Moon Cave

Still awake? Now that you are in the cave, run up the stairs and jump off at the end and fall to the ground below.

Calcified Cavern

Talk to the imp guards there and then turn around and enter the next room. Head down the path to find a gold gate and the Thunder Brew. Smash the pots you come across and enter the devil gate at the far end. Take out the bongo playing joker and a chest will appear. Get mask from it and head back to the imps at the door. Talk to them and then go through to the Moon Cave again.

Moon Cave

Head into the main room and enter the kitchen on the right. Go up the stairs and open the large pot with hooks to the flowers with vines to rescue the chef inside. Get the arrow key after you talk to him and you will need to track down some ingredients for him. Save at the mirror there and head back out to the main room. Use the arrow key on the eye lock and go through. Hop across the flowers to get to the other side of the cave and drop down to the ledge below. Slash the eyeball at the door to open it and run inside. Defeat the Devil gate in there and a chest will appear. Get the Ogre liver from it and head back out of the room and back across the flowers to the water pool by entrance. Ride geyser up to ledge. Follow the long tunnel out to the main room and up next geyser to left. Enter door there and cross bridge. Cross back over and the bridge will collapse making you fall to the ground. Enter devil gate and clear it. When you are done there, hop up the ledges and talk to the imp standing around. Draw a line from water to the tip of the bamboo tube fountain and the water will fill up the room. When water raises, draw line from under tunnel opening and climb geyser to enter tunnel. Enter the room and you will get ambushed. Kill the foe there and slash the eye to open the door on the ground.

Head to the right and make a geyser in the pool there and jump to the ledge and you will be back in the main room. Go to the elevator in the center and talk to the imp there. Power slash him and the vator will start to go down. Keep slashing him till you reach the bottom. Jump off the vator to the ledge and enter the next room. There will be four eyes that you need to power slash all at once. Line them up and hit them and enter the next room. When you enter, look at the statue and a scene will play. Now you will need to square off against a large mouth wheel. Give it a cherry bomb and a power slash and a few good hits and it will fall easily. After it is dead, another scene will play and you will draw more stars to get the inferno brush. Use it on the ice block and enter the next room. Talk to the elevator lift guy and ride it up to the top. Enter the door there and clear the devil gate to get another chest. You will find another ingredient, ice lips, inside. Melt the ice blocks there and enter the kitchen. Save again and then head back out to the main room. Now you need to head back to the room where you broke the bridge. Either go through the door and take the water geysers up to the level, or go to the flower in the pot beside the large bell and bounce up to the next level and use the geyser there. When you enter the room where the bridge was, redraw it and cross.

Use the inferno brush to melt the ice and enter the room. Now you will have to face a lip wheel and an eye wheel. Kill them and get the Eyeball of Fire from inside the chest. Grab the key and head back out and across the bridge. Enter the main room and run to the left to the eye lock. Go through the door there and you will enter a room full of sand. Go to the right and you will see a round rock. You need to push it to the far gith of the cave and you can only move it by bonking it. Get rolling it and when you come to the eye, slash it and a path will appear. When ever the path disappears or starts to, use the wind brush to bring it back. Roll the ball across quickly and continue to the right and roll it into the hole there. When you do, the torches will ignite around the cave. Head through the door there and you will be back in the main room. Head up to the middle level and look to the ledges above the flower below. There will be a flower above that you can vine to and reach a merchant. From there, vine to the next flower to the left and then run around the walkway. Use the wind brush on the banners and jump across to the cannon. Ignite the wick just as the cannon are turning from facing the back wall. It can be tricky to get the cannon to fire at the right place, but when you get it in the right spot, it will fire across the main room and blow a hole in the wall.

Vine over to the flower by the hole and enter the room. Follow the path until you see a flaming ball on the ledge to the left. Use the wind brush to knock it down and continue to push the ball down the tunnel with it. When you reach the end, use it to melt the icw blocks and enter the door on the right. Kill the devil gate and get the last ingredient from the chest. Head back to the kitchen now and give all the ingredients to the chef and he will tell you to go ring the bell out in the main room. Head over to it and ring it 8 times and a scene will play. Head to the vator in the center of the room and talk to the operator. Ride it up and use the merchant if you want and go through the gold gate to save. Continue to follow the path around to the throne room until the scene starts and Orochi appears.

To battle Orochi, you will first need to give him a slash for another scene to play. When it does, you will be told that he has a barrier around him and a life bar will appear at the bottom with a picture of a bell. Guess what you need to kill. For now, you will need to avoid the heads attacks until it roars at you. When it does, draw a line from the sake pools to the mouth. Do it twice and the head will pass out. Do it to 4 of the heads and you will be able to run up the neck to the bell in the center. When you get there, slash away at it until it breaks. When it does, you will now have to face off against each head. The first head I took on was the green head. Wait until it opens its mouth and then shoot sake at it. Let it hang and then power slash it and it will fall to the ground. Go nuts on it with attacks and it will die. Do the same for the one to the left of it with the black hat and it will die quickly as well.

Keep going left and the next one will have a red hat. Again, slash to make it open its mouth and shoot sake in it. When it comes down, nail it will attacks to finish it off. Continue left and the next one will have a brown hat. Repeat the same moves and on to the next with the pirate hat. Do the same thing to it and when it drops the next one to the left will be wearing a white hat. Kill it and the next will be a yellow hat. There will be one left after him and it will be the water spouting head. When it floods the floor, hop across the lilly pads to the head and hit it. The water will flush away and the head will open its mouth. When ti does, repeat the same thing you did for all the other heads and kill it. A scene will then play and you will need to draw a moon in the sky. Once that is done, follow the scene and provide the cuts on the heads for Susano. You’ll need to be quick, but one you slice 7 of them, sit back and watch the rest of the scenes. You will receive a new weapon as well called Tsumugari

Kamiki Village

Now that the festival is on, go around the village and talk to everyone. You can also head up to the sacred deck to find some people as well as head to the Cave of Nagi to find Susano and Kushi. Once you have talked to everyone, you can leave the village, but it will take a few tries to get out. Once you get the option to leave, do so and head to the spring in Shinshu Field and go to Sasa Sanctuary and out to taka pass and the city check point.

City Check Point

When you enter the check point, you will see that the drawbridge is up. Head around the area and talk to the people there and return to the archer when you have talked to all the folks. He will tell you about his signal to lower the gate. Wait for him to fire an arrow and then use inferno on it and the signal will activate. When the bridge lowers, head across and enter the Ryoshima Coast. From here you will have two options of where to go; either to Sei-an City or Ankoku Temple. Head to the path on the right and follow it around until you come to a crack in the wall. Blow it up and enter the cave there. Use the water brush to move water from the pool on the ground to the one up the next ledge. You will need to keep moving up platform to platform, filling the dried water beds as you go until you reach the top and the sapling there. Restore the sapling and the curse will be lifted from the paths. Jump off the edge back to the path and you can now enter the cave that was blocked as well. Talk to Madame fawn if you like and then head down the path to the beach. Pass the ship wreck and the building on the island and continue to the right. Head up the hill and enter the gate that leads to the city.

Sei-An City (Commoners Quarter)

Talk to everyone about the mist and the Water Dragon going nuts. Visit dojo island and grab Holy Eagle as well and then head back to the city. Go to the merchant at the left of the entrance and buy the blinding snow fishing rod. Head to the gate to the next area of the city and make a left before you go through. Follow the canal around and you will come to Naguri who will be digging for water. Help him through the digging mini game and find the water at the bottom. Once you do, the water will be restored to the canals and you can head through the gate to the next area of the city. Head through the city and through the next gate until you come to the guard at the drawbridge named Benkei. Help him catch the large fish and he will then lower the bridge for you. Once it is down, head across and talk with Waka who will be there. After the conversation, enter the next building with the line of people and talk to Rao. Perform a brush technique for her and then she will need her slips back to have her power. Head through the back door and then make a right and head over the bridge and into the gateway. Make a right of where the guards are standing and there will be a crack in the wall with green mist coming out of it. Grab Rao’s slips there and return them to her. Listen to her long conversation and then head back out to the beach and to the moon tower across from the sunken ship. When you are on the moon tower, draw a moon in the sky and the water will disappear from around the ship. Enter the glowing hole and listen to Issun and Rao will show up. When she hops on, use her slips to go through the door and continue down the hall.

Kill the ghosts in the hall way and collect the fangs and continue to the next room. Drop down and open the chests. When you get your goodies, head for the stairs and go down the hallway avoiding the spikes. Enter the next room and you will face off against two shark creatures. For the shark head one, wait until it starts firing purple blobs at you a lot and then it will lay down. Slash it when it does and three times should kill it. For the shark tail one, use bombs and slashes until its shell falls off and then give it one final slash. Once both are dead, head through the next hallway and through the curse gate. Draw a sun in the sky to raise the water in the ship. Head back out and now you will need to fight the two shark creatures combined as one. Swim to the top of one of the barrels and wait for it to jump. Let it come down and then move out of the way at the last second. When it is dazed, give it a few slashes. When it gets up, repeat until it is dead. Head back through the spiked hallway and into the first room and over to the barrel. Jump on it and up to the walkway above.

Ignore the cannon for now and swim through the next hallway till you reach a room with a large hand swatting at you. Go up the stairs to the left and follow the walkway around to the right. Slash the rope at the end holding up the barrel and then ride it along to drop it off the edge and over into the hooks. Jump back up to the walkway and follow it and jump in the next room and you will be where you drew the sun. Draw the moon and then Return to the cannon room which should have no water in it now. Draw a bomb on the cannon and jump on it. Aim the cannon at the doors across from it by standing on the end of the cannon to move it up and down. Fire at the three doors and grab the arrow key from the bottom one. Use it on the eye lock in the corner of the room and continue to the chest room. Open the first chest to find the lucky mallet and leave the room. Once you do, a scene will play and the water dragon will appear. Swim back to the beach and the lucky mallet will jump out. Follow it back to the town and back through the gates to the crack in the all you were at earlier where the green fog was coming through.

Imperial Palace

Watch the scene and then head through the crack. Now that you are tiny and Issun is normal, follow the path forward and watch out for the big feet. Head forward and to the right and follow the path. When you hop over some rocks, you will head some crying and spot a girl in a cell. After the scene, continue to the left and you will come to battle the thunder doom mirror. Just use some bombs on it and it won’t last long. Continue through the save gate and you will enter a room with some feet and a broom. You won’t be able to get past the broom just yet so don’t bother trying. Go through the cracks on the far and near wall by blowing them up and grab the arrow key from the one on the right, You will need to jump on the foot to reach the ledge though. Once you have the key, jump back down and run past the girl in the cell for another scene.

Now that you have met Kaguya, use the arrow key on the eye lock and enter the door. Use a bomb on the crack in the ground and jump down. When you enter the treasure room, jump down off the edge and then blow up the crack in the wall. Enter the room and you will see a flask hanging. Use slash to knock it down and then jump inside it. When inside, use the wind brush technique to blow the mist out and another scene will play with a constellation. Draw the stars and then you will receive the Mist technique that will allow you to slow down time. Use it on the blocking spider and then head out of the room. Kill the Wind doom mirror with some bombs and slashes and continue up the platform spiders to the mark on the ground that will send you back up the hole. Now you need to make your way to the room where the man was sweeping. Go past the two brooms and through the next hall. Use the water fall on the water spouts to knock it down and run across and then run across the next to the platform spider. Enter the emperors room. Jump up the platform spiders to the right and off to the ledge at the top. Make the first left across the beams and continue across the fast moving blue spiders. Make a right at the end and then follow the beam there past three quick swinging spiders to find the source of the mist.

Emperor’s Body

Jump into the emperor and run down the tunnel. Save at the right and continue through and jump off the edge at the end. Watch the scene with the Blight and then the battle will start. To battle the Blight, what you will need to do is wait for him to stop because when he does he will try to attack you really quickly. When he does, use the mist to slow him down and then get to attacking him. He will stone stone after a few slashes and then you need to hit him again. Once you do, his sword will go flying off to the side and you can then go and attack it. Give it some slash attacks and then eventually it will return to the Blight. Keep doing this over and over and it will eventually die.

After the next couple long scenes, you will be in control of the Emperor. Walk him down the walkway to the cell and another scene will play. After Bamboo girl is free, save your game and head out of the palace. Talk to her again and she will say she needs to find the Royal Crest at Sasa Sanctuary. Head to the spring and use it to get there and then follow the path up to the Royal Seal in the forest t o find her. After the scene, you will need to play a digging game and then another scene will play after wards. Now that you have the Flame Tablet, you will need to use it in a little while. Head back to Sei-san Village and head to the far back of the village where two guards are blocking the entrance. Use the mist brush and rush past them to enter the castle. Take the elevator up and equip the tablet to cross the lava. Talk to the Queen there and she will give you the border key to Oni Island. Leave the tower and the village and make a right as you exit. Go to the large gate there and go through.

Ryoshima Coast

When you enter the shore area, to the left there will be a kid being beaten by a few bullies. Talk to him after wards and he will tell you about Orca, the vessel that takes people to the undersea kingdom. He mentions that it only appears at dawn, so draw a sun in the sky if it at night once you reach the end of the dock. When you do, it will appear and you will be able to hop on it. Drive it around until you come to a large tower and hear cats meowing. Hop off Orca and head up the path to reach the cat call tower.

Catcall Tower

As you first enter the catcall tower area, a poltergeist will attack. The poltergeist will separate into three creatures so you can either take them down separately or just use the bombs as usual and take it out. Once it is defeated, look at the tower and you will be told you can climb the catwalk walks. Jump on them and start your way up the tower. Keep going all the way up the tower and don’t worry about the ledges for now. It’s a long way up so keep on going and going, round and round until you are able to enter it. When you can, there will be a place with a spring pool and a mermaid token. This is here in case you don’t have a fish basket to feed animals fish. If you don’t have one, go to a town and get one. When you are done, head up the stairs more until you come out side and see a cat statue. Head down the ledge there and use the fish on the cat there. Now you will get another brush technique. The catwalk brush. When ever you see the cat statues, you will be able to draw lines up and create catwalks to climb up. Once you are done, try it on the statue and see the giant statue at the top. Go back down and down the stairs and jump off the edge. When you land on the clouds, jump off again until you land on the ground. Head out after climbing the columns and head back to Orca and drive it back to the pier.

Hop off and look on your map and now the cat statues will be marked there. Go to the eastern most one to find treasure and the western most to come to battle a large blue Cyclops that can fly. Use regular attacks on it to take it out and then talk to the Watcher there. He will tell you about the whirlpool of stars in the sky and that it needs to be night. Make it night and then draw a single star in the sky for him to wish on it. Once he does, the galaxy will appear. Head to the end of the cliff and start to draw a wind pattern on the stars. Do it three times and the whirl pool will appear below. Swim over to get Orca and then head for the whirlpool and enter it.