THE GOD OF WAR MELTDOWN
Sony revealed God of War: Laufey at State of Play - a spin-off where you play Kratos' dead wife Faye in the afterlife of the gods.
Within hours it became three wars at once, and the loudest one was built on a lie.
- David Jaffe, the original creator, called it "dead" and compared it to Forspoken on stream
- Writer Alanah Pearce confirmed she spent four years on it - the project an NDA banned her from naming while people called her a fraud
- The viral "they made her ugly" image compares a glam photoshoot to a character who literally just died
23 minutes of new combat shown - and zero of the outrage was about how it actually plays.
God of War: Laufey god names are confirmed by Santa Monica Studio👹
• Begtse - the Mongolian god of war
• Sekhmet - the Egyptian goddess of war, destruction, and healing
If you put these two game cinematic scenes together from ‘GOD OF WAR: RAGNAROK’ and ‘GOD OF WAR: LAUFEY’ you can see Kratos finds Faye in the afterlife since Thor momentarily kills him but after a few seconds, Thor brings Kratos back to life by using Mjölnir lightning.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO GOD OF WAR..
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 20 YEARS, THE GAME ISN’T ABOUT KRATOS.
it's about Faye - his dead wife. the woman whose funeral opened the entire Norse saga. and if your first thought is "who cares about her," that's the trick the last two games played on you.
everything you did, she had already prepared:
- she marked the trees and set the path that would reveal the full prophecy
- she sent Kratos and Atreus on the exact journey they needed to become who they had to be
- she stayed so hidden that the gods were still hunting her long after she was ashes
- and through all of it, she was never once playable. just a body on a pyre. a face in flashbacks.
Kratos didn't lead that saga. he followed it.
we played the man three steps behind his wife.
now we finally play the woman who was three steps ahead of everyone.