Games Inbox: The fate of Kratos in God Of War Ragnarök, Splatoon 3 concerns, and Wave Race 64 love
The Wednesday letters page considers the madness of video game release schedules, as one reader talks up the Sonic the Hedgehog movies.
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End of the story God Of War Ragnarök is easily the biggest game this Christmas, even if it’s easy to forget it’s coming out, given how little Sony has talked about it. I love the first game and I’m sure this one will be just as good, but I have to admit I’m most interested to see what happens at the end and what it will mean for future games.
They’ve already said that this will be the last Norse game, so there’s two obvious eventualities at the end: either Kratos is alive and ready to go take on a new pantheon of gods or he dies and his story comes to an end, with his son or someone else taking over as the lead of the series.
Personally, I think Kratos is doomed. I hated him in the PlayStation 2 games but his rejuvenation in the reboot is some of the best writing I’ve ever seen in a video game, especially as his changing attitude took place in front of you, as you played, and yet it seemed very subtle and organic.
Without even getting into spoiler speculation, I just don’t see him going on to live happily after ever or becoming some kind of avenging superhero. Nope, I think this really is the twilight of the gods for Kratos and I’m fascinated to see how it plays out.Ratso
The Marvel formula I think we’re all going to quickly regret egging Marvel on to make more video games, when they all turn out to be boring open world games with the combat from the Batman: Arkham games. I mean, what is Fantastic Four going to do differently that any other superhero game hasn’t done already? I could see it working as some kind of point ‘n’
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