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Author: Alex Eagleson
Began: March 26th, 2005
Completed: March 27th, 2005
Email: StarOceanDC(at)gmail(dot)com
University of Guelph, Ontario
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| Table of Contents |
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** In order to navigate this guide I have implemented a Ctrl+f system, which
means you press ctrl+f in your browser or word processer to bring up the
search menu, then enter the letters in brackets on the right of the section
that you're looking for.
1. Controls............................................................(0000Z)
2. Full Walkthrough....................................................(00000)
i - Aegean Sea....................................................(00001)
ii - The Gates of Athens..........................................(00002)
iii - The Road to Athens..........................................(00003)
iv - Athens Town Square...........................................(00004)
v - Rooftops of Athens............................................(00005)
vi - Temple of the Oracle.........................................(00006)
vii - The Sewers of Athens........................................(00007)
viii - Desert of Lost Souls.......................................(00008)
ix - Pandora's Temple.............................................(00009)
x - The Rings of Pandora..........................................(0000A)
xi - The Challenge of Atlas.......................................(0000B)
xii - The Challenge of Poseidon...................................(0000C)
xiii - The Challenge of Hades.....................................(0000D)
xiv - The Cliffs of Madness.......................................(0000E)
xv - The Architect's Tomb.........................................(0000F)
xvi - The Path to Hades...........................................(0000G)
xvii - Temple of the Oracle.......................................(0000H)
3. Final Note..........................................................(0000I)
4. Version History.....................................................(0000J)
5. Legal...............................................................(0000K)
6. Credits.............................................................(0000L)
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| Controls (0000Z) |
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| Menu Controls | Function |
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| Start | Access Menu Screens |
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| Select | Pause Game / Options Menu |
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| Left analog / D-pad | Highlight / menu item |
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| X | Select menu item |
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| Triangle | Previous screen |
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| L1 / R1 | Scroll Menu Screens |
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| On Ground Controls | Function |
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| Left analog | Walk / Run / Climb |
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| Right analog | Evade |
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| X | Jump |
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| X + X | Double Jump |
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| Square | Normal Attack |
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| Triangle | Heavy Attack |
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| Circle | Grab Enemies |
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| L1 | Block (Parry if block at right time) |
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| D-Pad | Select Magic (when acquired) |
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| L2 | Use Item / Magic |
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| R2 | Action / Interact with world |
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| L3 + R3 | Rage of the Gods (When rage meter full) |
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| Triangle (Hold) | Launch and follow enemy into the air |
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| X (After enemy launch) | Super Jump |
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| Circle (Enemy in air) | Chain Grab |
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| Start | Access Menu Screens |
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| R2 (Hold) + X (Charge) | To Kick Objects |
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| In Air Basics | Function |
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| Square | Horizontal Attack |
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| Triangle | Vertical Attack |
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| Circle | Air Grap |
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| L1 | Block |
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| D-Pad | Select Magic (When acquired) |
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| L2 | Use Item / Magic |
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| R1 | Hercules Stomp |
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| Circle (Hold) | Rope Swing (when hanging on a rope) |
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/ od of War /------------------------------------------------------------o
| _ -----o-----\ Aegean Sea |
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At the very beginning of the game you're given control of Kratos, a man who
wields two swords attached to the end of very long chains. Using a
combination of the square (weak attack) and triangle (strong attack) buttons
you can perform numerous different combos at the start. To save you the time
of learning everything progressively with the tutorials you can also throw
enemies with circle, block attacks with L1 and evade by moving the right
analog stick. Get yourself accustomed to the controls by smashing through all
the enemies in this area. Note a fun little tip, when you press the circle
button to grab enemies you can perform three different throws. While holding
the enemy press either circle, triangle or square to do one of the three
different throws. After all the enemies have been disposed approach the trap
door in the upper left corner and press the R2 button to grab hold. Continue
to press the R2 button over and over again until the trap door opens then drop
down. 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 your
health. You can break many of the objects in this area to get red orbs as you
continue 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 and
it's extremely angry. To defeat this boss you need to run up to it and attack
using a combination of square and triangle attacks to dish out as much damage
as possible. The boss will be constantly attacking and size that's virtually
impossible to dodge you need to block it instead. When the head moves back to
strike just stand where you are and hold the L1 button to protect yourself
from the attack and go in swinging madly after each one. Continue this
process over and over until you've knocked out about half its health. At that
point it will fall down and the option to play a minigame appears. To
initiate the minigame press the circle button when you see the circle icon
appear 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 on
the beams that extend overtop. It's quite a balancing act but if you happen
to slip you can usually just tap the X button to climb back up again. If you
fall entirely just swim back to the start and give it another try. Break the
barrels on the other side to get all the red orbs and then jump through the
crack in the wall to the left. There's a man in the cage at the end of the
path, you can speak to him using the R2 button. Climb the stairs on the right
and open the treasure chest to receive a whole bunch of red orbs. Continue
down the hall past the wooden barrier and kick open the door with the R2
button. Outside you'll find a huge chaotic scene of violence involving some
nasty winged creatures ripping men apart. Return the favour by using the
circle button to rip their wings off completely, this will occur for many
enemies throughout the game, special throws based on the type of enemy they
are. It's an unfortunate truth that the innocent men running around on deck
will drop health when killed, so if you need it then just start swinging
madly. After defeating a few of the creatures and thinning them out a little
run to the opposite side of the deck where you will find two doors. Approach
one of them and open it by tapping the R2 button, it will reveal a chest
containing red orbs as will the second one. Head back and continue your
slaughter 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 basic
attacks, first there's a generic bite attack which bites down on the spot
wherever you are stand, simply block this attack. The second attack the
monster will pound its head down on the left side followed by the right side
followed 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 swing
around on the ground and swipe you to the side. This one can by jumping if
you double jump and time it correctly. The last one is an attack you actually
want it to perform. It grabs you in it's mouth but using the circle button
and tapping it as fast as you can you can break free and do some serious
damage to the creature in the process, so it's actually beneficial to be hit
by this. While you're not in its mouth however just stick with normal
triangle and square attacks to defeat the creature, you must drain all its
health this time rather than just a partial amount to kill it.
After defeating the miniboss drop down into the water where its head had
popped up from since there is now a hole in the ship. Swim up down the
corridor and grab hold of the mesh net at the end. Start climbing up and jump
back onto the ship when you reach the top. The game will now teach you a new
attack, hold the triangle button to do an upward swing and launch an enemy
into the air. You will automatically jump up along with him so while airborne
press the circle button to do an air throw, this manoeuvre can be pretty
helpful at times so keep it in mind. Start tiptoeing across the pole leading
off 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 the
right branch to find a chest containing red orbs. Go back and take the left
branch to reach another ship. Head up to trigger a cutscene.
Following the scene open the nearby chest to reveal a whole bunch of healing
green orbs. Left of the chest is a glowing save point, while standing on the
save point press the R2 button to bring up the save menu and then you can save
your game. Back on the ship drop down and run up to find a crate behind the
first box on your right. Using the R2 button you can grab hold of the crate
and either push or pull it in any direction. You can also hold the X button
to charge up and kick the crate in the direction you are facing. What you
need to do is get this crate all the way down to where the archers are
shooting at you because the ledge is too high to jump up to. The problem is
that the arrows can actually destroy the crate, and while another one will
respawn 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 before
they hit. Kick the crate all the way to the end underneath the archers and
use it to double jump up and grab hold of the ledge. Kill off all the archers
and then open up the treasure chest containing green orbs. Head down to the
end of the hall and you'll find a locked door but you cannot open it. Your
only 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. Approach
the net to automatically grab hold of it and begin to climb. Note as you are
climbing that you can attack and grab still while on the net. Grabbing is
going to be most helpful, the best grab is the one you do while holding up on
the left analog stick since it's fast and effective. The other grab is good
if there's multiple enemies around. Note that as you climb you can hold up
and press the X button to climb up faster. On the way up there's a platform
but still more net to climb after that, when you reach the very top head down
and balance across the large pole. At the other side of this pole is a lone
chest containing a stash of red orbs. Now head back across and jump up to
grab 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 containing
red orbs on the left and a Gorgon Eye on the right. Collect a total of six
Gorgon Eyes to permanently increase you maximum health (so in other words, you
just got a Blue Orb Fragment.) Break through the middle and approach the
glowing blue flame down at the end. Here you will meet the one of the many
Greek gods who assists you with your quest by granting you a special power
which in this case comes in the form of a magic spell. Using the L2 button
you can crate a huge blast of lightning around you and deal heavy damage to
foes. 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 and
using Poseidon's rage drains this bar, but you can refill your magic by
defeating some enemies or finding chests with blue orbs in them. Head through
the 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 right
are two treasure chests which will fully restore both your health and your
magic power. Climb the net and get ready for a boss fight.
There are three Hydra's here, two babies and one absolutely enormous Hydra
which you cannot even access because when you try to climb up the net in the
middle the two smaller Hydras will automatically knock you off every single
time. So here's what you need to do in order to kill this boss. First of all
you should fight these two smaller Hydras the same way you fought the previous
one with the exception that they will not grab you in their mouths, but one
very large advantage you have now that you didn't have before is Poseidon's
Rage. Regardless kill the smaller Hydras however you see fit but you'll
notice that once they go down you cannot hurt them anymore and after a certain
amount 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 there
are 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's
neck, pinning it in place permanently. Now all you have to do is the exact
same thing with the Hydra on the other side and both of them will be pinned
down 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 seen
before. It has a few basic attacks mostly involving large biting motions. It
has a weaker bite attack which it pulls it's head back and bites the middle of
the platform you're on. The best way to avoid taking damage is to double jump
and hold the block button, the teeth won't hurt you. Blocking isn't so
effective when he pulls his head back to the side and does a more powerful
chomp on either the left and right side of you platform. Your best bet is to
predict which side he's going to chomp and jump away from it while holding the
block 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 the
attack can do no such thing. Your main goal is to use the opportunities when
the monster bites down on the platform to start hacking and slashing away and
while 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 its
head and zap it then move into a combo of square and triangle attacks which
should actually refill your magic pretty well. Now you'll also want to know
how to actually damage the boss. When you've take off about a third of his
life the minigame circle icon will appear. Press circle and you'll be given
the chance to tap as fast as you can and end up slamming the monsters head
against the pole. His life refills as this point and it seems like nothing
happened 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 and
there's a chance to do a new minigame, I won't spoil it, but it's awesome.
When the boss is dead you need to actually run into his mouth and down his
throat. There's a man hanging on for his life at the end, press the R2 button
to trigger a quick scene. Now you've got the key to that locked door from
before. Exit the monsters innards and climb up the crates on the right side
of the ship. You can jump and grab the mesh netting at the top, there's two
chests here containing health and another Gorgon Eye. Jump up into the air
and grab onto the sliding rope. You'll drop in a familiar place, you can use
the save point to save your game and then run down the lower area to reach the
crate which is still in position. Double jump up to the ledge and head
through the hall to reach the locked door. Approach the door and use the key
by pressing the R2 button, run to the end of the hall and use the R2 button
once 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 using
the 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 find
numerous 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 get
the green orbs as well before you ascend the ladder. You can speak to the
statue at the front of your ship using the R2 button if you wish. Use the
plank leading from the right side down onto the docks. At the end you'll
encounter some new enemies, these are more difficult than the ones you've
faced previously, you cannot grab them normally you must first damage them to
the point where the circle button icon appears above their head and then you
can use a throw to finish them off. You're taught once again that the L1
button is block for good reason, these things have a nasty habit of slashing
you up, so be sure to block regularly between attacks. Run down to the end of
the path where you will find a huge cracked hole in the wall. Jump through
this to land in the water on the other side. Jump up to the door and head
down 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 these
to permanently increase your magic bar. At the end of the hall back outside
again there's a chest with green orbs inside. Jump up onto the crates and
drop down to find yourself back at the beginning again. Return to where the
large crack in the wall was but this time jump across the gap to find a lever
on 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 one
before coming up here leave it for now because you may nee it after. You're
about to encounter a new type of enemy, the minotaur. To defeat these enemies
first you must use normal attacks and blocks to damage it to the point where
the circle button icon appears above its head. If you press circle at this
point you'll be thrust into a minigame where you have to tap the circle button
as fast as you can to finish the beast off. It is possible just to attack
normally and kill it like that, but as the games notes doing it this way will
mean that the enemy drops healing green orbs every single time. Down at the
end of this path is a chest to refill your magic power, and don't forget the
healing chest you may have left prior to fighting the three beasts. Follow
the path along and ride the next elevator up. You will find yourself in a
large area guarded by a powerful enemy who fires a large spiked ball out of
his hand. Blocking this yields rather unfortunate results so your best bet is
to dodge it entirely using the right analog stick to evade. Jumping is also
quite an effective dodging technique. When the monster has take enough damage
press circle to initiate the minigame where you must correctly hit a random
button that appears on screen quickly in order to keep up with the animation
and finish the monster off. You'll need to fight a total of three of them in
this area, when you've got two of them coming at you at once try letting loose
a 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, and
another one if you jump over the edge at the lower right corner. You probably
won't need both of them right now and since you'll be back here again make
note of where they are but save at least one of them for later. You should
note however that the one near the door changes colours, press the R2 button
while it is the colour of the orb you wish to get and it will remain that
colour when opened. Follow the hall up past this magic chest to reach a large
room with crates piled up high. Here's what you want to do, first notice that
two of these stacks of crates actually have wooden crates holding them up at
the bottom. Break these two wooden crates to shorten the height of the stacks
and reveal the exit to the room. Don't be too hasty however. First double
jump onto the crate at the lower left corner. From here jump diagonally uper
and right to reach the central crate stack. Now across from you there is a
platform with a ladder and a treasure chest, resist the urge to jump there for
now and instead jump right to grab hold of a taller crate stack. From here
you can see an opening in the wall with two chests inside, one refills your
magic 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 find
a whole bunch of red orbs. Climb the ladder and start to shimmy across to the
end 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 the
mesh net on the nearby crate stack. Get on top of this stack and jump left to
reach the door, but you aren't done yet. Jump up onto the crate opposite the
door and then across once again to the next one where you'll find another
chest 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 "kind
of" need it because almost guaranteed you WILL need it soon. Approach the
flaming door and watch the scene. Now it's time to face off against the
leader of the Gorgons, Medusa. She has a couple of basic attacks, but the
most notable is the stone gaze. Now and then she will fire a green beam out
and 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 will
shatter you and kill you, if you happen to be turned to stone throw the left
analog stick around like crazy to get out of it. Anyway the main thing to
keep in mind is that you never want to jump while she is doing this attack, if
you are turned to stone in mid-air you will shatter when you land. Instead
you have two options, the first is to roll around using the right analog stick
which is a fairly effective tactic, the second works even better. When the
Medusa begins to use this attack simply run up to her and cast Poseidon's
Rage. Combo her using the square and triangle attacks as much as possible to
keep knocking her down, that's the best way to avoid damage from her normal
attacks 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 press
the left analog stick in the direction of the tail of the arrow you see on
screen and rotate it in the direction shown. Doing this correctly two times
will have you rip off the beast's head and give you the Medusa's Gaze. Now
you can cycle between Poseidon's Rage and Medusa's Gaze with the D-Pad. The
stone beam uses up magic power but catch enemies in the beam long enough and
they will be turned to stone, at that point you can quickly shatter them with
a normal attack. Hold L2 and press square to fire the beam at enemies, kill
all 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 all
the 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. Now
double jump backward in the opposite direction and you should land on a
platform archway with a treasure chest on it. Open this chest to get a stash
of red orbs. From here you can also jump into an opening in the left wall to
find even more red orbs. Return to the ladder and ascend it all the way to
the top. Immediately as you start moving you will find a lever in front of
you, avoid pulling it for the moment. Instead approach the crossbow in the
middle and hold R2 to grab onto it. While holding R2 hold down on the left
analog stick as well until Kratos fires it automatically. This reveals breaks
a hole in the wall and reveals two chests. Ignore it for now. Open the chest
with the green orbs if you need it and then save your game at the nearby save
point. Head back down and bit and pull the level to turn the crossbow to face
another direction. Before doing anything pull it a second time to make the
crossbow facing to your left. Go forward and fire it, this breaks a hole in
the 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 break
down 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 the
bottom and defeat all the enemies here, there's a chest beside the gate with a
Gorgon Eye inside. Tap the R2 button while standing beside the gate to open
it, but now you need to go back. Turn around and climb up the ladder where
you just came from. At the fork you will see a ladder on the right wall
leading up, climb this ladder now. Outside you'll be ambushed by a bunch of
normal 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 the
stack of crates on your left will end and you can actually stop and stand on
top of them. Drop from this stack of crates onto the red roof of the building
on your left. From this building you can jump straight up and land in the
area where you broke the wall away using the crossbow and open up the chests
to get a whole bunch of red orbs. Drop down and head through the gate you
opened just recently and climb up the two ladders to reach the area with the
wall you started to climb. This time climb up further and start making your
way across to the right, note that you can jump sideways as well as up. Watch
out for all the enemies as you go, take your time and smash them to avoid
being pulled off. When you reach the right side climb down slowly until you
hit ground below. There's a thin walkway leading along the left side, follow
it to reach a huge statue. An R2 icon appears when you get up to it so begin
tapping 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 can
now jump to reach the bottom of the ladder. Up top there are a couple of
normal Gorgon enemies to fight which are just weaker versions of the queen
Medusa. Check the left side for a chest containing green orbs and then climb
further up the ladder to reach the next level. You can damage the two pillars
on the left side and use them to jump on to reach the top level. Use the
crossbow here to fire an arrow with a rope tied to the back off to the other
side of the area. Walk around to the front of the crossbow and double jump to
grab onto this rope. It's not a sliding rope but rather a hand-over-hand rope
for you to go across. The triangle button allows you to do a range attacks
while the square button does a quick attack and the circle button does an
instant kill grab attack. Just make your way across sticking with the circle
button grab most of the time even though you'll take a bit of damage, just
don't underestimate the obnoxiousness of the enemies coming from behind you
and 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 entirely
and go down the hall to the left. Open this door by tapping the R2 button and
return to the crossbow. Save your game here and then fire the crossbow in the
direction you just came from to break open the door. With the door opened a
whole bunch of enemies swarm into the hall. Rather than going up to fight
each one individually simply keep using the crossbow and fire four arrows to
instantly kill four minotaurs, pretty sweet. Run to the end of the hall and
climb up the ladder to find a red orb and green orb chest. After that drop
down to the bottom of the ladder and follow the path outside for a scene.
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/ od of War /------------------------------------------------------------o
| _ -----o-----\ The Road to Athens |
\_/ (00003) \-----------------------------------------------------------o
Ascend the stairs and watch the quick scene at the top. Use the save point on
your right and then follow the left path down into the city. The main path
becomes blocked so head left into the tunnel here. The gate blocks you in so
you're left with a couple of hammer wielding minotaurs. The important thing
to note in here is that there is a button on the ground below you where if you
press it then the gate at the other end opens, but if you step off it then the
gate closes. If the solution to this is not already obvious then listen
close, lure one of the minotaurs onto the button and then use the Medusa's
Gaze to freeze him there. Now you can run to the end and get through the gate
while it's still open. Don't worry if you happen to run out of magic while
doing this, the blue orb chest near the top automatically refills after you
empty it. Open the chest past the gate to refill your health and then follow
the 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 down
the 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 front
door, and from here jump onto the roof where you will find a chest containing
more red orbs. Check inside the next house down the road on your left to get
a Phoenix Feather. From here continue to follow the road until it curves to
the left, when it does the house on the curve (on the right side) has a chest
containing red orbs if you jump up onto the roof and break down the door. Go
one house down still on the right side and through the front door is another
chest full of red orbs. A couple of houses down on the left side go through
the front door and open both the chests to find a Gorgon Eye and a Phoenix
Feather. A couple more houses down on the right side is a chest containing
red orbs. Check the second and third last houses on the left side to get two
more 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. Hold
the 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 the
other rope. Before swinging across however hold up and the left analog stick
to climb. At the top you can jump left to find a treasure chest with many red
orbs inside. Now from here you can just double jump and land on the ground on
the other side. Continue from here down into the Athens Town Square.
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| _ -----o-----\ 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 off
against the cyclops, a new type of enemy. This whole section is extremely
frustrating for one reason and one reason only, but I'll get to that in a
minute. To defeat the cyclops simply stick with square button attacks and
dodge their attacks with the R3 stick rather than trying to block them. Once
enough damage has been done the circle icon appears and allows you to smash
their 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 this
you're going to end up grabbing some stupid townsperson instead and miss a
perfectly good opportunity, it's annoying as hell but at least it makes me
feel 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 a
nice wide open room with pretty reflecting floors. In this room there are
three wall panels you can break open to reveal an urn, a chest with blue orbs
and a chest with a Gorgon Eye inside. Climb to the top of the stairs and open
the chest with green orbs inside. Jump across the gap and follow the woman up
the stairs for a scene. (Incidentally if you drop down where you jumped the
gap you can find some objects to break for red orbs and a magic green/blue orb
treasure chest.) There's a save point at the top here and if you jump left
you'll find a chest with a Phoenix Feather inside. Drop down where the lady
fell and examine her body to get a Key. Now climb all the way back up to
where you just dropped from. On your way there you'll find a bunch of enemies
with special yellow shields, these shield can be broken by doing a couple of
normal square attacks followed by a triangle attack. Jump to the right of the
save point and use the key to unlock the trap door. Tap the R2 button to open
it and jump down inside. Use the save point here and follow the tunnel along
until you reach a gate. Open it by tapping the R2 and climb the stairs.
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| _ -----o-----\ Rooftops of Athens |
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There's a large vine growing up the side of the wall on the right side, this
is 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 direction
and double jump across to grab the vine on the other side. Continue up and
then do this again, finally jump across to the left when you reach the top and
get the chests containing blue and green orbs, when you go outside you'll
encounter a new type of enemy. This enemy moves about underground and bursts
up dealing damage to you in the process, to defeat them you should always
block when they are approaching from underground and then start attacking when
they pop out. Soon after some rather obnoxious guys with bows will appear on
the stairs, take the time to run over and kill them otherwise they'll probably
end up really pissing you off while you're trying to fight. Grab the chest
with the green orbs after the battle and start to climb up the stairs. This
part can get rather difficult so stay on your guard and only attack when it's
safe, you need to fend off a bunch of those skeleton warriors as well as the
large beast with the spikey ball. After the battle grab the chest with the
green 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 to
cross the bridge where all those soldiers met their end and double jump across
to the platform. From here you can double jump and grab hold of the vines
that line the side of the pillar in the middle. Shimmy around to the right
side and then jump to the next pillar. Try to time your jumps between the
arrows fired from the enemies so that you aren't struck in mid air and fall to
your doom. On the second pillar climb around to the right side and jump
across. Open the chest here and get the red orbs. You'll come to a fork up
the path, at this fork is a chest that changes colour, refill either your
health or magic whichever needs it more. Take the right path at the save
point 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 the
two treasure boxes here for eithe magic or health and a Gorgon Eye. Drop down
again and jump across to the other building on the left side. Here you'll
find a multicoloured chest again and if you jump across to the left you can
grab onto a rope. Swing and jump to reach the other side where you'll find a
treasure trove of health, magic and red orbs which you can barely open thanks
to those stupid archers in the background. It's possible to kill them later
and come back for these so you can do that if you wish. Head back and smash
the wooden barrier beside the chest so that you can jump across to the next
building. Break the barrier and this building and double jump across, you
certainly won't make it to the ledge but you will grab onto the vines that
adorn the wall. Climb up and open the chest to refill your magic power.
There's a shiny object on the ground up the ramp, press the R2 button for a
quick scene and then continue along the path to a ramp which you can kick down
with the R2 button. Head back down to the save point room and go out the
door, 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 kick
this thing down into the next room. Now in this room you will notice an odd
panel on the floor, go to the door beside it and use the R2 button to pull it
open. Inside a ton of enemies spawn but you can take them all out quickly
using the Poseidon's Rage. After they're taken care of go out and place the
ballista on the gear shaped panel in the floor, now pull the lever. Leave the
room and grab the ballista which has been turned 90 degrees and pull it off
the panel. Pull the lever once again to reset it and put the ballista back
on. Turn it one more time and it will be rotated to face toward that
immovable 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 ladder
that the lever brought down and get the chest containing red orbs. Pull open
the door at the upper right as well to find a multicoloured chest. Now head
through the door in the centre and follow the path to find another of the many
gods. He grants you the magic power Zeus' Fury. Head through the door that
Zeus blocked previously and cross the bridge. While standing on the bridge
with 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 them
opens up the door that had the red forcefield before down the hall to the
right of where you came out of the Zeus door. Through there is a large room
with a crumbling wall at the top end, break down this wall to find three
chests containing magic refill, a Gorgon Eye and a Phoenix Feather. Head back
across 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 the
ability to kill those damn archers in the background and get all those chests
across the swinging part if you wish. When you're ready jump across and
return to the part where the guy wouldn't put the bridge across for you. Take
aim with your Zeus' Fury and eliminate his face off. You'll find two chests
in the first room on the other side containing a Gorgon Eye and a Phoenix
Feather. Follow the path down the hall to the room at the end where you'll
find 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. Start
running and as you cross the bridge a cutscene will occur. Balance your way
across the bridge support beam and save your game at the save point on the
other side. Ascend the stairs to the top where you'll need to fight your way
through a number of normal enemies. You can break a hole in the wall to
reveal a chest full of red orbs around here. Keep climbing the stairs until
you finally reach the Temple of the Oracle. Open the two chests here
containing green orbs and blue orbs then start to cross the bridge.
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| _ -----o-----\ Temple of the Oracle |
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At the end of the bridge you'll be thrown into a battle with a ton of those
flying nuisances and a couple of gorgons, defeat them all to open up the
blocked paths. There's a scene here as well afterward, when it's over climb
the stairs and grab the chests on the left and right side of the temple
entrance for a Gorgon Eye and a Phoenix Feather. Inside the actual temple run
to the top end and grab the staties there, you can pull them out to reveal two
chests, both multicoloured. These statues actually serve a purpose, you may
have noticed by now that the swarm of harpies is literally unending, and for
that reason you cannot continue any further (you'll see why if you climb the
stairs.) What you need to do is drag the left statues down and use it to
block the left hole, then drag the right statue down and use it to block the
right hole. Now take out any remaining harpies and voila, you're free. Take
the 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 will
find a chest with another Gorgon Eye. On the adjacent side there's a chest
full of red orbs. Now climb the stairs and begin to make your way across the
ceiling beams Head left to find one at the end leading up that doesn't
collapse then follow along to the right until you find another one. Head up
and 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 watch
the scene there. All right here's what you need to do. First of all head
right and notice that there is an elevator there that goes down when you stand
on it. Beside the door where you came from are two statues. What you need to
do is go and get one of those statues and then place it on the elevator. Now
after doing that go and get the other and set it beside the elevator but not
on it. Stand on the elevator so that it goes down but jump back so you don't
go with it. When the elevator hits the bottom push the second statue on top
of 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 pillar
and beside it a smaller structure with a treasure chest on top containing red
orbs. Well here's the first thing to do. Push the pillar over to these two
structures 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 you
should see two treasure chests up top of the rock ledge. Well what you need
to do is jump onto the small structure with the chest, and from there jump
onto the taller platform. Now from here jump over to your two-story statue
and 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 clockwise
direction staying alongside the walls, you'll notice two place where there is
a cracked wall surrounded by a kind of archway. Break these cracked walls
with normal attacks to reveal two chests, one with a Gorgon Eye and then other
with red orbs. Now it's time to save that stupid lady. Drag the statue
pillar 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 jump
to your pillar. From here you can jump across and grab hold of the vines. As
you 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, before
you start I'll dispell your main worries and say that if you fail you'll
automatically restart at the beginning of the timed challenge so don't worry
too much. Head across the vines and position yourself for a jump, be sure to
wait for each rotation of these things to finish before you actually make the
jump yourself. Use techniques like the sideways and upward jump to get across
the vines faster. Double jump from the highest vine to reach the rope and
swing across to the other side. You'll need to balance along the thin beams
here 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 move
toward 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 a
large emblem and a cliff. The main reason to come up here is the treasure
chest behind the emblem containing a Phoenix Feather. Return to the save
point and head right across the large sword. Descend the enormous spiral
staircase 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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| _ -----o-----\ The Sewers of Athens |
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There are two chests on either side of you, both multicoloured. Follow the
sewers further down and defeat all the enemies that attack you If you jump up
to where all the archers are attacking from you'll find not only a
multicoloured chest but one with a stash of red orbs in the left corner as
well. 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 you
need to defeat here but if you've levelled the Blades of Chaos up to three by
now note that the triangle button combo is extremely effective against them
since they're so slow. Open the multicoloured chest on the right side and
then continue down the sewers. Two more chests can be found here and an
additional two at the end, both containing red orbs. Jump up and get ready
for a huge enemy-fest. You'll start by having to take down a couple of
cyclops enemies which is much easier now that there aren't a million other
townspeople to accidentally target, afterward a bunch of minotaurs and normal
enemies 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 next
curve 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 of
your is a ladder leading up to a chest and some spiral stairs. Pull the lever
at the top of the stairs to form another set of stairs leading back up to
somewhere familiar. Head up to the platform where you first saw Ares
destroying the city, indeed he is still there. This time take the right path
instead of the left path and save your game while you're at it. The enormous
door is now open, proceed through and immediately turn right to find a chest
containing a Gorgon Eye. On the left is a multicoloured chest, use it to
revitalize yourself before entering the Desert of Lost Souls.
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| _ -----o-----\ Desert of Lost Souls |
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Head down into the desert and watch the scene when you arrive. Now here's the
first thing to note, from the statue if you run directly up and angle yourself
slightly to the left you'll find a treasure chest containing a bunch of red
robs 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 finally
reach the lower right corner of the desert. From here run directly Northwest
and you should start to hear singing. North of the grassy area where the
singing gets louder is a large temple. In front of this temple beside the
multicoloured chest is the first siren, use magic primarily to destroy her as
she is quite agile. Once she is dead then only two more remain. These aren't
going to be easy to find, they're wandering around in the central area of the
desert. Since they move around the only real help I can offer is general
areas. If you find the stage-like section in the middle of the desert you
should be able to find the first Siren (very) roughly South of there and the
second (very) roughly North of there. Both of them are accompanied by two
minotaurs as well. Once they are defeated the path opens in the East temple
and you can go inside to save your game. Open the two chests here and then
head down the stairs beside the save point. Down here you will find a
conveyer belt, first of all the most important thing to note is to avoid those
spikey things at the end. What you need to do is tap the R2 button to open
the door on the wall and pull out the large block (there's a chest behind it
as well.) Kick the block all the way left until it hits the wall and then use
it so that you can jump high enough to reach the ledge. From here head
through the door and go out onto the steps. Blow into the large horn for a
scene and then follow the path, don't miss the chests and before you can blow
on the next horn suddenly you are ambushed by quite a few sirens. Even after
defeating 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 the
battle the horn reappears and you can blow into it to trigger a scene.
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| _ -----o-----\ Pandora's Temple |
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Save your game and begin heading across the bridge. You will find two
multicoloured chests on the other side, one on the left and one on the right
side of the main door. Head left and take the sloping path that leads down
and around to the other side. Here you will find a wall with a handle on the
bottom, use the R2 button to grab on and pull the wall out as far as it can go
before it won't move anymore. Now when you let go it's automatically going to
start moving in again so you need to jump up it as fast as possible. At the
top there's a scene, after the scene the gates are opened so drop down and
head toward the door. As you go two new types of cyclops attack, they're just
larger version of ones you've fought before so as usual the triangle combo
works exceptionally well against them. After the battle climb the front
stairs. Go left at the top and open the chest to find another Gorgon Eye. On
the right side is a Phoenix Feather in the chest. When you're ready to
proceed turn the lever in the middle by grabbing and walking around in an
entire 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 a
time the characters highlight and when they all have, the path opens.
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| _ -----o-----\ The Rings of Pandora |
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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. Wait
until they are opening and then use the right analog evade roll to ensure you
make it through each one of them in one piece. At the other end some enemy
archers 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 to
lower down another lever outside the room. Run back out and begin to turn
this round and round and round until you see a bright red flame. Approach it
to 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 |
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Head down the hall and save your game along the way. The next room offers you
the perfect chance to try out your new weapon by throwing a ton of the easiest
enemies in the game at you,this doesn't last long however as you are also
attacked by a number of more difficult Gorgons. Following the battle jump up
and grab onto the bottom of the stairs at the upper right corner of the room
and head around the path. Use Zeus' Fury to take out the archers in the
background and then balance across to that side. In the corner there you'll
find a chest containing a Gorgon Eye. Drop down and head through the hall at
the lower right corner of this room. Follow the path and make sure all the
enemies in the next area are taken care of, then go back to the fork in the
hall and grab that box of rocks or whatever it is. Notice that when you step
on the button in the main room the thing at the top spins around, then spins
back when you step off. Well drag the box of rocks up near the spinning thing
along with your and then charge up a kick to kick it toward the button. While
it's sliding jump up toward the spinning thing and it will flip you around.
On this side there are a number of enemies you need to defeat, as well as two
chests above you, one multicoloured and the other full of red orbs. The third
is a blue or chest on the left side. When you're done climb the ladder and
jump across to the left side where you can pick up the Shield of Zeus. Drop
down to the room below and examine the door on the lower left side to place
the 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 already
cleared this place out then you're set, if not then you'll have to do some
fighting. Get to the other side and pull the lever with the R2 button (the
icon will not appear on the screen.) When the weight comes down grab hold of
the rope and slide down with it. Get on the horizontal rope and start making
your 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 an
absolute ambush, this is far more enemies at once than you've ever seen
anywhere else in the entire game. Not only that the wall on the left side is
closing in on you so it's just going to get tighter and tighter as you go
along. Some effective attacks for this battle are obviously Poseidon's Rage,
along with the L1 + Square Blade of Artemis attack and also doing a double
jump 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 the
Shield 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 the
ladder and head through the door, prepare for some rather dangerous
circumstances. It's hard not to notice that there are crazy death saws making
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