Did you buy all the upgrades for the character you’re going into Samurai with? Fantastic! You have nothing to worry about in your playthrough in terms of the resources you’ll need. Upgrades are bought from the shop after each level and can increase the damage your weapons do, increase how much health you have in each playthrough from then on and how many skulls you have at one time.
Unless you rely on the Dekkonitizer for the entirety of your playthrough, in which case, you’re a madman.
I personally used one weapon for each playthrough, Conviction for Yuki and the Meat Cleavers for the Dishwasher, but obviously this playstyle won’t cut it for everyone, so feel free to use whatever weapons and playstyle with said weapons you want. Whether or Not this affects your decision for the loadout is entirely up to you. Keep in mind that Heavy Weapons won’t let you use the Blood Mist Mechanic with the exception of the Cloud Sword for Yuki and the Guillotine for the Dishwasher. Some enemies will go down better with lighter weapons like Conviction and some are faster to kill with weapons like the Violence Hammer or the Cloud Sword. Don’t be afraid to switch weapons constantly either depending on the situation. Go into Samurai with whatever weapons you either use the most or feel the most comfortable with.
The Loadout list will ignore both the Machine Gun and Shotgun upgrade for Yuki and the SMG and Shotgun for the Dishwasher since you can use them in any playthrough once obtained by using Right Trigger for the Machine arm and SMG and the Shotgun for both Yuki and Dishwasher by pressing Y after firing with the Machine arm and SMG. Only the Dishwasher gives you more weapons than you can equip at once. There are a variety of weapons to choose from, but like Beads, you can only equip four weapons to your character at one time, with two loadouts per character that you can switch from using RB on an Xbox Controller, one red and one blue. We’ve covered Beads, now it’s time to move onto the weapons of Vampire Smile.
The Heart Bead, Which causes enemies to drop hearts that heal you more often than they would without it, which will save you from using Dish Magic or Items on occasion.įinally, The Skull Bead, which causes enemies to drop skulls that that replenish your skulls that let you use Dish Magic. It’s slower than Kitty Vitamins but it makes a difference. The Flower Bead, Which allows your health to regenerate during combat. The Shield Bead won’t stop some hard hitting attacks from killing you, but it will save your life in some situations. The Shield Bead, Which increases your defense and will decrease how much attacks will hurt. If you can’t decide or want my personal recommendation, my loadout for Samurai on both Steam and Xbox 360 was the following: Look at the ones you do have and work from those. You can only use four beads at one time so only use beads that you feel will help you. Did you collect all of the beads in your previous playthrough? Great! Look through the description of each bead and study them carefully. Regardless of which character you pick, you’ll need a bead loadout if you want to succeed. This guide will not discriminate based on character and will offer strategies and explain differences of each boss fight based on character. Your journey may be harder or easier depending on which character you choose.
I cannot emphasize this enough, especially if you only intend to go through Samurai once. The Achievement on Xbox 360 and Steam regarding Samurai only requires you to beat Samurai once but you can choose to play through both characters if you want that extra glory. This guide assumes that you’ve beaten the game already and already know this. You have two characters to play Vampire Smile with, The Dishwasher and Yuki. I myself have not played co-op in this game so I do not know how co-op in Vampire Smile works. The following guide will be created with the assumption that you chose to go it alone, but could potentially apply to a co-op run as well. Here’s some opening pointers to get started.Ĭhoose whether you wish to take this journey into the hardest difficulty in the game alone or with a co-op partner. I have beaten Samurai three times including my Yuki run on Xbox 360 so I’ve got the game down to almost a science. The Purpose of this Guide is to help those struggling with beating Samurai Difficulty finally achieve that victory if not bring them one step closer.