NINJA GAIDEN II

Ok, I just got through Master Ninja the other day, it was one heck of a trip! Let me throw some tips at ya:

1. Use the Lunar. It is, if used correctly, the best weapon in the game (maybe aside from the Scythe). I got all the way to chapter 6 with the Lunar, and never even used it before. Upgrade the Lunar to level 2 ASAP and don't worry about level 3. Use the Izuna Drop (Jump, X, X, Y) constantly. Not only is it faster than the Dragon Swords Izuna Drop, but the Lunar's makes you jump into the air, avoiding the ground attacks. Using the Izuna Drop with the Lunar can be tricky at times. Master it. Also with bosses (again, using the Lunar) use X, X, Y when you see an opening to attack, then run, rinse and repeat.



2. Those SOB IS Ninjas. If you get an Incendiary Shuriken (or 2, or 5) stuck in you, immediatly block and time the part where it explodes with a quick dash in any direction to negate it. Jump on a ninjas head. Use a UT. Use the Izuna Drop with the Lunar. Anything that involves Invincibility Frames, use them.



3. Despawning Enemies. This is the cheapest, most life-saving technique in the game. As soon as a group of enemies spawn (and this is extremely helpful with the Explosive Arrow Ninjas) run ALL the way back where you came from, no matter the distance, just keep running. You will eventually reach a point where the enemies will dissapear. Also, even if they don't dissapear and are following you, that's good. Because then you have them coming at you in a line, rather than surrounding you at all sides. You can also usually run straight through them and into the next area. If you get to Chapter 11, run through everything if you can't fight all of them.



4. Think smart. Lead the enemies into an area you will have an easier time fighting at (preferably a spot where they can only come at you 1 or 2 at a time, like a staircase). If you have to fight in a tight hallway where you can't dodge their attacks, lead them into a bigger area.



5. Don't save your ninpo. ALWAYS have more than one save file, and after every battle (if you are in good or decent shape) return to an earlier save point and save.



Master Ninja is all about trial and error, and quite a bit of luck involved as well. You will die ALOT, so be prepared for that and frustration. But keep pushing and retrying, you will eventually make it through.

I got through without farming and only 2 save slots (could have made it with 1) so anything is possible!

Invincible Ninja Glitch


Beating the game over 10 times and reading about this glitch gave me motivation to do this glitch. I can easily say with enough time and patience I could have done the game without it, If you played the game as much as I have you would grow sick of it too. So thanks to who ever found this glitch who is unknown, I cannot claim to finding the glitch, but I can claim to everything in this guide to help others out, every method, tip, or information on the glitch (except the glitch itself) has been done and tested by myself, taking the time to mess around with it to make this guide to help others.

Introduction



Starting Tips:



Techniques:



Bosses:



General Tips:



If anyone has more to add to this guide please comment or message me and I will add it with credit of course. If you record any video of using the glitch (especially with my methods mixed) that would be great if you can send it to me and I will add it to my solution with credit of course.

Video 1: I just wanted to show you the glitch and how it can EXTREMELY help in certain situations. The video was done by Kumar Abhishek (who is ironically against it)

Video 2: This video is much more clear and is a great part to use the glitch helping out beautifully. This video was done by samuraigaming

Video 3: This video is at one of the hardest parts in the game and you can see how helpful it becomes, you can defeat the ninjas before fighting the Spider Ninjas alone. Video is in spanish, but the visual is the idea, not the commentary. If you do know spanish, thats a plus. Credit for video goes to youtube user Marco Hayabusa.

You need a balls of STEEL!
If you are someone who is sensitive to swearing or getting angry, don't try this! This mode will constantly make you swear and get angry!

Key Legend for Farming:
By the end of Chapter 1, you'll have enough karma to level up a weapon, basically you'll have 1000k (this is without farming).
If you Farm for 1000K- Allows you to upgrade a weapon. (you'll have 2000k at the end)
If you Farm for 2000k- Upgrade a weapon to its max (you'll have 3000k at the end)
If you Farm for 3000k- Upgrade a weapon to it's max and upgrade another to level 2 (you'll have 4000k at the end)


You need to farm some karma in Chapter 1, location the scene that looks similar to DOA4 (Kokoro's stage). Or a better description, when you perform the flying bird flip, you'll end up in a nice looking garden like, with blossoms falling off tree. A small boat is located by the river (remember now?).

Now if you leave the scene, you'll encounter ninja's that shoot arrows at you, do not proceed, just move slightly until they see you and start firing at you (they have 100% sharp accuracy). Just head back to the river side, 2 ninja's will come at you. Just kill them, go back to the ninja's shooting arrows, head back to the river area, and perform ultimate techs. Repeat this process, until you have 1000 worth to upgrade a weapon. (to make the farming faster, it's best to kill the 2 ninja's with Ultimate Techniques).

When I farmed, I only farmed 1000k just to upgrade 1 weapon. What I did was, I upgraded my Lunar to level 2 and Dragon Sword to level 2.
Believe me, I don't know what weapon you'll be comfortable with but.
If you can't stand farming 3000k, just farm 2000k or 1000k.


Now for the best weapon to you. If you'll be upgrading your Dragon Sword, it's best to level it up to lvl 3. If you'll be using Lunar, leveling it to lvl 2 is good enough, but you can level it to lvl 3. But I highly recommend you farm 3000k so you can level up your Dragon Sword to lvl3 and Lunar to lvl 2 (for people who never completed Ninja Gaiden/Black/Sigma in Very Hard+).


*USE ALL YOUR NINPON!
*You'll encounter lots of Ninja who'll throw exploding shuriken's at you. No, they will tag you with 5/6 explosives. So you can't dash to aviod getting hurt.
*You need to dismember their bodies to relieve yourself from constant rushing
*BACKTRACK back to Muramasa's shop to upgrade and buy weapons.
*You need to be cheap too! Flying swallows or Jump to a wall and attack
*Use your Izuna Drop!
*Use lots of Flying Swallow when surrounded by ninjas
*Use lots of Galtino Throw, it makes you invincible to attacks and explosives. (I rarely used mine)
*Use Piercing of the Void over enemies who surrounds you (Chapter 10, Stairs.)
*Never use Art of the Phenoix, it's a piece of trash! Don't upgrade it!
*Upgrade your Art of Fire! (fireball)
*Ninpon Fire (fireball) deals less damage on firey fiends.
*If you are not playing this for karma....RUN! Forget killing every enemies, just freaking RUN to the exit.
*Use 9 lives of the Gods! (the funny thing is, I never used a single one when I tried Master Ninja, I nearly went on coma).
*Always perform Wind Path
*The camera will make the game harder!
*The slow downs, freezes and lag will make the game harder!
*Slow down and freezes will occur in Chapter 2, when you fight at the Trail of Rods (good luck on that one!)
*You'll definitely need a good luck in Chapter 11...may you rest in peace there
*TRY AND SURVIVE! Murasama just got his recession and everything is BLOODY expensive! Buying a grain cost a lot, so try not to get too many red bars.
*Make sure you have some snacks, food or drinks ready when you'll fighting bosses. Because if they grab you, it'll take time for them to release you:/
*GOOD LUCK fighting the 2 Armadillos! Not only are they frustrating, the camera makes it harder!
*In the starting point of Chapter 11, RUN all the way to the cave, the ninjas will be queuing up (game slowing down too), just use your Piercing Void (automatic lock on). Yes it'll be a pain to try and get to the cave, because you'll heavily get tagged and game will slow down like HELL.
*Only use Y (heavy) attacks on Bosses!!!
*If you'll be using Lunar at level 2 from Chapter 1, good luck! Because it's really hard to perform izuna drop, it's best to use it at level 3.
*Watch out for 6 rocket man firer, use shurikens or arrows to disturb them!
*When you perform 360 Ultimate Tech with the Lunar stick against a small fiend or ninja, make sure you press Y at the end of the animation sequence, so Ryu can perform an Izuna Drop.
*There will be bats when you open up chests, so hold down Back Directional and press the Action button to open. This is prevent bats from appearing and allow essence to appear.
*Forget about Survival Mode, just run to the exit (speed run)
*Don't upgrade the Dual Katanas!



*Best weapons to use (especially for Bosses)
Lunar: Use 360 Ultimate Techniques!!! (works best on bosses and enemies)
Jump X,Y to perform Izuna Drop, even though you don't perform izuna drop, this move deals a HARD DAMAGE! (BEST FOR BOSSES!!!!!!!)

CLAWS: Wings of the Vermilion Bird: X+X+Directional+X+Y+Y+Y+Y (Ryu will strike, teleport, and perform 3 landing kicks (like DMC4 when Dante uses the gigamash, you press Jump and Melee). Jump towards an enemy, X , hold for a sec, Y (for Izuna Drop) (Useful for Ninja's!!!)

Kurisagama: Jump, X, Y. ENOUGH SAID! (This will do the job!)
Don't forget Circle (360), Y,Y,Y (Ryu will spin the kurisagama 360).


Only use the Tonfas in the Airship chapters when you fight those robot droids. And it's Ultimate Techniques are perfect for Ninjas. In fact you'll need this Tonfas for Chapter 8 and 9!


Is Chapter 10 the Jungle? Anyway, when you are fighting those Robots that hovers on the sea firing multi rockets at you. You need to get into the water and use your gating gun.



Just like what people say "Google is your friend". I say "the scythe is your friend). This baby will make the game quite easy! Use lots of level 2 ultimate techs.



Oh yea, you may even grow stress (white/grey) hairs when you are done with this game.

Here is my little guide on how to beat Master Ninja, It will just be some tips that you might find helpful.

UT: Ultimate Technique
OT: Obliteration Technique
FS: Flying Swallow.
GT: Galtino throw
LoTG: Life of a thousand gods
TorB: Talisman of rebirth


Learn Moves with iframes
The easiest move to do which have iframes is the GT. If an enemy is near a wall GT them and when they hit the wall a limb will fall off enabling you to do a OT which has iframes as well.

Every UT has loads of iframes so use them a lot.
Dashing gives you iframes.
The FS has a few iframes in it too.
Use wall attacks they will give you iframes.
Izuna Drop has iframes.

Without the use of iframes this game will be near impossible.

Learn how to chain UTs and practice doing on landing UTs (hold Y just before you land and you will start charging a UT instantly)

Absorbing essence while charging a UT will make the UT charge even faster but remember you will only get 30% of what the essence is worth if used for a UT.

Use your shuriken a lot they are very helpful and will stun smaller enemies allowing you to attack them.

With the dragon sword the xxy combo will almost always chop off an arm allowing for an easy OT
When you counter an enemy you will almost always chop off a body part allowing an easy OT.

Never upgrade the scythe past level 2 as the UT does not get anymore powerful at level 3.

Try and carry max items at all times. The chests that would normally give you items will now give you essence the value of the item that would have been in the chest., which is much more useful. Both for UTs and upgrading weapons.

Never use a ToRB because the chests that contain them will now give you 50k worth of essence. Very helpful al the end of chapter 5 and beginning of chapter 6.

Upgrade the Lunar Staff to level 3 as fast as you can its 360 UT is very useful for killing almost every enemy in the game. Also if you press y at the end of the UT you will do a Izuna Drop right after the UT.

NEVER try and fight enemies in the water you can put out the Gatling gun stay still and just mash B you will kill everything in the water with out getting hit.

Use save statues as much as you want, if you think you have done good go back and save.

Upgrade you fire nimpo first
Upgrade your Void nimpo second this will come in handy with the double dragons at the end of lvl 9. they will die with 2 hits each with a lvl 3 void.
If you have any more jewels left over then upgrade the wind blade nimpo. This will come in handy for chapter 11.

The double swords will completely murder the werewolf guys you can often kill 3 or 4 with just one UT, even without upgrading

Never open chests with bats in. these will kill you in seconds or take a load of health off.

With ghost fish chests you can just spam y with the lunar to kill the all.

Save your LoTG and your jewel of demon seal until you really need them they are ace and will refill your life or nimpo to the max and add some more on.

If you need blue or red essence stop using UTs it is highly unlikely you will get blue or red essence from the enemies you kill using the UT.

At the start of chapter 7 where the turrets are shooting at you ,if you walk forward, on the left and right hand side you will see some screws on the floor. If you stand on these you will be able to kill all the turrets without getting hit.

Always throw shurikens at the rocket launcher ninja and dash in a zig zag pattern towards them, to avoid getting hit.

For the zombie enemies try and shoot off their arms with the cannon on first using the bow, then dash up to them and do an OT. Or just throw a IS ( explosive shuriken) at them to blow
a limb off a and then OT them.

To kill the armadillo bosses you can stun lock them with ISs if you aim at their heads.

To kill the worm boss stay in a little cave at the side and keep on charging UTs you kill it. You might have to go in and out of the little cave to make it spawn again.

The big robots they take 4 or 5 hits with the scythe UT to kill. The little robots with the turrets will die with one hit of the fire nimpo if you get stuck..

To kill the electric robot weird things just keep on dashing away and doing scythe UTs on them.

To make the flying dragons fall to the floor throw a IS at them to blow off a leg or a arm then do a OT to kill them.

If you get stuck from an IS ninja hold block and wait until its just about to explode then dash out of the explosion. Or use a move that involves iframes to no get hurt. If all else fails spam the FS and hope for the best.

Don’t be afraid to use your nimpo its there for a reason, so use it.

You can dash through almost any attack in the game, Very useful for dashing through the laser from last boss, Then mess up his face with the scythe.

At the start of chapter 9 when you fight the hover bots. From the entrance go forwards to the first little hut straight ahead, on the outside of the hut there is a little corner you can stay in . This will make the whole fight a lot easier because the bots find it hard to hit you there.

To kill the worm things keep on jumping with the scyth and pressing yyy or do FS with the dragon sword.

Use corners to your advantage, remember you cant get hit through walls so always ran back behind a corner and charge a UT.

Another easy way to take on all the IS ninjas is to do the Izuna drop with the dragon claws pretty much all animation of doing it had iframes. It's done by jumping towards a ninja pressing x then holding y. Easy instant kill.

One thing I would note is that Izuna drops have a couple of recovery frames at the end where you are open to attack. Be careful doing them in bunches of red scorpions because they will whip you which takes off a HUGE amount of health.

Thats all I can think of right now Good Luck everyone :)

My solution is simple. I just beat MN tonight and the whole playthrough I used a guide on you tube made by a fellow named Reim. His guide is amazing, does every inch of the game(all the items and where to use them), and some amazing stategies. The only thing he doesn't go into detail with are the skulls. I'll leave a link for that though and this one is from GameFAQ's. Good luck and try to stay focused, this game will try to blind you with anger lol.

GameFaq's location guide by Zakaroth:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/xbox360/943273-ninja-gaiden-ii/faqs/...

Reim's guide,this is the first part of many, many parts so open it in a new tab so u can play it as a series.

As the other two said this will take a lot of time and patience, but if you are finding a lot of difficulty with any fight it is often possible to run back to a save point, save, quit, load and the enemies will have despawned. Sometimes running back far enough also works (beginning of chapter 8). I also recommend essence famring on chapter 1 to at least 500K, this will allow you to fully level your preferred wepaons and should mean you're always able to restock on items.

I also found an incredibly detailed guide, it has item/chest locations, enemy spawns (including types and numbers) aswell as strategies for dealing with them.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/xbox360/file/943273/56208

You can turn on hurtless mode using a positive glitch,it may helps.

Here is the steps:

1 - Press the UP button to open weapons menu.
2 - Press the LEFT button and do not release it so the weapons wheel may rotate quickly.
3 - Both press the A and X button.
4 - If your weapon were disappeared,it indicates the glitch works. You will never get damage by any enemy.
5 - During hurtless mode you can no longer attack except JUMP and CARRY CUTTER(斷頭摔) so you can not defeat big monsters and bosses.
6 - To turn off hurtless mode just switch to any weapon.
7 - NOTICE : DO NOT SAVE THE GAME DURING HURTLESS MODE.