Hana Valley

Break the chest to get a talisman that increases godhood up a level.  Open your inventory and use it.  Godhood is a shield that you get as you chain your combos.  The icon in the bottom left corner of the screen is your godhood indicator.  You loose all Godhood when hit.

There are several monsters having a wash party around fire.  They are drinking out of a gold bowl and look to be minding their own business and having a pretty good time.  Ammy, needs to kill them because I guess they don’t worship her?

Get to a big moving burning tree.   Issun explains how to deflect the projectile buds right back at the tree.  Once they are knocked out leave it alone – you can’t do anything with it now.

Camera focuses on a red symbol thus proclaiming its importance.

Battle against a drum playing monkey.  The drumming monkey’s key technique is to hide underground thus wasting valuable killing time.  When it is above ground, use the brush and scribble on it to temporarily blind him.  The monkey will not go underground while blinded so use this time to beat on him.  When he returns to his normal color, paint him again to keep him above ground.

The red symbols blows up.  Susano is here he is all pissy - he has to train.

Go towards the painting and stand on the stone circle.  Press the examine button to and it is strongly hinted that something is missing from the painting.  Since you only know three brush strokes it must be one of them.  I suggest a circular one. Then, for no logical reason, your completing the Painting destroys the stone blocking the doorway. Follow Susano, double jump up that wall.

Cinematic: Another sapling but this one makes a blooping sound when it moves.  Pan to a blue puddle.  This means that I am going to have to do something with that sapling then, do something with the blue puddle.  Examine it and Issun says “there is a faint scent like Sakuya's coming from this sapling".  Why does everything that is said about Sakuya sound dirty?

Examine the pond then run down stairs and slash thought the gate.  There is Susano and a big drunk bear with a leaf attached to its head.  It is standing on a ball that looks like the one from Men In Black that contains the universe.

Susano must be getting his Sake hangover now because his head throbs as he explains why he must destroy the bear.  Follow Susano around and use the brush slash.  Susano mentions that he was using his new “technique” – which must be “attacking sleeping animals.”  The bear falls down and Susano runs off again.

Go over to the ball and examine it.  Issun gives another not so subtle hint about what to do next.  Really, I don’t know why I am writing this FAQ.  Just do whatever Issun says I am going to make another sandwich.  

Push the ball up to the altar and then draw sun in the sky above it.  Watch the cinematic and draw another constellation.  A monkey wearing a fez and holding a World Series trophy appears.  Its name is Sakigami of the Hanagami.  You get the BLOOM ability.  

Draw a circle on the plant.  An animation plays that actually looks like flowers are desperately running away as if someone dropped a bucket of Roundup weed killer.

Issun reminds you of the dead tree in Shinshu Field.  You are done with Hana Valley at this point so return to the field.  On your way back there is a chest containing scroll about digging.  The scroll recommends pressing the triangle button to dig where you see a light shinning on the ground.  This will reveal a clover which will bring you much praise.  Handy, considering the studio that made this is named Clover.  By the way, Clover Studio was just shut down by Sony.  Notice, that across the bank is one of those lights.  Dig with triangle to unearth the clover.  Draw a circle on it to bring it to life.

Back at Shinshu Field, walk over to the guy who is just wandering around.  I love the question mark above his head.  That is exactly what should appear over everyone’s heads when they get that “what the f?” look.  You know what I am talking about if you have seen the movie “Night Watch.”  I just rented it last night.  In it, vampires fight over earth and there is a stuffed owl that turns into a woman and a CEO who performs surgery on his desk and then straps a belt around his head to look inside another guy’s soul.  I highly recommend.

Return to the centrally located sapling that you examined before.  Use the bloom stroke around the dead tree. Bloom cinematic.  All of a sudden it is like the Japanese version of The Sound of Music.  

Cinematic; Suyana’s tree grows and apparently she gets aroused when this happens.