By RICHARD TEO
Staff Writer
Are you a fan of the Gaming Industry? Probably not. Probably one. Video Games aren’t necessarily the interest of many, but those who grew up with it value it as much as they used to. Have you ever heard of God of War? Not a very pleasant theme for a video game but it’s certainly interesting. The game just recently released a trailer for its upcoming sequel. But why does that matter to you? You don’t know anything about that. Well, get yourself interested! It´s Lore (aka History) is heavily focused on Greek mythology. Though not everything added to the game is specific, a nice little touch is made that blends in for the story and that change makes it all the more cunning. Our main character is Kratos, a bloodthirsty spartan warrior who rises up to defy the Olympian Gods and take revenge for what they did to his family. Kratos is infamous for his rage, his terrible mission to destroy the gods, and his persistence to keep moving forward. The Gods of the game feature a more human-like atmosphere than they would divine. They eat, they drink, and they suffer like mortals do but their existence affects the way of the world. Or so we thought was their world. In truth, a god like Poseidon controls the seas and if he dies all chaos within the waters would break loose. Roaring tides take up the lands and endanger the lives of men who worship him. But this sequel features a much older Kratos, and this time he’s in Norway instead of Greece.
After his attempted suicide with a giant magical sword from the previous game, Kratos survives with a massive scar on his stomach. Accompanied by his son Atreus, he’s set on a path to travel to the highest peak in the nine realms to spread his dead wife’s ashes, Faye. His wife’s cause of death is unknown but it sets up the climax of the story. Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods. Kratos is then visited by an Aesir God, Baldur, who is supposedly invincible, is also predicted to die by his hands and sets off the events that follow Ragnarok. Mistaking him for a Giant, Baldur continues to hunt Kratos on his journey. He does this to please Odin, who gives him the mission to predict his forthcoming death at Ragnarok. Kratos, however, believes that Baldur knows of his horrific past and so he bears the guilt and fear that his son will have to go to war with the aesir pantheon.