Or maybe he just canвЂ™t control himself enough to stop.Д¬inematic, story-driven games often struggle to make their gameplay comport with their narrative and thematic elements. Every time this happens, we see small glimpses of the waves of innocent people doomed to die along with KratosвЂ™s targets.Д«ut he doesnвЂ™t care. HeliosвЂ™s decapitation blocks out the sun. PoseidonвЂ™s death causes the oceans to bleed onto land.

And he does these gruesome deeds while his victims implore restraint with ever-deepening anguish.ДЄs he brings down Poseidon in the gameвЂ™s earliest moments, itвЂ™s clear getting rid of the gods is KratosвЂ™s way of taking out the rest of the world, too.

He severs HermesвЂ™s legs while dangling the sprite upside-down by his feet like some hapless turkey. He tears the head off Helios with his bare hands. He finds and dismembers every available member of the Greek pantheon one by one, piece by piece. His journey in God of War III, which is very conspicuously no longer that of a hero, is a fever dream of bilious, all-consuming rage. Mad that someone, anyone, would have the audacity to not die at his hand. Mad that he still hasnвЂ™t managed to kill Zeus, now revealed to be his father. But God of War II doesnвЂ™t explore this in any particular depth.Д«y God of War III, Kratos is just mad. ThereвЂ™s a kernel of an idea here that Kratos refuses to submit to divine authority and the proscriptions of fate so he - and, by extension, everyone else who lives under their domain - can instead chart his own path in life. Kratos was mad at Zeus for killing him, even though Zeus did so because Kratos wouldnвЂ™t stop wreaking havoc. By God of War II, that premise was starting to come apart at the seams. HeвЂ™s mad at the original Greek god of war, Ares, for tricking him into killing his wife and son. In the first, itвЂ™s framed sympathetically. His motivation in all three original games is the same: revenge. Kratos was never a particularly nice guy.

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