Mission Eleven: Tenrai’s Fortress Part 1

Assassinate the evil Tenrai!



Start this mission by running along the left wall and waiting for the red Jonin down the hallway to the left to turn around. Run like mad to stealth kill him before he turns around. Run back into the main passage where you were and go around to the other side of the wood pieces that are sticking out of the ground. There is another Jonin just up ahead but he is hard to see in the dark. Take him out and make your way across the log lying over the chasm.



Jump off it about half way across and land on the roof of the house. Below are a red Jonin and a Kunoichi walking around. Jump down to stealth kill the Kunoichi and quickly jump back up on the roof or run up behind the Red Jonin. Head down the passage way past the house and climb up onto the rock to your left. Jump down and stealth kill the Kunoichi walking there. Continue along the passageway until you come to a very large area with a wooden path leading from the doorway.



Wait until the Red Jonin walking back and forth near the end of the wood planks turns and then rush in to kill him. Head to your left and kill another Red Jonin and grapple up to the high rock platform. From up here, look down and wait until the Kunoichi patrolling there turns away from where you want to land. Drop down behind her and stealth kill her. From here head left again and continue along the wall till you reach an out cropping you can hide behind while you watch the Kunoichi on the walkway. Run and give it to her from behind while she isn’t looking. Next, grapple up to the rocks above you.



Make your way around the walkway to where you see the white karate expert doing his work out. Toss some poison while you crouch behind a rock and wait for the martial Arts man to get it or just use a blow dart. Stealth kill him and head up the stairs. Run through this room and turn right. There are two martial arts guys in here. They will both walk out and back into their hallways at the same time. When they start to walk back in, run after the closest one and stealth kill him. Hide behind the wall for the other to turn around and take him out also. Continue through the room and turn left. Take out the Red Jonin here and head up the stairs.



Toss out some rice for the martial arts expert wandering around in this room. Kill him and then grapple up to the left of the walkway above. There is a martial arts expert here to in the center on the steps that just refuses to turn around. You will need to couch past him, sneak up the stairs on the right and kill him from behind. Continue around the left corner and across the wooden bridge. Take out the martial Arts expert here and head for the ledge. Hang from the ledge until The Red Jonin to your right turns away. Kill him while being careful to not let the other red Jonin below see you. Drop down and take out the other Jonin while he is walking away from you.



Make your way around the corner and down the passageway. Take out the Martial Arts expert and crouch over the ledge just past him. Watch and wait for the Kunoichi down below to turn. Launch a flying jump attack on her when she does. Hop your way up the stones on the right side of the room. Take out the Red Jonin who is at the top of the stones and hop down the other side. Make a big jump across to the wooden structure where the Kunoichi is walking back and forth.



Hop down from there; make your way past another wooden structure and up the stone steps. Turn the corner and crouch into the room here. On both sides of you will be a martial arts expert. You need to take out the one on the right while the one on the left is not visible and around the corner. Kill the one on the right and then take out the one on the left before he comes back around the corner. If you let him come back around he will see the body and start searching for you. Run around the corner and jump up the ledge to the big doors. A cut scene starts and the boss fight starts.



Onikage

To deal with Onikage you want to stay away from his kicks and his grab. When he grabs you it really does a number on your health and to make matters worse it transfers into him. Also you will want to watch out for him chugging back a health potion during the fight. Nail him with a good sword combo when he misses with his attacks. Be aggressive with him and don’t let up.

Mission Twelve: Tenrai’s Fortress Part 2

Assassinate the evil Tenrai!



Grapple up to the opening above you to your right. Hop down the other side while taking out the Martial Arts guy around the corner. Turn left and take out another martial arts guy here when he turns around. Jump up the ledge, run up the ramp and jump over the bottomless pit in the middle of it. Take out the martial arts guy on the right who is patrolling back and forth.



Continue on down the ramp sneaking around the pillars to take out the Red Jonin down the hallway to the left and the martial arts guy hiding in the alcove across from the opening in the wall. Grapple up into the opening on the wall and go to the right. Take out the Kunoichi and martial arts guy will come out of an alcove on the right. Take him out as well and continue down the hall and go to the left where you will come to a room with some columns in it. Grapple your way up the columns to the doorway at the top of the room. There is a martial arts guy here that will spot you, but when he tries to attack you, he just runs off the edge.



Make your way though the doorway and hop over to the first platform. From here grapple over the rest of the way to the far ledge. Walk along the path until you reach a recess in the wall. Look over to your left and you will see a Blue Jonin standing there on the other side. Use your blow dart to take him out before he spots you. Continue along the path crossing over to where the Jonin was and eventually reaching the large door way. Jump up the two ledges and hang on the third while you wait for the Martial Arts expert to turn and walk away from you. Jump up and take out the one on the right first, then the one on the left. Watch your step in this room as there are a few holes in the floor that lead to bottomless pits.



Next, make your way to the broken staircase at the far end of the room and grapple to the opening across from it and enter the orange room. Grapple up to the ledge above you and exit the doorway. When you walk out onto the ledge, there will be a staircase to your right and a Red Jonin past that. You can just ignore the Jonin and jump forward off the ledge. When you land, head left and turn around. Look up to find the ledge sticking out of the wall on the right. Grapple up to it and pull yourself up on to it.



Head straight through this room as far as you can until you come to a drop on your left with lamps lining the hallway below. There will be a martial arts expert patrolling back and forth, so do your best to land on his head, sword first. Make your way around the corner, down a dark hall lined with lamps that apparently do nothing, stopping at the large doorway on your left. There will be a martial arts expert patrolling in here. Take him out while he is turned away and smile knowing that you just killed the last normal enemy in the game. Walk up to the mural on the wall and a cut scene will start.



Tenrai

To defeat Tenrai there really isn’t a fancy trick. You just need to hit him, plain and simple. Of course that is harder than it sounds. He has a teleport move that gets really annoying, really fast. If you stay away from him, he raises thorn like spikes out of the ground that follow you when you run. He also has a missile attack where he shoots, what looks like, ice shards at you. These are slow and easy to dodge and don’t pose that much of a threat. To shut him down, you will need to get your shots in on him when he misses with his attacks against you. He seems to pause for a few seconds after each of his attacks. Strike then and he won’t be standing for long.



After a short cut scene the battle with Tenrai starts again. At first you won’t be able to do any damage to him but keep attacking until a cut scene starts. After the cut scene you will be able to start dealing the damage. Tenrai attacks this time around by swiping at you with his claws. He uses mainly brute force to attack in this form. Give him some brute force back and take him down. Again, he seems to pause after he attacks. Make him miss his attacks and hit him then.



Depending on which choice you took when fixing your sword, you may have to fight Tenrai a third time. If you chose regular metal you won’t have to, but if you didn’t then just use the same tactics you used to defeat him the second time around and he will fall.

Ayame Walkthrough



Mission One: Bamboo Forest

Rescue the village girls!



This mission can be pretty simple if you want it to be. You start on a walkway where your first victim wanders around a clearing below you. Run along the walkway and jump off the side to perform a stealth kill from above.



There are two openings you can crawl into at one end of the clearing and a cave opening at the other. If you decide to go through the crawl spaces, the left one will lead to a healing pool, where if you crouch in it, you will be healed back to full health. The other leads to an area where there are a few guards walking around. To get through the right crawl space, you need to grab the railing along the side of the wall and shimmy your way over the bottomless pit. Perform some stealth kills on the guards in this area and you will eventually make your way back around to where you started.



Next, head for the cave at the opposite end the crawl spaces. Make sure to grab the shuriken at the opening of the cave before you enter. Move quietly through the cave and watch for the two guards. Slip into the room on the left of them and wait until they have their amusing little chat. When they are done talking, they split up and start their guard routine. Attack them then, one at a time.



Run up the ramp and leave the cave while you grab the small heath items in front of the shrine just outside. Continue down the path and dispatch of the dog here before he alerts the guards of your presence. I really think these dogs deserve an academy award for their death scenes. They flip and flop all over the place if you get them just right. Head towards the snowman (snowman you say? Look at the map and you will see a snowman on it). There is an archer who patrols in front of it so be careful to stay as close to the wall as you can. Remember that archers have better vision than regular guards and can detect you from further away. Take out the archer and the guard at the top of the stairs to your left.



At the snowman, follow the path to the right of the snowman and you will end up in a trench beside the last guard. Be careful of the bottomless pit that you will need to grapple over around the first corner. When you come to the last turn, kill the guard in the trench. Jump and hang on the edge of the wall until the last guard walking around up top turns away. Sneak up behind him and get yourself an easy stealth kill. Be sure you kill him before entering the building! If you don’t, you will have to fight him as well as Tajima.



Tajima

Defeating Tajima is pretty straight forward. Run away from him while he fires off rounds from his gun. When you hear him say “Fly baby!” it means he is about to throw you into the air with his sword. When he tosses you in the air, he fires a few rounds from his gun into you Dante style. It is a good idea to keep a safe distance when you hear his warning. Jumping over his head and attacking him from behind works pretty good as an attack tactic. Repeat this a few times and he’ll be dead in no time.

Mission Two: Echigoya

Execute the Evil Merchant!



You start this level running across rooftops in search of Echigoya. A quick look down and you will see a guard not far away patrolling on the ground. To easily kill this guard run around him on the rooftops until you get behind him. Hit the buzzing bee hive below when he is near it with a shuriken. The bees will attack the guard and kill him. But that’s no fun, so go for the stealth kill.



Run along the rooftops to the far right corner of the map until you get a cut scene showing you 3 guards having a good time. The cut scene shows you a key beside one of the guards and then the door which you need the key to open. You can throw in a grenade to get the guards to scatter and search for you, but when they do, one of the guards will pick up the key and take it with him. You will need to kill each guard until you find which one has it.



Your best bet is to drop down from the roof and charge in. You may get 1-2 stealth kills depending how fast you are. Kill the remaining guards and take the key. Head back to the rooftops to take out the guard that is covering the locked door by the ramp. Open the lock and head through the passage way to the last room where the ninja rebirth is. Grapple up to the floor above and take out the guard there and then grapple up once again to exit through the hole.



When you are in the second area, you can either enter the building through the main doors of the large house or a crawlspace in the ground, located down the side alleyway. This will take you inside of the Echigoyas’ house. I prefer to take the crawlspace. Here’s how to get there.



Run like mad to the wall of the while building facing you when you exit the hole from the first area. Grapple up to the roof of the white buildings and make your way east on the map, right if you are still facing the same way as the white building was. Hop over the rooftops until you drop down into the alleyway behind the really big building. There will be an opening in the ground here that will lead you into the house.



To get through the house it is pretty straight forward, although I do suggest moving in stealth mode constantly. There are countless sliding doors that you will want to open by putting your back against the wall beside them. When you come across a sleeping cat, keep your distance from it as you sneak past. If it wakes up, it will freak out, alerting any nearby guards.



Move through the house, first by dropping off the edge where you enter and killing the sleeping samurai under you. Grapple up to the opening on the right and follow the hallway up some stairs. Kill the samurai in the next hallway and you will come to two doors. The left will lead to a sleeping guard and the right to another sleeping cat. Sneak past it and roll through the opening at the end of the hall. The hall here will be a dead end and you will need to grapple up to the opening above and sneak along through the attic. Around the first corner on the right through the first door, there is a guard here that you can rush right in and kill with more surprise than stealth. Keep following the passageway until you reach a drop off. Wait for the guard down there to turn. Drop down and kill him and move into the next room. Drop down through the wooden beams here and you have reached Echigoya.



After a cut scene with Echigoya and Nasu, Echigoya high tails it out of there and you are left to fight Nasu.



Nasu

Give Nasu a beating with a standard block/attack combo, but watch out when he is low on health. He will start to whine and cry like a little baby and place an item down in front of him. Do not go to grab it. Stay away from him when he is whining or else he will nail you with a huge hit that will send you flying across the room into the wall. You can let him get back up and then continue to kick his ass, or do what I suggest, and throw a sticky bomb at him. It will kill him one hit.



After he is beaten, start back tracking through the house the way you came. The easiest way to find your way back to the entrance is to just follow the trail of bodies you left behind. When you reach the bottom of the stairs, a cut scene will start and the mission ends.

Mission Three: Goya Castle

Assassinate the Traitor Hamada!



This is one level that takes some getting used to. It is very enclosed and not much room at all for running around like the previous levels. From the start of this mission, head to your right. Dispose of the guard hanging outside the door with your trusty poison rice. Try not to alert the ninjas in this mission at all. They are quick like bunnies and usually when one is alerted another will come running over. Also make sure you kill all your enemies before they eat the rice. You will be using it a lot on this mission.



Sneak past the room with the room with the beds and around the corner. Take a left and watch for the ninja lurking on the right. Carry on down the hall, stopping to toss some rice and take out the ninja patrolling there. With your back to the wall, you can throw rice around corners. It is strange but true; enemies do not get alerted to a bowl of rice rolling towards them. Use this trick whenever you don’t want to take the chance of getting caught sneaking up on someone.



Halfway up this hallway is a door on the right side. Go through it to grab a grenade and to find a secret passage which saves you from some pretty tricky fighting that would have had deal with if you continued down the hall. Grab the ninja Rebirth in here and exit through the door while being careful not to alert the ninja there. Make a left when you finish with him and hug the wall ahead of you. Use your trusty rice for the Kunoichi patrolling here and snag the health item when you finish her off. Exit the room through the door and prepare to take out the ninja to your right in the hallway. After you relieve him of breathing, head up the staircase and open the door at the end of the hall. Again, use your trusty rice trick to lure this guard in for a stealth kill.



Make your way down the hall till you reach a doorway. Be careful here. On the other side of the wall are two ninjas with only one visible. Try and time it right so that when you run into the room he is turned away from you. He doesn’t turn for long and can be pretty tricky to time. Take care of the ninja in the adjoining room when you are done with this one. Make your way through the door and around the corner. As soon as you enter, a ninja will be right around the corner from you so be prepared to take him out quickly.



Carry on down the hall, pausing behind the corner to let the Kunoichi turn around. When she does, run up to the other corner, and time your attack. Make your way around the left corner and wait for the ninja walking around this room to turn. Take him out and head down the stairs. Grab the ninja rebirth when you enter these gorgeous golden hallways, and continue on till you reach Hamada.



Hamada

After a cut scene you start your fight with the smallest glasses on the biggest head Hamada. Like the previous bosses he really isn’t all that tough. He has one major attack that he uses and it is easy to tell when he is going to use it. When he stops moving and starts to charge up his sword, start wailing on him. Another way is to wait until his sword charges and he lunges at you. Side step his attack and start wailing on him then. Either of these attacks works well and he will be crushed in no time.

Mission Four: Cemetery

Retrieve the Yoto Swords!



This level in a word is...Difficult.

The main problem is that this level is crawling with undead creatures and of course you cannot kill them. There are some ninjas which you can kill but they are far and few between. Getting grand master ranking on this level the first time through is very hard. You really need to be a quiet as possible and stealth mode is your best friend through this mission.



Start the level by rolling forward and left. Get behind the stones at the top of the ramp and roll down it. Start rolling to the right and make sure the dancing demon doesn’t see you. There is a ninja ahead of you that you can use your poison rice trick on. Stealth kill him and roll you way back up to the wall. Sneak your way over to the edge of the drop off and there will be one of the five stones below you. Before you drop down make sure the undead samurai is facing away from you. Drop down and break the stone and hide behind the tree. A door on the right side will open. Wait until the undead samurai turns his back again, and then head for the opening. When you enter the door will shut behind you so you don’t have to worry about the swordsman. Around the next corner will be a ninja, so stealth kill him in the back and keep going.



Run through this passageway, making a left, then another left, stopping for a ninja, then continuing on going right until you come to an area that is totally soaked in blood. Crouch up to the edge of the drop off and look down to see a undead samurai. Drop off the ledge when he is walking to the right. Hold down the right trigger when you land, and keep holding it to somersault to the left and around the corner. Look up and grapple to an opening there.



This is one really tricky passageway. You will see a long hallway. At the end of it is an undead archer and about a third of the way down is a passage off to the left. There is a dancing demon that walks back and forth from the hallway on the left out to the main hallway. You need to sneak past him and run up the passage until you get to another side hallway that is off to the left as well. From this passage you can watch the undead archer and time it so that you can sneak behind him when he goes right and run down the hallway to the left before he has time to turn around. When you make it around the corner, keep running until you hear a door close behind you.



From here make your way forward down the corridor. Around the right corner is another stone that you need to break, but there is also a dancing demon in the hallway right beside it. It takes a bit of patience to get past him without being seen. You need to wait until he walk out of his hallway, walks around a bit, turns around and then goes back in before you can break the stone. When you break it, stay crouched there and wait for him to walk out of the hallway again. When he goes off on his walk, sneak in behind him and run around the corner. Around the next corner will be a ninja, so get your poison rice ready.



Run outside and hop the fence at the far end. Stay close to the wall and look around. Be careful of the undead archer that is up beside the fence that you just hopped over. Roll your way towards the wall that is beside the archer and watch for the ninja below you. When he turns, jump down and kill him and break the stone that was to his right. Climb up on the rock opposite of where you just jumped down from, roll across it, and drop off the other side. Head into the entrance way. Make your way through until you come to a large opening which has spooky floating head. Grapple up to the ledge and go on until you make a left turn and need to grapple up to another ledge which will lead you outside.



This is another very tricky part. There are 2 ninjas and a dancing demon out here. As soon as one sees you, they all attack you. A plus in this area though is that you can climb the trees for some extra sneakiness. Trying to not alert anyone and using the poison rice on the ninja by the exit is probably your safest bet on getting through this area undetected. Break the stone to the right and head for the passage way. Down the hall another door will close behind you.



Next up, you will come to an area where there is a drop in front of you and a room beside you. In that room is an undead samurai. Drop off the ledge and roll over to the left. Jump and grab the ledge and use the manual camera to see where he is and the ninja in the far hallway is. Time your move so that the undead has his back to you and the ninja is down the hallway. Run past the undead and use the rice on the ninja. At the end of that hallway is a hole in the ceiling that you will need to grapple out of.



Run up the ramp and destroy the last stone. Stand in front of the little temple to start the battle with the headless giant.



Headless Giant

He’s big, he’s mean, he’s…well…headless.

To take this guy out, jump on top of the temple and jump attack him. When you land in front of him, give him a quick combo. Run away, get back on top of the temple before he can step on you or sit on you (yes he sits on you). Be sure to stay away from his enormous sword which can swat you like a fly and the blood he sprays out of his neck.

Mission Five: Samurai Mansion

Stop Tadokoro’s Rebellion



This the fastest out of all the missions so don’t blink or else you’ll miss it. When you start the mission turn around and jump up on to the platform behind you. Run across to the left and then jump down and over onto the roof of the building across from you. Head to the left and drop down behind the fence that is on the other side. Jump and grab the edge of the fence and look for the well, the hole in the ground that you can jump into. Wait for the guard to walk past and either kill him and then jump in or just jump in.



Crawl through the hole in the lower part and then grapple out of the hole when you reach the other side. Hide behind the wall here and toss out some poison rice for the guard at the far end. When he comes over, take him out and then get ready to run up to the building on your left and take out the next guard that is walking along the walkway. When he is dead, make your way around to the far corner and go left into the building. When you enter, there will be a hallway that goes to the right and one to the left with a guard at the end. Right across from you in the hallway with the guard with be a set of brown doors. Run through there after you lure the guard down to you and then a scene will start with Tadokoro. Like I said, this is the quickest way through the mansion but if you want to get your special move from collecting Kanji’s from stealth kills, then you’ll need to look around a bit for some more enemies.



Mifiyu

After the scene Mifiyu will attack. She is one tough customer if you let her start to wail on you will her swords. Keep your blocks up and attack her after she does a combo on you. Grabbing her seems to work well also since she loves to block your sword swipes. She has one bad ass move where she says “hello” and then strikes you with lightning speed. Always try to avoid that move as it will take off half of your life in one shot and blocking doesn’t work for it. Block her regular swipes and swipe back at her when she stops. If you want some more room to fight with, you can lure her outside to the open area there for a more wide open battle. As long as you don’t let her nail you with her “hello” move you should come out of this battle in one piece.

Mission Six: Deserted Temple

Find the Jewel of Heaven



When you start, immediately jump on the barrel to the right and jump and grab the edge of the cliff. There are three guards walking around here but they appear one at a time so they aren’t too difficult to take out. The first guard will go to the left and go down the ramp. Climb up and run after him to kill him from behind. Go back to where you were after you kill him and then another will appear in front of the temple and walk down the left side of it. Again run out and kill him. Go back to hanging off the cliff and the third and final guard here will appear on the far right. He’ll walk over to the middle and turn around. Kill him and make your way to the other side of the building.



Across from you will be a wooden walk way with a samurai walking back and forth on it. Roll until you are near it and then grapple to grab the edge of it. Shimmy over to get in position and wait for him to walk past. When he does, hop up and take him out. Go to the right and wait for the guard there to turn and walkway. Take him out when he does and continue to the next corner. There will be a samurai there at the far end that will stay down there. When he turns to walk up the hill, run after him the long run and take him out. When he’s dead, head to the right and grapple over the really large wooden doors. Dead ahead will be a guard walking around. Drop down and roll forward to the platform he is walking on.



Jump and grab the edge and pull yourself up when he turns around and kill him. Grapple your way up to the second floor of the building beside you and make your way along the right side of it. Take out the Ronin in front of it and enter for a scene.



Jinnai

Make sure you have a lot of health on hand for this match up. His sword can do some really mean damage to you. When Jinnai swings at you, he will sheath his sword after every swipe. This is when you want to attack him. Get close to let him swing at you, move and hit him as he sheathes his sword. I found this to be the best method to defeating him. Also if you need some room other than this tiny room, head outdoors and use the open area to your advantage.

Mission Seven: Ronin Village

Go To the Red House of Zennosuke!



When the level begins, start crouching and rolling to the right immediately. The easiest way through this part of the level is to stick along the right side of the map and take out the one ninja near the opening that you need to crawl though to get to the next area. If you want to take out all the enemies and build up your Kanji, use extreme care. Getting through it while not being spotted is very tough.



When you exit the hole, through the opening in the wall to the next area, keep crouching. There are two ninjas to your direct right that will hear you splashing if you run. Keep going forward till you reach the wall you can put your back against and toss some rice for the ninja coming towards you. Take him out and continue around the corner. Hop up onto the platform and hang on the edge while you wait for the ninja to your right to turn around. Take him out and jump onto the rooftop of the building to your right. Run along the rooftop as far as you can. Watch out for the town drunk wandering around below you and hop down into the water and run across till the far end. Jump up and hug the wall of the house watching the ninja there. Take him out and run past the kunoichi and around the left side of the giant barrel and in front of the gate.



This next area is a big courtyard with several giant barrels spread around. There are also 3 enemies lurking around. Go down the ramp and head left. Jump on top of the barrel and scout out where everyone is. Use your poison to lure the enemies where you can stealth kill them with out another ninja seeing. When all have been defeated, head towards the gate.



This last and final area of this mission can be a bit tricky. Head to the left and take out the Kunoichi on the rooftop. There are many non-combatants on this level so be double careful to not let them see you. After you take out the Kunoichi on the roof top, head left again to the big building and start looking down for the ninja there. Head back to the rooftops and go to the red building that you need to enter which is directly to the right of the large gate. Drop down onto the ninja standing in front of it. Kill him and enter the building. When you enter you are treated to a cut scene.



Tesshu

Tesshu reminds me of a bar brawler for some reason. It could be the fact that he can give you one mean knuckle sammich when he gets hold of you. When you get a few good licks in on Tesshu another cut scene starts. You are free to wander around for a few seconds until another starts.



Rikimaru (Hyakubake)

As soon as the fight starts, he chugs back a potion of strength. Give him a few shots very quickly to stop him. Also another good idea is to lure him back to the clearing where you fought Tesshu so you can have some room to move. Rikimaru really isn’t all that difficult to trounce but he does like to block a lot. Use jump attacks on his for some damage and a smoke bomb or two works well. Give him a few combos run, block and repeat.

Mission Eight: Amagai Castle

Escape From Amagai Castle



Well for a switch you get to start this level against a boss. The good Dr. Kimaira and his freaky doll put up a pretty good fight if you let them. The easiest, the definitely not the fastest way to defeat him is to stay away from him until he does his spin move. When he does, keep your block up until he stops, then haul ass on him. Keep doing this over and over and he will be dead sooner or later. When you are staying away from him watch out for his gun attack which he makes well known by moving his arms back and forth. Head into the castle after you defeat him.



Seeing as how you have a Twenty minute limit on this mission you will want to try and keep moving as quickly as you can. Head down the stairs running around both corners and over the edge of the drop off and grapple back up to the other side and hang there. Wait until the wooden Samurai turns his back to climb up and attack him, getting your stealth kill. In front of you, you will see two big blades raising and falling. Wait until the closest blade is up and the farthest is down and then grapple across the gap missing both blades. Keep running until you come to another gap. Take a peek down and you will see gears grinding away. Those are bad gears. If you fall into them, you will die and the ninja rebirth won’t help you.



To get over them, you need to make a diagonal double jump to the far left corner of the room or grapple over above the door way and fall while pressing towards the opening. After you make that jump, the next room will have a smaller gap but gears that are equally bad. When you jump over these gears jump straight across, but make sure you time it so that the wooden guard on the other side is turned away from you. Stealth kill him and wait behind the corner for the Chibot that is around the corner to turn. When he does, WHAMMO! And continue on.



You will be making a left at the next corner, but wait against the wall for the guard there to turn around. Kill him and head down the hall. Make a left at the first opening. Run up to the wall around the right corner and jump, grabbing the ledge. Again, wait until the Chibot turns around to jump up. Climb up and take him out. Through this room you can go straight or go around to the right to pick up some items. If you take the right path, there are two section of floor that fall away.



Continue on till you get to the drop. Drop off the first step, but stay crouched on the second until you see the guard below you turn. Jump stealth kill him from above. Run along the right corner and be on the look out for the spike pit that is in the floor. Jump over it and head down the stairs. There is a guard to your left at the bottom of the stairs. It can be a little tricky to take him out, but a fast attack can do it. Keep going, down and over the lowered floor, where you can grab a grenade and smoke bomb if you feel you need them. Grab the ledge on the left and wait for the guard to turn around. When he does kill him and head left. You will come to a bridge that is set across the room. A cut scene will start showing the door to the right of you closing. Just use you grappling hook to get over the door. Head straight and jump down the opening. Jump up to the opposite ledge and wait for the guard to turn before you climb up to kill him.



To your right will be two walls that have circular marks on the floor in front of them. These are revolving doors. Stand with your back to the door on the left and a cut scene will show you turning on the wall. Run up to the wall on the right that has the fencing on the bottom of it. Use your manual camera to watch the Chibot outside the doorway to turn. Run out and show him who is boss. Don’t go too far forward though because the floor at the far end makes noise alerting the guard around the corner on the left. Roll around the corner and hug the wall there. When he turns around, crouch and roll behind him and kill him. At the end of the hallway is another revolving door that you need to go through.



As soon as you go through the door, there is a drop to your immediate right. Jump off this and kill the guard down there at the same time. Head down the stairs and make a fast jump into the pit there. Stay to the far left side though, as spikes are on the right. Grapple up to the ledge and wait for the guard to turn. Watch for the Chibot on the other side of the fire room. When he is turned, run through and kill him. Take a left and somersault through the spikes that drop down. Make a quick right and jump up onto the walkway in front of you. You can run along the ground here but the ground is booby trapped with false floor boards that give way and reveal bottomless pits underneath.



Take out the Wooden Samurai here around the corner on the right. Move to the left and stay there. If your move to far to the right then spears fly out of the wall here. Look up and grapple onto the orange and black blocks. Jump a little ways straight across and drop down. From here, crouch watching the guard across from you. When he turns, jump over the lava pit and kill him. Look up and to your left and you will see an opening. Grapple on up there and drop down on the other side. Be very careful of the lava stream on the far right here. Run down the left passageway and turn into the large room. The end level cut screen starts and you will have a choice to fight Onikage or not.



Onikage

To defeat Onikage to you need to be very aggressive and not let up on him. When you do, he charges at you and makes life pretty miserable for you. Another thing you will want to do is to not let him near you. If he grabs you, he will suck the life out of you and into him. Keep hitting him as often as you can and don’t let him drink a health item and cure himself. If you want to be real crafty, you can choose to not fight him and then retry the mission with the ninja armor that you get from a grand master ranking. The ninja armor makes Onikage a lot easier to defeat.