One of my favorite games of all time is “God of War”. The first time I played this game was in 2010, and I have been hooked onto it ever since. Kratos, once the king of Sparta
Kratos is an anti-hero and has to go through the “Road of Trails” before his quest is complete. He has to battle gorgons, barbarians, and traps to complete his quest. But Kratos is not alone; the gods of Olympus guide him through his quest and are at his aid whenever he is in need. The gods give him special powers along his journey, so that his journey gets easier. But Kratos had a bigger challenge ahead of him, Pandora’s Box.
Pandora’s Box is a box that holds evil and power that no man can handle, but for Kratos to beat Ares he needs that box. The box is chained down to the last living Titan, Kronos, and Kratos has to get it off of him. He jumps onto his back and went through everything that came towards him, so that he could release Pandora’s Box.
As Kratos opened Pandora’s Box, he grew bigger and stronger and was ready to fight the “God of War”. Kratos stepped forth and killed the “God of War” and was then named the new “God of War” by all of Olympus and the gods. Now Kratos is the “God of War”, he can do anything he wants, whenever he wants, and he is also the king of Sparta
I highly recommend playing this game, even if you are not into video games because this is the type of game that will get you hooked onto adventures and action games. There are two more sequels to this game and they get more intense and more violent.
Now do you think that Kratos is better off being the “God of War” or the “King of Sparta”?
Nice one Shawn. How do you think Kratos is the anti-hero? Do you thin the Olympus gods act ashis mentor? I think when I play God of War, I never think of how it relates to Greek Mythology, yet there are so many relations. I also find it funny how he gets stronger when he opens Pandora's Box, which actually represents all evil coming out in the world. I guess it related to the anti-hero thing though.
ReplyDeleteI think he is an anti hero because as he was the king of sparta, he always killed the innocent or anything that came in his way. But for him to have his sins relieved, he had to help the gods and eventually became the god of war.
ReplyDeleteDo you think all video games have the same archetypes or are they spread out? I did one on a video game, and it seemed like as I was writing more and more about it, it was that much related to mythology. Was it the same for you?
ReplyDeleteI think that not all games have many archetypes. This game on the other hand, I felt like it had many.
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