Folding Screen Monkeys - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Guide - IGN (2024)

Four monkeys that will test your skills in stealth, the Folding Screen Monkeys are the boss needed to finish the Senpou Temple, Mount Kongo area.

Four monkeys each wearing a different colored robe and playing to separate strengths, the Folding Screen Monkeys are a stealth based boss you'll need to defeat to receive the Mortal Blade.

As the Wolf awakens after using the bell in the Senpou Temple Main Hall (which only appears after you've defeated Genichiro at Ashina Castle), he will find himself in the Illusive Realm, a different world entirely, and comprised of a peculiar boss fight, the Folding Screen Monkeys.

Three Monkeys are depicted on two folding screens, with a fourth empty slot: A purple monkey with spectacles, an orange monkey with a gong, and a green monkey with a cone around its head. One of the monkeys will see you and shriek before running off.

You’ll gain the Illusive Hall Bell, which can only be used in this realm - and will reset the positions of both you and the Monkeys you need to hunt, for that is the objective of this realm: catch and defeat all of the monkeys to win.

Further up the platform here you’ll find a lone Monk, who will tell you a bit about the place and how best to catch the monkeys. The Purple Kimono Monkey is the “seeing monkey” who has great eyesight and will always see you coming, and will run away when he does. The Orange Kimono Monkey isn’t too great on the senses, but if he or another Monkey sees you, he’ll sound an alarm. Finally, the Green Kimono Monkey has great hearing, making sneaking fairly impossible.

Video Guide: Folding Screen Monkeys Boss Fight

With this in mind, you’re going to need some tricks up your sleeve to catch them, as the monkeys will jump around - mostly on the rooftops, and avoid you whenever possible. Looking out past the Monk, the area is divided into five buildings with platforms between them, and a large tree in the center.

The Green and Orange Monkey will usually start on this tree, while the Purple Monkey will be off on the roofs somewhere - and chasing them along the rooftops will spawn ghostly Monkeys that alone aren’t too much of a threat, but they do cause terror damage, so take them out with a shuriken to be safe.

As for the buildings, the ones on the right are empty, but the ones on the left are pretty interesting. The closest building on the left has a giant waterfall pouring into it, and a note inside says that nothing can be heard over the noise of the falls.

Further up, another room has a giant door that can be opened, which will send the room into darkness in which none but the Wolf can see. The same goes for the building at the back, where you can grapple up to the attic where there is no light. You can also find a path on the other side of the giant tree to find a bell you can ring to make a deafening noise.

With these clues in mind, it’s time to begin the hunt. Depending on the location of all the Monkeys, the Orange Kimono Monkey is often the easiest to hunt when alone. Once your sure he doesn’t have a line of sight on you, carefully grapple up to the rooftops and look for a trail of orange footprints. Follow them slowly while sneaking, and you’ll soon come upon the alarm-ringing monkey, who isn’t great on hearing you sneak up - and you can take him out.

For the Green Kimono Monkey, you want to chase him until he jumps down onto the large tree. When he’s here, either jump to him from the back where the bell is to make him run past the Monk, and corral him right into the room where the waterfall is - then back off and drop in from the hole in the roof to take him out.

Otherwise, jump at the tree from the Monk’s position and he’ll usually jump up to the rooftops and drop down to a platform close to the bell - and you can now ring the bell to stun him and break his posture, allowing you to quickly grapple over and finish the job.

As for the Purple Kimono Monkey, you can try chasing him and make him go left from the tree into the room with the door that darkens the place - but it's usually much easier to chase him along the rooftops until he enters the tall building at the rear, and he’ll stop in the attic where he can’t see you come in after him.

Now the three Monkeys are defeated - so why haven’t you won? If you think back to the Folding Screen, there are four slots with three monkeys… so what if you can’t see the final Monkey?

Stop what you’re doing and look behind you - and retrace your steps to find yellow footprints along the ground. Where the footprints end, try and run around and you may find that something is blocking your path - an invisible monkey, and you can slice the air to defeat it.

In a pinch, you can also just reset your position to the entrance, and turn around - where the invisible Monkey has been stalking you from the very beginning. It’s also possible that in attacking the other monkeys you may have accidentally hit him already - in which case, good job!

Defeating all four will grant you the Memory: Folding Screen Monkeys, as well as the Puppeteer Ninjutsu, which allows you to turn an enemy to your side after performing a backstab deathblow, and make it fight your enemies for you!