Can you use chapter select to collect lives?

[CyberLance]

Im having an extremely hard time beating the quick time event levels on hard so im wondering is it possible to replay a chapter with an extra life over and over to get more lifes so i can make the quick time events easier?

In some games with chapter select if you go back to a previous chapter everything goes back to the way it was when you played it so if its like that on this game it wont save the lifes for me when i go back to the level im stuck on.

Also the trophy for beating the game on hard is apparantly buggy so im worried that if i use chapter select i wont be able to get the trophy when i beat the game so im not sure if i should use it or not.

[skotafactor]

I don’t think you can use chapter select to pick up crucifixes… unless you play from that point back up to where you were when you got stuck. But no I don’t think you can farm the same crucifix over and over. I just finished on hard after using chapter select quite a bit and neither the hard trophy or the tarot card trophy popped for me, so I recommend avoiding chapter select if possible.

[skotafactor]

…well now I’m not sure. I jump in ch. 2 trying to get the hard trophy to pop, and I realized I had 5 lives. Which is impossible normally.