Does that sound confusing and nonsensical to you? It /should/. God of War gets all of the details wrong and then opines about its own stupidity. If they do God of War: Bible, Jesus will be swigging wine from a bottle in each hand, almost incoherently drunk until you eventually discover that secretly he’s being controlled by a dark spirit known as Charizard.
Not sure that anything so off the mark is capable of handling any real themes because it cannot handle being consistent with the story it pretends to care about.
Personally, as I am Danish, this is still the religion of many people and it was ultimately a disgusting, juvenile, and false telling of the overall story.
I really hope they do God of War: Jesus and make him a homosexual drunkard who is only into communism and continually says he doesn’t believe in god.
It does make my blood boil, but basically in the same way that your blood would boil if a movie about “hackers” consistently showed them doing no actual hacking.
I don't think god of war ever sold itself as a faithful interpretation of the various religions they showed.
And it’s not about “faithful”. I’ve played the original games and obviously “Kratos” isn’t a historical Greek figure anyway, but the original games weren’t about /story/. They were hack and slash games with a bit of backdrop in the form of naked Greek women and ionic columns.
To me the problem is when you want to /act/ like you’re a story game with a big dramatic plot and worldbuilding, why bother using a mythology if you’re going to piss all over it and get it entirely wrong? It’s like doing a “Sesame Street” game and Big Bird has PTSD from wasting too many people in Vietnam and then shoots up a building. I really don’t have enough analogies for how much I hate the game’s story and plot… and characters. And setting.
But also, it’s a very good game despite that. It’s like playing a version of DOOM where you help out Hitler and everyone pretends Hitler is a decent guy and that Hitler is misunderstood. You’re playing DOOM, so that’s great but why am I wading through a pile of horseshit to do it?
By extension of that analogy, why should I have to wade through a hack writer’s truly awful fuckup of a story just to play the hacky and slashy bits people are buying the game God of War for. Why should I have to see dumb articles written about a dumb version of a story. Again, it’s like playing a game where Hitler is the good guy and then an article comes out “ways Hitler was misunderstood”. It’s such a fundamental fuckup of the reality it is astonishing to me.
(Sorry, I know being passionate is basically illegal here)
When source material goes out of copyright then all bets are off.
I expected they took some liberties for storytelling purposes, but if it’s as egregious as you make it out to be, I’d love to hear the common versions of the stories.
Odin’s wife is Frigg. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigg
This is known kinda like, Luke is Leia’s sister, Mary is the mother of Jesus that type of thing. But the way you pronounce the name is nearly identical to Freyja. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyja
Freyja is then in the game pretending to be Odin’s wife.
They get this fundamental detail wrong because they have such a poor understanding of the mythology. I’m trying to think of an equivalent for how wrong it is… like maybe using Mary Magdalene instead of Mary, Jesus’ mother as the Virgin Mary. She really wasn’t no virgin…
