God of War III — Day 3
Posted by Allan in Games, Prose on March 19, 2010 1:30 am
Late night so I didn’t get a chance to get through as much as I would have liked to.
More spoilers…attach your own disclaimer accordingly.
When I last left Kratos, I had dropped him off at the cake-and-ice-cream shop for some much needed R&R. However, It seems he’s still upset about the whole ‘revenge on Zeus’ stuff. You know, I guess cake and ice cream DOESN’T solve everything. Thus the game continues –
I did the Aphrodite quick-time-event mini-game a few times — for the red orbs, kids, the red orbs. I have many weapons to power-up and couldn’t pass up the red orbs.
Then there was that talk with Hephaestus that I was pseudo-dreading. Heph asks Kratos about A-Ditty and Kratos brushes it off and gets back to the task at hand. Very focused, this guy. No incriminating text-messages, no press conferences, no public apologies, just gets on with it.
I’m sure Heph was still a bit miffed when he sent Kratos off to go find some specific rock in Tartarus. Eventually Kratos spots Cronos giving Gaia a high-five. (confirming that Gaia is now dead) Neat battle with Cronos follows with more god-climbing (though nothing like the A-Ditty god-climbing) and some nice brutality. Weird how his zits ooze out living creatures. Found the rock in his belly, and then eventually brainstabbed him with the sword. He was all “you got what you wanted, now leave me be!” One more round of cake and ice cream and Kratos might have just let it slide but no, he still has anger issues and only stabby stabby seems to help with that. Cronos is perma-404.
Kratos takes the rock back to Heph, he makes a whip out of it, hands it over, and proceeds to shock Kratos with it. I know — some guys just hold grudges for too damn long. Lamest boss-fight ensues and Heph is killed in I’m guessing under two minutes.
Kratos goes to meet up with Ditty again for more red orbs. After that, I head outside and the disembodied voice of Athena informs me that…wait for it…the Nemesis whip thingy allows me to do FORCE-LIGHTNING!!! About damn time.
Platforming on some bridges, into some other room where Daedalus left a note saying he traded favors with Zeus to get his kid Icarus back. (intentional pun, though I never did play that NES game). I hop around and flap my ‘borrowed’ wings a few times for the sake of irony.
And this is around where I left off. Some portals, a ballista, oodles of goodies, and two chests hanging from the roof. I’ve managed to pick up the other goodies but haven’t quite figured out how to handle the last two yet. I went on ahead to see Hera’s garden maze but am hoping I can restore back to a save-point so I can get those chests ’cause right now, it’s all about the red orbs and loot.