Chapter Two: Typhon's Domain
You pick up with Kratos on the path down into Hades. You have your trusty Athena's Blades in your hands, so begin slashing at the hands in your path with your weapons to destroy them and gain some health. They'll regrow quickly, so try to stay on the move whenever possible. First jump to the right, then jump up, then navigate past the hands to return to Rhodes.
Save your game (note that it's now Gaia that's offering you the opportunity to save), then speak to the writhing Spartan on the ground nearby to finish this segment and take to the skies.
The Burning Horse
Video Walk-through
Watch It »
Gaia has a plan for you, and sends you off on a journey to reach the Sisters of Fate. She lends you a burning, flying pegasus that you'll have to ride off into the ether towards your next destination.
You'll have Olympian eagles to contend with on your journey, though. Get used to the controls here, as you'll be flying in a much different manner than you would normally be moving around. Left and right will move you towards the sides of the screen, and depending on your settings, up and down will move you around vertically as well, but you won't be able to speed up or slow down or anything like that. Eagles will periodically come up alongside of you and attempt to attack you, so you'll have to counter them with your blades; tap Square or Triangle to whip them to death, while attempting to stay away from their sides as best as you can, as they'll periodically ram you from the right or left. Dealing enough damage to them will cause an O-prompt to appear above their heads, letting you finish them off with a single button press. This will regain most of the life you lost during the fight.
Other eagles will periodically appear in front of you and fire missiles at you. These will track in and hit your pegasus for light damage. If you move around swiftly, you can usually avoid them; try hitting L1 and R1 to dash to either the left or right to avoid the damage. Most of these eagles will fire one volley of missiles, then come back and attack you up close; eventually you will have to deal with both kinds of attacks at the same time.
;)
When that's done, a confusing (at first) divebombing eagle will attempt to spear you from the fore here. Its attacks can be dodged with the L1 button (albeit with some difficulty), but what you want to do is use your X button to charge at it as it comes towards you. Doing so will ram your pegasus into its beak, causing another button-pressing minigame in which you can mash the O button to break the eagle's neck.
Lastly, another soldier riding a winged beast will attack you in a pipe of air. Your magic will drain here, preventing you from catching up to the enemy, so attempt to dodge its purple energy balls (if they appear towards the bottom of the airshaft, ride to the top, and so on), until it unleashes too many for you to dodge. When that happens, you'll be shunted into...
The Lair of the Titan
After a bit of riding around on rails, you'll wind up back on the ground. Your goal now is to free the Pegasus from the fingers of the Titan, but doing so will require more power than you currently possess. Drop down from the finger and look around for a chest containing green orbs. If you move towards the bottom of the screen here, you'll find an obscured handhold leading to another red orb chest and another Eye of Gorgon.
Climb back up the handholds and strike at the fingers in your path to reveal a path leading onward to another set of handholds. Enemies will materialize while you make your way across it, so stay vigilant; they drop a lot of red orbs, though, so do your best to kill them all. When you reach the end of the handholds, you'll find a save point.
The Hand Cavern
Kill the minotaur nearby (don't forget to use L1 to block against its powerful attacks), grab the red orb chest at the end of the passage, then smash the box on the rope nearby and grab the rope to slide down to another area.
After a lengthy walk you'll be out in the open air again, where you'll be accosted by more minotaurs and some archers on wooden platforms. You can smash the platforms with your weapons to bring the archers down to your level, and the minotaurs can be dispatched normally. Note, though, that if you wish to, you can apparently cause a goodly number (half a dozen or so in total) of minotaurs to continually spawn if you keep the rightmost platform intact for the moment. Killing the minotaurs with the O-prompt attack will net you a good amount of red orbs, as well as plenty of health, so you may as well take advantage of this.
;)
When you're ready to move on, smash the remaining platform and jump up to the ledge above you, walk to the left, then jump up from there. After grabbing the chests, ride the chain down to where Prometheus is chained to a statue of a fist. When he's done yapping, attack his body to cut the chains around him to suspend him over the fires below, then climb the chain suspended between two of the fingers to drop to the ground below. There's nothing you can do for Prometheus for now, so continue along the path in front of you until you reach another set of handholds. Follow them, killing the enemies as they appear, until you reach the path at the bottom. (You may notice a few red orb chests hidden behind a few stalagmites during your journey; you won't be able to get them until later on.)
