GAME SINS | Everything Wrong With God of War 

Baldur doesn't tell Kratos what he wants because he thinks Kratos is a giant. Since giants can see the future, Baldur says "You already know what I want"

"I'm going to cut off your head now" god that was a fantastic line

18:33 Tyr didn't want to kill them, the trap was meant as a test, if they are smart and clever enough

The ledge paint was the mom telling them where to go. She was the last Guardian of Jotenheim

‘She left a lot to chance...’ Well clearly not, as she knew everything was going to happen.

I’m going to be very disappointed if I don’t see a bonus boy-counter sin round at the end of this. Edit: Okay, I’ll settle for the achievement.

"They Both survive this" WTF, THEY ARE GODS, Hence, surviving a fall isnt hard

Maybe Sindri and Brok live across from each other like how Home Depot and Lowe's are always neighbors.

A lot of things you considered sins were things that added to the character or plot of the game

12:24 “This has been a series largely devoid of humor.” Did you forget about the boat Captain, the silly costumes, the sex mini games, & Kratos killing David Jaffe? This series has had various amounts of humor long before this game rolled around.

2:51 except we don't actually know that he's Baldur at that point.

5:48 it's called a time paradox. Since (spoiler) atreus is Loki, and Jormungandr is Loki's son, then the scenario is that Loki taught that language to his son, but Loki learned it because of the same son who traveled to the past and taught him that. Remember the song of storms paradox in Ocarina of time? It's the same thing. Who taught who how to play the song.

18:20 Freya said that the temple was untouched for over 150 years so the vase being there does make sense it's the only hint we have with how much time has passed since GOW3 so why would that timeline not make sense?

Who’s Atreus? I only know *BOI*

Sin 11: Kratos wants BOI to be tough and disciplined, so he can protect himself.

Great video! Been looking forward to this one. Just so you know, Athena is actually voiced by her original voice actress in this game. I wasn't certain of this at first but I looked it up and it was Carole Ruggier here.

For anyone who is wondering, I came back from reading the wikipedia page about Ragnarök, and Modi and Magni were supposed to survive it. So they don't plan to kill every god in the way they originally die.

20:14 did Zeus also sound like Count Dooku?

1) Baldur thought Kratos was the Giant. He WAS looking for Faye, but all he knew is he was looking for a Giant. That's why he said he thought he'd be bigger. Baldur, even up to his death (I think), always assumed Kratos was the Giant he was sent to find by Odin. He never knew about Faye, specifically, so why would he ask about her? 2) Clearly the Dwarves can move and exist in the folds of time and space. So time works differently for them. They're able to have a working forge in seconds, and upgrade the ax with a tap, because that's all you saw. You didn't see the work, but the work did happen and it happened in front of you... but was imperceptible.

The ledge paint is there because Kratos’s wife already knew there journey and did special marking. Hence why you see the same colored marking on the tree in the beginning of the game. She purposely did all of the markings. That’s why the dragur were so close to the house is because the trees had a spell on them to keep dragur out. But kratos’s wife purposely wanted them to break there spell to begin their journey.

7:32 You counted that as a sin, but the sin counter din’t increase. Edit: The explanation to why the dwarves are at all places really quick. Remember that stone brok gave to you? The stone you use to fast travel? They have these stones as well, and they also use the fast travel. The dragon that attacked sindri, saw him doing the fast travel and decided to attack him. Dragons are beings that can detect people traveling by the Yggdrasil.

5:45 Okay that might actually be explained though. Only Mimir knows the language but maybe just because it wasn’t invented yet. According to Norse Mythology Jörmungandr (World Serpent) is the son of Loki (Boi). So maybe that’s the language they made up so they could speak to each other (since Boy can speak to animals already in this game, this is defintiely a possibility)

Gaming sins' sins': - 2:35 Baldur was sent to find a "Giant" because the presence of Faye was detected after Kratos breaks the veil of protection placed on the forest (The Trees he cut down), Odin also had no information about the Giant's physical appearance so naturally Baldur would assume a beefy guy like Kratos in the SPECIFIC part of the forest they could not detect till now as the Giant they were looking for. (Also if you realized, Faye and the World Serpent are both considered as Giants despite some races included clearly are not big at all) - You put a shirt on Kratos, how dare you - 6:44 Brok and Sindri are blacksmiths in the sense that they make anything conceivable in their heads, making something they don't ever use is one of them. i.e making weapons despite not using one - 10:38 Sure they can fly and then what? Fly into a temple filled with Draugr and Dark Elves who have made camp around the Light of Alfheim? - 11:30 Once again, Baldr has NO IDEA that Kratos was a God and not a Giant YET. Therefore he is looking for him as expected - 13:18 Some races despite not being a god has "godlike" powers, like how Giants can see the future - 13:33 Mimir is bewitched in a way that he can NEVER reveal the weakness of Baldr, which he already knew before meeting Kratos Sin Counter: 6 Sentence: Replay the game on Give Me God of War difficulty

5:29 if u listen closly the world serpent its saying i love you kratos:)

You forgot to mention that when when the serpent lets you inside his mouth the teeth are perfect and all there but when you row into it theres a clear gap😂

You do realize that its revealed he isn't a boar but a shape shifter who ended up getting stuck in that form that's just the gist of it

One of the things that bothers me the most about this video is how many times the idea that "Faye must have counted on luck for them to get through the journey" or how "She left a lot to chance." She's a giant, their entire race is known for having future-sight, they can predict prophecies. She's outlined virtually their entire journey, she knew what was going to happen throughout their journey from the start. The Dwarves were a race able to create legendary tools and weapons, that was their prowess. They created a rope made from materials that were literally impossible to use as they could not exist (Gleipnir, the rope made from things like the breath of a fish), so its entirely plausible for them to create something from even an artistic representation.

14:21 Fun fact: In ancient greek, throwing an apple to a person is like saying "I love you"

Great vid! Just one small thing: Baldur didn't know he was looking for a female giant named Faye. He knew he was looking for The Guardian, a powerful giant with the leviathan axe who knew how to get to Jötunheim, and mistook Kratos for that giant. That's why at the start he says things like "I thought you'd be bigger, but you're definitely the one".

The part where mimir tells kratos that he's tortured every day by Odin is an actual fact (In Norse mythology Odin did actually torture mimir after he was bored from his friendship with mimir)

"Sees title" Kratos voice: tread lightly boy.

Dwarven magic is unique and unusual and everything that’s related to that word, brushing, tapping, anything with the axe, be a dwarf to find out how.

18:45 Atreus wasn’t acting like that because he knew he was a god, he got drunk from that alcohol he drunk on the elevator leaving tyrs temple, remember?

All the sins about Fzye sending Kratos on the quest with no explanation should be removed. The game explains Faye could see the future, she gave Kratos exactly what was needed for all the events to play out exactly as they do in the game.

I still don’t know how the Norse mythology came about in the God of War universe. Did it sprout from Kratos releasing hope back into the world?

Every *B O I* should remove a sin

18:17, would've removed 3 sins 1. Kratos's reaction 2. The subtle hint at who Boi is 3. The sublime soundtrack playing the background

Kratos taking parenting advice from Vegeta lmao

Wow I didn't even think about that. How does the world serpant speak a dead language if he's from the future? Who taught him the language if no one knew it?

8:43 Kratos's original dimension isn't apart of Yggdrasil and Midgard is a different Earth. This is evident throughout the game so... false sin.

The reason kratos is lecturing him about control of anger is because he’s trying to do so himself that’s why he gets so upset when he sees his past self in Atreus. So adding a sin after it’s clear he’s trying to change is kinda wack

Gaming sin's sin - 7:32 u made the sound of a sin but didn't add it

The reason Kratos acts more cold to Atreus is simply because Atreus is his son. Kratos used to be the leader of the Spartan warriors, his beliefs state that the men should be strong. He doesn't want Atreus to be soft.

Props for the intro, using the Elder Futhark language used in GoW, to spell out "everything wrong with" nice little detail

They actually explain at some point in the game that dragons are the only thing dwarfs can't hide from.

brok literally said his equipment is in midgard hell be right back, do you not pay attention he left helheim and came back once he had finished working on the blades

Voice actress for Athena is the same in all of the God of War games, she also voiced Athena in Age of Mythology.

Baldur doesn't know what the last giant looks like

I think all that ledge paint is actually Faye’s spirit attempting to guide Kratos and boy if I remember correctly

Sin 59 was a killer I thought i was gonna die from laughing too hard 😂😂😂

It's called God of War because Kratos reinvents himself. He is trying to move forward but his past still haunts him.

Ahem......Kratos wasn't "born" a god. He BECAME a god after killing a god.

“...I guess I could take another sin off for what looks like Connor Mcgregor having a fight upon a dragon...” this kill me with laughter 🤣🔥✌🏼

20:58 Hahahahahahahahahahah. Thanos must've missed that one.

Sin at 2:30 isn't really a sin, since he didn't actually know he had a wife, or that she was the guardian and not Kratos though...

I have to tell you that most of the "sins" here aren't really sins at all. But good video

Baldur didn't know he was looking for Kratos' wife, he had no idea who Kratos was, he thought Kratos was the giant he was looking for, hence "I thought you'd be taller"

Bayonetta 2

Every pantheon is a different universe. That's how they can live in unity

I didn’t know jack about Norse mythology so the mistletoe thing was a total surprise to me. All I’d heard of Baldur before was that he had a gate.

are we really not talking about the fact that this guy went with the defense armor?

So, ragnarok already happened, and they are in Fimbulvetr now? Mimir said time flow differently in each realm. In Asgard there no concept of time at all, Odin might already dead, Lightning kill him and used the old dude as a horse.

"*(MAGIC)*" BOY...!!!

Random, but has anyone seen a cigarette ad with a person with some serious disablement? well, has anyone actually known a person whos smokes, who hasn't suffered from anything else except cancer or a lung disease? i mean, damn, i saw an ad where someone lost a damn limb from smoking.

A lot of these “sins” aren’t actually sins. You padding the sin count bro?

"How does one blow a horn with no lungs?" How does one talk with no lungs?

The thing with the apples.... In Ancient Greece tossing an apple was a marriage proposal

I understand this is just a joke video, but when you sin for Atreus believing his father is human, it completely rejects the fact he’s never been outside his woods. Therefore has most likely never seen other people attempt strength based tasks. So all he knows is ‘Well I guess humans can do this, I wonder if I’ll be like that when I’m older?’

"I think this is the third voice actor Athena has had in this series." Wrong, it's the first and she came back to reprise the role.

4:41 it is the last of its kind.. if you actually played the game you’d see that the other boars have no markings on them.

Baldur isn't looking for Faye, he's looking for the last giant in Midgar (excluding Jörmungandr). Gender neutral. He mistook Kratos for the giant. I get that this is hard, even impossible, to catch the first time you play that scene, but surely it's easy to understand what he means with "I thought you'd be bigger" and "I thought your kind was supposed to be so enlightened" once you finished the game.

Faye is a giant, she has the gift of seeing the future, see saw the whole of kratos journey before he did it, AKA knowing mimir was there and would help.

I was expecting a Boy Counter in some way, shape or form. My disappoint is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

For your sin regarding "I remember Kratos being a lot softer to his daughter and his surrogate daughter, Pandora," this is actually a reference to Greek history. Historically, Spartans were much harder on their sons than they were on their daughters, because their sons were expected to become the next generation of soldiers. If you were a Spartan citizen, you were a soldier and nothing else.

I feel like you've never played the game with some of these. Either that or you weren't paying attention. Sindri explains later on that their dwarf magic allows them to travel between realms and even makes himself 'invisible' at one point by stepping between realms to show Atreus before telling him the invisibility doesn't work on dragons. They don't need the gate portals or the world tree. The fact that you have the moment in the video and still question how Sindri and Brok move around before the characters is either fully for the purpose of being able to count it as a 'sin' or ignorance. Baldur is not known as Baldur in the first encounter, only the stranger and while he might be bad at negotiating, he's not asking anything of 'Kratos'. He's there to find the giant he knows is living in the woods - that Kratos and Atreus have never been out of so no, they didn't see the protection spell - not Kratos. He was looking for Laufey, who Mimir states later was a legend among the aesir. He had never seen her so Baldur obviously hadn't either and mistook Kratos for her, the last of the giants. He threw the axe in the water because the axe returns to him by magic. He wasn't worried about losing it. Atreus thinks his dad is still human after crazy physical feats because he's never seen anyone but his parents. No one ever says how much time has passed between GOW 3 and this game so why assume it's only been a few years or 'not that long'? Kratos is a God. It makes more sense to believe this game took place hundreds of years after the last game instead of trying to tie everything into a conventional, mortal timeline. I get that this is a joke video but damn. I feel like you just watched some cutscenes and made the video.

"Why doesn't boy freeze to death?!" This is why I hate these videos. Even mildly paying attention you know the answer is Boy is part Frost Giant...

The world serpent is Atreus’ child and memire was the only one who spoke his language until he taught atreus who than taught the world serpent.

the "omega is every travel rune" that is NOT the omega symbol. it is a norse rune for "transport" or "portal", and it looks almost exactly like the omega symbol. it is one reason it is used for the games symbol, since the omega symbol was the original symbol. the things that change is the small runes INTERLACED into the rune. each new one has the small runes in different places, and one is brighter at the point the circle inter-laps [at the bottom of it]. THAT is the travel rune. one transport rune, with 9 travel runes interlaced in it. the bottom of the transport rune is the "key slot", where the travel rune is they "key". change the "key" around, the travel gate will read the new key, and turn to its door, and open the path.

The Blades of Chaos point is valid when you only know what's said in game however, other cannon work states that the blades are magically bound to him and no matter how hard he tries they will always appear again. For example, if Kratos throws them off a cliff, they'll appear on the rock behind him when he turns around. That's why he has them, not because he chose to, but because he accepted he's not gonna get rid of them

You act surprised that he treats his child differently after losing a child. That sort of thing will affect a person

17:35 he literally says "Ughh my equipment's in Midgard", he doesn't have his smithing equipment behind that rock.

Doesn't take away a single sin for any of the badass world serpent stuff. Smh.

I like how every single person in the comments proved that all of his is arguments are wrong.

I’m going to have to sin your pronunciation of “chasm”.

I've only commented around five separate times my whole life having a RU-vid account. Really though almost half of these were straight up wrong.

The thing about Balders dialog in the beginning is that the whole thing is a double entendre. We think he's talking about Kratos and him being an Olympian God, but it's actually just Balder thinking he's the giant, not knowing that it was Faye or that she's died.

This man really pronounced chasms with a “ch”

3:33 in sparta, boys were treated more harshly for readiness of war, it’s probably kratos reflecting his childhood

SPOILER... Cory Barlog in an interview with Eazy Allies confirmed that Baldur had mistaken Kratos as a Giant. The magic stave that hid them from the Aesir was made by Faye, and the trees that channeled her magic were marked by her to be used as part of her funeral pyre to draw the God's attention and force Kratos and Atreus to embark on their journey, otherwise Kratos would've stalled on the task believing his son wouldn't be ready. Baldur figured he was a Giant so he would know they were looking for a way to Jötunheim. It's why he was being "coy" with his wording.

When Kratos and Minor were discussing Helheim and Valhalla, Minor says you go to Helheim if you die from old age, which Kratos says "it is dishonorable to grow old?". Nice reference to Spartan history, where the elderly were seen as figures of respect due to survive that long in a land of warriors. Neat bit of concistancy

It’s a “dead language” because it’s a language from the future that hasn’t been created yet.

Rather than assuming that Kratos’ “adventures” in Greece were merely “not that long ago”, maybe you could go along with the game which would suggest that Kratos left Greece before Tyr died, and spent centuries wandering. Kratos is confirmed to be at least 700 years old at this point by Cory Barlog.

2:22 I keep hearing this same thing in sins videos of this game. This isn't a sin of the game, it's character development for Kratos. Kratos is trying to teach Atreus valuable lessons like controlling your anger and not being so quick to snap. He's trying to teach Atreus things to sway him from being as much of an asshole as he was.

Is this a whoosh joke of a video? If he's serious then I think he actually just watched some cutscenes and made this vid right after. Felt sad some didn't like this as much.

Everything wrong with god of war: it had to end.

"It's like Kratos started taking parenting advice from Vegeta" I fucking died

The Boar that Freya said is the last of his kind, is *NOT* an actual Boar! Before leaving after helping with the herbs you can talk to her and she tells you that this is not the true form of Hildisvini. He was once able to take any form he chose, but he's so old and has been a Boar for so long, that she fears the Boar may be all that remains... Also, you keep saying that Baldr is looking for Kratos' Wife, but even Baldr is unaware of that. He was sent to their home and told to find the last Giant of Midgard. When Kratos open's the door he said, "I thought you'd be bigger. But you're definitely the one. Long way from home, aren't you?". He says this not because he knows Kratos is a God from another country, but because he thinks that Kratos is the *Giant* from *Jotunheim* ! Honestly the only God that is aware the two of them are Gods, is Freya and no one else... Freya's home was beyond the Protective Stave that was around their home, Atreus never left it till the day of his Mother's funeral. And it's never mentioned how far Kratos traveled from their home... Time in Hel is different from that of Midgard. Since Brok can travle through the Realm between Realms, he was able to go to Midgard and return to Hel in just a couple seconds. So with this knowledge, you actually have *4* sins too many on your list. However, beyond that, I fully agree with all other sins. *;-)*

You really should’ve done more research, a lot of ignorant points made 🤦🏽‍♂️

8:13 well Atreus only really has his mom and Kratos for reference, and they aren't even human. For all we know Atreus could have never met someone outside of his family until he met Brokk.

Might this be a game that Dartigan actually....likes?! Edit: A lot of people don't seem to get, that this is a joke