God of War: Ragnarök (PS4) - skip first fight as Atreus

Another small time save. Note: this is played on the unpatched PS4-version. Things might vary in unforeseen ways on other versions and ports.
You can use the touch pad to buffer an infinite string of parries to move during any "auto-walk" with Atreus. This includes all the prompts that begin with an auto-walk, such as certain crawlspaces, chests, narrow doorways, etc.
It's less powerful than it seems because there's no way to steer Atreus, nor is there an obvious way to regain control during this time.
Regarding the skip itself, the prompt at the end of this crawlspace not only starts the auto-walk leading to a short cutscene but also separately activates a timer which starts the next fight. So, if you stall for long enough, the fight begins while Atreus is still in the crawlspace. Getting hit now breaks you out of the cutscene, allowing you to backtrack. This deactivates the fight, and upon returning you can just run past all the enemies.
The enemies will become active again if you retry from last checkpoint or if you attack them first.
(Not on the video: it's possible start the skipped fight while riding the elevator to the next area by striking the enemies below with your bow. After the next cutscene, you cannot open the frozen door because the game thinks you're currently inside a fight; however, this can be fixed by retrying from last checkpoint.)

[@vigneshvampire]

Small but time saved one thanks bro

[@findlestick]

It’s ironic that the level design elements which are there to slow down players, are actually being used to speed-up the game.

[@SpeedMartyr]

Iroonwood are close, hope it for a Skip 🙏

[@MrZimnas]

We need to see them date. It's all part of the story.

[@Picobits]

for the record this is indeed patched on current version :'(

[@haarisajmeri9811]

SPEEDRUN GAMER'S

[@AMEER1477]

sbeedrn ❤