Please read the sections below before using the guide as it contains important information.

There are 4 support characters, each has their own scenario route, which means that at some points during the game, the story deviates from the default route depending on your relationship with the support characters and your relationship the support characters change depending on how you interact with them (either during the battles or giving items). However, this is getting complicated because we just want to have fun and get 100% completion, right? So, I'll simplify the runs as follows:

• Ekei Route
• Magoichi Route
• Kotaro Route
• Oyu Route

I've also included an additional route below intended for doing S-Rank and also allow you to play all support characters in a single playthrough. Yeah, it is possible.

• S-Rank Route (I recommend you playing this route last)

At the start of the game, you choose which route you wanna play, then stick to the sections indicating the route when using this guide. For example, you chose Kotaro Route, and when you see a section titled "Route: Kotaro" or "Route: Kotaro | Oyu" that means you have to go through it. On the other hand, if the section title is "Route: Magoichi", you can completely skip the section.

It is best that when using this guide, you stick to whatever route you choose from the beginning of the game to avoid confusion. After finishing all 4 routes, you'll get 100% scenarios achievement.

I will mark any sections that are specific to each route so that it's easy for you to follow and skip the sections when you are not running on other routes.

Friendship Points are a measurement to determine what will happen later in the game; we call them scenarios. You raise friendship points by giving items to support characters. It can also be raised by helping support characters during the fights. Sometimes, the support characters will come to your aid, and if you fight alongside them until you kill all demons in the area, the friendship points will increase by a certain amount. In contrast, if you do not help them, you will heavily lose your friendship points.

IMPORTANT: So for the guide to work accurately, you must kill all the demons when you fight with one of your allies. Usually, you'll know there are no more demons when you are able to talk to them, or they left the scene by themselves.

Gifting items to support characters is a very important aspect of the game because it will determine different scenarios and items you can acquire later based on the friendship points you build with the support characters. The gifting system itself is very complicated, so I spent hours studying and simplifying it so that you don't have to suffer.

Some gift items have a special effect, some can evolve, and some can be gifted along with other items to raise higher friendship points. So I'm not going into the details here. All you have to do is to follow the gift item pools I listed (DO NOT randomly give items unless I stated in the guide).

When giving an item to a support character, he/she will give you back one random item in a specific reward pool based on the item grade you give, or they simply rejected it if they are not interested in the item.

There are a total of 4 support characters, each character has 4 different pools of rewards. Some items, when given at the right place and at the right time, you will always receive special rewards, which also means that they are missable. But don't worry, I'll guide you through when it's time to give a specific item to a specific character.

To simplify the gift exchange, I've created 3 trading options for you:

The only downside to the "Full Trade" and "Essential Trade" options is that you'll have to spend a lot of time trading, saving, and reloading the game until you get the desired items. However, I recommend you do the "Full Trade" option at least one time to collect all "Artworks" and complete the following achievements:

• Top Condition: Used Power Jewels to increase your health to maximum.
• Massive Mana Pool: Used Magic Jewels to increase your Magic Power to maximum.
• Treasure Trove: Opened all of the puzzle boxes.

Once you obtain the achievements, you can simply go with the "No Trade" option.

Notes:

• Items you receive back are random, except some special trades.
• You can only receive each reward one time, except "Normal Bullet", "Fire Arrow", "Normal Arrow", and "Fortune Cookie".
• I highly recommend you save the game before giving items so that you can restart when you do not receive the unique items in the reward pools.

• Choose one route and stick to it. DO NOT change route mid-game.
• Choose the trading option "Full Trade", "Essential Trade", or "No Trade". If you choose the "No Trade" option, you can ignore any reward from trading results.
• Always clean up the areas (kill all demons) when one of your allies joins the fight.

• IMPORTANT: Critical Hit is always guaranteed a yellow soul unless you equip Red Necklace.
• IMPORTANT: When absorbing red souls, always take advantage of the bonus. Try to absorb as many red souls as possible in one go. Usually, you want to kill quickly as many demons as possible then absorb all red souls all at once. This will exponentially increase your red souls bars.
• Absorbing souls will trigger demons to attack you, this is crucial when you want to perform critical hits faster.

Here is my advice if you can't decide which route to start, I would choose:
Note: you have to complete "Hare Mode" to unlock "Ultimate Mode".

• 1st Run: Oyu Route + No Trade + Normal Mode (this gives you an overall idea of how the trading and scenarios work)
• 2nd Run: Ekei Route + Full Trade + Hard Mode (to collect Artworks and max jewel, max enhancement achievements)
• 3rd Run: Magoichi Route + No Trade + Ultimate Mode (to complete no jewel, no enhancement achievements)
• 4th Run: Kotaro Route + No Trade + Normal Mode
• 5th Run: S-Rank Route + Essential Trade + Normal/Hard/Ultimate Mode (complete S-Rank achievement, you can't get it on Easy Mode)

In fact, you can skip the 4th Run since the "S-Rank Route" overlaps with "Kotaro Route". Hence, you can complete all achievements in 4 runs.

Giving direction can be confusing sometimes, so I'll use the following terms based on the context:

• Right, Left, Forward etc.: from Jubei's (or sub-characters') perspective.
• North, South, West, East: from the map perspective.
• Next area: new area or new room.
• Next screen: when the camera changes an angle.