And if you're young, you're probably going to straddle that line and be like damn it, like I get this from both sides what do I do? And that's where we get that humankind of condition that allows people to connect and work their way into the story.' You know, if you can remember back to being a kid, maybe you can see it that way. It can be like, oh, if you're a parent, you're going to see it this way. So there's a different way in for everyone. 'And I kind of looked at it for me being a kid, you know, dealing with parents and remembering all that.

That changes in Ragnarok with the inclusion of Angrboda, the last of the giants. With that, though, Atreus never really had anyone his age to grow up with and learn from. The 2018 title found Kratos learning to be a father and dealing with Atreus growing up in a world he can't fully understand. And so we wanted to find ways to bring characters that are closer to his age in and so that we can see those different perspectives.' And I was like, well, how do we change that? So there's a better perspective for Atreus, who's growing into a young man. I was like, okay, well, the last game was a lot of you had one young person and a lot of adults. Like, how do I take this on? You know, and it's like luckily we do have still a lot of like fathers and mothers and parents on the team that I can borrow stories from.

'Unfortunately, it didn't work out for my wife and me,' Williams said. During our chat with Williams, the newly announced game director talked to us about how he's struggled with the father-son story and what he plans on bringing to the table for Ragnarok. The gamble worked, and Sony Santa Monica was able to craft a thoughtful and epic tale that took the best of the original series and brought it to a new audience.īut now times are charging, and Barlog is stepping away to let series veteran Eric Williams run Kratos' next adventure. The game's director has long talked about the importance of crafting Kratos' return to the PlayStation scene as a father-son story that pushed the violent Greek god into a more caring figure. If you're familiar with the development of 2018's God of War, you'll know how personal of a game it was for Cory Barlog.

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