Mortal Shell II - No, You Still Can’t Win

Requirement

Take the Tar Golem to his Minimum Health

Captured guidance

This trophy is awarded for reducing the final tutorial boss “Tar Golem” to 0 health. This boss works like typical soulslike tutorial boss where you are intended to lose against it, and reducing it to 0 health will cause this to happen immediately regardless of your own current health. You only fight the Tar Golem once during a playthrough during the tutorial section, you don’t fight it again during New Game+, so you need to earn this trophy at the start of your playthrough. You can make a backup save beforehand (PS+ Cloud) to reload if needed, and if you feel you start doing poorly during the fight you can pause and quit to main menu, which will put you right before the Bone Gate when you reload the game. The Tar Golem is a relatively slow enemy, and you can reduce its health to zero by mostly taking it slow and chipping away at it. It will end the fight eventually if you take too long t

Missable. Review the dedicated missables page before advancing the route.

This record reproduces a captured source conclusion with attribution. It is not claimed as independently verified gameplay.

Requirement boundary for No, You Still Can’t Win

No, You Still Can’t Win has the captured requirement “Take the Tar Golem to his Minimum Health.” Treat that wording as the exact completion question. The supporting summary may explain the cited route, but the title, icon, rarity, and neighboring trophies do not add hidden conditions. This companion attributes the record to the linked PowerPyx roadmap and last checked it on 2026-08-18. It does not claim an independent unlock test, inspect the platform account, or infer a missing step from the trophy name.

Break the requirement into a start state, player action, in-game result, and platform unlock. Write down which part the captured source establishes and which part still needs a current-build observation. If the requirement names several objects, encounters, or actions, verify each one instead of checking the whole target after the first match. If the wording is broad, keep the scope bounded to the cited roadmap rather than inventing a count, location, or sequence that the record does not supply.

Prepare the No, You Still Can’t Win attempt

No, You Still Can’t Win is flagged as missable in the captured roadmap. Before the named opportunity, inspect the dedicated missables record, create a platform save backup when the platform permits it, and export the companion profile as a separate file. Those artifacts protect different things: the save can recover gameplay, while the JSON export can recover local checklist state. Neither proves that the trophy condition was completed.

Open the attributed source before the relevant route point and compare its checked date with the game build being played. Confirm that the correct application, save slot, platform profile, and network state are in use. Clear unrelated experiments from the attempt: perform the smallest sequence that can satisfy Take the Tar Golem to his Minimum Health, then wait for the in-game and platform feedback. A nearby collectible, boss victory, or route transition is not proof unless it is the named condition.

Verify the unlock without guessing

Record the starting checkpoint, action performed, immediate game response, platform notification, and trophy-list state. If the notification is delayed, refresh the platform list through normal platform controls and preserve the time of the attempt. Do not repeat an irreversible action merely because a pop-up was absent, and do not mark No, You Still Can’t Win complete from memory. The platform trophy state is the unlock evidence; the game's local state can support diagnosis but is not a substitute for it.

If the requirement appears satisfied but the unlock is missing, check the known-issues record for a symptom that names the same target and version. Capture the shortest reproducible sequence before restoring a save or replaying the action. One failed attempt can justify keeping the target open and documenting a mismatch; it cannot prove that No, You Still Can’t Win is broken for every player or that the attributed requirement is universally wrong.

Manage the local No, You Still Can’t Win state

The progress button stores one local companion target for No, You Still Can’t Win. Set it complete only after the platform unlock is confirmed. Unknown means the condition has not been verified; skipped means a route decision intentionally deferred it; failed means an observed attempt did not produce the expected result. Keep those states distinct so the roadmap percentage remains an honest summary. Exported progress can restore this local choice, but it cannot award a trophy or modify the game save.

Close the record with the source URL, 2026-08-18 review date, game build, platform, save slot identifier that contains no private credential, action, observation, and final target state. If a patch or new source changes the requirement, preserve the older receipt and reopen only the affected question. One successful run confirms the local outcome; broader wording should remain attributed until independently cross-checked.