The Truth About Atreus - God of War Finale Story Playthrough - Pt. 29
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- Опубліковано 26 гру 2022
- In the finale of this God of War playthrough, Kratos & Atreus have been spit out of the World Serpent’s Mouth & met with Freya. Baldur appears to take his vengeance. Kratos interferes with Baldur’s plans for vengeance. Atreus steps in and renders Baldur vulnerable. Kratos & Baldur battle below a Giants grasp. Baldur defeated, he blames his mother for his downfall. Freya offers her life for payment but Kratos has other plans. In the wake of this aftermath, Kratos tells Atreus his Spartan’s tale. The path to the highest peaks in all the realms is now open & Atreus can spread his mothers Ashes. In this epic finale we learn so much about Atreus’ identity & Kratos’ growth. The Journey is far from over. Ragnarok is coming!
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"You robbed me of everything"...still gives me chills
Freya's actress is phenomenal
The voice acting in this game was so incredible!!
29:44 - 37:07 Was absolutely asTOUNDing. The fact that she took the time to pause, simmer, and discuss everything with a breakdown of not only the story beats itself but the meta of the theme in general was a breath of fresh air. Same with 1:10:11 She clearly "gets" it and is obviously someone who can take a deep bite into a game or story and understand it on every level. If I was a developer, I would be begging her to be a VA in my next game. I sincerely hope someone from Santa Monica watches her stream and appreciates her ability to grasp characters to their core, and hires her to voice... someone - anyone - in the next game. She would bring so much to the table.
The ending is incredibly emotional and is easily one of the best payoffs you’ll ever experience in a video game. This was a phenomenal playthrough Bri, I can’t to see you play Ragnarok, you’re in for a real treat with that game!
Midgard = Midgar. Mind = Blown.
What if I told you that Nibelheim = Niflheim.
@@Boyahda why did you do this???!?!?! You just blew up my whole brain
@@Boyahda I may have heard of that one too. There's actually a book about noise mythology in FF7 if you're into that sort of thing.
Not gonna lie, this boss traumatized me. I felt so incredibly bad for everyone involved :(
What a phenomenal story told with passionate acting, you learn so much but yet there's still so many breadcrumbs of intrigue that you can't wait to play the sequel. My game of the previous generation, a masterpiece.
28:05 The dialogues here are well done. I love how Mimir sympathizes Freya grieving for the death of her son.
I'm very happy to see you finish this playthrough! Thank you so much for going back to replay the whole game, I feel like not many people would have done this and the quality of the series benefited incredibly. It was fantastic to see your reactions and realisations of key story moments. I feel like your commentary and insights into the story and character relationships elevates your playthroughs above many of the others I've seen. The pay off in this series has been so worth it! Thank you.
40:36 The mistletoe thing... that was just something really in Norse mythology as the one thing that could actually hurt Baldur.
"Once upon a time Balder dreamed heavy dreams which seemed to forbode his death. Thereupon the gods held a council and resolved to make Balder secure against every danger. So the goddess Frigg took an oath from fire and water, iron and all metals, stones and earth, from trees, sicknesses and poisons, and from all four-footed beasts, birds and creeping things, that they would not hurt Balder. When this was done Balder was deemed invulnerable; so the gods amused themselves by setting him in their midst, while some shot at him, others hewed at him, and others threw stones at him. But whatever they did, nothing could hurt him; and at this they were all glad.
“Only Loki, the mischief maker, was displeased, and he went in the guise of an old women to Frigg, who told him that the weapons of the gods could not hurt Balder, since she had made them all swear not to hurt him. Then Loki asked, ‘have all things sworn to spare Balder?’ She answered, ‘East of Valhalla grows a plant called mistletoe; it seemed to me too young to swear’. So Loki went and pulled the mistletoe and took it to the assembly of the gods. There he found the blind god Hother standing at the outside of the circle. Loki asked him, ‘Why do you not shoot at Balder?’ Hother answered, ‘Because I do not see where he stands; besides I have no weapon.’ Then said Loki, ‘Do like the rest and show Balder honour, as they all do. I will show you where he stands, and do you shoot at him with this twig.’ Hother took the mistletoe and threw it at Balder, as Loki directed him. The mistletoe struck Balder and pierced him through and through, and he fell down dead. For a while the gods stood speechless, then they lifted up their voices and wept bitterly"
So yeah, if you make somebody invulnerable to damn near everything, but you forget to make him invulnerable to one single thing... well guess what? And as you saw from the ending, it makes PERFECT sense that Atreus was the one with the misletoe that hurt Baldur... because he IS Loki.
Sony Santa Monica did their research well for the lore of this game, let me tell you!!
Some of the best story telling in any medium. Loved going back and watching this playthrough of yours Bri after finding you in 2020 and so glad you finished it! Can't wait to see you play Ragnarok!
Wow! All I can say is that final boss was an instant classic Briana.
RE: Mistletoe - there was a reason for specifically mistletoe! In the old tales, Freya didn't cast a specific spell to protect him. What she did was go around to all things in existence - plants, animals, earth, fire, steel, water - and made them all swear oaths that they would not harm him. And because Baldr was the Norse god of light and beauty and universally beloved they agreed...except for mistletoe. Mistletoe was too young to swear an oath, and so Freya didn't extract an oath from it - leaving it the one thing that could hurt Baldr.
Its not an explanation that really works for the world of this game, and it shoudln't have kept them from coming up with some reason, but tehre you go.
The ending of this game was amazing and emotional. Glad you got the chance to finish this game Bri and can't wait for you to play Ragnarok in the future.
I can....
Her expression at 7:02 had me literally falling out of my chair and laughing on the floor next to my dog. 🤣🤣
The total confusion & disbelief on her face 😂😂😂 I was cackling
Woot, you finished it! This is a good game and I have had fun watching you play it! Have a great day.
Very good take on Kratos and Baldur. I’ve platinumed this game back in 2018. Kratos much wiser than in GoW 1, 2, and 3, where he’s blinded by revenge, doesn’t want his son to walk down that path. Love your content, and I hope you have a playthrough of God Of War Ragnarok
This was such an amazing game, thanks for the play through Bri. I’m excited for whenever you play Ragnarok.
The best analysis I've heard! It was like going to a really fun University class on story analysis haha.
Can't wait to see you play Ragnarok. I'm still not finished with it but so far it's one of my favorite games
cant wait for ragnarok gameplay! thank you for all your gameplay & journey for GOW!
All I will say is, you will enjoy Ragnarok a lot, especially from a story perspective. This was great, thank you!
Definitely one of the best playthrough I've watched and definitely my favorite gamer because of your commentary and gameplay. What an amazing journey with you Brianna, I'm so excited for you to play God Of War Ragnarok, I know you will definitely love the game so much. Also can you play A Plague Tale too please 🥺
Great playthrough! Can't wait to see your reactions to Ragnarok.
Never thought I’d see the day, you actually finished it
God I love watching you play games. Your analysis is always spot on, really fun watching you pick up on themes and ideas other people might miss. Shame it took so long to get here though lol
finally the day has come
I love watching you play through this. I'm so happy that you got to see to the end of it too!
I will have to wait though to watch your Ragnarok playthroughs though, because I want to play it myself first so I don't get spoiled hehe.
I noticed at the end there when you were sharing your final thoughts about the ending, your Hacksilver amount was 17777 .... lucky 7's, baby!! hahaha
Thank you for such a wonderful and entertaining playthrough. Until the next time.... BYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
We made it! I've been waiting for this video!
So weird seeing the beginning of this playthrough and finally seeing the ending of it like 4 years later.
You're ready for Ragnarok, the god of war series is definitely 1 of the best, thanks Bri
Yay! Finally finished. :) Shall look forward to your journey through Ragnarok. :D Hope you had a nice christmas. :)
First things first, I hope everyone, including you Bri, had a fabulous Christmas.
24:22 For those who played God of War 2, remember Zeus also said “the cycle ends here” when he was shoving the blade of Olympus into Kratos? That was a nice call back. I love what they did here 😁😁😁
Brianna, you're fantastic. This channel should have millions of subscribers. I hope you post videos more frequently.
Very happy you finished it! I don't know if you've started Ragnarok yet but you should strongly consider playing the older ones too! You'll learn Kratos backstop before the 2018 GOW and the older ones have plenty of emotionally powerful moments too!
I agree, I liked that it started the way that it ended. This was such an emotional and amazing adventure! I enjoyed the Series & can’t wait to see what happens in Ragnarok! 🤗
I cant wait for you to start the Ragnarok journey
I CANNOT wait for you to start Ragnorok. It’s an even better masterpiece.
Amazing game Brianna one of the best of all time for me happy new year 🇬🇷👍🎮❤️🎄
Hi, saw your playthrough. Since you already beaten the game, I will just briefly mention that the mural kratos saw at the end of the wall was of his own death and he was laying on atreus's lap. Awesome journey of a game, start to finish.
what a year you had Briana I hope you had a great Christmas and I hope you have a great 2023 and any chance you be playing God of War Ragnarok
How does Kratos open the bottom lock of his door?
With a Loki 😂😂😂
Gorgeous game and gorgeous playthrough! Hope to see you playing Ragnarok, Briana
Happy new years ,Dear Bri
I think that your take on Kratos killing Baldur is the best take I've heard in all the playthrough videos that I've watched of GoW 2018. You're a smart person! It didn't even come across to me the way it did to you when I played it. I had a simple thought (and I'm pretending to be an intellectual personality lol) like : "Come on, Baldur is a f*cking douche & serves no purpose in the world except chaos and Freya is very useful with her spells and her role as the Witch of the Forest. There's no doubt that Kratos did the right thing". Then I realize now that all along there was a very deep philosophical meaning to this scene. Thank you very much for bringing this up!
The ending is such a brilliant twist, because even being moderately aware of the mythology might not be enough to clue you into what's really going on. It's so good because they never draw attention to it by directly calling it out, that is right until the very last moment. I hadn't connected the dots my first time playing through and then that scene hit and my jaw dropped.
I even remember reaching a certain point in the game and wondering why Loki had never been mentioned. You'd think he'd pop up at some point with all the lore that Mimir is constantly dropping. But what Mimir's stories do inform the player of, and what the narrative as a whole is doing, is setting up the conflict between the Jotnar/Aesir/Vanir, and that despite Kratos' efforts to stay hidden he and his son are now central figures in it. That same network of conflicts is recontextualized from the myths ala the original GoW trilogy. The Aesir gods are now evil douchebags, and the Giants are now the underdogs that were preyed upon by them. So Loki is no longer a trickster, but a hero.
Great game 😀. I need to finish this game too. Congrats Briana 👏🏻👏🏻.
Crazy this video is stopped at EXACTLY 1:23:45
Loved your thoughts on the game. This game is a masterpiece, no doubt. I have finished Ragnarok and you will enjoy for sure. Cant wait for your gameplay!
Cant wait for the ragnarok playthrough it's gonna be amazing
Just realised that you voiced ff7 remake😮 now I gotta watch you play that😅 wasn't planning to but I can't miss this😂
Great video Bri. I still need to finish God of War myself so I can start Ragnarok.
I myself just beat this game two days ago. Now I’m playing Ragnarok
Ragnarok really can't come soon enough!
Kratos has already walked the path that Baldur was walking (killing a parent responsible for their suffering) and he knows that doing so doesn't alleviate the hate and bitterness that they have towards the parent that wronged them.
At this point in the game, Kratos still hasn't come to terms with the guilt he feels over killing his first wife and daughter, but he's trying with Atreus and by honoring Faye's wishes to spread her ashes on the highest point of all the realms. Faye, however, had ulterior motives behind that request, as can be seen when they find the murals in Jotunheim.
All I can say after that is to play the sequel to learn more!
Hook up that punchy ability with certain enchantments and you get a speacial power
On the mistletoe, I believe the way the story goes is that frigg/freya, upon baldurs birth, asked for all the things in all the realms to agree to do no harm to baldur. All agreed, from gods to trees to wind. All but one, mistletoe. It was too young and freya had to finish the spell. And thus mistletoe having not been able to tske the vow, remained the one thing that could harm baldur.
I’m glad you enjoyed this game! This one is definitely on my top 5. I’m excited to hear your thoughts on Ragnarok, which also happens to be on my top five.
The previous god of war games were more simple in story telling, basically revenge after revenge, but they were awesome spectacles with giant boss fights and all. I highly recommend you to check them out if you have the time. They may not make you think too deeply as you did with this game, but they were awesome in their own way with great atmosphere, environments and music. Oh, they are extremely brutal too with the executions, haha.
I think my favorite part of the game is Loki reveal (Which means that Atreus is the Father of the world serpent and Fenrir Wolf so he somehow goes back in time to make those children!), and Kratos telling Atreus the story of that Name! 😎 Named after one of the greatest Spartan warriors! 🤩
Switcharoodle...my new word for week 🤪. Also, you're gonna love Ragnarok! Also Also I love your thoughts on the narrative!
Eye for an eye and the world goes blind.
Brilliant game! One of my all time favourite games. Ragnarok is very good too but I prefer this game.
Oh Briana finally my friend. If you need more information can you play all the parts of God of War Briana I enjoy everything with you in this game Briana. have a great year Briana. Good to see you 😎 😎 😎 💙💙💙💙💙💙
Very fun video!
It's definitely why kratos doesn't want to show the boy why he's the God of war cause it's life time of that curse
As someone who's been watching your content since 2016 and even sent you that Life is Strange soundtrack all those years back, I was wondering if you're planning on finishing The Last of Us: Part II. Your playthrough of the original was one of my favorites and keep checking and hoping you'll return to the sequel 😊
Can't wait you start to play at the sequel one!
Have u reacted to Final Fantasy 16 Trailers: Ambition, Dominance, and Revenge
Kratos did the right thing killing Baldur
Great job beating this game…. Now on to the sequel 🙂
she finally finished game. I watch this since 2018
backpack 😂 Atreus going back to school to get his As 🚸👍🎯
Glad you finally got to finish the game. I guarantee you're going to enjoy Ragnarok. It pretty much multiplied everything great about 2018 GOW. The voice acting, the writing, the storytelling, the music and characters are all top tier stuff for the industry.
52:15, after beating ragnarok, this makes more sense
the actual norse mythology reason behind the mistletoe is that freya thought that mistletoes were too pure and innocent so she cast the spell so bauldur cant be harmed by anything except mistletoes.
According to the norse tale I had read Freya asked everything to promise not to hurt Baldur except "The mistletoe was to young to make a promise."
This was one of three games in which I tried so hard to not fight the final bad guy. I just dodged and blocked for as long as I could.
There are quirks to every magic in God of War. I kinda like that fact that Vanir magic had a weak point, that Freya hid from everyone, over the Story of Frigg making everything in the world promise not to harm her son, except mistletoe because it was thought to be too young to make a promise.
Loki is the viking god of deception, magic, artifice, evil, chaos, snakes, lies! And Faye is Laufey, Loki’s mother in the real Mythology!
Ooo can we get a ghost of tsushima playthrough???
Brings a smile to my face when listening to Briana think about why this or that happened in Norse mythology. Just to bring my 2 Norwegian cents to 3 matters of Norse mythology, so I hope you are reading this Briana.
The builders history is somewhat correct, but the builders desire if he wins is Freyas hand in marriage along with the sun and moon.
Balder was the beloved of all the gods, his name meaning either hero, lord, the light or shining one. Since he was so cheerished, the gods made everything in exsistence from plant, to beast to man to god, swear an oath that they will never hurt Balder. Everyone acquiesced except misteltoe. Then Loke came along and tragedy strikes.....
And about Loke. Loke in game is incorrect in every narrative vis-a-vis the norse one. Yes, he is a jotun, and yes he is the trickster god, and yes he is the father of Hel, the Midgardsormr and Fenrir.
If you want to know about mistletoe, look up the actual myth of Baldur. There's a connection, but it doesn't apply to this interpretation of Norse myth. But those of us who knew the myth saw it coming a mile away.
It's worth noting that Freya never said to Baldur, "I'm sorry. I was wrong. It was my fault." She kept saying, "I made mistakes, but I was trying to protect you." She never really took responsibility for taking Baldur's choice from him, for hiding his cure for a hundred years. She still made excuses for herself. If she genuinely had apologized, maybe Baldur would have chosen differently. Or maybe not, we'll never know.
Before your eyes playthrough??
I understood it as stopping the cycle of parricide
LokI was like the father to the serpent so it made sense he could call it when they we were in danger from Freya crushing them. the endings is o emotional. Mimar did say something he said that the magics were different colors like it was green and the mistole toe had purple magic which i took to mean like opposing elements like ice vs fire, water vs lighting and such. He could have gone in to a bit more depth about it i agree but he didn't say nothing about it. Maybe the thought you could it out as when you were fighting Balder and you had to switch elements to do more damage. LIekj when he was fire an dash and lava you used your axe but when he was in ice mode you used your blades cause it looked to me like they had elemental properties.
Also when Kratos Says “Cycle Ends here” is the same exact thing that Zeus said to Kratos in Gow2.
In mithology, freya ask all the things in the world to do not harm ever baldr, but she skip asking the mistletoe because it was innofensive. In the game its a spell. I prefered the mimir explanation in this as a middle point. He know much things but he is not an expert in vanir magic... So he give the explanation he could.
If you play through it a second time, you’ll pick up on the bread crumbs
The cycle Kratos meant wasn't only about revenge. It's also the cycle of the gods, children killing their parents, which recurs in many mythologies particularly Greek. When Atreus asks, "Is this what it means to be a god?" is just what Zeus stated as a fact to Kratos.
You finished the story yes 😉… ragnarok is coming 😘
Kratos said the cycle ends now just like what Zeus said in gow2
Ragnarok next!
Baldur story was sad,, Atreus is Loki, Kratos told amazing story of Atreus of Sparta, Thor is here.
We need a gow ragnarok playthrouh!
1:08:46 Ragnarok…is…coming.
When will you play God of War Ragnarok?
now on to regnarok❤
I still hear Aerith even when she's play God of War.
That mistletoe reasoning is definitely not glossed over if you know the actual mythology and how baldur died. I would HIGHLY suggest you to brush up some norse before starting ragnarok…