Murai on VH

[Harry DuN'wah]

The difficulty leap from my first playthrough on Hard to my second on VH seems insane, he went from a cakewalk to the toughest boss I've fought so far. People say you can use: flying swallow during his rolls (goes right through him or he blocks it and counters), OR on lanting essence ut after X-Y (he hits you before you land). Between the returning windmill shuriken dragging me into combos, the random grabs I get hit by after successful attacks and the unaviodable counters, I can't seem to get him below about 40% health without dying to some rng grab spam or a counter when every single attack I did the same way has been successful.
Did they buff him for this port or something? Anyone got any tips other than "git gud"?

[DJBreM]

He's harder on Very Hard than on master ninja because of the windmill shuriken ninjas. The strategy to beating murai on every difficulty is the jump off the wall and use the heavy attack to hit him, another way is the keep rolling away from him until he rolls and do a XXY combo and repeat until he dies. Only do the wall attack when the situation allows it as jumping will cause the windmill ninjas to throw them at you for massive damage. And i highly doubt they nerfed him as this was a lazy cash grab remaster to capitalize on peoples requests for hard action games. gl

[Harry DuN'wah]

Originally posted by DJBreM:

He's harder on Very Hard than on master ninja because of the windmill shuriken ninjas. The strategy to beating murai on every difficulty is the jump off the wall and use the heavy attack to hit him, another way is the keep rolling away from him until he rolls and do a XXY combo and repeat until he dies. Only do the wall attack when the situation allows it as jumping will cause the windmill ninjas to throw them at you for massive damage. And i highly doubt they nerfed him as this was a lazy cash grab remaster to capitalize on peoples requests for hard action games. gl

A bit less relevant now, since I managed to beat him, but wall jump heavies almost never hit him on VH, compared to Hard (and I presume normal as well) where you can almost mindlessly spam it.
The rolling tip worked well though, using a single shuriken so he'd deflect it and face me before rolling immediately allows a single attack to hit him, but there's a deviously slim chance that he'll just counter the second or third attack in your combo if you do that.
Watching people play VH and MN on PS3's sigma, it's very clear they made some minor adjustments to his AI and the fight in general for this version, namely his juggling attacks proc way more often.

[BODY BAG]

easiest way to kill him on all difficulties is too bait a roll then jump up and press heavy attack. don't move in the air at all just heavy attack on jump and you come down on him with helm spliter for good damage. just do that over and over when all the ninja's are dead and its game over for him