Chapter 4 - Walk-through

This section provides a complete walk-through for God of War. You'll find specific solutions to puzzles, tactics for combat situations, and the location of hidden health, magic, and red orb experience chests as well as Gorgon Eyes, Phoenix Feathers, and Muse Keys.

Note that once you maximize your health and magic bar, you will no longer find Gorgon Eyes and Phoenix Feathers. So late in the game these chests become red orb experience chests. Therefore, this walk-through may differ slightly in its latter portions. The walk-through reveals the location of these chests but the contents may be different depending on what you've already found during the game.

The Aegean Sea

Crack the skulls of the four undead troops at the ship's bow. Practice using the Plume of Prometheus combo (Square, Square, Triangle) as it's one of your best allies through the game, especially against weaker undead foes. After defeating the first batch, a second set breaks through the chain-locked trapdoor and even more crawl from the ship's sides. Clear the bow then approach the trap door. Use R2 to open the trapdoor.

Drop inside the ship. Recover health from the chest if necessary or leave it for later. Use your Blades of Chaos to pound the nearby undead. Break open the barrels for more red orbs. Use your weapons to break apart the wooden planks blocking the path to the right of the health chest. In the barracks, break apart the beds for more red orbs.

Block the hydra's attack before unleashing your own attack.

Follow the hallway into the larger chamber and face off in your first battle against the hydra. The monster serpent appears in front of you and attacks with its fierce jaws. Use L1 to block the attack then counter with successive attacks. After scoring five or six hits, block again to avoid the hydra's bite. Resume the attack then block again and repeat. When the hydra gets knocked out, follow the button sequence to inflict more damage and drive the hydra away. Break all barrels for orbs then cross the beams ahead of you.

Smash more barrels on the left then exit through the opening also to the left. Once outside, go left and speak with the prisoner. Find the opening on the right and ascend the staircase. Open the chest full of red orbs. At the top of the stairs, break through the wooden blockade with your attacks. Use R2 to open the door.

Emerge onto the ship's deck and attack the harpies. Kratos isn't much concerned with the ship's innocent inhabitants; if you need health to mend your wounds, attack one of the frightened humans scampering around the ship's deck. Use light attacks to strike the harpies. Eventually the hydra bursts through the deck's center.

The hydra attacks through the ship's deck. Evade attacks using block and the right-analog stick.

The hydra uses a spin attack (spins its head around the deck), a bite attack, and also slams its head onto the deck. Block these attacks with the L1 button and repeatedly cut the hydra's flesh with your blades. Use the right-analog stick to dodge if necessary. When you're inside its mouth, follow the button presses to escape and resume the attack.

Cross the deck to the right side and use the R2 button to open the two doors. Open the chests inside for red orbs. Drop into the hole in the deck and swim to the upper left. Grab the netting and climb up. Return to the ship's deck and battle more undead forces. Spot the beam on the right. Carefully cross the beam and reach an intersection of beams. At the intersection, go right to find a chest full of red orbs. Return to the intersection and follow the beam on the right and jump onto the deck of an adjacent ship.

Save your game in the glowing light on the left and use the health chest if you're in dire need. Otherwise save it. A gang of undead archers overlook the stretch of ship before you. While their arrows don't inflict serious damage, the problem is you can't reach their platform without the aid of a crate. And unfortunately the arrows do inflict serious damage on the crate. The crate begins on the lower right portion of the area.

Video Walk-through

Proper dodging and weaving will get you past these archers in one piece.

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You need to push and kick the crate to the other side while using the larger obstructions to take cover from the arrows. Grab the crate and move it left or right. Charge up Kratos' kick fully and launch it down the stretch. Run to catch up to the crate and take cover quickly. Try to time your movements away from the obstructions to avoid getting pummeled immediately by arrows. The box can't sustain much damage so you must work quickly and carefully. Kick the box all the way to the area just below the archers so you can use it as a platform to reach the higher ledge. When you reach them, beat the archers down. Use the nearby health chest.