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The 10 HARDEST Sections In God of War Games
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1/13/2025
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Welcome to Mojo Plays, and today we're taking a look at sections across the God of War series
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that beat us into submission with high difficulty, whether they were optional or mandatory.
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But before we get into it, we publish new content all week long, so be sure to subscribe
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The Trial of Archimedes – God of War Ascension
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Without a doubt, the hardest challenge in God of War Ascension is the Trial of Archimedes.
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This is a group of three combat encounters, all of which feature highly irritating enemies.
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The first consists of Gorgons, which can stun and drain your rage meter, and Sirens, which
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can teleport and use electric attacks.
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The second comes with Harpies and Amazons, which team up for different ranged attacks,
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and is capped off with an electric Talos.
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Finally, the third is strangely the most manageable, with a Centaur and some Wraiths.
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However, every wave has the additional challenge of an arena hazard that restricts your movement,
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like fire and spiked walls.
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This trial is hard regularly, so you can imagine the dread you'll feel leading up to it on
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a harder difficulty.
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Cerberus and the Satyrs – God of War III
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As you'll see, a lot of the hardest sections across God of War deal with groups of enemies.
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And these fights naturally jump exponentially in difficulty when played on harder difficulties,
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so much so that they stick in our memories for the amount of punishment we endured.
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In God of War III, one of those fights is against a Molten Cerberus.
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This boss can set parts of the arena on fire, as well as produce smaller Cerberus seeds,
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which can explode.
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As if Kratos' health bar getting drained from all the burning wasn't bad enough,
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Satyrs also show up, flipping around the arena and poking you full of holes while you're
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trying to deal with everything else.
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Truly a nightmare encounter.
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The Path of Hades – God of War
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If you've played the original God of War, you know there's a certain section that
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is the bane of everyone's existence, no matter what difficulty you're playing on.
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And that section is the Path of Hades, which you're forced to contend with after Kratos
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is sent into the underworld.
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It starts off only a bit annoying – you'll have to jump between tiny platforms while
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dealing with enemies.
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It gets much worse when you have to walk across rotating cylinders with giant blades sticking
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out of them, while archers wait for you to get within range and load you full of arrows.
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At the end, you have to climb a rotating wall also with blades sticking out, and should
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you get hit once, you fall right back down to the bottom.
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Unsurprisingly, it made a lot of players seethe with fury back in the day.
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The Armored Cyclops and the Kera's Wraiths – God of War, Ghost of Sparta
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Here we have another group fight, and one that is more than capable of making you rage.
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Inside the Temple of Thanatos, Kratos will be confronted by an armored cyclops and a
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group of Kera's Wraiths.
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A big enemy with a pack of smaller ones is classic God of War, but these Wraiths are
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truly obnoxious.
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It's best to deal with them first while holding back on your combo finishers, since
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a stronger attack causes them to burrow underground, after which they can perform an unblockable
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grab that's detrimental to your health bar.
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The armored cyclopses are understandably durable and mighty, and a second one unfortunately
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spawns after killing the first.
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It can be an annoying fight, and on God mode, it's one of the easiest fights to lose.
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Going Berserk – God of War, Ragnarok
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In God of War Ragnarok, Kratos has the optional challenge of hunting down Berserker mini-bosses
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and defeating them in combat.
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There are 10 fights in all, and they're all varying levels of hard.
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Some are problematic because of elemental attacks, like electricity or Bifrost, but
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the most aggravating ones don't fight you alone.
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One can summon minions, another fight comes with two Berserkers, while a separate one
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comes with three.
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Then of course there's the big boss in charge, King Hrolf.
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Like Sigrun the Valkyrie Queen in the 2018 game, which we'll talk about later, King
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Hrolf is a combination of abilities from other Berserkers, just with more health and more
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aggression.
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Excellent.
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The First Final Fight – God of War
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Yeah, the original God of War can get pretty tough.
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And fittingly, it has what may be the hardest final story boss in the series.
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Ares proves he has more than earned his mantle as the God of War, something he doesn't
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give up easily.
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During the first phase, his powerful attacks can fill up a lot of the arena's space,
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making them hard to avoid and punishing you should you stand still too long.
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The second phase takes place inside Kratos' mind, where he must protect his family from
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evil copies of himself, which are talented in swarming you.
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During the third phase, Kratos gains a gigantic sword which doesn't have the power ups of
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his Blades of Chaos, and is better suited for defense.
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It's a demanding fight, especially on harder difficulty levels.
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Remember Kratos, it was I who saved you in your time of greatest need.
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I haven't forgotten Ares, I remember how you saved me.
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Klaatho's Corridor – God of War II
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Being God of War II, after defeating two of the Sisters of Fate, and on the way to
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the third one, Klaatho, Kratos must travel down a long hallway filled with seven waves
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of enemies.
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Naturally, since it's on this list, the enemies you fight here are some of the strongest
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in the game, and all appear in groups.
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Satyrs, Sirens, Gorgons, Minotaurs, Cyclopses, it truly is a gauntlet to get through.
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And the worst part is that, should you die, which you probably will at least once, you
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start over from the beginning, which is more than a little disheartening.
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If you've beaten this on Titan Mode, the hardest difficulty, you are a god among gamers.
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The End of the Labyrinth – God of War III
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Another brutal encounter from God of War III, this one takes place at the end of Daedalus's
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Labyrinth.
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It's a true test of endurance, being an excruciatingly long series of waves with some
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really powerful foes.
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Kratos will be confronted by Sirens, which can stun and shred you if you're not careful.
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Enemies with shields that basically require the heavy use of magic attacks with your Nemean
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Cestus to break through, and Minotaurs, which are big brutes that can understandably hit
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pretty hard.
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It's the waves that feature all three of these in groups that are going to make you
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want to pull your hair out.
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And on Chaos Mode, the hardest difficulty, this is impossible without multiple deaths
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that will test your patience.
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The Hunt for Valkyries – God of War
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After the release of 2018's God of War, the one new enemy type that populated conversations
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were the Valkyries.
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Nine of them were hidden across the game, and even the easiest of them took at least
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a few attempts to get used to.
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They were an evolution of similar mechanics, but a few of them were especially nasty.
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Kara could overwhelm players by summoning minions, Gondal dealt extra damage through
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fire-based attacks, Hildur dealt ice damage but was found in Niflheim, whose mist could
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deal constant damage after a time limit ran out.
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But of course, Sigrun the Queen became world famous for how many players she brutalized.
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Fast, unforgiving, and adept at some of the cheapest, unblockable grabs in gaming, she
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capped off a collection of infuriating combat encounters.
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The Challenge of the Gods – God of War
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If you haven't tried the Challenge of the Gods from the original game, count yourself
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lucky, because it is probably the hardest thing to do across the entire series.
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Unlocked after beating the game on any difficulty, it consists of 10 combat challenges that increase
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in difficulty and ability to make you rage.
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They all come with rules that make their fights harder, whether it be a time limit, a loss
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if you kill specific enemies, or, annoyingly, if Kratos is hit once.
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The final challenge, where Kratos must raise a platform by dealing damage, is a nightmare,
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since the enemies are Satyrs and Cerberus seeds.
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There are other combat challenges in the series inspired by this one, but the Challenge of
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the Gods holds nothing but painful memories for most of us.
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What section, level, or fight from God of War caused you endless frustration?
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Share your thoughts in the comments.
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