God of War Ragnarok's Twist Changes Everything (Analysis)

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God of War Ragnarök
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God of War Ragnarök (2022)
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God of War Ragnarok code provided by PlayStation. Potential spoiler warning: this God of War Ragnarok analysis is more specific than my pre-release review, and focuses on a particular (fairly early) reveal. If you wish to be totally surprised by said reveal, play the game at least up until you complete/return home from the mission "The Quest for Tyr". Viewer discretion is advised.

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Playing as Atreus in God of War Ragnarok absolutely rules. Now that God of War Ragnarok has been released, I finally get to analyse/discuss a feature I couldn't talk about in my original review—analysing a reveal that not only surprises from a gameplay perspective, but ends up marrying Ragnarok's mechanics and narrative/story themes (especially to do with Atreus and his relationship to Kratos) in a way that elevates it above 2018's game for me—it's the fact that you now get to play as Atreus. Let's break it down why the ability to play as Atreus is so narratively important, in this story/spoiler analysis of God of War Ragnarok!

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Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart Clank footage from Trophygamers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_d2QF4VpkY

Text intro animation by Isaac Holland - https://twitter.com/drazgames

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0:00 - Intro/housekeeping
0:09 - Dancing around Ragnarok's new secret
0:31 - God of War Ragnarok's new gameplay feature
1:24 - Playing the sidekick
2:49 - Playing as Atreus kinda rules
3:56 - Not just the sidekick anymore
4:56 - The teenage experience as gameplay
7:20 - Atreus and Kratos are lost without each other
8:53 - In controlling Atreus, Kratos loses control
10:00 - Outro



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