🌎 World & Exploration
Complete guide to every region, camp location, hidden area, and collectible in post-apocalyptic Japan
🌃 The Capital — Main Hub
The Capital is humanity's last safe haven and your primary hub throughout the game. It's unlocked in Chapter 6 and serves as your base for the remaining chapters.
Key Locations
- Central Plaza: Main quest hub. Most NPCs and quest-givers are here.
- Merchant District: Buy/sell equipment, crafting materials, and consumables. Prices decrease as you help the Capital.
- Council Chambers: Story-critical location. Your dialogue choices here affect the ending.
- Armory: Weapon and armor upgrades. Requires boss drops and crafting materials.
- Researcher's Lab (Kagura): Access lore terminals and unlock new traversal abilities.
- Outer Wall: Defensive siege battle location in Chapter 6.
Capital Camps
- Plaza Camp: Main camp — central location for fast travel
- Lower Ward Camp: Near the Malefact attack zone
- Wall Camp: Located at the outer wall, useful for the siege battle
🌳 Verdant Blighted Forest (Forest #1)
Your first Blighted Forest. Characterized by overgrown ruins, towering corrupted trees, and purple Blight flora. Relatively linear with some side paths for exploration.
Notable Areas
- Ruined Village Entrance: Starting area. Camp just inside the forest boundary.
- Blight Shrine: Mid-forest checkpoint. Activate to create a camp and weaken the Nushi.
- Underground Den (Optional): Side cave with rare Spirit Stone. Hidden behind a waterfall.
- Forest Heart: Nushi arena. Large circular clearing.
🔬 Underground Facility
A sprawling pre-Blight research complex beneath the eastern temple ruins. Home to Golem enemies and the Mech Sentinel boss. Features terminal puzzles and data logs about Project Bloom.
Key Areas
- Main Entrance: Temple ruins exterior. Blighted Hair required to clear debris.
- Corridor Network: Maze of patrol paths. Follow the colored cable markings.
- Data Archive: Lore-heavy room with terminals revealing the Blight's origin.
- Control Room: Mech Sentinel boss arena. Three terminals must be activated to enter.
🪲 Swamp Blighted Forest (Forest #2)
Dense swamp terrain with poison puddles and vertical climbing sections. Home to the Blighted Serpent. The most complex area to navigate before endgame.
Notable Areas
- Swamp Entrance: Antidote herbs grow near the entrance camp. Stock up.
- Three Shrines: Scattered across the swamp. Each guarded by a mini-boss.
- Hidden Memory Cave: Underwater entrance near the eastern Shrine.
- Serpent's Nest: Boss arena. Large circular swamp with climbing points.
🕳️ Abyss Blighted Forest (Forest #3)
Beneath the Capital, accessed through the sewer system in Chapter 6. Dark, claustrophobic, with emphasis on Blighted Hair traversal. The Blighted Behemoth resides here.
🍁 Eastern Blighted Forest (Forest #4)
Optional area unlocked in Chapter 7. Cherry blossom themes contrast with the corruption. Home to the Twisted Matriarch. Contains the most side content and side quests.
⛰️ Mountain Blighted Forest (Forest #5)
Optional high-altitude forest. Vertical emphasis with strong winds that affect ranged attacks. Home to the Sky Devourer — the hardest optional Nushi.
🔮 Origin Forest — Endgame
The sixth and final Blighted Forest, where the Blight first emerged. Every path leads to the Beast of Reincarnation. All camps from previous forests are still accessible via fast travel.
Key Areas
- Blight Gate: Requires all 5 Nushi essences to open. If you skipped any, return and defeat them.
- Gauntlet Path: Series of mini-boss encounters. No camps between them.
- Final Arena: The Beast of Reincarnation awaits.
📦 Collectibles Guide
Treasure Chests by Region
| Region | Chests | Notable Rewards |
|---|---|---|
| Ruined Village | 3 | Spirit Stone (Vitality I), Iron Katana, Memory Fragment #1 |
| Verdant Forest | 5 | Rare Talisman, Spirit Stone, Memory Fragment #2 |
| Underground Facility | 6 | Ancient Katana, Memory Fragments #3-4, Golem Core |
| Wasteland | 4 | Hunter's Bow, Spirit Stone (Bloom I), Memory Fragment #5 |
| Swamp Forest | 8 | Venom Charm, Memory Fragments #6-7, Serpent Fang |
| Capital | 8 | Multiple weapons, armor pieces, rare talismans |
| Abyss Forest | 6 | Shadow Armor set, Memory Fragment #8 |
| Eastern Forest | 10 | Cherry Katana, Memory Fragments #9-10 |
| Mountain Forest | 7 | Sky Piercer bow, Memory Fragment #11 |
| Origin Forest | 5 | Endgame equipment, Memory Fragment #12 |
📄 Memory Fragments
Twelve Memory Fragments are scattered throughout the game, each revealing a piece of Emma's forgotten past. Collecting all 12 unlocks a secret scene in the ending.
Memory Fragments glow faintly blue in dark areas. Use photo mode at night to spot them more easily.
💎 Spirit Stone Locations
Spirit Stones are slotted into equipment to provide passive bonuses. Each tier (I, II, III) provides increasingly powerful effects.
| Spirit Stone | Effect | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Vitality I / II / III | +10/20/30% max HP | Village / Capital shop / Origin Forest |
| Bloom I / II / III | +15/25/40% Bloom Gauge | Wasteland / Swamp shrine / Mountain chest |
| Parry Window I / II | +0.1s / +0.2s parry window | Underground den / Kunai rematch |
| FP Regen I / II | Passive FP regeneration | Eastern Forest / Abyss chest |
| Damage Link I | 15% of Emma's damage also builds Down Gauge | Capital — Armory quest reward |