Game:

God of War III (2010)

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Skipping the Hermes cutscene, plus minor glitches and oddites. This vid is in 2 parts, 1st Part is skipping the Hermes cutscene (and its possible consequences). And the second part is a glitch package.

NOTE: If you do this Hermes cutscene skip, make sure to trigger the Athena cutscene at the flame FIRST, or else the game will crash!

Points of Interest:
Part 1 - Skipping the Hermes cutscene.
1. You can skip having to trigger Hermes' appearance trigger and as a result you also skip the cutscenes with Hermes talking. You do it by simply high jumping and grabbing a ledge on the broken pillar that Hermes normally breaks. The rest of the game loads normally...

2. ...so, if you skip this Hermes appearance trigger and then complete things as normal, the trigger can still be activated but later on in the game when you are not supposed to. If you then trigger the Hermes appearance trigger later on in the game (after the music puzzle) you will get a glitched cutscene of an invisible/absent Hermes.

3. If you set off this trigger and then go up to the flame and turn the crank, the game will show the Athena/Pandora's box cutscene that had already been shown earlier instead of the 3 Judges pulling the chain down. (As it should). After the wrong cutscene gets triggered, Kratos gets stuck off screen while the controller vibrates violently without stopping, and you get a static camera angle of the chain. (So if you choose to skip the Hermes cutscene, just make sure not to trigger him later, you can skip the music puzzle anyway which will avoid all this anyway)

Part 2 - Glitch Package (Part 3)
4. At the Chain/Vent - You can break out of the final sequence of this by doing Jet Dash at the top. This results in Kratos falling back down the chain out of shot, the camera then starts going down again.

5. At the first box at the Caverns - If you burn the brambles and jump up on the area above it, the box leaves Kratos behind.

6. At the catapult before Hermes battle - You can get early access to the catapult area by pulling the crank not quite to the end, and then Jet Dash to inside the catapult area. Unfortunately, the R1 function is not active and ruined my hope that I could somehow shoot Kratos in some totally wrong direction.

7. At the battle after Hermes - You can jump into the area thats behind the door during the battle by jumping off the top of the blue barrier. But the next area is not loaded, you get the same result if you skip the battle trigger aswell, but I was hoping that triggering the battle might also trigger the area behind the door.

8. At Poseidon's Princess - Besides clipping through the door, you can also access the Princess' room early, I then tried to push her through the portal but (as expected) you get the same result as normal (when you get to this room early)...the Princess dies.

9. At Hephestus (Spelling?) - You can Jet Dash and get behind the doorway at the base of the long stairs, but nothing loaded.

10. At the start of the Dog kicking puzzle at Poseidon chamber - Speedrun strategy, from the top of the stairs near the entrance you can high jump into Jet Dash directly to the top area where the lever is.

11. At the music puzzle - You can Jet Dash against the puzzle itself and Kratos will rise up to the top part (Jet/Collision Ascension)

12. At the end of the vid - Kratos outruns (outflies) Hermes to the doorway with the gate, but there is invisible collision preventing you from entering anyway.

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