Rage Out With Your Friends
by Shelby Reiches

God of War III provided a fairly definitive capstone to the PlayStation-original trilogy. Even if Kratos, long-running protagonist and antihero of the franchise, managed to survive the events at the end of the game (there’s reason to debate that), the entire landscape of the series would have been forever changed. Extinguishing an entire pantheon of gods, and a sizable chunk of their most notable offspring, tends to have that sort of effect.

Yet here we stand, on the precipice of another release in the series. It’s probably little surprise, given the story thus far, that this latest entry will be stretching back into the series’ past, ever closer to Kratos’ genesis. That’s simply a matter of logistics. The specific time chosen, though—years prior to the original game—is supposed to present us with a more human, less embittered Kratos than in any other game in the series.

Oh, he’s certainly angry, and already embroiled in his quest for vengeance against Ares, who had a part in the Spartan slaying his own family, but this is supposed to be a Kratos who isn’t entirely consumed by that drive, who seeks a way to free himself from servitude that circumvents a direct confrontation. So it is that he seeks out the Furies, three sister-deities in Greek mythology (though it’s worth noting that “Furies” is the Roman name, while in Greek they would be the “Erinyes”) who embody vengeance. An appropriate target for a man seeking redemption, gradually sinking into a pit of vengeful rage.

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