A203D said:
I completely agree with you. the story for GoW 3 was awful, the director Stig is shit imo. i wish David Jaffe had not left after the 2nd game and contributed directly to the script and the level design. i think the level design in GoW 3 was not good either tbh. in GoW 1, we had incredible locations like the Desert of Lost Souls, the Temple of Pandora, the Trials of Atlas, Poseidon etc, in GoW 2 we had even more things like the Steeds of Time, or the Temple of the Fates. that part of the game where you fight the Kraken is simply brilliant level design. GoW 3's design was poor imo, the centrepiece of the game was a dark cave with loads of big boxes in it. Olympus was tiny, the only main part we visited was this 'HUB' area with Pandora's Box. surely they couldve come up with something better than that box room and made Olympus a lot bigger with more halls, puzzles and rooms. it feels so small. and lastly the Titans wernt even in the damn game, what the hell happened to Atlas, i thought he and Kratos had a score to settle. |
You know what, as much as I hate to say it but the sequels that followed God of War were really unecessary. I'm not arguing whether they're good or bad games but if you look at the first God of War from a narrative point of view, it was really a well written, self-contained story that didn't need a sequel.
The entire adventure was about Kratos trying to find redemption from his sins by going through one last task by killing Ares. In the course of the game, you see Kratos' rise and fall into his current state and you slowly learn why he's such a violent asshole. By the end of the game, he looks back at all his mistakes and regrets and then decides to kill himself because the nightmares and memories of his past will never stop haunting him. It was basically a greek tragedy done right.
P.S: I highly recommend watching this video for an interesting analysis on the God of War series.
