Kratos’ bad behavior now has meaning and purpose. Likewise, it’s not particularly interesting that God of War’s creators cut sex from the new game, but that they try and largely succeed in scrapping gratuity. The issue in God of War was the gratuity and the presentation, which was, at best, tasteless, and at worst, contributing to the culture of toxic masculinity. To be clear, there’s nothing wrong with sex, in or outside games. Even though the minigames have composed a fraction of the series, they’ve encapsulated the approach with which previous God of War games portrayed women as objects and their antihero as the brooding, entitled meathead. The new God of War is the first entry in the core series to not feature a sex scene.
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