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Archived: Afro Samurai Achievement Guide

Overview:
-Estimated achievement difficulty: 8/10
-Offline: 48 (1000GS)
-Online: 0
-Approximate amount of time to 1000g: 7-12 Hours
-Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 2
-Number of missable achievements: 0
-Glitched achievements: No
-Do cheat codes disable achievements?: No Cheats Available

And so it begins 5
Complete "PRELUDE".

*Story Related. Cant Miss it*

A Secret History 10
Complete "THE DAIMYO'S STORY".

*Story Related. Cant Miss it*

The Death of Innocence 15
Complete "SCHOOL INVASION".

*Story Related. Cant Miss it*

The Price for Vengeance 20
Complete "SWORD MASTER'S STORY".

*Story Related. Cant Miss it*

Love Lost 25
Complete "OKIKU'S STORY".

*Story Related. Cant Miss it*

The Path to Godhood 30
Complete "THE LOWDOWN EAST PASS".

*Story Related. Cant Miss it*

Copy-Cat Killer 35
Complete "THE DOPPELGANGER".

*Story Related. Cant Miss it*

The Past Laid to Rest 40
Complete "KUMA'S STORY".

*Story Related. Cant Miss it*

All That Stood Are Gone 45
Complete "THE EMPTY SEVEN'S STORY".

*Story Related. Cant Miss it*

Revenge Served? 50
Complete "JUSTICE'S STORY".

*Story Related. Cant Miss it*

Completionist 200
Complete the game on both difficulties.

Once the beat the game the "Hard" difficulty will unlock. Just beat the game once and then on the hard difficulty and the achievement will unlock.

Closer to God 5
Slice an enemy using a Vertical Attack with a bonus.

Easily Done in the "PRELUDE" Chapter. Just hold left trigger to activate "Focus" Mode and Turn the left thumbstick to the very right or left and then push and hold "Y" to do a Vertical Attack. Also when it does the little white flash at the end of your sword it means it will do the attack perfectly and slice them right away instead of just hurting them.

This Little Piggy 10
Slice off fingers and toes at the same time.

Same as the above. Make sure though you goto the very right or left when doing it so the Fingers and Toes will be cut off.

Give Me a Hand 10
Slice off an enemy's hand.

There is two ways to getting this. 1 way is you could just non stop push the "X" and "Y" buttons and you should get it or you could use "Focus" Mode and push and hold the "X" button to do a Horizontal Attack which will cut off his hand as well as cutting him in half.

Two Birds One Sword 5
Slice 2 enemies at once.

*See "Four to the Floor"*

Three-way 5
Slice 3 enemies at once.

*See "Four to the Floor"*

Four to the Floor 10
Slice 4 enemies at once.

This is a tricky achievement to get. Basically what you have to do is cut a big group of people in half. The easiest way to do that is in the Chapter "PRELUDE" at the end where you fight all of those enemys. Just damage some of them and then enter "Focus" Mode and just tap "X" when there is a big group of enemys by you.

The Child Without a Name 5
Collect 5 mementos in "THE DAIMYO'S STORY".

1. As you begin the mission you are on a bridge, the memento is straight in front of you in the middle of the bridge.
2. Before entering the mansion the memento in on the left end of the porch.
3. After running over the clock hands, a split screen view will appear showing you where to go, head that way by wall running to the middle platform and then wall running again, then before entering the new hallway, follow the balcony path around to the room with the memento.
4. In the area that you have to defeat a wave of enemies and then kick the four switches in each corner of the area, go to the side that has the poles sticking out which you can "perch jump" on and from to the platform above, walk around and over the narrow plank which connects you to the platforms which have the memento on the last platform, you can see this memento as soon as you’ve "perch jumped" up the poles.
5. Once your passed the "poison gas" area you will be on the roof, but before going all the way up the stairs go left underneath the arched dragon statue and follow the path around the last memento.

Afro Samurai 5
Collect 5 mementos in "SCHOOL INVASION".

1. This is easy to miss since its hidden, so before you head to the training ground, at the very beginning of the path that leads to the training ground look to your right and you will see a rock you can walk behind, and there will be the memento, between the broken looking wooden fence and the rock wall.
2. This memento is in the training grounds near one of training targets, "if you can imagine what an archer would aim at for practice" that’s where the memento is, in a corner near the training targets.
3. In the area you have to fight off the enemies and then retreat to raise the gate, if you’re outside the gate area looking at the bridge, look to your right, and the memento is there.
4. Once arriving at the burning building, go through the main entrance and head right and you will see the memento on the ground with fire nearby.
5. The final memento is on top of a large rock formation near the start of the canyon pass area, you will have to jump up one rock, and then jump back in forth to reach the next rock, and the jump to the platform with the memento. Afro will barely make it, but trust me he can.

The Demon of Vengeance 5
Collect 5 mementos in "OKIKU'S STORY".

1. As soon as the mission begins walk out of the house and turn left to go around the house, the memento is on the grass in the back corner of the yard.
2. Once you reach the Bamboo Forest Area, you cross a small bamboo bridge, jump off this bridge and head to the left under an archway and walk up to the small temple which will have the memento to the right of the small temple's door.
3. After you have destroyed the first Android Burrow, you need to head back down the canyon passageway, the memento is between the two forks in the path, the memento is right below a ledge and can be easily missed, if you did miss it, go to the second tree that is knocked over and head back the way you came and you will run right in it.
4. When you enter the town head straight up through the middle of town, you will pass the bar on your left that has an Otsuru Bear on it, from this house turn left after it to go begin it; the memento is at the dead end.
5. The last memento will be on the rocky ledge where the sniper previously stood early in the level, but this memento doesn’t become available until the point where you’re destroying the last Android Burrow, before you actually go into the Burrow.

The Number Two 5
Collect 5 mementos in "THE LOWDOWN EAST PASS".

1. In the second area where you will have to kick three switches and cut one Rope there is a memento in the southeast corner of the wall, next to the wall.
2. Once you get to the area where there is a gunner using a gating gun, kill him, then head left on the ledge and wall run up to the wooden planks, from here go left on this ledge and do another wall run on the wooden planks, from this ledge you need to wall run on the wooden planks that are on the side of the wall and that will lead you right to getting on top of the ledge where the memento is.
3. Once your in the fourth area where there is wooded scaffolding, starting at the entrance follow the right wall and it will lead you directly to the memento.
4. In the area where you have to cut the three ropes followed by an onslaught of enemies, the memento is located at the farthest back rope that you need to cut, right beside the rope.
5. After you leave the area where you have cut the three ropes, walk across the arm and to the left of the passage that leads behind the statues shoulders, you can jump up to the wooden platform, from here walk past the lifted head section and the final memento is on the statues shoulders.

The Death Bringer 5
Collect 5 mementos in "THE DOPPELGANGER".

1. From your starting point, turn around and head down the stairs, and towards a broken bridge, the memento will be at the end of the bridge, before the missing section.
2. After cutting the rope and the elevator shaft drops, wall jump back and fourth to get up the shaft, and once up top just walk to the left side of the shaft and the memento is right there next to the elevator shaft wall.
3. After you kill the sniper, the memento is right after him, between the small section of stairs and the mountain wall, on the right side.
4. After a battle with ninja's and assassins, you will jump up to a wooden plank path that extends out of the mountain, once up here turn around and jump up to the higher wooden plank platform, and from here just jump the gap to collect the memento.
5. This last one is right on the last ledge of the level before crossing the tallest bridge, if you get to a Samurai Battle where there is a Ninja Ninja Poker challenge available you’ve gone to far.

Widow Maker 5
Collect 5 mementos in "KUMA'S STORY".

1. From the start of the level head down the stairs and turn right, and you’ll find the memento at the end of the path.
2. After you have fought Kuma the second time, continue left around the bend in the path, and straight ahead will be the memento on the ground near the shrines on your left.
3. After the third Kuma battle, the memento is in the back left corner of the area, you should see it while battling Kuma, but cannot reach it until you finish the fight.
4. After the fourth fight against Kuma inside the wooden building area, exit the room and straight in front of you, will be the memento at the edge of the area.
5. From #4, turn around and head to the right path and the last memento will be on the right side railing.

The Samurai Ghost 5
Collect 5 mementos in "THE EMPTY SEVEN'S STORY".

1. Before heading down the lift that becomes available to use after killing all the android ninjas, the memento is in the back right corner, you should see it during the enemy encounter, but cant reach it untill the force field is droped, by killing all the enemies.
For 2-5, it will depend on which lever you pull first which will result in a stone coming out of the wall, allowing you to reach the area, there are three spots, I started with the left one, then did the middle, then the right one, so my info will come from doing it in this order.
2. (Left Wall Area) Before entering the Boss area, go to the right, and at the end of the walkway will be the memento.
3. (Middle Wall Area) On the ledge that has the Otsuru Bear, continue over the edge and drop down and the memento is right there on the ledge.
4. (Right Wall Area) The memento is located on the first ledge after jumping up the intial rock that comes out of the wall, once up on the first ledge head left to the furthest most ledge, and there will be the memento.
5. (Right Wall Area) When facing the Boss Chamber door head to the left and the memento is at the end of the path.

Hundred Head Hunter 20
Slice off 100 heads with a bonus.

Just go into "Focus" Mode and push and hold the "X" button and aim for the head. Just do that 100 times.

Head to Toe 25
Slice 50 enemies using a Vertical Attack with a bonus.

Just go into "Focus" mode and push and hold the "Y" button to do a Vertical attack. Make sure when there is the white glow on your sword to let go so it will instantly kill the enemy.

Meijin 5
Achieve 100 kills.

*See "Kensei"*

Kengo 20
Achieve 1000 kills.

*See "Kensei"*

Kensei 50
Achieve 2000 kills.

Just basically kill, kill and kill as many enemys as you can. You should unlock this on your second playthrough.

Made Hand Ronin 5
Complete a Ronin Straight Flush.

For all the "Complete a XXXX Straight Flush" achievements what is needed is for starters is a Ninja Ninja Body-Part Poker Challenge. In many levels you will see Ninja Ninja sitting in a corner or some where nearby during a battle, to start the challenge basically all you need to do is run up to him and it will begin. From here you will only have between 40-90 seconds before the challenge time runs out, the time is displayed by Ninja Ninja's cigarette burning away in the lower left corner of the screen.

So on with the important stuff, so for all these Achievements what is required is that you Cut off a Head of the Enemy, the Hand of the enemy, and the leg of the enemy, not on all one baddie though, spread out over three enemy's, and needs to be done using Perfect Slices, a Horizontal will work for the head, and Vertical will work for the Hand and Leg. FYI "a perfect slice is done by entering focus mode with (LT) and holding X or Y until you see the light shimmer of the top of the Blade. So for Example, for the "Ronin Straight Flush" achievement a good spot to get this is during the 'The Lowdown East Pass" mission where after lowering parts of the statue you will return to the first area and Ninja Ninja is sitting up above you on the wooden platform, and you are rushed at by a ton of Ronin enemies, now the easiest way to guarantee a head slice on these guys is to Parry an attack (RT) then after blocked attack hit A, and then use the X button to chop of his head, if done that way the perfect slice isn’t needed for the Head, but is for the other two body parts. Now on a different Ronin enemy use the Perfect Slice Vertical attack (LT) + Y (Hold then release) to attempt to get the Hand then the Leg, I have mixed up the order of the body parts and still got the achievement, but at very least for all these achievements you need to Chop the Head, Hand, and Leg for that type of enemy.

Also FYI to all the Parry then X, trick only works on a few of the enemy types not all, For sure on the Ronin and Android, but the Ninjas ans Samurai rarely every let it occur…

No Limit Ninjas 10
Complete a Ninja Straight Flush.

Same as Ronin except done one either male or femal Ninjas.

Kunoichi Suicide Queens 10
Complete a Kunoichi Straight Flush.

Same as Ronin except done on the Kunoichi enemies.

Gutshot Android Straight 15
Complete an Android Straight Flush.

Same as Ronin except done on the Android enemies, and for an easy attempt at this you can either play the level "Doppelganger" and will be forced to deal with some of these enemies and since by then you have learned the parry move its easy, or you can go back to "Okiku's Story" once you have learned the parry attacks, since there is a ton of Android enemies there.

Off Suit Samurai 25
Complete a Samurai Straight Flush.

Same as Ronin except done on a Samurai, the samurai are hard to Parry and aren’t to frequent compared to the Ronin enemies, but still can be done and will be hard but worth the reward of 25G

Hip Hop 10
Slice off an enemy's foot.

Easily done in the chapter "PRELUDE". Go into "Focus" mode and push and hold the "X" button and aim for the legs.

Slow Your Roll 5
Slice an enemy during their attack.

Just keep hitting an enemy till they are really red and then just wait till they attack and then slice em. Also you can go into "Focus" mode and slice them before they attack you. Timing here is key.

You Are Glue 10
Kill an enemy with a sliced bullet.

You will be introduced to this in the level "The Lowdown East Pass" and have quite a few attempts through out the game and least from replaying of levels. Any way what you do is right when the Gunner shoots, Press and Hold (LT) and then charge a vertical slice w/ the Y button and once its about a sword length away release Y, and if done correctly the camera will pan to a view from the side, and the bullet with slice in half, and its fragments sent flying an any nearby enemies. POP Achievement Unlocked.

I Am Rubber 10
Kill an enemy with a reflected bullet.

For this achievement the game doesn’t hold your hand as much as the Bullet Slicing, but is as easy once accustom to the technique, like Slicing wait until right after or right before the gunner shoots the gun and enter focus mode by holding (LT), then as soon as the bullet begins its path hold the X button down, now watch carefully for a shimmering light that will travel the length of your blade and once that light reaches the tip of the blade, release the X button and Achievement Unlocked, since if done correctly the bullet is automatically reflected killing the gunner.

Mash Medley 5
Achieve a 20 hit combo.

Easily done in the chapter "PRELUDE". Near the end of the level you will be crowded by many enemys and just keep doing combos such as X,X,X,Y,Y,Y and then keep doing that and it will unlock.

Rhythm Section 20
Achieve a total of 3000 combos.

Keep doing combos on every enemy

Let It Flow 15
Spill 2000 gallons of blood.

Just kill enemys and they will bleed. This will eventually unlock near the end of the game.

Ashigaru 10
Unlock 10 skills.

*See "The Number One"*

Hatamoto 20
Unlock 25 skills.

*See "The Number One"*

Bushi 30
Unlock 40 skills.

*See "The Number One"*

The Number One 100
Unlock all skills.

You should have all of the skills near the end of the game. To unlock them all you do is just kill people and it will level you up.

F*!# Gravity 5
Slice an enemy in the air.

For this achievement all you need to do is hold (LT) to enter focus mode then while in Focus Mode press the A button to Jump and then while in the air and still in Focus, hold down the Y button until the shimmering light reaches the top of your blade, and then release Y, you will then slice the enemy in half while in the air, after that the achievement will unlock if done correctly, if some are having trouble like I was for w/e reason, wait until you have leveled up quite a bit since possibly you can't perform this right off the get go, otherwise enjoy your 5G.

Hats Off to You 5
Slice off a head with a bonus.

When in "Focus" mode hold and push the "X" button and aim for the head.

Torso From Tail 15
Slice 50 bellies.

Very similar to the 100 Head Chop achievement but instead of aiming for the head during a horizontal slice (Hold LT) + X Hold until light reaches top of blade, and aim for the torso (waist area), repeat 49 times and your done, in my experience however no aiming was needed about 5/10 attempts resulted in belly slices anyway.

*CREDIT*
Thank you Everyone!

Serious Ninja-Making the guide.
CrustyDirtDemon- making the where to find all the momentos in all the levels.