It's the kind of moment that would be much easier to get excited for if I thought it might actually matter, but with the game still on PS4, it doesn't seem smart to get my hopes up. Even Returnal, which was PS5 only, didn't play around in the mechanics that much, it was just faster. Thus far, none of PlayStation's big exclusives bar Ratchet & Clank have used it that much.
Being able to use Atreus' abilities to change the skies and open up new areas on the fly in exactly the sort of hyper involved, load-times-don't-matter gameplay we were promised on the PS5. Is this a one-off narrative beat, a moment that will be imbued with a higher sense of importance by the story swirling around it? Is it just a demonstration of Atreus' powers with no real narrative purpose beyond his own character growth? Is it a gameplay mechanic that can be used at various times to enhance our journey? It feels as though it should be the latter, but I worry it's one of the first two. By far the standout moment in the trailer both aesthetically and narratively, it left me wanting more in a way all the sound and fury of Kratos did not.īut it also left me with questions. It's whimsically fantastic against the roars of masculinity. For a trailer full of bluster, clashes of metal, and the same gruff ominous sentences posing as dialogue, Atreus' moment is one of quiet solitude. When he lets his arrow loose, one of his wolves leaps into the air majestically, bursting through planes of reality to somehow reach the moon and, chasing it, manages to curve the moon out of the sky, brightening up the world as the sun shines free again. Atreus and Kratos stare up at an eclipse and Atreus, seemingly growing more confident in his godhood, slowly takes his bow and aims at the eclipse. I've embedded the trailer below, but let me explain the moment in more depth. Related: Gamers Are Terrible People And We Should Stop Being Okay With It Like the rifts in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, they're the kinds of things you can do easily on the PS5 but were technically impossible on the PS4. However, Atreus' moon antics seem like the sort of thing the PS5 was sold on. I also don't think it's worth interrogating the technical side of what God of War: Ragnarok can do from the trailers alone - we'll need the game in our hands first. There needs to be a grace period of games releasing across both generations, and with the pandemic interfering with the console rollout and, as a consequence, most game launches for the past two years, I'm not sure whether we're out of that grace period yet. Consoles are expensive and, perhaps more to the point, difficult to get your hands on right now.
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