After a trilogy as masterful as bloody during the 2000s, the license God of War embarked on the difficult exercise of the reboot for a resounding result. With this new arc, the developers of Santa Monica swapped ancient Greece for the icy northern lands of Midgard in order to stage the story of Kratos and his son, Atreus.
If the idea of ​​a sequel was in doubt, given the final events that gave the scenario a new direction to explore, we did not know if new adventures of Kratos would be spread over a trilogy or not, as it was the cases in the past.
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A diptych towards the apocalypse
The formalization of the subtitle of this second part, namely Ragnarök, already suggested to us the establishment of a conclusion with this episode. It must be said that this subtitle does not bode well for Kratos and Atreus, and makes sense in the conclusion of this story.
In Norse mythology, Ragnarök refers to a series of apocalyptic events that will lead the world to its destruction to allow it to be reborn in a new form. In the extract broadcast during the PlayStation Showcase, we had the opportunity to see the manifestations of this famous Ragnarök, including the winter of three years without sun named Fimbulvetr.
Thus, this reboot of God of War would actually be a diptych and the director of the first episode, Cory Barlog, abounds in this direction in a recent interview. At the head of a five-year-long development for the 2018 episode, Cory Barlog judges that a fifteen-year interval to build a story is too long.
The developers do not want to lose sight of their objective: to tell a story of filiation, sufficiently complex, which is the engine of the heart of the game. This is why it seems to them more judicious to close this intrigue with Ragnarök rather than to lose the thread of what they want to build by making the episode too many.
