Adrienne brought a lot of gravity to her performance. She would turn up on TV over the years, and was always a fan favorite whatever she did. Then she popped up again in 1982 in the films The Swamp Thing, and The Creepshow. I first remember seeing her in the film Escape from New York in 1981, the same year my brothers, and I saw Clash of the Titans. She was the sexy brunette character in a number of late '70s / early '80s movies, and TV shows. I was surprised to discover who performed the role. Although she only existed in the game for a few moments I always thought the performance was one of the best in the franchise. Unfortunately he could not use its powers to reverse the injuries on Alethia, the Oracle of Delphi. With it he could rewind the life of an object, or speed it up, and cause it to decay. Kratos took the Amulet of Uroborus from the lifeless body of Castor. The Oracle survived the fall, but she was living on borrowed time. It was certainly a tough, but memorable battle against the duo. They caused the Oracle to fall to her death. They could also slow down time, and strike Kratos before he could react.When the twins sensed that they were losing the battle they decided to rob Kratos of his goal. They could decay the ground, and cause Kratos to fall to his death. The majority of the twins attacks were not physical but magical. When those weapons were joined Castor used it as a massive walking staff. Each brother actually had their own weapon, a sword, and a mace. Anybody that had seen the movie Total Recall would get the punchline following the battle with the twins. It was grotesque, and awesome at the same time. The more powerful Pollux was sticking out of the side of Castor, just about where his liver would be. What they did instead was make the brothers conjoined twins. That would go against the library of other memorable bosses. It wasn't enough for the art team, and animators to put two separate characters for to battle against. Their age didn't matter as they could use the power of the oracle to make themselves young men. It explained why Theseus was past his prime in GoW II, and why the twins were old in Ascension. The adventures of Jason took place before Kratos became a legendary captain in Sparta. Where they spent half the year on Olympus, and half the year in the fields of Elysium. When he agreed Zeus turned the duo in the constellation Gemini. Zeus agreed so long as Pollux were willing to give up some of his godhood. Castor was mortally wounded in battle, and his brother begged Zeus to make him immortal. His brother Castor had the same mother, but his father was Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. Pollux was a demigod, the son of Zeus, and Queen Leda of Sparta. Their most famous appearance was as Argonauts, traveling with Jason. They had been featured in a few classic mythologies. The brothers Pollux, and Castor were experienced sailors, and renowned horsemen. When I saw the name Castor I instantly knew who they were. They were ordering slaves around in her absence, and having them build tributes to themselves. Once inside the temple Kratos discovers that some unscrupulous twins (labeled the False Profits by the developers) have sequestered the Oracle. There were a lot of enemies leading up to the temple, and an amazing encounter against both a Chimera, and a Manticore. It was certainly a fresh take on stage design. But so did gigantic mechanized snakes that powered the bridge leading to the temple. A frozen breeze gave motion to the environment. Sony Santa Monica decided to set it in the peaks of a mountain. I never imagined what the temple would have looked like, or how one would even reach it. I was grateful for the studio for doing such a deep dive into Greek history. No soothsayer was as famous as the Oracle of Delphi in actual Greek mythology. Then he traveled through the port village of Kirra, in the search of an oracle to guide him. He escaped from a prison made out of a living giant, the hundred armed Hecatonchires. It started with a difficult boss fight, and a prison escape, but it wasn’t just any jail. In God of War Ascension Kratos is on a mission to break his oath to Ares, the god of war.
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