The Faithful Leap Shrine Climb, like the Mount Yotei Shrine Climb is another fairly involved, lengthy activity that takes you to an area off the normal map. If you persist and reach the summit, however, you can pray at a shrine to obtain the Charm of Futsunishi, and this page will provide instructions for how to reach the Faithful Leap Shrine’s summit in Ghost of Yotei.
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| Charm of Futsunushi |
The location of the Faithful Leap Shrine on the map.
Follow trails of white flowers and they - along with the odd Torii - will lead to the start of this Shrine Climb.
Faithful Leap Shrine Location¶
The entrance to the Faithful Leap Shrine can be found along the eastern edge of the Tokachi Range, southeast of the “Hidaka Grove” text on the map and northeast of the “Twin Ponds of Hidaka” text. If you approach from the southwest you’ll find Torii gates along a trail of white flowers that guide you to the shrine, but there’s also Torii gates north of the “Arata’s Pond” map marker.
(1 of 5) Follow the Torii until the path vanishes into disrepair, a tree on the edge of the cliff marks the path up.
Faithful Leap Shrine Summit Directions¶
Follow a trail of white flowers uphill towards the start of the Shrine Climb until the flowers end, then continue under another Torii gate uphill. The Shrine Climb starts where the path forward ends, with a large tree trunk jutting out of the cliff serving as a fine landmark:
- Jump a gap and approach the large tree trunk.
- Hold
, then 
and push back on the 
to use your grapple to dislodge a branch from the trunk. - Jump onto the branch you just dislodge, then jump towards another branch, grapple and swing off it and grapple again to catch a tree trunk. Climb up to the ledge the trunk is growing out of.
- Climb some ledges, pass through a Torii gate, then turn right to spot a rope in the distance. Jump towards it, grapple to catch the rope, then climb up.
- Head towards a tree on the far side of the rope, then turn right and jump onto a branch.
- Jump across to another branch, then onto a ledge.
- Grapple and pull a tree to lower a branch, then jump onto the branch and look left a bit to spot another branch in the distance you can jump over to.
- Jump to the aforementioned branch, then jump onto a ledge with a stone frog statue on it.
- Turn left, climb a ledge, turn left again and cross some beams, then turn right and climb onto a higher ledge.
- Pass through a cleft in the rocks ahead. This will fast travel you a good ways to the east, deep into the “fog of war” on the edge of the map.
You’ve done a bit of platforming, but there’s still quite a bit left to do! Fortunately this Shrine Climb has a good break that we can use to make the directions look a bit less cluttered. Once you’ve passed through the cleft you’ll continue with the second, longer section of the Shrine Climb:
- After passing through the cleft, head forwards towards a Torii, which now just marks a collapsed bridge. From here turn right to find some ledges and climb them.
- Cross a log bridge to the right.
- Turn left and head uphill past some trees towards a Torii. The Torii is on a high rock formation - it’s a landmark, not a destination. To the left of and below the Torii is a tree with a branch you can jump and grapple onto. Do so, then swing, jump and grapple to catch a rope and climb up it.
- Turn right and head to the end of the rope, then turn left to find a tree branch you can jump onto.
- Jump onto the branch, then onto a ledge.
- Climb up and cross some bundled bamboo, then turn right and jump up onto another bundle of bamboo. Hey! You reached the Torii!
- Turn left (opposite the Torii) and cross another bundle of bamboo.
- Drop down onto another bundle of bamboo and from there jump onto a ledge ahead.
- Go up some stairs and through a short cave.
- After exiting the cave, continue forward and you’ll see a bundle of bamboo you can jump over to, but you have options! You can also turn left to find a ledge you can climb on, then work your way uphill, follow the rocks right twice to reach… the same bamboo bundle, but you could have picked some pretty flowers along the way!
- Cross this next batch of bundled bamboo and follow the ferns until they terminate at a stone ledge.
- Jump, grapple and swing across two branches, then grapple onto a climb upon a rope.
- Turn right, follow the rope up to reach a ledge, then look right and grapple and pull down a branch.
- Jump onto the branch you just pulled down, then jump onto bundled bamboo and turn left to reach a cliff, then left again to find a plank you can jump over towards.
- From the plank, jump onto a bamboo bundle, follow it to the end, then look right to find a trunk on the edge of a cliff.
- Jump, grapple and climb the trunk to reach a higher ledge.
- Climb some ledges and you’ll find yourself near some Torii gates. The one to the right just leads to a broken bridge, so go under the Torii gate to the left.
- Descend some ledges and cross a rope.
- Jump onto a branch at the end of the rope, then jump towards another rope, grapple it to catch it, then climb up to the rope.
- Cross the rope to the right, turn left, then jump onto and across some planks.
- Jump off the second plank towards a branch and grapple and swing over to a distant trunk. Use the trunk to climb up to the ledge it’s on the edge of.
- Turn right and cross some bundled bamboo and at the end jump up and grapple and climb up to a rope above you.
- Cross the rope to a distant tree, turn right and jump, grapple and climb up to another rope.
- Walk to the end of this next rope, then turn right and jump onto a stone ledge.
- Climb the ledges and pass through a cleft in the rocks. The shrine at the summit, finally, lies beyond this cleft.
Pray at the shrine at the summit to obtain the Charm of Futsunushi.
Charm of Futsunushi¶
Well, that was a long one! At the end of this complicated Shrine Climb, however, is the summit, and if you pray to the shrine here you’ll obtain the Charm of Futunushi. This charm expands the timing window for parrying, perfect parrying and perfect dodging, which is good if you’re having trouble getting the timing down and are too stubborn to just lower the difficulty.
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