They talk about the Endless/Xalanyn (the race Harbinger is). In the Legendary ending we also get a VO between a Forerunner and Despondent Pyre dated 99928 years before the events of Halo Infinite. ![]() These Cylix are different though, as they have a different symbol on them, different even to the Harbinger’s Cylix. He approaches and unlocks a room full of Cylix (the name for the cryopods/cryptum/prisons we have seen). ![]() We learn Atriox is alive (wow, who’d a thunk it). The gold paint isn’t just a path for Kratos it’s the remains of an exciting journey unto itself - one I hope we get to see.Chief jumps through the mysterious portal and arrives, safe, three days later amidst some of the ‘old’ ring like artifacts the Banished have been so interested in. With the gold paint reveal, I’m left wanting not just more Kratos adventures, but time with Faye. In the past, Sony has used DLC to explore the backstories of side characters. She lived a rich life and took action that, if abandoned, would have rendered the story moot. She didn’t simply die as an excuse for the game to begin. In the game’s intro, Faye appears to have been fridged, but the reveal gives her more depth and agency. It’s a smart twist, using our expectations against us, allowing the creators to hide the game’s big reveal right in front of us. She walked that path before they ever did.” “Not just for Kratos and Atreus, but for the player. “To me, it’s the highlight that Faye was an incredibly powerful and almost omnipresent character,” said God of War director Cory Barlog, when asked about the reveal. ![]() The handprint on the tree that would create Faye’s ashes and send Kratos, Atreus and the player on their journey - that’s her own. In fact, she’d taken steps to ensure they reached their destination, fulfilling her vision by creating the golden path. When the pair actually reach that peak, we learn that Faye had prophesied her husband and son’s entire journey. That is to say, it very much exists in the world for a reason. The gold does serve that purpose, but it’s also justified by the story. SIE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Sure, it’s in the world, but really it’s the game’s creators telling us where to head next. So even though God of War takes a naturalistic approach with its world, the instinct is to assume that all this gold paint exists on a metatextual level. Other games are more subtle, only placing lights on the path you must take to progress, directing the player’s eye from one bright spot to the next. Otherwise realistic settings have arrows spray-painted on walls, telling you where to go. Most video games use a variation of this visual language. ![]() He and his son Atreus will take those ashes to the top of the realm’s highest peak, honoring Faye’s final wish. Kratos fells the tree and uses the wood to build the pyre that will reduce his deceased wife Faye to a parcel of ashes. The first image is this paint, in the form of a handprint, smooshed onto the trunk of an old tree. Throughout the adventure, Kratos and the player are directed into forests, over mountains and across lakes by spatters and smears of golden paint. No, I’m not talking about the Blades of Chaos. God of War pulls a Keyser Söze moment in its final scene, but the twist happens so quickly, you might have missed it.
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