Power Fist: Kratos can obtain Zeus' Gauntlet.The game even twists the knife by making his pushing her away into a button-mashing minigame! Please, Don't Leave Me: Calliope uses this on Kratos, when he's forced to leave her forever in order to become the Ghost of Sparta again so he can defeat Persephone.This motivates Kratos to reclaim his powers and save the world. Instead she makes a point of telling him that she's the villain of the game (Something he didn't have the slightest inkling of until she explained her plan), and that thanks to his actions the world will soon be destroyed, and that the Elysian Plains and all the spirits living there will be destroyed with it. All she needs to do in order to win is leave him alone for a few hours so that her plan can be completed while he's playing with Calliope. Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Persephone had just gotten Kratos to cast aside his blades and renounce his powers as the Ghost of Sparta so that he can be with his daughter in the Elysian Fields.Kratos gets tossed there after he lost to Charon in a Hopeless Boss Fight above. Locked in the Dungeon: The Jails of Tartarus is a prison (or rather, bondage) cell where all of the prisoners are bound in chains.Hopeless Boss Fight: The initial encounter with Charon, who cannot be beaten without Zeus' Gauntlet, which you get from a statue of Zeus in the Tartarus (after Charon gleefully tosses your defeated ass down there).Greater-Scope Villain: Morpheus is the Big Bad, having kidnapped Helios, plunging the world into darkness forever unless he is stopped but Persephone plans on directly destroying the world with Atlas' help.Doomed by Canon: You know Kratos will win in the end, because its a Prequel to the first game.However, it's implied that the king captured the Efreet during an invasion of Arabia. Culture Chop Suey: The Persian King controls an Efreet, a demon from Arabian mythology.Athena and Helios leave an unconscious Kratos at the very same cliffs where he will attempt suicide ten years later.Upon his defeat, Atlas warns Kratos that they will meet again.but because of his actions, is permanently banned from Elysium and thus will never be able to see Calliope again, even after he dies. Bittersweet Ending: Kratos has successfully defeated Persephone and saved the world.Bag of Spilling: At the end of the game, Helios and Athena strip Kratos of all of his weapons and equipment.But seeing as this is a prequel, he's still around offscreen Artifact Title: Ares is nowhere to be seen or heard.And I Must Scream: By the end of the game, Atlas is forced to carry the world on his shoulders for all eternity. ![]() As if that wasn't enough, then a Basilisk smashes in and devours the Cyclops whole. only for a Cyclops wielding a giant pillar to smash through immediately and teach you about Button Mashing and Press X to Not Die. Always a Bigger Fish: One of the first things you do is try to open a door via Button Mashing tutorial.Here, Persephone is the Big Bad, and hates her Arranged Marriage to Hades. Adaptational Villainy: Persephone in mythology was once of the nicest goddesses of the pantheon, and her marriage to Hades is known as one of the more stable and happy ones.To his surprise, the sun suddenly explodes and quickly plummets to the ground, sending him on a strange adventure to save the sun god Helios, as his absence is allowing the dream god Morpheus to put several other gods to sleep.Ĭhains of Olympus contains examples of the following tropes: Taking place ten years before the original God of War, Kratos curses the heavens after two months of servitude to the gods. God of War: Chains of Olympus is the fourth ( chronologically second) installment in the God of War series, released for the PlayStation Portable in 2008.
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