The Groves of Persephone

After a lengthy cutscene here, use your weapons on the tree here, then walk through the portal to meet with Calliope. Another lengthy cutscene ensues, after which you have to pry Calliope off of your leg. When you do so, you'll be very weak. Track down the ghosts that run around the groves here and use the circle button to snap their necks. As you do so, you'll gain more strength and more of your abilities will come back to you. Numerous soldiers will also appear to harass you, but they can be ignored or run away from. Grab as many ghosts as you can, and you'll eventually regain all of your abilities and weapons.

Eventually, after you're completely restored, the red shield on the northern edge of the grove will disappear. Grab enough ghosts to top off your health, then head through. Another little gauntlet will appear, consisting of a devil-dog followed by a shieldbearer and assorted smaller foes. Aerial Olympic Thunder for the win!

Fields of Elysium

This is the last save point in the game, so take advantage of it. As you walk up the stairs, Persephone will attempt to fly away. You'll automatically grab her and ride with her up to the top of the tower above, where the final boss fight begins.

Boss Fight: Persephone

At first, Persephone will attack you with her melee attacks. She's quick and doesn't take much damage, but you can wear her down over time. She has a fairly simple strike combo at first, paired with a more powerful minotaur-esque charge maneuver. After a while, she'll start pulling pieces of the ground up and flinging them at you, but these can be double-jumped over relatively easily.

Phase One

We liked to use the Gauntlet here, if only because its combos are a bit shorter than those of the Blades. We stuck with aerial combos, and double-jumped near Persephone's head while using the Lightning Thrash ability (L + O). That gets a few good hits in on Persephone, and keeps you floating in the air so that most of her attacks will be avoided. Her charge attack deals a massive amount of damage, and you will get hit a few times here no matter how good you are, so work on draining her health as quickly as possible.

You will get a magic refill after this phase is over, so be sure to use Charon's Wrath here to wear down Persephone. Just be wary of getting too far away from her; if you get close to the top edge of the screen and and she disappears off to the bottom, it'll be impossible to see when the boulders come your way, making it difficult to avoid them.

After a lot of jumping around, you'll move on to…

Phase Two

This is a simple mini-game section that will be brief. As Atlas attempts to swat you from the sky, you can chain him in place against the bottom of the world with a few simple button presses. After you're done, you'll be completely healed and ready for the last phase of the fight.

Phase Three

Persephone will appear on one of the pillars in the distance here, a bit outside of your weapon range, although you can still hit her with Light of Dawn. What this phase consists of, however, is her using a few different attacks on you. She has a ball of green light that she throws at you, which we'll discuss in a moment; a beam of green energy that slowly sweeps across the floor and should be avoided; and lastly pillars of green energy that will track your movement and attempt to ensnare you. If you get caught in a pillar, you'll be unable to move, but you can apparently dodge out.

At the outset of the fight, you can easily knock Persephone from her roost by using your shield just as the ball of green energy hits you. If you do so, you'll reflect it back at her and knock her off the pillar, allowing you to run over and use an aerial combo on her. The L+O combo for the Blades of Chaos works pretty well.

That's basically what you want to do throughout this fight, really. The only way to deal consistent damage to her, outside of spells, is to catch the green orbs and fling them back at Persephone. Eventually she'll wise up and start reflecting your own reflections back at you, which you will then have to catch and reflect again; these reflection wars can go on for four or five reflections before she's eventually knocked off the pedestal. Eventually she will be, however, and you can continue your rampage on her while she hangs. The green orbs will eventually become a less frequent part of her attack suite, so you'll need to be ready when they come your way.

After enough repetitions of this cycle, Persephone will fall to the ground. At this point, you need to stand in the golden circle on the ground and hit L to redirect the sun at her. Mash O for a bit to concentrate the beam, then let go as soon as that prompt disappears. A few buttons in a minigame will appear. Hitting them successfully will win the game! Hooray!

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