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Game: Way of the Samurai 2
Title: End Game Title Guide
Author: Sam Gray
Version: 1.1
E-Mail:
[email protected]
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Version History:
8/22/04, Version 1.0: Initial Version of the FAQ
8/23/04, Version 1.1: All title translations are verified complete for the
US Version. I will probably consider this guide
complete if I ever get a more exact idea of the
requirements for the Garrulous title.
Table of Contents:
I. Introduction and Purpose of this FAQ
II. Title Listing and Tips for Obtaining Them
A) Left Column Titles
B) Center Column Titles
C) Right Column Titles
III. Copyright Info and Contributor Thanks
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I. Introduction and Purpose of this FAQ
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Welcome to my End Game Title Guide. The sole purpose of this FAQ is to cover
the titles earned in Way of the Samurai 2 at the completion of the game. This
guide presumes a basic knowledge of the plot lines, mechanics, and events of
the game. If you are new to Way of the Samurai 2, this guide is best used in
conjunction with a full walkthrough. I will try to minimize spoilers, but they
will sometimes be necessary to fully explain myself.
I decided to write this guide because this information is not yet covered in
any English language FAQ I've seen online. I'm not even going to pretend like
I discovered the methods to obtaining these titles myself. The information
within this FAQ comes when the GameFAQs Way of the Samurai 2 board, and I will
credit those individuals who contributed revelant information at the end of
the guide.
If you have any questions or need for clarification, please post a topic on
the GameFAQs Way of the Samurai 2 message board. Please only e-mail me if you
have any corrections of additions.
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II. Title Listing and Tips for Obtaining Them
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The full list of titles follows listed as they are in the in-game Records
screen:
Left Column Center Column Right Column
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1. Samurai 4evr! 1. Frugal 1. Samurai King
2. Mushroom 2. Worthless 2. Supreme
3. Harmless 3. Sword Lover 3. Prodigy
4. Sword Wanted 4. Workaholic 4. Master
5. Revitalizer 5. Amorous 5. Famed
6. Consummator 6. Talentless 6. In Training
7. Quick Killer 7. Evil Lord 7. Ordinary
8. Wealthy 8. Garrulous 8. Novice
9. Wild Killer 9. Sword Abuser 9. Thug
10. Silent 10. Junk 10. Nobody
Please note that there is a hierarchy to these titles. The Center Column
Titles take precedence over the Right Column Titles, and Left Column Titles
take precedence over Center Column Titles. Otherwise, titles that are higher
up in a column will take precedence. A couple examples follow:
Revitaliizer will take precedence over Wealthy.
Quick Killer will take precedence over Frugal.
Samuari 4evr! will take precedence over any other title.
Ok, let's get into just how all these titles are obtained!
A) Left Column Titles
1. Samurai 4evr!
How to obtain: Clear the game with a 120% Samurai Rating. This is the
highest possible.
Tips: Do the Sayo path and follow it to its ultimate conclusion (that is,
Ending 1). Keep all of your responses and actions honorable, and
work for the townspeople completing no less than 8 jobs - you should
tack on a few more for good measure, though. If you still can't get
120%, give items to the girl with the Sick Father in Numata-cho until
he is healed. Don't kill him. :) You'll have the best luck getting
this title on Hard since your Samurai Rating default will be higher.
You might even HAVE to play Hard. I've never tried for this title
on any other difficulty level.
2. Mushroom
How to obtain: Use 10 Devil Mushrooms in a single game.
Tips: This is my pick for weirdest title, but it's shouldn't be too hard
to get. Take jobs at the Amakaze Inn until the Green Grocers in
Otsuka-cho and Numata-cho are selling Devil Mushrooms for 500 mon a
piece. Spend 5000 mon and get to eating them. It's all the better
if you've already got some of these saved up. Keep in mind that
you can only use one Devil Mushroom per time phase, so take a nap
in Otsuka-cho after each one if you want to speed the process along.
You can leave Amahara without getting an ending for this title.
3. Harmless
How to obtain: Clear the game without killing anyone.
Tips: The only way to get this title is to do a Sayo path and let her die
at the festival. This is the only ending that allows you not to
kill anyone. You'll have to get the 1000 mon to teach her to read,
but only accept jobs in which you don't have to kill anyone.
Afterwards, sleep until the festival (make sure you get the cutscene
where Sayo asks you to go with her). When Kyojiro and the thugs
attack, move around until Sayo gets in the way and gets hit. Two or
so hits should finish her off.
4. Sword Wanted
How to obtain: Try to improve a sword past max quality 10 times.
Tips: It doesn't matter if Dojima succeeds in his upgrades, and the 10
attempts can be spread across any number of swords. This title is
easily obtained in Easy. Go to the Aoto Headquarters and kill
thugs until you get a few brown sheath swords such as the Zato.
In Easy, these will frequently start at or above max quality. Get
5000 mon, and get to upgrading. You can leave Amahara without
getting an ending for this title.
5. Revitalizer
How to obtain: Finish the game without sleeping. Use services and items
to recharge EP instead.
Tips: The best recharge service is the Bath House in Numata-cho if you ask
me. It's only 300 mon and produces no negative effects.
6. Consummator
How to obtain: Finish the game without losing more than 1000 HP total.
Tips: This sounds much harder than it really is. Start a new game, and
after the initial cut scenes, go to Otsuka-cho and keep sleeping
until Festival time. You'll have to kill everyone there, but only
one fight will remain afterwards for a Lone Samurai ending. Use one
of your best swords to make this easiest. If you still have trouble
getting by without losing 1000 HP, try using a sword with a highly
damaging unblockable such as the Hairando or even the
Ukigumo-no-kodachi. Spam that unblockable until victory is yours!
7. Quick Killer
How to obtain: Get 300+ instant kills in a single game.
Tips: This is one of the more difficult titles to obtain, but it's still
not too hard once you know how. Start a new game and kill everyone
you see until the Aoto Gang and Magistrates are attacking you on
sight. Go to either of their Job Brokers and take the job to kill
members of the opposing group. Kill everyone you can with instant
kills until the time period is over (don't worry about pay), and
then go to the other side's Job Broker to get their version of the
same job. Rinse and repeat until you get 300+ instant kills. Save
up some healing items in other games to make this more easy. You
can leave Amahara without getting an ending to get this title.
8. Wealthy
How to obtain: Finish the game with 8000+ mon.
Tips: This is easily done by working for either the Magistrates or the
Aoto Gang. By the time you complete the job to kill the opposing
Job Broker, you should easily have enough money for this title.
9. Wild Killer
How to obtain: Get 300 total kills in a single game.
Tips: You can use the same method for Quick Killer as long as you stay
under 300 instant kills. Get 300 instant kills, and you'll get
Quick Killer. If you can prefer, this title is also easily obtained
by running around ruthlessly killing everyone for the entire game.
There's more than enough time in a game. You can leave Amahara
without getting an ending to get this title.
10. Silent
How to obtain: Never talk to NPCs. Respond only when necessary in cut
scenes.
Tips: You can just hurry through the game as I advice for Consummator,
but make sure you lose at least 1000 HP over the course of the game
or you'll get Consummator instead of this. Pick a few fights to
make this happen. Danpachi and Dojima are good characters to
attack to lose life as quickly as possible.
B) Center Column Titles
1. Frugal
How to obtain: Finish the game with 3000-7999 mon. Never spend mon.
Tips: This is easily done on any story path accept a Sayo path (since
you have to spend 1000 mon to teach her to read). Just get 3000
mon and get an ending.
2. Worthless
How to obtain: Get arrested 7 times.
Tips: By far, the easiest way to get this title is to take Collection
jobs from the Aoto Gang and get spotted by a Magistrate while
threatening your target. You may want to get 2800 mon before doing
this so you can bail yourself out of jail. If you can't post bail,
time will advance causing your to lose a day. It may be tempting
to try and get arrested by attacking the Magistrates; however, this
is just as likely to get you killed as arrested, so I don't
recommend it. You can leave Amahara without getting an ending to
get this title.
3. Sword Lover
How to obtain: Title any 10 swords in one game.
Tips: Collect 10 swords that have at least 30 in Attack or Defense. Such
swords can be titled by the 30+ attribute without any other
upgrading. Just get any 10 such swords, bring them into a single
game, get 5000 mon, and get to titling. You can leave Amahara
without getting an ending for this title.
4. Workaholic
How to obtain: Successfully complete 20+ jobs.
Tips: Work for whatever group you think has the easiest jobs. Sleep at
least once to avoid getting the Revitalizer title. You'll have more
time to complete jobs if you follow a story path up to festival
time, but you can then abandon that story path if necessary. You
can leave Amahara without getting an ending for this title.
5. Amorous
How to obtain: Stay at the Amakaze Inn 10+ times in a single game.
Tips: Just get 4000 mon and go to it. Don't forget that you can use the
Amakaze Inn at Late Night and Early Morning even though it looks
closed. You can leave Amahara without getting an ending for this
title.
6. Talentless
How to obtain: Fail 10+ jobs.
Tips: Take any 10 jobs. Go to Otsuka-cho and take a nap each time instead
of completing them. You can leave Amahara without getting an ending
for this title.
7. Evil Lord
How to obtain: Attack dead opponents 150+ times.
Tips: Start a new game. First chance you get, kill anyone and kick the
resulting corpse 150 times. Congratulations, you're an Evil Lord.
You can leave Amahara without getting an ending for this title. In
fact, I recommend doing so since you won't get many points for this
title.
8. Garrulous
How to obtain: Talk to NPCs a lot.
Tips: Unfortunately, this is the title I have the least information
about. I don't know the exact number of times you need to talk to
someone, but you can continue talking to the same person over and
over and have it count. You don't have to get an ending for this
title, so when you get tired of doing this, save and exit Amahara.
If you don't get this title, just reload and keep talking.
9. Sword Abuser
How to obtain: Break 10 swords in a single game.
Tips: Play an Easy game since swords with 1 durability will be more
common. Get 10 of them and break them. You can leave Amahara
without getting an ending for this title.
10. Junk
How to obtain: Faint from running out of EP twice in a single game.
Tips: There's no special trick to this. Just never recharge EP in any
way until you run out twice. You can leave Amahara without getting
an ending for this title. I have a feeling this title is a bit of
a mistranslation from the original Japanese. It's apparently better
translated as "Worn Out," which makes more sense.
C) Right Column Titles
The Right Column Titles are all obtained by earning a Samurai Rating in the
correct range without fulfilling the requirements for any of the Left or
Center Column Titles. I don't have much exact advice for most of these - just
vary the "honor" of your actions in each game until you get the desired
title. Also, keep in mind that the default Samurai Rating seems to vary by
difficulty level (making, for instance, the Nobody title easiest to get on
Easy). You don't have to get an ending to get any of these titles, so you can
experiment with leaving Amahara at different times to get any titles that
are eluding you. Here are the Samurai Ratings to shoot for:
1. Samurai King (100-119.9%)
2. Supreme (90-99.9%)
3. Prodigy (80-89.9%)
4. Master (70-79.9%)
5. Famed (60-69.9%)
6. In Training (50-59.9%)
7. Ordinary (40-49.9%)
8. Novice (30-39.9%)
9. Thug (20-29.9%)
10. Nobody (0-19.9%)
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III. Copyright Info and Contributor Thanks
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Copyright 2004 Steve Giles
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Thanks to the following GameFAQS members for information that has been used
for this guide: Red Panda, motorcitymadman, Sheky, Pippin Rules, Dartboard,
and milquetoast. Some of the factual information used in this FAQ was
translated from
http://s-yousei.hp.infoseek.co.jp/samurai/2data/hyouka.html by
milquetoast.
If you have any additions or find any errors, you can e-mail me at
[email protected]. I will credit you for any additions I choose to use.
Questions not covered by this guide should be directed to the GameFAQs Way of
the Samurai 2 message board.
This concludes my FAQ. Thanks for reading!
