A trick you can use to help conserve healing items.

[Fatmagic]

If you're at the point where the medical cross is showing in the bottom right corner, at 25% or less, go back to the nearest save point, save, and then reload that save. It will reset your health to around the 50% mark, at the first tier of red vignette.

At the very least this works on Light and Normal mode. I have yet to confirm it for Hard Mode.

[Raywhisper]

Thats neat but sounds like too much of a hussle.

[Fatmagic]

Originally posted by Raywhisper:

Thats neat but sounds like too much of a hussle.

It is a bit painstaking, but if your resources are scarce, it can help you stretch what little you have left.

[medion_no]

There are tons of healing items in this game. Over time you learn to shoot enemies in the knees and use shotgun shells on the ninja mannequins and its a breeze.

[TheRandomHobo]

The game isn't that hard, just learn to dodge

[Fatmagic]

Originally posted by TheRandomHobo:

The game isn't that hard, just learn to dodge

I'm just saying if a player is desperately low on healing items for some reason, they can use this trick to stretch them out a bit longer.

Only happened across it because I'm going for In Water and constantly keeping my health at critical.

[Mirona]

on normal i had over 60 heals left at the end of the game without any save point abuse glitchess. but you do you

[Fatmagic]

Originally posted by Mirona:

on normal i had over 60 heals left at the end of the game without any save point abuse glitchess. but you do you

It's like reading comprehension goes out the window on these forums.

I'm not using it myself, I just happened to discover it randomly on my 3rd playthrough because of the way I'm playing this one (for the ending), and I'm saying that if a player, for whatever reason, finds themselves low on healing items, this could help them a bit.

[cheetah1546]

Thanks for this as I don't mind going back to the save point a few times

[Fatmagic]

Looks like there are select points where the game fully heals you for free as well.

One of them is when you enter Heaven's Night.

[Fatmagic]

Looks like this trick does NOT work on Hard Mode. Reloaded a save where I was on the 2nd vignette with the cross silhouette showing. Loading it did not bump me back up.

So it must be an intentional design choice to help out on lower difficulties.

Edit: Okay, it does work to a small degree on Hard, actually. If you're on the blinking cross and one hit from death, saving and reloading will reset you to the second vignette, the non-blinking cross.

That's so little health though it may as well not exist at all. That's one hit on Hard at best.

[Wolfram]

Originally posted by TheRandomHobo:

The game isn't that hard, just learn to dodge

I hope you played on hard difficulty with this comment lmao. I am and it's kicking my ass. ONE failed dodge and I'm almost dead. I've played souls games and done challenge runs but this game is brutal. I dig it though I'm not complaining, I'm just saying hard mode is a HUGE jump in difficulty and the bosses are bullet sponges as well.