God of War 3 Speedrun (NG+): Part 1 of 4 (Gaia to 3 Judges)

God of War 3 Speed record/speedrun. Well it's been a while coming but at last here is a speedrun of GoWIII. There was ZERO planning in my lead up to this speedrun, I just picked up the controller one day and decided to do it, so there ARE some unoptimised sections here & there.

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But overall I was pleased to see all these skips finally be strung together as actual gameplay.

A run like this is collaborative, so thanks to everyone that also found skips/techniques/exploits in this game, especially AKheon & satvara. And thanks to the usual tugowu gang...you know who you are.

This speedrun was done to come up with the fastest time possible, so the conditions for it are the following:

Easy Mode, Fear Kratos, Possesions, NG+ glitch, skips/exploits & Early Chain Break glitch (+ECB). (I feel that a speedrun using the (+ECB) should be a totally different category of speedrun (from one that is -ECB)...it would be good to see a speedrun without it too!).

Important notes:
I started the speedrun with a 6+ minute time penalty. This was due to an unknown element to the "NG+ glitch"...it turns out that the game adds the time that you spent in the menu BEFORE doing the NG+ glitch to your actual game clock. Tho this time won't be displayed in the game's actual clock, this time can only be seen on the actual saved game "icon".

I only figured this out when I was deep in Hades, so I just decided to play on.

Also, the game adds the time that you spent doing the NG+ glitch to your game clock, but (unlike the above glitch) this time can actually be seen in the in-game clock.

PLUS, it also includes the 5 times you died doing the NG+ glitch to your actual game (so you can't do a "ZERO DEATH" type run using the NG+ glitch). So when I show my final time you'll see "Deaths=5" even tho I never actually died during the run.

Keep all this in mind when I display my final time. Also, Jet Dashing with the whip is not an exact science. Navigation can be rough & not very precise here & there, so at times I use Alt-Jet dash when I feel like I need more control.


Level-by-Level walkthrough:
At Gaia 1 -
1. I didn't Jet dash along Gaia's arm towards Leviathan 1 because the floor angles "up-hill". It's actually quicker to just evade uphill with the whip. I thought about doing a RoS sprint, but RoS has that "activating-RoS" animation and wastes time. And the RoS sprint looks a lot faster than it actually is.

2. I didn't do the "early Poseidon" glitch, it turns out that it isn't quicker than doing things in the normal order. At best it takes just as long, at worst...longer.

Realm of Hades -
3. I should mention that when I Jet Dashed from the very first (RoH) swinging grapple to the first savepoint in Realm of Hades, I narrowly missed a crucial loading trigger (due to my lack of planning).

I remedied this by loading the saved game, backtracked for about 4 seconds and then returned to the savepoint (& saved). But I edited these 4 seconds of footage out for the sake of visual continuity. (But any future speedrunner of this game should make a special note of this).


The run gets a lot more interesting in the next video, there are not many skips in this Mount Olympus section of the game. The rest real soon...

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[pwnedTAS]

Any reason why the music's not playing, or is that a side-effect of the NG+ glitch?

[findlestick]

@pwnedTAS I decided not to play with the music, it can put me off when I'm doing some of the more difficult skips.

[BigVEE]

3:00 NOPE.jpg

5:20 You can attack as soon as the arm calms down.

6:13 Bueno.

6:30 Dohohoho.

6:45 No trick for that one. Pity.

7:20 Good man.

NOTE: This run reminds me to test the damage of spells and to see if they alter with setting at all. Nemean Roar may be like AQ.

9:40 I thought we could skip this bit.

10:10 Very nice.

[findlestick]

@BigVEE 6:45 Afraid not, Ares' Tomb won't load if you skip the cutscene of Gaia being pierced by Leviathan.

9:40 The area above the heart won't load if you skip the cutscene that shows Gaia's heart. Shame.

10:10 Yeah, that's a "newie"!

[orlando3444]

findle what can i say , hum... thats awesome!!!!!!

[findlestick]

@orlando3444 Cheers, man.

[Butagaz13]

This speedrun is just awesome, but i'm sure theres some new tricks we don't know yet XD

[TheJorgeChannel]

@findlestick have they patched the NG+ glitch?

[xawzekz1337]

How do you do that powerful attack to break all ?

[streetprakash]

@findlestick how did to jump in kreatos pleace tell me

[SPONGEBOOOBZ]

yow u goin harda than hard penis

[addaminsain]

So far so brutal

[pwnedTAS]

@findlestick I dunno, it just seems so...empty without the music, you know?