God of War | The Story So Far... Everything You Need To Know (2018)

hello and welcome to Playstation grenade if you've clicked on this video it's most likely because you're about to play the next entry in the God of War series it may have been quite a while since you last played a god war title and the story may be a bit hazy so I thought now is a great time to get up to date on everything kratos has been up to through his gore filled life so if you're ready let's do this let's pick up the story when Zeus the king of the gods learns of a prophecy which will see him killed by a mere mortal man the prophecy also describes the distinctive markings his murderer possesses in fear of this marked warrior Zeus informs his eldest children Ares and Athena who also happened to be the god and goddess of war and tasks them with tracking down and ending this potential threat whilst pillaging and destroying the land Ares discovers a small Spartan boy with extremely distinctive birthmarks and attempts to capture him that boy is not great oaks it's his younger brother demos Kratos tries his utmost to protect his brother but he's no match for the God of War Ares and his bitch-slapped into submission luckily for Kratos Athena persuades her brother to leave Kratos alive because not only is she the goddess of warfare but she's the goddess of wisdom too so her brother agrees and Kratos is forced to watch on as his brother is taken away fueled by his failure to protect his younger brother Kratos honors Deimos through a full-body tattoo mimicking his brother's birthmarks over time Kratos became a member of the Spartan army hoping to one day avenge his little bro his rage and lack of mercy saw him ascend the Spartan ranks eventually he married lissandra and the two had a daughter named Calliope he finally became a Spartan captain after recovering a mysterious healing element known as ambrosia in a painstaking battle with Ulrich and the barbarians he used this ambrosia to save his daughter who was moments away from death due to a plague ravaging the Lance Kratos and his thirst for war soar the Spartan army annihilate all opposition until the day the barbarians returned led once again by Ulrich the barbarian hordes easily overpowered and massacred the Spartans and all auric needed to do was kill the defeated Kratos with his final breath Kratos called to the God of War Ares and offered his life in return for victory please destroy my enemies and my life is yours seeing this as an opportunity to build the ultimate warrior and disciple Ares instantly slaughters the barbarian hordes and binds Kratos to the blades of chaos a constant reminder of his pledge to the God of War Kratos continued to murder and pillage in the name of Ares and slowly lost his humanity only his love for his wife and daughter prevented Kratos from becoming the ultimate weapon of war Ares desired so knowing this arey said Kratos to destroy a temple created to honor Athena the village Oracle attempts to stop him but consumed by rage and ambition Kratos massacres all inhabitants but the final two victims will haunt him for the rest of his life Ares have sent Kratos his wife and child to that temple in the hopes he would murder the only things keeping his humanity alive and thus becoming the ultimate weapon Kratos now devastated finally realized he could no longer serve Ares and vows revenge for the murder of his family the Oracle curses Kratos to wear the ashes of his murdered wife and daughter for the rest of his life leading to his unwanted nickname The Ghost of Sparta upon breaking his vow to Ares Kratos is captured and tormented by the Furies the Furies were effectively oathkeepers who punished anyone who broke a vow or promise the three Furies kept Kratos in a dreamlike state almost wiping his memories completely luckily for Kratos Arcos who physically hauled broken promises on his body in these disgusting parasite like tumors saw the injustice of his pledge to Ares and assists him The Ghost of Sparta learns the only way to be freed is to kill the three Furies which he does with surprising ease [Applause] with the job done our cult reveals that Kratos must kill one last person to truly free himself from the oath Arcos himself as he's the son of the Furies all the oaths were transferred over to him Kratos slightly reluctant does the dirty deed the truth of the merchant who committed the slaughter of his wife and child the carnage forged from his relentless ambition yes indeed Kratos his memories fully returned and once again he is ravaged by the death of his wife and child poor guy he just can't catch a break now fueled by a desire to remove his nightmares Kratos meets Persephone the queen of the underworld who offers the Ghost of Sparta a better alternative seeing his daughter again but that comes with a caveat he must give up all his godlike powers which Kratos agrees to Kratos reunites with his daughter but the happiness is short-lived Persephone reveals she has Unleashed Atlas a hulking great Titan who will destroy the pillar that cradles the earth killing all mankind and the gods of Olympus of course Kratos can't stand for that and gives up his life with his daughter and once again goes on the warpath against Persephone and Atlas jutsu Atlas his size Kratos ops to chain him to the upper edges of the underworld whilst he returns to finish Persephone as she dies her body explodes and the resulting force destroys the pillar luckily Atlas is still chained into place and now holds the world on his shoulders for the rest of time Kratos once again commits himself to serving the gods in the hopes of having his memories removed but after a decade of servitude he is a little pissed off to say the least and let's the gods know 10 years of it I have faithfully served the gods with when will you believe me of this nightmare Athena hears his calls and proclaims that if Kratos can kill Ares the God of War she will take his nightmares away Kratos is more than happy to oblige gaining revenge and losing his visions are all he has ever wanted so off he trots to Athens to face Ares and his army Kratos meets the local Oracle who reveals the only way to defeat a god is through a mystical item known as Pandora's Box which so happens to be chained to another great hulking Titan called Chronos Kratos does what Kratos does and murders his way to Pandora's box and just before he's about to open it Ares who feels a disturbance in the force sorry wrong franchise Ares sent his kratos and hurls a pillar a few thousand miles away in paling kratos almost touching distance away from the artifact he needs to kill Ares death is only the beginning for Kratos after a long journey through the underworld he gets back to Athens to finally open Pandora's box and becomes mega Kratos a huge version of himself and fights Aries Aries uses powerful memories of Kratos killing his own family to gain the edge in battle but Kratos driven by revenge bests him and kills the God of War Kratos who has now fulfilled his vow of vengeance once again asks for his memories to be removed but Athena is having none of it no man no God could ever forget the terrible deeds you have done a broken and frankly devastated Kratos takes himself to the highest mountain in all of Greece the Ghost of Sparta throws himself to his certain death but the gods had a greater vision for his future and to send him to another level you will not die this day Kratos from that moment on Kratos became the new God of War sat on his new throne Kratos has a vision and travels to the Temple of Poseidon to seek answers once there he finds his mother dying who reveals his brother Deimos is still alive and is being held captive by Thanatos the god of death and with that Kratos his mama dies now back in Sparta great Oakes battles his younger self and reclaims his Spartan army from the pre God of War days the god of war goes on yet another murder spree and locates the gateway to deaths domain here we finally see Deimos who has the sexiest beard I've seen in a long time and once free demos reveals his anger for Kratos is the only thing that kept him alive and attempts to kill his brother during the fight between the brothers Thanatos takes demons away as he wants to be the one who kills him but just in time Kratos arrives and saves his brother that becomes the catalyst for the two to work together and the brothers take down the god of death but at the cost of Deimos his life Kratos once again has lost his family and carried his brother to his final resting place and Ponder's his actions to which the gravedigger calls Kratos the destroyer of cars Athena appears once again and attempts to reward Kratos for his deeds as he has no ties to the mortal world after his daughter wife brother and mother are all dead he can now become a full-fledged God Kratos shocks everyone and turns down the offer and remarks of God's will with his Spartan army at his back kratos wages war on pretty much anyone he can to spread the glory of Sparta the gods watching on are becoming nervous of his actions and Athena begs Kratos to stop before he faces the wrath of the gods Kratos defend is back on Athena both physically and metaphorically and joins his army in Rhodes but suddenly a portion of his powers are stolen by this mythical bird and given to the Colossus of Rhodes the two behemoths battle on and out of nowhere the king of the gods Zeus throws down the blades of Olympus the most powerful weapon in existence the only downside is that Kratos must infuse his last remaining godly powers into the weapon to defeat the Colossus of Rhodes it worked surprisingly well and as he defeats the Colossus the flailing arm crushes Kratos causing him to drop the sword Kratos is now moments away from death and must regain the sword to become his immortal self again lo and behold the mythical bird flying around was in fact Zeus who reveals this whole thing was a trick to kill Kratos so Zeus shoves the sword straight through Kratos killing him of course in Greek myths death doesn't really mean much and as Kratos is pulled into the underworld he is rescued by another Titan Gaia Gaia and Kratos hatched a plot to defeat Zeus by using the loom of fate which effectively is a time machine he ventures to the island of creation and defeats countless foes and finally locates the loom and attempts to change his fate arriving back in time at the moment he was killed by Zeus Kratos takes the Blade of Olympus and the to fight to the death just as Kratos is about to land the killing blow Athena jumps in the way and is killed by Kratos in her last words she reveals you is Olympus meaning that if Zeus dies Olympus will fall and all the gods will perish but she isn't done there no son should destroy his own father yeah Kratos is the son of Zeus who'd have thunk it no I have no father Kratos is not flustered by the revelations and once again uses the luma fate to build his army filling it with Titans from the past a huge war breaks out as the Titans attempt to climb Mount Olympus a key battle is won when Gaia and Kratos defeat for Sidon but actually flood the entire world in the process once a top of the mountain Zeus lays in wait and knocks Gaia and Kratos to their death Gaia manages to hold on but refuses to help Kratos revealing herself to be just as untrustworthy as those pesky gods now dead again Kratos is in the underworld for the fifth time but this time he defeats Hades the god of the underworld whilst here Kratos learns how to defeat Zeus and it's once again by using Pandora's box but this time though it's locked behind the flames of Olympus which can only be extinguished by its namesake Pandora once Pandora is located Kratos his humanity finally kicks in again and he sees her like a daughter he lost when the moment arrives for Pandora to sacrifice herself to extinguish the flames of Olympus Kratos won't allow it eventually she does break free but another god stands in her way Zeus father and son Zeus and Kratos fight which is punctuated with Pandora attempting to complete her task in life her last-ditch attempt is foiled by Kratos who refuses to lose another daughter but one final insult from his dad don't fail her like you failed your fan cut things into motion which can never be undone after waking Kratos opened Pandora's box to reveal well nothing it's it's empty this anticlimax is taken to the next level as kratos and zu stand over the now ruined flooded and destroyed world they have created face before it it's time to end this yes it's time remember Gaia well she managed to hold on and finally reaches the summit again and attempts to kill both Zeus and kratos during the scuffle both gods fall into Gaia's chest and fight next to her heart in the final moments kratos kills both his father and Gaia by impaling their hearts simultaneously Kratos has now defeated all the gods and all the Titans the Greek pantheon is no more but wait Zeus somehow transcended his body and his spirit form attempts to kill kratos once again using a mixture of fear violence and those memories Kratos ate so much but after 10 years of this living nightmare Kratos is able to knock Zeus his spirits back into his body and then beat him to death in a lovely touching father-son moment Athena arrives in her new ascended form and gives us one last revelation Pandora's box did actually contain something it contained evils such as fear which envelops the gods but there was also an even more powerful weapon inside that box and that was hope which sounds ridiculous but helped Kratos achieve his ambitions to defeat the gods of Olympus Athena asks for hope to be returned to her so she could give it to mankind but Kratos looking at the devastation around him refuses her offer and does this instead and angered Athena removes the sod and leaves Kratos to die his final death the story isn't quite over yet though as Kratos his body is no longer here and a trail of blood leads over the cliff edge you could call it a cliffhanger ending see what I did there sorry we now know that in 2018 the God of War has moved into Norse myth in which Kratos becomes a dad again but this time he has a spectacular beard to protect him boo boo we did it I can't believe we got through that I imagine from Playstation grenade thank you for sticking around to the bitter end it's been an absolute pleasure I'll see you next time

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Id: YETCT15X4gE

Length: 15min 32sec (932 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 30 2018