Okami HD NG Any% Notes (Ryo Early)

Okami HD
NG Any% Notes (Ryo Early)
[Updated 28 Dec 2023]

TRICKS TO LEARN/PRACTICE
- Uppy thingy
- Boulder skip
- Agata sapling brush adventure
- Waka 1 skip
- Fishing 1 skip (clip into Tsuta)
- Tsuta camera pan skip
- Blockhead skip (Tsuta in reverse)
- Five pots without mushrooms
- Clip into Spider Queen (maybe)
- Sasa early
- Ryo early
- Kusa dog brush adventure
- Awesome skip
- Tobi skip

ROUTE STRUCTURE
- No shopping after blooming Shinshu
- Bloom Agata then perform Waka 1 skip
- Clip into Tsuta (fishing skip)
- Perform Blockhead clip
- Obtain Vine and defeat Spider Queen
- Shop as you enter Taka: 4 meat, 1 XM, 3 SFS (figure out what to sell; can buy XS if money is tight)
- Do molesters and get the golden mushroom
- Unlock Taka mermaid pond
- Perform Sasa early and fight Take (1 SFS)
- Mermaid pond to Taka and enter Kusa
- Do blue imp fight (XM or XS)
- Feed the dogs, performing the brush adventure and feed skip after three
- Fight Tei (1 SFS)
- Exit Kusa and do CC skip
- Bloom Ryoshima and buy DJ
- Enter Seian and perform Fireburst early, then exit Seian TO THE LEFT
- Perform Ryo Early, do shopping (TBD), then mermaid pond to Agata (1D)
- Do fishing then fight Ume (1 SFS)
- Mermaid pond to Shinshu and fight Hayabusa (1 SFS)
- Mermaid pond to Taka, do Gale Shrine
- Mermaid pond to NRyo, do Catwalk then Watcher's Cape (consider Catwalk skip)
- Do endgame as usual, including tab skip during Evil Rao sequence







- Through cutters as normal
- Get waterspout and fight Take; exit Sasa manually (NO MERMAID POND), and enter City Checkpoint
- Do CC skip, bloom Ryoshima
- Buy DJ, unlock Ryoshima mermaid pond
- Enter Seian, do early Fireburst
- Go straight to Himiko's, do Firetab skip
- Mermaid pond back to Agata, fight Ume (2D)
- Mermaid pond to Shinshu, fight Hayabusa (1U)
- Mermaid pond to Taka (2D), do Gale Shrine (can do OoB exit)
- Exit to Taka, mermaid pond to Ryoshima (2D), enter NRyo and continue as normal
- Catcall Tower then mermaid to NRyo (1U)
- After Ninetails, mermaid pond to Shinshu (2D)

KUSA SHOPPING: 4 meat, 3 XM, 5 SFS (need one for Yamato Blight)
AGATA SHOPPING: 5 mermaid coins (1 XM if you didn't get the one in Rao's room), 1 BONE!!!
RYOSHIMA SHOPPING: 1 fish feed, 1 XM, 3 XL

ONI ISLAND MAZE
> Take the middle door
	> FFLR
	> RLFR
	> LFLR
	> RL, and CB

ARK OF YAMATO
- Buy an Inkfinity Stone if you don't have one, and max XLs (need at least 17)
- Start to the right (Blight)
- Blight:
	> Dodge slash attack
	> Wait for sword spin and PS
	> SFS and kill sword
- Orochi:
	> Hold left and aggro earth, poison, and light (as in the normal fight)
	> Power slash earth then triple drunk
	> Do it again, hitting the bell, then use an XL
	> Do the normal 4x4 drunk strat, but use two XLs each time
- Spider Queen: Vinex3, XLx2
- Crimson Helm: XL, gale, XLx4
- Ninetails:
	> CB, electric, XLx2
	> CB, electric, slash grandpa, XL
	> Once Ninetails reappears, XLx2
- Buy max XLs (need 43 for Yami)
- Yami:
	> XLx3, cutscene, XLx2, cutscene, XL+PS, cutscene, XL
	> Wait for his health bar to appear
	> XLx3, cutscene, XLx3+PS, cutscene, waterspout, XLx2, cutscene, XL
	> Wait for his health bar to appear
	> XLx5, PS the slots, cutscene, PS the slots, cutscene, PS the slots, cutscene, XL
	> Wait for his health bar to appear
	> XLx3, cutscene, XLx3, cutscene, XLx2, cutscene, XL
	> Draw a sun, run to the right, XLx12