The Art of Samurai

At the very start of the battle, pause the screen. Catch your breath,
make sure your health is close to full, and equip the EARTH HAMMER.
Unpause and press TRIANGLE quickly. Use up all of your Special Attacks
with the EARTH HAMMER, then quickly switch to the ICE LANCE. Once again,
we use these two first due to a later form of battle.

As soon as you get done with the first two weapons, equip the LIGHTNING
SWORD. This is our usual "Finish Him Off" weapon, but not tonight. We'll
save the WIND BLADE for that. Hit Lord Nobunaga with the LIGHTNING
SWORD's Special Attack before he transforms into the version that flies,
which, I must admit, is NOT a fun battle.

When he starts flying, switch to the WIND BLADE. Use the Special Attack
of the WIND BLADE while he is up above you. This will even lower him
down towards you so you can get an extra hit or two. If you have
regained enough magic on your other weapons, quickly equip one and use
the Special Attack while he's ...