God of War 2 - Speed Record (Part 4 of 9 - Hand Cavern2 to Steeds Puzzle)

Speed Record, part 4 of 9.

Notes:
1. Second Pegasus ride is T-E-D-I-O-U-S!! - a few small errors that cost me some vital seconds. (Skipping the first Raven doesnt actually save any time afterall, if you skip it, the game makes you wait just as long for the next flock of harpies to appear.) I decided to skip the Raven anyway, mainly cos its more effort to do the mini-game than it is to just skip the Raven with a quick dodge.

2. Cliffs of Lahkesis swimming glitch skip - This skip went well, I would have liked to have gotten swimmingness a bit quicker tho. I thought I was touching water, but I had to do a few more charges than I would of liked before the game recognised that Kratos was "swimming". I discovered that there is a ledge near where you get swimmingness that makes this skip slightly easier to do. You can jump from it and improve the position that you start your infinite jump.

3. Skipping the Siren Chamber - This skip was very fun to do, one of the ones I was really looking forward to doing. (Loading time on first arrival to the elevator takes a few seconds in the menu for the first IJ charge with the BH, well on my PS2 anyway!)

4. Just before the steeds-puzzle savepoint - It is quicker to high jump from the ground instead of jumping from the chest. (The chest is slightly out of the way).

~From here onwards I consider the Speedrun to have really started.

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[tyrhhjy]

4:14

[findlestick]

@tyrhhjy Since doing this run I've found various improvements, f.e you can get swimming at CoL much quicker than in this vid.

[tyrhhjy]

@findlestick So does this mean you're still working on gow2? Maybe do a quicker speed run? Good work all the same.

[findlestick]

@tyrhhjy Thx, I've uploaded all the improved skips on my channel a few months ago. (tbh, I'd be more likely to re-do this run than to do a GoWIII speedrun. I've tired of GoWIII, but I never tire of this game. Or GoWI.

btw, I heard that a YT user called "salamoj" wants to challenge your GoWI speedrun. I think he'd be hard pressed to beat ur time.

[ganon7878]

THE FOCK?????????????????

[ericsbuds]

there was a trick i figured out, if you are climbing up a wall and get to a ceiling you must grapple across, all you have to do is jump backward at the top and he regrabs on his own and its faster than doing it the normal way.

[findlestick]

Cool, Ill give underneath a try. And yeah, I should have gone through the archways.

[AKheon]

Swimming underground would allow you to skip high walls, but I can't remember if it's possible. Also, after hitting the 6:33 trigger, you can swim through the archways of the wall (I think) and save a second or two.

[findlestick]

One loading trigger while swimming is at 6:18, the next trigger is at 6:33

Is there a different (more efficient) way of hitting the correct triggers while swimming here?