sasnake

Because Mario games aren't interested in telling a story or a character. They're just about fun gameplay.

Mario and Kratos aren't at all comparable.

@sasnake: Yeah, and I guess going from killing to killing because he was blinded/tricked/deceived into killing his innocent family, when he had doubtlessly done the same to countless others, shows a colossal lack of character development. Continuing to kill innocents is icing on the cake.

He’s a shallow lunkhead.

I’m cool with unlikable protaganists, just not utterly boring protaganists.

I’ll have to look into the new game some more, but I assume from what I’ve seen, he’s a 2+ note character in 2018...which would be great.

@fisk0: Oh, I’m sure I’ll check the game out soon. It’s getting all kinds of praise and I’m sure it’s rock solid. PS2/3 Kratos was just a garbage character.

His rage was comical. His fate (killing his family and wearing their ashes) seemed just enough considering his deeds. The entire series, he was this idiot that never learned lessons, just killed.

The only reason he killed his family, from what I recall, is because he was a power-hungry marauding maniac who probably brutally murdered hundreds of other women and children.

Along his path to vengence for shit he was complicit in, he kills seemingly innocent strangers for convenience sake.

If he learned a lesson about gods, war, the value of life, and was a tropey relictant killer, it still would have played far better than he did.

Again, I may be missing a key plot point, but I recall him directly and indirectly causing his family’s death on multiple levels.

I can’t tell the tone of this. Like screw them for making a game with good gameplay and a seemingly compelling story (that still really isn’t a given with every video game coming out) or that all the reviewers are wrong in liking it?

If this is some type of comparison to movies, that have an ”oscar bait” vibe to them, I can maybe somehow see (but not share) your point, but it’s still pretty cynical. A story about a father and his son isn’t maybe the most original tale, but if it’s well told (again a rarity, with TLOU being the only similiar example I can think of) and the action is great as well, I’m onboard.

That said, I would’ve bought this game anyway as a long-time fan.

Giant Bomb: 3/5 = 6, Polygon: 6.5