The Inner Sanctum
Examine the frescoes here, if you wish, then climb the handholds to the ceiling. You can only drop down on the balcony here; if you want the red orb chests, you’ll have to double-jump and glide to them. Move up towards the broken wall and smash it to reach a lengthy gauntlet.
As you proceed down the path here, you will periodically be blocked from moving onward as enemies spawn in around you. The further down you go, the tougher the enemies get. It’s going to be tough to regenerate health for the most part, so try to conserve as much of it as possible until you reach the green orb chest along the path.
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The first tough challenge here is the siren/gorgon teamup near the chests. Since these guys drop so much magic when they die, though, feel free to use your magic to keep them off guard and away from you. There are more tough fights in the future, but you’ll be all right as long as you don’t get knocked around too much. We found it helpful to use a fully upgraded Spear of Destiny in a lot of these fights. You can use the Altering Slash to lay a timebomb inside any enemy you hit, even the cyclopes near the end, which will explode after around ten seconds, doing good damage to the creature and anything nearby. Combine that with the Unfortunate Remains ability, and you’ll be knocking around the smaller foes just like you were using Atlas Quake. (Which of course you should be doing, especially when the cyclops attack you at the end of the path.)
Anyway, don’t go too quickly down the pathway. In fact, it’s a good idea to retreat anytime you spot a new barrier popping up in front of you. Most of the fights here are spread across two or three segments of the walkway, and barriers will rise up and fall down as you fight. Try to split up your foes by moving across these barriers; that’ll reduce the number of foes you have to fight against at one time.
When you reach the end of the road and kill everything, you’ll be able to unlock the door by slashing at the claws on it. First open up the lock on the left, then move the bolt on the right, then push the door open.
Before The Loom
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The remaining sister, Clotho, spins the web of fate from her mechanical prison. You have to defeat her in order to return to the moment where everything went wrong. Doing so will involve a bit of a climb, though.
Begin by dodging the blades before you and taking a left. One of Clotho’s many hands will swipe at you here, but hitting it often enough will render it mute for a moment, allowing you to move the lever around and open the gate above you. If you do that, then you can head up the steps nearby and glide over to the platform here. Heal up if necessary before climbing up the handholds and reaching the ceiling. Crawl along the ceiling as far as you can towards the other gate, but be ready for Clotho to grab you. Tap the left analog stick left and right to break free, then move towards the gate and smash the two skeletons at its top. With that done, you can drop down and move the lever that opens this gate. Jump to the platform and climb the chain to move up.
The Second Level
Three of Clotho's arms will fluster you here. Luckily, they can all be dealt with. Begin by moving to the right of the chain that you climbed up from. One of the hands is here, located near a green switch that opens a hole in the ground underneath it. (The hole houses a red orb chest that you might want to pick up.) When you’re ready to kill the hand, stab it a few times to make it drop to the ground, flip the switch to open the hole, then flip it again to shut the hand inside.
Video Walk-through
The second hand is further to the right. You’ll have to stab it until it falls, then quickly double jump to a chain and jump from the chain to the platform above to flip the switch there, which will drop a spike into the hand. It can be complicated to make the jumps to the chain; your best bet is to simply double jump up there and immediately let go of the X button after hitting it the second time.
The third hand is a bit more complicated to take down. There’s a sliding platform that rotates around the edge of the platform here; you can find it back by the first hand that you caught in the hole in the ground. Slide it around the platform until you near the third, moving hand. You’ll notice that there’s a winch near a spike near the hand; you have to move the platform underneath the winch, then step on the pressure plate to lift the jar into the winch. That will let you move the spike when you move the platform. If you move the spike and platform next to the hand, then slash at the hand a few times, it’ll impale itself on the spike. Climb the rope from the spike and jump to the platform nearby to reach Clotho herself.
Boss Fight: Clotho
It’s virtually impossible to die here, so don’t worry too much about that. If you ever need more health, simply freeze time at one of the statues and hit Clotho a few times in one of her breasts or arms; she’ll drop a little health for you. If she ever bugs you with her attacks, repeat the process until both of her arms go dead and she’ll leave you alone for a while.
In order to kill Clotho, you need to find something a bit more rough and tumble than your puny weapons. Begin by heading towards the blocked door to the right of Clotho. There’s a handhold beside the door, which will let you climb up. If you see the two skeletons that are clogging the gears when you can’t climb any further, smash them with your blades, then drop back down to the floor.
Video Walk-through
Now that the gears can move, you can grab the handle near the edge of the platform, to the right of Clotho, and move it. The handle controls two loading docks that can be moved along the outside of the platform, where there are a number of threads hanging. All of the threads are connected to dead bodies, which you can bring up to the platform if you like; each of them will drop plenty of health when Clotho eventually explodes it. What you want to do, though, is align one of the docks with the chain that runs down the middle of the platform, near the metal plate in the floor that you entered the room from. If you do, then you can flip the switch under the chain to bring up one of the huge blades that you dodged earlier.
With the blade hanging down in front of Clotho, you have to maneuver it for the kill. Hit her until she’s subdued, then use the R1 button to twist the blade so that it points at her, then hit R1 again to pull it towards the edge of the platform. A few button presses later, and Clotho will have a huge blade in her brain, and the doors here will open.
Reversing Your Destiny
Head through the door and swim under the barriers until you reach the last of the fate mirrors. Save your game and flip the switch here, then return to the platform that Clotho’s body is on. You have to find the thread of fate that belongs to Kratos; it’s near her rightmost hand here. When you find it, tap O to start rewinding fate. Keep going until it stops; when that happens, you’ll have 30 seconds to get back to the mirror. Stop time before leaving Clotho’s lair, run to the platform, raise it, swim to the mirror, and jump through before the timer runs out. Time to take out the end boss!
