God of War: Ascension - glitching at Castor & Pollux pt. 1
5Using the new Ice Rage glitch techniques, you are able to move bosses around the map, causing some strange situations to occur.
0:00 - dropping Pollux into the pit for a moment. This is possible both at the start of the fight and at the mid-phase part where platforms start collapsing all around the boss. Unsurprisingly, Pollux doesn't die from death collision. He does, however, glitch up in other ways. His A.I. becomes very passive and he tends to just stand in one spot unless Kratos comes and bothers him in some way. His direct sword attacks also no longer hit Kratos. He can't be beaten in this glitched mode and you have to retry to continue.
1:12 - you can use the rocks to activate Ice Rage glitch in this boss fight. The destructible pillars to the side of the arena work too.
1:38 - dropping Pollux out of bounds right before the white fade-in of the cinematic mid-phase part, something goes horribly wrong. Pollux is unable to hit Kratos with the sword slash that would end the cinematic part, causing the game to become stuck once again.
2:15 - at the same part, if you drop Pollux out of bounds long before the white fade-in, the cinematic part never starts.
2:45 - pressing X frame precisely at the end of the white-fade in causes Kratos to break out of the cinematic part. This causes the fight to continue while the camera and effects are still that of the cinematic part. Maybe it's an out of body experience for Kratos if the camera is supposedly a first-person view? But once again, the game is unhappy with all this glitching and you can't beat the boss like this, causing you to get stuck.
3:36 - just a test of what happens if you move the boss to a wrong spot for the first part finisher QTE. It doesn't seem to do much beyond minor graphical displacement.
4:10 - Ice Rage glitching the boss during the "Castor" phase when he is teleporting in air causes Kratos to teleport in air with him. This is the second time I've seen Ice Rage glitch teleport Kratos...
To note, depending on your timing, sometimes this can bring Castor closer to Kratos too. I wondered it this could help save time in a speedrun since normally you cannot deal damage to Castor too effectively when he is far away. However, he seems totally immune to damage during this scripted part while he is floating far away... seems par on the course for Ascension.
4:19 - just a small camera glitch of Ice Raging the boss as he is about to drop down the Oracle.
4:31 - at the final floor collapsing part, dropping Castor into the pit long before you is of no help at all.
4:58 - doing the actual finisher QTE at a wrong spot.
5:31 - a bonus clip of a yet another stupid death Ascension can deliver to a speedrunner. If you play through the pre-fight platforming part too fast, the game hasn't loaded the falling pillars at the end of the level and Kratos just dies instead.
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