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Some discussion on the story [SPOILER]
Base game, dlcs are just horrible for variety of reasons of which i can answer in detail if asked but i hope to talk about base game story.
So basic question is why are we doing this? *spoiler including discussion below, go no further if you havent finished the story* I am not a native english speaker and apologize for all spelling errors.
Ok so by end game we get a second big twist (first bing lagyron being an idiot which was forseeable miles away from the beginning) that is Zeus did the horrible things we thought typhon did. He turned all to stone, he planned to conduct another genocide so he can go to his next generation and we also learn that he also genocided generations of people before us. Men of iron. I was hoping this game would take a modern take on the classic mythology like god of war did with norse mythos. But no, stories are there , zeus being a **** and he did everything we blamed typhon for. At that point i felt like the next section of the game was going to be me taking down zeus, but no.Conducting genocides, turning people to stone, lying and cheating your spouses, making life hell for all gods and mortals and we are "i love you lord dad". .... Excuse me what the ****?
I would rather side with typhon. What did he wanted to do? Give rulership back to the titans that gods took from by killing their fathers and mothers. This game needed a fresh take on greek myths for the story to work but it didnt, it stayed true to the back lore. Also lagyron's betrayel..
What was that about? It came out of nowhere, he wanted to be a god? for what reason? Power? We never see him in the game. He just appears. I honestly didn't care. Game could have used violance and blood but that was kept out because of age rating issues.Killing him would be good.
So why am i fighting typhon? Not zeus? Why am i putting up with insufferable group of a family that zeus has? Why am i putting up with aphrodite being a slu*t, Hephaestos being a spineless cuck, Ares being.. Really ares has no personality aside from steriotypical war monger. and Athena's insufferable ego. And we just left prometheus there to rot? His crime being... what exactly? giving power of fire to mortals? You guys realise that means civilization right? He gave us litteral computers and internet for us to complain on. (being by products of civilization.) So his crime was worse than zeus's? For the game to work the writers needed to take apart the classic mythos and take on a new perspective. This is why god of war worked and this did not.
as a good reddit post put it:
"It's not like the game is trying to stick to the morality (or lack thereof) of Greek myth either, hence having Zeus realize what a terrible person (god?) he is throughout the game, and having the other gods' heinous acts described as such throughout. But it doesn't commit to a more modern take on them, either; it tip toes the line by saying, "yeah, these guys are pretty terrible, but eh, that's not important.""
"the gods are pretty terrible and I don't see why I should be fighting to put this dysfunctional crew of backstabbing *******s who regard my equals (humans)as worthless animals back in power. And the gods only got in power by overthrowing the titans. Might as well overthrow the gods now, that's the worst thing he's guilty of and that's nothing. One maniacal ******* that I can overpower is better than a whole family of ones that I can't."
Kratos was right, Screw you guys.
So why am i doing i love you new dad instead of hold up, you deserve worse than typhon.