God of War: Ascension - glitching at Trial of Archimedes pt. 2

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Published on January 8, 2015 10:41:58 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhX2VGGQu28

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God of War: Ascension (2013)

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Another interesting thing I found from this area is at the very end. After completing the puzzle, if you return to the first area while making shadow Kratos disappear, the game gets into a mixed state of Kratos having won and failed the puzzle at the same time.

You know this glitch started if the inky Fury Barrier does not form behind Kratos after he has walked through the portal. Kratos also never loses the Eyes of Truth despite the cutscene showing he loses them.

So what can be done now? If you try to go open the left set of doors, the animation glitches up and Kratos becomes stuck struggling with the door for all eternity. This is the same effect if you sneak to this side without seeing the portal animation and try to activate the door.

Returning to the right side, you'll see that the Eyes of Truth have re-appeared inside the cage even though Kratos is holding them right now. So you can basically pick up two sets of Eyes... who knew that Aletheia was a mutant with (at least) four eyes?

During all this the crank of the cage at the right side has the tendency to glitch up. Kratos can try to pick it up and move it, but he only moves something invisible. And while the sound plays, the lenses of the cage do not actually become aligned... so congrats! Your game is now unwinnable until you retry.

(Not on the vid: sometimes the crank switch fury barrier also appears at 3 o' clock instead of 6 o' clock like normal.)

If you do this glitch once, then solve the puzzle, the victory cutscene slightly glitches up and you don't see any sigils light up on the left side. Other than that, things work out like normal.

This glitch allows a small camera glitch as well. Once having done the glitch, going close to the portal but not all the way in switches the wrong camera.

This glitch allows you to easily go out of bounds! Once having done the glitch, going close to the left door unloads the right side and lets Kratos fall into unloaded nothingness when walking through the portal. Needless to say, doing this is useless! There is a random chest floating out of bounds beneath the map, but that seems to be the case with many other currently unloaded future areas in this game.

The final clip is just showing what happens if you use Eyes of Truth when going through the portal... the item turns invisible in Kratos' hands.

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