- Increase Attack Power
- Pick up Flower
- Head back to Ashina Castle - Abandoned Dungeon
- Collect Carp Scales in the Moaton the way
- Head to Roof
- Side with Owl (Obey the Iron Code, Forsake Kuro)
- Fight Emma
- Fight Isshin Ashina
- Achievement - Isshin Ashina
- Achievement Shura Ending
- You’ll get One Mind Skill as well.
- Start next playthrough immediately, nothing left for us to do here.
- Playthrough - 3 - Return
- (This is the most involved ending, and all grinding for materials, and upgrades should be done here at end game as you’ll be in NG++)
- This is where we start cutting out everything non-mandatory, all optional mini-bosses are no longer worth fighting as they only provide minor exp and money and arent worth the time,. The first part of this is a 1-1 of the previous playthrough)
- Complete Tutorial
- Fight Genichiro: Lose (fight if you want, no difference)
- Head through Ashina Outskirts
- Increase Attack Power (Isshin Ashina Memory)
- Fight Chained Ogre (stealth deathblow)
- Run through to Snake Stealth Setpeice
- Complete Snake Setpeice
- Fight Gyoubu
- Increase Attack Power (from now on, every attack power upgrade is only a marginal one, so feel free to skip non-mandatory bosses)
- Kill Rats, talk to Tengu (cant skip this at all)
- Fight Bull
- Talk to Woman on the bridge to find out about Holy Child (speeds up the process, dont need to find the book in the water later)
- Head up to Senpou Temple
- Use Puppeteer on the Monk to fly the Kite
- Head up through Senpou Temple
- Use the kite to get across
- Hit the Idol
- Return to Senpou Temple Idol
- Progress through the normal way now
- Buy Persimmons from Memorial Mob behind Shugendo Idol
- Collect White Pinwheel
- Talk to the Monk at the top for the text (only works if you talked to the woman on the bridge after Bull)
- Use Divine Abduction on Kotaro after giving him the White Pinwheel
- Return to Ashina Castle
- (Strongly recommend at this point unlocking the Gunfort Idol and Mibu Village Idol as after you start killing bosses more phantom enemies spawn making traversal more difficult)
- Fight Genichiro
- Increase Attack Power
- Run around for Mortal Blade info
- Get Gunfort Key
- Warp back to Senpou Temple
- Talk to Taro in Hall of Illusion
- Get Taro Persimmon
- Kill Folding Screen Monkeys
- Increase Attack Power
- Get Mortal Blade from Divine Child
- Give her the text from the Monk
- Collect Rice, Eat Rice.
- Travel to Dilapidated Temple Idol using Buddha Statue
- Ask for more Rice, Eat it.
- Repeat until she’s sick
- Give her a Persimmon, or Taro Persimmon (1 taro should be enough, otherwise 2 regular ones)
- May have to rezone, but she should be better
- Get Rice for Kuro, give it to him in his room
- Eat Kuro’s Rice Ball in front of him
- Reset the Area
- Head to hall of illusion talk to her again
- Head to back of cave behind Senpou Temple
- Collect the Book from the blue monk
- Return to Divine Child
- Need to get two snake hearts here now.
- Head to Ashina Reservoir Well
- Kill Vilehand
- Jump down the hole
- Fight Snake Eyes Shiranagi
- At Sculptor’s Idol return to Divine Child
- Head through Mist Forest ignore everything
- Kill Mist Noble
- Drop through to Mibu
- Buy 2 Scales in Mibu (optional)
- Fight Corrupt Monk
- Increase Attack Power
- Pick up Stone
- Head to Gunfort
- Fight Centipede
- Unlock door, trigger Snake (Required for him to be killable)
- Take Idol
- Warp to Idol behind Kite
- Kill Snake by Stealth DB using Mortal Blade
- Should get the achievement for All Bosses here as well
- Achievement - Great Serpent
- Achievement - All Bosses
- Sneak past Snake to get the Old Heart in the Buddha Valley
- Give Divine Child the hearts
- Rest, door should be closed, and eavesdrop
- Continue through Buddha Valley
- Kill Guardian Ape
- Increase Attack Power
- Pick up Flower
- Head back to Ashina Castle - Abandoned Dungeon
- Collect Carp Scales in the Moat
- Head to Roof
- Break the Iron Code, Protect Kuro
- Kill Owl
- Increase Attack Power
- Create the fountainhead essence
- Return to divine child
- Collect the Frozen Dragon Tears - Required for ending
- Head to Fountainhead Palace
- Run through, pick up Palace Water
- Return to Mibu, do Fountainhead Water Quest for 5 carp scales
- Run to Okami Leader
- Kill Her
- Head to upper Fountainhead
- Pick up Carp Scales
- Make sure to collect Carp Scales
- Make sure to Kill Shichimen in Fountainhead for Lapis Lazuli
- Get Lapis Lazuli x 2 from Pot Noble
- Use Truly Precious Bait on Great Colored Carp
- Collect 10th Lapis Lazuli from the Pot Noble
- (If you skipped a Schichimen Warrior in Fountainhead, you’ll need to fight Demon of Hatred again, OR do another playthrough and buy the rest using Carp Scales, your call)
- Fight Divine Dragon
- Increase Attack Power
- Head towards Demon of Hatred, take the Ashina Outskirts Stairs Idol
- Grind like a madman to get all the upgrade materials and final skills
- Took me roughly 3-4 hours of grinding here, I was well above the required materials at this point.
- Achievement Unlocked - Lazulite Upgrade 30/34
- Achievement Unlocked - All Prosthetic Upgrades 31/34
- Achievement Unlocked - All Skills 32/34
- Optional Step - Back up Save before Sword Saint, this will allow you to bypass a fourth playthrough, if you don’t want to glitch it, you can just do a fourth playthrough)
- Kill Sword Saint
- Increase Attack Power
- Give Kuro the Cold Dragon Tears
- Return Ending
- Achievement: Return Ending
- Playthrough - 4 - Immortal Severance
- Exactly the same as Return, just remove the grinding and questline,
- Just go through the game as fast as possible. Additionally, if you backed up your very first playthroughs Save, that will be the easiest way to beat Sword Saint, your call.
- If you REALLY want, you can grind 5k and do the carp scales again to get the Dragon Mask for extra scaling, but it’s not worth the time or effort. Unless you’re going to continue this playthrough
- Defeat Sword Saint, unlock final Ending
- Achievement Unlocked - Immortal Severance 33/34
- Achievement Unlocked - Sekiro 34/34
- Finished
Advertisement
Add Comment
Please, Sign In to add comment
Advertisement