Speedrun notes

useless notes
If you want to give yourself a custom skin open sharedassets3.assets with unity bundle extractor and look for kuma_color_alpha_2 and then click plugin export to png (or TGA) and from there edit the png (do a copy if you don't want to stay with your custom skin) once you're done go back to plugin>edit> load texture and you give the program your png then you'll be done once you click ok on the program (ps: the program cannot overwrite the game you have to save the assets in another folder first then replace it) 

General notes 
the DJ is called DJ longknife in the files of the game, there's also voice lines about the dj getting attacked maybe there's a way to attack the DJ without attacking the speakers
the masterchip in chapter IV is required to pass the invisible wall 
the Sasuke running toward you in the intro of chapter IV seems to have different death animations (don't know if there's a difference in speed)
the forced walking section can be faster by spaming X (master style seems too be the fastest)
bunny hope spam possible (you need to jump before landing or you get some frame of animation added)
the afro dodge is not lt+A, its holding LT and pressing A
THE DAHRMAN RAGE is charged with finishers, not hit or combo (could be wrong)
Your movement is limited to 4 axis while climbing so forget about diagonals
You can deflect while attacking an enemy, the attack seems to take priority in animation rather than the deflect
LB, RT, and the right stick isn't used at all in the game so you can bind it with joytokey if you want to do a split without letting go of the controller

I
once you got your parts, spam X
after the cutscene about the chip, just pull joystick to left as much as possible and you'll walk forward the chip instead of falling off the cliff trying to walk in/after the cutscene
in the training just spam x and finisher there's nothing to do
in the climb get in the middle of the ice then jump up 2 times go left and keep jumping up then go left, once you reached the end of the left side jump to the right, go left a bit, jump right again (otherwise the game will make you fall to your death) then go down jump right and you can just jump the rest

II
kill the first guy or you'll lose time trying to kill him if you skipped him
once you see the checkpoint icon you can restart the checkpoint to be at the bridge right away and maybe skip the archer panel
kill everyone and just bunnyhop 

III
stick forward and get ready to jump you're about to climb again
once on top you can skip the cutscene
stick back and once the camera change focus to you stick up
once the cutscene is over bunnyhop to forward
QTE spam with Brother 3 goes as follow B X Y X B X B Y

IV
bunnyhop forward the whole time
kill the two Sasuke
cutscene 
bunnyhop forward
kill the 6 Sasuke and get back to bunnyhop
after getting the masterchip once you see the bear checkpoint RESTART THE CHECKPOINT you will skip the tutorial for master

V
you can skip the narration a bit earlier by pressing by when Brother3 say mount
bunnyhop forward and be careful to not get blocked by the geometry of the level
once the cutscene is done jump to the block on the left wait and then jump to the lowest of the 3 blocks on the other side then you climb DO NOT TRY TO JUMP ON THE KANJI ON THE WALL
go toward the guy who spawned jump on the block, climb fast so you can jump on the upcoming one, and get ready to jump behind you for the next block
bunnyhop toward the chair
you can skip the cutscene at the "you"

VI
note: I'm not sure what triggers the cutscene at the end
you can't jump so you have to spam attack
the game seems to only let you go at the left side of the roots of the tree
after the cutscene, you can start jumping again
after reaching the girl again you get a cutscene, you can't skip it
once you're back in control focus on one enemy so it can trigger the cutscene

VII
bunnyhop 
skip the cutscene at the door
bunnyhop
once you get the checkpoint icon after getting the afrochip restart checkpoint, you skip the tutorial
master style and combo enough to just use the finisher and repeat till you're left with the straw hat guy and use afro dodge switch to Kuma during the dodge and reach a finisher
get a dharman rage and kill everyone
once two hammer appears just jump towards him he won't do anything
once you're in the crash bandicoot moment just bunnyhop downright
when 2 Hammer comes back (the moment he screams Kuma)just bunnyhop to the left side and reach the stairs
after the cutscene jump forward, he still can't do anything
the QTE spam goes X B B X then B X Y B X Y 


VIII
note: make sure you have unlocked the deflect on afro style if you want to destroy the ballista on top of the DJ
Note 2: It seems you are forced to destroy the speakers if you want to finish the fight

You can skip the intro
in C-town bar prioritize the master style for the finisher
once the bar tries to shoot arrows at you go with the afro style and stay close enough to spam counter fast
after the panel, with Kuma you can skip the talk with the stranger at the bar with b
switch to Kuma style and get ready to farm 5 counter in a row to activate the dharman rage 
you don't need to cut the barrels for the old guy just cut your path, don't think about fighting just keep going
once surrounded by the fire prioritize the flag guy and hit him with the master slice finisher and try to push him in the fire it may or may not hurt him (for some reason the game decide to switch the mechanics of those guys right now)
Once done with the flag get a dharman rage going to kill the rest

IX
master style in Shangrila and spam
the "angel of beauty"/the cutscene after the spam in the shrine of justice can be skipped
once you're done with the last wave of bomb cultist you can go the stairs quickly enough with a finisher kept in stock for the red cultists
the red cultist who gets their own little cutscene can be dealt with one finisher of the master style
once done with the red cultist go down and when the camera switch go left and bunnyhop it should bring you to the door
after reaching the door get ready with the master style to finish the red cultist
don't do anything to the speakers just jump till you reach the speaker next to the invisible wall of the waterfall and then once again master style finisher
jump the waterfall as fast as you can to get a slight advantage before the cutscene start
once you're close enough to the top you can't seem to be able to jump anymore 
master style finisher in the ambush again but be careful of the bomb cultists 
you can cheese the waterfall section by being on the far left (the one next to the small waterfall on top)
once you're done walking the hallways just go attack the conehead woman and the game is over

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Afro Samurai 2: Revenge of Kuma

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