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Intrepid Mortal trophy in Shadow of the Colossus

Intrepid Mortal

Max Out Wander's Health and Stamina Bars

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How to unlock the Intrepid Mortal trophy

  • Bonus_EruptusBonus_Eruptus
    03 Sep 2018 03 Sep 2018
    Health can be raised by praying at shrines and eating fruit, while stamina can be raised by eating silver lizard tails or killing colossi.

    I had read that it would take 5-7 playthroughs to get this, but nobody had a definitive number. Here's what I wound up doing.

    Full playthrough on Easy to learn the game
    Normal NG+ Time Attack (doesn't add to health or stamina)
    Hard NG+ Time Attack (doesn't add to health or stamina)
    Speedrun full playthrough on Hard NG+ (with Queen's Sword/parachute/invisibility cloak) for
    Shadow of the ColossusSpeed DemonThe Speed Demon trophy in Shadow of the Colossus worth 250 pointsComplete Hard Mode Under 5:41:28 s


    After that, my health was about half full, and my stamina 1/3. I reloaded my Hard save after the 15th colossus, and ran around collecting fruit. I wound up eating 75 fruit total across both story saves before health stopped increasing. Silver-tailed Lizards didn't seem to increase stamina much at all (one colossi is worth ~5 lizards), so I only ate 3 total, 2 of which were for separate achievements.

    I went with a strategy of starting a NG+ on Easy, killing the first two colossi with the Queen's Sword in a little under 5 minutes, then restarting a NG+ from that save. When the trophy popped, I checked my stats, and had exactly 23 non-story/non-time-attack kills each on colossi #1 and #2, so after two story-mode runs, you'll need 46 colossi killed. If you prefer to play through the whole story, it should pop around #14 on your 5th playthrough, but this took me a hair over 2 hours, which was just shy of my speed run time for a single playthrough, so it seems much faster, if a little boring.

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    coIdandtiredIf you start a New Game+ and skip the cutscene, this is how the full bars will look before you've moved. So pretty much level with the girl's ears.

    https://i.imgur.com/uHuw5lv.jpg
    Posted by coIdandtired on 01 Aug 23 at 07:25
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  • Solid_Ice_19Solid_Ice_19
    01 May 2019 01 May 2019
    This achievement will require some grinding.
    To maximize the yellow bar/Strenght.
    It will take aprox. 4.5 times to complete the game.
    I completed it 3 times (Normal, Normal+, Hard+) plus eaten 113 silver tail lizards plus 12 times I killed 1st and 2nd giants (Normal+).

    To get the full health bar is much easier, I believe it was full at the end of the fist play through.

    Just find the lizard and fruit map on the Internet.
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