The most wonderful thing about Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess is that its levels always have something up their sleeve to take you by surprise. No level ever ends up feeling quite the same as any th🧸at came before it, and the Great Cherry Tree of Nakahara is no different.
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What starts as a regular level will quickly become a large-sc𝓰ale boss battle once night hits. It can be a slightly complicated boss to wrap your head around, especially due to the large stage it all takes place in. Have no fear, our guide is here to bring you to victory against this defiled tree.
Recommended Soh And Villager Set-Up
Villager Set-Up
For this mission, you'll have a total of six villagers that can assist you. None of them are particularly hidden so you should have no issues finding them. Just don't forget to scale to the highestౠ levels of the Cherry ✱Tree. You'll likely find them all while searching for this stage's defilements.
Once you've recruited all six of them, you'll want to equip them with some suitable roles. Despite the various contraptions around the stage that can be repaired, such as the towers, you'll actually want to ignore these, s🍷o don't assign roles based o🎃n that. Here's what we recommend:
- One Woodcutter, and one Spearman for melee.
- One Archer, and one Marksman for ranged.
- One Sumo Wrestler to pull the aggro away from Yoshiro, and one Shaman to keep everyone in tip-top shape.
Once you've assigned them all, move them all to the southern edge of the map facing the Cherry Tree near w🉐here the broken towers are. Once night falls, this is where Yoshiro will be moved too, so sending your Villagers here first will save you some time.
Don't waste your crystals carving🎃 the Spirit Path for Yoshiro as she won't actually use it during this mission.
Soh Set-Up
Seeing as how you're fighting a defiled Cherry Tree, you can imagine that this battle won't quite go like the other bosses in the game. Which you would be right in thinking, as Yatsurao doesn't have a whole body you can just slash at.
As such, you're going 𝓰to need to build Soh for perseverance rather than raw damage-dealing as this fight require💙s a bit more strategising. In the table below we've listed some equipment and abilities that should let you speed through this mission with ease.
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Name |
Musubi Cost |
Description |
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|---|---|---|---|
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Tsuba Guard 1 |
Kochin's Ward |
Not Applicable |
Raises a barrier around Soh that enemies cannot pass through, and damages any that attack it. |
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Tsuba Guard 2 |
Taijo's Favor |
Not Applicable |
Gives extra defence and resistance to knockback to all Villagᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚers in the stage. |
|
Mazo Talisman 1 |
Happiness And Anger |
Not Applicable |
Lowers Soh's attack power, but increases the Villagers' in turn. |
|
Mazo Talisman 2 |
Bodhisattva |
Not Applicable |
Moderately increases Soh's attack power. |
|
Dance Style |
Shiden Dance |
15 |
This replaces Soh's attacks with stationary ones that deal more damage but reduce movement during attacks and attack speed. |
|
Dance Upgrade |
Shiden Form 2 |
5 |
This lets you charge the Dance Attack after the first Regular Attack, whi🗹ch can be unleashed for massive Resist Gauge damage. |
As Soh, you will be ignoring the summoned enemies entirely in this mission, instead focusing exclusively on taking down Yatsurao. The Villagers should be more than enough to handle any enemies that come near Yoshiro,🐎 so don't ♏be too afraid if the warning message that enemies are near her pops up.
If you want to achieve one of the optional objectives, you must ignore using Tsuba Guards entirely for this mission, though you are rewarded with Rabbi💙t's Cup Maz✱o Talisman.
Where To Find Every Defilement
In the Cherry Tree of Nakahara stage, there are ten defilements for you to purge. Thankfully, many of them are grouped together so🅘 they shouldn't take you exceptionally l🔜ong to find.
Defilement 1
This defilement is found right at the back of the stage where Yoshiro will go at night.
Defilement 2
This defilement is found at the corner of the scaffolding right beside the corrupted Torii gate.
Defilement 3
This defilement is found in the northwest corner of the map beside an already-built tower.
Defilement 4
This defilement can be found by the back of the scaffolding near where many sections are broken.
Defilement 5
This defilement is found in the east of the map at the corner near where Yoshi🌌ro 🔴begins in this stage.
Defilement 6
This defilement is found by the back of the scaffolding, up a level by itself.
Defilement 7-8
These two defilements are found together on the western side of the scaffolding on the first level.
Defilement 9-10
These final two defilements are found together on the very top level of the scaffolding surrounding the Cherry Tree.
Once you've purged each defilement, you can pick up your reward from the Shrine beside the corrupted Torii Gate - the Pickpocket Mazo talisman.
How To Defeat Yatsurao
Once night falls, this stage does not continue like the ones you have played previously. Instead, it tu𒀰rns into a boss fight against the tree itself as i﷽t manifests into Yatsurao. Yoshiro will be ushered into the southern edge of the stage.
Yatsurao is split into two distinct phases, once against the various tongue append🔴ages it has, and the second against its humanoid-like roots.
One of the optional objectives is to ensure Yoshiro receives no damage. You can give your Villagers more precise pl✃acements near her to ensure no Seethe approaches꧋ her.
First Stage
Once night falls, you must scale the Cherry Tree to locate the various glowing tongues it has situated around its bar⛦k. Ignore any enemies the boss spawns and let the Villagers handle them.
The locations of the tongues are the same every time you fight Yatsurao so you shouldn't struggle finding them. None of them are at surface level, and they only appea💛r one at a time. After you've defeated𒆙 three of them, you will face a cutscene and be brought to the second phase of the first phase.
Here, you are trapped behind the tree away from Yoshiro and must defeat three tongues again. This time, however, Yatsurao will have summoned a humanoid-like root that will follow you as you attempt to destroy its tongues. This root hits exceptionally hard, so try to avoid them rather than blocking their attacks.
Placing a Kochin's Ward in front of the tongues will stop the root from approaching you at all, giving you more breathing room 🌃to destroy them.
The final tongue will be situated higher than you can hit with your regular attacks, so simply performing an attack in the air is the only real strategy here. ♕Just be c🔯areful of the toxic pools that Yatsurao can summon here.
If Soh dies here, this phase will be skipped aꦍnd you will be bro⭕ught immediately to the second stage where Yatsurao will have more health than normal.
Second Stage
Once the second stage begins, Soh will be returned to Yoshiro and the Villagers, though you will no longer be able to climb Yatsurao anymore either. It is now a baiting game, luring out Yatsurao's roots to attack the many tongues along it.
They have a few distinct moves they can use now, 🌠so learn the patterns of them to effectively avoid the attacks and deal the highest amount of dꦗamage possible.
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Attack |
Attack Description |
Counter |
|---|---|---|
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Root Swipe - Yatsurao |
Yatsurao will lift its root into the air at either side of the stage and then swipe it across the full length. |
You can easily avoid this by dodging as it approaches. This is a better strategy than running away. |
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Root Trust - Yatsurao |
Yatsurao will pull back a root and then thrust it forward at high speed. This attack is unblockable. |
Dodging is the only effective means of avoiding this attack. Make sure you're nowhere near Yoshiro when it starts as it can defeat her in just two strikes. If you manage to avoid this, the root will stay idle for a few seconds, letting you attack the tongues on it. |
|
Impaling Roots - Yatsurao |
The ground will become highlighted with a red and blue circle before a root thrusts upwards from it. |
This attack can be avoided by just running away from it, just do𒈔n't be near Yoshiro as it may damage her as well. |
|
Summoned Seethe |
Amorphous blobs will drop from the sky, releasing enemies after a short delay. |
This can be destroyed in just two or three hits, so strik⛎e them if you're close⛦, but you can ignore them otherwise. |
|
Root Slam - Humanoid Root |
The humanoid root will ascend before quickly dropping down, damaging everyone around them. |
This attack is well-telegraphed, so back away for a moment until the attack finishes |
|
Toxic Pool - Humanoid Root |
The humanoid root will create a toxic pool around its⛦elf, indicated by a blue and red circle. |
Once you see the blue and red circle appear, step back and attack with the bow instead, The r🧸oot will reposition after a short period. |
That's the entirety of its moveset. None of them are exceptionally hard to recognise, it's more the balancing act of avoiding both Yatsurao and the humanoid root's attacks at the same time, all the while keeping Yoshiro safe from the summoned en💮emies.
If you want to achieve an optional objective, you can actually guide the Root Thurst into the humanoid root. This will also immediately stun Yatsurao.
The goal here is to bait Yatsurao's root so that you can deꦆstroy the tongues on it꧟. You don't need to destroy every tongue, just the vast majority of them. As long as you can avoid the thrusts and defeat the humanoid root, keeping it stunned should be simple.
With Yatsurao defeated, the Great Cherry Tree of Nakahara is purified, and you've unlocked the Cannoneer Role to boot. Congratulations!
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