Atlas Help

Thought you were going to make it across that chasm and on to the Fate's temple and thuen on to the fates? Nope. You have been diverted into an off-
topic, sub-level that kinda sucks. You just got a bad case of game-progression blue balls.

Either way, after Kratos' H.A.L.O. drop, he is standing atop one of the great Titans: Atlas. Continue left from his eye to get the save light.

Go back to the nose and climb up his brow ridge. Continue around to the dangling platforms which may be Atlas's straightened payots. This is also a good time to practice Kratos's new wings. Descend from platform to platform until you reach the last one which is a quite a ways down. From this last platform, jump towards that big doorway. No wait. That is an enormously inflamed pore. I know they don't make Biore strips that big but good lord man at least get Gaia to take a look at that.

Head on into the pore and buckle up for the Game Intestine's favorite level type: INNER SPACE! Take a moment and lets critique how this body-level
measures up to ones in the recent past. The walls have a
good blood color (Atlas seems to be getting the requisite amount of iron) and the slight capillary texture is good too. I am a little disappointed with the
actual area design as there do not seem to be any recognizable organelles. When you fight off the attackers you can have a clear view of the door. I
think the horns are a nice touch but the door lacks that clenched, muscular je ne sais quoi that a real sphincter has.

Attack that door and pull back on the huge block that is there. Run around to the back side of it (you wont be able to see Kratos) and pull it into the next room. At this point you should be in the next room with the blockage partially exposed. Jump up onto it and then up to the chest.

Proceed down into the next room for an example of excess stomach acid eroding the lining of one's esophagus. Icarus-wing your way down to the platform in the middle and prepare for a fight.

BOSS: Golem fight on the Platform

Attack the beast while avoiding his attacks. After a while the platform Kratos is fighting on will start to sink and the wall behind it will break
away. Go to the northernmost edge of the platform and float over to the wall.
The rock wall there has hand grips (it is white in color). When Kratos has a
firm grip, the beast will start throwing rocks at him. The best way to avoid
this is to jump left or right the moment the Golem lifts the rock over his
head.

When defeated, the golem leaves behind a large stone pile. You will need to stand on this Golem-turd to get up to the doorway above. Push it as close as
you can to the opening then jump onto it and then double jump to the door. You should be able to reach it without using your wings.

When you get back to the ceiling grips, drop down at the end of it and then fly yourself around the little corner to the doorway. Grab the grip wall that
is on the left side of the door. Climb up it to the roof and proceed outside. Follow this path around destroying any stalactites and attackers. It's like
Atlas has lice. Climb up into the space created after you destroyed the second stalactite. Then, descend down the metal elevator and jump to the next stretch of grip wall.

You are now back in the room where you released the titan's kidney stone. Continue around and knock off any of those hooks in the ceiling. The camera will pan over indicating a way out. Grip your way to the edge of the path (past all the hooks) and drop down to the platform below. Jump towards that
steaming lesion and fly out the window.

Kratos is outside and that buttery fingered dawn is quite impressive. Fly to each of the dangling hooks which could be Atlas's tzitzit. The second platform will require you to kill off a few rounds of guys and then raise it with the rotating lever. After that, descend to the slide rope and the save.

Ascend using the nearby grip wall. Proceed to the grapple hooks. The last hook before jumping to the grip wall can be tricky. I found it is best NOT to release at the apex of your swing. Rather, hit X while Kratos is still swinging upwards. When you do grab a hold, climb to the top of the grip wall, hold back on the left stick and press X twice because you will need to glide to the platform behind you.

PUZZLE: Stacking Two Stones:

As you round the top you get to see Michael Chickliss in all his glory, or is it Right Said Fred? Either way, continue to the really high cliff face. The
only way over it is to use the two nearby stones. The first goal is to get the stone stacked. Push one stone to the side of the nearby ramp. Then, push
the other one up the ramp and then on top of the first stone that you parked under it. 
Jump down and push the double stack as far to the edge of the next platform as possible. Jump up to the platform and pull the top rock off of the double
stack. Now, maneuver that top stone to the edge of the really tall platform.
Jump up on the stone and then up to the top of the platform. When you reach
the top, open the chest and then move around to the grip wall.

After following the grip wall path around, the mountain opens up with a large, red slit. Rocks fall from above and, if hit, Kratos will (predictably) plunge to his death. Luckily the rocks fall in a quite predictable Left-Right-Left-Right pattern. Jump from one side to the other to avoid them. Also, you can climb a lot faster if hit the jump button. Use the slide button to descend quickly down the next slit. And then follow the same rules as the previous one for it.

After progressing through the rest of the hand grip path, you reach the very top of Atlas's arm. A chain clamps his hand to the Earth. Attack the center link and the chain falls off. Atlas's arm and shoulder kinda wrest under the weight change and he does a little shrug causing me to wonder when Kratos
become Ayn Rand? (talk about an anti-hero).

CUT SCENE
The Atlas asks "who breaks my chains of torment" and then picks up Kratos. He notices that Kratos is too strong to be a mortal but pH balanced to be a god. Atlas starts to pinch Kratos and you may ask:
"Why he got his hand closed?"
To which I say
"Cracks in his palm. He's just watchin' the long arm o' the law."

Kratos yells that he no longer works for the gods and that he actually wants to defeat them. Atlas inquires how and Kratos says with Bade of Olympus. Mentioning this blade causes Atlas to flashback.

I paid real close attention to this scene because I was really curious how a legion of titans (who stand as high as buildings, have biceps the size of
battleships, and in some cases, are equipped with multiple arms) could loose
to the gods. The only thing the gods have for them is the ability to shoot cool looking specular effects.

So, according to Atlas the battle went as follows. The god Hades tethered one of the titans with gold chains. Even though right next to the chained titan
was an even stronger titan with FOUR arms. Four totally ripped arms. The titan just stands there and pounds the ground while his friend is chained. Don't do that, that's dumb! Run up there and grab Hades and use your FOUR arms to do that chest beating thing that Goro used on me every time I tried to use Sub-Zero's freeze attack. 

Somehow Hades ends up stunned and looses his grip on the chains freeing the titan. But the titan who was released just sits there. Go attack Hades! Four-
arms, grab him! Then, get Cronos to use his eye lightning on the god while he is being held down. Its called teamwork.

The gods have obviously figured how cooperation works because when Hades gets Four-arms by the chains another god shocks him. Then, using some magic they steal the titan's blue soul or life-force, or mojo or whatever it is. It doesn't matter what was stolen because the Titans totally suck.

Elsewhere on the battlefield, Zeus creates a weapon called the Blade of Olympus. He says "I ban you to the deepest pits of Tantalus", raises the deifacted sword above his head and a holy tornado forms. We get another overview of the battlefield and see that the Titans are everywhere but just standing around like it's high holiday. Come on. Team up titans and focus on one god at a time.... Ahh forget it, I don't care. You guys lost this war
yourselves. Don't blame the gods when you half-assed your way through a war.

The flashback ends and we are back to Kratos sitting in Atlas's hand. Kratos tells the titan that he no longer works for the gods and is instead interested in killing them. However, he needs his help to reach the sisters. Atlas can't get him there but he can get him across the Great Chasm.

When you regain control, practice the Atlas quake on the supplied monsters. With Kratos' loyalty confirmed, Atlas puts him back up on Earth's surface.