Xero said:
Khuutra said:
Solid argument, but it requires Kratos to abandon the fight to pursue other goals, which defeats the entire question of Who Would Beat Up Who (TM). In this context, Link beats up Kratos, which is all that I'm talking about.
The Wings of Icarus don't allow him to fly unless there's an updraft, and this is true even in cutscenes, and canonically Kratos can only use Hermes's boosts for bursts of speedo ver short distances, because he can't control them very well. There's o instance, cutscene or otherwise, where he uses them in other ways.
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As I said however, that's just how the developers have made the gameplay. The trait of the wings of iccarus are that they allow the bearer to fly, as they allowed icarus to fly in a cut-scene beforehand. And as the speed boots allowed (was it hermes?) to go superfast before Kratos took them off him. Not that I think flying would particularly aid Kratos vs Link since Kratos has no ranged aerial attacks and taking flight would arguably put him at a disadvantage leaving him vulnerable to links ranged equipments.
As for whoever said 'didn't he drop to the underworld when he fell off gaia' I got the impression that the fall had killed him and that's why he went to hell. If you look at the structure of heaven/hell/earth in greek mythology I don't believe it's possible just to fall down to hell, and if It is I think the fall kills you anyway. I don't believe it's possible to be considered 'alive' in hill so I guess your status changes to dead as soon as you enter.
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It's not just a gameplay problem, though, it holds in every single cutscene as well. Icarus never flew in God of War II - he just fell. Kratos can only fly with the Wings of Icarus when there's an updraft. When he has to fly upward in God of War III, he has to create an updraft first, and this is true even in cutscenes - shown most plainly when Kratos has to fly up out of Hades to reach the Labyrinth very quickly, and a third party uses their fiery powers to create an updraft for him. The same holds true for the Hermes Sandals - he never uses them to just run up the Chain of Olympus like Hermes did, which means that he most probably can't (since it would have been very useful).
Kratos falls from Olympus straight into the River Styx. He never hits the ground. In another sequence he falls from the Labyrinth straight to the Underworld and lands on his feet with no damage. If you die during this sequence, you don't make it to the underworld, since it's not clear what happens to souls now that Hades is gone.
Did you never play God of War III? There's dead air between Olympus and the underworld because Olympus's base is in the River Styx.