findlestick | God of War 3:R - Labyrinth Skip (NG+ Speedrun Strategy) @findlestick | Uploaded March 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Skipping most of the Labyrinth for a NG+ speedrun.
If you want to learn all the glitches, skips and glitch-techniques that my colleagues and I have found in this game. You can check-out our GoWIII Glitch FAQ: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps3/943928-god-of-war-iii/faqs/59988
Done on PS4 only, at this date.
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Points of interest:
1. 0:00 - The first skip: it can be done on NG, but Pandora won't appear to help you to progress to the top of the Labyrinth afterwards. So if you do this skip, you 'll have to also do the second skip in this video to progress, since it doesn't rely on Pandora.
2. Although the final bridge is located very high, it's located very close to box one. It's located between box two and the bridge where Pandora sleeps. Not too difficult to get to.
3. Since you skip to the final bridge from box one, you *have to* trigger the scene where Kratos talks to Pandora. The times that I progressed without triggering this scene, the final box was not loaded.
4. Not in vid, #1: I did a Sky Jump through the hole in box 1 as soon as the battle started, but there's death collision at that hole's exit. I also used Magneto Jump to grab a ledge in the floor, and I breached the floor collision, but I was immediately met with death collision. So it might not be possible to do the first skip, like you see in this vid, until the 1st battle is over?
5. 0:44 - The second skip: the top of the Labyrinth is *not* located above the final box, there's actually nothing loaded above the final box.
Surprisingly (sort of, because the game has a habit of doing things like this) the top of the Labyrinth is actually located *lower* than the final box, and quite close-by.
6. The top of the Labyrinth is located where the game had previously loaded the area where Pandora sleeps, it's not too far from the final box. However, the bad news is that if you want to take the most direct route, you're forced to Jet Dash through an area where the camera spins horribly.
This forces Kratos to spin on-the-spot without progressing your Jet Dash, to the top of the Labyrinth. So you must navigate around the camera's horrible pivot-point. Therefore you must squeeze absolutely *everything* out of your Jet Dash... blind, with the controls in reverse sometimes...
However, if you come-up short, not is all lost. You can still do a Death Jump up to the top of the Labyrinth.
7. Also, the top of the Labyrinth is only loaded once you triggering the final battle. If you try going there before then, you'll only end up near where Pandora sleeps.
8. Not in vid, #2: when you reach the top of the Labyrinth like in this video, there's a character model of Pandora sleeping nearby.
Skipping most of the Labyrinth for a NG+ speedrun.
If you want to learn all the glitches, skips and glitch-techniques that my colleagues and I have found in this game. You can check-out our GoWIII Glitch FAQ: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps3/943928-god-of-war-iii/faqs/59988
Done on PS4 only, at this date.
twitter.com/findlestick
Points of interest:
1. 0:00 - The first skip: it can be done on NG, but Pandora won't appear to help you to progress to the top of the Labyrinth afterwards. So if you do this skip, you 'll have to also do the second skip in this video to progress, since it doesn't rely on Pandora.
2. Although the final bridge is located very high, it's located very close to box one. It's located between box two and the bridge where Pandora sleeps. Not too difficult to get to.
3. Since you skip to the final bridge from box one, you *have to* trigger the scene where Kratos talks to Pandora. The times that I progressed without triggering this scene, the final box was not loaded.
4. Not in vid, #1: I did a Sky Jump through the hole in box 1 as soon as the battle started, but there's death collision at that hole's exit. I also used Magneto Jump to grab a ledge in the floor, and I breached the floor collision, but I was immediately met with death collision. So it might not be possible to do the first skip, like you see in this vid, until the 1st battle is over?
5. 0:44 - The second skip: the top of the Labyrinth is *not* located above the final box, there's actually nothing loaded above the final box.
Surprisingly (sort of, because the game has a habit of doing things like this) the top of the Labyrinth is actually located *lower* than the final box, and quite close-by.
6. The top of the Labyrinth is located where the game had previously loaded the area where Pandora sleeps, it's not too far from the final box. However, the bad news is that if you want to take the most direct route, you're forced to Jet Dash through an area where the camera spins horribly.
This forces Kratos to spin on-the-spot without progressing your Jet Dash, to the top of the Labyrinth. So you must navigate around the camera's horrible pivot-point. Therefore you must squeeze absolutely *everything* out of your Jet Dash... blind, with the controls in reverse sometimes...
However, if you come-up short, not is all lost. You can still do a Death Jump up to the top of the Labyrinth.
7. Also, the top of the Labyrinth is only loaded once you triggering the final battle. If you try going there before then, you'll only end up near where Pandora sleeps.
8. Not in vid, #2: when you reach the top of the Labyrinth like in this video, there's a character model of Pandora sleeping nearby.
