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|                   Author: A I e x                                          |
|                   Began: March 26th, 2005                                  |
|                   Completed: March 27th, 2005                              |
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** In order to navigate this guide I have implemented a Ctrl+f system, which 
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1. Controls............................................................(0000Z)
2. Full Walkthrough....................................................(00000)
     i - Aegean Sea....................................................(00001)
     ii - The Gates of Athens..........................................(00002)
     iii - The Road to Athens..........................................(00003)
     iv - Athens Town Square...........................................(00004)
     v - Rooftops of Athens............................................(00005)
     vi - Temple of the Oracle.........................................(00006)
     vii - The Sewers of Athens........................................(00007)
     viii - Desert of Lost Souls.......................................(00008)
     ix - Pandora's Temple.............................................(00009)
     x - The Rings of Pandora..........................................(0000A)
     xi - The Challenge of Atlas.......................................(0000B)
     xii - The Challenge of Poseidon...................................(0000C)
     xiii - The Challenge of Hades.....................................(0000D)
     xiv - The Cliffs of Madness.......................................(0000E)
     xv - The Architect's Tomb.........................................(0000F)
     xvi - The Path to Hades...........................................(0000G)
     xvii - Temple of the Oracle.......................................(0000H)
3. Final Note..........................................................(0000I)
4. Version History.....................................................(0000J)
5. Legal...............................................................(0000K)
6. Credits.............................................................(0000L)

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| Menu Controls          | Function                                          |
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| Start                  | Access Menu Screens                               |
|------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|
| Select                 | Pause Game / Options Menu                         |
|------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|
| Left analog / D-pad    | Highlight / menu item                             |
|------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|
| X                      | Select menu item                                  |
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| Triangle               | Previous screen                                   |
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| L1 / R1                | Scroll Menu Screens                               |
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| On Ground Controls     | Function                                          |
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| Left analog            | Walk / Run / Climb                                |
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| Right analog           | Evade                                             |
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| X                      | Jump                                              |
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| X + X                  | Double Jump                                       |
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| Square                 | Normal Attack                                     |
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| Triangle               | Heavy Attack                                      |
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| Circle                 | Grab Enemies                                      |
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| L1                     | Block (Parry if block at right time)              |
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| D-Pad                  | Select Magic (when acquired)                      |
|------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|
| L2                     | Use Item / Magic                                  |
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| R2                     | Action / Interact with world                      |
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| L3 + R3                | Rage of the Gods (When rage meter full)           |
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| Triangle (Hold)        | Launch and follow enemy into the air              |
|------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|
| X (After enemy launch) | Super Jump                                        |
|------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|
| Circle (Enemy in air)  | Chain Grab                                        |
|------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|
| Start                  | Access Menu Screens                               |
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| R2 (Hold) + X (Charge) | To Kick Objects                                   |
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| In Air Basics          | Function                                          |
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| Square                 | Horizontal Attack                                 |
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| Triangle               | Vertical Attack                                   |
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| Circle                 | Air Grap                                          |
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| L1                     | Block                                             |
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| D-Pad                  | Select Magic (When acquired)                      |
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| L2                     | Use Item / Magic                                  |
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| R1                     | Hercules Stomp                                    |
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| Circle (Hold)          | Rope Swing (when hanging on a rope)               |
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 /   od of War  /------------------------------------------------------------o
|  _ -----o-----\                         Aegean Sea                         |
 \_/   (00001)   \-----------------------------------------------------------o

At the very beginning of the game you're given control of Kratos, a man who 
wields two swords attached to the end of very long chains.  Using a 
combination of the square (weak attack) and triangle (strong attack) buttons 
you can perform numerous different combos at the start.  To save you the time 
of learning everything progressively with the tutorials you can also throw 
enemies with circle, block attacks with L1 and evade by moving the right 
analog stick.  Get yourself accustomed to the controls by smashing through all 
the enemies in this area.  Note a fun little tip, when you press the circle 
button to grab enemies you can perform three different throws.  While holding 
the enemy press either circle, triangle or square to do one of the three 
different throws.  After all the enemies have been disposed approach the trap 
door in the upper left corner and press the R2 button to grab hold.  Continue 
to press the R2 button over and over again until the trap door opens then drop 
down.  There's a treasure chest right here when you land, hold the R2 button 
to grab on and open it.  Inside a number of green orbs will refill your 
health.  You can break many of the objects in this area to get red orbs as you 
continue North down the hallway.  Head down into the next hallway.

Here you will be ambused by a large "miniboss."  It's the head of a hydra and 
it's extremely angry.  To defeat this boss you need to run up to it and attack 
using a combination of square and triangle attacks to dish out as much damage 
as possible.  The boss will be constantly attacking and size that's virtually 
impossible to dodge you need to block it instead.  When the head moves back to 
strike just stand where you are and hold the L1 button to protect yourself 
from the attack and go in swinging madly after each one.  Continue this 
process over and over until you've knocked out about half its health.  At that 
point it will fall down and the option to play a minigame appears.  To 
initiate the minigame press the circle button when you see the circle icon 
appear over the beast's head.  Now you have to press the button that appears 
on screen quickly, if you see a triangle press the triangle button and so on.  
Doing this will treat you to a rather violent and brutal scene.

Once the monster is gone continue forward and begin to cross over the pit on 
the beams that extend overtop.  It's quite a balancing act but if you happen 
to slip you can usually just tap the X button to climb back up again.  If you 
fall entirely just swim back to the start and give it another try.  Break the 
barrels on the other side to get all the red orbs and then jump through the 
crack in the wall to the left.  There's a man in the cage at the end of the 
path, you can speak to him using the R2 button.  Climb the stairs on the right 
and open the treasure chest to receive a whole bunch of red orbs.  Continue 
down the hall past the wooden barrier and kick open the door with the R2 
button.  Outside you'll find a huge chaotic scene of violence involving some 
nasty winged creatures ripping men apart.  Return the favour by using the 
circle button to rip their wings off completely, this will occur for many 
enemies throughout the game, special throws based on the type of enemy they 
are.  It's an unfortunate truth that the innocent men running around on deck 
will drop health when killed, so if you need it then just start swinging 
madly.  After defeating a few of the creatures and thinning them out a little 
run to the opposite side of the deck where you will find two doors.  Approach 
one of them and open it by tapping the R2 button, it will reveal a chest 
containing red orbs as will the second one.  Head back and continue your 
slaughter of the winged cratures, eventually a boss will appear.

This actually isn't so much a boss as a miniboss again.  It has a few basic 
attacks, first there's a generic bite attack which bites down on the spot 
wherever you are stand, simply block this attack.  The second attack the 
monster will pound its head down on the left side followed by the right side 
followed by the middle so knowing this pattern be sure to avoid it entirely.  
Finally the creature has a swiping attack where it uses its head to swing 
around on the ground and swipe you to the side.  This one can by jumping if 
you double jump and time it correctly.  The last one is an attack you actually 
want it to perform.  It grabs you in it's mouth but using the circle button 
and tapping it as fast as you can you can break free and do some serious 
damage to the creature in the process, so it's actually beneficial to be hit 
by this.  While you're not in its mouth however just stick with normal 
triangle and square attacks to defeat the creature, you must drain all its 
health this time rather than just a partial amount to kill it.

After defeating the miniboss drop down into the water where its head had 
popped up from since there is now a hole in the ship.  Swim up down the 
corridor and grab hold of the mesh net at the end.  Start climbing up and jump 
back onto the ship when you reach the top.  The game will now teach you a new 
attack, hold the triangle button to do an upward swing and launch an enemy 
into the air.  You will automatically jump up along with him so while airborne 
press the circle button to do an air throw, this manoeuvre can be pretty 
helpful at times so keep it in mind.  Start tiptoeing across the pole leading 
off the upper right side of the ship, if you fall then you die but the 
checkpoint was quite recently don't worry.  When you reach a fork take the 
right branch to find a chest containing red orbs.  Go back and take the left 
branch to reach another ship.  Head up to trigger a cutscene.

Following the scene open the nearby chest to reveal a whole bunch of healing 
green orbs.  Left of the chest is a glowing save point, while standing on the 
save point press the R2 button to bring up the save menu and then you can save 
your game.  Back on the ship drop down and run up to find a crate behind the 
first box on your right.  Using the R2 button you can grab hold of the crate 
and either push or pull it in any direction.  You can also hold the X button 
to charge up and kick the crate in the direction you are facing.  What you 
need to do is get this crate all the way down to where the archers are 
shooting at you because the ledge is too high to jump up to.  The problem is 
that the arrows can actually destroy the crate, and while another one will 
respawn you have to go back and try again so the easiest way to do it is 
charge up a kick when no arrows are coming at you and release right before 
they hit.  Kick the crate all the way to the end underneath the archers and 
use it to double jump up and grab hold of the ledge.  Kill off all the archers 
and then open up the treasure chest containing green orbs.  Head down to the 
end of the hall and you'll find a locked door but you cannot open it.  Your 
only option is to climb up the ladder on the opposite side and leave them.

There's a large net here and it is your only means of going further.  Approach 
the net to automatically grab hold of it and begin to climb.  Note as you are 
climbing that you can attack and grab still while on the net.  Grabbing is 
going to be most helpful, the best grab is the one you do while holding up on 
the left analog stick since it's fast and effective.  The other grab is good 
if there's multiple enemies around.  Note that as you climb you can hold up 
and press the X button to climb up faster.  On the way up there's a platform 
but still more net to climb after that, when you reach the very top head down 
and balance across the large pole.  At the other side of this pole is a lone 
chest containing a stash of red orbs.  Now head back across and jump up to 
grab that long rope leading from the top of the pole down to the other ship.  
Break open the left and right wooden blockades to reveal a chest containing 
red orbs on the left and a Gorgon Eye on the right.  Collect a total of six 
Gorgon Eyes to permanently increase you maximum health (so in other words, you 
just got a Blue Orb Fragment.)  Break through the middle and approach the 
glowing blue flame down at the end.  Here you will meet the one of the many 
Greek gods who assists you with your quest by granting you a special power 
which in this case comes in the form of a magic spell.  Using the L2 button 
you can crate a huge blast of lightning around you and deal heavy damage to 
foes.  It's quite an effective attack in large groups and for bosses actually.  
Use Poseidon's Rage here to take out the enemies that spawn around you, 
there's now a blue bar below you health which represents your magic power and 
using Poseidon's rage drains this bar, but you can refill your magic by 
defeating some enemies or finding chests with blue orbs in them.  Head through 
the door that Poseidon's head was blocking and make your way outside again.  
On your left is another save point which may come in handy here; on the right 
are two treasure chests which will fully restore both your health and your 
magic power.  Climb the net and get ready for a boss fight.

There are three Hydra's here, two babies and one absolutely enormous Hydra 
which you cannot even access because when you try to climb up the net in the 
middle the two smaller Hydras will automatically knock you off every single 
time.  So here's what you need to do in order to kill this boss.  First of all 
you should fight these two smaller Hydras the same way you fought the previous 
one with the exception that they will not grab you in their mouths, but one 
very large advantage you have now that you didn't have before is Poseidon's 
Rage.  Regardless kill the smaller Hydras however you see fit but you'll 
notice that once they go down you cannot hurt them anymore and after a certain 
amount of time they will come back to life with almost full health again.  
There's a special trick here, when one of the Hydras is down notice that there 
are a bunch of crates piled up beside them.  Hop up these crates and there 
above their heads is a large anchor-like object under a suspended platform.  
Jump on top of this platform and it will break and descend into the beast's 
neck, pinning it in place permanently.  Now all you have to do is the exact 
same thing with the Hydra on the other side and both of them will be pinned 
down so that they cannot prevent you from climbing up to reach the real boss.

The real boss too is a Hydra but far larger than any your have ever seen 
before.  It has a few basic attacks mostly involving large biting motions.  It 
has a weaker bite attack which it pulls it's head back and bites the middle of 
the platform you're on.  The best way to avoid taking damage is to double jump 
and hold the block button, the teeth won't hurt you.  Blocking isn't so 
effective when he pulls his head back to the side and does a more powerful 
chomp on either the left and right side of you platform.  Your best bet is to 
predict which side he's going to chomp and jump away from it while holding the 
block button in the air.  The final one is a big stupid roar meant to blow you 
off the top but in the end as long as you're holding the block button the 
attack can do no such thing.  Your main goal is to use the opportunities when 
the monster bites down on the platform to start hacking and slashing away and 
while you can hack and slash at it while it's in the normal stance as well, 
magic should only be used right after the creature bites down, run up to its 
head and zap it then move into a combo of square and triangle attacks which 
should actually refill your magic pretty well.  Now you'll also want to know 
how to actually damage the boss.  When you've take off about a third of his 
life the minigame circle icon will appear.  Press circle and you'll be given 
the chance to tap as fast as you can and end up slamming the monsters head 
against the pole.  His life refills as this point and it seems like nothing 
happened but if you look close you'll see the pole has actually splintered.  
You need to do this a total of three times before the pole actually breaks.  
Now once its broken damage the boss for about one third of its health and 
there's a chance to do a new minigame, I won't spoil it, but it's awesome.

Note that I have received a good amount of email from people claiming that no 
matter how hard they try, they cannot slam the boss' head against the pillar, 
no matter how fast they press circle it does not work.  I'm telling you know 
in all honesty that I cannot help you, I have never experienced this problems 
personally.  Obviously it's either one of two things.  First, these people 
just aren't tapping circle fast enough, tap it faster!  Second considering the 
volume of people having this problem there's always a chance it could be a 
glitch in the game, it's not free of them that's for sure.  In this case all I 
can recommend is starting over, you're still near the beginning, it shouldn't 
take you too long to get here again and hopefully then you can get it.

When the boss is dead you need to actually run into his mouth and down his 
throat.  There's a man hanging on for his life at the end, press the R2 button 
to trigger a quick scene.  Now you've got the key to that locked door from 
before.  Exit the monsters innards and climb up the crates on the right side 
of the ship.  You can jump and grab the mesh netting at the top, there's two 
chests here containing health and another Gorgon Eye.  Jump up into the air 
and grab onto the sliding rope.  You'll drop in a familiar place, you can use 
the save point to save your game and then run down the lower area to reach the 
crate which is still in position.  Double jump up to the ledge and head 
through the hall to reach the locked door.  Approach the door and use the key 
by pressing the R2 button, run to the end of the hall and use the R2 button 
once again to kick down the door.  This scene marks the end of the first area.

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When you start off in this area you can speak to the women in your bed using 
the R2 button.  Be sure to jump up on the bed and "interact" with them.  Yeah.  
Anyway you can read your diary over in the corner of the room if you wish.  
Leave this place and break all the objects along the way as you go to find 
numerous red orbs.  There's a save point down at the far end of the hall.  
Continue along and open the chest to refill your magic entirely and then get 
the green orbs as well before you ascend the ladder.  You can speak to the 
statue at the front of your ship using the R2 button if you wish.  Use the 
plank leading from the right side down onto the docks.  At the end you'll 
encounter some new enemies, these are more difficult than the ones you've 
faced previously, you cannot grab them normally you must first damage them to 
the point where the circle button icon appears above their head and then you 
can use a throw to finish them off.  You're taught once again that the L1 
button is block for good reason, these things have a nasty habit of slashing 
you up, so be sure to block regularly between attacks.  Run down to the end of 
the path where you will find a huge cracked hole in the wall.  Jump through 
this to land in the water on the other side.  Jump up to the door and head 
down the hall where you'll encounter a bunch of enemies but also find a chest 
in the corner containing a Phoenix Feather.  Collect a total of six of these 
to permanently increase your magic bar.  At the end of the hall back outside 
again there's a chest with green orbs inside.  Jump up onto the crates and 
drop down to find yourself back at the beginning again.  Return to where the 
large crack in the wall was but this time jump across the gap to find a lever 
on a platform.  You can pull this lever using R2 and ride the elevator up.

At the top there's a chest containing green orbs but if you just got the one 
before coming up here leave it for now because you may nee it after.  You're 
about to encounter a new type of enemy, the minotaur.  To defeat these enemies 
first you must use normal attacks and blocks to damage it to the point where 
the circle button icon appears above its head.  If you press circle at this 
point you'll be thrust into a minigame where you have to tap the circle button 
as fast as you can to finish the beast off.  It is possible just to attack 
normally and kill it like that, but as the games notes doing it this way will 
mean that the enemy drops healing green orbs every single time.  Down at the 
end of this path is a chest to refill your magic power, and don't forget the 
healing chest you may have left prior to fighting the three beasts.  Follow 
the path along and ride the next elevator up.  You will find yourself in a 
large area guarded by a powerful enemy who fires a large spiked ball out of 
his hand.  Blocking this yields rather unfortunate results so your best bet is 
to dodge it entirely using the right analog stick to evade.  Jumping is also 
quite an effective dodging technique.  When the monster has take enough damage 
press circle to initiate the minigame where you must correctly hit a random 
button that appears on screen quickly in order to keep up with the animation 
and finish the monster off.  You'll need to fight a total of three of them in 
this area, when you've got two of them coming at you at once try letting loose 
a Poseidon's Rage between them for massive damage to both.  

After the large creatures are dead there are a couple of things to check out.  
First run to the upper right corner to find a hidden chest full of red orbs.  
You'll also note that there is a chest with green orbs near the door, and 
another one if you jump over the edge at the lower right corner.  You probably 
won't need both of them right now and since you'll be back here again make 
note of where they are but save at least one of them for later.  You should 
note however that the one near the door changes colours, press the R2 button 
while it is the colour of the orb you wish to get and it will remain that 
colour when opened.  Follow the hall up past this magic chest to reach a large 
room with crates piled up high.  Here's what you want to do, first notice that 
two of these stacks of crates actually have wooden crates holding them up at 
the bottom.  Break these two wooden crates to shorten the height of the stacks 
and reveal the exit to the room.  Don't be too hasty however.  First double 
jump onto the crate at the lower left corner.  From here jump diagonally uper 
and right to reach the central crate stack.  Now across from you there is a 
platform with a ladder and a treasure chest, resist the urge to jump there for 
now and instead jump right to grab hold of a taller crate stack.  From here 
you can see an opening in the wall with two chests inside, one refills your 
magic entirely and the other nets you another Gorgon Eye.  Jump back across 
and this time land on the stack with the ladder, inside the chest you'll find 
a whole bunch of red orbs.  Climb the ladder and start to shimmy across to the 
end of the small ledge.  When you reach the end hold left on the analog stick 
(the opposite direction you're facing) and double jump to grab hold of the 
mesh net on the nearby crate stack.  Get on top of this stack and jump left to 
reach the door, but you aren't done yet.  Jump up onto the crate opposite the 
door and then across once again to the next one where you'll find another 
chest with red orbs inside.  Now you can jump back and go through the door.

Open the chest in this room if you really need it, but not if you only "kind 
of" need it because almost guaranteed you WILL need it soon.  Approach the 
flaming door and watch the scene.  Now it's time to face off against the 
leader of the Gorgons, Medusa.  She has a couple of basic attacks, but the 
most notable is the stone gaze.  Now and then she will fire a green beam out 
and if you are caught in this beam for too long you will turn to stone.  You 
don't die instantly when turned to stone but even the slightest tap will 
shatter you and kill you, if you happen to be turned to stone throw the left 
analog stick around like crazy to get out of it.  Anyway the main thing to 
keep in mind is that you never want to jump while she is doing this attack, if 
you are turned to stone in mid-air you will shatter when you land.  Instead 
you have two options, the first is to roll around using the right analog stick 
which is a fairly effective tactic, the second works even better.  When the 
Medusa begins to use this attack simply run up to her and cast Poseidon's 
Rage.  Combo her using the square and triangle attacks as much as possible to 
keep knocking her down, that's the best way to avoid damage from her normal 
attacks and eventually the circle button icon will appear over her head.  
Press it to grab her and initiate the minigame.  What you need to do is press 
the left analog stick in the direction of the tail of the arrow you see on 
screen and rotate it in the direction shown.  Doing this correctly two times 
will have you rip off the beast's head and give you the Medusa's Gaze.  Now 
you can cycle between Poseidon's Rage and Medusa's Gaze with the D-Pad.  The 
stone beam uses up magic power but catch enemies in the beam long enough and 
they will be turned to stone, at that point you can quickly shatter them with 
a normal attack.  Hold L2 and press square to fire the beam at enemies, kill 
all of the minitaur's that appear in this room with the gaze to continue.

Head through the door that was previously blocked by Aphrodite and defeat all 
the enemies in this hallway.  There's a large ladder to climb up at the end, 
climb up this ladder to the point where you're just about at the top.  Now 
double jump backward in the opposite direction and you should land on a 
platform archway with a treasure chest on it.  Open this chest to get a stash 
of red orbs.  From here you can also jump into an opening in the left wall to 
find even more red orbs.  Return to the ladder and ascend it all the way to 
the top.  Immediately as you start moving you will find a lever in front of 
you, avoid pulling it for the moment.  Instead approach the crossbow in the 
middle and hold R2 to grab onto it.  While holding R2 hold down on the left 
analog stick as well until Kratos fires it automatically.  This reveals breaks 
a hole in the wall and reveals two chests.  Ignore it for now.  Open the chest 
with the green orbs if you need it and then save your game at the nearby save 
point.  Head back down and bit and pull the level to turn the crossbow to face 
another direction.  Before doing anything pull it a second time to make the 
crossbow facing to your left.  Go forward and fire it, this breaks a hole in 
the wall and allows you to get the chest containing another Phoenix Feather.  
Pull the lever one final time so that it faces straight up and fire to break 
down the door.  Shooting another arrow accomplishes nothing at the moment.

Follow the newly opened hallway and make a left at the fork.  Drop down to the 
bottom and defeat all the enemies here, there's a chest beside the gate with a 
Gorgon Eye inside.  Tap the R2 button while standing beside the gate to open 
it, but now you need to go back.  Turn around and climb up the ladder where 
you just came from.  At the fork you will see a ladder on the right wall 
leading up, climb this ladder now.  Outside you'll be ambushed by a bunch of 
normal enemies, just wipe them all up before you try the following.  See where 
there is a partial ladder?  Start climbing up the wall there.  Part way up the 
stack of crates on your left will end and you can actually stop and stand on 
top of them.  Drop from this stack of crates onto the red roof of the building 
on your left.  From this building you can jump straight up and land in the 
area where you broke the wall away using the crossbow and open up the chests 
to get a whole bunch of red orbs.  Drop down and head through the gate you 
opened just recently and climb up the two ladders to reach the area with the 
wall you started to climb.  This time climb up further and start making your 
way across to the right, note that you can jump sideways as well as up.  Watch 
out for all the enemies as you go, take your time and smash them to avoid 
being pulled off.  When you reach the right side climb down slowly until you 
hit ground below.  There's a thin walkway leading along the left side, follow 
it to reach a huge statue.  An R2 icon appears when you get up to it so begin 
tapping R2 as fast as you can to knock the statue over.

Beyond the statue is a chest with green orbs inside and a ladder leading down.  
Climb down the ladder and jump up onto the head of the broken statue, you can 
now jump to reach the bottom of the ladder.  Up top there are a couple of 
normal Gorgon enemies to fight which are just weaker versions of the queen 
Medusa.  Check the left side for a chest containing green orbs and then climb 
further up the ladder to reach the next level.  You can damage the two pillars 
on the left side and use them to jump on to reach the top level.  Use the 
crossbow here to fire an arrow with a rope tied to the back off to the other 
side of the area.  Walk around to the front of the crossbow and double jump to 
grab onto this rope.  It's not a sliding rope but rather a hand-over-hand rope 
for you to go across.  The triangle button allows you to do a range attacks 
while the square button does a quick attack and the circle button does an 
instant kill grab attack.  Just make your way across sticking with the circle 
button grab most of the time even though you'll take a bit of damage, just 
don't underestimate the obnoxiousness of the enemies coming from behind you 
and start spinning the left analog stick wildly if one of them grabs you.  
Drop down on the other side and open the chest to refill your health entirely 
and go down the hall to the left.  Open this door by tapping the R2 button and 
return to the crossbow.  Save your game here and then fire the crossbow in the 
direction you just came from to break open the door.  With the door opened a 
whole bunch of enemies swarm into the hall.  Rather than going up to fight 
each one individually simply keep using the crossbow and fire four arrows to 
instantly kill four minotaurs, pretty sweet.  Run to the end of the hall and 
climb up the ladder to find a red orb and green orb chest.  After that drop 
down to the bottom of the ladder and follow the path outside for a scene.

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Ascend the stairs and watch the quick scene at the top.  Use the save point on 
your right and then follow the left path down into the city.  The main path 
becomes blocked so head left into the tunnel here.  The gate blocks you in so 
you're left with a couple of hammer wielding minotaurs.  The important thing 
to note in here is that there is a button on the ground below you where if you 
press it then the gate at the other end opens, but if you step off it then the 
gate closes.  If the solution to this is not already obvious then listen 
close, lure one of the minotaurs onto the button and then use the Medusa's 
Gaze to freeze him there.  Now you can run to the end and get through the gate 
while it's still open.  Don't worry if you happen to run out of magic while 
doing this, the blue orb chest near the top automatically refills after you 
empty it.  Open the chest past the gate to refill your health and then follow 
the tunnel out into the the city area where everyone is running wild.

Jump up onto the roof of the second house of your right.  You can break down 
the door here and check inside the house to find a chest full of red orbs.  
Break down the front door of the house across the street to find another stash 
of red orbs.  Next door you can jump up and grab the ledge above the front 
door, and from here jump onto the roof where you will find a chest containing 
more red orbs.  Check inside the next house down the road on your left to get 
a Phoenix Feather.  From here continue to follow the road until it curves to 
the left, when it does the house on the curve (on the right side) has a chest 
containing red orbs if you jump up onto the roof and break down the door.  Go 
one house down still on the right side and through the front door is another 
chest full of red orbs.  A couple of houses down on the left side go through 
the front door and open both the chests to find a Gorgon Eye and a Phoenix 
Feather.  A couple more houses down on the right side is a chest containing 
red orbs.  Check the second and third last houses on the left side to get two 
more stashes of red orbs.  Now smash through those blockades at the end.

Double jump across and grab the rope that is hanging down from above.  Hold 
the circle button to begin swinging and when you come to the highest point of 
the swing press the X button to jump and you should be able to grab onto the 
other rope.  Before swinging across however hold up and the left analog stick 
to climb.  At the top you can jump left to find a treasure chest with many red 
orbs inside.  Now from here you can just double jump and land on the ground on 
the other side.  Continue from here down into the Athens Town Square.

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There's people running around like crazy here and you know what that means, 
free health whenever you want and that's good because your about to face off 
against the cyclops, a new type of enemy.  This whole section is extremely 
frustrating for one reason and one reason only, but I'll get to that in a 
minute.  To defeat the cyclops simply stick with square button attacks and 
dodge their attacks with the R3 stick rather than trying to block them.  Once 
enough damage has been done the circle icon appears and allows you to smash 
their face on the ground, it's not an instant kill but it does good damage.  
The frustrating thing is that half the time you're actually trying to do this 
you're going to end up grabbing some stupid townsperson instead and miss a 
perfectly good opportunity, it's annoying as hell but at least it makes me 
feel less bad about picking them off for health.  Kill all the enemies here.

Take the hallway at the upper left side of the town square and follow it to a 
nice wide open room with pretty reflecting floors.  In this room there are 
three wall panels you can break open to reveal an urn, a chest with blue orbs 
and a chest with a Gorgon Eye inside.  Climb to the top of the stairs and open 
the chest with green orbs inside.  Jump across the gap and follow the woman up 
the stairs for a scene.  (Incidentally if you drop down where you jumped the 
gap you can find some objects to break for red orbs and a magic green/blue orb 
treasure chest.)  There's a save point at the top here and if you jump left 
you'll find a chest with a Phoenix Feather inside.  Drop down where the lady 
fell and examine her body to get a Key.  Now climb all the way back up to 
where you just dropped from.  On your way there you'll find a bunch of enemies 
with special yellow shields, these shield can be broken by doing a couple of 
normal square attacks followed by a triangle attack.  Jump to the right of the 
save point and use the key to unlock the trap door.  Tap the R2 button to open 
it and jump down inside.  Use the save point here and follow the tunnel along 
until you reach a gate.  Open it by tapping the R2 and climb the stairs.

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|  _ -----o-----\                     Rooftops of Athens                     |
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There's a large vine growing up the side of the wall on the right side, this 
is where you need to start climbing up.  When you reach a point where you 
can't climb any higher press the left analog stick in the opposite direction 
and double jump across to grab the vine on the other side.  Continue up and 
then do this again, finally jump across to the left when you reach the top and 
get the chests containing blue and green orbs,  when you go outside you'll 
encounter a new type of enemy.  This enemy moves about underground and bursts 
up dealing damage to you in the process, to defeat them you should always 
block when they are approaching from underground and then start attacking when 
they pop out.  Soon after some rather obnoxious guys with bows will appear on 
the stairs, take the time to run over and kill them otherwise they'll probably 
end up really pissing you off while you're trying to fight.  Grab the chest 
with the green orbs after the battle and start to climb up the stairs.  This 
part can get rather difficult so stay on your guard and only attack when it's 
safe, you need to fend off a bunch of those skeleton warriors as well as the 
large beast with the spikey ball.  After the battle grab the chest with the 
green orbs at the top and then go back down and through the door.

Head down at first and you'll find a chest full of red orbs.  Now start to 
cross the bridge where all those soldiers met their end and double jump across 
to the platform.  From here you can double jump and grab hold of the vines 
that line the side of the pillar in the middle.  Shimmy around to the right 
side and then jump to the next pillar.  Try to time your jumps between the 
arrows fired from the enemies so that you aren't struck in mid air and fall to 
your doom.  On the second pillar climb around to the right side and jump 
across.  Open the chest here and get the red orbs.  You'll come to a fork up 
the path, at this fork is a chest that changes colour, refill either your 
health or magic whichever needs it more.  Take the right path at the save 
point and save your game in the next room.  Ascend the ladder at the top.

You'll find a ladder at the upper right corner of the roof, go up and get the 
two treasure boxes here for eithe magic or health and a Gorgon Eye.  Drop down 
again and jump across to the other building on the left side.  Here you'll 
find a multicoloured chest again and if you jump across to the left you can 
grab onto a rope.  Swing and jump to reach the other side where you'll find a 
treasure trove of health, magic and red orbs which you can barely open thanks 
to those stupid archers in the background.  It's possible to kill them later 
and come back for these so you can do that if you wish.  Head back and smash 
the wooden barrier beside the chest so that you can jump across to the next 
building.  Break the barrier and this building and double jump across, you 
certainly won't make it to the ledge but you will grab onto the vines that 
adorn the wall.  Climb up and open the chest to refill your magic power.  

There's a shiny object on the ground up the ramp, press the R2 button for a 
quick scene and then continue along the path to a ramp which you can kick down 
with the R2 button.  Head back down to the save point room and go out the 
door, this time take the upper left path.  You'll come to a large ballista
(crossbow thing) which you can grab hold of with the R2 button.  Push and kick 
this thing down into the next room.  Now in this room you will notice an odd 
panel on the floor, go to the door beside it and use the R2 button to pull it 
open.  Inside a ton of enemies spawn but you can take them all out quickly 
using the Poseidon's Rage.  After they're taken care of go out and place the 
ballista on the gear shaped panel in the floor, now pull the lever.  Leave the 
room and grab the ballista which has been turned 90 degrees and pull it off 
the panel.  Pull the lever once again to reset it and put the ballista back 
on.  Turn it one more time and it will be rotated to face toward that 
immovable door.  Set it in the middle of the room, then pull back and fire.

Before going through the door that you just smashed open, climb up the ladder 
that the lever brought down and get the chest containing red orbs.  Pull open 
the door at the upper right as well to find a multicoloured chest.  Now head 
through the door in the centre and follow the path to find another of the many 
gods.  He grants you the magic power Zeus' Fury.  Head through the door that 
Zeus blocked previously and cross the bridge.  While standing on the bridge 
with Zeus' Fury equipped you can hold down the L2 button and press square to 
fire lightning bolts at the archers in the background.  Destroying all of them 
opens up the door that had the red forcefield before down the hall to the 
right of where you came out of the Zeus door.  Through there is a large room 
with a crumbling wall at the top end, break down this wall to find three 
chests containing magic refill, a Gorgon Eye and a Phoenix Feather.  Head back 
across the bridge and make a right at the fork, save your game here.

Head up the ladder to the roof again and jump across.  You now have the 
ability to kill those damn archers in the background and get all those chests 
across the swinging part if you wish.  When you're ready jump across and 
return to the part where the guy wouldn't put the bridge across for you.  Take 
aim with your Zeus' Fury and eliminate his face off.  You'll find two chests 
in the first room on the other side containing a Gorgon Eye and a Phoenix 
Feather.  Follow the path down the hall to the room at the end where you'll 
find another two chests both with sashes of red orbs.  Stand on the circular 
button for a second to ride the elevator down to the area below.  Start 
running and as you cross the bridge a cutscene will occur.  Balance your way 
across the bridge support beam and save your game at the save point on the 
other side.  Ascend the stairs to the top where you'll need to fight your way 
through a number of normal enemies.  You can break a hole in the wall to 
reveal a chest full of red orbs around here.  Keep climbing the stairs until 
you finally reach the Temple of the Oracle.  Open the two chests here 
containing green orbs and blue orbs then start to cross the bridge.

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At the end of the bridge you'll be thrown into a battle with a ton of those 
flying nuisances and a couple of gorgons, defeat them all to open up the 
blocked paths.  There's a scene here as well afterward, when it's over climb 
the stairs and grab the chests on the left and right side of the temple 
entrance for a Gorgon Eye and a Phoenix Feather.  Inside the actual temple run 
to the top end and grab the staties there, you can pull them out to reveal two 
chests, both multicoloured.  These statues actually serve a purpose, you may 
have noticed by now that the swarm of harpies is literally unending, and for 
that reason you cannot continue any further (you'll see why if you climb the 
stairs.)  What you need to do is drag the left statues down and use it to 
block the left hole, then drag the right statue down and use it to block the 
right hole.  Now take out any remaining harpies and voila, you're free.  Take 
the lower left gate next to yet another multicoloured chest and lift it up.  
Before going up the stairs jump up onto the ledge to your right, here you will 
find a chest with another Gorgon Eye.  On the adjacent side there's a chest 
full of red orbs.  Now climb the stairs and begin to make your way across the 
ceiling beams Head left to find one at the end leading up that doesn't 
collapse then follow along to the right until you find another one.  Head up 
and jump off beside the save point here.  Save your game and head left.

Follow this hallway all the way to the end past the normal enemies and watch