------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Team Oni Mini Game FAQ For Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny (PS2 Game)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.00
Created on 10/12/2002
Written by Victor Chou
email: [email protected]


I.   Introduction
II.  Walkthrough
III. Closing


-----------------
I.   Introduction
-----------------
The Team Oni mini game is unlocked after you beat Onimusha 2 in normal
mode.  You can play the Team Oni mini game in the special feature section.

There are 20 levels total.  You have 5 characters to use: Jubei, Oyu,
Kotaro, Magoichi, and Ekei.  Your character's life bar will decrease
continuosly as time pass, just like in the Onimusha Warlord's mini game.

There are blue pots all over the 20 levels that you can break to absorb
the yellow souls to heal your life bar.  When you defeat all the enemies
in a level a yellow light will appear.  This yellow light provides you
with an opportunity to heal your character's life bar.  Everytime you
walk into the yellow light and press X your life bar will be healed for
approximately half life bar and you will be teleported to the next level.
Use this yellow light wisely.  Don't waste this healing opportunity by
walking the character that has full life bar into the yellow light, use
the character that took some damage into the yellow light to heal.

There are also some grey pot all over the 20 levels that releases blue
souls for your magic attack when you break the pot.  Again, don't waste
the blue souls on character that has full magic bar.  Use character that
doesn't have the full magic bar to absorb the blue souls.  The blue souls
and yellow souls disappear very quickly so make sure you absorb them fast.

The 5 characters all have their strengths and weaknesses so switch between
the characters to best deal with the enemies.  When you finish the Team
Oni Mini Game you will unlock the Critical Mode which the enemies will
only take damage if you use issen attack.

The red (pink) souls are for score only.  You don't really have to
absorb them.

There are 5 levels in this mini game that contain item boxes.  These
item boxes contain weapons and healing items.  These 5 levels are safe
place that your character can stay without taking damage on the life
bar.  Use these places to equip weapon for your characters and to
practice their moves.

Oyu, Kotaro, Magoichi, and Ekei all have sub weapons.  Don't hesitate
to use their sub weapons by pressing the L2 button.  You can stand far
away from the enemies and use their sub weapons to kill the enemies
when it is too dangerous to get close to them.

Magoichi's Goraishinki (machine gun) is a great weapon.  Goraishinki's
magic attack is even more powerful.  Stand far away and use Goraishinki's
magic attack to kill tough enemies.  Magoichi's Cannon only has one
cannon bullet so use it wisely.  Use the cannon on the red bull in level
17 or Nobunaga (the final boss) in level 20.  Make sure you target the
cannon on the enemy and not on the blue or grey pot otherwise you will
waste your precious cannon bullet.

Equip your character's strongest weapon as soon as you get them.  For
example Oyu's Phirangi, Oyu's Gradius, Ekei's Halberd, Korato's
Roga-Kunai, Magoichi's Goraishinki, and one of Jubei's weapon.

Don't let your character die.  Quickly switch to another character
when one character is almost dead.  Use the yellow light, blue pots,
and herb/medicine to heal the wounded character later on when you
have the chance.

Try to save your herbs and medicine for level 17 and level 20.  If you
are hurt on level 17 or level 20 use the herb or medicine quickly before
it is too late.  Red bulls and Nobunaga can do huge damage in very short
time.  Be careful.


----------------
II.  Walkthrough
----------------
Walk to the green door and press X to enter level 1.

-------
Level 1
-------
Enemies: 7 mantis swordsman
Blue Pot: 3
Grey Pot: 1
Best Character to use: Ekei.  Ekei's magic attack can freeze the mantis
for a few seconds.  Finish them off while they are freezed.

-----------------------
Level 2 (phantom realm)
-----------------------
Enemies: 5 red swordsman
Blue Pot: 2
Grey Pot: 2
Best Character to use: Ekei.  Ekei's magic attack can freeze them for
a few seconds.  Finish them off while they are freezed.

----------------------------
Level 3 (2 Item Boxes, Safe)
----------------------------
No enemies.  Your life bar will not decrease here.
Items: Buraitou (Jubei), Phirange (Oyu).

-------
Level 4
-------
Enemies: some frogs (kill them all)
Blue Pot: 3
Grey Pot: 0
Best Character to use: Oyu.  Oyu's slash attack works very well on the
frogs.  Also use down stab to kill the frogs.

-------
Level 5
-------
Enemies: 3 human archers, 2 metal swordsman
Blue Pot: 4
Grey Pot: 2
Best Character to use: Kotaro's knock down attack (press up + attack)
can knock down the metal swordsman in one hit.  Finish the metal
swordsman with the down stab move.  Kill the 3 human archers first
before killing the 2 metal swordsman.

--------------------
Level 6 (Oni Island)
--------------------
Enemies: 3 mantis swordsman, 1 robot
Blue Pot: 2
Grey Pot: 1
Best Character to use: Use Ekei against mantis, and use Magoichi against
the robot.  Stand far away and shoot until the robot dies.

----------------------------
Level 7 (3 Item Boxes, Safe)
----------------------------
No enemies.  Your life bar will not decrease here.
Items: Herb, Hyoujin-Yari (Jubei), Roga-Kunai (Korato).

-----------------------
Level 8 (spiral stairs)
-----------------------
Enemies: 3 mantis archers
Blue Pot: 2
Grey Pot: 1
Best Character to use: Oyu or Kotaro can both kill the mantis archer in
one hit (press up + attack).  The yellow light is on ground floor.

-----------------------
Level 9 (phantom realm)
-----------------------
Enemies: 1 big spearman, 2 spinning bugs
Blue Pot: 4
Grey Pot: 2
Best Character to use: Magoichi.  Stand far away and shoot the gun until
they are all dead.

------------------
Level 10 (rooftop)
------------------
Enemies: 1 huge ball in the sky, some blue soul absorbing balls
(produce by the huge ball in the sky)
Blue Pot: 4
Grey Pot: 4
Best Character to use: Magoichi.  Stand far away and keep shooting until
they are all dead.  Run away from the huge ball when it spins toward you
then attack it again.  The huge ball's spinning attack does a lot of damage.

--------
Level 11
--------
Enemies: 5 spin-ball men
Blue Pot: 2
Grey Pot: 1
Best Character to use: Kotaro

------------------------
Level 12 (phantom realm)
------------------------
Enemies: 1 mantis swordsman, 2 snake-heads
Blue Pot: 4
Grey Pot: 2
Best Character to use: Oyu.  Use Oyu's magic attack against the
snake-heads, and they will release some yellow and blue souls.

-----------------------------
Level 13 (4 Item Boxes, Safe)
-----------------------------
No enemies.  Your life bar will not decrease here.
Items: Halberd (Ekei), Goraishinki + Ammo (Magoichi), Gradius (Oyu),
Senpuramu (Jubei).

-----------------
Level 14 (stairs)
-----------------
Enemies: 4 mantis archers, 1 yellow bull with axe
Blue Pot: 3
Grey Pot: 2
Best Character to use: Use Jubei's Senpuramu magic attack on mantis
archer when you stand below it.  Use Magoichi's gun on the yellow
bull (on ground floor).  The yellow light is on top floor.

------------------
Level 15 (rooftop)
------------------
Enemies: 3 ninjas, 2 red swordsman
Blue Pot: 2-3
Grey Pot: 1
Best Character to use: Use Korato on ninjas (knock down then down stab),
and use Magoichi's Goraishinki's magic attack or regular attack on the
2 red swordsman (stand far away and shoot until they are dead).  This
level's yellow light is kind of hard to enter.  Walk around the center
to find and enter the only opening (the entrance looks a little red in
the middle) and break the pots that block your way to enter the yellow
light.

-----------------------------
Level 16 (4 Item Boxes, Safe)
-----------------------------
No enemies.  Your life bar will not decrease here.
Items: Cannon + Rounds (Magoichi), Herb, Dokoutsui (Jubei),
Flamethrower + Fuel (Magoichi)

--------
Level 17
--------
Enemies: 2 red bulls with axe
Blue Pot: 1
Grey Pot: 1
Best Character to use:  Ekei's Halberd works really well against the
two red bulls.  Concentrate on killing one red bull first then move
on to kill the other red bull.  Don't fight both of them at the same
time.  If Ekei is not available, you can use all of Jubei's weapons'
magic attack on one of the 2 red bulls in this order: Buraitou,
Dokoutsui, Hyoujin-Yari, then Senpuramu.  Once you beat one red bull
you can switch to Magoichi and stand far way from the second red bull
to kill it with Goraishinki's magic attack or normal attack.  You can
also use Magoichi's cannon on the red bulls if you really have to.
Use the herbs or medicine if you need to heal.

------------------------
Level 18 (phantom realm)
------------------------
Enemies: 3 big spearman
Blue Pot: 4?
Grey Pot: 2?
Best Character to use: Magoichi.  Stand far away and use Magoichi's
Goraishinki's magic attack to shoot the enemies until they are all dead.
You can also use Ekei's magic attack to freeze the 3 spearman then
finish them off.

-----------------------------
Level 19 (3 Item Boxes, Safe)
-----------------------------
No enemies.  Your life bar will not decrease here.
Items: Herb, Medicine, Herb

--------
Level 20
--------
Enemies: 1 Nobunaga with big sword
Blue Pot: 4
Grey Pot: 0
Best Character to use: Jubei with Dokoutsui, Magoichi with Cannon or
Goraishinki's magic attack, Ekei's Halberd, or whatever it takes.
Use the herb, medicine or the blue pots in the four corners immediately
if you need to heal because Nobunaga can do a lot of damage in really
short time with his power sword attack.  Nobunaga is a good blocker
so run away from him and wait until he swings his big sword.  When he
swings his sword he is open and vulnerable so run behind him at that
time and attack him.  Repeat this process after each good hit.
Nobunaga will die after some good hits from behind.

CONGRADULATION!!! You have beaten the Team Oni Mini Game and unlocked the
Critical Mode.  The enemies will not take any damage unless you use ISSEN
attack in Critical Mode and it is going to be very challenging.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------
III. Closing
------------
I want to thank Capcom for releasing such a good sequel to the Onimusha
series.  I also want to thank you for reading my first FAQ.  I hope this
guide helps you to complete the Team Oni mini game to unlock the Critical
Mode.  I can't wait to play Onimusha 3 when Capcom releases it.  I
love to play Onimusha games.


Copyright(c) 2002 by Victor Chou.  All Rights Reserved

You are viewing proxied material from gopher.endangeredsoft.org. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.