God of War III

To get this trophy you simply have to kill Hades. Sounds easy, right? Not so fast. Hades is one of the hardest fights in the game, especially on Titan difficulty.

There are 5 sections to the Hades fight:

In the first section, Hades will be attempting to hit you with his Claws of Hades on the ground. The claw attacks come quickly so make sure that you can spot them coming and roll to the appropriate side to avoid them. He will also try to hit you by trying to step on you. He'll raise his foot for a few seconds and when he slams it down, it releases a small surge of energy in front of him, so when you see his foot raise, make sure to roll behind him so you don't get hit by this. He also has an attack where he jumps to the ceiling of the area and slams down, creating a surge of energy that affects the entire arena. Simply jump in the air to avoid this. His last attack in this stage has him swing his Claws around in a circular motion, which affects the entire arena. He'll do this a couple of times at the ground level, and also in the air, so make sure you dodge accordingly. Use the Blades of Exile when you're up close to him, and when he's far away from you, hit him with the Bow of Apollo a few times to chip away at his health. Eventually, you will hit him enough that a QTE will appear over his head. Initiate this to rip a piece of his skin off. The skin will try to make its way back to Hades to re-attach itself. Attack the piece of skin to destroy it before it reaches Hades. While the skin is bouncing around, there will be some arms and hands that extend up from the floor to try to impede you in your attempt to destroy the skin. These arms give you health orbs when they are killed, so feel free to stock up on health if you need it.

In the second section, Hades' attacks are quicker and more damaging. He also adds a couple of new ones: 1) He'll retreat to the back of the arena in the centre and the ground will go black. When this happens, he is summoning his powerful chain attack. A small section of the black ground will disappear, indicating that this is the safe spot. That spot is where you must be standing when the chains pop up if you don't want to be hit. 2) He will swing his chains around to try to catch you with them. If he catches you, he will try to suck out your soul. You must rapidly hit and in succession to prevent this. 3) He'll swing his Blades around briefly, then release a few souls that will slowly come towards you. These are easily blocked and aren't a threat at all (if you block ). Otherwise, this section of the fight is more of the same from the first section: hit him with your Blades and Bow until the QTE appears again. In this QTE, you'll rip off another piece of skin. Destroy it again to begin the third section.

In this section, Hades has couple of new attacks: 1) He will pound both of his blades on the ground and there will be some purple circles of smoke that appear on the ground. Stay away from these circles as they will have chains coming out of them that will damage you. These smoke circles will follow you around the arena for a few seconds until Hades gives up on the attack. 2) He will use his Blades to summon the souls of a couple of three-headed dogs to attack you. To defend against them, all you have to do is block the attack. They will disappear after that and you can resume your arrow assault on Hades. Continue to attack when you can until the QTE appears over Hades' head. In this QTE, You attack Hades' head until he throws you off and sweeps a trench through the middle of the arena with his Blades.

In this stage of the fight, your Blades are wrapped around his and you're basically having a game of Tug-Of-War, with the loser going in the trench. You have to keep pulling back on the and attacking with your other Blade. When Hades goes for an attack, you can evade it by dashing to the left or right by using the . Keep doing this until the QTE appears over his head. When you activate the QTE, Kratos will throw his other Blade at Hades' head and then loop the chains over a hook in the ceiling. Now you can mash the button to smash Hades against the ceiling repeatedly. You'll stop when Hades lets go of his own Blades and falls into the trench. You now have the Claws of Hades and the fight appears to be over.

Not so fast! Kill all of the skeletons that appear, and Hades will pop back up for another stage of the fight. He can't get up out of the trench so he can't move around you, but he can turn in the trench. You'll have to make use of the swing hook to move to the back of Hades whenever he turns to face you. Stay away from his attacks and you'll be fine. Just attack him whenever you can and make sure that you avoid his heavy attacks (the body slam and he has a "breath-like" attack where he breathes energy at you). Pretty soon, you'll get a QTE prompt. Perform the QTE to finish this fight.

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