I’m a little torn about death tropes; even Kratos has “died”, and then beat up Hades and slashed his way out of hell. I think it has some premise within the world.
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MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I…
Do not know how I feel about bringing back a charachters who does SO MUCH because of her absence.
Too bad I won’t be finding out if it works, as Sony wont be porting this to PC.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 month ago
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I thought about it more.
I really don’t like it. Not because there’s no precedent, but because it doesn’t work thematically.
Fey being alive, actually, undermines so much of the story in the previous two games.
It means Kratos and Atreus and the many scenes where they gradually accept she truly gone are wrong, actually. It means Odin was right, and that Kratos and Atreus not helping him unravel death, prevented them from reuniting with Fey.
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I love it. Her absence is countered by her invisible hand in the plot. She does so much behind the scenes despite her “not being there”. If you didn’t pay close enough attention to the first two games, I believe you’re in for some big surprises in this one
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
What?
Laufey does a ton of things in the first two games, but none of it is posthumous.
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
As I said, I believe you’re in for some big surprises. Judging by your comments though, you’re not very likely to appreciate them. You’ve decided that your lack of context is proof there is none, and that’s a very dull way to see the world
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
No.
I’m genuinely confused.
What do you mean? What did I miss?
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 1 month ago
With the current state of the entertainment industry I’m surprised they still didn’t do a LOTR movie explaining Tom Bombadil.
There isn’t a single exec that understands why it’s important for big narratives to have mysteries.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They understand, but they also understand that when they need to make something new, and the old classic already had a complete story, their best chance to make money is off of something familiar. So not Tom Bombadil, but that’s how we ended up with Solo: A Star Wars Story and every Terminator after 2.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 1 month ago
They could move the story forward with Atreus as the main character, that would still be familiar enough. Prequels are very hard to do right.
Terminator is a special case, because time travel limits the interesting time span for the story if you don’t keep erasing the previous movies plot.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Even Terminator 2 changed the time travel rules established in the first movie, but at least it felt like its ideas were still original. And I didn’t even mind Terminator 3.