Chapter One: Rhodes

(Note that this walkthrough is written based on the assumption that you are playing through on the Normal difficulty setting. Also note that our chapter breaks are our own invention, made purely for organizational purposes.)

You begin the game in Rhodes, shortly after Kratos' power has been stripped and the Colossus of Rhodes has been animated in the city in an attempt to squash him like a bug. It'll be up to you to defeat the Colossus and fight your way out of the city. Luckily, you currently have max-powered Athena's Blades and a likewise ubercharged Poseidon's Rage magic, which will help you out quite a bit in the early going.

You begin in a small, sealed room that will feature a couple dozen soldiers attempting to take you down. This is your opportunity to get back into practice with Kratos' weapons, which feature most of the same attacks from the first God of War. Take your time disposing of the guards in as gruesome a fashion as you like.

When all of the guards are done, open the door leading onward with the R1 button. Fight your way through the guards until the Colossus' hand busts through the wall, opening a passage to your left. The boxes and crates here conceal red orbs, so smash them thoroughly to receive your boon.

Ballista Fight

When you reach the balcony, jump off of it before the Colossus manages to strike you. You'll wind up on a small spit of ground populated by enemy soldiers, with the Colossus standing off to one side, ready to hit you as you fight. You have to strike at the Colossus to get away from it, but doing so won't be easy.

Begin by defending yourself from the predations of the soldiers here while the Colossus does its thing in the background. It has a few attacks, including throwing soldiers at you and a fist slam. Both of these can be avoided by sticking towards the bottom of the screen. It can also slap the ground near where you are, as you'll discover; it raises its arm above its head and attempts to flatten you out. If you time it right, you can use the right analog stick to roll away from this attack as it comes down and avoid taking damage. It's tough to time it, but if you wind up standing near the palm, you can start to attack it, and eventually the Colossus will recoil in pain, earning you some red orbs.

You need to repeat this process until the Colossus keels over and his eyes go out momentarily. When that occurs, you can finish it off - for the moment, at least. Begin by jumping up onto the platform to your left and examining the ballista/catapult thing there. It's currently loaded with a large rock, so hit R1 while standing behind it to launch the rock at the Colossus' head; it'll impact it and earn you a large orb reward. With that done, you can either keep attacking its hand and the soldiers here for more orbs, or simply jump into the ballista and launch yourself at the head to cut out one of the eyes. This entails another button-pressing game, as you have to press the square button four times, when the prompts come up, to complete the eye-gouging. If you fail, you'll be smashed into the ground by the Colossus and forced to try again.

Rhodes Bathhouse

With the Colossus' eye put out, it will throw you to another part of the city, where you'll wind up underwater. Before swimming on, though, surface with the X button and attack the dressing partitions in the room above you to earn around 100 red orbs. You can also find a pair of lovely ladies in one of the pools. Pressing O while standing near them will allow you to play one of the infamous sex minigames. To play, tap the buttons that appear, then follow the directional movements indicated with the left analog stick. When directions start to appear in the bottom left corner of the screen, those are also performed with the left analog stick, but are intended to be performed continuously as long as the icon is on the screen.

After swimming through the tunnel below you (you can smash the barricade by holding down the R1 button), you'll surface in some kind of factory. Climb the stairs and pull the switch to reveal a grappling point. Grappling isn't so difficult; just stand near the edge of the ledge, tap R1 to grab onto the grappling point, then hit X to jump off when you reach the other side of the room.

Clean out the soldiers beyond the doorway here and head up the ladder, but be prepared to tap O like a madman, as the foot of the Colossus will bust through the wall and attempt to smash you. After throwing it off, poke around the room (there's a chest of red orbs in a corner off to your left), then start climbing the wall to the left of the hole the Colossus made in it. There's another chest of red orbs that's available after you shuffle off to the left around the small indentation that the Colossus makes in the climbable wall; just drop down.

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