Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Some random bugs and oddities from my casual playthrough of the unpatched version. Kazooie is the player in one or two of the clips too!
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0:00 - near the start of the game, you can blast away a deep layer of snow and leave a cosmetic hole on the ground.
0:28 - a wonky chain.
0:42 - after retrying from a checkpoint in Svartalfheim, the nearby geysers acted a bit oddly. I could throw an Axe at them but they wouldn't visually freeze up. In the case of the geyser blocking a grapple wall, this didn't matter and the grapple wall was still useable. In the case of the geyser blocking a gap, this did matter and the gap was not possible to jump over.
1:38 - for some reason upon revisiting the mountain area in Svartalfheim, I could see a floating trolley in the distance.
1:51 - Atreus became very fidgety in one of the crawlspaces in Svartalfheim.
2:54 - the tutorial message saying "exit" when using the Alfheim dog sled got stuck on the screen very easily. I recall it happened repeatedly and only temporarily went away when driving the sled. Retry was needed to permanently get rid of the message.
3:19 - a cheap looking wall of foliage in Vanaheim while boating around.
3:44 - I had planned on finishing the whole game unpatched, but alas, a game breaking bug got in my way. One of the climbing walls in Vanaheim during "Creatures of Prophecy" was unclimbable and stopped my progress. I tried replaying the previous fight and even tried defeating the enemies and breaking the rock on the climbing wall in a different order, only to meet the same outcome. For what it's worth, the bug went away after patching the game.
4:10 - While moving around this area and repeatedly retrying, I got another random bug. One time after retrying, Kratos was holding his currently equipped Relic the Hilt of Gram in his hands for some reason. This prevented him from doing any attacks, but a roll into a weapon switch got rid of it. I was basically standing in place without doing any specific actions as I retried. It didn't happen again afterwards and ended up being just a random one-time occurrence that may forever remain a mystery.
Some random bugs and oddities from my casual playthrough of the unpatched version. Kazooie is the player in one or two of the clips too!
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0:00 - near the start of the game, you can blast away a deep layer of snow and leave a cosmetic hole on the ground.
0:28 - a wonky chain.
0:42 - after retrying from a checkpoint in Svartalfheim, the nearby geysers acted a bit oddly. I could throw an Axe at them but they wouldn't visually freeze up. In the case of the geyser blocking a grapple wall, this didn't matter and the grapple wall was still useable. In the case of the geyser blocking a gap, this did matter and the gap was not possible to jump over.
1:38 - for some reason upon revisiting the mountain area in Svartalfheim, I could see a floating trolley in the distance.
1:51 - Atreus became very fidgety in one of the crawlspaces in Svartalfheim.
2:54 - the tutorial message saying "exit" when using the Alfheim dog sled got stuck on the screen very easily. I recall it happened repeatedly and only temporarily went away when driving the sled. Retry was needed to permanently get rid of the message.
3:19 - a cheap looking wall of foliage in Vanaheim while boating around.
3:44 - I had planned on finishing the whole game unpatched, but alas, a game breaking bug got in my way. One of the climbing walls in Vanaheim during "Creatures of Prophecy" was unclimbable and stopped my progress. I tried replaying the previous fight and even tried defeating the enemies and breaking the rock on the climbing wall in a different order, only to meet the same outcome. For what it's worth, the bug went away after patching the game.
4:10 - While moving around this area and repeatedly retrying, I got another random bug. One time after retrying, Kratos was holding his currently equipped Relic the Hilt of Gram in his hands for some reason. This prevented him from doing any attacks, but a roll into a weapon switch got rid of it. I was basically standing in place without doing any specific actions as I retried. It didn't happen again afterwards and ended up being just a random one-time occurrence that may forever remain a mystery.
