God of War III

Story Related Trophy. Cannot be Missed.

Eventually, you will come to an open arena where a cutscene will trigger. Hera will be sitting in the gallery overhead, drunk. She will talk to you for a minute or two until she summons Hercules who is all too happy to try to kill you.

You start the fight against a bunch of skeleton warriors. Make quick work of them and there will be a quick cutscene showing Hercules putting on his Nemean Cestus fists and jumping down to take care of you himself.

Start hitting him right away. The whole idea right now is to get all of his armor off of him. Use your magic attacks to deal him the most damage in the least amount of time. Hercules will get very angry and charge at you. Kratos will automatically stop him in his tracks, but you now have to mash the button to continue. This will deal a couple of hits to him and you will pick him up and start running. Direct him in to one of the walls with spikes on it. This will enable Kratos to rip off a piece of his armor.

Do this another time to rip off another piece of his armor (his helmet this time).

Now it's just you and him in the arena. He has added another attack in this stage of the fight: His ground punch has a huge range. Make sure that you roll away to avoid taking damage from it. In this stage, keep your distance and try to hit him with your blades from as far away as possible, that way you can be outside the range of the ground punch when you roll away. Keep hitting him until he blinds you and the whole screen turns white. When the image comes back Hercules will have a over his head. Activate the QTE and complete its actions to strip Hercules of his weapon.

Now you have to beat him down with his own weapon. Once in a while, he will throw you to the near side of the arena (closest to the screen) and go over to the side, rip some rock out of the wall and throw it at you. Jump and dash out of the way to avoid it and then continue your assault. Continue the fight until he throws you to the near side of the screen again. This time he will crouch down and lift the whole arena up! Complete the QTE to get back up onto the platform and then there are a couple more button presses to finish the fight.

The trophy will unlock shortly after you and Hercules fall in to the water below.

See the video below to get a better idea of the fight. Credit to PowerPyx.

***Note: This is where I earned Hit Man***

To earn Hit Man in this stage, break out the Claws of Hades. Make sure that you have not levelled them up past level 2 (keep them at level one just to be safe). You can only do this for the first two sections of the fight (when all of the skeleton warriors are around). During the fight, spam the + attack. It should grip one of the enemies and rip out some souls. These souls will float around, dealing damage even if you take a hit. They don't do enough damage to clear out all of the enemies but they do enough that it registers as a hit.

Using this method, I was able to reach over 16,000 hits before I got bored and let the combo die.