katana more like katan no the video just peaked it doesn't get any better than that so if you want to leave that's fine oh wait you're still actually here okay so i guess i guess i could do the challenge so this challenge is pretty simple one i cannot use my katana in any way meaning no striking no blocking and no parrying two i will not be counting tutorials and finally three i will be playing on hard i will also be skipping over the prologue and going right into the open world because that's really where the challenge starts but before getting into the challenge i'd like to talk to you today about my new sponsor raid shadow psych i haven't sunk in that low yet instead today i'll be showing my new merch which i've been working on for a long time so i'm so glad to finally be announcing it so far i have three new designs with more on the way the first of which being this t-shirt commemorating the fact that my brain has slowly stopped working because of all these challenges but i also have two other shirts including this t-shirt for our leader larry the lizard a lot of people were asking for this and i'm a man of the people so i decided to put it on a shirt and finally i have one last design this is um well to be honest this is just my sleep paralysis demon i i thought he looked pretty cool so i i just decided to put him on a shirt all of these designs have my new logo on the sleeve and they're also all available as either shirts or as hoodies so if you're interested or if you just want to help the channel then please check the link in the description anyways that's enough of me showing we can start the video just for some context this game starts off with mongols raiding japan we go to war and completely get decimated all of our friends die our uncle is captured and we are on a quest of revenge so naturally once i got control i rushed over and the first thing i did was poetry so after chilling by the water i went on my way to get a bow oops uh sorry seems i made a wrong turn somewhere the damn gps you know anyhow i met up with an archery master who gave me a bow but i mean what am i gonna do with this i'm facing an entire army and all i have is a bow yeah it turns out that this bow is pretty majestic when it comes to murdering mongols there was then a leader at the camp and he almost seemed immune to arrows but i found his one weakness having all of his limbs blown off so i took out the base and the bowmaster said that he would help us on our quest to save uncle alright let's go horse come on horse where are you i am the spy yep i now have the backstab unlocked which is allowed since it uses a smaller blade called a tonto and not a katana what's wrong uh i don't know i just watched as a man slowly lost life while he squirmed like a fish in my arms but besides that i'm just swell so i pushed this memory deep down inside of me so that i've never have to think about it again and i got to see my uncle yep this is him honestly i don't see that much of a resemblance stop wasting my time kill me oh okay yeah never mind we're definitely related i then unlocked the kunai and upgraded my bow because i was gonna take out some mongol outposts so i started to wander the open world hey play wonder wall oh my god did i just did i just hit a deer oh my oh they really gotta put up a deer crossing sign around here somewhere so i took out the smaller base in only a couple tries and then i ran across this massive base but i still decided to give it a shot i took out the entire base just to realize that it locks you into a boss fight this also made me realize that i have no way to deal damage in duels right now so if i get forced into one i'll be screwed thankfully this one was optional you are entering an area with overwhelming forces yeah right you know how many bases i've taken out so far i think i can handle this one little base don't worry peasant i'll save you oh that's not good actually i just realized that my schedule is booked i'm sorry peasant but you got this i believe in you after having a hard time finding mongol bases i went back to the main story where i was asking an old lady for help i then got into a fight and a duel so i thought i was screwed but luckily my masochism kicked in and i found that you could just stand there and take the hit it's alright dude you can just hit me wait wait really yeah yeah yeah it's fine just don't go too hard in this fight my lack of arrows was really my largest weakness sure they weren't super expensive but mid-fight i was having a hard time finding more after helping the old lady out she let out some stress with some recreational human pinatas and she also said that she'd help us with uncle i then found yet another mongol base with even more enemies to shoot in the face you'll see later on why i'm focusing so much on these bases but for now it's not important ah this game is just so beautiful ignore the dead body next to me just enjoy the scenery my next mission was at the other side of the region so i had a little bit of a journey ahead of me i traveled down south making sure to take out any lookout on my way on my travels i leveled up and got the chance for another ghost weapon and i immediately chose the sticky bomb i didn't even have to read the other ones it's perfect i mean it's both sticky and bomb how can it get any better well somehow it did because i bought a furry sword with some flowers yep that was a real sentence that i just said okay let's see what we got here another base by the mountain side should be pretty easy though actually i i just realized that i actually left my oven on in my village but you know i'll be back real soon i promise after heroically helping the people of the land i found that the answer to my low arrow supply was simply to upgrade its capacity hey um could you stand still please thank you finally a mongol with manners next up i was rescuing a blacksmith which required a little bit of sneaking into a highly secure mongol base which we did through hiding in a sake delivery it's kind of like a trojan horse except we aren't trojan or in a horse for that matter oh thank you game so much for the subtitles i would i would just be so lost without them after hopping from rooftops and sneaking i saved asian moist critical and we all escaped we then made it to this town and we were heavily outnumbered but regardless i made this entire town regardless i then had to protect this forge from an upcoming horde of mongols and honestly this was tough because if they got close enough and made it into the room i was basically screwed also some of them actually wore armor which deflected my arrows but a blast with this lass at my side i took them all out moving on i upgraded my armor and went to go ask some mercenaries for help we get ambushed in the bushes and there's a duel so i start the fight off with next to zero health great this was tough enemies surrounded me and i basically had no way to attack so it's time for me to sit in the bushes and cheer on my ai companion whoa you got this i went over to the merc's base and i'm gonna help them get some food by raiding a mongol base again it's like the only thing jin does dude get a hobby like knitting that'd be cool anyways while at the raid i unlocked the black powder bomb more explosives yay man you guys are making such a big deal out of this base there's like no one here oh crazy you're only realizing that now the base we rated had absolutely no food so now we're gonna raid mongol boats as well hey guys you ever played catch with a live hand grenade so after taking down the boat i got the mercs on our side and we were finally done recruiting people for wait what was i recruiting people for again oh right yeah uncle's been kidnapped the blacksmith i saved then gave me a grapple hook so you know what that means spiderman spiderman does whatever spider cow wow needless to say this base was a piece of cake and now after doing all that busy work i can finally free uncle with the squad which i've accrued this was it everything had been building to this raid this had to all go sneaky as uncle was being held hostage so i slipped between the shadows decorated my ornate blade with the blood of my enemies my quiver laid heavy with the ammunition that was soon to be placed in the hearts of anyone who opposed me and then i died because i failed some parkour i progressed when suddenly the mercenary showed up but on the enemy's side that's just great and what's even greater is that this was a boss fight this guy is strong and fast he has combos that can go up to six strikes and i can't do anything about it except maybe kneel over and die now the biggest problem was that i had absolutely no way to deal any damage to this guy i knew that i was screwed or that's what i would be saying if i hadn't had a secret weapon tucked up my sleeve now behold i have observed and killed countless mongol leaders for this move now bask in its greatness yep i spent countless hours studying the enemy and killing them just to realize that you can kick people and on top of that it doesn't even do that much damage and also on top of on top of that it was also super finicky sometimes the kicks would connect and other times my foot would phase through this guy's face and do no damage here's a quick tip don't ever bring your feet to a knife fight i tried this over and over but i'm not able to parry or block so i was almost always getting cut into little tiny pieces this obviously wasn't working so i returned back to the open world see my second biggest weakness besides you know not having a sword is that my health pool is super low usually you get resolve or health back when attacking but for some reason kicks don't count so in order to get around this i would use the samurai set because when fully upgraded it really helps with my defense but it also gives me 30 resolve back when hit this paired with the resolve charm that boosts resolve gain by 15 meant that i was getting 45 resolve for just getting hit i was gonna beat this fight by just getting beaten so in order to upgrade my gear i had to grind out some side quests and even then with a shiny new set of armor and some new charms i was still crap out of luck no amount of grinding would make this easy so instead i just had to do it over and over learning his patterns one combo i found that worked quite well was jump kick into shoulder bash into typhoon kick now the first two attacks in that chain don't do any damage but they did do stagger damage which allowed me to get in some more typhoon kicks later in but this wasn't perfect because if you spam the same attack over and over the enemy will just block it so to get around this i just ran around the field a little bit and baited out his attacks i did this over and over for five hours i reconsidered everything maybe lowering the difficulty and maybe just quitting this challenge outright but then it finally happened and oh my lord it finally happened it's not too late yes yes it is too late this man has murdered me for five hours straight he doesn't even deserve death but for some reason we just let him go why i think i finally found the one person stupider than i am i was then forced to take this guy out but this elimination requires the katana but i will not be counting this as it's a tutorial this is the first time this technique is introduced and you can't even pull out your bow so anyways i saved uncle and cleared out the castle uncle's castle then got taken over by mongols so i'm gonna help him take it back and the first step on our list is to get help from a rival clan this town is currently under siege so in order to get their support while clear it off for them so the raid was about to start and jin decided to prepare just like a college student prepares for any exam by getting absolutely hammered but even though jyn was full of jinn this fight was pretty easy then as the raid started to wrap up the leader of the raid came to face me unlike the last guy who was just wearing robes this guy is in full armor has a shield and a sword that could light people on fire and yet somehow he was also a massive baby his attacks were super slow and predictable i would just play ring around the rosie with them until we all fell down then for the first time i was introduced to the ghost mode in a tutorial again so i won't be counting any of this hey buddy um would you mind leaving it's fine i can just slowly push you out i then had to make a bloat art and after testing it out i gotta say it doesn't blow at all anyways the last step in our plan to retake the castle is to get a pirate to warn the shogun who's on the mainland why do i feel like somebody's watching me there was then a turret section and i don't know if this was a war crime but what i do know is that it was a lot of fun do you think they have these things on amazon i had my fun with the turret and surprisingly uncle adopted me like officially and stuff meet my new dad now with a hundred percent less dead i then heard that the guy who had killed me over and over for five hours was hiding in a nearby fortress so i went out of my way to pay him a little visit but first i took a quick little dip then i got to the fort but ryuk but ryok but ryuko yoku i then got to the fort but ryuko ryoko ravioli was heavily guarded so i used all my tricks up my sleeve my bombs my arrows my poison until i absolutely just painted the floor red with blood so after taking them all out i made my way up to ravioli we got into our positions we both drew our swords and then i was honked by an old man with a wooden stick i got captured and surprisingly escaped pretty quickly well i i wouldn't say i'm that good at it but thanks that's kind of you so the shogun sent reinforcements and everything was ready for the siege to retake uncle's castle all right let me get up here oh pardon me i'm just trying to climb up here okay now you're just being rude i swept through row after row of enemies with my arrows and i got to the bridge leading to the main square and then the suicide horse bombers came out yeah again that was a real sentence uncle then got into the father role and we got into a fight apparently decapitating and poisoning people isn't a good thing anyways i split up from the rest of the army to sneak into the base whoops uh wrong door you guys can just ignore me so i poisoned the camp and this was definitely against the geneva convention but on the bright side that hasn't happened yet so technically i'm fine so the entire castle went to sleepy time and i ran into react and i ran into rab i can't even say ravioli correctly anyways i ran up to him and he's like hey dude we're we're chill right i know that i nearly murdered you twice and sided with the guy that kidnapped your uncle but that's water under the bridge right no no so the next boss fight started and at first of course i was worried but surprisingly this wasn't that bad maybe it was just the practice i had gotten from earlier or maybe it was because he didn't have those same super long combos but i only got him in like 30 minutes uncle then got pissed at me for you know violently killing all those people and threw me in jail wait being locked up by my uncle there's a joke in there somewhere anyways i escaped from prison with some parkour and i traveled the country weaponless and alone everyone was chasing me down my uncle the shogun the mongols and on top of that i had to narrowly avoid arrows and guards i did all of this just to accidentally die to a flamey stick anyhow after sneaking past i got a taste of my own medicine literally it was some of that poison that makes you throw up your intestines i somehow survived i got my gear back together and took out another mongol base now our main goal is to kill the con and before that i have to take out some minor forts oh yeah i'm on fire with the bow and and you guys are too we then progressed through the space when suddenly more reinforcements came that heavily outnumbered us so we all got into position and they're all dead wow it's really pretty tonight huh really makes you want to kick back and relax i then had to scout out the khan's base so i snuck in from the mountainside camouflaged in the bushes hung from wires out of sight and very carefully made it inside what how did how i i i'm sorry how did you just did you just take the front door so i took a sneak peek at the khan's base and realized that i needed uncle's help so i wrote him a letter dear uncle i'm very sorry about poisoning and stabbing and blowing up and dismembering and decapitating all those people i'm sorry please help me take down the con i just had a small lapse in judgment xoxo xoxo gin ps i'm still gonna do all those things so it was finally time to charge on the mongols base and this was the toughest one yet the enemies were completely clad in armor so i had to get a little creative yeah i just threw gunpowder at literally anything that moved i went all out just throwing every single tool that i had available after taking on scores of mongols i split up with the main army to try and sneakily get to the con i became one with the bushes i hopped from building to building and then accidentally slipped off of said building and got caught it's fine though because i just need to get to this watchtower uncle then showed up fashionably late to the party and i ran past all the enemies because i was dead set on the con and after meeting him i was just normally dead the con here was tough stuff almost every time i tried bashing into him he would just ignore it and hit me that's just that's just cheating that's not how the game's supposed to work where's the ref not only that but his spear combos often hit me twice in a row almost instantly killing me so i tried over and over but nothing seemed to click except my spine as it was repeatedly broken however i finally found a strat that worked i would use my usual combo of jump kick shoulder bash and regular kicks as it was very consistent then i would run around the arena as the con waddled after me see an enemy won't let you spam attacks but after running around enough enough of a break has happened for me to repeat the same moves so i would just repeat this cycle after cycle this took forever though because the khan is a chunky man and my kicks did barely any damage you're weak dude i'm killing you with my toes if i'm weak what does that make you so i repeated this over and over and just when i was about to win nah ah it's cutscene time he gets away and i followed him to this boat and this is where the real fight started this was finally a boss fight where i was able to use my bow and tools the only problem is that well earlier i went all out just throwing every single tool that i had available so i was completely out of weapons meaning i just ran around the boat looking for answers hello um does anyone have any arrows i can borrow i i promise i'll give them back they just may be covered in blood and also stuck into your face so now out of bombs and arrows i knew that i fully had to restart but before hopping back in i did something that i've never actually done before ugh research so online i found a charm that if i headshot an enemy it would give me a 40 chance to retrieve the arrow this would greatly increase my supply of arrows making the boss fight way more possible then i did the raid again and this time i kind of just sat back and saved all my tools for the final fight so i again took down the con and again the khan babied out and ran to his ship i followed him this time with a full quiver and just pelted the poor guy with arrow after arrow you know how people are 60 water well when i was done the con was 60 percent aero but thankfully after enough explosives to take out a small village the con finally went down but of course nothing is that simple because four katana strikes were necessary to finish him off but that's not all folks because uncle is still upset at us for murdering all those people even though i said sorry geez i guess you just can't please everyone so naturally as father and son do we fought to the death to be honest the fights were getting easier and easier so i thought that this was going to be the easiest of them all but i was dead wrong literally the first major problem was that i was stuck in my ronin clothes apparently uncle didn't want me changing in front of him pretty unrealistic but okay this is a problem because my samurai set is the only way for me to regenerate health but that doesn't even matter because most of uncle's attacks are insta kills anyway seeing that this wasn't gonna work i realized that i needed to get better gear so while i couldn't change clothes i could change charms so i grinded for a charm that gave me a 10 chance to do double melee damage and i also got a charm that boosted any odd by 50 percent looking back i could have also just upgraded my ronin outfit but i had a brain fart like my life it's just one continuous brain fart and i didn't think of doing that so i hopped into it and got ready for the final battle i was gonna have an epic montage here but looking back at the footage it's just me shoulder bashing this poor guy for five minutes straight so we can just skip over that so yeah that was it the game asked me if i wanted to murder or spare uncle and it really made me think this man disowned me threw me in prison for execution and then tried to murder me in front of my own father's gravestone but okay y'all i'll i'll let him go why not and that was the challenge finally done so in total four katana strikes were necessary to complete the game anyways i hope you enjoyed the video and i'll see you next week