Scoring Guide

Overview

This guide will present you all the score alterations you will or can encounter while playing. Following this you can score a lot more. Also SPOILERS. Let me know if I missed anything.Other Mark of the Ninja guides:Equipment of the NinjaThe Hazards of Mark of the NinjaChanges:DateModification30.12.2017Fixed some minor typing errors.Fixed Elite Guard Bloody Whisper mix-up with Twilight Gate.08.08.2017Added clarification that Indirect Kills, Object Kills and Friendly Fire do not count as kills.Fixed mistake that alarmes guards don’t add 400 points at the level-end screen.

Manipulation-Based Alterations

These are related to the enemy’s behaviour of your actions.

-800

Alarm Raised

When an enemy detects you, he will sound the alarm lowering your score and alerting nearby enemies.

-800

Body Found

A guard has found a dead body. After he’s checked on it, he will sound the alarm.

+150

Guard Distracted

Distract an enemy via breaking a power box, breaking a light etc. Making noise with running or grappling will not contribute to this.

+150

Item Distracted

Use a distraction item to distract an enemy such as a Noise Maker or Distraction Flare.

+200

Undetected

A guard failed to detect you at his nose. Being in a hiding spot while an unalarmed guard passes you, grappling right over a guard, being or moving on a ceiling above the guard or using the Mark of Serenity to go through the guard contribute to this.

+250

Body Hidden

Hide a knocked out or killed enemy’s body. You can hide them in ventilation space, bottomless pits, doorways and dumpsters.

+250

Guard Disabled

Disable a guard with a tool or an environmental aspect. Upgraded Smoke Bomb, Distraction Flare on a Gas Mask Guard, Dusk Moths, Spike Mine on an Elite Guard, Caltrops all work. Also loose wires and intensive melee combat will work on Elite Guards.

+300

Guard Terrorized

Terrorize a guard. Guards witnessing gruesome environmental kills or Ninja Tool Kills will become terrorized. Also Hisomu Terror Darts work. If your Ninja has the Path of Nightmares equipped, any corpse will terrorize a guard too.

+400

Oblivious

Let an enemy pass through an area where there’s a dead body. Hiding a body in a dumpster or doorway and letting a guard pass through it will contribute to this.

Kill-Based Alterations

These scoring bonuses or debunks are directly or indirectly related to the enemies you encounter.

+200

Imperfect Kill

Fail the kill confirmation of a stealth kill. Results in a loud and un-smooth kill.

+200

Peasant’s Death

Kill a knocked down guard or Stalker.

+200

Hound’s Slumber

Loudly knock out a Guard Dog or knock out a knocked down Guard Dog. This will not kill the dog.

+400

Silent Assassin

Stealth kill a guard from the front or behind.

+400

Bat’s Prey

Stealth kill a guard from above. Works from a perch point, from a wall, from Parachuting or from a ceiling.
[Requires Technique upgrade]

+400

Leap of Faith

Stealth kill a guard from a wall below him.

+400

Emperor’s Abyss

Stealth kill a guard from below. Works from a trapdoor or from under a ceiling.
[Requires Technique upgrade]

+400

A Brief Shadow

Stealth kill a guard from a common hiding spot.
[Requires Technique upgrade]

+400

Traitor’s Coffin

Stealth kill a guard from a doorway or from a dumpster.
[Requires Technique upgrade (Unconfirmed)]

+400

Twilight Gate

Stealth kill a guard on the other side of the door.
[Requires Technique upgrade]

+400

Slippery Slope

Kick, punch or terrorize a guard to fall down from a great height killing him. Also works if the guard was knocked out and his body would be thrown down.

+400

Bloody Whisper

Kill a disabled guard in smoke. If multiple guards are disabled close to each other, all the guards will be killed with one blow. No silent confimation required.
[Requires Technique upgrade]

+400

Hound’s Slumber

Stealth knock out a Guard Dog from behind or from above. This will not kill the dog.

+600

Hangman’s Hymn

Stealth kill a guard while lowered with a chain from a perch point.
[Requires Technique upgrade]

+600

The Prowling Spider

Stealth kill a guard from a ventilation shaft.

+600

Ninja Tool Kill

Kill an enemy with a tool. Works with Spike Mine, Concentrated Hisomu Terror Dart, Ravenous Insects and Fungal Spores.

+600

Friendly Fire

Make a terrorized guard kill his own comrade. This will not count as a kill at the level-end screen.

+600

Object Kill

Drop a chandelier on an enemy with a bamboo dart. This will not count as a kill at the level-end screen.

+600

Indirect Kill

Use an environmental aspect to kill an enemy. Gunpowder bombs, electric wires etc. work for this. I think this will not count as a kill.

+800

Silent Assassin

Kill a disabled Elite Guard from the front or behind.

+800

Bat’s Prey

Stealth kill a disabled Elite Guard from above.
[Requires Technique upgrade]

+800

Emperor’s Abyss

Stealth kill a disabled Elite Guard from below.
[Requires Technique upgrade]

+800

Twilight Gate

Kill a disabled Elite Guard on the other side of the door.
[Requires Technique upgrade]

+800

Bloody Whisper

Kill a disabled Elite Guard in smoke
[Requires Technique upgrade] (Unconfirmed)]

+800

Twilight Gate

Kill a disabled Elite Guard on the other side of the door.
[Requires Technique upgrade]

+800

Prowling Spider

Kill a disabled Elite Guard from a ventilation shaft.

Level-Based Alterations

These are related to objectives and the environment, not directly related with the enemy.

+500

Spike Mines

In the chapter, “A Change in Course” you can pick up the Spike Mines in the first ventilation room. When you pick it up, you cannot do it again when replaying the level.

+500

Dusk Moths

In the bonus chapter, “A Tale from the Past” you can pick up the Dusk Moths equipment cache. When you pick it up, you cannot do it again when replaying the level.

+500

Fungal Spores

In the bonus chapter, “A Tale from the Past” you can pick up the Fungal Spores equipment cache. When you pick it up, you cannot do it again when replaying the level.

+200

Door Released

In the chapter, “Ink & Dreams” when you acquire the bamboo darts, you will need to hit the door release mechanisms which will both award you 200 points.

+200

Power Disabled

Destroy a power box or some other electrical equipment.

+250

Lock Picked

Pick a locked door, trapdoor or some other equipment.

+500

Ninja Resqued

In the first chapter, “Ink & Dreams” you can save some of your clan members. Saving Azai (which is required) also adds this. There’s a total of five ninjas in the level.

+500

Artifact Recovered

In every level, there are hidden artifacts that each award 500 points to your score.

+1,000

Scroll Recovered

There are also three hidden Haiku scrolls in each level. Each will award you 1,000 points and one Honour point. Usually, one of these is hidden in a puzzle sub-level.

+1,000

Key Stolen

In the chapter, “A Blade at His Neck” you are required to steal two keys from two special guards. You will only get this bonus if you picked it from the guard’s pocket instead of on the ground.

+1,000

Sneak Past the Gate

Complete the objective in the chapter, “An Ancestral Home”.

+1,000

Search for a Way Into the Castle

Complete the objective in the chapter, “An Ancestral Home”.

+1,250

Breach the Castle Walls

Complete the objective in the chapter, “An Ancestral Home”.

+2,000

Open the Way to the Catacombs

Complete the objective in the chapter, “An Ancestral Home”.

Post-Level Alterations

After completing a chapter, you are presented with a screen displaying your results. Many of these can add to your score.

There’s 4 types of guard results:

Undisturbed

Distracted

Alarmed

Deceased

The “No Kills” bonus varies depending on the level and amount of guards stationed there.

The epilogue, “A Moonlit Garden” does not have score, scrolls or seals.