Congratulations on Skorpius, as I may have said, T,T on his face actually gets him to "O" faster than RoS does while simultaneously killing Spawn. It is by far superior for the task at hand.

Also: For the Spike Room do as MrSK says- once you make it past the first stage simply fly toward the "back" of the room (where you can see the bridge you will later go over to reach Pandora) and land on the ledge. Guard. All enemies except for the sirens will be killed by the spikes, here you can kill the sirens, or it is even possible (if you are extremely patient) to simply wait them out and CG the Harpy when it arrives. Be warned that Kratos may accidentally target Sirens in this case.  

I'm conflicted about opening the floodgates. Doing so would seem logical at this point (new games), but at the same time it would cause a great influx of CASUALS. 

At the same time- I don't wish to let this Union fall prey to their greasy casual claws, but we DO always have alt. TUGOWU for those who are SRS should things get bad.
Opening the gates we may find a few more members who are more serious (at least it always seems possible to convince those not entirely uncommon who play on VH to begin challenge runs), but I also feel that many of the serious players are already present.

I have no answer for the question at the moment.  

#1 Tip for this fight is just to use t,t with Cestus (you'll learn how to distance yourself/time it after a few failed tries) to kill all spawn. Never attack a leg with Square hits unless all spawn are dead. It's best to break the middle legs first, because once a leg is uncovered you can attack it (t,t hits uncovered legs, but not obsidian) to interrupt further spawn.

Truly if you get his spawn out of the way and dash away successfully when he jumps he's EASY MODE. You've already received a lot of good advice here- once you get past him you won't have to fear him again.  

^ No mercy for foreigners?

Of course not.  

Blooooooooooog

Still, we must give you major props for "Not being Optiow." 

Regardless-

1.) ****sux, sorry bro.

2.) The places you live have funny names.

3.) Grade 12 at 17? Duz skools work less same in Country X? 

^ Clever. 

But RLY: I wish I had completed those runs, I'm just too damn lazy. To date the only bosses I have not fought under VHNUR conditions (or worse in some cases) are Zeus (1+2) and the Sisters.  

^ That fire is an instakill on enemies though. Nice.

~As for the PS3, we shall see if I care enough. It'd certainly be better than nothing. They don't necessarily ask what happened, they just ask what the problem is. Considering that they even replace broken screens on PSPs now (which is nearly 100% of the time a result of an accident or 'accident'), they may be willing.