To the Moon Cave

Leave the town and go north to Shinshu Field.  Issun reminds us once again that this is 100 years ago.  Issun says “Im not sure I like this whole going back to the past business” I don’t mind as long as we don’t have to do the Orochi fight again.

The Moon Cave is in the far southeast corner of Shinshu Field.  You will be attacked at will by the yellow paper slips so stay just off the dirt path and they won’t attack you as much.

There is no barrier this time because force fields have not been invented yet.  Let’s just hope Waka hasn’t been born yet.  Issun then tries to explain away some plot holes.

Issun says “Looks like Orochi can taste the difference between man and maiden!”  Years of practice.  Then we get locked out of the cave?  Or are we in?  Oh it is  in.  Run up, grab the sake, then go to Orochi.  Lika is there sitting under Orochi’s bell (that wasn’t supposed to sound dirty). Issun then reminds us that to fulfill history we have to die.  Hey thanks for the pep talk.  Then Orochi says “How dare you stand in my way” – in the way of what? Orochi doesn’t move. 

Oki shows up and then turns into a wolf and if you look closely you can totally see Ammy quiver with passion.  Issun fills the canal with sake.  Is Orochi wearing gingham patterned armor?  The tension builds.

Oh please God I hope we don’t have to fight Orochi again.  For once I would be happy with a cinematic – maybe something like a montage of us slashing at snake heads. 

Nope, no such luck.  Get ready for a shameless ploy to add game time. 

  BOSS: OROCHI AGAIN! – THANKS CLOVER

Part 1:

• Get the heads to growl, draw a sake line to them
• When the heads are sufficiently drunk ring bell the bell 

Part 2:

• Get the heads drunk again then attack

Oki gets in the way to cause the final blows but his sword doesn’t work.  Nagi shows up with his sword called Bokunenjin.  Then, Issun tells us for the fourth time that this is a replay of 100 years ago, and that this is a famous legend. 

Draw a moon when prompted.  Nagi then calls his sword “Nagi-Style Blade of Truth” – just like 100-years before.  Follow him and slash the heads in time.  He then whips out his “Celestial Cleaver.”  Orochi is dead again.  The girl, Lika, lands on his back. We obtain “Thunder Edge” sword.

Cinematic: The legend is fulfilled (from 100 years ago).  The beast was killed and sealed for 100 years.  Enshrined in the moon cave.  Lika was de-cursed – I didn’t know she was cursed in the first place.  I thought she just ran away from home. 

Oki is disappointed that his “sword” did not “perform” and then he gets “sword” envy from Nagi’s “sword”.  Then, like any noble warrior Oki runs off to pout in the wilderness.

Nagi starts laughing at all the carnage.  It actually looks like the end Christmas at my house – or Hanukkahmas.  Watch Nagi’s hand motion when he says he was the one who defeated Orochi – it looks like he is throwing dice.  A rock falls on Nagi but Ammy blocks it.  But it is not Ammy – it is 100-year-ago Ammy.  So where was 100-year-old Ammy during this epic battle?  So it turns out the legendary battle was not really fought by Shiranui but actually by her future self.  Furthermore, Shiranui was not killed in battle but rather by saving the life of Nagi.

After the cinematic, run out of the moon cave.  Watch the shadows for the falling rocks.