I actually thought of emotreus way back in a modern ish au where calliope and faye is alive and the whole drama with kratos was never resolved when he was younger but he still has a heart of gold hidden by the malice :p
I like gow but going from 2018 to ragnarok was a painful adjustment just because the god awful ui reminded me of those cheap mobile games. For the first half of the game the captions were tough to read since they were unusually big and the character menus and level up were awful