Here are the notes for this arc. Obviously this is a musou game so the strats are pretty linear in what you have to do. I just typed these notes in case I forget something along the way. I also will be updating the strats if I ever find new ones. I'll post the other arcs when I get to typing them. This arc was only 4 levels so I figured I could do it real quick.
Things to note:
-To start off, just switch the difficulty to easy. -Guts Death Blow takes forever to get through it’s animation. So try not to use it as much as it will obviously waste time -Make sure you toggle the map to make it smaller. It helps you navigate the levels easier -For Equipped Items I use: Spirit Tree Leaf-Great Tree Leaf-Herbs-Duraga’s Medicine Make sure you are using these as they are important to beating the bosses fast
The Black Swordsman
-Run up a little and eventually strong accursed spirits will appear, usually behind you. Defeat them -Then literally run around till the timer ends or kill things if you're bored or something idk. You can't do anything else so yea. DON'T USE YOUR DEATH BLOW IT WILL STOP THE TIMER
The Brand’s Guidance
-To beat the thug faster, just use two X-X-Y (X being normal attack, Y being charge attack) It will one shot the thug and hopefully one shot the other thug. Stand on the right gate and stay there until the cutscene triggers -Do the same combo to the next thugs -Run along the bottom path to the green cross. MAKE SURE YOUR ICON ON THE MAP TOUCHES THE GREEN CROSS. Sometimes the cutscene won’t trigger unless you do. Destroy the two obstacles blocking the square here. Kill every single thug leader you see. It makes completing the next objective easier as you have to beat them anyways. -Do the same combos on these thugs, run to the thugs on top and kill them. Take the top path again back to the square until the Lord of Thieves activates his cutscene. TRY TO GET YOUR DEATHBLOW AND FRENZY GAUGE READY BY KILLING A FEW ENEMIES -The second the cutscene just skip it (Start-Left-A)
LORD OF THIEVES FIGHT: -This guy is super annoying. All he does is stun you/trap you in corners. Sometimes you can’t even damage him for some reason. Thankfully Guts just destroys this thing so we don’t have to deal with that. His death blow does so much damage to him that it one shots him every time. -If you followed my notes above, go into frenzy mode and use a deathblow -Trigger the cutscene, then use a spirit tree leaf to get back up to full and death blow again -Then use a great tree leaf and one Herb and beat the L.O.T up a little bit to build up your frenzy and use it again.
If done in this order, you should three shot the L.O.T and quickly end this level. Doing these will make this fight go smoothly. Now if you think that slashing is faster well you’re right...by 6-8 seconds. The reason I don’t do it however is as I mentioned before, the L.O.T likes to stun the hell out of you. Going for the death blow strats makes the fight consistent and safe. You can do the risky strats if you want and that's to slash away at the L.O.T which would save you those 6-8 seconds, depending on how fast you do it. -Skip this cutscene
Marked For Sacrifice -This is another easy one, just go around killing things. -Go to the top left of the map. You have to complete an objective their first before you kill things -At the end when you kill all the spirits, run to the bottom left of your map. The last enemy will spawn there. -As for what strats I follow, I just hang around the top of the map and I am constantly making my map smaller to find the big groups of spirits. Death Blow is slower so it’s not recommended.
Those Who Have Transcended -This first section is simple. Look at your map and run to where you see the enemy's. -Go to the right and defeat the guard officer there and immediately run down -However when you run down, run to the right side of your map. The next officer will spawn there so it makes it faster to get to him. After your done, just run south. Don’t worry about the extra officers that spawn here. SAVE YOUR FRENZY GAUGE FOR THIS NEXT PART -Use your frenzy gauge here and kill everyone. Make sure you kill every last soldier or the cutscene won’t trigger for the next part. Usually after a death blow the cutscene triggers anyways. -Just run past this guy to the next section. Here you have to kill 300 of these spirits. What I do is run along the bottom of the map, usually helps with killing everything. Once the bosses appear, lead them all to the top right part of your map. ENTER FRENZY MODE AND USE YOUR DEATH BLOW. THIS WILL ONE SHOT THEM ALL AT ONCE. REFILL YOUR DEATHBLOW GAUGE BEFORE YOU GO TO THE NEXT SECTION -Follow the path and run up to the green X and kill the guard officer here. -Run north and into the big room. Run up to the stairs and kill the guard officer here. -Then stay on the left side and kill the guard officers here, then run to the opposite side and kill the ones here. Sometimes other guard officers come in from the past section, just pay action to your map and your fine.Then run south and wait until the cutscene ends. Skip this cutscene. DON'T USE YOUR FRENZY MODE OR DEATH BLOW. WE ARE GOING TO DO THE SAME STRAT FROM L.O.T on The Count.
The Count Fight: -Literally the same strat as the L.O.T so i’ll repost it. -If you followed my notes above, go into frenzy mode and use a deathblow -Trigger the cutscene, then use a spirit tree leaf to get back up to full and death blow again -Then use a great tree leaf and one Herb and beat the Count up a little bit to build up your frenzy and use it again.
