This bar will slowly deplete and when it empties, Kratos will die and all of the Mist Echoes accumulated during a lap of the Niflheim maze will be lost. Throughout the maze are smaller chests that can be opened for extra Mist Echoes, along with randomly generated Nornir chests – these do not count toward the 22 Nornir chests in God of War.įinally, the last and most important mechanic is the bar at the top of the screen whenever Kratos is in the mist. Defeating a room full of enemies allows Kratos to interact with the chest in the room, rewarding a sum of Mist Echoes. The maze will always have a certain amount of major enemy rooms, and these rooms will be connected by traps – either saw blades or blocks with spikes. The mechanics of the maze in Niflheim are simple enough to understand.