God of War Collection Walkthrough

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Untitled|------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| L1 / R1 | Scroll Menu Screens |o------------------------o---------------------------------------------------o

O========================o===================================================O| On Ground Controls | Function |O========================o===================================================O| Left analog | Walk / Run / Climb ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| Right analog | Evade ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| X | Jump ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| X + X | Double Jump ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| Square | Normal Attack ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| Triangle | Heavy Attack ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| Circle | Grab Enemies ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| L1 | Block (Parry if block at right time) |

|------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| D-Pad | Select Magic (when acquired) ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| L2 | Use Item / Magic ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| R2 | Action / Interact with world ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| L3 + R3 | Rage of the Gods (When rage meter full) ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| Triangle (Hold) | Launch and follow enemy into the air ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| X (After enemy launch) | Super Jump ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| Circle (Enemy in air) | Chain Grab ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|

| Start | Access Menu Screens ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| R2 (Hold) + X (Charge) | To Kick Objects |o------------------------o---------------------------------------------------o

O========================o===================================================O| In Air Basics | Function |O========================o===================================================O| Square | Horizontal Attack ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| Triangle | Vertical Attack ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| Circle | Air Grap ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| L1 | Block ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| D-Pad | Select Magic (When acquired) ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| L2 | Use Item / Magic ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| R1 | Hercules Stomp ||------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|| Circle (Hold) | Rope Swing (when hanging on a rope) |o------------------------o---------------------------------------------------o

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UntitledO============================================================================O| Full Walkthrough (00000) |O============================================================================O

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At the very beginning of the game you're given control of Kratos, a man whowields two swords attached to the end of very long chains. Using acombination of the square (weak attack) and triangle (strong attack) buttonsyou can perform numerous different combos at the start. To save you the timeof learning everything progressively with the tutorials you can also throwenemies with circle, block attacks with L1 and evade by moving the rightanalog stick. Get yourself accustomed to the controls by smashing through allthe enemies in this area. Note a fun little tip, when you press the circlebutton to grab enemies you can perform three different throws. While holdingthe enemy press either circle, triangle or square to do one of the threedifferent throws. After all the enemies have been disposed approach the trapdoor in the upper left corner and press the R2 button to grab hold. Continueto press the R2 button over and over again until the trap door opens then dropdown. There's a treasure chest right here when you land, hold the R2 button

to grab on and open it. Inside a number of green orbs will refill yourhealth. You can break many of the objects in this area to get red orbs as youcontinue North down the hallway. Head down into the next hallway.

Here you will be ambused by a large "miniboss." It's the head of a hydra andit's extremely angry. To defeat this boss you need to run up to it and attackusing a combination of square and triangle attacks to dish out as much damageas possible. The boss will be constantly attacking and size that's virtuallyimpossible to dodge you need to block it instead. When the head moves back tostrike just stand where you are and hold the L1 button to protect yourselffrom the attack and go in swinging madly after each one. Continue thisprocess over and over until you've knocked out about half its health. At thatpoint it will fall down and the option to play a minigame appears. Toinitiate the minigame press the circle button when you see the circle iconappear over the beast's head. Now you have to press the button that appears

on screen quickly, if you see a triangle press the triangle button and so on.Doing this will treat you to a rather violent and brutal scene.

Once the monster is gone continue forward and begin to cross over the pit onthe beams that extend overtop. It's quite a balancing act but if you happento slip you can usually just tap the X button to climb back up again. If youfall entirely just swim back to the start and give it another try. Break thebarrels on the other side to get all the red orbs and then jump through thecrack in the wall to the left. There's a man in the cage at the end of thepath, you can speak to him using the R2 button. Climb the stairs on the rightand open the treasure chest to receive a whole bunch of red orbs. Continuedown the hall past the wooden barrier and kick open the door with the R2button. Outside you'll find a huge chaotic scene of violence involving somenasty winged creatures ripping men apart. Return the favour by using thecircle button to rip their wings off completely, this will occur for manyenemies throughout the game, special throws based on the type of enemy theyare. It's an unfortunate truth that the innocent men running around on deckwill drop health when killed, so if you need it then just start swingingmadly. After defeating a few of the creatures and thinning them out a littlerun to the opposite side of the deck where you will find two doors. Approachone of them and open it by tapping the R2 button, it will reveal a chestcontaining red orbs as will the second one. Head back and continue yourslaughter of the winged cratures, eventually a boss will appear.

This actually isn't so much a boss as a miniboss again. It has a few basicattacks, first there's a generic bite attack which bites down on the spot

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Untitledwherever you are stand, simply block this attack. The second attack themonster will pound its head down on the left side followed by the right sidefollowed by the middle so knowing this pattern be sure to avoid it entirely.Finally the creature has a swiping attack where it uses its head to swingaround on the ground and swipe you to the side. This one can by jumping ifyou double jump and time it correctly. The last one is an attack you actuallywant it to perform. It grabs you in it's mouth but using the circle buttonand tapping it as fast as you can you can break free and do some seriousdamage to the creature in the process, so it's actually beneficial to be hitby this. While you're not in its mouth however just stick with normaltriangle and square attacks to defeat the creature, you must drain all itshealth this time rather than just a partial amount to kill it.

After defeating the miniboss drop down into the water where its head hadpopped up from since there is now a hole in the ship. Swim up down thecorridor and grab hold of the mesh net at the end. Start climbing up and jumpback onto the ship when you reach the top. The game will now teach you a newattack, hold the triangle button to do an upward swing and launch an enemyinto the air. You will automatically jump up along with him so while airbornepress the circle button to do an air throw, this manoeuvre can be prettyhelpful at times so keep it in mind. Start tiptoeing across the pole leadingoff the upper right side of the ship, if you fall then you die but the

checkpoint was quite recently don't worry. When you reach a fork take theright branch to find a chest containing red orbs. Go back and take the leftbranch to reach another ship. Head up to trigger a cutscene.

Following the scene open the nearby chest to reveal a whole bunch of healinggreen orbs. Left of the chest is a glowing save point, while standing on thesave point press the R2 button to bring up the save menu and then you can saveyour game. Back on the ship drop down and run up to find a crate behind thefirst box on your right. Using the R2 button you can grab hold of the crateand either push or pull it in any direction. You can also hold the X buttonto charge up and kick the crate in the direction you are facing. What youneed to do is get this crate all the way down to where the archers areshooting at you because the ledge is too high to jump up to. The problem isthat the arrows can actually destroy the crate, and while another one willrespawn you have to go back and try again so the easiest way to do it is

charge up a kick when no arrows are coming at you and release right beforethey hit. Kick the crate all the way to the end underneath the archers anduse it to double jump up and grab hold of the ledge. Kill off all the archersand then open up the treasure chest containing green orbs. Head down to theend of the hall and you'll find a locked door but you cannot open it. Youronly option is to climb up the ladder on the opposite side and leave them.

There's a large net here and it is your only means of going further. Approachthe net to automatically grab hold of it and begin to climb. Note as you areclimbing that you can attack and grab still while on the net. Grabbing isgoing to be most helpful, the best grab is the one you do while holding up onthe left analog stick since it's fast and effective. The other grab is goodif there's multiple enemies around. Note that as you climb you can hold upand press the X button to climb up faster. On the way up there's a platformbut still more net to climb after that, when you reach the very top head downand balance across the large pole. At the other side of this pole is a lonechest containing a stash of red orbs. Now head back across and jump up tograb that long rope leading from the top of the pole down to the other ship.Break open the left and right wooden blockades to reveal a chest containingred orbs on the left and a Gorgon Eye on the right. Collect a total of sixGorgon Eyes to permanently increase you maximum health (so in other words, youjust got a Blue Orb Fragment.) Break through the middle and approach theglowing blue flame down at the end. Here you will meet the one of the manyGreek gods who assists you with your quest by granting you a special powerwhich in this case comes in the form of a magic spell. Using the L2 buttonyou can crate a huge blast of lightning around you and deal heavy damage to

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Untitledfoes. It's quite an effective attack in large groups and for bosses actually.Use Poseidon's Rage here to take out the enemies that spawn around you,there's now a blue bar below you health which represents your magic power andusing Poseidon's rage drains this bar, but you can refill your magic bydefeating some enemies or finding chests with blue orbs in them. Head throughthe door that Poseidon's head was blocking and make your way outside again.On your left is another save point which may come in handy here; on the rightare two treasure chests which will fully restore both your health and yourmagic power. Climb the net and get ready for a boss fight.

There are three Hydra's here, two babies and one absolutely enormous Hydrawhich you cannot even access because when you try to climb up the net in themiddle the two smaller Hydras will automatically knock you off every singletime. So here's what you need to do in order to kill this boss. First of allyou should fight these two smaller Hydras the same way you fought the previousone with the exception that they will not grab you in their mouths, but onevery large advantage you have now that you didn't have before is Poseidon'sRage. Regardless kill the smaller Hydras however you see fit but you'llnotice that once they go down you cannot hurt them anymore and after a certainamount of time they will come back to life with almost full health again.There's a special trick here, when one of the Hydras is down notice that thereare a bunch of crates piled up beside them. Hop up these crates and there

above their heads is a large anchor-like object under a suspended platform.Jump on top of this platform and it will break and descend into the beast'sneck, pinning it in place permanently. Now all you have to do is the exactsame thing with the Hydra on the other side and both of them will be pinneddown so that they cannot prevent you from climbing up to reach the real boss.

The real boss too is a Hydra but far larger than any your have ever seenbefore. It has a few basic attacks mostly involving large biting motions. Ithas a weaker bite attack which it pulls it's head back and bites the middle ofthe platform you're on. The best way to avoid taking damage is to double jumpand hold the block button, the teeth won't hurt you. Blocking isn't soeffective when he pulls his head back to the side and does a more powerfulchomp on either the left and right side of you platform. Your best bet is topredict which side he's going to chomp and jump away from it while holding theblock button in the air. The final one is a big stupid roar meant to blow you

off the top but in the end as long as you're holding the block button theattack can do no such thing. Your main goal is to use the opportunities whenthe monster bites down on the platform to start hacking and slashing away andwhile you can hack and slash at it while it's in the normal stance as well,magic should only be used right after the creature bites down, run up to itshead and zap it then move into a combo of square and triangle attacks whichshould actually refill your magic pretty well. Now you'll also want to knowhow to actually damage the boss. When you've take off about a third of hislife the minigame circle icon will appear. Press circle and you'll be giventhe chance to tap as fast as you can and end up slamming the monsters headagainst the pole. His life refills as this point and it seems like nothinghappened but if you look close you'll see the pole has actually splintered.You need to do this a total of three times before the pole actually breaks.Now once its broken damage the boss for about one third of its health andthere's a chance to do a new minigame, I won't spoil it, but it's awesome.

Note that I have received a good amount of email from people claiming that nomatter how hard they try, they cannot slam the boss' head against the pillar,no matter how fast they press circle it does not work. I'm telling you knowin all honesty that I cannot help you, I have never experienced this problemspersonally. Obviously it's either one of two things. First, these peoplejust aren't tapping circle fast enough, tap it faster! Second considering thevolume of people having this problem there's always a chance it could be aglitch in the game, it's not free of them that's for sure. In this case all Ican recommend is starting over, you're still near the beginning, it shouldn'ttake you too long to get here again and hopefully then you can get it.

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When the boss is dead you need to actually run into his mouth and down histhroat. There's a man hanging on for his life at the end, press the R2 buttonto trigger a quick scene. Now you've got the key to that locked door frombefore. Exit the monsters innards and climb up the crates on the right sideof the ship. You can jump and grab the mesh netting at the top, there's twochests here containing health and another Gorgon Eye. Jump up into the airand grab onto the sliding rope. You'll drop in a familiar place, you can usethe save point to save your game and then run down the lower area to reach thecrate which is still in position. Double jump up to the ledge and headthrough the hall to reach the locked door. Approach the door and use the keyby pressing the R2 button, run to the end of the hall and use the R2 buttononce again to kick down the door. This scene marks the end of the first area.

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When you start off in this area you can speak to the women in your bed usingthe R2 button. Be sure to jump up on the bed and "interact" with them. Yeah.Anyway you can read your diary over in the corner of the room if you wish.

Leave this place and break all the objects along the way as you go to findnumerous red orbs. There's a save point down at the far end of the hall.Continue along and open the chest to refill your magic entirely and then getthe green orbs as well before you ascend the ladder. You can speak to thestatue at the front of your ship using the R2 button if you wish. Use theplank leading from the right side down onto the docks. At the end you'llencounter some new enemies, these are more difficult than the ones you'vefaced previously, you cannot grab them normally you must first damage them tothe point where the circle button icon appears above their head and then youcan use a throw to finish them off. You're taught once again that the L1button is block for good reason, these things have a nasty habit of slashingyou up, so be sure to block regularly between attacks. Run down to the end ofthe path where you will find a huge cracked hole in the wall. Jump throughthis to land in the water on the other side. Jump up to the door and headdown the hall where you'll encounter a bunch of enemies but also find a chest

in the corner containing a Phoenix Feather. Collect a total of six of theseto permanently increase your magic bar. At the end of the hall back outsideagain there's a chest with green orbs inside. Jump up onto the crates anddrop down to find yourself back at the beginning again. Return to where thelarge crack in the wall was but this time jump across the gap to find a leveron a platform. You can pull this lever using R2 and ride the elevator up.

At the top there's a chest containing green orbs but if you just got the onebefore coming up here leave it for now because you may nee it after. You'reabout to encounter a new type of enemy, the minotaur. To defeat these enemiesfirst you must use normal attacks and blocks to damage it to the point wherethe circle button icon appears above its head. If you press circle at thispoint you'll be thrust into a minigame where you have to tap the circle buttonas fast as you can to finish the beast off. It is possible just to attacknormally and kill it like that, but as the games notes doing it this way willmean that the enemy drops healing green orbs every single time. Down at theend of this path is a chest to refill your magic power, and don't forget thehealing chest you may have left prior to fighting the three beasts. Followthe path along and ride the next elevator up. You will find yourself in alarge area guarded by a powerful enemy who fires a large spiked ball out ofhis hand. Blocking this yields rather unfortunate results so your best bet isto dodge it entirely using the right analog stick to evade. Jumping is alsoquite an effective dodging technique. When the monster has take enough damagepress circle to initiate the minigame where you must correctly hit a randombutton that appears on screen quickly in order to keep up with the animationand finish the monster off. You'll need to fight a total of three of them in

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Untitledthis area, when you've got two of them coming at you at once try letting loosea Poseidon's Rage between them for massive damage to both.

After the large creatures are dead there are a couple of things to check out.First run to the upper right corner to find a hidden chest full of red orbs.You'll also note that there is a chest with green orbs near the door, andanother one if you jump over the edge at the lower right corner. You probablywon't need both of them right now and since you'll be back here again makenote of where they are but save at least one of them for later. You shouldnote however that the one near the door changes colours, press the R2 buttonwhile it is the colour of the orb you wish to get and it will remain thatcolour when opened. Follow the hall up past this magic chest to reach a largeroom with crates piled up high. Here's what you want to do, first notice thattwo of these stacks of crates actually have wooden crates holding them up atthe bottom. Break these two wooden crates to shorten the height of the stacksand reveal the exit to the room. Don't be too hasty however. First doublejump onto the crate at the lower left corner. From here jump diagonally uperand right to reach the central crate stack. Now across from you there is aplatform with a ladder and a treasure chest, resist the urge to jump there fornow and instead jump right to grab hold of a taller crate stack. From hereyou can see an opening in the wall with two chests inside, one refills yourmagic entirely and the other nets you another Gorgon Eye. Jump back across

and this time land on the stack with the ladder, inside the chest you'll finda whole bunch of red orbs. Climb the ladder and start to shimmy across to theend of the small ledge. When you reach the end hold left on the analog stick(the opposite direction you're facing) and double jump to grab hold of themesh net on the nearby crate stack. Get on top of this stack and jump left toreach the door, but you aren't done yet. Jump up onto the crate opposite thedoor and then across once again to the next one where you'll find anotherchest with red orbs inside. Now you can jump back and go through the door.

Open the chest in this room if you really need it, but not if you only "kindof" need it because almost guaranteed you WILL need it soon. Approach theflaming door and watch the scene. Now it's time to face off against theleader of the Gorgons, Medusa. She has a couple of basic attacks, but themost notable is the stone gaze. Now and then she will fire a green beam outand if you are caught in this beam for too long you will turn to stone. You

don't die instantly when turned to stone but even the slightest tap willshatter you and kill you, if you happen to be turned to stone throw the leftanalog stick around like crazy to get out of it. Anyway the main thing tokeep in mind is that you never want to jump while she is doing this attack, ifyou are turned to stone in mid-air you will shatter when you land. Insteadyou have two options, the first is to roll around using the right analog stickwhich is a fairly effective tactic, the second works even better. When theMedusa begins to use this attack simply run up to her and cast Poseidon'sRage. Combo her using the square and triangle attacks as much as possible tokeep knocking her down, that's the best way to avoid damage from her normalattacks and eventually the circle button icon will appear over her head.Press it to grab her and initiate the minigame. What you need to do is pressthe left analog stick in the direction of the tail of the arrow you see onscreen and rotate it in the direction shown. Doing this correctly two timeswill have you rip off the beast's head and give you the Medusa's Gaze. Nowyou can cycle between Poseidon's Rage and Medusa's Gaze with the D-Pad. Thestone beam uses up magic power but catch enemies in the beam long enough andthey will be turned to stone, at that point you can quickly shatter them witha normal attack. Hold L2 and press square to fire the beam at enemies, killall of the minitaur's that appear in this room with the gaze to continue.

Head through the door that was previously blocked by Aphrodite and defeat allthe enemies in this hallway. There's a large ladder to climb up at the end,climb up this ladder to the point where you're just about at the top. Nowdouble jump backward in the opposite direction and you should land on aplatform archway with a treasure chest on it. Open this chest to get a stash

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Untitledof red orbs. From here you can also jump into an opening in the left wall tofind even more red orbs. Return to the ladder and ascend it all the way tothe top. Immediately as you start moving you will find a lever in front ofyou, avoid pulling it for the moment. Instead approach the crossbow in themiddle and hold R2 to grab onto it. While holding R2 hold down on the leftanalog stick as well until Kratos fires it automatically. This reveals breaksa hole in the wall and reveals two chests. Ignore it for now. Open the chestwith the green orbs if you need it and then save your game at the nearby savepoint. Head back down and bit and pull the level to turn the crossbow to faceanother direction. Before doing anything pull it a second time to make thecrossbow facing to your left. Go forward and fire it, this breaks a hole inthe wall and allows you to get the chest containing another Phoenix Feather.Pull the lever one final time so that it faces straight up and fire to breakdown the door. Shooting another arrow accomplishes nothing at the moment.

Follow the newly opened hallway and make a left at the fork. Drop down to thebottom and defeat all the enemies here, there's a chest beside the gate with aGorgon Eye inside. Tap the R2 button while standing beside the gate to openit, but now you need to go back. Turn around and climb up the ladder whereyou just came from. At the fork you will see a ladder on the right wallleading up, climb this ladder now. Outside you'll be ambushed by a bunch ofnormal enemies, just wipe them all up before you try the following. See where

there is a partial ladder? Start climbing up the wall there. Part way up thestack of crates on your left will end and you can actually stop and stand ontop of them. Drop from this stack of crates onto the red roof of the buildingon your left. From this building you can jump straight up and land in thearea where you broke the wall away using the crossbow and open up the cheststo get a whole bunch of red orbs. Drop down and head through the gate youopened just recently and climb up the two ladders to reach the area with thewall you started to climb. This time climb up further and start making yourway across to the right, note that you can jump sideways as well as up. Watchout for all the enemies as you go, take your time and smash them to avoidbeing pulled off. When you reach the right side climb down slowly until youhit ground below. There's a thin walkway leading along the left side, followit to reach a huge statue. An R2 icon appears when you get up to it so begintapping R2 as fast as you can to knock the statue over.

Beyond the statue is a chest with green orbs inside and a ladder leading down.Climb down the ladder and jump up onto the head of the broken statue, you cannow jump to reach the bottom of the ladder. Up top there are a couple ofnormal Gorgon enemies to fight which are just weaker versions of the queenMedusa. Check the left side for a chest containing green orbs and then climbfurther up the ladder to reach the next level. You can damage the two pillarson the left side and use them to jump on to reach the top level. Use thecrossbow here to fire an arrow with a rope tied to the back off to the otherside of the area. Walk around to the front of the crossbow and double jump tograb onto this rope. It's not a sliding rope but rather a hand-over-hand ropefor you to go across. The triangle button allows you to do a range attackswhile the square button does a quick attack and the circle button does aninstant kill grab attack. Just make your way across sticking with the circlebutton grab most of the time even though you'll take a bit of damage, justdon't underestimate the obnoxiousness of the enemies coming from behind youand start spinning the left analog stick wildly if one of them grabs you.Drop down on the other side and open the chest to refill your health entirelyand go down the hall to the left. Open this door by tapping the R2 button andreturn to the crossbow. Save your game here and then fire the crossbow in thedirection you just came from to break open the door. With the door opened awhole bunch of enemies swarm into the hall. Rather than going up to fighteach one individually simply keep using the crossbow and fire four arrows toinstantly kill four minotaurs, pretty sweet. Run to the end of the hall andclimb up the ladder to find a red orb and green orb chest. After that dropdown to the bottom of the ladder and follow the path outside for a scene.

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Ascend the stairs and watch the quick scene at the top. Use the save point onyour right and then follow the left path down into the city. The main pathbecomes blocked so head left into the tunnel here. The gate blocks you in soyou're left with a couple of hammer wielding minotaurs. The important thingto note in here is that there is a button on the ground below you where if youpress it then the gate at the other end opens, but if you step off it then thegate closes. If the solution to this is not already obvious then listenclose, lure one of the minotaurs onto the button and then use the Medusa'sGaze to freeze him there. Now you can run to the end and get through the gatewhile it's still open. Don't worry if you happen to run out of magic whiledoing this, the blue orb chest near the top automatically refills after youempty it. Open the chest past the gate to refill your health and then followthe tunnel out into the the city area where everyone is running wild.

Jump up onto the roof of the second house of your right. You can break downthe door here and check inside the house to find a chest full of red orbs.Break down the front door of the house across the street to find another stash

of red orbs. Next door you can jump up and grab the ledge above the frontdoor, and from here jump onto the roof where you will find a chest containingmore red orbs. Check inside the next house down the road on your left to geta Phoenix Feather. From here continue to follow the road until it curves tothe left, when it does the house on the curve (on the right side) has a chestcontaining red orbs if you jump up onto the roof and break down the door. Goone house down still on the right side and through the front door is anotherchest full of red orbs. A couple of houses down on the left side go throughthe front door and open both the chests to find a Gorgon Eye and a PhoenixFeather. A couple more houses down on the right side is a chest containingred orbs. Check the second and third last houses on the left side to get twomore stashes of red orbs. Now smash through those blockades at the end.

Double jump across and grab the rope that is hanging down from above. Holdthe circle button to begin swinging and when you come to the highest point of

the swing press the X button to jump and you should be able to grab onto theother rope. Before swinging across however hold up and the left analog stickto climb. At the top you can jump left to find a treasure chest with many redorbs inside. Now from here you can just double jump and land on the ground onthe other side. Continue from here down into the Athens Town Square.

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There's people running around like crazy here and you know what that means,free health whenever you want and that's good because your about to face offagainst the cyclops, a new type of enemy. This whole section is extremelyfrustrating for one reason and one reason only, but I'll get to that in aminute. To defeat the cyclops simply stick with square button attacks anddodge their attacks with the R3 stick rather than trying to block them. Onceenough damage has been done the circle icon appears and allows you to smashtheir face on the ground, it's not an instant kill but it does good damage.The frustrating thing is that half the time you're actually trying to do thisyou're going to end up grabbing some stupid townsperson instead and miss aperfectly good opportunity, it's annoying as hell but at least it makes mefeel less bad about picking them off for health. Kill all the enemies here.

Take the hallway at the upper left side of the town square and follow it to anice wide open room with pretty reflecting floors. In this room there are

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Untitledthree wall panels you can break open to reveal an urn, a chest with blue orbsand a chest with a Gorgon Eye inside. Climb to the top of the stairs and openthe chest with green orbs inside. Jump across the gap and follow the woman upthe stairs for a scene. (Incidentally if you drop down where you jumped thegap you can find some objects to break for red orbs and a magic green/blue orbtreasure chest.) There's a save point at the top here and if you jump leftyou'll find a chest with a Phoenix Feather inside. Drop down where the ladyfell and examine her body to get a Key. Now climb all the way back up towhere you just dropped from. On your way there you'll find a bunch of enemieswith special yellow shields, these shield can be broken by doing a couple ofnormal square attacks followed by a triangle attack. Jump to the right of thesave point and use the key to unlock the trap door. Tap the R2 button to openit and jump down inside. Use the save point here and follow the tunnel alonguntil you reach a gate. Open it by tapping the R2 and climb the stairs.

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| _ -----o-----\ Rooftops of Athens |\_/ (00005) \-----------------------------------------------------------o

There's a large vine growing up the side of the wall on the right side, thisis where you need to start climbing up. When you reach a point where you

can't climb any higher press the left analog stick in the opposite directionand double jump across to grab the vine on the other side. Continue up andthen do this again, finally jump across to the left when you reach the top andget the chests containing blue and green orbs, when you go outside you'llencounter a new type of enemy. This enemy moves about underground and burstsup dealing damage to you in the process, to defeat them you should alwaysblock when they are approaching from underground and then start attacking whenthey pop out. Soon after some rather obnoxious guys with bows will appear onthe stairs, take the time to run over and kill them otherwise they'll probablyend up really pissing you off while you're trying to fight. Grab the chestwith the green orbs after the battle and start to climb up the stairs. Thispart can get rather difficult so stay on your guard and only attack when it'ssafe, you need to fend off a bunch of those skeleton warriors as well as thelarge beast with the spikey ball. After the battle grab the chest with thegreen orbs at the top and then go back down and through the door.

Head down at first and you'll find a chest full of red orbs. Now start tocross the bridge where all those soldiers met their end and double jump acrossto the platform. From here you can double jump and grab hold of the vinesthat line the side of the pillar in the middle. Shimmy around to the rightside and then jump to the next pillar. Try to time your jumps between thearrows fired from the enemies so that you aren't struck in mid air and fall toyour doom. On the second pillar climb around to the right side and jumpacross. Open the chest here and get the red orbs. You'll come to a fork upthe path, at this fork is a chest that changes colour, refill either yourhealth or magic whichever needs it more. Take the right path at the savepoint and save your game in the next room. Ascend the ladder at the top.

You'll find a ladder at the upper right corner of the roof, go up and get thetwo treasure boxes here for eithe magic or health and a Gorgon Eye. Drop downagain and jump across to the other building on the left side. Here you'llfind a multicoloured chest again and if you jump across to the left you cangrab onto a rope. Swing and jump to reach the other side where you'll find atreasure trove of health, magic and red orbs which you can barely open thanksto those stupid archers in the background. It's possible to kill them laterand come back for these so you can do that if you wish. Head back and smashthe wooden barrier beside the chest so that you can jump across to the nextbuilding. Break the barrier and this building and double jump across, youcertainly won't make it to the ledge but you will grab onto the vines thatadorn the wall. Climb up and open the chest to refill your magic power.

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UntitledThere's a shiny object on the ground up the ramp, press the R2 button for aquick scene and then continue along the path to a ramp which you can kick downwith the R2 button. Head back down to the save point room and go out thedoor, this time take the upper left path. You'll come to a large ballista(crossbow thing) which you can grab hold of with the R2 button. Push and kickthis thing down into the next room. Now in this room you will notice an oddpanel on the floor, go to the door beside it and use the R2 button to pull itopen. Inside a ton of enemies spawn but you can take them all out quicklyusing the Poseidon's Rage. After they're taken care of go out and place theballista on the gear shaped panel in the floor, now pull the lever. Leave theroom and grab the ballista which has been turned 90 degrees and pull it offthe panel. Pull the lever once again to reset it and put the ballista backon. Turn it one more time and it will be rotated to face toward thatimmovable door. Set it in the middle of the room, then pull back and fire.

Before going through the door that you just smashed open, climb up the ladderthat the lever brought down and get the chest containing red orbs. Pull openthe door at the upper right as well to find a multicoloured chest. Now headthrough the door in the centre and follow the path to find another of the manygods. He grants you the magic power Zeus' Fury. Head through the door thatZeus blocked previously and cross the bridge. While standing on the bridgewith Zeus' Fury equipped you can hold down the L2 button and press square to

fire lightning bolts at the archers in the background. Destroying all of themopens up the door that had the red forcefield before down the hall to theright of where you came out of the Zeus door. Through there is a large roomwith a crumbling wall at the top end, break down this wall to find threechests containing magic refill, a Gorgon Eye and a Phoenix Feather. Head backacross the bridge and make a right at the fork, save your game here.

Head up the ladder to the roof again and jump across. You now have theability to kill those damn archers in the background and get all those chestsacross the swinging part if you wish. When you're ready jump across andreturn to the part where the guy wouldn't put the bridge across for you. Takeaim with your Zeus' Fury and eliminate his face off. You'll find two chestsin the first room on the other side containing a Gorgon Eye and a PhoenixFeather. Follow the path down the hall to the room at the end where you'llfind another two chests both with sashes of red orbs. Stand on the circular

button for a second to ride the elevator down to the area below. Startrunning and as you cross the bridge a cutscene will occur. Balance your wayacross the bridge support beam and save your game at the save point on theother side. Ascend the stairs to the top where you'll need to fight your waythrough a number of normal enemies. You can break a hole in the wall toreveal a chest full of red orbs around here. Keep climbing the stairs untilyou finally reach the Temple of the Oracle. Open the two chests herecontaining green orbs and blue orbs then start to cross the bridge.

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At the end of the bridge you'll be thrown into a battle with a ton of thoseflying nuisances and a couple of gorgons, defeat them all to open up theblocked paths. There's a scene here as well afterward, when it's over climbthe stairs and grab the chests on the left and right side of the templeentrance for a Gorgon Eye and a Phoenix Feather. Inside the actual temple runto the top end and grab the staties there, you can pull them out to reveal twochests, both multicoloured. These statues actually serve a purpose, you mayhave noticed by now that the swarm of harpies is literally unending, and forthat reason you cannot continue any further (you'll see why if you climb thestairs.) What you need to do is drag the left statues down and use it toblock the left hole, then drag the right statue down and use it to block theright hole. Now take out any remaining harpies and voila, you're free. Take

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Untitledthe lower left gate next to yet another multicoloured chest and lift it up.Before going up the stairs jump up onto the ledge to your right, here you willfind a chest with another Gorgon Eye. On the adjacent side there's a chestfull of red orbs. Now climb the stairs and begin to make your way across theceiling beams Head left to find one at the end leading up that doesn'tcollapse then follow along to the right until you find another one. Head upand jump off beside the save point here. Save your game and head left.

Follow this hallway all the way to the end past the normal enemies and watchthe scene there. All right here's what you need to do. First of all headright and notice that there is an elevator there that goes down when you standon it. Beside the door where you came from are two statues. What you need todo is go and get one of those statues and then place it on the elevator. Nowafter doing that go and get the other and set it beside the elevator but noton it. Stand on the elevator so that it goes down but jump back so you don'tgo with it. When the elevator hits the bottom push the second statue on topof the first one. Now jump down yourself and drag it off the elevator.Notice that in the background there is a large platform held up by four pillarand beside it a smaller structure with a treasure chest on top containing redorbs. Well here's the first thing to do. Push the pillar over to these twostructures and place it on the right side a good few feet from the tall thing.In order to follow this you'll need to have an idea of what I'm trying to do.

If you double jump into the air to the right of these two structures youshould see two treasure chests up top of the rock ledge. Well what you needto do is jump onto the small structure with the chest, and from there jumponto the taller platform. Now from here jump over to your two-story statueand then to the rock ledge with the two chests, trust me, it works.

After opening all the chests drop down. Make your way around in a clockwisedirection staying alongside the walls, you'll notice two place where there isa cracked wall surrounded by a kind of archway. Break these cracked wallswith normal attacks to reveal two chests, one with a Gorgon Eye and then otherwith red orbs. Now it's time to save that stupid lady. Drag the statuepillar over to the left side in between the tall platform and the fountaing.Now jump up and get on top of the tall platform via the smaller one and jumpto your pillar. From here you can jump across and grab hold of the vines. Asyou start to shimmy across to the left a scene occurs and a time limit starts.

You have approximately 70 seconds to get from here to saving the girl, beforeyou start I'll dispell your main worries and say that if you fail you'llautomatically restart at the beginning of the timed challenge so don't worrytoo much. Head across the vines and position yourself for a jump, be sure towait for each rotation of these things to finish before you actually make thejump yourself. Use techniques like the sideways and upward jump to get acrossthe vines faster. Double jump from the highest vine to reach the rope andswing across to the other side. You'll need to balance along the thin beamshere but you can save time by double jumping when you're about half way there.Jump across to the rope and from the rope to the large fountain, when you movetoward the girl a scene automatically cuts in. Now leave through the door.

When you come out you'll find a save point and have the choice of two paths.If you take the stairs up beside the save point it's a long path leading to alarge emblem and a cliff. The main reason to come up here is the treasurechest behind the emblem containing a Phoenix Feather. Return to the savepoint and head right across the large sword. Descend the enormous spiralstaircase and open the chest at the bottom to get another Phoenix Feather.When you jump over the barrier here you're officially down in the sewers.

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UntitledThere are two chests on either side of you, both multicoloured. Follow thesewers further down and defeat all the enemies that attack you If you jump upto where all the archers are attacking from you'll find not only amulticoloured chest but one with a stash of red orbs in the left corner aswell. Drop down and head along the path until you reach a metal barrier,double jump up and climb onto the ledge. There's a bunch of minotaurs youneed to defeat here but if you've levelled the Blades of Chaos up to three bynow note that the triangle button combo is extremely effective against themsince they're so slow. Open the multicoloured chest on the right side andthen continue down the sewers. Two more chests can be found here and anadditional two at the end, both containing red orbs. Jump up and get readyfor a huge enemy-fest. You'll start by having to take down a couple ofcyclops enemies which is much easier now that there aren't a million othertownspeople to accidentally target, afterward a bunch of minotaurs and normalenemies to take care of all while being picked at by arrows from above.Ascend the ladder and take out the archers up there. Do it again on the nextcurve as well and grab the red orb chest while you're at it.

Follow the sewers to another metal gate and jump up on top of it. Ahead ofyour is a ladder leading up to a chest and some spiral stairs. Pull the leverat the top of the stairs to form another set of stairs leading back up tosomewhere familiar. Head up to the platform where you first saw Ares

destroying the city, indeed he is still there. This time take the right pathinstead of the left path and save your game while you're at it. The enormousdoor is now open, proceed through and immediately turn right to find a chestcontaining a Gorgon Eye. On the left is a multicoloured chest, use it torevitalize yourself before entering the Desert of Lost Souls.

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| _ -----o-----\ Desert of Lost Souls |\_/ (00008) \-----------------------------------------------------------o

Head down into the desert and watch the scene when you arrive. Now here's thefirst thing to note, from the statue if you run directly up and angle yourselfslightly to the left you'll find a treasure chest containing a bunch of redrobs beside a large pointed rock, don't worry if you can't find it, they're

just red orbs. Return to the desert entrance and head East of the statue.Follow the lower edge all the way along for quite a long way until you finallyreach the lower right corner of the desert. From here run directly Northwestand you should start to hear singing. North of the grassy area where thesinging gets louder is a large temple. In front of this temple beside themulticoloured chest is the first siren, use magic primarily to destroy her asshe is quite agile. Once she is dead then only two more remain. These aren'tgoing to be easy to find, they're wandering around in the central area of thedesert. Since they move around the only real help I can offer is generalareas. If you find the stage-like section in the middle of the desert youshould be able to find the first Siren (very) roughly South of there and thesecond (very) roughly North of there. Both of them are accompanied by twominotaurs as well. Once they are defeated the path opens in the East templeand you can go inside to save your game. Open the two chests here and thenhead down the stairs beside the save point. Down here you will find aconveyer belt, first of all the most important thing to note is to avoid thosespikey things at the end. What you need to do is tap the R2 button to openthe door on the wall and pull out the large block (there's a chest behind itas well.) Kick the block all the way left until it hits the wall and then useit so that you can jump high enough to reach the ledge. From here headthrough the door and go out onto the steps. Blow into the large horn for ascene and then follow the path, don't miss the chests and before you can blowon the next horn suddenly you are ambushed by quite a few sirens. Even afterdefeating them more appear, about fifteen or so in all so it's quite a task.In fact this may be a good time to use your Rage of the Gods. After thebattle the horn reappears and you can blow into it to trigger a scene.

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| _ -----o-----\ Pandora's Temple |\_/ (00009) \-----------------------------------------------------------o

Save your game and begin heading across the bridge. You will find twomulticoloured chests on the other side, one on the left and one on the rightside of the main door. Head left and take the sloping path that leads downand around to the other side. Here you will find a wall with a handle on thebottom, use the R2 button to grab on and pull the wall out as far as it can gobefore it won't move anymore. Now when you let go it's automatically going tostart moving in again so you need to jump up it as fast as possible. At thetop there's a scene, after the scene the gates are opened so drop down andhead toward the door. As you go two new types of cyclops attack, they're justlarger version of ones you've fought before so as usual the triangle comboworks exceptionally well against them. After the battle climb the frontstairs. Go left at the top and open the chest to find another Gorgon Eye. Onthe right side is a Phoenix Feather in the chest. When you're ready toproceed turn the lever in the middle by grabbing and walking around in anentire 360 degree turn. When you get inside the door closes behind you.Battle your way through a ton of undead skeleton warriors here, you must

defeat all the enemies in this room before you can proceed any further.Following the battle examine the eye in the centre of the large wall, one at atime the characters highlight and when they all have, the path opens.

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| _ -----o-----\ The Rings of Pandora |\_/ (0000A) \-----------------------------------------------------------o

Follow the hallway either up or down until you come to a door in the wall.Head through it to find some rather unpleasant crunching spike machines. Waituntil they are opening and then use the right analog evade roll to ensure youmake it through each one of them in one piece. At the other end some enemyarchers are waiting to tear you apart, why not show them the same courtesy.Open the multicoloured chest as well as the other one at the top which has a

stash of red orbs inside. Pull the lever in the centre of the left wall tolower down another lever outside the room. Run back out and begin to turnthis round and round and round until you see a bright red flame. Approach itto meet with the next god and acquire a new weapon, the Blade of Artemis.After acquiring the new weapon continue on past where Artemis used to be.

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| _ -----o-----\ The Challenge of Atlas |\_/ (0000B) \-----------------------------------------------------------o

Head down the hall and save your game along the way. The next room offers youthe perfect chance to try out your new weapon by throwing a ton of the easiestenemies in the game at you,this doesn't last long however as you are alsoattacked by a number of more difficult Gorgons. Following the battle jump upand grab onto the bottom of the stairs at the upper right corner of the roomand head around the path. Use Zeus' Fury to take out the archers in thebackground and then balance across to that side. In the corner there you'llfind a chest containing a Gorgon Eye. Drop down and head through the hall atthe lower right corner of this room. Follow the path and make sure all theenemies in the next area are taken care of, then go back to the fork in thehall and grab that box of rocks or whatever it is. Notice that when you stepon the button in the main room the thing at the top spins around, then spinsback when you step off. Well drag the box of rocks up near the spinning thingalong with your and then charge up a kick to kick it toward the button. Whileit's sliding jump up toward the spinning thing and it will flip you around.

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On this side there are a number of enemies you need to defeat, as well as twochests above you, one multicoloured and the other full of red orbs. The thirdis a blue or chest on the left side. When you're done climb the ladder andjump across to the left side where you can pick up the Shield of Zeus. Dropdown to the room below and examine the door on the lower left side to placethe shield into the carving. Leave this area and return to the previous one,jump up and grab onto the stairs at the upper right corner. If you alreadycleared this place out then you're set, if not then you'll have to do somefighting. Get to the other side and pull the lever with the R2 button (theicon will not appear on the screen.) When the weight comes down grab hold ofthe rope and slide down with it. Get on the horizontal rope and start makingyour way across. On the other side are full health and magic healing chests.

Now nearby is also the Shield of Hades. When you grab it be prepared for anabsolute ambush, this is far more enemies at once than you've ever seenanywhere else in the entire game. Not only that the wall on the left side isclosing in on you so it's just going to get tighter and tighter as you goalong. Some effective attacks for this battle are obviously Poseidon's Rage,along with the L1 + Square Blade of Artemis attack and also doing a doublejump and pressing triangle in the air with the Blade of Artemis works well.Defeat all the enemies and a path opens up to a couple of healing chests.

Jump across to reach the rope you came down from and climb back up again.Return to the door where you put in the Shield of Zeus and now put in theShield of Hades as well. This unlocks the door and allows you to pass.

Descend the stairs and save your game in the hall at the bottom. Climb up theladder and head through the door, prepare for some rather dangerouscircumstances. It's hard not to notice that there are crazy death saws makingtheir way back and forth, and while it seems like a crazy random assortmentnote that each path only has one saw on it so it's easy to get through withoutbeing hit as long as you wait for the saw to pass before moving forward.Ignore the levers in this area and head through the door on the right side.Defeat the enemies here and get onto the conveyer belt. There's some nastychompers in here but nothing the evade roll can't get past. Follow the pathup the stairs and across the bridge. On your left in this area is amulticoloured chest, and on the right is a wall that you can climb up. It's

quite the trek to make it to the other end of this wall, you'll be moving inall directions. Your best bet is to move quickly using the X button to helpyou with that get to the other end and heal yourself, then pull the lever todrop the chain down which acts as a quick way to get back where you started.

This next room is extremely difficult, what you need to do is destroy all theenemies before time runs out and the ground gives way beneath you. Most ofthe enemies carry those shields so you'll need to use triangle attacks withthe Blades of Chaos to destroy them. Perhaps if I had gone into this with anymagic power I could have done it normally but regardless I had to use Rage ofthe Gods after being unable to do it after a few tires, basically the enemiesat the start are easy to take out but those stupid sirens just becomeextremely difficult to hit without magic. When every last enemy has beendispatched run to the top and grab the Handle of Atlas. Now you can exit theroom and drop down the chain, a new save point has appeared there. Return tothe room with all the moving saws and pull both the levers quickly then runthrough the door at the top, you have to be fast for this. Slowly make yourway along the wall here and lift the door up. After defeating all the enemiesin this room examine the object at the top and place the handle on it. Nowturn the lever around so that the large ball is on Atlas back. Head throughthe opening on the right side and start ascending the stairs.

Fight your way past all the enemies here and check left when you reach the topto find a chest containing Phoenix Feather. Run around to the right and openthe chest on the left side of the lever to get a Gorgon Eye. Now pull thelever and watch the scene that follows. Jump down and head out the newly

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Untitledcreated entrance. Grab the handle on the coffin here with the R2 button andpull it down. When it's off completely jump on the coffin and tap R2 as fastas you can to acquire The Architect's Son's Head. The coffin moves and a holeappears underneath, drop down this hole and open the multicoloured chest atthe bottom. Make your way along the decrepit hallway and watch the scene.Through the door at the end of the hall is a room you've seen before. Saveyour game here and head down the hall. Defeat the enemies along the way andexamine the door with the large skull in it, you can use the Architect's Son'sSkull to unlock it. In this room there is a huge cylinder rolling around inthe hall bent on crushing you. Along the path are numerous places where youcan press up and hide from it, but really the thing is actually moving slowerthan you are so a little caution is all that's necessary. Either wait for itto pass and go up (which is faster) or run down and all the way around to finda staircase. Go up the stairs and wait for it to come around again then jumpon top of it. Walk in the opposite direction that it's rolling so you don'tfall off and when it gets around to the ladder jump up and grab hold. Climbup to the top where you will find numerous chests including full magic andhealth, red orbs and a Gorgon Eye. Even a save point to boot. Run down thehall past the save point until you find yourself at the Challenge of Poseidon.

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| _ -----o-----\ The Challenge of Poseidon |\_/ (0000C) \-----------------------------------------------------------o

Walk forward and a scene takes over almost immediately. There's a fightagainst a new type of enemy here, of course the three headed dog Cerberus.Also fighting along side it are little mini-cerberuses which get ratherannoying quickly. I recommend using the Blade of Artemis here for heavydamage. Here's the main thing you're going to want to keep in mind, youabsolutely must kill these little cerberus things regularly, indeed it ispossible for them to fully grow and become large versions, having a wholebunch of these on the field at once is just death plain and simple so try andcatch them in a Poseidon's Rage spell as often as possible. An email fromJustin L has suggested using the Medusa Head here to make defeating theCerberus easier, sounds like an effective tactic if you ask me. Once it hasbeen taken care of open the multicoloured chest at the top and then head left.

There's another chest here beside a large crate and some cyclops enemiesrunning in from the background, dispose of them quickly. There's about amillion archers around the corner, I imagine that crate is used as a shield soyou can get close to them without taking damage, but I just run up to them andslashed them all to death. Whatever works for you I guess. Run to the end ofthe path being sure to destroy the mini-cerberuses on the way and take out allthe archers beside the red forcefield. When they're all dead it opens.

There's a lever in the middle of the room, here's how it works. When you pullthe lever the room starts spinning and obviously the door where you came fromis going to lead to different places. Well for starters it leads to a chestcontaining red orbs but what you need to do is open the chest very fast andget the orbs from it, then jump back out again before the gate closes on youand you die. There's four chests each containing red orbs on the way and thefifth one is your exit. You'll have to fight a new type of enemy here butthere's nothing special you really need to know, attack and block like you'vebeen doing all along. I'd recommend not spilling Coke on your controller,yeah, I just did that. Anyway run to the left side where the large chain isand jump up the wall, you can start climbing by grabbing onto the ledges.When you reach the top head right and you'll find a chest, inside this chestis a Muse Key. Jump back up and crawl around to the left side, you'll findtwo minotaur enemies here. Follow the path to the top where you will findboth full healing and full magic chests beside the save point here.

In the next room you'll find a long sloping path and a lever with no handle.Drop down and run up to the top of the path. Examine the door in this room

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Untitledand pick up the handle on the right side of the room. Run back and place itinto the lever, begin turning to lower one of the cages. Push him over theedge and start to push him up the hill. When enemies spawn prop him on someof the broken concrete and fight them off. Continue to do this until you'reup at the top of the hill. Manoeuvre the cage around and set it on the buttonbehind the lever. Now be a man, pull the lever and burn the flesh from himbones. Doing so opens up the door. Run down to the bottom and examine theshiny object in front of the statue to receive Poseidon's Trident. Using thisyou can swim underwater by pressing the square button while swimming. Use thesave point behind the statue and then jump into the water on the left side.Climb up the ladder and open the chest to get a Phoenix Feather. The chest onthe other side has some green orbs inside. To proceed further jump into theright pool and swim to the lower end where you'll find a waterway going down.

While underwater you can press and hold the R1 button to do an underwaterdash, this breaks through cracked objects in your path. Defeat all the minicerberuses on the other side and then open the chest on the left to getanother Gorgon Eye. Open the door and pull the lever to reveal a new pathbehind the Poseidon Statue. Return there and defeat the two large cerberusenemies along with all the stupid harpies that get in your hair as well.Climb up the newly formed stone blocks and head down the path. Jump into thewater at the end and start swimming along underwater through the ruins.

You'll encounter a Nyad, press the circle button to hug it or whatever to getsome bonuses like red orbs, feathers or Gorgon Eyes. This was something thatwas not mentioned in the original version of the walkthrough and is the thetopic I have received the most email about out of every last guide I've everwritten, so there you are, give them a hug, and thanks to the dozens anddozens (possibly hundreds) of people who pointed this out. Actually finallyupdating this is kind of sad, it means I won't be getting nearly as much emailanymore, but alas, it seems I've gone too far off topic. Swim down andgo through the small tunnel at the upper right. When you come to a fork turnright and you'll come to an opening carved into a mouth shape. Stop at theentrance and charge the R1 dash to dash into the room. Keep charging the R1dash to make it all the way through without being harmed. Continue alongunderwater until you have a chance to come up. You need to defeat all theenemies here in order to lower the forcefield around the lever. Pull it and agate opens. Now jump back down into the water and swim back to the fork where

you made a right turn, and make a left turn. Pop out of the water and defeatall the soldiers here. Break through the wall at the top to find about amillion urns and at the end a treasure chest containing a Muse Key.

Return to the fork once again and head down. This next area is where youopened the large door to you can head up now. There's an underwater savepoint right in the next room. Use the R1 dash to break through the wall onleft of the save point and swim up from the Nyad to reach a room with fourchests each full of juicy red orbs. Head back and swim deeper down when youreach the Poseidon statue but not too far, stop when you see a chain rightbelow you. Attached to this chain are a number of large barriers that willhurt you if you come into contact with them. The basic idea is pretty simple,these things and moving quickly across and will kill you if you're caught bythem. At the bottom are areas you can swim down into to let them pass overtop so here's what you do. Wait for one to pass and then swim down, chargethe R1 dash and launch yourself to the left. When you stop moving you'll beright above one of the safe areas so hold square to swim down there. When thenext one passes hold triangle to swim up, then do the R1 dash, when you stopdo it one more time and swim normally for whatever distance you have left tocover to make it to the next safe area. After this you can swim normally tothe end and descend down the circular waterway. Swim until you reach a verylarge room and surface. There's a save point on your lower left.

Defeat the three minotaur enemies that appear here and make sure to get themulticoloured chests found on both the left and right sides. There's a leverin the centre, pull on it to raise up a path leading up to the top. This is a

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Untitledtemporary path so when the levered is pulled, be sure to mosey along. On theother side both the left and right chests contain red orbs. Now here's whatyou need to do. Jump back in the water and swim to the lever again. Pull itbut this time don't jump across the platforms instead jump into the water onthe left side. Swim to the bottom and the back of this whole area, at thebottom of the largest pillar is a secret room, when you go in there and thepillars descend when the time is up it acts like an elevator. Follow thetunnel where it pops you out and surface at the end. It seems that we areback here once again. Save you game and leave the room, battling through theenemies with the yellow shields along the way. Return to the room where thelarge cylinder threatened to crush you and climb the stairs again. This timeyou can jump into the water on your left and swim down that circular holealong the path. Follow it and you'll pop out at a rather nasty looking area.

On the right side of this field is a doorway you can break open using yournormal attack. Save your game in here and run to the end where you will finda couple of treasure chests and a ladder. Ascend the ladder and follow thehall to pop out at your next challenge, The Challenge of Hades.

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Both the left and right sides of the stairs have healing chests. Jump up ontothe left side of the room to find a door, when you examine it you must acceptthe challenge to make a blood sacrifice. Do so and a new type of centaur likeenemies will appear. There's also a large circle area around the entrance,what you need to do is kill enough enemies within this circle so that the dooropens, it's not easy. Eventually when you manage to accomplish this the dooris unlocked and you can proceed through it. When you come out of the hall usethe platform beside the door on the left side to jump up to the ledge above.Here you will find three chests, two with red orbs and one with a PhoenixFeather. Drop down again and lift up the door on the left side.

In this hall the floors are behaving rather erratically and it just so happensthat underneath them there is nothing but lava. What you need to do is time

your jumps so that you can land on solid ground, rather than liquid magma.Roll past the spears in the next hall as well, then get ready to navigatethrough a maze. At the first fork the left path only takes you to a face, sohead right. At the next fork make a left and you'll find yourself in an openarea. At the top there's a treasure chest, open it to get a whole bunch ofred orbs. Return to the previous fork and go straight this time, then make aleft (if you go right, it's a health chest.) Here you will find a lever youcan turn. Turn the lever to raise yourself up to the next level. Rightbeside the elevator you can grab hold of that block in the wall and push itforward so that it drops down. Run to the end before the path collapses andget the red orbs from the chest. Go back and make a right at the fork, thenmake another right and push the block forward so it falls. Defeat all theenemies in this room, grab the health and open the door down the hall at theupper left. Since you're back here again make a left at the fork.

There's a large crushing block here. Wait for it to go out and then follow itand jump on top. Kill the enemies here in this area but you can't go throughthe door yet, it says you must kill all the enemies in the maze. The finaltwo enemies are through the door being blocked by the crushinator. It goesfurther every time until the third time when it resets. Wait for it to go farenough so that you can get through the arch door that it's blocking and killthe two remaining enemies in there. Now you can pass through the door andfind yourself back in the front hall again. Step on the large button in frontof your to raise the huge statue out of the ground. Jump down and jump intothe water where the statue came out of. At the bottom you will find a switchto pull, now the head is firing a light beam. Jump out of the water and climb

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Untitledthe ladder on the side of the statue. Turn the lever at the back of the headto face it around in the opposite direction and light your path. Now jump offthe head, save your game at the bottom of the stairs, and enter that room.

Now here's a little something interesting, all these flaming balls comingtoward you. Your job is to navigate between them as you progress up the pathto try and reach the door at the end in between the slope the balls arerolling down. It's not easy, but not too difficult either. Refrain fromusing the right analog stick, it will probably do more harm than good, if yourtiming is right you can just run between all of them anyway. Once you reachthe end go through the opening and defeat the enemies. Open the chests hereto get some red orbs and a Phoenix Feather. Don't think you're in the clearyet however because if you read that tablet you'll realize you need to go backout there. Notice that along the way there were doors that you passed, wellone of these many doors leads to the path you need to take. To save you thetime of looking obviously, it happens to be the third last door on the left.This means from the top follow the left wall and go past the first two doors,try the third. Follow the hall to the end and get ready to fight.

A number of large minotaurs wielding deadly dual sided axes await you here.Defeat all four of them with your best attack combos along with the archersthat spawn soon after in order to remove the evil forcefield. Follow the

upper right steps up and kill all the enemies in this area, if you'rewondering why it's a dead end it's because the point of this area is to killthe archers, you can't proceed otherwise. Return to the previous room andtake the upper left exit. Jump up and make your way across the rope here.Drop down into the arena and get ready for some massive combat against a hordeof enemies. After the two minotaurs are killed, or enemies other enemies thatare the last remaining climb up the ladder and jump to the next ledge.

There's another maze here, at least somewhat. Go straight ahead at the firstfork and make a right at the second one to find a chest with red orbs inside.Take a few steps back and head left. Make a right at the next fork and saveyour game. In this room you have to balance across the thin beam, but as anadded danger there's a spinning death machine around you as well. When itgets to close double jump straight up into the air to avoid it. Head up whenyou come to the first fork and then right when you reach the second. When you

reach the safe platform cross over on the beam to the right side where youwill find a chest containing a Phoenix Feather. Return to the platform andhead up. Balance along the next beam and head left when you come to the firstfork to find a chest containing red orbs. Go back and continue down.Continue moving right at the next fork and open the chest containing a stashof red robs. Now head up at the fork, you need to wait for the one arm thatdoesn't have death blades on it, and then jump onto that one. From theresimply walk forward and climb up the ladder. Balance along this beam here toreach the next platform but before you slide down, continue to the right toeventually reach a chest with more red orbs. Head back and slide down.

Descend down the ladder at the bottom and follow the path into the next hall.Turn the wheel at the end for a quick scene, then head left to drop downsomewhere familiar you've been before. Make your way down and save your gamealong the way. Be sure you're full healed and all that mumbo jumbo before yougo out there, you wouldn't want to be underprepared for the... second boss.

Basically this boss does what many gigantic bosses in other games does, relieson a huge battlefield with all sorts of crazy stuff going on and pretty muchconfuses you to the point where you think it's hard. Well I'm here tosimplify everything and point out that in the end this boss boils down to onesimple, albeit long, pattern. First of all note that the boss is easiest tofight when you're on the ledge at the lower end of the room so get up therenow. This will make the boss come running and put his hands up on the ledge.The majority of this boss' attacks can be blocked, the only dangerous ones hewas are the unblockable ones so I'll describe them first. When he raises his

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Untitledleft hand (on the right side from your perspective) then he's going to swipedown and grab you. To avoid this simply double jump to the left, often if youdo it straight up he still grabs you, so do it to the left. The second occursonly after he charges, a bunch of fire comes up from below you, simply doublejump to avoid this. Everything else can be blocked. Now for actuallydamaging him. Normal attacks work fine, here's what you have to do. When heruns up to your start slashing and smashing until he gets stunned and jumpsbackward. Now he will charge at you again. You need to stun him so that hejumps away approximately four or five times. After that each time you stunhim he will temporarily curl up on the ground and the circle item will appearabove his head, so knowing that this will happen immediately after you stunhim jump down and start running to the top. Press the circle button to jumpon top and use the left analog stick to match the screen patterns similar tothe gorgons. After doing this the boss will stand up in a daze. Now is youchance, run back to the bottom of the area and pull the switch to load one ofthe logs into the cannon and fire it at him. Bam. Now the process startsover again, you need to do everything you just did exactly one more time allthe way up to the point where you fire a second log at him. After the secondlog is where things change. Now when he runs up to your and you damage him,when he gets stunned bits of his armour break off. Stun him four or fivetimes now to wear off his armour completely and reveal his health bar. Atthis point he no longer becomes stunned and it's just a matter of fighting as

you always have been the entire time to wear down his health. When it getsvery low, down in the red he'll become stunned just one more time. This isyour cue to reach for the lever and bring and end to the long battle.

Following the fight you can now get through the large door via a crack in thebottom. Climb up the spiral stairs and use the save point when you reach thetop. Further up you'll find three chests containing health, magic and redorbs. Now examine the book in the centre of the room. Pull the lid off thecoffin and take The Architect's Son's Head. Grab the head and return back towhere you fought the minotaur, here you will find another of the gods,approach it to get a new magic spell, Army of Hades. Use this magic to defeatall the enemies that spawn around here. Now head through the door Hades wasblocking and swim back to the room that had the large rolling object. PressR2 underwater when you're beside the skull door to insert The Architect'sSon's Head and the water lowers down. Now here's what you need to do. First

of all find the lever near the wall, beside it is a door, tap the R2 button tolift this door up. Now run into the very centre of the statue in the middlewhere you will find a lever. Turn it around and around until it is alignedwith the door you just opened. Leave this room and start turning the leverbeside the door you opened until that door is aligned with the outer hall.Now go out to the outer hall and make sure that door lines up too so all thedoors are aligned with the room with the save point down at the very end.

Here's a little update note that I believe I missed. I'm under the impressionthat if you rotate the outer wall you can eventually find a room where you canuse those two Muse keys you got to unlock a door filled with red orbs and godknows what else. It's around this area so be sure to check it out.

With all the doors aligned head to the save point room at the end and saveyour game. Here at the back you'll see a shiny handle you can grab, grab thehandle at the side of the little steps, not the one in the middle but the onewith the shiny thing on it. When you push it a cutscene will trigger.

Run to the very middle and pull the handle to rise up the elevator. Leave theroom and start to cross the bridge. There's a quick scene and then a battlewith a new enemy, you'll have to defeat three of them before you can proceed.As you cross the bridge there is another cutscene, then use the save point onthe other side. Read the book in the middle, then begin your trek upward.

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Untitled| _ -----o-----\ The Cliffs of Madness |\_/ (0000E) \-----------------------------------------------------------o

Defeat all the enemies at the top and whip out Zeus' Fury to defeat thosearchers in the distance. On your left behind some urns is a chest that willfully refill your magic. Head right and jump from platform to platform untilyou reach a rope. Cross it hand-over-hand and battle the foes that await onthe other side. Turn the crank to raise the ladder and save your game.Ascend the ladder and follow the paths along until you reach a doorway. Ifyou continue left rather than going through the door you'll find a chest fullof red orbs. Enter the cave area and follow the path to a crank you can spin,turn this in order to connect the path to the platform with all the archers onit. Spin it further than you need to since it will automatically start movingback when you let go this will give you time to get on it and jump over to theother one. When you come out of the cave at the top take the left path tofind a multicoloured chest. Now jump up onto the ledge on your right.

You'll need to defeat three minotaurs here, around the corner is a door withtwo head shaped crests on the sides which seems to suggest they once worenecklaces. If you jump around behind the one on the right you'll find a chestwith red orbs inside. Head left from the chest though the cave, and jump downinto the water. When you pop out at the other side you can break open the

walls behind the waterfalls to get a whole buttload of red orbs. Return tothe door with the face emblems on it and look for a ladder on your leftleading down. Descend it and follow the path to reach a chest full of redorbs beside a rope, slide down the rope and enter the cave. Beyond a wholepile of enemies that you should kill first, is the necklace puzzle.

Your goal is to connect all the blocks together so that the gaps disappear.You can use the centre platform to rotate them. Here's what you need to do.Grab the block at the upper right corner and put it on the rotating device.Now turn the device counter-clockwise exactly once, for a 90 degree turn.Push this block against the gate so that the lower right block which cannot bemoved fits exactly into the little gap. Now grab the T shaped block, rotateit 90 degrees in either direction and place it right in the centre so it fitsnicely into the upper gap in the piece you placed the first time. Get thatlittle one block near the gate out of the way, you're never going to use it.

Grab the upside down L shaped block at the top left corner and rotate it 180degrees. Now place it on the left side of the gate, it should fit perfectly.All that remains is to fill the final two gaps, between the last two placesyou set the pieces should be a gap that's two blocks high so grab the piecethat will fit in there perfectly and set it. The last piece is the tall onthe upper left side. Set it on the right side to complete the puzzle.

Grab the necklace and leave the cave, you can now climb up the ladder on theright side. There's also a save point out here now. Go up the ladder and runto the right, climb across the side of the mountain until you reach the otherside above the rope where you slid down. Return to the place with the twoemblems and insert Her'a necklace. Now I know for a fact that this part isone of the most difficult things people have a problem with and it's quitelikely that this is about the first sentence 99% of the people using thisguide have read because all the want to know is where the hell to go aftergetting that stupid necklace. Well here's the answer so listen close. Youneed to backtrack. A lot. Remember that room where you rotated the twoplatforms and had to quickly jump from one to the other? Past that. Exit outthe from of that cave. Now you've got the option of either going down aladder or following the path left. Go down the ladder, then another andanother until you reach the save point. Yes, you must find this save point,there's your reference. Get there and save your game. Now from this savepoint go right and you'll see a dead tree, well it just so happens that youcan jump over the rocks beside the tree to reach another path and whole otherarea. Yeah. There's your answer, enjoy the rest of the game.

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UntitledAnyway, where were we. Follow this path into the main cave area where you'llbe trapped and forced to fight against quite a few enemies. When you come outthe other end of the cave you'll find an elevator, turn the crank to raise itupward. Hop onto the weight on your right to lower a ripe down to theplatform below, this acts as a shortcut if you need it, don't actually go downthere. Enter the cave and prepare yourself in advance, if you screw up thenyou die. Notice the holes in the floor, they are what's going to kill you,but only if you aren't fast enough. There's a lever here beside the gate.When you pull the lever another gate opens up and your time limit starts.Beside you is a block you can move, basically your goal is to kick this blockdown to the other side of the cave and use it as a stepping stone to reach theledge before getting speared. You're given enough time no problem, but don'tdilly-dally. At the top you'll find a chest, open it to get a Phoenix Featherand then jump across to the vines on the wall. Grab the necklace and leave.

Return to the door with the two emblems and make sure both necklaces are inplace. Now the ledges are moving back and forth, wait until they extend allthe way and jump across to gab hold. Jump back and open the chests for someblue and red orbs, then jump across to the right. Head around to the rightand a cutscene triggers. Follow the path to the end and swing across theropes to reach the other side. Here there's an elevator, pull the lever toactivate it. Follow the path at the top and enter The Architect's Tomb.

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| _ -----o-----\ The Architect's Tomb |\_/ (0000F) \-----------------------------------------------------------o

Some rather unpleasant platform jumping awaits you here, jump between themoving platforms and the deadly saw blades to reach the other side. Head tothe right side and open the gate using the R2 button. Fight your way up tothe outdoor area again and defeat the cyclops here as well as all thecerberuses. Be absolutely sure to defeat them before they grow, that in

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