Shin Onigashima Guide Game Overs
Shin Onigashima includes many ways to end your game by making the wrong choices. Each time you get a Game Over, you can restart from the beginning of the chapter or from an earlier save point.
Whether you're cautious or overly curious, here is an index of the failstates found in the game.
This list may not be 100% complete.
Chapter 1
- Ignore the warnings and open the door to the weaving room. See Easter Eggs: Sneak a peek in the weaving room
- Knock over the Jizo statue, then continue as normal until you open the rice bowl. See Easter Eggs: The Curse of the Jizo̅ Statue
Chapter 3
- On the narrow cliff edge, look at the cliff two times, or choose the Open, Use or Give commands two times.
- Choose the Tengu's red bag six times. See Easter Eggs: Flower Hikari
- Blow up the fortress while Hikari is still inside.
- Pick up the bronze bell without the sulphur ball.
- Use the sulphur ball to stun the Oni, but use any command other than Move → Escape.
- Plant the bomb, then use any command other than Move → Escape.
Chapter 4
- Ignore the warnings not to cross the broken wooden bridge.
- Take a ride in Usagi's wooden boat.
- Take a ride in Tanuki's mud boat without baking it first.
- After shrinking, try to pass through Benkei's checkpoint without riding Ringo.
Chapter 5
- Move into the ice hole without using a rope.
- Go to the palace in disguise, then talk to or fight the Oni.
- Use any command when the Oni searches the bronze bell storage room.
Chapter 6
- Fight the snake with the katana before giving it the hamburger.
Chapter 7
- After Donbe gives a warning under the cherry tree, choose a command other than Move or take too long choosing a command.
- Move into the hole Matsunosuke made without using a rope.
- Ignore the warnings and try to move deeper into the cave when you're already at the underground river.
- After the torch goes out, cross the ravine without using a rope.
- After angering Saburo, choose any command other than Move → Escape or take too long choosing a command.
Chapter 8
- Choose an animal other than Ohana as your companion to distract the Oni.
- Move → Escape off the cliff without talking to Ohana first.
- Talk to Ohana then Move → East to fly away to Nagakushi Village. See Easter Eggs: Escape to Nagakushi Village
- Have Donbe escape from the Oni before Hikari finds the box, then have Hikari try to obtain the box.
- When Donbe is eaten by the dragon and gets the false Game Over, press any button.
- Get swallowed by the dragon without giving Donbe a bead from Hikari's necklace.
- After cutting out the Dragon's Orb, use any command other than picking up the Dragon's Orb.
Chapter 9
- Insert the Katana into the dragon then move before Hikari uses the necklace to call Hinoe.
