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God of war ascension release date9/25/2023 ![]() I would wager there to be much fewer a number of cinematics in this title, although that perception may be hazy as I played through the campaign on Hard and so there was more time between plot points as I continued to die, and die hard! (I’ll talk about the difficulty of the game in the Gameplay section). I actually lost track of where/when I was at one point, which is especially easy when considering that Tisiphone plays mind games with us and often creates illusions of another time and place throughout. However, I love a good revenge story, and this is classic God of War. Once you come back from that initial memory, you have maybe two fights and then revisit the past once again for what seemed like an eternity until the conclusion. I have no qualms with this narrative structure, however it is quite uneven here. I should clarify that after the aforementioned flashback, the game does switch back and forth between present and past a couple more times. I won’t mention any more for spoilers’ sake. A self-proclaimed prophet, Castor and his under-developed conjoined twin Pollux attempt to prevent Kratos from reaching a weakened Oracle. Eventually, Kratos continues on to the Lantern of Delos, where he seeks to acquire “the Eyes of Truth” so that he may see through the Furies’ magic and imposed visions. Along his journey to the mountain range, Kratos faces many obstacles, not the least of which are the Gemini Twins, Castor and Pollux. Kratos has been subject to hallucinations, for which Orkos implores Kratos visit the Oracle in Delphi where the “truth waits for you”. He alerts Kratos to the oncoming threat of the Furies, who are coming to capture and punish him for denouncing his oath to Ares. He is at first startled by the dark figure, but Orkos only wants to help. It’s at this point that the player is taken 3 weeks back in time to when Kratos meets Orkos for the first time. Kratos breaks free from his chains and pursues Megaera – the disease-ridden Fury of the body and his punisher, whose sisters Tisiphone and Alecto are the Furies of the mind and soul respectively. After a gigantic battle at the head of the Hecatonchires, Kratos gets his hands on Megaera and the Amulet of Uroborus, which she was carrying. Refusing to comply with his oath to Ares after those horrific and tragic events, Kratos finds himself imprisoned in the Prison of the Damned – fashioned around and as part of the first oath breaker, the titan Aegaeon the Hecatonchires. The game opens with a recount of history from Gaia, our resident narrator, introducing us to a chained and tortured Kratos. Ares used Kratos’ oath to him in order to control him and force him to commit such acts of violence against the innocent and his own kin. With its genre-breaking, series-first multiplayer addition, does Ascension break the chains of expectations or belong locked away in the Prison of the Damned?…Ī prequel to the original God of War, ‘Ascension’ begins just months after the death of Kratos’ wife and daughter, Lysandra and Calliope, who were killed by his own hand. Sony Santa Monica had a large undertaking before them in raising the bar for epic moments and set pieces after the jaw-dropping Titan levels in God of War III. The fourth entry in the God of War series on consoles, God of War: Ascension is a prequel to the first that deals with Kratos’ attempts to break free from his oath to Ares after being tricked into murdering his wife and child.
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