God of War: Ascension - glitches and observations pt. 9
Some more findings from last year.
0:00 - A checkpoint retry glitch in Chapter 1. If you retry for no reason near the end of the Chapter as you are sliding down the final slide, something strange happens. Perhaps Kratos' position becomes displaced upon retry, because he will immediately fall down under the map and get a game over. Another retry fixes things.
0:40 - A checkpoint observation in Chapter 3 once you reach the part with the elevator. You get a new checkpoint at a custom location when you defeat the final bug-hound. If you create this custom checkpoint away from the elevator, it's possible to retry and then examine one of the wall murals to overlap the mural with the short in-game cutscene showing the elevator. It's an unique overlap, but sadly it doesn't seem to result in any additional glitch effects.
1:11 - If you have some forward momentum, Poseidon Tremble (Air) can climb up steep/slippery collision that Kratos normally cannot stand on. Of course, this has pretty huge limits since you can only do this in places where level geometry allows it.
1:33 - Another example where Poseidon Tremble (Air) allows hovering on top of a block of slippery floor. In some cases staying on top of collision like this for too long does kill Kratos automatically, though.
2:11 - If you have extra momentum when you enter a slide so that Kratos flies over the slide for a moment, then start blocking, he will get stuck on top of the slide. The slide cannot begin normally until he is neutral, but he cannot stop blocking right now, so he becomes stuck indefinitely in place and no input can free him.
2:27 - Aiming with Amulet or other items in similar circumstances will also softlock Kratos in place on top of a slide. The example is slightly strange looking, but rest assured that the tentacle is a kind of a slide.
2:45 - While we're here in Chapter 30, might as well show some strange collision far below the tentacle slide. A lot of it is slippery collision, but there's at least one block of regular walkable collision too. But it doesn't look like there's anywhere to go from here.
(In case you're wondering, I detach from the tentacle slide by retrying from last checkpoint and tapping 'X'.)
3:16 - Just out of curiosity, I did Poseidon Tremble speed glitch on the Chapter 30 tentacle slide. For some reason this was the highest speed I could end up with, which is obviously far less than what you normally get with Poseidon Tremble speed glitch...? Could it have something to do with the milder incline of the slide at the very top? Should retry it once day.
(Not on the vid: I once tested flying around this place with glitched Shield, and you can actually see the final phase boss platform floating far in the distance. However, it wasn't possible to reach even with glitched Shield since it's so far away.)
3:37 - Two clips of buggy Gorgon mini-games in Chapter 28. If this happens, Kratos and the enemy moves to some unexpected direction and the Gorgon flash hits nothing. And it seems as if Kratos is airborne for an instant after the mini-game is finished, for whatever reason.
4:07 - The Talos that spawns in Chapter 28 can die mysteriously by itself. Perhaps it hits some insta-death barrier at the foreground of the arena. I haven't tried if this could be harnessed as a consistent speed tactic.