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- Title
Kratos, Mythical Father.
- Authors
MEDINA, PABLO
- Abstract
The acclaimed video game saga God of War surprises us with a new 2018 installment that shows the evolution of its protagonist, Kratos. In the last three games, Kratos had been a thoughtless hero fully committed to revenge but now the character created by the video game developer, Santa Monica Studio, presents a complex arc of transformation characterized by the protagonist's fatherhood. The public of the world of video games has changed, has become more mature and demands more complex and narrative contents. We have witnessed this change in the cinema before. The moviegoers went through a maturation process very similar to the one facing video games now. An excellent example of this evolution is the Star Wars 1977 saga where George Lucas decided to place its most important moment right at its center: the mythical sentence, "Luke, I am your father." By doing so, the whole saga's perspective was completely changed. The story that Star Wars displays is not just a flourish of incredible effects and spectacular explosions. What it really presents, adorned by all these elements, is a story of forgiveness between a father and a son. The video games mature fast. And in God of War we may observe an approach very similar to the one we saw in Star Wars. Kratos has fled from Greece to end up in northern lands. There he raises a family, trying to leave his bloody past behind, and finally embracing a time of peace. But the burden he carries is very heavy, and only the death of his wife will really make him face the relationship with his son. Throughout this last installment we will see how the great hero of one of the most famous sagas of the world of video games embraces fatherhood, how he matures and becomes more human.
- Subjects
GOD of War (Game); MYTHOLOGY; STORYTELLING; MOTION pictures; STAR Wars films; SUPERHEROES
- Publication
Journal of Comparative Literature & Aesthetics, 2020, Vol 43, Issue 4, p90
- ISSN
0252-8169
- Publication type
Article