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Trophy of Gaia
Unlock all God of War II Trophies

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Breaking Wind
Acquire Typhon’s Bane

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Big, Tuff, Buff and Rough
Acquire Rage of the Titans

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Blue Balls
Acquire Cronos’ Rage

Story-related; can't be missed.

WAIT! Before you activate this, see Super Sized.

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After you kill Theseus, you climb to the top of that particular horse's saddle. You'll swing across by zipline to horse you first arrived on - and since Theseus so generously donated his Key to your cause, you can now go inside.

There will be a little altar of sorts, with the outline of the Horse Keeper's Key in the shield. Put the key in, and Cronos will appear. He'll offer some words of advice before zapping you with his eye lasers, and then you'll be awarded Cronos' Rage.

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Shiner
Acquire the Golden Fleece

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Rock their World
Acquire the Head of Euryale

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Learning to Fly
Acquire the Icarus Wings

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Shaky Ground
Acquire Atlas Quake

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Death from Above 2009
Defeat the Dark Rider for the first time

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Resurrection
Climb from the pit of Hades

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Rock Hard
Defeat the Titan Minotaur inside Atlas

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Pick’n on the Little Guy
Win the battle outside of the Palace of the Fates

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Watcha Got on the Hot Plate?
Solve the riddle of the Fire Phoenix Statue

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Whip it Good
Whip the Steeds of Time

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Lift with Your Knees
Topple the Temple in the Bog of the Forgotten

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Swinger
Cross the collapsing Grapple Bridge

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Stoner
Stone and Shatter 30 Enemies

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Super Sized
Get a 500 Hits Combo

The perfect opportunity to get this is when you first receive Crono's Rage. Four or five enemies will spawn at a time - drop an orb between two of them, and roll with the right stick to another duo before repeating. Don't shock all of them at once to ensure a steady stream of enemies. Otherwise, you risk interrupting your combo.

That being said, this isn't difficult at all. I easily achieved a 1100+ hit combo here, so you should be able to, too.

Also, if you missed that location, here are some other ways (of many):

Originally Posted by dajmer79

There's another prime area to get the Super Sized trophy, if you didn't get it early on (like me). Right after you receive the Atlas Quake power, there will be nearly 2 dozen common soldier enemies that spawn. Switch to Cronos' Rage and spam it until every one of them is dead. I got over 1,000 hits here.

Originally Posted by whurpurgis

A fool-proof way to get the 500 hits is with the Urn of Prometheus. While in Rage of the Titans the hit counter doesn't reset. You must have a secondary weapon to block or use the time shifting, if you have the regular blades equipped it will use the combo in the swirling vortex. The combo continues through getting hit, grabbing and turning levers, and cut-scenes. Without even trying I got a 2600+ combo. In theory You could go the whole second play-through and get 1 giant combo.

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Hitting Your Stride
Power up any item

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Eye Can’t Believe it
Collect all the Gorgon Eyes

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Go Make a Pillow!
Collect all the Phoenix Feathers

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Eye Sore
Collect 20 Cyclops Eyes

This sounds a little painful, as you don't face too many Cyclopes in the game, and you often don't get the chance to use the prompt to kill them. I finished my first playthrough with only five eyes - however, your collected eyes track through all playthroughs and Challenge completions, which means there's a very easy way to get all twenty.

When you beat the game, you unlock The Challenge of the Titans - series of seven objectives you'll need to complete within the time limit (see Bleeding Thumbs).

The first Challenge will ask you to rip out a Cyclops eye within forty seconds. This isn't too hard, and shouldn't take you more than twenty seconds. Once done, the Challenge is completed and you've added another eye to your total. You can replay this Challenge until you've collected all the eyes, at which point the trophy will unlock.

NOTE: Be sure to save your progress and quit to the challenge selection screen between each go. If you simply select "Restart Challenge", you'll lose the eye you just gained.

Alternatively, if you complete the Challenge of the Titans with a "Titan" ranking overall, you will unlock Arena of the Fates. This customizable battle experience allows you to select who you fight and how - from here you can choose your enemies as all Cyclops Berserkers (as they're the only one that allow you to take eyes) and set them to respawn indefinitely - you can earn all the eyes you need in less than ten minutes (thanks to Fear__no__Evil for this).

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Boss Batch 1
Kill the Colossus of Rhodes, the Dark Rider, and Theseus

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Boss Batch 2
Kill the Barbarian King, Euryale, and Perseus

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Boss Batch 3
Kill the Kraken and all three Sisters of Fate

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Daddy Issues
Defeat Zeus

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Rise and SHINE
Awaken the Phoenix

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Spread ‘Em
Open the wings of the Temple of the Fates

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Shine King
Open the door to the Temple of Euryale

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Blowin’ Your Wad
Max out all Weapons and Magic

Contrary to popular belief, the Blade of Olympus does not count toward this trophy, so it's possible to achieve on your first playthrough. However, your Red Orbs and upgrades WILL carry over to your New Game Plus, so if you don't get this by the end of your first playthrough, no sweat - you'll need to start a second playthrough for Feel the Urn anyway, and if you use the Urn of Gaia toward that end you will have enough Red Orbs to max out everything within a matter of minutes.

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The End Begins
Beat the Game on any Difficulty

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Feel the Urn
Collect and use at least 2 Urns of Power

In order to unlock this trophy, you must activate two Urns during gameplay. This can only be done on New Game Plus (unlocked for each difficulty after beating the game on that difficulty), and only if you've found the particular Urn you wish to activate - this will be done from the menu.

For information on what each Urn does, check the Unlockables section.

NOTE: Should you not acquire all the Urns needed, you will have to collect them in a New Game. You cannot simply get the ones you missed in a New Game Plus; you must begin from scratch (with the exception of those unlocked by ranking in the Challenges).

URN LOCATIONS AND UNLOCK CONDITIONS:

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• URN OF GAIA: This is located in the first level of the game, in Rhodes. You will come to a door that opens when a pressure button is stepped on that also has a pressure button beyond that. Take the block you have, and while pushing it charge a kick under the door with . Once it's on the button on the far side, you can head through. From there, drag the block into the hallway on your right, and down away from the screen up against a wall. From there, use the block to jump up on the ledge above you. There will be three chests - two red orb chests and once with the Urn of Gaia inside.
• URN OF THE GORGONS: This is attained after you have the Golden Fleece. You will have knocked a Temple into the swamp, and to do so you will have collected a massive stone block, and to get to that stone block, you will have passed these jets of Gorgon energy on a conveyor belt with enemies. Go back to that conveyor belt, and use to reverse the Gorgon Stares with the Golden Fleece. The wall will shatter, and behind one of the three jets will lie the Urn of the Gorgons.
• URN OF OLYMPUS: Right before you do the Crossing of the Lowlands, and right after you get the Spear of Destiny. Right as you get the Spear, you will see a glowing Statue of Time. Drag the statue on the wheel you see near you, and use the crank to rotate the statue so it's facing the door you can in through. Push the statue down the stairs, and back to the edge of the water you swam across. Slow time with and before swimming across the water and backtracking to where you'll see an apparently unguarded chest on your left. Simply walk over the gray pressure pad (when time isn't slowed, stepping on this pressure pad will lower the gate and block access to the room). Inside this room you'll find various chests, including one which contains the Urn of Olympus.
• URN OF PROMETHEUS: When you're inside Atlas, you'll come to a section after defeating the Titan Minotaur and after grappling across a large gap where the walls and ceiling are all climbable, and the area is filled with Hornets and their nests. Destroy all the nests before climbing along the ceiling. Proceed as normal until you take a right and actually head outside under an hanging ledge of sorts. There will be a stalagmite up ahead a bit to the right that isn't actually blocking your way. Smash it, and a hole will appear. Climb up into the hole to find some chests, including one housing the urn of Prometheus.
• URN OF THE FATES: This Urn is not found during normal gameplay. It is unlocked by achieving an overall ranking of 'Mortal' or better on Challenge of the Titans. For tips and strategy on how to complete the Challenges, please see the Bleeding Thumbs trophy.
• URN OF POSEIDON: This Urn is not found during normal gameplay. It is unlocked by achieving an overall ranking of 'Spartan' or better on Challenge of the Titans. For tips and strategy on how to complete the Challenges, please see the Bleeding Thumbs trophy.

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Bleeding Thumbs
Beat the Challenge of the Titans

This is perhaps the hardest trophy in God of War II, and will probably be your last before attaining Trophy of Gaia. The Challenge of the Titans is a series of seven objective-based scenarios you must complete within a time limit. Luckily, this isn't the original God of War - you don't have to complete all of them in one sitting; you can pick and choose a specific Challenge, providing you've unlocked it.

Some of these will probably make you cry - not for the faint of heart. I have provided some strategies and tips below; if these prove ineffectual, you can use my slightly more in-depth guide here.

THE CHALLENGE OF THE TITANS

• Challenge I - Blind Fury: You must tear out the Cyclops' eye within forty seconds.
  
  If you've got Cronos' Rage maxed out, I'd drop six or seven of those in quick succession, or pull an Atlas Quake or two. If a rider as manage to mount his, press to rip him off. Either way, the Cyclops should then have the prompt flashing above his head. Complete the sequence to climb up his side, hang from his eye socket and rip the eye clear. Challenge complete.
• Challenge II - Death from Above: You must acquire ten aerial kills with two hundred seconds.
  
  What makes this dangerous are the Gorgons that spawn - whenever you see one, target it immediately, as they will try to turn you to stone in mid-air. Should this occur, you will shatter upon landing and instantly die.
  
  Keeping that in mind, there are two ways to lift your enemies: you can hold for Olympic Ascension which takes you and a single enemy into the air while damaging them; or press and to use Icarus Ascension, which lifts anyone in your immediate vicinity into the air. Once you and your targets are airborne, utilize things like Rampage of the Furies ( and ) and Cyclone of Chaos ( and ). Now, if any enemy you have in the air suddenly flashes the prompt, disengage and allow them to fall - if you continue attacking and don't kill them in this jump, then you may kill them while trying to lift them again and the kill won't count. If you're feeling daring, you may try to use Cronos' Rage to hold them in the air, but this is tricky to do as you may again damage them to the point where they can't be safely lifted again.
  
  Once the timer reaches zero, you'll get a challenge complete if you've passed ten kills. If not, you must retry.
• Challenge III - Gorgon Graveyard: You must petrify and then shatter twenty-five enemies in two hundred seconds.
  
  Sure, it SOUNDS simple, but you don't have any magic, and so can't use the Head of Euryale. Instead, you must use to use the Golden Fleece to reflect any Gorgons that gaze at you. To do so, press right as you see them gather the green orb. Press the button that appears on screen, and all the nearby enemies will petrify. There's no real strategy here, just insane timing. And if you screw up, be ready to wiggle the left stick like there's no tomorrow - one hit will shatter and kill you.
  
  Once the timer reaches zero, you'll get a challenge complete if you've passed twenty-five kills. If not, you must retry.
• Challenge IV - Protect the Weak: This challenge isn't too hard, but it's long and will take a few tries. You need to keep the Translator alive through multiple waves of enemies.
  
  The upside is you have a Statue of Time, so you should be slowing time with and every opportunity you get. Save Rage of the Titans for the Satyrs and the ending Cyclopes because at the point, you won't have too much magic. Use only Cronos' Rage - Atlas Quake drains your magic too quickly and you won't get too many Magic Orbs from the Sirens.
  
  Use the Blade of Olympus here, as it does the second highest damage, has a ranged attack and is very quick. Remember that the Translators health will slowly drain when he's outside of the circle, so keep an eye on the glowing blue ring otherwise he'll die pretty quick. For the most part, enemies will ignore him and focus on you, so as long as you keep a good distance between yourself and the Translator, he'll be fairly safe.
• Challenge V - Reap the Rewards: Deceiving, but still not that hard. You need to acquire five hundred Red Orbs in one hundred eighty seconds. However, Hornets only drop two Red Orbs, and the Tunnelers only drop Magic Orbs.
  
  This means you need to pull off insane combos and kills - be sure to use the grab attack to kill the Hornets, as his will net additional Orbs. If you're not near any enemies but your combo is about to reset, drop a Cronos' Rage or two to shock everyone and rack up some combo points. This won't take more than a few tries.
  
  Alternatively, you can equip the Blade of Olympus, and if it's fully powered up you can press and to drain ten Red Orbs from each enemy with each attack. You will reach the five hundred Orb minimum within twenty seconds using this method - I finished with over five thousand. Use this method if you can.
• Challenge VI - Survival of the Fittest: This one can be tricky, but again not too difficult. Your health is constantly draining in this Challenge, and you must kill all the enemies that spawn.
  
  Again, use the Blade of Olympus to maximize damage. Use Cronos' Rage to hold enemies in place, plus you get an explosive knockback and it's cheap. Focus on the Tunnelers and High Priests, they offer Magic Orbs upon death - you can keep up a constant stream of magic if you do this right.
  
  And always kill the Hades Minotaurs with the prompt - this is the only way to get Health Orbs in this Challenge.
• Challenge VII - Perfection is Divine: This is the gamebreaker for many people. You must kill all the enemies without getting hit once.
  
  Don't let yourself get psyched out, though. This took me about ten minutes and only fifteen or so tries - and they're quick, so you don't get too aggravated.
  
  Use Cronos' Rage to your advantage, here. The High Priests drop a lot of Magic Orbs when killed, so it's possible for you to simply roll around with the and drop Cronos' Rage over and over until you finish off the Titan Minotaur with the prompt.
  
  The most important thing is to stay moving, and don't venture into close combat unless absolutely necessary. This won't take you too long as long as you remain patient and forgiving - remember, it's neither your controller's nor your TV's fault that you suck.
  
  Good luck!

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15 Min Fight Scene
Battle your way to the Loom Chamber in under 10 minutes

Incredibly, incredibly easy. There is a sloping, semi-circular walkway that rings the Loom Chamber/Clotho. Fight groups of enemies periodically on your way down, and kill them all within ten minutes - and if you go over time, there was a Save Point right before that you can always reload.

Be sure to use massive attacks like Atlas Quake, or Cronos' Rage. If you have any Rage of the Titans saved up, press and then hold to use Prometheus' Torment, or hold for Prometheu's Inferno. Use any area-based combat moves to wipe out large groups of enemies quickly.

And the only time you should ever consider even attempting to use the -based finishing moves is on the Cyclops at the very end, and even then only if you have more than four minutes to spare.

Again, not too difficult if you know what you're doing. If you're having some trouble, the video below might offer you some help:

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You Know the Germans Make Good Stuff…
Collect all Uber Chests