Samurai Warriors 2/Story Mode

Story Mode in this title follows nearly every character's story. The main focus this time around is Sekigahara, and the battle is featured quite predominantly. Many stages and their subsequent missions are shared between stories. These missions will only prompt when their actors are in the correct position. Sometimes characters possess unique, character specific missions on their shared battles.

The starting cast is seven characters, with the rest being unlocked by completing other story modes, generally by characters affiliated with the unlocked character. Each character has a 4th weapon to unlock and Samurai Warriors 2: Xtreme Legends adds 5th weapons as well. These weapons can only be unlocked on hard or chaos difficulty.

Yukimura Sanada
Initially available.

Keiji Maeda
Unlocked by clearing Kantsugu Naoe's story mode.

Nobunaga Oda
Unlocked by clearing Magoichi Saika's story mode.

Mitsuhide Akechi
Initially available.

Kenshin Uesugi
Unlocked by clearing Kanetsugu Naoe's story mode or having a Samurai Warriors  save file on your memory card before you start a new game. His dream stage is unlocked by clearing Shingen Takeda's dream stage.

Oichi
Initially available. Her dream stage unlocks when Nō's dream stage is completed.

Magoichi Saika
Unlocked by clearing Mitsuhide Akechi's story mode. His dream stage is unlocked by clearing Masamune Date's story mode.

Shingen Takeda
Unlocked by clearing Kenshin Uesugi's story mode.

Masamune Date
Unlocked by clearing Magoichi Saika's story mode.

Nō
Unlocked by clearing Nobunaga Oda's story mode.

Hanzō Hattori
Unlocked by clearing Kotarō Fūma's story mode or having a Samurai Warriors save file on your memory card before you start a new game.

Hideyoshi Toyotomi
Unlocked by clearing Mitsunari Ishida's story mode.

Tadakatsu Honda
Unlocked by clearing Ieyasu Tokugawa's story mode or having a Samurai Warriors: Xtreme Legends save file on your memory card before you start a new game.

Ina
Unlocked by clearing Tadakatsu Honda's story mode.

Ieyasu Tokugawa
Initially available.

Mitsunari Ishida
Initially available. His dream stage is unlocked by clearing Kanetsugu Naoe's story mode.

Nagamasa Azai
Unlocked by clearing Oichi's story mode.

Sakon Shima
Unlocked by clearing Mitsunari Ishida's story mode.

Yoshihiro Shimazu
Unlocked by clearing Ginchiyo Tachibana's story mode. His dream stage is unlocked by clearing Yukimura Sanada's dream mode.

Ginchiyo Tachibana
Initially available.

Kanetsugu Naoe
Unlocked by clearing Yukimura Sanada's story mode.

Nene
Unlocked by clearing Hideyoshi Toyotomi's story mode.

Kotarō Fūma
Initially available.

Musashi Miyamoto
Unlocked by every other Samurai Warriors 2 vanilla character (except Okuni and Ranmaru Mori)

Toshiie Maeda
Initially available.

Motochika Chōsokabe
Initially available.

Gracia
Initially available.

Yoshimoto Imagawa
Initially available.

Kojirō Sasaki
Initially available.

Katsuie Shibata
Initially available.