God of War III - glitchy tidbits
8The mechanics of God of War III are so messy that it sometimes feels difficult to approach them with any kind of system. Regardless, I returned to this game for a few days to test some things further and try to find more loopholes. This video captures both old and new previously unrecorded tidbits.
I: doing Deadly Reprisal (air) while hitting a rope makes Kratos do his leaping motion while stuck on the rope. Then everything goes back to normal, no potential for "rope combat" in this one.
II: you can do a combo that chains from Blades to Claws, from either the fourth square hit or second triangle hit. Basically, you can put in a Claws finisher to a Blades combo. Shame that there aren't other weapon change combos in the game, as far as I know.
III: you can do one Blades of Exile move with Blades of Athena: the ground Rapid Switch. Jump, then block before hitting ground. After having landed quickly switch weapons and press X. Kratos will do the Rapid Switch although it's not a part of the BoA movelist.
IV: you can do Blades of Exile/Nemesis Whip-style combat grapple with the Cestus. Do Cestus' ground Rapid Switch, but change weapon back to Cestus as quick as possible, then do grapple as soon as possible. The ensuing grapple mostly looks like a Blades grapple and works like it too.
V: same works in air after Whip ascension. During the ascension, switch to Cestus and do grapple as soon as possible, and you get what looks like a Blades grapple instead.
VI: an old trick. Kratos sometimes does a normal roll no matter what his active weapon is if you start doing the roll after using Head of Helios.
VII: doing Claws Rapid Switch but quickly changing back to any other weapon and holding down block, Kratos enters this glitched blocking state. If enemies attack him, he just slides away. He is stuck until you active Rage or press X.
VIII: buffering Cestus' Savage Charge but switching weapons causes Kratos to become utterly stuck in a strange pose. Only getting attacked or reseting releases him from this state.
IX: ways to glitch up the graphics of Army of Sparta. One is by turning Aphrodite's Garter on or off during the magic. Other is by doing Blades air combat grapple, switching weapons and then casting the magic.
X: riding on a Queen Harpy that was freshly shattered.
(Not on the vid:) you can do a glitched combat grapple by blocking with Claws, then quickly switching to another weapon and doing a combat grapple. The ensuing grapple does extremely little damage and knocks back some enemies, but it has no other effects.
(Not on the vid:) I noticed that you could do a jump after a Hermes Dash in certain circumstances. If I rolled down a ledge, holding down right analog so that Dash began just as the roll cancelled, and Claws was the active weapon, I could jump after the Dash. Specialized... so messy... probably not useful, but pretty curious.
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