After flying through that area, the Pegasus brings Kratos to a cave and as is the case with all video game caves, bats attack. In the back of the cave hides a Titan who quickly stops Kratos’s fly-through by trapping the Pegasus with its hand and flinging Kratos into the cliff. Unable to move, the Pegasus squeals. Gaia warns that if you have any hope of moving that Titan’s hand, Kratos will need more strength. But I bet if Kratos could just pull off the titan’s fingernail like Digger the Dermatophyte does, we could get to that Pegasus out right away.

There is no button for that though, so continue on by jumping down the ledges to the hallway on the right. Jump back up and continue left. There is a hand ledge at the complete left. Using those hand grabs continue around to the right. After fighting quite a few bad guys (circle works best on them) find the ground and use the save.

Traverse through the snowy cave. If you can hear me writing through clenched teeth it is because I hate, hate ice levels. In fact, I still can’t sit through the first 30 minutes of the Empire Strikes Back because it is essentially a cinematic ice level. Same reason I haven’t seen Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm. If the last part of this level is a large room with slippery ice floors forcing Kratos to become a blade bearing Brian Boitano, I wont even write up how to get through it. I’ll just post a picture of a monkey ice skating. And how, in the name of good science, does snow get INSIDE a cave?

When you reach the basket (it is on the right of screen, hanging over a chasm) jump up and destroy it. Jump again to grab onto the rope and slide down it. At the end of the next hall is the outline of a helmet. Run through it and into the snowy outside. There is an elaborate scaffolding that is packed with archers. They are totally pumped because someone is finally invading their hill and so building this defensive structure in the middle of nowhere doesn’t feel so stupid anymore. Start by attacking the archer’s scaffolding. When the minotaur appear, hold them off but continue to focus on the scaffolding and the archers. When everyone is killed (including those archers), climb the hand grabs on the cliff face (the scaffolding obscured it.) Slide down the chain and continue to the stone outcropping that looks remarkably like an outstretched hand.

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A white and yellow bird is picking at a bound man. It rips at his stomach. Kratos scares off the bird and the man instantly recognizes him as the God of War. The chained and picked apart man explains that Zeus put him here because he brought fire to the humans. He says “My only crime was helping mankind.” Actually, I think his punishment is fitting his crime. The sky darkens and close-up of the man’s torso. We see his intestines (Yay!) and then they get covered up by a set of reality-TV-grade, six-pack abs. The man asks for Kratos to free him from his torment.

Hit the human cuttle-bone a few times to release the chains and then slide down the chain that is located between the hand’s pinky/ring-finger. Let him dangle there because you can do nothing for him now. Move around the fire and then on down the lower path.

By the way, if you thought Prometheus’s voice sounds familiar it is because the actor, Alan Oppenheimer, has made more appearances on TV than the color orange. His list of bit-parts include Bewitched, The Smurfs, Scooby-Doo, He-Man, Hawaii Five-O and how I recognized him, The Never Ending Story. He played Falkor the Luck Dragon. In case you are wondering Falkor is well into the pansy-assed side of the mythological based scale.

When you reach the end of the cliff (there is a torch there), jump to the hand grab surface. Descend into the canyon and then head right. When you get to the bottom, use the save light.

Around the turn is a chest with a gorgon eye and another rock face for Kratos to climb. When you get Kratos up to the top, enter the skull face. At the cliff, swing across the chasm. If you want to unlock that gate, swinging down the nearby rope and then swing back up to the platform again.

Attack the menagerie of bats and medusas. As you cross the bridge that is straight ahead, a voice that sounds like it has a 3-pack a day habit says “stay back servant of Zeus.” Somehow I don’t think Kratos has the savvy to explain to him that he is here because he is prepping a coup d’etat against Zeus. Save again.

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