Shin Onimusha Dawn of Dreams (aka Onimusha 4)

Well I just play it and I have to say that it's FUN! Chain attacks rox and chain critical blows are great!! Is it just me or weapon and armor is leveling faster? I was right about game time, it's around 20 hours just like I said earlier =). Ok back to slashing =D

Jam it back in, in the dark.

First of all press R1 to lock on target then press Triangle to use Oni Magic after this move Left analog stick in the direction your enemy is and press Square as fast as you can. Then each time you're making critical change direction of your analog stick to get on next enemies. Remember to boost your chain and critical skill after each level.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Well there are team Oni magic attacks to but I don't remember how to do them. You will love Tenkai after you watch the ending =D. Besides Tenkai is my favorite now after finished the game and saw the ending =)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Well I knew it wasn't hard at all =) I had finished Shin Oni 2 times but in 2nd I just save after you know why had left us in order to get us you know where. So I'm just visiting Dark Realms from time to time =)

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Black sword it heavy and his attacks are slow... wait I'll check what weapons I got my self to the MAX.

Ok first of all make sure to get LAMENTATION blade to the MAX cause of Lv.8, Lv.9 and MAX Lv addons. Then MAX out ENRYU (84) and use it till you get HABAKIRI (130) witch you will use to the end of the game. If you like to play in Dark Realm try to get to floor 50 and get EXCALIBUR (180) there then MAX it out. This way no enemie will stand in your way =). If you want I can do the same for all characters.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Tokubetsu

Yeah, a weapon guide for the other characters would be nice as well lol.

I'll post it here later. Till then just play as Soki =)

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Tokubetsu

How exactly do i get to the dark realm? or am i still too early for it (starting stage 5)

I don't remember but our hanging little faller will get you there when time will come.

As for weapons:
Akane:
- Onimaru (Till the end of the game)

Ohatsu:
- Decadence
- Black Inferno (Till the end of the game)

Roberto:
- Gloves of Hades
- Class Zero Gloves
- Michael's Gauntlets (Till the end of the game)

Tenkai:
- Congoyashu
- Gundari
- Fudo (Till the end of the game)*

* Thanks to this weapon game is like a walk in a park.

FELIPE NO

Oh and after you get to the Dark Realm on each 50th floor you have 2nd the best weapon in game. After getting there get back to hideout and MAX it level then use.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Terminus

Since I'm a weapon addict, Lamentation is now at the MAX while the other weapons are just floating at around 3 - 5 levels. Tenkai, Jubei, Roberto and Ohatsu I have no idea what to use. Tenkai's Yama, Jubei's wind sword or something, Roberto's default weapon and Ohatsu's Ice Rifle is what I currently use.

Originally Posted by B4-Hunter

Akane:
- Onimaru (Till the end of the game)

Ohatsu:
- Decadence
- Black Inferno (Till the end of the game)

Roberto:
- Gloves of Hades
- Class Zero Gloves
- Michael's Gauntlets (Till the end of the game)

Tenkai:
- Congoyashu
- Gundari
- Fudo (Till the end of the game)*

* Thanks to this weapon game is like a walk in a park.

Originally Posted by B4-Hunter

Ok first of all make sure to get LAMENTATION blade to the MAX cause of Lv.8, Lv.9 and MAX Lv addons. Then MAX out ENRYU (84) and use it till you get HABAKIRI (130) witch you will use to the end of the game. If you like to play in Dark Realm try to get to floor 50 and get EXCALIBUR (180) there then MAX it out. This way no enemie will stand in your way =). If you want I can do the same for all characters.

Here you go =) I was posting it earlier =P

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Rei no Otaku

I've never had item problems either. It's ridiculously easy to keep your meds at full capicity. Actually I'm finding the game pretty average in difficulty. It's not super easy, but it's not exactly hard either. It's perfect.

Is it just me or is Ohatsu wicked fun to use. I love her.

Yeah for me game was damn easy and I never had a problem with any of boss fights. Item? I was only using them in Dark Realm... so I don't know where is problem here. It all depends on how do you master R1 + Triangle > Square + Left Analog Stick in enemies direction. If you manage to master it you can finish the game easily. I mastered it on stage 6 or 7 and from them I have 1/3 kills by critical =) so it was like 1500+.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Terminus

This is horseshit. I mean, Luis Frois anyway.

Spoiler:

How the hell can you beat him with that time bomb on your body? What I did was use a co-op attack every now and then to eliminate the timer, sometimes use a special attack before the timer explodes so that I would be invulnerable. What if, by circumstance, you don't have any magic or you've exhausted your supply of MP meds, you're bound to die every time he casts that piece of shit? Also, I found out that he's terribly annoying as hell. Never knowing where those scalpels may fire so you can deflect them as well as the time bomb. What in the world? I beat him once but if the opportunity rises again and I don't have any MP invincibility moves like the co-op attack or the MP attack, how in the living world would I survive? Any easier methods?

Spoiler:

Only problem for me was to figure it out that you can deflect the scalpels. After I got it there was no hope for him. It was quite a long fight but it wasn't hard at all. I don't think any boss fight was a problem for me... Now I finished game 2nd time and have Lv.99 or characters, armor and MAX level of all best weapons. Viva la Dark Realm!!

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Hantei

Just finished the game! Woo hoo! Clocked in to be about 42 hours, didn't go all the way to level 100 on Dark Realm though, stopped at 50 for all 5 characters. Just got too stressful after level 50.

Same here =D Only 50 for everyone. Going to 100 is like asking for Harakiri =P

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Hantei

Just to avoid confusion, I'm talking about Dark Realm level and not character level. Character level, I finished much higher (I think 90+ for all). But if there isn't confusion, then DAMN, you made it to level 69 with Soki? After 30 the mobs were just getting horrendus, that I just wanted to get out as soon as I got their 2nd best weapons at level 50. Haha, even B4-Hunter knows how going beyond 50 is frustrating.

Hell yeah!! If not those flying mage that use some magic seals on you that you can't move or drain your Oni Power it would be easy as a pie =). I just can't get right timing for them. It's hard for Soki to take them out and any other flying monster. People on GameFAQs board say that they use a lot of "reviving bells" to get to 100 floor. Well I didn't die even once in DR...

I was speaking idiomatically.

Well it's fun how people are exiting about a game you finished long ago =D Now I know how Japanese are feeling when USA and EUR get the game =). I was playing in JAP Oni 4. Next time it will be when USA will get FF XII and I will already have Lv.99 =P in JAP.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

NICE!! You really like Onimusha =P

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Hantei

Nope it isn't same OST that gamemp3's released. This one is full OST (as far as I can tell anyway, totalling 69 tracks), 3 disc set that comes with a UMD (unfortunately region 2 only, may import a JPNS PSP now).

Hmm if I remember well my game rip had 58 tracks + OP & ED so it is 60 tracks in all =). I wonder what are those other 9 tracks =)?

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by Hantei

Not sure. I do know that the 3rd disc sounds like it's filled with all the cut scene music. Some of the tracks are even combined together (like the Intro movie tracks). So technically there's more than 9 other tracks. Oh and the last track on the 2nd disc sounds like it was something they composed specifically for the OST, as I've never heard in the game. Here's YSI link to it for your listening pleasures, not sure on the tag though (that's what I could make out from the katakana, and Hideyuki Fukasawa as being composer is what I assumed, it could very well have been Jamie Christopherson).

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.ph...D4C9EE11DE99C2

Thanks a lot for the link =) and yeah there are always tracks that are hard to get from game and we can never see them on OST. I don't know why I'm not so obsessed with the game... Sure I was playing it for 4 days in a row but just don't know =)

EDIT:
LoL this track is in the game and I remember hearing it even few times. I'm sure of it I have good hear for music and stuff. Only the beginning is new or it was not played in game but for 100% it was in game.

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