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From the Top — God of War
Don't you just hate it when a new series you've never played gets a new release, and apparently, it's the best game ever to exist? I sure did when God of War (2018), the soft reboot/continuation of...
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From the Top - God of War Part 2
A new game comes out, it receives phenomenal reviews, and, to top it all off, it's chosen as game of the year! For any self-respecting gamer, these are pretty strong incentives to give the game a go!...
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From the Top - God of War Part 3
In this mini-series, I've been looking at the roots of the God of War series with the goal of gaining a thorough understanding of who the mighty Kratos is and what led him to move up north and grow a...
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From The Top - God of War Part 4
In this mini-series, I have been going through my own little labours by playing through the mainline God of War games (with the addition of God of War Ascension) that precede the 2018 soft reboot of...
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From The Top - God of War Interlude
In this series, we have gone through the life and adventures of the erstwhile god of war, Kratos. The goal of this quest is to learn as much about the history and evolution of the grimacing Greek...
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Divinity and Design — Comparing Santa Monica's God of War to Its Ancient...
Greek myth has been a seemingly endless source of material and debate for game designers, writers, artists, and archaeologists for as long as we’ve known about them, if not longer. Due to the first...
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Divinity and Design — Comparing Santa Monica’s God of War to Its Ancient...
Welcome back to this mini-series, where I delve into Santa Monica's epic God of War franchise with the goal of comparing the lore of the games to their ancient Greek roots. Last time, we had a look at...
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Divinity and Design, comparing Santa Monica's God of War to Its Ancient...
As our journey continues, we finally move on from the realms of the divine and the immortal to the more common plains of the mortals, though extraordinary these mortals may be. A common theme in...
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Divinity and Design, Comparing Santa Monica's God of War to Its Ancient...
Welcome back to the final part of this series, wherein I compare the design choices Santa Monica made in the God of War franchise to the ancient Greek myths they are based on. In the previous parts, I...
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