AKheon | God of War: Ascension - skip the end of Chapter 16 (NG) @AKheon | Uploaded December 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
The video begins from having done the Empusa fight skip.
0:03 - normally, four enemies would spawn once you drop down here. And normally, you'd have to fight these four enemies since the prompt to use the Amulet to fix the prison won't appear until after the fight. However, since we're not going to fix the prison, we don't need to fight these enemies, so I jump over the fight trigger with this droopy double jump into Shield Jump.
0:07 - here's a somewhat new discovery regarding the Upgrade Jump, which I originally heard about from findlestick, although he never published a video showing it. There exists a special levitation following an Upgrade Jump where Kratos moves at a very high speed while also rising upwards a fair amount of distance. I now found a consistent way to do it, and it is to press X and O simultaneously at ground level while running shortly after upgrading. It's the best long jump technique that's available, and it gives great height too, so it might open up NG-runs a bit more. Pity nothing like this exists in NG+ conditions...
Well, to do the skip you either levitate or use this air-run, then do a few Shield Jumps to reach the next area early. As simple as that, although finding the exact direction and hitting the corridor can be a bit tricky.
0:17 - the graphics are a bit glitched since you never fixed the prison. Furthermore, nothing is loaded beyond the doorway at first, so you have to wait for a moment before going in. It seems the screen shakes a little (and the controller vibrates) to indicate when the next area has loaded, so you don't have to go in completely blind.
A clever player might be able to use this loading time to drop into Martyr's Chamber from here, but it's unknown if it would be faster since the latest Martyr's Chamber skip which also skips the Chamber intro needs to go out of bounds near the ladder. Oh well, something to consider.
The exact time save for this skip is a bit vague, but it could even be as much as 30 seconds. The prison fixing sequence and using the grapple points to get across takes roughly 30 seconds, plus fighting the four enemies takes a short time as well.
The video begins from having done the Empusa fight skip.
0:03 - normally, four enemies would spawn once you drop down here. And normally, you'd have to fight these four enemies since the prompt to use the Amulet to fix the prison won't appear until after the fight. However, since we're not going to fix the prison, we don't need to fight these enemies, so I jump over the fight trigger with this droopy double jump into Shield Jump.
0:07 - here's a somewhat new discovery regarding the Upgrade Jump, which I originally heard about from findlestick, although he never published a video showing it. There exists a special levitation following an Upgrade Jump where Kratos moves at a very high speed while also rising upwards a fair amount of distance. I now found a consistent way to do it, and it is to press X and O simultaneously at ground level while running shortly after upgrading. It's the best long jump technique that's available, and it gives great height too, so it might open up NG-runs a bit more. Pity nothing like this exists in NG+ conditions...
Well, to do the skip you either levitate or use this air-run, then do a few Shield Jumps to reach the next area early. As simple as that, although finding the exact direction and hitting the corridor can be a bit tricky.
0:17 - the graphics are a bit glitched since you never fixed the prison. Furthermore, nothing is loaded beyond the doorway at first, so you have to wait for a moment before going in. It seems the screen shakes a little (and the controller vibrates) to indicate when the next area has loaded, so you don't have to go in completely blind.
A clever player might be able to use this loading time to drop into Martyr's Chamber from here, but it's unknown if it would be faster since the latest Martyr's Chamber skip which also skips the Chamber intro needs to go out of bounds near the ladder. Oh well, something to consider.
The exact time save for this skip is a bit vague, but it could even be as much as 30 seconds. The prison fixing sequence and using the grapple points to get across takes roughly 30 seconds, plus fighting the four enemies takes a short time as well.
