Nothing is wrong with the current devs when it comes to the current GoW and Kratos. But the issue is that now there are three different characters named Kratos. The first is the original—angry, unreasonable, but also tragic. He had a mission and a clear purpose. Then there’s the new Kratos, who’s older and wiser, but honestly, he feels more like a completely different character than an evolution of the original. And then there’s the flanderized version of the original we see through Valhalla, which is basically there so the devs can say, ‘See? Look how much Kratos has grown! Look how terrible he was and how much deeper ours is.’
That’s the fear with the new Greek Saga game from those devs. Instead of the original Kratos, we’d likely get this new take on the older version of him, a character seen through the lens of the current Kratos and, by extension, the current devs. Basically, it’s a disservice to the original series.
So, if it’s true that we’ll be getting a new game set in that era, I hope it’s either something unrelated to the original series or far enough removed to be easy to ignore. Or, at the very least, from devs who want to add to the original mythos rather than those who time and time again try to distance themselves from it.
