This is for people who are interested in buying it and want to know what kind of replay value there is, a lot of people have criticized SotC for having no replay value but I hope this shines some light on it.
There are 4 modes in SotC, normal, normal time attack, hard and hard time attack; I will explain how it works.
When you finish the game on normal mode you will be able to save your game on a file, you have unlocked 2 things, normal time attack and hard, to play normal time attack simply load the save, you can pick hard mode on the title screen.
Normal time attack is normal mode but now when you start in the temple you can walk up to the statues and press circle in front of them to start time attack, time attack mode takes you straight to the colossus fight, if you fail you can start over so you don't have to make long journeys to reach them.
When you have beat the time you are set you will instantly be back at the temple and you are free to challenge any of the others, with every 2 time attacks you beat you get a secret item (8 unlockable items), it could be a weapon, a mask, maybe even a fruit locater, killing the colossus in time attack has nothing to do with the colossus you have to kill in the story, so basically say you kill the first colossi in time attack, you still have to kill it in the story to progress to the next colossi, but you can use the uber items you are unlocking on the way to kill them.
Now for Hard mode, people might tell you that when you find out the way to beat the colossus there no reason to play it after, this isn't the case because most of the colossus in hard mode has added weak points and also I've noticed there A.I is slightly different from normal mode.
Also in Hard you do often die with 1 direct hit, so if you accidentally fell under some colossi's feet you can easily get trampled to death, its very unforgiving compared to normal mode what's to forgiving.All the colossus takes a hell of a lot more damage than they do on normal, so you will find yourself losing your grip more frequently.
After you complete Hard mode you will be asked if you like to save the game, save it then you can open this save and just like it works in normal mode, you will be in hard mode but now you can play hard time attack.
Hard time attack has 8 different items to unlock, these items are different from normal, and they can't be transferred either way over, it's very challenging, and very frustrating, but its so rewarding when you take each one down.
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