Sword of the Sea Trophy Guide & Roadmap

Combo is increased by doing alternating tricks in sequence without touching the ground, which completes your current combo. You can extend your combo by wallriding, grinding, or bouncing on jellyfish. The easiest way to get a large combo is jumping back and forth between jellyfish while doing air tricks in between. Jumping on the same jellyfish won’t increase your combo, but as long as you jump to a different jellyfish each bounce you can effectively extend your combo forever.

During your first playthrough your score/combo isn’t displayed during normal gameplay, only inside trick attack areas so you shouldn’t worry about doing this while exploring on your first playthrough outside of the trick attack areas. On your second playthrough you can enable or disable having score/combo shown at all times, which makes these trophies much easier if you don’t earn them during the trick attack completions.

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When you collect a stele within a level the yellow text on the pillar will disappear to show it has been interacted with, but this is unfortunately reset in NG+ and Chapter Select so on replays of levels you aren’t able to tell which you have already collected unless you remember yourself.

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Orcas are located in the first level Veiled Sea. They appear when you activate the story-required water point for the left chain that opens the door to exit the area.

Secret shells are a collectible spread throughout the game, typically in well hidden or hard to reach places. Collecting them serves no initial gameplay purpose, but once you collect all 50 you gain the ability to use water rails in any level, not just in Sacred River. They are glowing white shells that are collected by going close to them.

In the pause menu you can see how many total secret shells you have collected, but there isn’t a way otherwise to see how many you have obtained in each level outside of knowing you’ve collected them all in a level by earning the specific bronze trophy associated with that level.

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The desert rain frog is located in the first level, Veiled Sea. After activating the sphere water point that activates the right side chain, use the newly spawned kelp behind the building to reach the top of the waterfall. Follow the cliffs around to the right where there are stone platforms sticking out to the left. Where you can see the set of 4 going farther down you can drop to the lowest level where you can find the frog.

Receiving all rewards requires a total of 8550 Tetra. Tetra is obtained by collecting it throughout the game world, from treasure chests or tiles, or when beating the high score in trick attack areas. If you are very thorough with collecting Tetra its possible to receive all rewards in first playthrough, but if not your progress to this is carried through in NG+ and Chapter Select where all Tetra sources are available again, so you can continue trading for all rewards in subsequent playthroughs.

If you want to grind this on a specific chapter, the best two would either be on Chapter 5 Frozen Drifts, or Chapter 6 Sacred River. Frozen Drifts you can activate all optional water points and break crystals as you progress through the level to spawn and collect Tetra, completing the level in about 10 minutes. In Sacred River activating the main and optional water points spawns large amounts of Tetra around the areas to collect, and is potentially more interesting to play than Chapter 5, but might take a bit longer.

• 50 Tetra – Tricks
• 500 Tetra (550 total) – Spin Tricks
• 1000 Tetra (1550 total) – Drop
• 2000 Tetra (3550 total) – Super Jump
• 5000 Tetra (8550 total) – Secret Shell

There isn’t a way to track which tricks you have performed, but if you don’t earn this during normal gameplay you can earn this any time by jumping and cycling through the tricks and directions.

The trophy is awarded for beating Tornamun, the final boss without taking any damage during the fight, then it will unlock after the credits. The fight against the final boss encompasses the entire final level of the game, Sky Abyss, and has 3 distinct sections. There aren’t any checkpoints during the fight so unfortunately if you take damage you need to do the final level over again, including watching the cutscenes and then sitting through the credits as the trophy unlocks at the end.

It’s not recommended to try going for this on your first playthrough of the level for that reason, as you could end up wasting a bunch of time continually restarting the level when you haven’t seen the whole thing. You should play through it fully for your first playthrough, then try this with chapter select after practising the whole level a couple times.

The first section of the level is when you are riding up the tower, and the only way to take damage is when the boss sending two separate waves of rocks down the sides of the tower toward you. The first wave happens after the initial section of arches where there is broken section of tower, and if you wish you can avoid them by dropping into the center of the tower below the platforms. The second wave is immediately after in the section with the boost spots around the whole tower, and you need to avoid the rocks by going between them.

Once you reach the second section of the level you are in a half pipe moving away from the boss, and need to continually shoot water balls at the boss by collecting the fish on the sides of the half pipe then pressing  after collecting enough. The boss has three different attacks in this section you need to avoid. The first that it will do the most is a laser that somewhat tracks toward you around the half pipe. To avoid it you need to go up the sides of the half pipe, then jump in the air and move toward the opposite side of the half pipe to get over it. The second attack is a wave of fire that travels toward you along the surface of the half pipe, which is avoided by going up either side and being in the air when it passes. The final attack is a series of rocks that fall toward the surface of the half pipe. When these occur you should stop trying to collect the fish and just stay in the half pipe, moving between the spots marked on the ground where the rocks are falling. The rocks can hit you in the air, so it’s easier to just stay on the ground while they are occurring and avoid them until they stop.

After you have hit the boss enough times you will move to the third section of the level, where occurs in a large water tube that you can travel fully around. The boss has 3 different attacks again in this section. The first is the laser again, which you can avoid by just rotating in the tube away from it. The second and third attacks will occur at the same time, where the boss sends waves of fire toward you. Some of the waves only take up sections of the tube, which you can avoid by just moving to a clear spot. The other attack is a ring on the ground that covers the entire section of tube, which you need to avoid by performing a charged jump over it.

During your first playthrough you shouldn’t worry about reaching a million points or specifically grinding for score. In NG+ when you go for the 2 hour speedrun you receive a 2x score bonus at the end of the game when you complete it in under 2 hours, which means you only need to reach 500,000 points during gameplay to hit this total at the end of the game. You can spend a few minutes during your playthrough grinding a high combo on groups of jellyfish by continually jumping between them while performing tricks in the air.

It is possible to earn this trophy on your first playthrough when completing the game for the first time. To do this, start the game on one save file and do tricks to earn some score, then either start over or copy your save to a second save slot in the main menu and complete the game on the second save slot. The game counts the score on the first slot as your game-wide score even if you haven’t finished the game, so beating that score when you complete the game for the first time awards this trophy.

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