the solution

[autauro]

to level up your sword, you have to collect a lot of those pink souls to almost fill your meter in about six base units and then go to a magic mirror and select 'enhance'. then you can select which sword (thunder orb) and hold your button down until the meter fills completely and then you will get a message that you have enhanced your sword.

[batman46st]

wowso thats how it is. i thought it was like ff that u collect a **** load of kills and poof new power on sword.. dude i appreciate your help man.... n ill becoming bak to ya probably a **** load of times lol sorry ahead of time

[bigbadbandit]

i beat it in all modes and under 3 hrs in all modes and beat all the mini games in under 1 weeks time.****nnnnnnnnnn i'm good.now all i have left to do is get an x ranking for my complete mastery of the game with no strategy guide.i do have to say that this game was a great challenge with good replay value.*****

cant wait for lord of the rings

[autauro]

ah man, i feel like a imbecile. i posted a new subject by accident, it seems... whoops sorry for the confusion.

[bigbadbandit]

ya beat the last boss yet

[autauro]

yeah finally, had to totally bypass the realms which sucks. i still have my save games thankfully so i can go back and try it but the problem persists in not having all the flourites and it's going to take too long to try and find them all considering i have the majority of them already.

i guess i'll have to play it over again, should be fun but tiresome! i need to make a flourite guide this time because if i screw this up again, i can at least backtrack. i hope genma onimusha 2 comes out for the xbox, the screens from the ps2 version are pretty slick. new character too, it seems.

ps: no spoiler but the end was a little bit of a surprise, makes me want to own number two even more. most game endings are stupid and dumb-down the obvious (uhh duh drool).

[bigbadbandit]

to get the extra mini game all u need is 20-29 flourite but u need all 30 to get the extra costume for kaede.the realms are easy compared to that oni spirits mini game.

[babybox]

thanks for your help about the question with the swords. now I am stuck in the puzzle area i dont know how to move the blocks that kaeda is doing to save samouke. I have a hard time moving them can you tell how you did it. this game is harder than i thought i get stuck in the most stupidist things. please help again

[autauro]

that one was actually kind of tricky. the key is to move the left piece around the whole board in a clockwise motion starting from the bottom all around back to the bottom - in turn, moving all the pieces out of the way that obstruct your main left piece. i didn't need a cheat for this and beat it the second time around. i can't give you an exact layout, just make sure you move quickly and remember how to retrace your steps a little.

btw, the pieces needs to fit on the bottom center and not in the center like the game says. as well, you don't need to arrange the other pieces in a special way, just the main left and right crest shapes.

ps: i could just give you a cheat off the internet but honestly, the puzzle will be solved very easily once you figure how the pattern works.