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While going through the huge map ofAssassin’s Creed Shadows, you’ll commonly encounter areas where you see a red or yellow bar below the direction scale at the top, which symbolizes that the area you’re in is hostile and the enemies will start attacking you on sight.
While there are many such smaller areas, the main hostile regions in the game are castles, and Katano Castle is one of them. If you successfully assassinate the Daisho in this castle, you can get a legendary chest, giving you a bunch of legendary gear.
How To Find And Enter Katano Castle
To get to the Katano Castle, you’ll first have toget past the prologue until you get your own hideout, which will already take quite a few hours. Once you’re at the hideout, exit the location and start moving in the northwestern direction until you discover Katano Foothills.
From here, keep taking the road northwest and you’llarrive at the Katano city with the castle on the eastern side. Once you get close, you’ll see a Fast Travel point appear on your directional scale, which exists inside the castle and is the easiest method to locate it.
While you can travel to this point from other places, youwon’t be able to fast travel when you’re on itsince you’ll be in a red zone.
Once the Katano Castle gets uncovered on your map, you’ll be able to see multiple entries just by zooming in and finding structures in the middle of the water around it. However, the best place to enter this castle is from itssoutheastern edge where you can simply climb a few boxesand go right in.
How To Find Samurai Daisho In Katano Castle
You havetwo main objectives in these castles that you have to fulfill if you want to get the main lootwhile also receiving a tick mark on them, marking them as complete. The first objective is to find all the Samurai Daisho and defeat them, and you’ll have to find two of these in Katano.
Samurai Daishohave multiple HP bars with a yellow armor bar on top of it, so they’re quite difficult to fight. If you have to fight them head on, you’d want to take out the other threats first:
Before you enter Katano Castle, it’s highly recommended toget some upgrade points for Naoe and unlock smoke bombsas they’re a god-sent for grouped enemies. After entering from the southeastern edge, you’re able to move along the castle top to the right side.
You’ll eventually see a singular soldier standing on your left, which is a great place to start your assassinations. The first Samurai Daisho will also bemoving around the building in front when you assassinate the first soldier.
After this is eliminated, you’ll see four more enemies in the southern direction. One of these enemies will constantly move andeventually notice the body you just assassinated. Wait for him to come there and kill him as well.
After that, you can use asmoke bomb on the three enemies standing together and assassinate themone at a time. Start with the smaller enemies as you might not be able to fully assassinate the big one at this stage.
After defeating the grouped enemies, head to the western side anddefeat the enemy near a stone slab when the Daisho isn’t nearby. You can then easily walk up behind the Daisho and assassinate your first one.
Once that’s over, walk up north in the castle while sticking to the eastern edge andyou’ll find a gap in the wall to go through. Keep going up north through here and you’ll easily find the second Daisho.
If you defeat a few enemies in Katano Castle and go away,all the enemies will respawnas soon as there’s a season reset.
However, youwon’t have to defeat both the Samurai Daisho againas these don’t respawn.
How To Get The Legendary Chest In Katano Castle
After defeating both the Samurai Daisho, you may head over to thebig building on the southwestern side of the castle with the Fast Travelon top of it. When you’re beside this building, you can climb up on its side by using the grapple, which will take you to one of its roofs.
In one of the upper roofs, you’ll find acouple of windows on the front side of the castle that you can use to get inside. Use the one on the northwestern side of the map as there’s a samurai inside and he won’t notice you while using this one. Assassinate the samurai and move down in the building.
Other enemies will consistently be making rounds up and down the building, soit’s recommended to use your eagle vision often.
On the lower floor, you can easily find the legendary chest in the middle room, which gives youTools Master light armor (for Naoe) and Kunai Throw on Assassinate engraving. The armor has a special engraving that throws a Kunai at the closest enemy when you assassinate a target.
Apart from this chest, you may seevarious yellow dots around the castle when you press the observe buttonand look around. These will lead you to chests with other loot, ration or tool refills, and resource points that you can use to smuggle resources at the end of the season using your scouts.
