I SWEAR THIS IS THE LAST TIME I'M UPLOADING THIS LMAO Have had a lot of trouble figuring out how to best edit it together, but I think I finally got it. My apologies. Anyways, no spoilers please and thank youuu 🙏
@@azc0na Excellent work luv. I arranged the Nidhogg and Crimson Dread tracks and those took me so long to cobble together I can only imagine how long this took to make. Lot of people can't really grasp how many hours went into this. c:
As despicable as Odin's treatment of others and his duplicitous nature may be, I love how they portrayed his thirst for knowledge. It is almost as if he is a slave to knowledge, to the point of betraying and hurting everything and everyone around him, including himself, just to dig deeper down the well of knowledge. He couldn't stop digging even if he tried, unable to overcome his nature.
He also seems to blame other people for his own mistakes and is completely incapable of taking any responsibility for his own actions, a text book narcissist
@@noahsibahi-jackson8757 Which I think is one of the reasons the new GoW games are so damn good. The 'villains' aren't just some moustache-twirling evil-for-evil's-sake assholes, they have complexity. Baldur had mommy issues, Thor had daddy issues and the way they portrayed him like a recovering alcoholic with a toxic relationship with his dad pleasantly surprised me. Everyone felt like a genuine person, unlike the original GoW where both the heroes and the villains were comic book characters. Not to say that that's a bad thing, cause those were a completely different style of games for a different audience.
@@noahsibahi-jackson8757 he was a total sociopath which I loved in that game. He was such an amazing liar and deceiver which is textbook odin in Norse mythology. He didn’t care that his own son (baldur) died he only was mad because he lost his second strongest god and not a son
"You know who I am?" Having played gow 2018 like 6-7 times and having heard of all the Terrors he has inflicted across the nine realms that line really makes your heart drop to the ground. *That's him.* The Man that killed the being to birth all beings. The Man that slaughtered an entire race just because they were *said* to be the ones to kill him. The Man that hung himself from the branches of the universe itself just to gain knowledge. The Man that is described as wanting to "control every Land, in every realm, in every World if he could". The Man that enslaved an entire World and turned their realm into a factory. The Man that tricked a young woman into killing her own father just because she wouldn't become his wife. The Man that imprisoned 2 puppys in the depths of his palace to stop them from starting day and night. The Man that has any living being of any realm that *might* ever pose a threat to him murdered. The Man that sends men to hell for dying of old age. The Man that forces warriors who died in battle to fight for him for eternity, erasing their memories of their loved ones and everything they lived for. The Man that besieges an entire World because his former wife, queen of said World, wouldn't take part in genocide. The man that gave said wife a pet-name just to not give a "lesser being" any credit. The Man that betrayed said wife just to be able to study her magic and bewitch her with it to never be able to defend herself or others, imprisoning her so she may never see or help her people again. The Man that invited beings he saw as below him to his palace just to laugh at them and have them slaughtered by his son in the end. The Man that had the stone mason who built the great walls of his kingdom crushed just because he lost a bet against him. The Man that corrupted hundreds of innocent ravens to be his trackers, taking their souls and bodies from them. The Man that chained an innocent creature for the rest of it's life, for lamp-oil. The Man that sent his only grandsons to a fight they were destined to lose, not caring about their deaths and calling them "useless". The Man that sets up his only granddaughter and only grandchild left to suffer the same fate as her brothers. The Man that forced his son to beat his own youngest, only son left to death, trying to make him and his daughter-in-law forget by drowning them in alcohol. The Man that turned his firstborn into a personal mindless killing machine. The Man that degraded his secondborn into his personal lapdog by giving him hopes of a normal life. The Man that had mankind live outside the walls of his kingdom, aware that they will be killed doing so. The Man that ensured a war to last for over 200 winters, turning the whole realm into an infinite meatgrinder. The Man that fused his personal advisor with a tree, torturing him day by day. The man that forced an entire race to leave their bodies just so they wouldn't be wiped off the universe. The Man that killed his own son. The Man who's death is said to start a new age of peace. The God that stole the light of Alfheim. The God that stole the fire of Muspelheim. The God that stole the ice of Niflheim. The God that stole the magic of Vanaheim. The God that stole the prophecies of Jotunheim. The God that stole the resources of Svartalfheim. The God that stole the life of Helheim. The God that stole the humans of Midgard. The Allfather. *Odin*
I believe the reason Odin and Thor have the same theme is because Thor is Odin’s puppet. Odin has fully manipulated him into being a mindless extension of himself.
i like how when thor came he was polite, asked if he could come in and set the hammer on the table and was pretty respectful to kratos and atreus odin however slams on the door and comes in, uninvited, talking smack and disrespecting everyone in there even his own son. it rlly lets you know who the real villain is
The cool thing about how Odin enters the house, I think, is how, partly, he's already playing up the kindly old grandfather routine ("Little chilly out here, isn't it, sonny? Y'wouldn't mind letting a tired, travel-worn old man, warm his aching bones, would you? (...) Oh! A chair for me? And I see you've set out a couple of pitchers of mead! You shouldn't have!"), while simultaneously, like you said, obnoxiously crashing into Kratos and Atreus' house, like he owns the place (which, in his opinion, he does, or he will, in time, anyway). LOL, speaking of grandfathers, thought, I always thought Richard Schiff/Odin had quite a notable resemblance to my great-grandad Lennie (we're both from West Yorkshire, but he was actually at least half Norwegian (or some other type of Scandinavian), half German). Apart from the eyes being a little different, he was also thinning. It got me thinking though, imagine being able to say that your grandad was actually Odin. That'd be ace... Well, until, based off how much of a tosspot he is in GOW (and, to some degree, the myths), you realise how awful a person he actually is.
Even though the final battle and visual design were a bit underwhelming (comparing with Baldur and Zeus, that is) I LOVED his characterization as a nerdy, despicable a-hole mob boss.
@@cidiosethat’s the beauty of it though. He doesn’t need to be physically strong because he’s manipulated others into doing it for him, so he’s honed his powers magically. So he may look underwhelming, but he’s just as deadly.
Really love the direction they took with Odin. Instead of making him a textbook big strong bad guy like they did with Zeus they instead made him a master manipulator who rarely has to use physical force to get what he wants. His motivations were also really good making him a man determined to gain knowledge at any cost made him a lot more interesting than just most of the orignal villains who with the exception of Athena all just seemed really cardboard in their motivations
@@HiHi-st3mz it’s pretty heavily implied that he is very physically strong and dextrous, the way he swings his spear around was quite impressive He simply is too concerned with his own business that he needs people to do the literal heavy lifting for him
Same. I liked the fight with him, too. It felt like you were doing battle with the oldest/most powerful wizard/sorcerer in existence. In fact, I think he's supposed to be the inspiration for the stereotypical wizard look.
I love a good leitmotif that permeates through a game. Also Odin is such a great foil for Kratos. An antagonist driven by obsession, much how Kratos was driven by his obsession of revenge in the Greek games.
In a way you can find another parallel between them. Tyr wasn't the only god of war, technically Odin and Thor were, too. You could see Odin as the Norse pantheon's version of Kratos that conquered instead of killed the whole pantheon. Because if Kratos wasn't there, Odin would likely have succeeded, too.
The hand of Odin track gave me unbelievable chills, like the final finale of an entire series over a period of decades has led up to one specific moment, THE moment to confront Odin and meet your doom. It’s almost like the “avengers endgame” of the god of war series, from the very beginning of the game to this moment. I love it so much
Except it's not at all. It's the culmination of 2 games, being 2018 and this one. The original god of war trilogy was effectively it's own build up to endgame except with much more murder and much less cooperation. Starting 3 on Gaia then ending with taking out the king of Olympus, it was very climactic in and of itself. With odin, it's only 1 game of buildup (where it was all just stories of him) then a game of escalating action building to the big daddy all fucker himself. Don't get me wrong, i loved it all but to imply the events of the greek saga has any ties to facing odin at ragnarok, well that's a bit of a stretch
Now what you did to his boys self defense dying is what we Aiser live for yea his mind was gone sure but he had his uses and now he had his uses and now he’s gone because of you you follow me?
Anyway it's nothing new here, you should try yourself Hades theme in GoW3 or Perseus's theme in GoW2 or Brothers of Blood or Madness of the Furies. This is nothing.
Odin was so good at deceit, i was actually starting to really like him, he kinda made me feel bad about the stuff i did against odin. But i realised that it was all a lie, he’s so good he even tricks the player. Despite me knowing what he had done i really liked him. The actor does such a good job.
i loved odin in GOW honestly, hes so charismatic with what he says and the way he talks, every little thing he does seems so genuine and true yet behind it all lies a deception and cunning wickedness that almost makes you believe in the things he says, he himself is not threatening at all (atleast appearance wise), but how deceptive he is is terrifying in a way, like a pure evil presence masked behind niceties, if not for mimir kratos probably wouldve believed odin, or atleast atreus
Spoiler alert for anyone who hasn't beat the game. I know it sounds ridiculous, but I love to imagine that when Odin stared through the rift and saw creation itself, he was actually looking at the very coding of the world, and the face staring back at him was the players behind the TV screen
"infinite knowledge", if it actually exist it would be something like that. Even if Odin successed, he would be curse with knowledge, knowing the fact that they're just tiny matter in the infinite universe, or worst, characters inside a virtual world, would make him even more paranoid of being erased.
@@kylelapointe2289 Achieving CHIM would require Odin to reject reality. Odin didn't really CHIM or Zero-Sum, he just couldn't even begin to comprehend what he saw.
just finished the main story and I love how Odin is portrayed in this game. while I never got a chance to play the Greek saga, I like how Odin is not physically intimidating as Zeus but What makes him scary is his thirst for knowledge and how he manipulates others to do his bidding. It's like a brain vs brawn type of thing that I like. either way I LOVED this game!
Also how Odin actually CRAVES something. He is obsessed. Zeus was obsessed too, but he craved nothing. He was at the peak, literally, peak of Olympus, all he wanted was for things to stay this way and so he treated Kratos as a rabid dog, too mad to be tolerated in his perfect world order. Odin on the other hand? He seems to actually "level" with Kratos. He sees Kratos as a genuine threat and also hates him low key... So that makes Odin that much more "engaged" enemy for Kratos than Zeus. Zeus was reacting (even if massively, with cataclysmic blows) but Odin is acting against Kratos in both subtle and unsubtle ways.
4:28 My favourite bit - shows a sense of being the mastermind behind all the trickery and death going on. Love how relaxing and menacing it is. 5:30 then comes the big reveal - we think Thor was behind all the slaughtering and chaos, when, in reality, it was Odin's commands.
I like Odin but he's not literally all-powerful, the game also depict him perfectly for that. Odin isn't invincible like Zeus, that's why he's unique. He uses his deceits, tricks and even put his family in dangers to confront Kratos and convince Atreus to find the pieces of the Mask. A cunning coward which will sacrifice everything for his obsession of the truth of creation, life, death and everything which lies beyond His Kingdom(Nine Realms). Odin, the All-Father, King of the Aesir and the Wiseman of Lies.
@@HazDev56 I also like how, as Tŷr, Odin tried making all these aspects of himself he rejects as Loki. A trickster, deceiver, and liar. Perfect example is when the Boy was explaining to the others how he freed Garm.
I love that transition at around 3:27. It sounds so beautifully (and forebodingly - if that's even a word) cold, which from a meta/mythological standpoint, suits Odin: He's descended from Primordial Frost Giants (with his grandfather, Buri, being the first fully fledged Æsir), and the place he was born in, Ginnungagap, in terms of real life locale, is supposed to encompass parts of what the Vikings called Vinland/Vindoland (so, at least some remote parts of Canada), and or, somewhere in Siberia. And, in one of the sagas involving Skjöldr (who is actually a bastard son of the All-Father in the classic myths. Imagine if they actually included that relation somehow, later in the series, like if he did some sort of Zeus/Poseidon style bed trick, then organised a situation, where he was pretty much orphaned, but, blah, blah, blah, headcanon...), Odin is supposed to be from Scythia, which is the ancient world term for several areas in the Black Sea: specifically, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania etc.). Yeah, I'm a history and mythology nerd, as you can guess from this comment. That reminds me, speaking of half God illegitimate offspring, according to legend, Heimdall is supposed to be indirectly (but not too indirectly responsible) for the creation of Ancient Norse social classes (I can't remember the specific terms/names). Going by the name Rig, Heimdall travelled through Midgard, probably on a sort of lad's weekend, and one night, he ended up knocking up three women (he needed his downtime, you know), who gave birth to his sons. These three half-brothers became a peasant farmer/slave (a peasant, anyway, I'm certain of that), a warrior, and some type of earl/count.
You know even after everything he done , in the end i felt sorry for him , maybe he really just wanted to know what is the unseen knowldge or what will become of him after death , but maybe that was another lie too , and he just wanted to rule for ever and have infinitie knolwdge. I gusse that's the theme of his character , manipulative
I liked quite a lot the blend between cult leader and mafia boss. Seem very reasonable, always offering dealings. But this man is known for watching with his ravens, always watching and collecting info. This man simply would not allow something to fall out of his reach. No way.
[The Hand of Odin, based on u/hijopute 's variant, attempted to make it more melodic] Sleep of yours is deep, Rangarok arrive. Time for Aesir to Stand and lead us all for war. To send us all for war. Sleep of yours is deep, Rangarok arrive. Time for Aesir to Stand and lead us all for war. To send us all for war. Ragnarok - fear death. Time is drawing near. Let the child to go - His heart had became so strong. His heart now is so strong.
“All I ever wanted was the truth, I just wanted answers!, Everything I lived for!, Everything I killed for! I needed to know what happens next’ Odin in his early years was nothing more than a stubborn young Kratos, both through their will sought answers down different paths, brutal eradication of a pantheon by brutal vengeful hands and the other subjugating a pantheon by their knowledgeable mind
am glad they paid respect to the mythology counterparts of thor and Odin with thor being pure power and Odin being a hungry slave to knowledge with lies and tricks phenomenal game
Odin doesn't remember that he already died. Nprse Gods died so many times. So many Ragnaroks They never remember what happened in the last one. Those tiny and twisted parts of the facts are what they called the Prophecy. I know.
I love this! Thank you for putting it together - I'm trying to avoid any and all spoilers before I play this but couldn't resist hearing the music. So hyped for it.
1:16: - Can I come in? I have mead! - You would NOT find me good company! - Oh, haha, I'm sure we'll find LOTS to talk about! - (whispers) ..gestures to come in with axe - nice place.
2:37-3:30....this alone describes odin, his terror all over 9 realms, what his personality should have been, a silent one instead of being a funny mob leader....that more suits to AC valhalla odin
@@azc0na Aw man, sorry to hear, sometimes people say it just to throw you off, but yes the actual name is Ragnarök, maybe he meant with an O as for Ragnarok because many people are too lazy to find the ö, anyways, all the best!
There's some issue with the bass at 1:20, did they genuinely release the OST in that quality or is that YT compression? Other than that beautiful mix, listened to this while studying lmao
Yes and no. I upped the tracks' volume by a tiny bit because I feel they're usually mixed super quietly. However, Bear's stuff is mixed in a way to where it's VERY bass heavy, so sometimes the bass can sound super defeaning and drown out the instruments, which sucks because I usually up the volume to make sure that's not the case lmao. But it's a fickle battle, it was especially hard to get it right for the Rings of Power suites and I feel I kind of succeeded with those
@azc0na I'd like to ask you something. Odin's theme, it plays the first five notes, then five different notes come next, and the theme ends with the same five notes at the beginning of the theme combined with more different notes. I've heard it several times; specifically in Ninjago, from the Overture theme, to Master Chen's theme, to Kalmaar's theme, and even the Vermillion's theme. I know there's a name for it; I've been looking for it for a while, but I never seem to find it. I was hoping since you seem to be an expert on music yourself, perhaps you could help me out and tell me what it's called?
The key difference is, though, you'd probably be significantly safer, having Marvel Odin and Thor out for your blood, than the two mad savages from God of War.
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I SWEAR THIS IS THE LAST TIME I'M UPLOADING THIS LMAO
Have had a lot of trouble figuring out how to best edit it together, but I think I finally got it. My apologies.
Anyways, no spoilers please and thank youuu 🙏
Copyright?
@@5emiliobocanegra644 No copyright issues, just me wanting to make sure it sounds as good as possible
@@azc0na oh okay, i got scared for a moment lol
@@azc0na Hi can you give us soundtrack kratos vs heimdall?:(
@@azc0na Excellent work luv. I arranged the Nidhogg and Crimson Dread tracks and those took me so long to cobble together I can only imagine how long this took to make. Lot of people can't really grasp how many hours went into this. c:
The scariest thing about "You know who I am" is that it isn't a question. It's a statement.
Best line in the series
@@OsodjrhrbI rank it third, after “have you ever been in love? It’s pretty good” by surtur and of course “open your heart to their suffering”
Don't forget "Death can have me, when it earns me"
Y'all are not taking the actual best line into consideration "Don't forget me, All-Føckah!"
@@ennieminymoo6675 What did you call me?
As despicable as Odin's treatment of others and his duplicitous nature may be, I love how they portrayed his thirst for knowledge. It is almost as if he is a slave to knowledge, to the point of betraying and hurting everything and everyone around him, including himself, just to dig deeper down the well of knowledge. He couldn't stop digging even if he tried, unable to overcome his nature.
All of that for Mimir to still be smarter
He also seems to blame other people for his own mistakes and is completely incapable of taking any responsibility for his own actions, a text book narcissist
@@noahsibahi-jackson8757 Which I think is one of the reasons the new GoW games are so damn good. The 'villains' aren't just some moustache-twirling evil-for-evil's-sake assholes, they have complexity. Baldur had mommy issues, Thor had daddy issues and the way they portrayed him like a recovering alcoholic with a toxic relationship with his dad pleasantly surprised me.
Everyone felt like a genuine person, unlike the original GoW where both the heroes and the villains were comic book characters. Not to say that that's a bad thing, cause those were a completely different style of games for a different audience.
@@ianmoriarty2199 Agreed
@@noahsibahi-jackson8757 he was a total sociopath which I loved in that game. He was such an amazing liar and deceiver which is textbook odin in Norse mythology. He didn’t care that his own son (baldur) died he only was mad because he lost his second strongest god and not a son
"You know who I am?"
Having played gow 2018 like 6-7 times and having heard of all the Terrors he has inflicted across the nine realms that line really makes your heart drop to the ground. *That's him.*
The Man that killed the being to birth all beings. The Man that slaughtered an entire race just because they were *said* to be the ones to kill him. The Man that hung himself from the branches of the universe itself just to gain knowledge. The Man that is described as wanting to "control every Land, in every realm, in every World if he could". The Man that enslaved an entire World and turned their realm into a factory. The Man that tricked a young woman into killing her own father just because she wouldn't become his wife. The Man that imprisoned 2 puppys in the depths of his palace to stop them from starting day and night. The Man that has any living being of any realm that *might* ever pose a threat to him murdered. The Man that sends men to hell for dying of old age. The Man that forces warriors who died in battle to fight for him for eternity, erasing their memories of their loved ones and everything they lived for. The Man that besieges an entire World because his former wife, queen of said World, wouldn't take part in genocide. The man that gave said wife a pet-name just to not give a "lesser being" any credit. The Man that betrayed said wife just to be able to study her magic and bewitch her with it to never be able to defend herself or others, imprisoning her so she may never see or help her people again. The Man that invited beings he saw as below him to his palace just to laugh at them and have them slaughtered by his son in the end. The Man that had the stone mason who built the great walls of his kingdom crushed just because he lost a bet against him. The Man that corrupted hundreds of innocent ravens to be his trackers, taking their souls and bodies from them. The Man that chained an innocent creature for the rest of it's life, for lamp-oil. The Man that sent his only grandsons to a fight they were destined to lose, not caring about their deaths and calling them "useless". The Man that sets up his only granddaughter and only grandchild left to suffer the same fate as her brothers. The Man that forced his son to beat his own youngest, only son left to death, trying to make him and his daughter-in-law forget by drowning them in alcohol. The Man that turned his firstborn into a personal mindless killing machine. The Man that degraded his secondborn into his personal lapdog by giving him hopes of a normal life. The Man that had mankind live outside the walls of his kingdom, aware that they will be killed doing so.
The Man that ensured a war to last for over 200 winters, turning the whole realm into an infinite meatgrinder. The Man that fused his personal advisor with a tree, torturing him day by day. The man that forced an entire race to leave their bodies just so they wouldn't be wiped off the universe. The Man that killed his own son. The Man who's death is said to start a new age of peace.
The God that stole the light of Alfheim. The God that stole the fire of Muspelheim.
The God that stole the ice of Niflheim. The God that stole the magic of Vanaheim.
The God that stole the prophecies of Jotunheim.
The God that stole the resources of Svartalfheim.
The God that stole the life of Helheim.
The God that stole the humans of Midgard.
The Allfather.
*Odin*
Beautifully put, brother.
I love it when people write stuff like this
That was the best thing I’ve ever read that compares Odin perfectly on what he is
Are you like a professional author or something?
Ok
Atreus' silly ass really trusted a guy whose theme sounds like this 💀
He's just being a bit silly
Atreus is too trusting
LMAOOOO
Not really trusted him more like he trusted he could outsmart him, which isn't less stupid to be honest
Who wouldn't trust a nice old man who one time had one of his kids get railed by a horse so he could win a bet
I believe the reason Odin and Thor have the same theme is because Thor is Odin’s puppet. Odin has fully manipulated him into being a mindless extension of himself.
_”You know who I am.”_
Surrender... The Allfather demands it
@@ausar3852 No!
@@dsopro7707 i can explain it tomyou, but i can't understand it for you
Back before winter set, there were some….misunderstandings. Regrettable ones. But now, I think we have an idea of What we’re dealing with.
@@TheRoomforImprovement now what you did to his boys self defense dying is what we Asier live for and let’s be honest they were kinda useless
i like how when thor came he was polite, asked if he could come in and set the hammer on the table and was pretty respectful to kratos and atreus
odin however slams on the door and comes in, uninvited, talking smack and disrespecting everyone in there even his own son.
it rlly lets you know who the real villain is
The cool thing about how Odin enters the house, I think, is how, partly, he's already playing up the kindly old grandfather routine ("Little chilly out here, isn't it, sonny? Y'wouldn't mind letting a tired, travel-worn old man, warm his aching bones, would you? (...) Oh! A chair for me? And I see you've set out a couple of pitchers of mead! You shouldn't have!"), while simultaneously, like you said, obnoxiously crashing into Kratos and Atreus' house, like he owns the place (which, in his opinion, he does, or he will, in time, anyway).
LOL, speaking of grandfathers, thought, I always thought Richard Schiff/Odin had quite a notable resemblance to my great-grandad Lennie (we're both from West Yorkshire, but he was actually at least half Norwegian (or some other type of Scandinavian), half German). Apart from the eyes being a little different, he was also thinning. It got me thinking though, imagine being able to say that your grandad was actually Odin. That'd be ace... Well, until, based off how much of a tosspot he is in GOW (and, to some degree, the myths), you realise how awful a person he actually is.
I like how Odin had an almost mafia kind if feel to him when he spoke.
Even though the final battle and visual design were a bit underwhelming (comparing with Baldur and Zeus, that is) I LOVED his characterization as a nerdy, despicable a-hole mob boss.
@@cidiosethat’s the beauty of it though. He doesn’t need to be physically strong because he’s manipulated others into doing it for him, so he’s honed his powers magically. So he may look underwhelming, but he’s just as deadly.
Really love the direction they took with Odin. Instead of making him a textbook big strong bad guy like they did with Zeus they instead made him a master manipulator who rarely has to use physical force to get what he wants. His motivations were also really good making him a man determined to gain knowledge at any cost made him a lot more interesting than just most of the orignal villains who with the exception of Athena all just seemed really cardboard in their motivations
And even if physical strength isn't his strong suit he can still handle a 1v3 pretty well all things considered.
@@HiHi-st3mz it’s pretty heavily implied that he is very physically strong and dextrous, the way he swings his spear around was quite impressive
He simply is too concerned with his own business that he needs people to do the literal heavy lifting for him
Same. I liked the fight with him, too. It felt like you were doing battle with the oldest/most powerful wizard/sorcerer in existence. In fact, I think he's supposed to be the inspiration for the stereotypical wizard look.
@@presseagainidareyou4704 He is also quite durable despite his frail look, being able to tank attacks from Kratos.
@@radcut7404 yeah Baldur was like this too. He was an absolute twig but the final fight had him tanking so much damage from Kratos
I love a good leitmotif that permeates through a game. Also Odin is such a great foil for Kratos. An antagonist driven by obsession, much how Kratos was driven by his obsession of revenge in the Greek games.
In a way you can find another parallel between them. Tyr wasn't the only god of war, technically Odin and Thor were, too. You could see Odin as the Norse pantheon's version of Kratos that conquered instead of killed the whole pantheon. Because if Kratos wasn't there, Odin would likely have succeeded, too.
13:34 my fav part up to the end
that part is elite
Couldn't agree more, i wanna hear more of that melody
Same! It's the last QTE, and for a moment he was about to steal Kratos's eye
Feels like it's supposed to be extended.
There is so much menace to the Odin leitmotif, it's so heavy
The hand of Odin track gave me unbelievable chills, like the final finale of an entire series over a period of decades has led up to one specific moment, THE moment to confront Odin and meet your doom. It’s almost like the “avengers endgame” of the god of war series, from the very beginning of the game to this moment. I love it so much
It just fits him perfectly tbh
Except it's not at all. It's the culmination of 2 games, being 2018 and this one. The original god of war trilogy was effectively it's own build up to endgame except with much more murder and much less cooperation. Starting 3 on Gaia then ending with taking out the king of Olympus, it was very climactic in and of itself. With odin, it's only 1 game of buildup (where it was all just stories of him) then a game of escalating action building to the big daddy all fucker himself. Don't get me wrong, i loved it all but to imply the events of the greek saga has any ties to facing odin at ragnarok, well that's a bit of a stretch
@@SomeGuy-mt4hq I mean people are allowed to see it as a build up
(Even tho I agree with ya)
@@godzillaslayer5817 true, and I do see how such a stretch could be made but it's effectively a soft reboot. In some ways it's very disconnected
Sofna. Uppfra pessu. Sofna heasoun. Sofna... Sofna... Sofna...
*Þ/þ(th), Ð/ð(dh)
Sofna.. ..upp frá.. þessu. Sofna.. ..heðan. Sofna.. ..sofna.. sofna.
@@HazDev56 Thanks
@@MariusBoss11458 you're welcome👍🏼🔥🔥🔥
His theme is so tragic, epic, and menacing all that same time.
This theme is so dramatic in all the right ways, it definitely fits in with the other god of war final boss themes
5:24 10:35
13:43 is the best !!
3:30 is just pure chills
*You know who I am.*
@@shawnthompson2303 back before winter set in there were some…..misunderstandings, regrettable ones
@@Bigdoghirohito but I think we all have a better idea of who we're dealing with
Now what you did to his boys self defense dying is what we Aiser live for yea his mind was gone sure but he had his uses and now he had his uses and now he’s gone because of you you follow me?
@@viloetmarsh3467 you have a debt.
You're no fun anymore
10:38 was the part I was searching for and I finally found it!
"I didn't want this. I did not want this."
@@georgehouliaras7239 NOOOOOOOOOOO thrùd this was their fault they’ve done this to us to our family!!
13:34 bear did not have to go Soul themed level there holy shit
"soul themed level"??? Wth is that?
Anyway it's nothing new here, you should try yourself Hades theme in GoW3 or Perseus's theme in GoW2 or Brothers of Blood or Madness of the Furies. This is nothing.
@@wi0.24se "Souls themed" means that it sounds like something from the Dark Souls game series.
@@wi0.24se Cmon man, I love the tracks on the old games but “the hand of odin” alone wipes everything it has to offer
@@wi0.24se Ahh, you're one of the "Kratos got nerfed! If this was GoW3!" fans.
Odin was so good at deceit, i was actually starting to really like him, he kinda made me feel bad about the stuff i did against odin. But i realised that it was all a lie, he’s so good he even tricks the player. Despite me knowing what he had done i really liked him. The actor does such a good job.
i loved odin in GOW honestly, hes so charismatic with what he says and the way he talks, every little thing he does seems so genuine and true yet behind it all lies a deception and cunning wickedness that almost makes you believe in the things he says, he himself is not threatening at all (atleast appearance wise), but how deceptive he is is terrifying in a way, like a pure evil presence masked behind niceties, if not for mimir kratos probably wouldve believed odin, or atleast atreus
3:41 - 4:15
I Honestly love that part.
Spoiler alert for anyone who hasn't beat the game.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I love to imagine that when Odin stared through the rift and saw creation itself, he was actually looking at the very coding of the world, and the face staring back at him was the players behind the TV screen
TBH. THE FACT that the characters are already kinda "AWARE" it's possible if odin did really look into it lol.
"infinite knowledge", if it actually exist it would be something like that. Even if Odin successed, he would be curse with knowledge, knowing the fact that they're just tiny matter in the infinite universe, or worst, characters inside a virtual world, would make him even more paranoid of being erased.
Odin achieved Chim.
@@kylelapointe2289 I see, an elder scrolls fellow
@@kylelapointe2289 Achieving CHIM would require Odin to reject reality. Odin didn't really CHIM or Zero-Sum, he just couldn't even begin to comprehend what he saw.
9:45 favorite part
"You chose to be nothing !"
"AAAAAUUUUUUHHHH"
10:38 I didn’t want this I did not want this
This was all their fault.THEY'RE DONE THIS TO US! TO OUR FAMILY!
@@joachims4726 YOUR OWN SON??!!! YOUR GRAND DAUGHTER WHY!!!
@@viloetmarsh3467 THRUD'S GONNA BE FINE, I SAVED HER.
AND THOR.. THIS ONE'S ON YOU!
@@mustafatheslayer5125 You turned him against me you turned them all against me
@@viloetmarsh3467 "-GLETTINGS BÁRA!!!!"
just finished the main story and I love how Odin is portrayed in this game. while I never got a chance to play the Greek saga, I like how Odin is not physically intimidating as Zeus but What makes him scary is his thirst for knowledge and how he manipulates others to do his bidding. It's like a brain vs brawn type of thing that I like. either way I LOVED this game!
Also how Odin actually CRAVES something. He is obsessed. Zeus was obsessed too, but he craved nothing. He was at the peak, literally, peak of Olympus, all he wanted was for things to stay this way and so he treated Kratos as a rabid dog, too mad to be tolerated in his perfect world order.
Odin on the other hand? He seems to actually "level" with Kratos. He sees Kratos as a genuine threat and also hates him low key... So that makes Odin that much more "engaged" enemy for Kratos than Zeus.
Zeus was reacting (even if massively, with cataclysmic blows) but Odin is acting against Kratos in both subtle and unsubtle ways.
He's strong for his appearance, though. Probably where Baldur got it from, mostly.
4:28 My favourite bit - shows a sense of being the mastermind behind all the trickery and death going on. Love how relaxing and menacing it is.
5:30 then comes the big reveal - we think Thor was behind all the slaughtering and chaos, when, in reality, it was Odin's commands.
This really is. Theme befitting an all-powerful force of evil. It’s menacing, scary at times, and it fits this version of Odin so well
I like Odin but he's not literally all-powerful, the game also depict him perfectly for that. Odin isn't invincible like Zeus, that's why he's unique. He uses his deceits, tricks and even put his family in dangers to confront Kratos and convince Atreus to find the pieces of the Mask. A cunning coward which will sacrifice everything for his obsession of the truth of creation, life, death and everything which lies beyond His Kingdom(Nine Realms). Odin, the All-Father, King of the Aesir and the Wiseman of Lies.
@@HazDev56 I also like how, as Tŷr, Odin tried making all these aspects of himself he rejects as Loki. A trickster, deceiver, and liar. Perfect example is when the Boy was explaining to the others how he freed Garm.
I love that transition at around 3:27. It sounds so beautifully (and forebodingly - if that's even a word) cold, which from a meta/mythological standpoint, suits Odin: He's descended from Primordial Frost Giants (with his grandfather, Buri, being the first fully fledged Æsir), and the place he was born in, Ginnungagap, in terms of real life locale, is supposed to encompass parts of what the Vikings called Vinland/Vindoland (so, at least some remote parts of Canada), and or, somewhere in Siberia.
And, in one of the sagas involving Skjöldr (who is actually a bastard son of the All-Father in the classic myths. Imagine if they actually included that relation somehow, later in the series, like if he did some sort of Zeus/Poseidon style bed trick, then organised a situation, where he was pretty much orphaned, but, blah, blah, blah, headcanon...), Odin is supposed to be from Scythia, which is the ancient world term for several areas in the Black Sea: specifically, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania etc.). Yeah, I'm a history and mythology nerd, as you can guess from this comment.
That reminds me, speaking of half God illegitimate offspring, according to legend, Heimdall is supposed to be indirectly (but not too indirectly responsible) for the creation of Ancient Norse social classes (I can't remember the specific terms/names).
Going by the name Rig, Heimdall travelled through Midgard, probably on a sort of lad's weekend, and one night, he ended up knocking up three women (he needed his downtime, you know), who gave birth to his sons. These three half-brothers became a peasant farmer/slave (a peasant, anyway, I'm certain of that), a warrior, and some type of earl/count.
This is just a nice suite, it flows really well and builds up the tension from throughout the story masterfully.
You know even after everything he done , in the end i felt sorry for him , maybe he really just wanted to know what is the unseen knowldge or what will become of him after death , but maybe that was another lie too , and he just wanted to rule for ever and have infinitie knolwdge. I gusse that's the theme of his character , manipulative
I liked quite a lot the blend between cult leader and mafia boss. Seem very reasonable, always offering dealings. But this man is known for watching with his ravens, always watching and collecting info. This man simply would not allow something to fall out of his reach. No way.
[The Hand of Odin, based on u/hijopute 's variant, attempted to make it more melodic]
Sleep of yours is deep,
Rangarok arrive.
Time for Aesir to
Stand and lead us all for war.
To send us all for war.
Sleep of yours is deep,
Rangarok arrive.
Time for Aesir to
Stand and lead us all for war.
To send us all for war.
Ragnarok - fear death.
Time is drawing near.
Let the child to go -
His heart had became so strong.
His heart now is so strong.
One of the greatest villans of all time
,,You know who I am?"
“All I ever wanted was the truth, I just wanted answers!, Everything I lived for!, Everything I killed for! I needed to know what happens next’
Odin in his early years was nothing more than a stubborn young Kratos, both through their will sought answers down different paths, brutal eradication of a pantheon by brutal vengeful hands and the other subjugating a pantheon by their knowledgeable mind
am glad they paid respect to the mythology counterparts of thor and Odin with thor being pure power and Odin being a hungry slave to knowledge with lies and tricks
phenomenal game
Odin doesn't remember that he already died.
Nprse Gods died so many times.
So many Ragnaroks
They never remember what happened in the last one.
Those tiny and twisted parts of the facts are what they called the Prophecy.
I know.
I love this! Thank you for putting it together - I'm trying to avoid any and all spoilers before I play this but couldn't resist hearing the music. So hyped for it.
Of course! I adore his score for the game and have also been trying to avoid spoilers, don't worry. We're in the same boat in this one 🙏
Very fitting theme for the raven god aka lord of the hanged.
This is my new music to study/work to. So good
8:31 best part of Thor's 🔨
Love how this sounds eerily similar to the emperor's theme from Star Wars.
The Thor Theme - The Hand of Odin is so god damn good
Odin*
The first thing I said once Thor and Odin sat on the table was “Jesus what an unstable atmosphere”!
Your description is fabulous. I envy your ability.
The all father is also the father of lies.
Nobody:
ODIN: ÍSSPRENGJA!
1:16: - Can I come in? I have mead!
- You would NOT find me good company!
- Oh, haha, I'm sure we'll find LOTS to talk about!
- (whispers) ..gestures to come in with axe
- nice place.
2:37-3:30....this alone describes odin, his terror all over 9 realms, what his personality should have been, a silent one instead of being a funny mob leader....that more suits to AC valhalla odin
Bear must have sold his soul to create this music
Magnificent, godlike compilation, thank You!
Man I love *Ragnorök*
Someone gave me shit because I spelled it Ragnarök and said it was spelled with an o, so I just agreed out of fear of looking stupid lmao
@@azc0na Aw man, sorry to hear, sometimes people say it just to throw you off, but yes the actual name is Ragnarök, maybe he meant with an O as for Ragnarok because many people are too lazy to find the ö, anyways, all the best!
Probobly greatest video game character!
9:45 "WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!...WHAT WAS IT ALL FOR?!...YOU CHOOSE TO BE NOTHING?!....AAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!!!"
Trough his influence,The Hand of Odin commands the Hammer of Thor
GOW1 ARES WANTS TO KILL
GOW2 ZEUS WANTS TO KILL
GOW3 ZEUS STILL WANT TO KILL
GOW BALDUR WANTS TO KILL
GOWR ODIN WANTS TO LEARN
0:00 Atreus wants to go home
3:28 Odin’s intro
5:10 Thor’s intro
6:20 Thor’s boss fight
9:38 Odin holding Atreus hostage
9:46 Atreus breaks the mask
10:28 Odin kills Thor
11:15 Odin’s boss fight
13:40 Odin’s downfall and defeat
You know my past. Yeah the ghost of sparta thing? Then you know what im capable of
*SHOW* ME!
This should be called Thor/Odin suite
*Odin is with us!*
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Tremendos Soundtracks
There's some issue with the bass at 1:20, did they genuinely release the OST in that quality or is that YT compression? Other than that beautiful mix, listened to this while studying lmao
Yes and no. I upped the tracks' volume by a tiny bit because I feel they're usually mixed super quietly. However, Bear's stuff is mixed in a way to where it's VERY bass heavy, so sometimes the bass can sound super defeaning and drown out the instruments, which sucks because I usually up the volume to make sure that's not the case lmao. But it's a fickle battle, it was especially hard to get it right for the Rings of Power suites and I feel I kind of succeeded with those
Pretty fitting theme for a guy named Dread.
3:29 Star Wars vibe 😂
One thing to say : Leiptra !
This game actually convinced everyone that Norse Mythology is evil 😅
Odin sama 💚
Does anyone know the name of the track that plays when he dies? Doesn't seem to be on the OST.
Bruh I was looking for this for AGES!!!!!
4:53
Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh! (That was the goofy odin’s scream)
@azc0na I'd like to ask you something. Odin's theme, it plays the first five notes, then five different notes come next, and the theme ends with the same five notes at the beginning of the theme combined with more different notes. I've heard it several times; specifically in Ninjago, from the Overture theme, to Master Chen's theme, to Kalmaar's theme, and even the Vermillion's theme. I know there's a name for it; I've been looking for it for a while, but I never seem to find it. I was hoping since you seem to be an expert on music yourself, perhaps you could help me out and tell me what it's called?
Awh you cut out best choir bit at 12:20 😢😂
I didn't do that, that's how the track is structured on the album. In game is a whole different story
@@azc0na oh sorry didn't realise it was album aha
It sounds like Wagner 💓💓💓
3:40😊
Que brisa mano, pqp
Odin in phase 2 has a different theme, can you please upload it ? 🥺
Is there a English translation for the hand of Odin yet?
Got it
Hello, can I use this soundtrack for a video? Thanks in advance
I mean, as long as you credit the composer for the songs and me for the mix, I'm fine with it
@@azc0na Will do that. Many thanks
Você sabe quem sou, porra !
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Тайвин Ланнистер в купе с Серсеей.
O dom
Gowr is basically Norse mythology avengers endgame imo😆
The key difference is, though, you'd probably be significantly safer, having Marvel Odin and Thor out for your blood, than the two mad savages from God of War.
Please do thor
Odin's theme is Thor's theme
@@azc0na there's other stuff from Thor's fight that isn't in this though
It isn't officially released so I'm going to wait until someone gamerips all of the music like they did with the first one
Det blir inte bättre!
I would have preferred if they took a different take on Odin
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