Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

It was the first time for the bear child to lead Atreus through the realm of death.

But for Kratos, he was already used to it. After all, when he was in Greece, when did he not go to the underworld?

In Helheim, people who come here can see some of the hallucinations of the past, and neither man nor God can avoid it.

These hallucinations are the past they are most unwilling to face.

On the way forward, Atreus saw the scene where he killed Modi before.

This is what he didn't want to face. After the harsh words of Lord Kui in the past, it was obvious that Atreus was more awake now.

He was also shocked that he had killed Modi, because he also felt that it wasn't him at all.

Besides, on the way forward, Lord Kui and the others also saw the past of that Balder.

Freya, the forest witch who saved Atreus before, is her mother.

Unlike Kratos, as a mother, Freya has a paranoid doting for her children.

In Norse mythology, there is a prophecy called Ragnarok.

This prophecy is certain to happen, and the world will fall into a cold winter before Ragnarok arrives.

In the face of the prophecy of Ragnarok, Odin formed the Valkyrie Legion to face the existence of this crisis.

At the same time, in the prophecy, Baldr was destined to die in this catastrophe of the Norse gods.

For this reason, Freya gave Balder the body of immortality. As a mother, she did not want her son to die, but this maternal love brought cruel side effects.

This curse made Balder a living dead. The price of immortality was that he lost any sense, the tongue could not taste the taste of food, the skin could not feel the warmth and cold, and the heart could not feel the joy of love.

This also made Baldur hate Freya, hate that morbid mother's love, and even he did not want to kill his own mother all the time.

In the same way, the past that Kui Ye didn't want to face in the past also appeared again, that is, the scene where he killed Zeus in Olympus.

At the beginning of this Helheim journey, Lord Kui taught Atreus, but as the journey progressed, even when Lord Kui looked at the phantoms of the past in a daze, Atreus led Kui. Grandpa escaped.

The journey along the way is not so much Kratos helping Atreus grow, but rather the growth of father and son.

Kratos used his own experience to tell Atreus how to become a god.

At the same time, Atreus is also infecting Kratos with his actions, allowing Kratos to gradually face himself.

Zhang Yi, who escaped from Helheim, took a deep breath, and there was still some excitement in his heart.

During this journey in Helheim, I did not encounter any powerful BOSS.

Most of them are miscellaneous battles, fighting against elites.

But the shock brought by it is no less than before.

This is due to the shock of seeing the inner evolution of Lord Kui and Atreus.

In addition to the follow-up development, Zhang Yi also has a lot of expectations and tension in his heart.

There are actually many metaphors in the previous game. If you are familiar with Norse mythology, you will basically have a general guess about the game after playing here.

But Zhang Yi's words don't know much about Norse mythology, and even sometimes he often confuses the gods in Greek mythology with the gods in Norse mythology, and can't figure out who is right against whom.

However, as the game progressed, he, who did not understand these allusions, brought greater surprise as the truth was revealed.

For example, Baldr, the **** of light, was killed by mistletoe in mythology.

This can also explain why Freya's expression changed greatly when she saw the mistletoe arrows on Atreus, and she was so nervous.

It's just that Freya burned all the mistletoe arrows at that time, but before she went to Freya's house.

Lord Kui also snapped a small section of the mistletoe arrow to use to tie Atreus' backpack.

And it was this verse that led to the breaking of Baldr's curse.

The final BOSS battle is undoubtedly the battle with Baldur, in three different forms: normal, ice and fire. In the middle, Freya will also use magic and manipulate dead giant corpses to hinder.

After three consecutive battles, with the father-son doubles between Lord Kui and Atreus, Balder was defeated.

Atreus also really grew up at this time, not out of control like he did when he faced Modi.

Like Freya who begged Lord Kui to let his son go, Atreus also took the initiative to persuade Lord Kui, saying that Balder was a defeated general and could not pose a threat.

Instead of killing everything that stood in his way as he did when he was young, this time Kratos let go of Baldur and warned him not to mess with them again, and also warned him not to hurt Freya.

After all, for Kratos, Freya had saved Atreus' life, and at the same time provided a lot of crucial help for the father and son on their journey.

But for Kratos' warning, Balder obviously would not listen.

Even compared to Kratos, the target he hated even more was his mother, the woman who intervened in his life to immortalize him, but who could not experience any feeling of being alive.

Freya, who also has a morbid maternal love, is also willing to die at the hands of her son.

Looking at Freya who was about to be killed, she knew that this was someone else's family business, and she knew that it was something you wished for, but Kratos still intervened.

'Why...why, why do you want to intervene! You can... just leave. ' Balder was strangled by Kratos from behind, struggling to ask.

‘The grievances are here to end, we must grow. ’

With a click, Balder's neck was twisted.

With the death of Baldr, snow suddenly fell in the sky.

'I will let all the pain, all the calamities imagined, befall you. ’

'I will drag your icy corpse across every corner of the Nine Realms. ’

'Feed your soul to the filthiest being in Helheim. ’

'I swear! ’

Freya's trembling hands stroked Baldur's body, cursing Kratos.

'He saved your life! ' said Atreus beside him.

'He took everything from me! ' Freya cried, "You're a monster...you only know cruelty and anger, and you'll never change!"

'Then you don't know me at all. ' Kratos looked into the distance.

'I know enough... what about him? ’ Freya looked up at Kratos and pointed at Atreus behind her.

Facing Freya's words, Kratos was very calm, and he was already prepared to face everything.

He used to be crazy enough to destroy everything, but in fact he has been running away.

Do things for the gods, and ask the gods to let them forget the fact that they killed their wives and children.

After becoming a **** of war, helping his clan to fight everywhere is also escaping.

Even after he came to this land in Northern Europe, he was still escaping from his past.

And now he is no longer going to run away.

‘boy! ’

Kratos turned slowly.

'Listen carefully...'

'I come from a land called Sparta. ’

'I made a deal with a god, and the price was my soul. ’

'I have killed many deserving people and many innocent people. ’

'I killed my father. ’

Atreus once wanted to know about Kratos' past, but Kratos never responded.

And now Atreus was obviously shocked after hearing it, he thought of the phantom he saw when he left Helheim.

'The one in Helheim is your father? ’

‘Is that what it is to be a god? ’ Atreus was a little dazed, looking at the father in front of him, and at the grieving Freya and the dead Baldur.

'God must come to such an end? ’

'The son kills his mother...and father? ’

The dazed Atreus had long since lost the excitement and pride he had when he knew he was a god.

'No, we will be the gods we choose to be, instead of following in the footsteps of the old gods. ’

'My past is not your future. ’