God of War: Ascension - glitches and observations pt. 1
30Assortment of random glitches and OoB sojournings around the game.
0:00 - as in GoW III, you can interrupt pretty much all of your attacks via a swing grapple point activation. Interrupting the magics yields some semi-fun results, as in this case where you can move while the icy tornado whirls around Kratos.
(Not on the vid: some other R1 prompts, like some boss mini-games, can do the same thing, like interrupt magic occasionally. But from short testing I couldn't find anything useful to do with it.)
0:19 - you can activate Rage while latched onto some switch. This causes some graphical glitches, or at least allows you a better offense while dragging a switch around (with Lightning Rage).
0:54 - you can go on top of the roof of this Snaketrain, but I didn't find anything too useful to do with it. The area on which you can safely walk isn't terribly large.
1:29 - after returning to Tower of Delphi summit, you can stay on top of the ladder indefinitely without hitting the next cutscene trigger (the one that starts the boss fight).
In this instance, I do the ice magic as I hit the trigger, and the magic's effects appear to the center of the tower instead of around Kratos... My guess is that in the game's memory Kratos is already standing on the spot where he will appear after the cutscene, and the magic's effect follows suit.
1:44 - doing the bridge fixing skip right before meeting the Oracle can cause some radical camera glitches to occur, here's some footage. Retrying from checkpoint makes the camera behave as if the Oracle cutscene was going on, even though it's not. Examining the Oracle makes the camera become fixated on her body indefinitely. This would be a speedrun ruining glitch, but fortunately it ends once you move on to the next area, making it at best manageable.
3:10 - going out of bounds easily at the Kirra waterwheel. This corner has a flaw to it, allowing you to pass through by rolling or kicking against it. So far it seems unlikely that you can get to The Grotto early, but you never know...
3:32 - you can use Shield to run behind the rising battle barrier in the Cyclops fight as it is starting (Kirra re-visit). From here you can easily blast everyone away using the wall-piercing Soul element attacks for example. So it's a pretty neat fight exploit.
4:00 - another of those mysterious ledges Kratos latches onto when doing the Ice L1+triangle attack against walls. This one delivers you downwards where you just fall down to your death, so doesn't seem too useful... (However, as Robin Fleming found out, if you do Ice L1+triangle a little more to the left, to the corner of the statue, you zip downwards in an useful way, and it IS actually a way to skip the Cyclops fight without a high jump.)
4:10 - A mysterious way to go...
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God of War: Ascension Glitch FAQ:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps3/667703-god-of-war-ascension/faqs/70507
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