Onimusha 2 FAQ/PuzzleBoxSolutions.version 2.0 FINAL August.23.2k2 www.enemyzero.com Created by EnemyZero with help from Dunebug81 of EnemyZero Online. This document is copyrighted with ALL rights reserved 2002 by EnemyZero Online and is exclusive to www.gamefaqs.com and www.enemyzero.com for all time. ANY unauthorized use, copying, distribution, or anything else like that is a violation of copyright laws and is punishable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ //table of contents// ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I...Forword - Update/Revision history Ia...EnemyZero Online review recap II...Common puzzle boxes IIa...Puzzle box solutions IIa1...Imasho Mine, the left path at the beggining of the mines. IIa2...Imasho Mine, along the path at the end of the mines. IIa3...Gifu Castle, in the 3rd room you get to your first time through Gifu Castle, behind a pillar. IIa4...Jubei's Manor, left at the entrance, at the end of the hall. IIa5...Fog Valley, after the lake, left of the Nabunaga statue puzzle. IIa6...Oni's Sacred Place/Ogre Island, after the robots when you first enter the factory area, right before a ladder. IIa7...Gifu Castle, in the Tower after you desend the ladder from the roof after you warp for the first time. IIa8...Gifu Castle, through the locked door on the right hand side of the second room of the castle, must have the "flower" key. IIa9...Gifu Castle, through the door right after you break the yellow seal with the Thunder Hammer. IIa10...Demon Cave, keep following the path, can't miss it. IIa11...Oni's Sacred Place/Ogre Island, in the room with a bunch of hallways (look at the map), it's at the end of the right-most hall. IIa12...Oni's Sacred Place/Ogre Island, in the firey area where you walk along the pipes. IIa13...Ogre Military airship, in the very first room, past the door. III...Number boxes IIIa...Number box solutions IIIa1...Gifu Castle, first room with magic spring. IIIa2...Oni's Sacred Place/Ogre Island, in the factory room with a magic spring and the sealed door thats missing an eye. IV...Sliding boxes IVa...Sliding box solutions IVa1...Gifu Castle, at the base of the statue in the room with the warp to the Demon Cave. IVa2...Gifu Castle, after you cross the lake at Gifu Castle, in the room with the statue. V...Dresser dial puzzle Va...Dresser dial puzzle solution, Jubei's Manor, dresser in the room with the circular incline in the middle of it. VI...Nobunaga statue puzzle VIa...Nobunaga statue locations VIa1...1st statue location. VIa2...2nd statue location. VIa3...3rd statue location. VII...Closing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I...Forword - Update/Revision history ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This FAQ covers the puzzles boxes only and is NOT a walktrough for the game itself. None of the puzzle boxes from the first one return and there are 3 distinctly different kinds, as described in their respective sections. This is the final version of the FAQ and has been updated with all of the OFFICIAL English names. The Puzzle Realm solutions were not added like we planned because their are FAQs up already with great solutions for them so putting them in this one is pretty much pointless...unless you want them in here...if you do want them added anyways email me at ez@enemyzero.com. * Ia...EnemyZero Online review recap At EnemyZero Online we really liked this game, it's a very big improvment over the original in length, graphics, and gameplay...just about everything, the way a sequal should be. All the new gameplay mechanics and the friend system are awesome additions, we can't wait for part 3. Final score: 90 Original review available at: www.enemyzero.com/reviews/ps2/onimusha2.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ II...Puzzle boxes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The regular common puzzle boxes in Onimusha 2 are a sharp deviation from the number ones in Onimusha. Insted of turning dials to put numbers in order, this time you basically have a circular area with some slidable tiles which you have a limited number of moves in order to make a picture in the middle, namely a circle. The word boxes from the first one also don't return. Symbol key: - empty space * blank tile # tile with a part of circle on it x cannot move from that direction * IIa...Puzzle box solutions * IIa1...Imasho Mine - Take the left path at the first save mirror. x x - * x * * # - 1 x - * # # 2 # - 4 3 Solution: Move 2-> 4-> done Item: Buraitou Secret Medicine (fully restores health) * IIa2...Imasho Mine - You really can't miss it, it's on the path at the very end, go past the machine thing that you can insert the Red Ring into. x x - * x * * # - 1 x - * # # 2 # - 4 3 Solution: Move 3-> 1-> 4-> 2-> done Item: Hyoujin-Yari Secret Scroll (Ice Spear special move) * IIa3...Gifu Castle - In the 3rd room when you first enter the castle, halfway behind a pillar...you can't miss it. 1 2 - * 8 # # # - 3 7 - * # * 4 * - 6 5 Solution: Move 4-> 2-> 8-> done Item: Power Jewel (increases Jubei's health bar) * IIa4...Jubei's Manor - Hang a left as soon as you enter and it's dead ahead at the end of the hallway. 1 2 - # 8 * # # - 3 7 - * * # 4 * - 6 5 Solution: Move 2-> 4-> done Item: Power Jewel (increases Jubei's health bar) * IIa5...Fog Valley - Beyond the lake with the annoying water guys enter the double doors, turn left and go up the side alleyway of the building that has the Nabunaga statue puzzle. x x x - - - x - * # # * 1 x - # # # # 2 x * * # # - 3 # * * 6 5 4 Solution: Move 6-> 2-> done Item: Senpumaru Secret Scroll (Wind Sword special move) * IIa6...Oni's Sacred Place/Ogre Island - Right after the robots, beside the ladder in the second room of the factory area. 1 2 3 12 # # # 4 11 # # # 5 10 # # # 6 9 8 7 Solution: Move 12-> 2-> 6-> done Item: Tanegashima (rifle) * IIa7...Gifu Castle - After you warp onto the castle rooftop, down the ladder and it's right at your feet. 1 2 - * 8 # # # - 3 7 - # * * 4 * - 6 5 Solution: Move 2-> 4-> 6-> 8-> 1-> 7-> done Item: Talisman (revives you if you die then breaks) * IIa8...Gifu Castle - In the room right after the initial room (with the broken stairs everywhere), unlock the door on the right hand side with the Cherry Key. 1 2 - * 8 # # # - 3 7 - * # * 4 * - 6 5 Solution: Move 4-> 2-> 8-> done Item: Magic Jewel (increases Jubei's magic bar) * IIa9...Gifu Castle - In the room right after the yellow seal that you can break with the Thunder Hammer. 1 2 3 - - - 12 - * * * # 4 11 - * # # # 5 10 - * * # # 6 # # # 9 8 7 Solution: Move 6-> 7-> 9-> 5-> 8-> 4-> done Item: Dokoutsui Secret Scroll (Earth Hammer special move) * IIa10...Demon Cave - Just keep following the path around the level (the level with the petrified people) and you can't miss it, it's right in the open. 1 2 - * 8 # # # - 3 7 - # * * 4 * - 6 5 Solution: Move 6-> 7-> 5-> 4-> 1-> done Item: Power Jewel (increases Jubei's health bar) * IIa11...Oni's Sacred Place/Ogre Island - In the room that looks like a bunch of hallways, some of them dead ends. Take the first right you get to, then take the first left and follow the path,it's at the end. 1 2 3 # - * 12 - * # # # 4 11 - # # # * 5 10 - # * # * 6 - * - 9 8 7 Solution: Move 4-> 6-> 1-> 10-> done Item: Magic Jewel (increases Jubei's magic bar) * IIa12...Oni's Sacred Place/Ogre Island - In the room right after you fight Gogandantess, the room with all the fire and lava at the bottom and your walking along big pipes. 1 2 3 # # - 12 # # # * - 4 11 - # # * * 5 10 - * * * # 6 - - # 9 8 7 Solution: Move 6-> 7-> 1-> 12-> 2-> done Item: Power Jewel (increases Jubei's health bar) * IIa13...Ogre Military airship - In the room you start out in, right after the mirror and go past the door. 1 2 3 - * # 12 * # # # - 4 11 - # # # * 5 10 _ * # # * 6 * - - 9 8 7 Solution: Move 5-> 2-> 6-> 8-> 11-> 3-> done Item: Magic Jewel (increases Jubei's magic bar) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ III...Number boxes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The second type of puzzle box in Onimusha 2 are what we dubbed number boxes, don't get them confused with the boxes from the first one though, they are quite different (and very easy if you ask me). You have a field of numbers with some blanks on a panel in front of you with a row of numbers along the bottom of the screen. At the very top of the screen there will be a single number and your goal is to insert numbers from the bottom into the empty spaces on the panel trying to make EVERY row, up and down, left to right, and diagnoly, add up to that number exactally. It's really not very hard if you can do the math. * IIIa...Number box Solutions * IIIa1...Gifu Castle - First single door on the left of the main hall when you first enter the castle, room with a magic spring and where you could enter the Dark Realm in the first game. Solution: 15 6 1 8 7 5 3 2 9 4 Item: Bronze Mask (right half) * IIIa2...Oni's Sacred Place/Ogre Island - In the factory area, the room with the magic spring and the door that needs an eye to become unsealed. You have to enter this room twice so you really can't miss it and it gives you a key that you must have. Solution: 34 1 15 14 4 12 6 7 9 8 10 11 5 13 3 2 16 Item: Golden Key ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IV...Sliding boxes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The final puzzle box type is the sliding box. These puzzle boxes are pretty lame and are easy to do just fooling around. They have no real pattern and theirs no time or move limit so eventually you will get it. You basically have 5 or 7 hollows with some tiles in them, either a circle symbol one or a diamond one and you just slide them back and forth until they match the picture at the top. Easy. Each number corresponds to one of the tiles with 1 always on the left, counting up while going to the right. * IVa...Sliding box solutions * IVa1...Gifu Castle - In the room on the right pathway after the locked door that needed the Moon Key, at the base of the statue. The same room with the warp in it to the Demon Caves where all the people are petrified. Solution: 1-> 2-> 4-> 5-> 3-> 1-> 2-> 4-> 3-> done * IVa2...Gifu Castle - After you cross the lake at Gifu Castle with the boat, it is in the only room you can enter in front of the statue. Solution: 5-> 3-> 4-> 6-> 7-> 5-> 4-> 2-> 1-> 3-> 5-> 6-> 4-> 2-> 3-> 5-> 4-> done ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ V...Dresser dial puzzle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We didn't put this puzzle solution in the FAQ at first because we didn't think a lot of people would need help with it but by watching the GameFAQs messages boards I guess we were wrong. The hardest part of the puzzle may just be acctually finding the 2 paper fragments that you can put together which will show you the solution to the puzzle, you then just turn the dials on the dresser and match up the symbols with the animal. Below is listed how many turns on each dial is needed to solve the puzzle. **NOTE: They changed this puzzle in the US version making it simpiler, you just have to line up the colored animals with those on the picture pieces you should have picked up in the Manor.** * Va...Dresser dial puzzle solution 3 2 1 2 After the puzzle is solved, the circular incline in the middle of the room opens up and a ladder extends out of the dresser into it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VI...Nobunaga statue puzzle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Nobunaga statue puzzle is another very easy puzzle in that the only hard part about it is just finding the items needed for it, namely 3 statues of Nobunaga in different poses. Once you have all 3 statues bring them to the room with the spikes on both sides of you in the building just past the lake right after the Fog Forest/Valley. When you inspect the monitor in front of you it will flash a picture of the statues lined up in a certain order, then you just have to insert them in the 3 spaces in the same order, very easy. The puzzle is totally random however so we can't just give you a solution for it, insted we will list the locations of the 3 statues incase you're having trouble finding them. * VIa...Nobunaga statue locations * VIa1...1st statue location - On the screen right before you go over the wooden bridge to reach the Fog Valley. It's hidden behind a green wind seal in a small cravase so you must come back to it after you get the wind weapon at the entrance to the Fog Valley. * VIa2...2nd statue location - You get this one automatically after you beat Ginghamphatts for the second time inside the Fog Valley. * VIa3...3rd statue location - After you get through the Fog Valley go to the right insted of accross the lake and just follow the path, you really can't miss it because it's hidden behind another seal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VII...Closing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for viewing the first EnemyZero Online FAQ, we plan to have many more in the future if we have the patience to. Help support our site and we will help support you with good FAQs. Thanks! All contact info is available at our website. 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