God of War: Ascension - small timesaves and curiosities
10I: when chasing Castor & Pollux, you can skip the small climbing part with a continuous Shield Jump, saving a few seconds.
II: you can get up close to the idle Castor & Pollux character model this way. He is not a real target and you can't really interact with him in any way. And when the ground gives way, he will be left standing in air.
III: you can save a few seconds in situations like this where you have to do a climbing wall leap. Interrupt the jump with Rage to gain better maneuverability.
IV: in Chapter 21 start, you have use the Oath Stone for the first time. After the first hurdles in the level there's a balancing floor where you're supposed to leave a shadow Kratos. Don't leave the shadow to the very left or you'll get a filler cutscene. If you leave the shadow close to the middle instead, you skip the cutscene and save time.
V: you can use Shield Jump to clip out of bounds after that "puzzle". You can see some graphics out of bounds (if you manage to not get Kratos killed instantly). But it doesn't seem likely you can do anything too useful with this.
VI: using Shield Run to save a few seconds after killing the Delos Lantern Manticore.
VII: Interestingly, this makes your last checkpoint to be the cinematic cutscene. Retrying from it makes it easy to test doing odd stuff like magic inside the cutscene - you can see the results after skipping the cinematic.
VIII: retrying from one of the checkpoints in the final chapter, you are able to break Kratos out from sliding down the tentacle by spamming jump. This allows you to do... well, not much. You can Shield Jump to reach the next tentacle slightly earlier than normal, saving a few seconds. But it's not a good timesave since retrying by itself costs so much time.
IX: falling straight down drops Kratos underwater. But this doesn't help in any way, he just dies.
X: if you hover in air long enough, the animation for the lower tentacle freezes. It just helpfully lays outstretched for Kratos to land on it whenever he feels like it.
XI: it is not possible to do Poseidon Tremble speed glitch here for some reason.
XII: retrying from an even later checkpoint and spamming magic at the start causes a break out. Kratos appears at the final boss arena, casting the magic. Only then the cutscene where Kratos gets thrown on the fight arena happens.
This should be tested with the other element magics too, to see if they don't create some unusual effects...
XIII: an interesting observation at Chapter 22. If you do continuous Shield Jump from here as far as you can go, you'll see a strange map in the distance... that's in fact the Fire Elevator you just came from.
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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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