God of War 
Rooftops of Athens         (00005)   ]

There's a large vine growing up the side of the wall on the right side, this
is where you need to start climbing up.  When you reach a point where you
can't climb any higher press the left analog stick in the opposite direction
and double jump across to grab the vine on the other side.  Continue up and
then do this again, finally jump across to the left when you reach the top and
get the chests containing blue and green orbs,  when you go outside you'll
encounter a new type of enemy.  This enemy moves about underground and bursts
up dealing damage to you in the process, to defeat them you should always
block when they are approaching from underground and then start attacking when
they pop out.  Soon after some rather obnoxious guys with bows will appear on
the stairs, take the time to run over and kill them otherwise they'll probably
end up really pissing you off while you're trying to fight.  Grab the chest
with the green orbs after the battle and start to climb up the stairs.  This
part can get rather difficult so stay on your guard and only attack when it's
safe, you need to fend off a bunch of those skeleton warriors as well as the
large beast with the spikey ball.  After the battle grab the chest with the
green orbs at the top and then go back down and through the door.

Head down at first and you'll find a chest full of red orbs.  Now start to
cross the bridge where all those soldiers met their end and double jump across
to the platform.  From here you can double jump and grab hold of the vines
that line the side of the pillar in the middle.  Shimmy around to the right
side and then jump to the next pillar.  Try to time your jumps between the
arrows fired from the enemies so that you aren't struck in mid air and fall to
your doom.  On the second pillar climb around to the right side and jump
across.  Open the chest here and get the red orbs.  You'll come to a fork up
the path, at this fork is a chest that changes colour, refill either your
health or magic whichever needs it more.  Take the right path at the save
point and save your game in the next room.  Ascend the ladder at the top.

You'll find a ladder at the upper right corner of the roof, go up and get the
two treasure boxes here for eithe magic or health and a Gorgon Eye.  Drop down
again and jump across to the other building on the left side.  Here you'll
find a multicoloured chest again and if you jump across to the left you can
grab onto a rope.  Swing and jump to reach the other side where you'll find a
treasure trove of health, magic and red orbs which you can barely open thanks
to those stupid archers in the background.  It's possible to kill them later
and come back for these so you can do that if you wish.  Head back and smash
the wooden barrier beside the chest so that you can jump across to the next
building.  Break the barrier and this building and double jump across, you
certainly won't make it to the ledge but you will grab onto the vines that
adorn the wall.  Climb up and open the chest to refill your magic power. 

There's a shiny object on the ground up the ramp, press the R2 button for a
quick scene and then continue along the path to a ramp which you can kick down
with the R2 button.  Head back down to the save point room and go out the
door, this time take the upper left path.  You'll come to a large ballista
(crossbow thing) which you can grab hold of with the R2 button.  Push and kick
this thing down into the next room.  Now in this room you will notice an odd
panel on the floor, go to the door beside it and use the R2 button to pull it
open.  Inside a ton of enemies spawn but you can take them all out quickly
using the Poseidon's Rage.  After they're taken care of go out and place the
ballista on the gear shaped panel in the floor, now pull the lever.  Leave the
room and grab the ballista which has been turned 90 degrees and pull it off
the panel.  Pull the lever once again to reset it and put the ballista back
on.  Turn it one more time and it will be rotated to face toward that
immovable door.  Set it in the middle of the room, then pull back and fire.

Before going through the door that you just smashed open, climb up the ladder
that the lever brought down and get the chest containing red orbs.  Pull open
the door at the upper right as well to find a multicoloured chest.  Now head
through the door in the centre and follow the path to find another of the many
gods.  He grants you the magic power Zeus' Fury.  Head through the door that
Zeus blocked previously and cross the bridge.  While standing on the bridge
with Zeus' Fury equipped you can hold down the L2 button and press square to
fire lightning bolts at the archers in the background.  Destroying all of them
opens up the door that had the red forcefield before down the hall to the
right of where you came out of the Zeus door.  Through there is a large room
with a crumbling wall at the top end, break down this wall to find three
chests containing magic refill, a Gorgon Eye and a Phoenix Feather.  Head back
across the bridge and make a right at the fork, save your game here.

Head up the ladder to the roof again and jump across.  You now have the
ability to kill those **mn archers in the background and get all those chests
across the swinging part if you wish.  When you're ready jump across and
return to the part where the guy wouldn't put the bridge across for you.  Take
aim with your Zeus' Fury and eliminate his face off.  You'll find two chests
in the first room on the other side containing a Gorgon Eye and a Phoenix
Feather.  Follow the path down the hall to the room at the end where you'll
find another two chests both with sashes of red orbs.  Stand on the circular
button for a second to ride the elevator down to the area below.  Start
running and as you cross the bridge a cutscene will occur.  Balance your way
across the bridge support beam and save your game at the save point on the
other side.  Ascend the stairs to the top where you'll need to fight your way
through a number of normal enemies.  You can break a hole in the wall to
reveal a chest full of red orbs around here.  Keep climbing the stairs until
you finally reach the Temple of the Oracle.  Open the two chests here
containing green orbs and blue orbs then start to cross the bridge.

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At the end of the bridge you'll be thrown into a battle with a ton of those
flying nuisances and a couple of gorgons, defeat them all to open up the
blocked paths.  There's a scene here as well afterward, when it's over climb
the stairs and grab the chests on the left and right side of the temple
entrance for a Gorgon Eye and a Phoenix Feather.  Inside the actual temple run
to the top end and grab the staties there, you can pull them out to reveal two
chests, both multicoloured.  These statues actually serve a purpose, you may
have noticed by now that the swarm of harpies is literally unending, and for
that reason you cannot continue any further (you'll see why if you climb the
stairs.)  What you need to do is drag the left statues down and use it to
block the left hole, then drag the right statue down and use it to block the
right hole.  Now take out any remaining harpies and voila, you're free.  Take
the lower left gate next to yet another multicoloured chest and lift it up. 
Before going up the stairs jump up onto the ledge to your right, here you will
find a chest with another Gorgon Eye.  On the adjacent side there's a chest
full of red orbs.  Now climb the stairs and begin to make your way across the
ceiling beams Head left to find one at the end leading up that doesn't
collapse then follow along to the right until you find another one.  Head up
and jump off beside the save point here.  Save your game and head left.

Follow this hallway all the way to the end past the normal enemies and watch
the scene there.  All right here's what you need to do.  First of all head
right and notice that there is an elevator there that goes down when you stand
on it.  Beside the door where you came from are two statues.  What you need to
do is go and get one of those statues and then place it on the elevator.  Now
after doing that go and get the other and set it beside the elevator but not
on it.  Stand on the elevator so that it goes down but jump back so you don't
go with it.  When the elevator hits the bottom push the second statue on top
of the first one.  Now jump down yourself and drag it off the elevator. 
Notice that in the background there is a large platform held up by four pillar
and beside it a smaller structure with a treasure chest on top containing red
orbs.  Well here's the first thing to do.  Push the pillar over to these two
structures and place it on the right side a good few feet from the tall thing. 
In order to follow this you'll need to have an idea of what I'm trying to do. 
If you double jump into the air to the right of these two structures you
should see two treasure chests up top of the rock ledge.  Well what you need
to do is jump onto the small structure with the chest, and from there jump
onto the taller platform.  Now from here jump over to your two-story statue
and then to the rock ledge with the two chests, trust me, it works.

After opening all the chests drop down.  Make your way around in a clockwise
direction staying alongside the walls, you'll notice two place where there is
a cracked wall surrounded by a kind of archway.  Break these cracked walls
with normal attacks to reveal two chests, one with a Gorgon Eye and then other
with red orbs.  Now it's time to save that stupid lady.  Drag the statue
pillar over to the left side in between the tall platform and the fountaing. 
Now jump up and get on top of the tall platform via the smaller one and jump
to your pillar.  From here you can jump across and grab hold of the vines.  As
you start to shimmy across to the left a scene occurs and a time limit starts.

You have approximately 70 seconds to get from here to saving the girl, before
you start I'll dispell your main worries and say that if you fail you'll
automatically restart at the beginning of the timed challenge so don't worry
too much.  Head across the vines and position yourself for a jump, be sure to
wait for each rotation of these things to finish before you actually make the
jump yourself.  Use techniques like the sideways and upward jump to get across
the vines faster.  Double jump from the highest vine to reach the rope and
swing across to the other side.  You'll need to balance along the thin beams
here but you can save time by double jumping when you're about half way there. 
Jump across to the rope and from the rope to the large fountain, when you move
toward the girl a scene automatically cuts in.  Now leave through the door.

When you come out you'll find a save point and have the choice of two paths. 
If you take the stairs up beside the save point it's a long path leading to a
large emblem and a cliff.  The main reason to come up here is the treasure
chest behind the emblem containing a Phoenix Feather.  Return to the save
point and head right across the large sword.  Descend the enormous spiral
staircase and open the chest at the bottom to get another Phoenix Feather. 
When you jump over the barrier here you're officially down in the sewers.

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|  _ -----o-----                    The Sewers of Athens                    |
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There are two chests on either side of you, both multicoloured.  Follow the
sewers further down and defeat all the enemies that attack you  If you jump up
to where all the archers are attacking from you'll find not only a
multicoloured chest but one with a stash of red orbs in the left corner as
well.  Drop down and head along the path until you reach a metal barrier,
double jump up and climb onto the ledge.  There's a bunch of minotaurs you
need to defeat here but if you've levelled the Blades of Chaos up to three by
now note that the triangle button combo is extremely effective against them
since they're so slow.  Open the multicoloured chest on the right side and
then continue down the sewers.  Two more chests can be found here and an
additional two at the end, both containing red orbs.  Jump up and get ready
for a huge enemy-fest.  You'll start by having to take down a couple of
cyclops enemies which is much easier now that there aren't a million other
townspeople to accidentally target, afterward a bunch of minotaurs and normal
enemies to take care of all while being picked at by arrows from above. 
Ascend the ladder and take out the archers up there.  Do it again on the next
curve as well and grab the red orb chest while you're at it.

Follow the sewers to another metal gate and jump up on top of it.  Ahead of
your is a ladder leading up to a chest and some spiral stairs.  Pull the lever
at the top of the stairs to form another set of stairs leading back up to
somewhere familiar.  Head up to the platform where you first saw Ares
destroying the city, indeed he is still there.  This time take the right path
instead of the left path and save your game while you're at it.  The enormous
door is now open, proceed through and immediately turn right to find a chest
containing a Gorgon Eye.  On the left is a multicoloured chest, use it to
revitalize yourself before entering the Desert of Lost Souls.

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|  _ -----o-----                    Desert of Lost Souls                    |
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Head down into the desert and watch the scene when you arrive.  Now here's the
first thing to note, from the statue if you run directly up and angle yourself
slightly to the left you'll find a treasure chest containing a bunch of red
robs beside a large pointed rock, don't worry if you can't find it, they're
just red orbs.  Return to the desert entrance and head East of the statue. 
Follow the lower edge all the way along for quite a long way until you finally
reach the lower right corner of the desert.  From here run directly Northwest
and you should start to hear singing.  North of the grassy area where the
singing gets louder is a large temple.  In front of this temple beside the
multicoloured chest is the first siren, use magic primarily to destroy her as
she is quite agile.  Once she is dead then only two more remain.  These aren't
going to be easy to find, they're wandering around in the central area of the
desert.  Since they move around the only real help I can offer is general
areas.  If you find the stage-like section in the middle of the desert you
should be able to find the first Siren (very) roughly South of there and the
second (very) roughly North of there.  Both of them are accompanied by two
minotaurs as well.  Once they are defeated the path opens in the East temple
and you can go inside to save your game.  Open the two chests here and then
head down the stairs beside the save point.  Down here you will find a
conveyer belt, first of all the most important thing to note is to avoid those
spikey things at the end.  What you need to do is tap the R2 button to open
the door on the wall and pull out the large block (there's a chest behind it
as well.)  Kick the block all the way left until it hits the wall and then use
it so that you can jump high enough to reach the ledge.  From here head
through the door and go out onto the steps.  Blow into the large horn for a
scene and then follow the path, don't miss the chests and before you can blow
on the next horn suddenly you are ambushed by quite a few sirens.  Even after
defeating them more appear, about fifteen or so in all so it's quite a task. 
In fact this may be a good time to use your Rage of the Gods.  After the
battle the horn reappears and you can blow into it to trigger a scene.

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|  _ -----o-----                      Pandora's Temple                      |
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Save your game and begin heading across the bridge.  You will find two
multicoloured chests on the other side, one on the left and one on the right
side of the main door.  Head left and take the sloping path that leads down
and around to the other side.  Here you will find a wall with a handle on the
bottom, use the R2 button to grab on and pull the wall out as far as it can go
before it won't move anymore.  Now when you let go it's automatically going to
start moving in again so you need to jump up it as fast as possible.  At the
top there's a scene, after the scene the gates are opened so drop down and
head toward the door.  As you go two new types of cyclops attack, they're just
larger version of ones you've fought before so as usual the triangle combo
works exceptionally well against them.  After the battle climb the front
stairs.  Go left at the top and open the chest to find another Gorgon Eye.  On
the right side is a Phoenix Feather in the chest.  When you're ready to
proceed turn the lever in the middle by grabbing and walking around in an
entire 360 degree turn.  When you get inside the door closes behind you. 
Battle your way through a ton of undead skeleton warriors here, you must
defeat all the enemies in this room before you can proceed any further. 
Following the battle examine the eye in the centre of the large wall, one at a
time the characters highlight and when they all have, the path opens.

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|  _ -----o-----                    The Rings of Pandora                    |
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Follow the hallway either up or down until you come to a door in the wall. 
Head through it to find some rather unpleasant crunching spike machines.  Wait
until they are opening and then use the right analog evade roll to ensure you
make it through each one of them in one piece.  At the other end some enemy
archers are waiting to tear you apart, why not show them the same courtesy. 
Open the multicoloured chest as well as the other one at the top which has a
stash of red orbs inside.  Pull the lever in the centre of the left wall to
lower down another lever outside the room.  Run back out and begin to turn
this round and round and round until you see a bright red flame.  Approach it
to meet with the next god and acquire a new weapon, the Blade of Artemis. 
After acquiring the new weapon continue on past where Artemis used to be.

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|  _ -----o-----                   The Challenge of Atlas                   |
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Head down the hall and save your game along the way.  The next room offers you
the perfect chance to try out your new weapon by throwing a ton of the easiest
enemies in the game at you,this doesn't last long however as you are also
attacked by a number of more difficult Gorgons.  Following the battle jump up
and grab onto the bottom of the stairs at the upper right corner of the room
and head around the path.  Use Zeus' Fury to take out the archers in the
background and then balance across to that side.  In the corner there you'll
find a chest containing a Gorgon Eye.  Drop down and head through the hall at
the lower right corner of this room.  Follow the path and make sure all the
enemies in the next area are taken care of, then go back to the fork in the
hall and grab that box of rocks or whatever it is.  Notice that when you step
on the button in the main room the thing at the top spins around, then spins
back when you step off.  Well drag the box of rocks up near the spinning thing
along with your and then charge up a kick to kick it toward the button.  While
it's sliding jump up toward the spinning thing and it will flip you around.

On this side there are a number of enemies you need to defeat, as well as two
chests above you, one multicoloured and the other full of red orbs.  The third
is a blue or chest on the left side.  When you're done climb the ladder and
jump across to the left side where you can pick up the Shield of Zeus.  Drop
down to the room below and examine the door on the lower left side to place
the shield into the carving.  Leave this area and return to the previous one,
jump up and grab onto the stairs at the upper right corner.  If you already
cleared this place out then you're set, if not then you'll have to do some
fighting.  Get to the other side and pull the lever with the R2 button (the
icon will not appear on the screen.)  When the weight comes down grab hold of
the rope and slide down with it.  Get on the horizontal rope and start making
your way across.  On the other side are full health and magic healing chests.

Now nearby is also the Shield of Hades.  When you grab it be prepared for an
absolute ambush, this is far more enemies at once than you've ever seen
anywhere else in the entire game.  Not only that the wall on the left side is
closing in on you so it's just going to get tighter and tighter as you go
along.  Some effective attacks for this battle are obviously Poseidon's Rage,
along with the L1 + Square Blade of Artemis attack and also doing a double
jump and pressing triangle in the air with the Blade of Artemis works well. 
Defeat all the enemies and a path opens up to a couple of healing chests. 
Jump across to reach the rope you came down from and climb back up again. 
Return to the door where you put in the Shield of Zeus and now put in the
Shield of Hades as well.  This unlocks the door and allows you to pass. 

Descend the stairs and save your game in the hall at the bottom.  Climb up the
ladder and head through the door, prepare for some rather dangerous
circumstances.  It's hard not to notice that there are crazy death saws making
their way back and forth, and while it seems like a crazy random assortment
note that each path only has one saw on it so it's easy to get through without
being hit as long as you wait for the saw to pass before moving forward. 
Ignore the levers in this area and head through the door on the right side. 
Defeat the enemies here and get onto the conveyer belt.  There's some nasty
chompers in here but nothing the evade roll can't get past.  Follow the path
up the stairs and across the bridge.  On your left in this area is a
multicoloured chest, and on the right is a wall that you can climb up.  It's
quite the trek to make it to the other end of this wall, you'll be moving in
all directions.  Your best bet is to move quickly using the X button to help
you with that get to the other end and heal yourself, then pull the lever to
drop the chain down which acts as a quick way to get back where you started.

This next room is extremely difficult, what you need to do is destroy all the
enemies before time runs out and the ground gives way beneath you.  Most of
the enemies carry those shields so you'll need to use triangle attacks with
the Blades of Chaos to destroy them.  Perhaps if I had gone into this with any
magic power I could have done it normally but regardless I had to use Rage of
the Gods after being unable to do it after a few tires, basically the enemies
at the start are easy to take out but those stupid sirens just become
extremely difficult to hit without magic.  When every last enemy has been
dispatched run to the top and grab the Handle of Atlas.  Now you can exit the
room and drop down the chain, a new save point has appeared there.  Return to
the room with all the moving saws and pull both the levers quickly then run
through the door at the top, you have to be fast for this.  Slowly make your
way along the wall here and lift the door up.  After defeating all the enemies
in this room examine the object at the top and place the handle on it.  Now
turn the lever around so that the large ball is on Atlas back.  Head through
the opening on the right side and start ascending the stairs.

Fight your way past all the enemies here and check left when you reach the top
to find a chest containing Phoenix Feather.  Run around to the right and open
the chest on the left side of the lever to get a Gorgon Eye.  Now pull the
lever and watch the scene that follows.  Jump down and head out the newly
created entrance.  Grab the handle on the coffin here with the R2 button and
pull it down.  When it's off completely jump on the coffin and tap R2 as fast
as you can to acquire The Architect's Son's Head.  The coffin moves and a hole
appears underneath, drop down this hole and open the multicoloured chest at
the bottom.  Make your way along the decrepit hallway and watch the scene. 
Through the door at the end of the hall is a room you've seen before.  Save
your game here and head down the hall.  Defeat the enemies along the way and
examine the door with the large skull in it, you can use the Architect's Son's
Skull to unlock it.  In this room there is a huge cylinder rolling around in
the hall bent on crushing you.  Along the path are numerous places where you
can press up and hide from it, but really the thing is actually moving slower
than you are so a little caution is all that's necessary.  Either wait for it
to pass and go up (which is faster) or run down and all the way around to find
a staircase.  Go up the stairs and wait for it to come around again then jump
on top of it.  Walk in the opposite direction that it's rolling so you don't
fall off and when it gets around to the ladder jump up and grab hold.  Climb
up to the top where you will find numerous chests including full magic and
health, red orbs and a Gorgon Eye.  Even a save point to boot.  Run down the
hall past the save point until you find yourself at the Challenge of Poseidon.

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Walk forward and a scene takes over almost immediately.  There's a fight
against a new type of enemy here, of course the three headed dog Cerberus. 
Also fighting along side it are little mini-cerberuses which get rather
annoying quickly.  I recommend using the Blade of Artemis here for heavy
damage.  Here's the main thing you're going to want to keep in mind, you
absolutely must kill these little cerberus things regularly, indeed it is
possible for them to fully grow and become large versions, having a whole
bunch of these on the field at once is just death plain and simple so try and
catch them in a Poseidon's Rage spell as often as possible.  An email from
Justin L has suggested using the Medusa Head here to make defeating the
Cerberus easier, sounds like an effective tactic if you ask me.  Once it has
been taken care of open the multicoloured chest at the top and then head left. 
There's another chest here beside a large crate and some cyclops enemies
running in from the background, dispose of them quickly.  There's about a
million archers around the corner, I imagine that crate is used as a shield so
you can get close to them without taking damage, but I just run up to them and
slashed them all to death.  Whatever works for you I guess.  Run to the end of
the path being sure to destroy the mini-cerberuses on the way and take out all
the archers beside the red forcefield.  When they're all dead it opens.

There's a lever in the middle of the room, here's how it works.  When you pull
the lever the room starts spinning and obviously the door where you came from
is going to lead to different places.  Well for starters it leads to a chest
containing red orbs but what you need to do is open the chest very fast and
get the orbs from it, then jump back out again before the gate closes on you
and you die.  There's four chests each containing red orbs on the way and the
fifth one is your exit.  You'll have to fight a new type of enemy here but
there's nothing special you really need to know, attack and block like you've
been doing all along.  I'd recommend not spilling Coke on your controller,
yeah, I just did that.  Anyway run to the left side where the large chain is
and jump up the wall, you can start climbing by grabbing onto the ledges. 
When you reach the top head right and you'll find a chest, inside this chest
is a Muse Key.  Jump back up and crawl around to the left side, you'll find
two minotaur enemies here.  Follow the path to the top where you will find
both full healing and full magic chests beside the save point here.

In the next room you'll find a long sloping path and a lever with no handle. 
Drop down and run up to the top of the path.  Examine the door in this room
and pick up the handle on the right side of the room.  Run back and place it
into the lever, begin turning to lower one of the cages.  Push him over the
edge and start to push him up the hill.  When enemies spawn prop him on some
of the broken concrete and fight them off.  Continue to do this until you're
up at the top of the hill.  Manoeuvre the cage around and set it on the button
behind the lever.  Now be a man, pull the lever and burn the flesh from him
bones.  Doing so opens up the door.  Run down to the bottom and examine the
shiny object in front of the statue to receive Poseidon's Trident.  Using this
you can swim underwater by pressing the square button while swimming.  Use the
save point behind the statue and then jump into the water on the left side. 
Climb up the ladder and open the chest to get a Phoenix Feather.  The chest on
the other side has some green orbs inside.  To proceed further jump into the
right pool and swim to the lower end where you'll find a waterway going down.

While underwater you can press and hold the R1 button to do an underwater
dash, this breaks through cracked objects in your path.  Defeat all the mini
cerberuses on the other side and then open the chest on the left to get
another Gorgon Eye.  Open the door and pull the lever to reveal a new path
behind the Poseidon Statue.  Return there and defeat the two large cerberus
enemies along with all the stupid harpies that get in your hair as well. 
Climb up the newly formed stone blocks and head down the path.  Jump into the
water at the end and start swimming along underwater through the ruins. 
You'll encounter a Nyad, press the circle button to hug it or whatever to get
some bonuses like red orbs, feathers or Gorgon Eyes.  This was something that
was not mentioned in the original version of the walkthrough and is the the
topic I have received the most email about out of every last guide I've ever
written, so there you are, give them a hug, and thanks to the dozens and
dozens (possibly hundreds) of people who pointed this out.  Actually finally
updating this is kind of sad, it means I won't be getting nearly as much email
anymore, but alas, it seems I've gone too far off topic.  Swim down and
go through the small tunnel at the upper right.  When you come to a fork turn
right and you'll come to an opening carved into a mouth shape.  Stop at the
entrance and charge the R1 dash to dash into the room.  Keep charging the R1
dash to make it all the way through without being harmed.  Continue along
underwater until you have a chance to come up.  You need to defeat all the
enemies here in order to lower the forcefield around the lever.  Pull it and a
gate opens.  Now jump back down into the water and swim back to the fork where
you made a right turn, and make a left turn.  Pop out of the water and defeat
all the soldiers here.  Break through the wall at the top to find about a
million urns and at the end a treasure chest containing a Muse Key.

Return to the fork once again and head down.  This next area is where you
opened the large door to you can head up now.  There's an underwater save
point right in the next room.  Use the R1 dash to break through the wall on
left of the save point and swim up from the Nyad to reach a room with four
chests each full of juicy red orbs.  Head back and swim deeper down when you
reach the Poseidon statue but not too far, stop when you see a chain right
below you.  Attached to this chain are a number of large barriers that will
hurt you if you come into contact with them.  The basic idea is pretty simple,
these things and moving quickly across and will kill you if you're caught by
them.  At the bottom are areas you can swim down into to let them pass over
top so here's what you do.  Wait for one to pass and then swim down, charge
the R1 dash and launch yourself to the left.  When you stop moving you'll be
right above one of the safe areas so hold square to swim down there.  When the
next one passes hold triangle to swim up, then do the R1 dash, when you stop
do it one more time and swim normally for whatever distance you have left to
cover to make it to the next safe area.  After this you can swim normally to
the end and descend down the circular waterway.  Swim until you reach a very
large room and surface.  There's a save point on your lower left.

Defeat the three minotaur enemies that appear here and make sure to get the
multicoloured chests found on both the left and right sides.  There's a lever
in the centre, pull on it to raise up a path leading up to the top.  This is a
temporary path so when the levered is pulled, be sure to mosey along.  On the
other side both the left and right chests contain red orbs.  Now here's what
you need to do.  Jump back in the water and swim to the lever again.  Pull it
but this time don't jump across the platforms instead jump into the water on
the left side.  Swim to the bottom and the back of this whole area, at the
bottom of the largest pillar is a secret room, when you go in there and the
pillars descend when the time is up it acts like an elevator.  Follow the
tunnel where it pops you out and surface at the end.  It seems that we are
back here once again.  Save you game and leave the room, battling through the
enemies with the yellow shields along the way.  Return to the room where the
large cylinder threatened to crush you and climb the stairs again.  This time
you can jump into the water on your left and swim down that circular hole
along the path.  Follow it and you'll pop out at a rather nasty looking area.

On the right side of this field is a doorway you can break open using your
normal attack.  Save your game in here and run to the end where you will find
a couple of treasure chests and a ladder.  Ascend the ladder and follow the
hall to pop out at your next challenge, The Challenge of Hades.

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