God of War: CoO and GoS - leftover glitches compilation

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Published on September 9, 2013 6:48:23 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fu8zT-rF-E

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God of War: Chains of Olympus (2008)

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I'll probably have to revisit these two games some day, but until then, here are some leftover, previously unpublished glitches and observations from the last session.

CoO-block:

I: an invisible archer.

II: a little better quality look at water combat, an unique specialty of the PSP God of Wars. Basically, you either switch weapons as you enter water, or enter water with Charon's Wrath glitch active. Kratos can do short attacks on water that interrupt almost instantly as they start, but at least he makes funny noises and gets some momentum to go with it.

III: a miniscule graphical glitch related to Sun Shield. You interrupt its unsheathing animation in air with double jump, and you can see a strange residue of its graphical effect in air momentarily as you're landing.

IV: a miniscule graphical glitch related to Zeus Gauntlet. Charge an attack with it, but switch weapons. After switching back, you see a residue of the charge special effect in Kratos' previous location where he had Gauntlet on.

V: after ending up in the underworld, you can get past this fight even on New Game by using grab high jump.

VI: a close-up of Kratos with the glitched Sun Shield graphic on him.

GoS-block:

VII: I messed around with the guy in sunken Atlantis who you're normally supposed to hit with a spear to open the gate. At first it took some thinking to figure out a tactic to skip him without accidentally killing him, but then I remembered the air spear triangle-attack, which targets ground in front of Kratos instead of other characters. So using that I could get past the guy without hitting him.

After that, I tested killing him using non-spear means. I recall that Kratos got stuck afterwards, as if the cutscene became glitched and never resolved properly this way. Using the ice magic, you can get its audio loop stuck once again.

VIII: some combat arena testing in GoS. If you enter Arena as Zeus while the variation of the Eye/Feather-glitch is on, something a little strange happens. Both the Gravedigger and Zeus appear on the map, standing frozen. Enemies are also idle during this time. You can only taunt enemies and nothing else until you retry, after which things go back to normal.

IX: not any worse than Kratos in this respect, Zeus can also infinite jump. Since he is immortal, falling out of bounds causes him to get stuck in a loop of endless death and grim rebirth.

X: just a random observation. It's a scenario never seen in the game proper, but if a Gorgon shoots freezing beams at an armored target, the beams become deflected, like any of Kratos' attacks.

XI: I tested dying at the same time you win a Challenge. The test was successful; the game softlocked.

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