Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoWhat did you miss? All of her journey. I’m not downvoting you for having an opinion
Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoWhat did you miss? All of her journey. I’m not downvoting you for having an opinion
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
That’s just insulting. If you’re not gonna elaborate then don’t say anything at all.
TLDR: It’s not a lack context that bothers me. It’s that no context that would work within the narrative themes of the games, exists.
Long version:
The part of her journey that’s in GoW/GoW:R happened before her death. GoW Laufey takes place after that, not before.
I’m worried about this new game is muddying the thematic weight of GoW, and GoW Ragnarok.
Fey is (was) DEAD. Kratos and Atreus accept this and spend the two games mourning, moving on, and finding themselves in a world without her. While honoring her life and living in a way that does not erase or ignore the fact that she lived. They learn many things about her that they did not know, and feel her love for them live on in the things she has set in motion. They embrace her presence even as she is truly gone. The narrative stresses this multiple times.
That she exists, anywhere (after her death), undermines this.
It undermines the underlying difference pinning Odin against Kratos.
Kratos and Atreus accept death, and that it is something beyond that which can or should be understood. Odin does not, and seeks to unravel it like it’s just another law of nature. Like gravity.
The mask should not be explained. Death isn’t a mystery to solved. It’s an unknowable to be accepted as such.
The games are about being at peace with that.
Laufey not being gone literally means Kratos and Atreus are wrong in their acceptance that she is gone.
The only way this works is if it’s a spin-off that NEVER ties back into Kratos’/Atreus’ timeline, but that they are doing this at all is not a good sign to me. I do not trust them to not undermine their own themes in the face of the potential fanservice that reuniting Fey, Kratos and Atreus would be.
It’s not a lack context that bothers me. It’s that no context that would work within the narrative themes of the games, exists.