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Temple of Euryale
Stand in front of the medusa door and hit L1 to reflect the beam back and destroy it. Punch your way through. This is Euryale’s lair and the game claims that she is Medusa’s sister. I don’t know about this Euryale Vs Sony Entertainment Mythology so I am going to consult a legitimate source here. And wikipedia says..... TRUE! Eureyal really was in Greek mythology and really is Medusa’s sister. Way to do your homework GOW 2 team. Oh and for extra credit, it turns out that Euryale is Typhon’s daughter.
Once inside the temple, take a right and after the fight and descend down the ladder. A voice taunts Kratos for the misery and killing of babies. Fight the attackers that accost you. One of them is a minotaur and I really like the kill sequence where you pull them down on their own flaming clubs. Genius. Continue through the unlocked door.
A gate separates one side of the room from the other. A soldier who must be all hopped up on crank runs up to the gate, calls Kratos the “ghost of Sparta” and then grabs some more crank. Proceed to the elevator and lower it. Fight off the bats. The other elevator does not function because of that soldier’s crank theft. So, run back to the elevator that you just descended in on and raise it to a level where Kratos can jump across without hitting his head on the grate above. Double jump across. Now that you are standing in the broken elevator, jump up and grab the narrow ledges that are above him. Continue to jump up to the ledges above it until you are at the top. Rid yourself of the skeleton attacker and then use the save behind it.
From the save go to the alcove on the left and climb the semi broken ladder. Proceed to the left side of the room to find a grip wall. Climb up and across ceiling. Crisscrossing across it are half a dozen blades. It would be another century before people figured out that ceiling fans are much more effective when they spin parallel to the ceiling. Until that day comes, you must navigate past them without getting cut. Time your advance and if you need it, press X to make Kratos dash.
PUZZLE: Meat Press
When you reach the other side of the room, press R1 to drop down. One side of the room has a large meat press that blocks a lever that will let you proceed to the next room. Here is how to get to that lever:
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Rotate the crank that is on the ledge to pull back the press.
- Run right in front of the spiked end of the press and then down the caged hallway to the lever that was blocked when the press was fully extended.
- Pull it to lower the columns that barricaded the door.
- Run up to the door at the end of the cage and press R1 and tap “O” to rapidly lift it.
When you reach the next room, you are welcomed by a drunken smoker’s laugh. Proceed to the book in the center of the room and in it is written “I am all that remains, I know now that I will not reach the sisters.” I am totally writing that in the guestbook for the next wedding I go to. The joke is more relevant if you are the last single guy among your group of friends or if one of the girls that is getting married is of a clutch of sisters.
Then, when you least expect it, in flops Euryale. For all you out there who complain that they don’t put women with realistic bodies into games, here you are. One steaming, pendulous pile of fleshy-ness compliments of Cory Barlog. I hope you are happy.
How to Beat Euryale
BOSS: Euryale
Part I
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Don’t use the Rage of the titans until I tell you to
- Watch her hands because she will form a red ball above her head just before she shoots her paralyzing scream at you
- Use your magic a little, not more than half of the meter though
Part II
- Still hold off using titan power
- She shrieks “You will die, you killed my sister” and then coils up seductively around one of the columns
- Hit her by jumping and attacking
- She will scream at the ground filling it with a red fog. Keep watching because she will soon sweep the floor with an even darker red fog. When this more intense fog hits you, press L1 to absorb the attack with the fleece
- If you are turned to stone, shake the left stick and then run as far away from the ring of columns as you can because she will try to belly-flop on top of you
- After hitting her enough, the circle prompt will appear above her head. Rotate the stick quickly in order to pull the column down on her
- She will then climb up on a second column so repeat the above process to bring it down on her again
- After being knocked from both columns she resumes the ground attack
Part III
- NOW is the time to use the rage of the titans. If you are aggressive enough, you can kill her before your titan meter runs dry
- If not, use a defensive strategy where you only attack her after dodging her series of attacks
- When she gets “O” over her head, play the context game. Kratos grabs her and they have shirtless time together. I bet she consumes pallets of Zombie Baklava
When she finally rolls over, Kratos decapitates her. Then he keeps her head. The game calls it “The Head of Euryale.” Wait a minute! That’s not the head of Euryale, Kratos just decapitated Ernest Borgnine. Either way, by selecting the head with the directional pad you can turn your enemies to stone and then shatter them. Before you can proceed to the next room, you will have to practice this technique on five enemies.
Through the next gate is a series of rooms that are flooded with water. This probably is Euryale’s bath house. Those stone platforms are where she breaches so her handlers can check her teeth and wash her dermal layer.
PUZZLE: Wetlands
The goal of this puzzle is to raise all four of the columns, which have grapple points on the tips. When all are raised, Kratos can swing his way across to the gate on the other side of the area. Look for the colored jewels that surround each column. Each room’s color is unique.
White Crystal Room
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Use the rotating mechanism to lift the column until it locks into place.
- Swim across the water to the lever and pull it (the gate you opened is under water and will start to shut automatically).
- Press L1 and the L2 buttons to slow time so that you have time to get through the closing gate.
- Jump straight ahead, across the water and then dive in to swim through the grate.
Yellow crystals
- In the next room, rotate the lever to raise another column
- Dive in and pull the underwater lever to open the nearby gate
- After pulling it, swim through and immediately hold R1 to get enough speed to make it through the next gate before it closes
crystal
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Ascend and use the next rotating mechanism to raise a third column
- Dive back into the water and swim over to the next grating. It is destructible, so hold R1 and burst through it.
Green crystals:
- Again, swim up, find the rotating mechanism, and turn it
- Jump to the small alcove on the left side. Pull the lever to raise the gate
- Jump across the water to the hallway
- Turn on the first right (it is before you reach the ladder) and enter the room that has a small stone nubbin in the middle. Run over to the statue and start to rotate the lever that is in front of it. Kratos will be ambushed so kill them attackers and then go back to raising the column.
- The column will slowly fall so hit R1 + L1 to slow time.
- Quickly, proceed back to the hallway and up the ladder.
- At the top of the white room, grapple over to the hook and release your swing when Kratos is just at about level with the second statue.
- Proceed to swing from column to column.
- Hurry because that one column will fall and be inaccessible if you take too long.
PUZZLE: Crushing Room
Go down the hallway and pull the lever and the floor starts to raise and the roof doesn’t. I would use the rest of this paragraph to rant about how clichéd the crushing-room gimmick is but this one is actually pretty fun and has been updated a bit. When Kratos reaches the top and is about to be crushed, he can push the floor back down again. The only escape is a door that is at the front of the room. However, there is a gate blocking it and that gate is slowly grinding open (thus the sparks). The gate will not open by the time the floor meets ceiling. But, as stated, Kratos is strong enough to get between the two and buy himself more time. Be sure to attack as many of the dogs as possible so that you are able to push back on the roof unmolested. After the second roof push-off, the grinding gate opens and you can escape.
The next hallway has some narrow scaffolding. Kill all the bats that could attack you and then slowly tight-rope your way to the gap. Jump to the right wall and use the hand-hold. Shimmy over to the next side.
Head down the rocky, narrow, path to a pile of rubble. That rubble turns into a balrog-esq enemy. Fight him out, and use some your Rage of the Titans if you have it. When defeated, grapple to the other side and save
This next area is a deep blue cave that is littered with bones. Thankfully, bones are rarely just decoration. The creatures rise up. Now, I know the whole videogame world is zombie obsessed, but I prefer killing skeletons to killing zombies. I am not afraid to admit that either. My preference has something to do with seeing the bones fly everywhere and having them fall into that pile at the end of fights. Plus, skeletons usually scream and that is much scarier than the moaning that zombies do. Wow, admitting you like skeletons is coming out nerd closet (with has skeletons in it). So, which do you prefer? Zombies or Skeletons?
Next, head through the door and up the spiral staircase to see proof that at least one of the level designers has seen Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Proceed up the spiral staircase to reach... DESTINY’S ATRIUM! Remember how we were here and we put those statues in front of her eyes and then the force field came through. Great times, I feel older now.
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