Other games have tackled parent-child relationships, but I can’t remember a father-son dynamic so successfully developed and used to ground a fantastical adventure. I’ve told important people in my own life some of the very things they say to each other, and I’ve thought (but been too afraid to speak aloud) many others, making God of War Multiplayer Exile’s Guardian Shield Skin Pack DLC relationships feel real and cuttingly honest. I was surprised by how often I saw myself in both Kratos and Atreus’ well-worn shoes. Their dichotomy plays out in stirring, realistic moments throughout the story.

(He will, of course, unflinchingly beat the life out of anyone who threatens his son, which appears to be the only way he knows how to express affection.) Kratos’ uncertainty of how to relate to a boy he’s both looking to turn into a survivor and yet afraid may turn out like him is devastating to watch.

He seems disappointed in his lack of skill and stomach for combat, referring to him mostly as “Boy,” and rarely making eye or physical contact with him. Kratos loves his son but is cold at first. Here are two people with demonstrably different personalities, one of them young and still innocent, the other old and as blood-soaked as they come, both grieving over the same woman in different ways. That relationship, and how it evolves and changes over the course of the story, is one of God of War’s most captivating qualities. Death’s Vow Armour Sets for Kratos and Atreus Pack But he is still a stranger to this place, and is forced to rely on the son he barely connects with to decipher its languages and guide him when the swing of an axe or the imprint of his boot on an undead foe won’t do the trick. While that history certainly informs who he is now, the character we encounter here has started a new chapter, having found love, a family, and a full bushy beard in this world of Norse mythology.

If you’ve played the previous games in the series – seven of them, counting two PSP games and one mobile game – you know that Kratos lived a long life of loss Death’s Vow Armour Sets for Kratos and Atreus Pack, triumph, and plenty of god-killing in ancient Greece.

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