Timestamps: 1st stage: 0:12 2nd stage: 0:59 3rd stage: 2:36

Imagine being a horseman, and be able to glide with wings, but unable to grab the edge you just missed.....

3:59 I hope whoever designed that part doesn't work again for the rest of his life

This entire section is literal cancer, at least let us have like a red or orange shadow beneath us. You’re literally trying to jump on dark purple things with a black shadow, this game was not built for platforming like this. I’m currently on the second part of the puzzle & it’s just ridiculous with the hit or miss depth perception

This game is amazing in so many ways but precision platforming isn't one of them.

It feels like an intern was put in charge of this portion of design and had not actually played this game because it may be the worst platforming section in any game ever it wasn't built to have to have these precise movements and it has no forgiveness even though it knows it is garbage in a very good game

Police: "Why did you kill your business partner?" Developer: "He suggested to make an isometric 3D platformer, so I stabbed him 37 times in the chest." Police: "You did us all a favour." In the first and third part they at least had the sense to use the right view angle.

Imagine being a horseman and having wings but not being able to fly you use them in any unique way besides gliding for like half a second

Thanks! Your tips using the flykick for aircontrol and pause was invaluable and probably wouldve extended my torment with another hour or two. Btw at the part with the 3 floors with disappearing tiles you can just jump and glide over half of it and then again over the other half for all 3 floors. Just normal running and jumping, if you do it youll always land on safe tiles (saved me alot of time realizing that) ;)

They updated the game to include a game speed modifier. It slows the game down quite a bit and makes this jumping puzzle much easier. Hope this helps.

I did the first part to get the core, but after hours of trying I gave up on the rest. Nice work making it to the end!

I'm fine with platforming challanges. I'm fine with a game testing my reflexes and pushing me to play better. The issue is the check points. To few and far between. I get that some people get there willy's from Kizo Mario trial and error and that is cool but this is an action adventure game. If you want to test my skills and push my limits for optional rewards put them behind brain teasing puzzles and challanging but fair combat that. Obscure platforming challanges that cause a large genre shift and reward you with items ment for the action adventure come off as sloppy, confusing and frustrating. You will find most of your players unhappy with the shift in gameplay and frustrated when it is unforgiving. I am not playing Darksiders to play Mario 2 lost levels. Genre shifts in games should never be overly taxing. They should be short sweet and leave a good taste in your mouth, otherwise they shouldn't be done period.

I am so mad... You make it look so easy! Especially the first part!

This just looks like a weird out of bounds glitch

If i may add, using the guns to control the jumps helps SOOOO much during this

Rarely have I been pushed to such a level of rage and frustration while playing a video game. Sad part is I was actually enjoying the game so far but I fear this part totally ruined it for me 😥 (And i thought the Pitioss dungeon in FFXV was a pain in the ass)

if anyone has problems with the first jumping part- I did it by jumping, spreading wings and once i am above the platform I hit basic attack (with strife) - this way you will fall in a vertical manner on the platform :)

How on earth did you do this first try? I genuinely believe I’m gonna lose my mind. I need the leviathan core for platinum and cannot for the life of me reach the end. My head is gonna explode if I fall off these fucking rocks one more time.

The reward is not worth the stress from this

My friend and I are doing this part of the game together and man, his rage is so Unreal...

Whenever you hear the Leviathan in the background, he sounds like a nascar. Voooooooom!

I FINALLY DID IT! And all it took was me to mute everything in silence for concentration...

So good to see this done. Glad I could watch rather than have to do it. I'll never be able to do that. If I can beat the game, I'm good. Thank you!

I noticed something interesting during my attempt and completion of this earlier today (yea I know, this ones been out awhile but I only just got around to playing it). The second section of the third portion has a bit of cheese to it. With one level in movement via resocketing elsewhere, you can basically do each row in 2 jumps without counting whatsoever. The amount of movement plus a full glide from the outer safe platform lands you directly in the center which is safe on all 3 rows. Same full glide lands you on the outer safe platform on the other end. Very handy especially when having to redo the first row to make use of the shortcut if you fall in the last platforming puzzle.

Impressive. Very nice. Now let's see a War playthrough of this PTSD-inducing run.

Thank you! finally got the trophy.

Man, thank you so much from a fellow Guilty Gear fan.

And thanks for the video. It did help me confirm I was going in the right direction.

I did the final final up-jumping section with War, and found it felt better that way with strife, i felt like i didn't skid over those miserable vanishing tiles, a suggestion if any of you are still struggling

This is about as much of a guide as much as the leviathan's maze is a maze.

It's incredible!!! I watched the video 10 times and never finished the 2nd part. Then I read the comments and the third one seems more difficult!!! (after watching the video IMHO the 3rd is more more more simple!!) Never seen a platform like this!!!

I just did this on PC. Was the hardest thing I've done in a game my entire life. If the jump mechanic wasn't so clunky it would be fun, but it was more frustrating than anything, like wtf were you thinking game devs? Another tip I can give on the very last part, you can also stand on the platforms fora brief momment before jumping, no need to jump right way, that will give you time to think and calculate the jump. I spent hours on that part without being able to jump 2 platforms, but after I though about the pause strat I went all the way to the top first try.

Impressive. I will never do that myself ;-)

Goddamn that 3rd stage. I’m so stubborn I almost never give up on challenges in video games. But I gave up on it, mostly because of the last part. Didn’t know about the kick strat tho

Very hard and unfair, somehow i managed it after 5 hours.

I'm having the worst time with the wall jumping section, I see what you're doing, but I the mechanics are so damn cluncky on the PS4. Any help would be appreciated.

thank you my friend

Once you complete the second part of the 3rd part, do you get a blue check point orb? That way you don't have to do the 2nd part of the 3rd part again?

Soo. I’m on stage 1 since hours and have already thrown my controller against the wall. I played DS 1,2,3 before I started with this game. and I have not seen a riddle there that is anywhere near as bad as this riddle. Good Video you have a like 👍

May I ask how you reach the second spinning platform in part 2? I crash into it every time I attempt a jump similar to the one you do at 1:23.

The 2:46 mark sucks. I can't truly figure out the jumping mechanics when you run up a wall. Do I just hold the controller in the direction I want to jump at the same time as hitting the jump button? Edit: Got it with War. Much easier.

If you fall on the second section do you start from the beginning of the second section? Does it save your progress?

By the way, I found easier way to get forst core on that small pillars. Need using Strife and for better landing on every small pillar use his aaeril foot punch.

Took me about an hour to get to the last vertical jumping bs. Can't even get going on it 😂

That airkick abuse saved me a few braincels.

Sorry... how do you do that mid-air "Strife-kick?" I can't seem to be able to find the particular control...

Leviathan's Gorge + Soul Arbiter's Maze = Leviathan's Maze Hope to see Soul Arbiter's Gorge in the next Darksiders game.

Is there any chance we can see darksiders four for strife in third person version?

if I do this I am so gonna punch my monitor and make a hole

I am having a hell of a time in phase 2. I can get around the corner of the mountain to the wall-run section, but for the life of me I cannot figure out what I'm supposed to be landing on. I get to the top of the thing, jump off, and invariably glide into oblivion. This vid makes it look like there's some sort of ledge *behind* the foreground pillar that's the target, but I am certainly having no luck hitting it. Any advice would be appreciated. BTW, I'm playing on a PS4Pro in case that affects things (such as: there is no Graphics option to slow gameplay as mentioned elsewhere in the comments).

Puta que pariu, caralho, porra. Finalmente depois de mais de 5 horas conseguir passar nesse caminho do cacete. Mas só conseguir por causa da dica do vídeo. Valeu obrigado.

I haven't attempted this yet but they just released a patch making it more fair and easy apparently. As well as a bunch of other fixes.

FYI, on the first row of disappearing platforms, it's actually every second platform that is safe, not every fourth. Then second row is every third, and third row is every fourth. 😉 Plus, if anyone is having trouble with timing and lining up to land on a specific platform, if you use Strife and double jump into the air and hold the shoot button, you will be held in the air for several seconds and be able to move *very* slowly, which makes lining up his shadow easier and gives you a bit more time to count platforms. Edit: Oh I should mention, don't glide before you shoot. If you glide before you shoot you'll enter the glide/shoot animation, which doesn't stop gliding, even if you let go of the jump button.

2:55 *screaming intensly later* first row is actually every 2nd tile, but 4 also works go figure anyway back to screaming AAGGHGHHHH ps. SCREW ALLL OF THIS, but htank you for hte video very helpful

Never really noticed until now that strifes jumping and doodging sounds like deaths from ds2

What platform are you playing on?

I gave up on the third part when I realised I only needed the 2 boatman coins (and the first leviathan core) in them for the platinum trophy

What's the trick to actually jumping from platform to platform for the final 3rd of the final part? Do you technically walk off the platform, then jump or what? Edit: Never mind, I figured it out.

Whats the Core from completing the quest to get to the end of this puzzle?

Is there a checkpoint after the 3 lines of bars when you get to the top of the cliff?

To all struggling u can use graphics menu under options to slow gameplay.

Первый и последний раз каждого ряда всегда безопасны. Картина следующая: 1. Для 1-го ряда оставьте 3 платформы между ними, приземляйтесь на каждую 4-ю плитку. 2. Для 2-го ряда оставьте 2 платформы между ними, приземляйтесь на каждую 3-ю плитку. 3. 3-й ряд такой же, как и 1-й ряд, оставьте 3 платформы между ними, приземляйтесь на каждую 4-ю плитку,

Just for anyone who wants to know. It's also possible to skip the last bit by clambering on top of the leviathan and getting slingshotted over but it takes some trial and error.

Combat's cool, puzzles are cool but the platforming takes a giant dump on your patience. It just feels awkward with this type of "top down" gameplay. For me at least. I'm not fond of platforming to begin with and this game kicks you in the nutts with it.

2:45 that Segment ist completely broken to me. I can not jump off walls again. I have been trying for half an hour now. Sometimes i get to the spikes, but most of the times, i just fall, slide or glide down without ryme or reason. This is infuriating. This whole segment is complete bullshit.

at the 3 stage, on the 1row you can go one on two

I'm late to the party but thanks for the help, honestly the reason the platforming is so bad is they don't give benefit of the doubt, if one pixel makes it you landed in other platformers, instead they go full doubt to the point if one pixel touches the side or top of something your instantly treated to a wall, the characters land on almost every surface like it's ice instead of rough, traction gripping surfaces and almost every part of it just shows how bad the top down type of camera angle was the worst possible choice for this franchise. It almost makes me wish that the other half of their original developers who went with crytek took the game instead which is a bad thought because a lot of other parts of this game were so enjoyable. The fighting with war felt fun, the shooting with strife was enjoyable even if I felt under powered at times and the abilities and other puzzles were a little simple but fun enough to do to break up the hack and slash fun. If they do ever make a DS4 I hope they go back to 3rd person or at least a movable camera and either refine the platforming or make the platforming stupid simple that the negatives of their platforming can't be noticed

So uh.... I was just messing around to try and save my sanity of the last verticle part and you can actually get on top of the leviathan when it flys towards the screen and Idk how but I jumped off and glided over that whole part and landed on the core...

Thanks this is not necessary to obtain any trophy. God damn! 🤪

Shoutout to the dev, this really makes you feel like a kid that was never loved by his parents, grew up and decided to program this god awful "puzzle" Do yourself a favour, grab that last core via the glitch and be done with it.

Bruh! You are fucking sick!

Judging by this video and the comments, this is a resounding nope.

my gamepad would not have survived this

Me and the girl spent close to a total of 4hrs trying to do this one night. Had to turn down the game speed in order to accomplish it which made its seem longer.

Imagine creating hard platform level on the mechanic that works as shit. Great work devs...

I'm stuck Part 3 ... I don't know but my character has troubles jumping and running against wall to get to the plateforms . This part seems so easy on video , i must be doing something wrong but i don't understand what .

Do i need to beat this plattform section to get any trophy/Achivement ?

Just completed this. *_Never again_*

WHAT WERE THEY THINK!!!!!!!?????

It's impossible. Made it past the first part but can't get past the 2nd part I try to fallow what was did in the vid, but game keeps on talling me not today and I fall. Good times let me tell you. Like trying to just on a nail head

The worst part of this is missing that first tile of the last section, then having to hear that stupid air kick sound effect for 10 minutes because Strife keeps slipping off the fucking tiles on the way back.

For any game dev out there, this is how not to do a good platforming section !

You have to jump at a certain angle it pisses me off

wow i must have missed a lot in this game i didnt come across this part edit: went and did it and it took me 4 hours lmfao. I'm on pc with keyboard, so it's doable in case anyone is wondering

Putting a stage like this into a game like this is like tossing a used band-aid into a fresh chicken parm. hoagie... Nice run...

F this segment very much. After a lot of trial and error, I managed to get to the final area at 4:00 legit but after maybe a hundred attempts I just said screw it and turned the game speed down to the minimum in the settings. Still had to do it in 2 or 3 tries in slow motion since even when slowed, it still demands perfect jumps. I figured if the game is gonna be cheap, then I’ll just do the same. What sucked the most is that even though they add jump pads when you reach that part, you still have to keep doing the first row of disappearing tiles to get there. I ran that part so many times I can probably do the first row blindfolded due to muscle memory. Screw this part and big F you to the people that made it.

Why do you have to speed run it

is that the leviathan that death killed in the comics..?

For the rows with safe and fake tiles in the third part, on the lowest row it's actually every second tile that is safe. In other words, you must skip (at least) as many tiles as the row you're on.

this game funny super mario . just darksider 1 and 2

I cant even get passed the 1st stage. I'm failing earlier and earlier and my eyes are starting to go funny because of the top down view making it look like dots pulsing when you jump up and down. Imagine making something so bad it hurts the players eyes. Seriously who made this. I want a list of their fears and their loved ones addresses.

Why is it so hard to get on that god dam 2nd or third ledge! 1:14 it really shouldn’t be that difficult. I’m so mad 2:08 and I slip or fall or something happened cause just I’m im sure I land it I miss what the hell

Can the leviathan eat you?

Holy shit I thought it was just the first bit not THREE different parts?! I think I will skip as it's just gonna make me rage too much. :/ This video gives me anxiety just watching it. XD

this part is completely bug

Try it on keyboard it's worse

Is this darksiders 4?

this is so difficult :(

I love this game and pretty much everything except for this section is pure fun, but my god this may be the fucking worst platforming section in gaming history

Wait you dont actually fight the leviathan?