God of War Ragnarök originally included another Kratos fake death

You know how we often learn about different drafts for scripts of movies and video games and think ‘wow, that would have been so much better’ and are then eternally disappointed by it? An early script draft for God of War Ragnarök, 2022’s biggest PS5 hit, was not like that at all. More like the opposite, in fact. Kratos, the series’ main protagonist, would have died another well-deserved death at the start of the game according to the original script, being struck down by Thor. However – predictably – his son Atreus would have helped him escape hell through the power of love or something so that he wouldn’t actually have died. This is all according to narrative director Matt Sophos, who revealed that in an interview with MinnMax (as transcribed by VGC). The thing is: Kratos has died so often and crawled back out of the underworld over the course of the series that it’s almost become a running gag. Thankfully, the writers later came to the same conclusion, as Sophos tells it: “Eric [director Eric Williams] wa