# Shizuku: Japanese myth — Systems

Transform, talk, take on quests, and smash your way forward. How Shizuku plays.

## Transform (TRANSFORM)

Change your form to fool everyone around you. There are five forms: Fox, Human, Red Oni, Kappa, and Tanuki. The current Early Access build has the first three. In some places, certain forms are not available.

## Talk (TALK)

Talk to the villagers, and to the Oni of the Oni Village too. What they say back depends on the form you are in, how far the story has gone, how close you are, and how many times you have talked.

## Choose Your Answer (CHOICE)

Rin's replies are yours to choose. Who gets what, what gets written down. Some quests play out differently depending on your answers.

## Headbutt Through (HEADBUTT)

As a Red Oni, hold Special to charge, then release to charge forward headfirst and shatter the brittle rocks in your way.

## Hip Drop (HIP DROP)

Press Down and Special in mid-air to hip drop. Split cracked ground open, and drop into the hidden cave below.

## More than one answer (YOUR WAY)

There is rarely a single solution. Push through by force, talk your way past, or find another road entirely. Save the world your own way.

## Conversation

What people tell you changes with the form you talk to them in, how far the story has gone, and how close you have become. And a race that will not normally speak to you might open up once you transform...?!

## Quests

Hear out a villager's trouble, take it on, and see it through.

1. **Hear them out**: "We're down to one piece." Everyone in the village has a worry of their own.
2. **Take it on**: Accept a request, and a notice slides in at the top right.
3. **Get your reward**: See it through and you are rewarded. From Asane: three pieces of fried tofu.

**Quest Log**: Check the quests you have taken on at any time from the Quest Log in the pause menu: client, place, goals and reward, all on one page.

### Quests from each village

- **The Last Piece** (Fox Village, from Hyoga): One piece of fried tofu left in the village. Who gets it?
- **The First Piece** (Fox Village, from Asane): Light the frying fire again, the one that has been out since the Oni came.
- **The Dawn-Calling Torii** (Fox Village, from Sontyo): The shrine's rooster never came home. Bring it back to the red torii.
- **Use Your Head** (Oni Village, from Yatsurugi): Three Kamifoo. Only a headbutt will pop them.
- **A Hide for the Drum** (Oni Village, from Dodon): The festival drum's skin has torn.
- **Drunk and Disorderly** (The Brewery, from Moromi): Deep in the storehouse, three drunks are running wild.

## Items

Found by the roadside and in treasure chests. Some you use, some you deliver.

- **Pick up**: Whatever you pick up is shown at the bottom of the screen.
- **Your bag**: Fried Tofu: foxes can stay transformed for a while after eating it. Rin, for some reason, does not need it.
- **Shop**: Buy from and sell to the travelling merchant. "What are you buying?"