Tartarus

Imprisonment

Break your chains here, then head toward the bottom of the screen to find a save point and a Phoenix Feather. Start making your way back to the north, killing the chained civilians on the walls to regain your health. (They're already dead; it's not like they can get any deader.) At the fork in the road, take the right passage to fight some enemies and eventually find a chest that will fill up your mana.

Return to the fork and head left to meet up with a few harpies. These are very similar to the bird enemies you faced before, in that all you really need to do is use Cyclone of Chaos over and over again until everything is dead. Move on to the next fight, against soldiers and archers. Whip the archers first with Cyclone of Chaos, then finish them off with a grab move to get your orb bonus. After killing everything, walk along the chain to the north toward another save point.

Temple of the Gods

Climb the cliffs here, using your triangle attack for auto-kills on the enemies. A gorgon and some harpies will attack you at the top, so finish them off and poke around for chests. There's a Red Orb Chest off to the right a bit, as well as another chest to the left. This is probably either a Gorgon Eye or Phoenix Feather if you've missed any of the previous pick-ups, but for us it was simply a chest full of orbs.

Pull the two statues of the gods into the slots in front of them, then use the crank that appears to rotate the statue of Zeus to move on. A rather difficult fight ensues, as two minotaurs will appear one after the other while archers pelt you from the sidelines. Go after the archers first; grab attacks automatically kill them. When they're down, the minotaurs are a bit easier to kill. Again, they hit hard, but can't take a huge amount of damage. Use your power combos on them to start the minigame and finish both of them off.

The Crypt

When the stairs to the left unlock themselves, head up towards the save point and save. The ruined wall nearby can be attacked and destroyed; check the balcony outside for a Red Orb Chest. Although it's difficult to spot, you can sidle up to the wall just outside the cracked doorway you just created and slide across the northern wall to the other side of the room. Destroy the cracked wall there to find a switch and a Phoenix Feather.

Flip the switch, then drop down and head through the stairs that have opened up. At the top, you'll find a throne with a skeleton on it. Grab the prize from the chest here (again, it's probably either an Eye or a Feather if you're short, but for us it was a bevy of orbs), then nab the Cryptkeeper's Key on the wall. Push the throne off of the platform, then hop down and place the Cryptkeeper on the pressure plate in the middle of the arena. Doing so will raise a keyhole nearby; put the key into it to extend a platform leading on.

Temple of Zeus

Grab the chests here (one of them is another Egg/Feather catch-up chest). Two shieldbearers will pop up when you enter the temple. If you've fully upgraded your Blades of Chaos, then the Tartarus Rage move will be a good way to drop their shields and keep them knocked around so that they can't attack you.

After defeating the two shieldbearers, use the noted spot in the middle of the room to pull down the Gauntlet of Zeus, the second of the two weapons in Chains of Olympus. It acts somewhat like the Cerberus or Gilgamesh weapons from Devil May Cry; slow but powerful attacks that can be charged up by holding down the attack buttons. The enemies that spawn here will have shields that you'll need to break, in fact; do so by holding down the square button and charging into them, then finish them off as normal.

Run backwards past the corpse of the gatekeeper and smash the doorway with your fist attack. You may want to upgrade your Gauntlet to level 2 here, as its upgraded attack, the Olympic Strike, will be a one-shot kill on any obstacles you encounter. You'll have to kill some stuff quickly as you make your way back to the Temple of the Gods, as a spike trap will follow you. At any rate, return to the three statues and destroy the rightmost one to find another catch-up chest.

Jails of Tartarus

Destroying the statue of Hades will let you move on. There are two paths near the harpies; one to the right, across a chain, and one on the wall to the upper-left. Head up the upper-left cliff to reach a room where gorgons and shielded soldiers will attack you. Start dashing around the room with the Gauntlet's charged attacks to drop the soldiers' shields, or use it on the gorgons to prevent their stone strike. It might be worth knocking away the shields, then attempting to focus on the Gorgons. The soldiers are annoying but don't strike very hard, and you can grab them and start a throw move on them to disrupt the stone attack of the Gorgons if need be.

When you kill the enemies here, recharge your health and turn the crank in the floor to drop a platform in the distance a bit. Return down the cliff and cross the chains to reach another cliff. Save your game and drop down off the fall nearby. You'll be facing off against an armored cyclops here and more harpies. Kill the harpies first while avoiding the cyclops, then knock its armor off and go to town on it. It's probably best to switch back to the Blades of Chaos to finish it off, and it may even be easier to knock its armor off that way, as well.

With the cyclops dead, knock the stone off the western crank, wait for both of them to pop up, then crank both of the cranks to create the path leading onwards. Jump across to the next corridor and move along until you reach the next little cutscene that reveals the torments of the Titans. There'll be another catch-up chest nearby.

There's a cliff nearby. Climb up it, then look for the path that leads off to the left and climb that way. That will lead you to no fewer than three catch-up chests, so if you've been bad about collecting your Feathers and Eyes, this is a good time to get back up to speed.

Return to the cliff and head up to fight off a minotaur. If you've managed to upgrade the Gauntlet of Zeus, then jumping up into the air and using the L+O combo will do wonders on the minotaur. When it's dead, use either Light of Dawn magic or the Sun Shield's reflective properties to take out the archers in the distance. With that done, break the stone atop one of the cranks and turn both of them. One of them will lead you to a Red Orb Chest, while the other will lead you up to Hyperion.

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