Mark of the Ninja

38 Achievements

500

10-12h

Xbox 360

Perfection

Earn all the Seals in every level.

How to unlock the Perfection achievement in Mark of the Ninja - Definitive Guide

PuckJunkie

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08 May 2013 20:16

Each level in the game has three level-specific goals, called "seals," for you to accomplish. Once you've gotten a seal, it's permanent. You can die, reset the checkpoint, or even start your New Game + playthrough, and the seal will still show up as having been obtained. This can be handy if you're trying to get through a level without being seen and you are spotted while accomplishing the feat required by the seal; just reset the checkpoint, and there's no need to try for the seal again.

The seals for each level are shown below; suggested solutions for where to obtain these seals are hidden behind spoiler tags in case you only want to see information on a particular level. Take note that these are not step-by-step instructions, just where best to accomplish your tasks.

Happy hunting.

Level 1: Ink and Dreams
1. Ring Azai's Large Gongs
2. Rescue all the Ninja
3. Save Azai without being detected

Level 2: Breaching the Perimeter
1. Reach the Transformer in under a minute
2. Reach the top of the Tower without being detected
3. Destroy at least 20 lights

Level 3: The Trail of Shadow
1. Access the communications tower without being detected
2. Kill six of the courier’s guards
3. Fill five dumpsters with dispatched guards

Level 4: A Change in Course
1. Terrify a guard by killing another with a spike mine
2. Open all the gas vents
3. Kill two guards with a single chandelier

• Seal 1: Make sure you enter the building beneath the first guard to get the spike mines – it’s tough to kill someone with them if you don’t pick them up. After the first two guards, the next room has two normal guards, a shield-carrying guard, and a dog. Quickly get to the grappling point above the chatting guards, move as far left as possible, then grapple to the leftmost grappling point, just to the right of the far left wall. When the shielded guy moves off to the right, throw a mine at the foot of the stairs and wait. The shielded guard should step on it right in front of another guard, who will get terrified for your first seal.
• Seal 2, part 1/2: When you're told to start opening gas "vents" (I'll be calling these valves to prevent confusing them with the vents you crawl through), keep in mind you'll be told you can leave after 3, but you need all 6 for the seal. All of them are accessible from the elevator shaft, which I'll use as a starting point for all 6.
o Gas valve 1: go through the first vent on your right from the bottom and follow it around. After the valve, you'll be able to jump right back in the shaft.
o Gas valve 2: back down to the second vent from the bottom on your left (the first one goes the same place but this is faster).
o Gas valve 3: back from the shaft, the next vent up the right side. Do not return back the way you came; instead follow the vent along the top of the room all the way to the right and up to enter a larger room that has the next valve.
o Gas valve 4: the valve is sitting right in the middle of this room. Before you bother with it, take care of your next seal.
• Seal 3: The goal is to get two of the guards to investigate a noise or otherwise come underneath the chandelier in this room. I did this by sitting on one of the grappling points to the side of the chandelier and leading them there with noisemakers. Once they're in place, one dart to the chandelier kills both of them, nets you plenty of points, and gets you your seal. This can be tricky if you're as impatient as I am. You can replenish your noisemakers, or switch to them, at the nearby upgrade point (look for the flag alone by itself in a room to the left of the elevator shaft). Don't forget to open the valve below you once you're done, that should be your fourth.
• Seal 2, part 2/2:
o Gas valve 5: back in the elevator shaft to the left, and you should be looking at the upgrade point. You'll need smoke bombs coming up, so grab them now. Following this path will wrap around and take you to the next valve. Be careful, the checkpoint here is further back than you would probably like.
o Gas valve 6: Back to the elevator shaft, and the topmost vent on the the left leads to a single room with Gas Valve 6. You need a smoke bomb to get into the room. From there you can disable the power so you have some time, but you'll still need another bomb to exit as the power doesn't turn off the laser on the door. Alternatively, you can use one bomb, jump out, open the valve, and jump back in - but only if you have Superior Lockpicks. Even then it's a tight window. That's your last seal.

Level 5: The Fall of Hessian Tower
1. Terrify a guard by hanging another from a grappling point
2. Reach the end without breaking any lights
3. Kill Kelly without raising the alarm

Level 6: An Ancestral Home
1. Stealth kill all the guards in the catacombs
2. Sneak into the castle without being detected
3. Lure a guard into a stealth kill using a body

Level 7: Above a Bottomless Chasm
1. Kill 3 gasmask guards while they are walking in poison gas
2. Hide 3 bodies in the final room
3. Ride the crate to the top of the shaft without getting off

Level 8: The Inner Keep
1. Sabotage the helicopter without being detected
2. Terrorize a guard into shooting another guard
3. Kill three elite guards

• Equipment note: You should have unlocked the terror darts by now; make sure and select them in your equipment screen, they make the first seal pretty trivial.
• Seal 1: Any time you see two guards, you can probably get this with the terror dart. One particularly easy place: as soon as you get the checkpoint that splashes the words "Secluded Hallways", open the door on the right, then before the next doorway (you should be outside, with the next door being a lockpick door), drop down. You'll be above two guards, use the terror dart on the rightmost of them, then go back up out of sight and wait. He'll almost always kill two other guards (easy points!), wait until he does before you go down and finish him off.
• Seal 2, part 1/3: The first time you see an elite, the game will draw your attention to him. Go under him through the vent, then right outside of the vent, take out the lamp on the other side of the door to pull him over to the right. You'll be standing right next to a switch, wait for the elite to get under the wires and hit the switch. The wires will stun him, when they are done crackling jump up and finish him off. You’ll get an achievement for this if you haven’t done it once before.
• Seal 2, part 2/3: immediately after that, you'll see an elite talking to a regular guard; drop the chandelier on them.
• Seal 2, part 3/3: from that spot, go right through the lower vent. You'll find a lone guard, after you take him out, you'll be standing over two more elites and a gas-mask guard. I found the easiest way to proceed is to move to the far right of that room, drop down so you're clinging to the ceiling above all of them, then use the terror dart on the gas-mask guard, who will kill both of the elites for you and finish the seal. You can finish him off yourself. If you wind up darting an elite, he'll kill the gas mask guard. If that happens, go through the vent above you to your right and follow that around to a switch that will release gas and kill the elites.
• Seal 3: You'll soon get to a checkpoint that splashes the title "The Helipad" across your screen. From that point, you'll need to remain undetected up until you've done either of the two methods that disables the chopper.

Level 9: A Blade at His Neck
1. Kill Karajan without being detected
2. Pickpocket both keys
3. Have all of the dogs in the level smell you

• Seal 2, part 1/2: Pickpocket both keys. There are two keys you need to retrieve, both on guards. You need to get close to the guards and pickpocket them (B, then follow button prompt). You'll see key carrier 1 immediately. Go around him and his two buddies by moving above him, drop down to the right, and in the floor vent outside you'll find a way to disable the lasers. Then you can go back above him and dangle down from the anchor point to pickpocket the key. Feel free to kill all three of these guys afterward.
• Seal 3, part 1/3:Get smelled by all the dogs. After you go past the first door with the keycard, go down the first vent you see. Stay down all the way to the left, and you'll come out in an area with an elite guard and a dog. You can easily be smelled and the get away by clinging to the ceiling below the dog until he has passed, then pop up (he'll smell you immediately, you'll get the notice by the game) and then running back down to hide in the vent.
• Seal 3, part 2/3: From there, move all the way left and scale the structure until you see the sleeping dog and one guard. It’s your choice on how to wake up the dog - I threw the ravenous insects at the guard, whose death cries woke him right up. Run back left and hide on the wall above the entrance to that area. Wait until the dog comes close enough to smell you, then scale the structure to remain out of sight. Or just drop down and kill the dog when it gets close enough.
• Seal 2, part 2/2: The second guy isn't even facing the right way. As long as you take out his two friends silently, he won't even turn around. If you can, just smoke bomb them and stealth kill both of them while they're still disabled. Walk over to the key carrier and pickpocket him at your leisure. If you do wind up alerting the key carrier before you can pickpocket him, run off and hide until he calms down.
• Seal 3, part 3/3: After you open the next door with a keycard, you'll see a crate. Push it right and the last dog is just on the other side of where it stops. It's easy enough to jump inside his smell radius and then run off, or just kill him by your choice of methods. Seal done.
• Seal 1: You'll come to the final room and see Karajan protected by a door. From this moment on, you have to stay undetected. You'll need to make your way to the top of the inside of the two towers to the right to power down two doors that protect a generator that apparently is keeping Karajan's door closed. The last seal will unlock when you get to Karajan.

Level 10: A Shattered Stronghold
1. Retrieve the keys without using any items
2. Recover the sumi without taking any damage
3. Get Dosan’s tools without being detected

• Level note: Once you get to your first objective (Dosan), you'll be given three new ones. You can do these in any order, and each one has a seal associated with it. The order I’m listing them is the way you’d encounter them if you stayed above ground all the way to the right, then went underground to come back. By the way, I found flashbangs well worth it on this level. The smokebombs were ineffective against too many enemies.
• Seal 1: Get Dosan's tools without being detected. The checkpoint at this objective will call attention to Dosan's needles. Just get to them without being detected for this seal. Cheap tip: you can, if you have trouble with this area, keep throwing ravenous insects at guards and then going back to the upgrade point to refill them. You'll terrorize nearly every guard in the place as well as get 600 points per kill, and it's pretty damn easy.
• Seal 2: Get the keys without using items. Assuming you are moving over the roof of the buildings, you’ll hit a yellow flame checkpoint on a building's roof and be shown the key carrier. Once you've gotten there, don't use any items, including darts, until you've gotten to the bottom and taken the keys from the guard. I find it easiest to cling to the ceiling at the beginning (to the left of the top left sniper) and drop down on the first sniper. Back up and drop down again for the second sniper, then make my way down to the bottom right area and stealth-kill the key carrier as soon as he turns his back.
• Seal 3: Get the sumi without taking damage. This one is underground, accessible either by going underground right after you leave Dosan, or just to the left of the key carrier. From "Seal 2," just described, enter the building to your left and head left inside it to find the entrance to the underground area. There's a night-vision guard that basically never stops looking where you're headed; throw a flashbang to disable him. From there it's trivial to get to the checkpoint that shows you where the sumi is. Once you've seen that, you have to get the sumi without taking damage. Just kill everyone on the screen one at a time without being spotted – you should have no issues by now. Then you'll have to use the mechanism to move the crate out of your way and quickly drop down to where the sumi is. Watch the trap right next to the mechanism.

Level 11: Set to Flight
1. Escape the first stalkers without being seen
2. Bypass all bandits without taking damage
3. Kill 5 enemies using traps

Level 12: The Return
1. Remain undetected until you recover your equipment
2. Stealth kill 3 hallucinations in 15 seconds
3. Stealth kill from a hiding spot after moving to it with Serenity

08 May 2013 20:16

3 Comments

Not sure if the patch changed things, but I was not awarded the seal for riding the crate all the way up (on mission 7) even though I did as suggested and went up without using it (while getting the second scroll on the way).

By JORAX on 26 Aug 2013 05:41

Good tip. The latest title update's list of fixes does mention "Fixed completion conditions for 'Riding the Crate' seal in 'Above a Bottomless Chasm' level," so I guess it's either do it legit or clear your cache and do it offline now. And it seems a little too much trouble to do the latter.

I'll fix the solution right away, thanks.

By PuckJunkie on 26 Aug 2013 14:10

By ToxicTechnetium on 26 Aug 2013 20:38

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Level 1

Ring Azai's large gongs (4).
Look out for the gongs that are mounted on their own sort of platform (not the free-hanging ones). They'll all be along your path, just hit them with a dart and you're good.
Free all 4 of the Ninja prisoners.
They're all in the same building, once you kill the guards make sure to hold to free them.
Save Azai without being detected.
Move to the right side of the room and climb down and come in from behind the guys.

Level 2

Destroy at least 20 lights.
Either quickfire you darts by tapping or use to aim, to fire when they are equipped; to equip them. There are well over 20 lights, but start this right off the bat.
Reach the Transformer in under a minute.
Actually just need to reach the roof of the building it is in. It is a relatively short distance to the next building, just be wary of the guards along the way. You can kill a couple and still make it no problem though.
Reach the top of the tower without being detected.

Level 3

Access the Communication Tower without getting detected.
Kill six of the Courier's Guards.
When you follow the Courier at the end of the level, take out 6 of his guards along his route
Fill Five dumpsters with dispatched guards.
Kill guards and drag them to a dumpster and press to drop them into the dumpster, killing them from within the dumpster doesn't work unless you take them out and put them back in. Also, reusing dumpsters with multiple corpses does not work.

Level 4

Terrify a guard by killing another with a spike mine.
Pick any place where two guards come into view of one another at some point and plant a mine () on the ground where they will walk over it while within sight of another person. If you throw it too close to someone, they'll hear it and shoot it (if it's not upgraded), also the second guard must see the first guard blow up. You can do this a number of times throughout the level, one such place is the very first set of guards you run into after entering the tunnel/building. There's a motion sensor to the right of them, and it will go off if you throw the mine when it's looking at you. Toss the mine to the far side of the two guards (either from the staircase, or from the hanging spot above them), and distract the both guards to go toward the mine. Either both will walk toward it, killing one, or one will walk toward it, the other will watch as his friend blows up.
Open all the gas vents.
There are 6 in total, although the game says you're finished after 3, so just go and open the last 3 for this seal
Kill two guards with a single chandelier.
There are a couple of good spots for this one. One spot is the top right room from the elevator shaft during the gas vent part. Distract one guard under it and wait until the next one walks under it then throw a dart at it.

Level 5

Terrify a guard by hanging another from a grappling point.
Requires Hangman's Hymn OR Grim Harbinger.
Reach the end without breaking any lights.
Kill Kelly without raising the alarm.
Climb up along the left side of the screen and up and around to the right side to take out the snipers. Then go back to the top middle and start attacking the supports to the lighting until they squash Kelly like the cockroach that he is.

Level 6

Stealth kill all the guards in the catacombs.
Sneak into the castle without being detected.
Lure a Guard into a stealth kill using a dead body.
This can be someone you killed and left there, or a body you planted for someone to find. Once though go "OMG A BODY!" and start to run up to it, you can take them out, just make sure they don't finish calling in the body or you'll lose points.

Level 7

Kill 3 Gas mask guards while they are walking in poison gas.
You have a few seconds to drop into gas and stealth kill before you choke, it's generally easier if you kill gas mask guards at a few necessary points, and you'll come across several more that are in gas (green area, obviously).
Hide 3 bodies in the final room.
You'll reach a point with a countdown until a door in the roof opens, while the lower area fills with gas. Drop to the area below that door and from there, throw any enemy bodies () throw the floor below you into the gassed area.
Ride the crate to the top of the shaft without getting off.
This is near the challenge room area (leading up to it), there will be a box that starts in a gas filled area next to a lever and a gas mask guard. Kill the guard, hit the lever and hop onto the box. Watch for the view ranges of the oncoming guards and move to the opposite side of the box to not get shot off. They'll be on the left,right,left in order.

Level 8

Sabotage the helicopter without being detected.
The generator you need to sabotage is below the helipad.
Terrorize a guard into shooting another guard.
See the related achievements for tips.
Kill three elite guards.
In order to kill an elite guard you will need to stun them somehow (ie electric wires right after the first elite) or find an environmental item that kills them instantly/eventually, falling traps, or throwing a body on top of them (sometimes). Terrorizing them with anything will freak them out, wait until they stop being freaked out and quickly finish them off or they'll go back to normal.

Level 9

Kill Karajan without being detected.
Watch for Snipers and motion sensors in particular. Karajan, himself, CAN see you and it won't void this.
Pickpocket both keys.
For the first guy, dangle from the vent above him, and for the second guy, quickly stealth kill both of his guards and then sneak up on him. Requires pickpocketing is similar to stealth kills, but uses .
Have all of the dogs smell you.
Move along a path that leads to the top left part of the map to find all three dogs.

Level 10

Retrieve the keys without using any items
Recover the sumi without taking any damage
Get the tattoo needles without being detected

Level 11

Escape the first stalkers without being seen.
Stalkers are the new ninja ladies. They have excellent hearing, they jump around like you, and they have increased line of sight. Wait until they are far away and facing away before you move.
Bypass all the bandits without taking damage.
Kill 5 enemies using traps.
Throwing a dart at a hanging bomb will instantly kill an enemy, as well as dropping one in their walking path. Tripping wires to trigger rock falls, and other stuff also works, as well as stepping on pressure pads to kill enemies standing over a spike trap. Stalkers do not seem to count toward this seal.

Level 12

Remain undetected until you recover your equipment.
Trickiest part is the hallway with lights and two guards, but all you need to do is toss a dart at the first light in the room, jump into the vent and move to the exit while the guards are distracted.
Stealth kill 3 hallucinations in less than 15 seconds.
The guards are hallucinations (hence the magical blue smoke that appears when you kill one). Continue until you reach a large outdoor area with loads of guards and trees to grapple to and a stalker smack dab in the middle. The door to this area on the bottom floor of the building you're in has a guard with his back to it, so silence him first. Make your way outside, grapple up to the trees and dangle above the next two guards until the pathing one turns back and walks toward where you came from. Hangman him, and then drop down and kill his friend.
Stealth kill from a hiding spot after moving into it with serenity.
As soon as you get your equipment, head to the right and grapple down into the tree and over ---above the right guard. Drop and Serenity into the tree pot behind him and then stealth kill him.