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Assassin’s Creed Shadowshas quite a few different castles strewn across its extremely large world. Each castle is going to be a little bit different in how it should be approached, and each one is also going to give you some special, unique loot, too.
Amagasaki Castle is one of the earlier castles that you’re likely to run into in the game, and can be handled at pretty much any level, provided you’ve got a handle on the mechanics, and are willing to be patient. Amagasaki Castle has a ton of enemies inside, as well as five different Samurai that can prove a particular challenge.
How To Find Amagasaki Castle
Amagasaki Castle islocated in Izumi Settsu, which is the area on the map that you begin the game in. It’s located in thenorthern sectionof this area,just across the water from Osaka, and slightlysouthwest of the Senri Hills.
How To Enter Amagasaki Castle
Amagasaki Castle is,as most castles are, designed to be impenetrable. But, there are still quite a few different ways inside if you’re looking for them.
How To Enter The Amagasaki Castle Interior
Getting into the exterior section of the castle is the first step, and there are things you’ll need to accomplish in this section to fully complete the castle; we’ll get into those further below.
Buteventually, you’ll need to get into the interior section. Passing over the second moat and into the interior section of the castle is a bit more of a difficult endeavor because you’llhave enemies to avoid on both sides of the wall, as opposed to just one.
The east side of the interior moat is heavily guarded, but it has a flaw similar to that of a section of the outside. There’s a section of rock coming out of the water to the right of the guarded bridge, and you can climb onto that rock and grapple into the interior section from there.
How To Find And Defeat All Samurai In Amagasaki Castle
There arefive different Samurai in this castle, all varying when it comes to weaponry and health. Most of themwill spawn as three-health-chunk Samurai, meaning you’ll likely need to deal more damage to them thanoneassassination.
Samurai #1
Thefirst samurai patrols the northern area of the castle exterior. This samurai is largely isolated from other enemies, particularly when he’s on the section of the wall closer to the interior moat.
It’s easy to start a one-versus-one fight with this samurai without interference, and it’s best tostart this with an assassinationto get their health down to one chunk.
This samurai will sometimes start patrolling around the entire castle instead of just the northern area, sometimes making them more difficult to manage.
Samurai #2
Thesecond Samuraiis the only other samurai on the exterior section of the castle, this timeon the east side. This samurai usually walks out from the interior of the castle, over the bridge with the two large guards, andpatrols up and down the area.
Dealing with this Samurai is fairly easy.Take down the enemies to the north ofthis Samurai undetected, and then whistle or otherwise lead them north. you may take the one-versus-one fight or else combo Kunai/assassinate them to finish them.
Samurai #3
Thelast three Samurai are all going to be in the castle interior, and most of them are going to have other enemies nearby. You can take them in any order, and if you’re too loud, it’s possible that two of these samurai are going to fight you at the same time.
The third Samurai is usually going to bestationary on the west side of the interior section. They’ll have one enemy above them, two different enemies behind them on different sides of the wall, and one more enemy in front of them, training. You cantake out most of these other enemies in stealth, whittling down the eventual fight.
Samurai #4
Thefourth samurai is also stationary, this time on the northwest side. There are multiple enemies in front of him and a locked door behind him.
The key for this locked door can be found on an enemy in the exterior portion of the castle, on the west side. Use your observer mode to spot the gold key symbol.
Dealing with this samurai can be a problem because he’s going to see much of what you do to the enemies around him. There is anexplosive pot near the entrance to the small building ahead of himthat can take out a couple of enemies on its own, and once they’re moving, you may use that to split up the lower-threat enemies and assassinate them.
Samurai #5
Thefifth samuraiis actually going to be locatedinside a buildingunless they’ve been lured out by a noise. They’re inside thebuilding immediately beside the largest structure that has the viewpoint at the top, on thenortheast section of the interior. This samurai is particularly easy to deal with on their own, especially if you’ve taken care of the enemies outside beforehand.
However, if a fight moves over near the building with this samurai, it can become a massive problem, creating a fight against two samurai instead of one. If this happens, it’s usually best to re-enter stealth and try and take the fight one at a time.
How To Find The Legendary Chest In Amagasaki Castle
Thelegendary chestin Amagasaki Castle is very easy to find, as it isattached to the biggest landmarkin the area.
The interior portion of the castle hadone particularly tall building, with a viewpoint at the top of it.At the very top of that roof is a trap door, leading into an attic. That attic contains the legendary chest, but it can’t be opened until all five samurai have been dealt with.
This legendary chest contains the Tools Master Mask, which gains Naoe a critical hit chance, an adrenaline gain increase, and a unique perk that allows her shuriken to no longer break when impacting on hard surfaces.
Smuggler Supplies
There is also a fairly large bounty of supplies that you can smuggle back to your hideout, as well. Luckily, these supplies aren’t too difficult to find. At thebottom of the same building with the viewpoint, which is also the building that has the legendary chest at the top,are multiple Smuggler Resources.
