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This hidden ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Easter egg in ‘God of War’ is awesome

sudshr47 April 30, 2018

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The Avengers: Infinity War Easter eggs just keep coming, and this one is by far the best. Because it lets you actually wield Thanos’ Infinity Gauntlet and — spoiler alert — it’s rad as hell.

The twist here though is that we have Sony Santa Monica to thank for it, not Marvel.

The semi-rebooted God of War on PS4 finds a gaming icon, Kratos, very far from home. While the original trilogy from 2005 set him in the Greek pantheon, he’s now caught up in battles with the Norse gods.

The comparisons to Marvel were inevitable, since the popular comics and movies seared their version of Norse gods like Thor and Loki into our collective contemporary consciousness. Also God of War also released on April 20, only a week before Avengers: Infinity War. Read more…

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‘God of War’ depicts the disease and destruction of toxic masculinity

sudshr47 April 26, 2018

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This first half of this post contains no spoilers for God of War, the second half does and is marked by another spoiler warning.

I jokingly refer to the new God of War as an Angry Dad simulator, or rather for too many of us, more like My Own Personal Broken Childhood simulator. 

That’s because joking is easier than admitting how close to home it all feels, watching a child be relentlessly belittled and ridiculed by his father for the crime of being human. We might giggle at Kratos’ inability to even reach out a hand to comfort his grieving son after the death of his mother — but I have seen exactly that happen with my own eyes, in real life. Read more…

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The new ‘God of War’ redefines what epic means

sudshr47 March 19, 2018

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In the years after its release in the mid 2000s, the original God of War trilogy became a symbol for everything wrong with video games: gruesome violence, nonsensical and overwrought storytelling, angry hypermasculinity, nauseating male power fantasies, the exploitation of women, or even the dreaded quick-time event.

But if the demo with the first couple hours of the new, reimagined Nordic-themed God of War is any indication, you must leave those assumptions behind. Because like Kratos, you are a stranger in a strange land. 

And everything has changed. 

The most striking transformation in the new God of War — which comes through in everything from story to combat — is its decidedly human scale. Read more…

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8 ways actual Ragnarok is much scarier than ‘Thor: Ragnarok’

sudshr47 November 8, 2017

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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Thor: Ragnarok.

Ragnarok, the Doom of the Gods. For the Norse it meant the end of days, for us it’s a fun new addition to the Marvel cinematic universe.

Let’s get one thing straight right away, this article is in no way a criticism of Thor: Ragnarok. It’s a fantastic movie about aliens, not the gods of original Norse mythology — if there even is such a thing as “original” mythology. It’s just interesting to see how these stories have filtered all the way down from Dark Ages Scandinavia to Hollywood in 2017. Read more…

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