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CmdrKing
Oct 14, 2012

Maybe if I called it 'Interpretive Stabbing'...

Chimera-gui posted:

To be fair, aren't most Greek "heroes" shitheads anyway?

Honestly I always assumed that was sorta the point of God of War; this is what a Greek Hero actually was. A murderous gently caress who did whatever he wanted until his Hubris caught the attention of the Gods and they brought him low.

Turns out people though that was loving awesome so we got a whole series of him murdering all the things without much irony or awareness. e: I should note I only know GoWII and III by reputation so maybe they are more aware than they seem on the outside.

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CmdrKing
Oct 14, 2012

Maybe if I called it 'Interpretive Stabbing'...
I'd say he didn't understand why he had the nightmares. He assumed they were a curse from the Gods, and thus doing this task for the Gods and earning their absolution of his crimes would remove them. Trying to die again was presumably just sheer desperation. Maybe he figured that they were part of his punishment in Hades' realm and he'd be free of them in Elysium? I dunno.

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