Enslaved: Odyssey to the West/Chapter 1: The Escape



You start out on slave ship 909 in a holding pod. During the beginning cutscene you see the pod across from you open up and a woman come out and start messing with one of the ship's computers. Whatever she does causes some major problems and some explosions in the pod bay. Your pod gets thrown out into the center of the bay and is damaged enough for you to escape.

Learning the ropes
Head down the metal walkway to the big circular doorway at the other side. When another explosion breaks the walkway, just run toward it and jump the gap. The doors will slide open when you get to them, so go through and jump the next gap and jump the crates in your way. Keep going down the walkway to the next door and you'll see the woman who escaped before. Just before you get to her the walkway crashes down and you'll need to get back up by climbing the crates on the side and jumping up to the walkway. Head through the next room jumping gaps in the walkway and go through another door. In the next room you'll see that you can run across narrow beams without falling. Jump the gap and jump from beam to beam in the second half of the room to get to the end.

When you try to follow the girl in the next room, the floor gives out under you again, and then the whole back end of the slave ship shears off, leaving you hanging to some metal off the end. Handholds and pipe you can use to climb gleam with a white shine, so look out for them. Jump to the grip on your right, then up back into the ship. Up top use the handhold on the left to keep climbing up and around to the right until you can jump back up onto the metal walkways. At the end of the walkway, jump to the pipe on the right and drop down to the bottom. Go out along the beam down there and jump to another platform, then take the beam sticking out of that one to jump to the pipe on the side of the hull. Climb up the pipe and you can jump to the door to the next section.

Get your weapons back
As you run down the walkway a mech will burst in through the far door and start shooting the place up. When you go get cover behind some crates, use the pipe on the wall on the right to go up to a higher section where you can get one of the slave workers to tell you where your weapons are. On the other side of that platform, jump over to the pipe on the wall and take it down below. In here you can head around the corner to pick up your gear: a shield and your staff. Retrace your steps back to the mech and run up to it and follow the on-screen prompts to destroy it. In the next few bays you'll need to take out the mechs that become activated with the attacks you learned.

The first mech will teach you how to block and the second will teach you how to dodge. After you've done the on-screen prompt, beat them to destroy them. Next two will be activated at once, so block the first one's attacks and then destroy them. When you hit mechs repeatedly, eventually you'll see they turn red in between their metal plates. This lets you know they're close to being destroyed and you can usually use your strong attack to finish them off. In the next mech bay, the first two activated mechs will teach you the wide range attack and the one after them will teach you the stun charge. Keep going after you defeat them and you'll catch back up with the woman from before who won't let you into the next section.

Find an escape pod
Use the handholds and pipes going around the right side of the ship to climb around to the first wing where you can drop down and continue on. Run out to the far end of the wing and cross the pipe to the next wing and some mechs will come out. Use the fighting techniques you've learned to take them out, then head back toward the fuselage and use the handholds and pipes on the side to go around. Drop down and jump across to another handhold and drop down again to use the pipes on the bottom to cross the ship and go up the other side. On the wing on the other side, go out to the end again, this time waiting until the fire from a flaming engine dies down before crossing in front of it. At the tip of the wing, jump over two more wings and head back to the ship where you'll see a red door in the side.

When you use the door it destroys the flaming engine and the ship will tilt over on its side. Looking ahead you'll see you're going to run right into a tall building, so quickly climb up the wing of the plane by jumping up using handholds and beams. If you don't make it you'll crash into the building and have to to try again, otherwise you'll get high enough up to survive and will continue climbing the wing until you get back up into the ship. Inside, climb up the pipe on the left and jump over to the left across a handhold and pipe back out to another wing. Head up to the front of the ship using the handholds and pipes on the side of the plane to get to the last escape pod. You'll have 20 seconds until the pod takes off, and if you don't make it you'll have to try again. When you get to the pod you'll see the mysterious woman from before is already in it, but she doesn't let you in. You blast off hanging onto the outside of the escape pod while the slave ship crashes into the city.