Within the new God of Battle video games, Kratos is extra mature and fewer indignant. However earlier than he was the Dad of Battle, he was a giant asshole keen to kill anybody or let folks die—typically in horrible methods—if it meant he might proceed his quest. And one poor soul, a anonymous boat captain, encountered the horrible Kratos of the previous video games many occasions, every time regretting his run-ins. Now, lastly, all these years later, Kratos lastly admits he was incorrect to be such an asshole to the poor boat captain.
—Minor spoilers beneath for previous God of Battle video games and a single diary entry discovered early on in Ragnarök.—
God of Battle Ragnarök is superb! I not too long ago reviewed the sport and loved the way it saved its deal with the connection between Kratos and his teenage son, Atreus. Whereas the story is epic and crammed with violence and monsters, Ragnarök by no means forgets that the father-and-son relationship is the guts of those God of Battle video games, permitting each of them to develop and alter by the sport’s finish. However earlier than he had a son and lengthy earlier than he began angering Norse gods, Kratos was a brutal asshole in Greece, and one in every of his first victims was a cowardly boat captain who would find yourself working into Kratos a number of occasions all through the unique video games.
Early on in Ragnarök, you assist free a big, highly effective creature from its imprisonment. Within the recreation’s journal menu, the place you possibly can learn up on character lore and different tidbits of worldbuilding, Kratos data the creature’s freedom and feedback on the ache it will need to have felt being trapped. He additionally mentions that it reminds him of a ship captain that he “wronged” a very long time in the past.
This captain first seems within the unique God of Battle. After defeating the big Hydra that assaults the boat you start the sport on, Kratos goes into the creature’s throat and finds the boat captain dangling contained in the beast. Kratos is well capable of yank the captain to security however because the hapless man thanks Kratos for saving him, the warrior screams again that he didn’t come to save lots of him, rips the important thing off his neck, and drops him down the large’s throat to die. Y’know, simply because.
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The captain would present up once more later within the first recreation, dangling above the River Styx within the Underworld. Kratos, who had simply been “killed” himself, is falling into the realm of the useless and grabs the captain’s legs to cease himself. He then climbs up the captain, plunging his sword into the person’s again for leverage. And as soon as he’s protected, Kratos kicks the captain into the river beneath.
Later, in God of Battle II, Kratos fights the captain throughout a boss combat when his spirit is summoned into the world. The captain freaks out upon seeing Kratos once more and runs away, solely to be killed (I suppose you possibly can kill a ghost) but once more by the Ghost of Sparta. And whereas he doesn’t immediately present up in God of Battle III, you’ll find a word scribbled by the captain that factors out Kratos might have saved him and that the god killer had handled him like “nothing.” He then expressed his hope that Kratos would undergo in Hell.
Now, in God of Battle Ragnarök, Kratos lastly admits that…yeah, he was an enormous dick to the boat captain. In his journal, after admitting he wronged him, he additionally says it was due to “the alternatives” he made that the captain was “robbed of his freedom” similar to the large creature he simply saved. Kratos ponders for a second if all of us have a monster inside ourselves after which probably runs off to punch open some extra chests and kill extra monsters in cool methods.
Look, it’s child steps for the God of Battle, okay? Maybe in 12 extra video games, he’ll lastly ask for forgiveness and even attempt to assist the man out. Possibly go all the way down to hell and provides him some wine or one thing. Time will inform.
