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Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Namemay be a short game compared with the rest of the Yakuza franchise, but it is still really packed with puzzles, collectibles, achievements, and above all, mini-games. Some of them are easy to understand, and others are way tougher. That’s the case with the Shogi Puzzles.
Shogi is also defined as Japanese Chess, and the Shogi Puzzle’s objective is to checkmate your opponent in one or two steps, depending on the stage. Chess can be hard to understand, and Shogi isn’t much better, so if you want to solve all Shogi Puzzles without studying the game, here’s how.
Where To Play Shogi
you may play Shogi pretty near Akane’s Hideout. You just have toleave the hideout and walk until you see a hall on the left.You’ll easily see the man who invites you to play after that.
Basic Rules Of Shogi
You don’t need to understand how to play Shogito do the puzzles, but it’s important to define some things to understandwhich piece to moveand where to do it.
When you start playing Shogi, you’ll seetwo types of pieces.There areinverted pieces(your opponent’s pieces) andstraight pieces(yours). They all have letters except fora central one with an inverted crown.That’syour opponent’s kingpiece; the game’s objective is tocheckmate it.
Lastly, whenever you start a Puzzle Shogi,the game will ask youif you want to use Take Backs and if you want to play under a play limit. Keep both as they are initially set, asyou won’t need Take Backs, and thepuzzles won’t take more than 30 secondseach.
How To Solve The Puzzle Shogi One
For thefirst Puzzle Shogi, you mustmove your ‘G’ pieceto put itunderneath your opponent’s king.That’s enough to checkmate it.
How To Solve The Puzzle Shogi Two
In the second Puzzle Shogi, you mustuse the piece you have outside the board.That one is an ‘S’ piece; you must put it to the rightof your opponent’sP' piece, which isover your opponent’s King.Doing that will be enough to checkmate the King.
How To Solve The Puzzle Shogi Three
For this puzzle, you’ll see that one of your ‘S’ pieces is next to your opponent’s King.Move itunderneath the King, and you’ll complete the puzzle.
How To Solve The Puzzle Shogi Four
We continue with the one-step puzzle solutions, and for this puzzle, you mustmove your ‘B’ pieceand put itunderneath your opponent’s King.After that, the game will ask youif you want to promotethat piece.Accept the promotion, and you’ll solve the puzzle.
How To Solve The Puzzle Shogi Five
In this puzzle, you’ll havethree ‘P’ pieces attacking your opponent’s King, but that’s not enough to checkmate it. So,move your ‘K’ piece inside the circle formed by your ‘P’ piecesand your opponent’s King to complete the puzzle.
How To Solve The Puzzle Shogi Six
From now on, all puzzleswill require two movesto beat them.
For this puzzle, you mustmove your ‘K’ piecethat you have outside the board and put itto the left of your ‘G’ piece.Your opponent will move the King a step back, leaving a free space.
That’s when you mustmove your Promoted ‘P’ piece, your upmost piece in the board,to the left of your opponent’s King piece.Doing that will complete the puzzle.
You’ll know when you havea Promoted Piecewhenthere’s a star next to the piece’s letter.
How To Solve The Puzzle Shogi Seven
For this puzzle, the first step involvesmoving your higher ‘S’ piece above your ‘P’ piece.After doing that, your opponentwill move their King.Here’s when you have tomove your lower ‘S’ pieceand put itunderneath your opponent’s Kingto complete the puzzle.
How To Solve The Puzzle Shogi Eight
For this puzzle, move your ‘G’ Piece a step to the rightso it’s next to your opponent’s King. They’ll move the King a step back, so you must usethe ‘R’ Piece outside the boardand place itto the left of the King.This will complete the puzzle.
How To Solve The Puzzle Shogi Nine
In this puzzle, your first step must bemoving the ‘S’ pieceyou have at the top of the board and placing iton your opponent’s ‘G’ piece that is next to your ‘S’ Piece.Doing so will let you Promote that piece, but in this case, you mustreject the promotion.
The King will move a step to the right, so you must useyour ‘G’ piece outside the boardand place itunderneath the King.This will be enough to solve the puzzle.
How To Solve The Puzzle Shogi Ten
For this last puzzle, the first step involvesmoving your ‘K’ pieceoutside the boardtowards the half circle formed by upside-down ‘P’ pieceson the right side of the board.
Your opponent willmove the King to block the ‘K’ pieceyou placed, so to checkmate it,move your ‘S’ piecenext to the Kinga step-up, and don’t promote it.That will be enough to complete the puzzle.
