More glitches in God of War 2!
Points of interest:
1: 0:00 - 1:57 - Teleportation glitch: Kratos can teleport to checkpoints or savepoints he last used, which ends his swim state. Maybe this works in other God of War games that have swimming glitch?
Instructions:
Step 1: While air-swimming in t-pose, checkpoint Kratos at a location that you wish to teleport to.
Step 2: Interact with a game element that makes Kratos enter a glitched swim-pose (doesn't seem to work with chest-opening-animation?).
Step 3: Hit a trigger that loads a new area where Kratos would normally stay in t-pose, while swimming (i.e if Kratos reverts to normal swimming -- when swimming in the new area, it won't work. The new area he crosses into must only support t-pose swimming).
Step 4: Kratos will then teleport to the last place he was checkpointed. Or, at some areas he simply stops swimming altogether, without teleporting anywhere.
2: 1:57 - 3:02 - Skips:
1:57 - Another flame skip at Palace of Fates, thanks to a collision flaw.
2:05 - Circular hallway skip, post-Translator: There's a loading trigger you need to hit out-of-bounds. It's located in-between the walls that divide the savepoint, and the lever.
2:22 - You can do the above skip from much earlier in the hallway (but I've not yet been able to hit the trigger behind the wall from there yet).
2:33 - At the ram door that leads to spiked hallway battle: The door has a collision flaw you can simply roll through, but it has to be a sideways roll.
2:38 - Temple of the Fates improved skip: There's lots of out-of-bounds floor that lets you skip opening the gate. Not in vid: if this skip is done while the slo-mo effect is on, you get to keep it during the Lahkesis battle.
3:02 - 4:28 - New air-swimming glitch at the Atropos arena: Unfortunately, you can't seem to trigger the battle there.
4:28 - 9:59 - New air-swimming glitch at The Inner Sanctum/Clotho's Hallway:
4:28 - A new sequence break using air-swimming to skip to the Gorgons/Sirens phase of Clotho's Hallway.
5:17 - Opening the final gate of Clotho's Hallway early, with air-swimming: You can trick the game into letting you open the final gate before the battle has started.
This is done by air-swimming to a trigger that loads the final gate of Clotho's hallway, before loading its earlier portions. Then hit a checkpoint, and upon restarting, the gate thinks that the battle is over, so you can open the gate early.
Unfortunately, the battle not only needs to be triggered for Clotho to load but the battle must also be concluded to the game's satisfaction.
6:45 - I activated the glitch that allows you to open the final gate early, but I backtracked and ended air-swimming glitch at the Inner Sanctum. I then went through and hit every trigger on the way to the final door to see if Clotho was loaded during the final phase of the endurance run. But even after meeting all that criteria (of hitting triggers, etc), the next area wouldn't load.
7:11 - Air-swimming sightseeing of Clotho's Hallway and at Clotho.
9:02 - Unless the trigger that loads Zeus is hiding somewhere, or if the Zeus arena is already pre-loaded somewhere (like the Atropos arena was), you can't take air-swimming through the mirror, to Zeus, for two reasons:
1. You can't pull the lever that loads Zeus, while air-swimming.
2. To get the mirror area to load, you must hit a trigger that permanently unloads the area where I started air-swimming at the Inner Sanctum. So you can't backtrack to the Inner Sanctum on foot, after having pulled the lever (I tried with an arduous infinite jump, but Inner Sanctum was permanently unloaded).
9:23 - Getting grabbed by Clotho makes Kratos enter a glitched swim-pose, which can be used to teleport to checkpoints at the Inner Sanctum and even to Clotho.