God of War Ragnarok once had a very different fate for Kratos than what we got

Even after a few months have passed since its release, God of War Ragnarok keeps giving us new things to talk about. Today we have the opportunity to learn about new alternative plot details that came to be considered in Santa Monica Studio and that we will tell you below, but of course this time we’re dealing with spoilers for both from the 2018 installment and from the game at hand.

What was going to happen to Kratos? SPOILERS

Specifically, it was Matt Sophos, a designer from the Californian studio specializing in narrative, who spoke about the mural that revealed a prophecy according to which Kratos would end up dying. While we spend God of War Ragnarok suspecting that it is something that is going to happen at some point, we finally discover that the Spartan succeeds in one more game... but Sophos confessed that the opposite was going to happen.

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In fact, as he says, it is something that would have happened shortly after starting the game. "The earliest, earliest draft of an outline that we had come up with that we took to Eric [Williams, director],” explains Sophos. “ Kratos died in the Thor fight at the very beginning of the game," Sophos begins by explaining.

Despite this, things would not have ended like this. "He was going to die and it wasn't a permanent death,” he assures. "What was going to happen—and I don’t care, we can tell this because it doesn’t happen anymore, so this is all fan fiction at this point—he would get pulled out of Hell, essentially, by Atreus.”

Due to the controversy of this plot twist, Sophos says they were not entirely convinced, and in fact, Williams quickly scrapped the idea, which he believes was the right move.

"Eric was like, ‘I don’t want to do that, Kratos has died and come back from it too many times. And it’ll feel a little bit too, ‘oh, you said he was gonna die and oh, you just killed him, but he came right back!’”" he says. "The hook, the emotion, weren't going to be there, and that's why this idea didn't last long."

Source | MinnMax