![]() Kratos has been subject to hallucinations, for which Orkos implores Kratos visit the Oracle in Delphi where the “truth waits for you”. He alerts Kratos to the oncoming threat of the Furies, who are coming to capture and punish him for denouncing his oath to Ares. He is at first startled by the dark figure, but Orkos only wants to help. It’s at this point that the player is taken 3 weeks back in time to when Kratos meets Orkos for the first time. Kratos breaks free from his chains and pursues Megaera – the disease-ridden Fury of the body and his punisher, whose sisters Tisiphone and Alecto are the Furies of the mind and soul respectively. After a gigantic battle at the head of the Hecatonchires, Kratos gets his hands on Megaera and the Amulet of Uroborus, which she was carrying. Refusing to comply with his oath to Ares after those horrific and tragic events, Kratos finds himself imprisoned in the Prison of the Damned – fashioned around and as part of the first oath breaker, the titan Aegaeon the Hecatonchires. The game opens with a recount of history from Gaia, our resident narrator, introducing us to a chained and tortured Kratos. Ares used Kratos’ oath to him in order to control him and force him to commit such acts of violence against the innocent and his own kin. With its genre-breaking, series-first multiplayer addition, does Ascension break the chains of expectations or belong locked away in the Prison of the Damned?…Ī prequel to the original God of War, ‘Ascension’ begins just months after the death of Kratos’ wife and daughter, Lysandra and Calliope, who were killed by his own hand. Sony Santa Monica had a large undertaking before them in raising the bar for epic moments and set pieces after the jaw-dropping Titan levels in God of War III. ![]() The fourth entry in the God of War series on consoles, God of War: Ascension is a prequel to the first that deals with Kratos’ attempts to break free from his oath to Ares after being tricked into murdering his wife and child. ![]()
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