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Note: This article is one of a series examining the God Of War game stories in detail:
God of War II and The Sisters Of Fate, Will Kratos Live Happily Ever After?, God Of War: What Were They Thinking?, and God of War III: Empty Gods.

Late last night I finished my replay of God of War in the God of War Collection for the PS3 and I feel I've calmed down enough from the infuriating experience of clawing Kratos up the spiked poles of Hades to be able to talk about my impressions of the story some years after originally playing through it on the PS2.

The core problem I have with it is that I don't fully understand what the gods of Olympus had in mind. Each of them hands over a magical power to Kratos during his journey, and I can't tell why they do it. Ares is terrorizing Athens, which is Athena's problem, and all she does is urge Kratos on to go after Pandora's Box. Poseidon gives him an area of effect lightning attack. Aphrodite lets him use a gorgon's head as a weapon. Zeus hands over the thunderbolt. Even Hades gives him the souls of the dead to command. Given how strong and determined Kratos was, and how effective he had been so far, what did they think he was going to do with those things?

(In case you haven't noticed, there are plot spoilers in this article.) Read more »

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