Secrets Guide and Video Walkthrough

A guide showing all secrets on all stages and identifying them by stage.

Video Walkthrough

Timestamps

• 00:00 - Chapter 1, Mount Putuo
  
• 00:58 - Chapter 1, Eight Diagrams
  
• 02:37 - Chapter 1, Sawmill
  
• 04:22 - Chapter 1, Captured Village
  
• 05:34 - Chapter 2, Poyang Lake
  
• 06:14 - Chapter 2, Mount Longhu
  
• 07:30 - Chapter 2, Tulou on Fire
  
• 08:04 - Chapter 2, Coastal Cave
  
• 09:23 - Chapter 3, Mountain Village
  
• 10:36 - Chapter 3, Mount Jiuhua
  
• 11:03 - Chapter 3, Swamp Camp
  
• 12:22 - Chapter 3, Silver Mine
  
• 13:02 - Chapter 3, Hangzhou
  
• 14:54 - Chapter 3, Huangshan
  
• 15:44 - Chapter 4, Black Dog
  
• 16:30 - Chapter 4, Port
  
• 19:26 - Chapter 4, Naha Streets
  
• 21:07 - Chapter 4, Prison
  
• 21:30 - Chapter 4, Fudo's Mansion
  
• 23:47 - Chapter 5, Wenzhou
  
• 24:40 - Chapter 5, Shipwreck
  
• 26:55 - Chapter 5, Abandoned Fortress
  
• 27:39 - Chapter 5, Mount Hiei

Secrets and Stages

Player Mod

• Big Head: Chapter 1, Sawmill
  
• Small Head: Chapter 3, Silver Mine
  
• Big Body: Chapter 4, Port

Modifies the player 3D models to have either big heads, small heads or big bodies.

Enemy Mod

• Big Head: Chapter 1, Eight Diagrams
  
• Small Head: Chapter 3, Swamp Camp
  
• Big Body: Chapter 4, Black Dog

Modifies the enemy 3D models to have either big heads, small heads or big bodies.

Appearance (Player 1/2)

• Shikami: Chapter 1, Captured Village
  
• Vasily: Chapter 2, Tulou on Fire
  
• Hannya: Chapter 2, Coastal Cave
  
• Peasant: Chapter 3, Mountain Village
  
• Kassik: Chapter 3, Huangshan
  
• Liu Haibo: Chapter 4, Prison
  
• Okina: Chapter 4, Fudo's Mansion
  
• Grandfather: Chapter 5, Shipwreck
  
• Fudo: Chapter 5, Mount Hiei

Changes the player models to the matching NPC model.

Filter

• Sepia: Chapter 1, Mount Putuo
  
• Inverted Colors: Chapter 5, Wenzhou

A visual filter applied on the game's rendering.

Faster than Wind

Chapter 2, Mount Longhu
Makes the game run 100% faster.

Boosted effects

Chapter 2, Poyang Lake
???

Martyre

Chapter 3, Hangzhou
???

Drunken Master

Chapter 3, Mount Jiuhua
Makes you throw random attacks in sequence when attacking.

Monks in Disguise

Chapter 4, Naha Streets
Dresses up all NPCs in your camp as enemies

Howling Wolves

Chapter 5, Abandoned Fortress
???

Hints

• All stages of the game have a secret to be found, except the tutorial.
  
• To know if you got the secrets from a stage or not, check the chapter selection NPC/Table, and see if the stage has the Gold Statue at the right side of its name. If it's showing the statue, you still haven't found its secret.
  
• As shown in the video, if you're just running stages for secrets, there's no need to complete the stage, you can just pick up the secret and leave the stage, it'll still count.
  
• These are not cheats, as they don't really mess with the game's difficulty. Actually, they can make things harder on some cases.

Disclaimer

While I believe the location of the secrets are fixed by stage, they may change or not in future updates, and the video might not reflect them in such cases.

From what I've gathered from recording the video, the listed unlocks are tied to the stages, but I'm still not certain, as I had a previous run in which stuff unlocked in the same order by from different stages apparently, so unlock may or not be tied to stage order instead, or to something else entirely.

[vee-kay]

Nice guide, thanks

[MFT-Rex]

Howling wolves - enemies scream constantly.

Martyr - not 100%, but it seems to split damage in co-op.

[Darkness]

Awesome, thanks!

[A Bird]

To make it take effect, you have to either load in a mission or (probably, didn't tested) exit to the main menu.

[A Bird]

Good day, Darkness. Monk in Disguise (apparently) dresses up all the Monks in the Camp, disguising them as enemies basically. Here's the screenshot:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2376269477

[Darkness]

Thanks for the info!

[Kowgan]

Thanks for this!

As an additional info, apparnetly what the "Boosted effects" does is adding some big splash/impact effects on the screen upon attacking. I only noticed it during the first boss fight, though.

I'll see if I can figure what Martyre, Monks in Disguise and Howling Wolves do, after I collect them.

[Darkness]

You're welcome!

[madkingdom]

nice!