Invincible Ninja GlitchBeating the game over 10 times and reading about this glitch gave me motivation to do this glitch. I can easily say with enough time and patience I could have done the game without it, If you played the game as much as I have you would grow sick of it too. So thanks to who ever found this glitch who is unknown, I cannot claim to finding the glitch, but I can claim to everything in this guide to help others out, every method, tip, or information on the glitch (except the glitch itself) has been done and tested by myself, taking the time to mess around with it to make this guide to help others.
Introduction*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***Not many take the path of the Master Ninja as it is a trip to hell and back. If you are against glitches, then this guide is not the guide for you (refer to the other guides if you don't want to use a glitch).
The glitch is called Invincible Ninja, you can become invincible with a few catches.
1) You have limited mobility (read further to learn more) (Extremely tricky to use around water, which you can read starting tips for more information on that)
2) You can only use 1 ninja move, since the glitch takes your weapon away you can only guillotine throw enemies (constantly spamming while leaping at ninjas).
3) If you mess up in most situations you will die or take an extreme amount of damage. This comes with no exact way of knowing that you are in the glitch or not making it easy to die thinking you are safe.
4) Going into a cutscene while in the glitch may freeze your Xbox (read in the starting tips for more information on that)
To use the glitch you need more then 1 weapon, so when you start a new game on any difficulty you cannot use it until you get your second weapon. Once you get a 2nd weapon you push to open your weapons (this pauses the game) go over any weapon except the Dragon Sword, and push + at the same time. Once this is done you won't have a weapon equipped, but you can't take any damage from enemies. The only way to move around is by jumping and right when you land you must move around or you get stuck in place, but this doesn't matter right? You cant die
As I stated earlier you can only use the Guillotine throw () on Ninjas, any other enemy you cannot harm unless you equip a weapon which makes you susceptible to damage again.
Starting Tips:*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***The way to tell if it works is by looking at the icon of the weapon, if it flashes then that means you equip the weapon, if it doesn't flash and it looks like the weapon menu closed, then it worked. Be careful while doing this on bosses! You need to make sure you do it right or you will get hit and badly damaged!
Try not to go into cut scenes while in the glitch, if you know there is a cutscene, get out of the glitch! I don't know if it was the glitch freezing my xbox, my xbox freezing my xbox, or the combination of running music, with the glitch, with the cutscene, if anyone has freezing too, comment please.
Item Guide: http://wikicheats.gametrailers.com/Ninja_Gaiden_2_-_XB360/Wa...
Invincibility under water: If you have invincibility on and then jump into the
water you will sink to the bottom, if you want to swim with the invincibility you have
to activate it while floating in the water, YOU CANNOT RUN ON WATER WITH INVINCIBILITY!
LAVA or ACID: These are the only things that can hurt you with your invincibility on, so be careful!
In the beginning: Before you get the LUNAR STAFF things can be really tough, so I figured out a really good trick, when you can summon certain enemies and run away(SOME ENEMIES!) go back to your save spot and save it, any enemies you summoned will dissapear and stay gone. This can be bad by losing loot, but its worth it. BE CAREFUL THOUGH! By messing with saving you can fuck yourself with a bad save, unable to go forward, but don't forget this is only the beginning, chapter 1.
Techniques:*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***Dragon Sword: Jump at enemies then push analog stick towards enemy,
When fully upgraded using the technique when a boss is open its a very powerful and damaging move, this is one of the best techniques there is because it seems to most of the time stun them, just make sure not to touch your analog stick while using this one or you will do a different move.
Eclipse Scythe: Jump at enemies
When an enemy is comming after you hold Y and let go when they are near, then go back into invincibility (Great for the Fiend Spider Ninjas)
Kusari-gama: Jump towards enemy,
Bosses:*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***1st boss, Shadow Ninja Rasetsu: When he is open for attack use the technique with the dragon sword then go back into the glitch immediately, MAKE SURE TO KILL ALL NINJAS WITH THE THROW FIRST! VERY IMPORTANT!
2nd boss, Genshin in castle of dragon(EASY!)- When open for attack Dragon sword (If upgraded do 2 more 's if he does not jump back, if he does make sure to go into invincible mode immediately), works just as fine), go back into invincibility mode.
GigaDeath- This is great when you don't have to worry about him when he is on your side of the metro, once he leaves you alone fire arrows fully charged at him but watch out for his little robots that fly at you, and when he stops to fire bolts in a frenzy, just make sure when he does those you need to be in the glitch. His face is his weakest spot to hit.
Alexi(Thunder boss)- Dragon sword upgraded lvl 2,
Water Dragon- Make sure to have arrows ready for him when you open up the chest to get the skeleton key, when he uses his attack that sends a wave of water at you, when in the glitch get out of it once the wave passes over you and charge your arrow, make sure to hit his face. Once you run out of arrows jump into the water and go into the glitch once you are floating. Wait for him to lay his head down on the water, jump out and use the Kusari-gama technique on his head. Try to have it fully upgraded at this point.
Giant Skeleton- I used the with the Kusari-gama on his leg and chest when he falls over, but I was told you have have in instantly fall on his butt if you use the dragon ball move and hit his face.
Volf- With the LV2 dragon sword wait for Volf to get open for an attack, once he is just use the sword technique.
Genshin round 2- Same as chapter 2 Genshin
Flaming Armadillo- This is easy, just run up to his face, make sure to do this at a good time, jump and use Kusari-gama on his face, the glitch is nice against him because when he is rolling around instead of evading you just have to sit there and laugh. Make sure to block at the end, or... you can go into the glitch.
Zedonius- I used the Eclipse Scythe technique when he was open for an attack, which is usually best when he lands, much harder then Mentor difficulty.
Tunnel Worm- Take your time on this boss, what my techique was when he fist appears have your Ultimate attack with the Scythe and when he appears hit him with it! Jump around him throwing Incendiary Shurikens and he will be destroyed, if you happen to run out of the Shurikens make sure to jump into the glitch and just keep using the Ultimate attack on him when he appears which will hurt him alot.
Quetzalcoatl(2 dragons)- These guys are actually quite easy, simple tactic of using charged arrows and hit their faces. Once the minions spawn, take out all but 1 and you will only have to face the 2 Quetzalcoats and 1 little guy, much better than an army and 2 giant dragons.
Elizebet- Use the Eclipse Scythe technique when she is open. You can try using the Kusari-gama but its a little riskier and annoying.
Genshin Round 3- same technique as the other 2 times.
2 Flaming Armadillos- same as the 1 Armadillo, try to kill 1 before fighting the other, you dont want them both to be mad at the same time.
Zedonius round 2- I recommend ONLY using with the Eclipse Scythe when he lands, and when he lands only. AVOID LAVA AT ALL COSTS! Try staying in the middle if you land in that Lava you will lose a lot of health and probably die when you try to come out of it, enemies will be waiting for you.
Volf Round 2- I recommend using the Scythe this time on him because you will want to be up in the air instead of the ground. Just wait for him to be open for an attack, .
Alexi round 2- Hes still easy, same strategy with Dragon sword.
Fiend Genshin- Hes more annoying, but you can still use the Dragon sword technique with him, just be really careful.
Elizebet round 2- This time just use the Scythe , because using the Kusari-gama you will almost never hit her and will die a lot.
Dagra Dai- Hes fairly easy, dont attack him until he is on the ground, there will be multiple instances to him him using with the Scythe.
Archfiend stage 1- This was seriously a joke as soon as you possibly can just shoot him in the face with a charged arrow, jump jump either direction 2 times, then shoot him in the ORB, rinse repeat. Keep doing this to him every time, make sure not to miss. If you happen to miss, go into the glitch and just try to get into the momentum again, if you are fast he is a joke, if you mess up alot, you will die or it will drag on a long time.
Archfiend stage 2- At this point I have 6 Lives of thousand gods, 9 lifes of gods, the food the old mad gave me, and my revival tablet. Make sure to use health increasers first because then you can fully heal your increased health with the tablet or food. My technique was to just him in the face with the Eclipse Scythe when he has his hands on the ground looking at you. Any other moments he is doing anything make sure to be in the glitch. I did this method because I had so many health increases to not worry about getting hurt. If you dont have too many health increases, just stand by his hand, when he lands there just with dragon sword one of his hands.
General Tips:*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***-Manually save in case you need to go back a few steps!
-Use things like Life of the Gods(9) and Lives of the Thousand Gods when you need to heal, never waste them on full health! I saved mine until towards the end of the game!
-Chainsaw Zombies cannon hits hurt all enemies, including their own zombie buddies!
-Fiend spider ninja's ranged move hurts enemies also, if you have them on you and they use their air slicing attacks, they will kill the enemies on you, except any other Fiend Spider Ninja's.
-DO THE FIRST TEST OF VALOR! The only enemy you fight is Ninjas so you can just go into the glitch and never come out using the throw! Free Lives of the Thousand Gods!
-Find Explosive Incendiary Shuriken body use it much as possible until you know you cannot go back to it, to use them just keep running and jumping using then throwing them at the enemies.
-Found this glitch while looking on Youtube, this is one of the Hardest spots in the game and probably the most difficult challenge I had on master Ninja using the glitch. So if you give it a try (you might be able to do it while in the glitch) it could help you as I wish I tried this when I got to it. Please comment if you do it and it works for you, because doing this spot sucks more then any boss.
(Video and credit for this exploit is done by Hamour)
If anyone has more to add to this guide please comment or message me and I will add it with credit of course. If you record any video of using the glitch (especially with my methods mixed) that would be great if you can send it to me and I will add it to my solution with credit of course.
Video 1: I just wanted to show you the glitch and how it can EXTREMELY help in certain situations. The video was done by Kumar Abhishek (who is ironically against it)
Video 2: This video is much more clear and is a great part to use the glitch helping out beautifully. This video was done by samuraigaming
Video 3: This video is at one of the hardest parts in the game and you can see how helpful it becomes, you can defeat the ninjas before fighting the Spider Ninjas alone. Video is in spanish, but the visual is the idea, not the commentary. If you do know spanish, thats a plus. Credit for video goes to youtube user Marco Hayabusa.