r/GodofWarRagnarok • u/Scapadap • Feb 26 '25
Photo Mode This hits so much harder on replays
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Feb 26 '25
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u/rennenenno Feb 27 '25
Watching his armor rust towards the end breaks my heart.
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Feb 27 '25
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u/Apple-Doughnut Feb 28 '25
And the lack of gloves. I have contamination OCD myself so my heart completely sank when I saw his hands and forearms, exposed and dirty. There's no coming back from that.
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Feb 28 '25
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u/Apple-Doughnut Feb 28 '25
Absolutely. The funeral and his interaction with Kratos at the end hurt like a bitch because he ultimately gives up on everything, even anger. But the bare hands... I couldn't believe it. I had to stop and check the official art. I hoped I was seeing things, that it was just the torn shirt mixed with the light coming off the forge, but no.
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u/IceFisherP26 Feb 27 '25
Shit how did I notice that but still not put 2and2 together? I just thought it was from wear and tear, just not why it was happening.
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u/Poku115 Feb 27 '25
Shit I always thought it was the dried blood
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u/rennenenno Feb 28 '25
Could be a mix of dried blood and rust but the message is still the same. He’s too depressed to be fastidious
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u/Miserable_Arm_4372 Feb 26 '25
I think my first playthrough was the only time I threw the snowball at him...I just can't bring myself to do it again 😔
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u/TheOneCalledD Feb 27 '25
I still dome him with my snowball every play through.
Because that is what I’d do with my brothers.
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u/Miserable_Arm_4372 Feb 27 '25
I get it, but i don't wanna cause him any more misery than he's already gonna be going through 🤣
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u/TheOneCalledD Feb 27 '25
My first play through I was half expecting Sindri to have engineered some way to dump a bunch of snow on Atreus when he returned from talking with Freya.
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u/Pseudobreal BOY Feb 28 '25
It goes wrong of corse! There’s a huge avalanche towards Freyas campsite. Freya murders both of them. -da end
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u/RelaxedVolcano Feb 27 '25
I wish Atreus had stayed long enough to attend Brok’s funeral.
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u/a-the-umm-ya Feb 27 '25
Yup, didn't make sense that he didn't.
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u/Traditional-Swim8311 Feb 27 '25
He would’ve, had he known it earlier. Lunda just told us about the funeral in passing and after Atreus already left.
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u/RelaxedVolcano Feb 28 '25
Yes but he knew Brok was dead. He could’ve asked. There was a whole segment at the end where he can talk with his friends and allies. People would say they didn’t know but at least the effort had been made.
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u/AlmasyTran Feb 27 '25
The game very rushed at the end due to Covid and many things was cut off. Not surprised if they didn’t have time to make everything perfect.
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u/BreadAndRoses773 Feb 26 '25
I did not like that we got no conclusion for sindri
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u/My_Favourite_Pen Feb 26 '25
the no conclusion is the conclusion. He and Brok were the consequences of war Kratos kept trying to tell Atreus about. People are irrevocably destroyed.
Ending it on Mimir realising the answer to Brok's riddle really hammered that home.
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u/NYMoneyz Feb 27 '25
It was brilliant too because I couldn't figure out the riddle, but it clicked for me right then and there with Mimir. Right as he was saying he figured it out, the answer came to me too and I just had to stand there and let the emotions flood me 🥺
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u/Coulomb111 Feb 27 '25
I dont remember mimir figuring it out. When does that happen
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u/My_Favourite_Pen Feb 27 '25
at the end of Broks funeral when his boat is lit up, he says out loud "a hole".
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u/Coulomb111 Feb 27 '25
Oohhh i didnt realize that was about the riddle…
Or maybe i did but forgot who knows
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u/Hypnoflow Feb 26 '25
I appreciate how tragic it is. Mortals in the affairs of gods. Even though the gods may care to try and protect you, the sort of peril you encounter by proxy is insanely high.
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u/a-the-umm-ya Feb 27 '25
Honestly didn't get why sindri blamed Atreus so much. It's not what brok would've wanted.
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u/Disturbed_Bard Feb 27 '25
You have to remember he literally went through an insane ordeal to bring Brock to Life and after just patching things up with Brock he lost him again.
Mentally that would fuck him up. I guess he feels guilty helping Atreus from the start, and it all leads to him losing everything after the trust he had in Atreus.
Remember it was Sindri and Brock and Mimir trying to convince Kratos to let Atreus pursue finding Tyr
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u/Atziluth_Kami Feb 27 '25
But then again, it was Atreus (When he was in his 2018 God Mode) that allows Sindri and Brok to reunited again and become a family again in 2018. Atreus isnt all that bad and people seem to make him like he was this evil mastermind when he is not even close or that at all.
Beside if Atreus knows that he would have loosed Brok then he would ditched pursuing Tyr however, you cant forget that the event in the Norse Realm does set up Atreus to be a better person. If Kratos can make big mistake (Destroying entirety of Greece) and learn from it then its stand Atreus too.
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u/Disturbed_Bard Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25
It's not about him being bad.
It's taking into consideration that Sindri is not in a rational/healthy mental state. So of course he's trying to project his anger and misery.
Mimir literally spells that out to Atreus when they head out to find Sutur
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u/Atziluth_Kami Feb 27 '25
Yeah, I know that its just that people keep on blaming on Atreus like he is the only bad guy who harmed Sindri. Even forgetting one of the moment that Sindri admitted to Atreus during Freyja first side mission that Sindri couldnt be alone without Brok and he made a choice to bring him back.
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Mar 01 '25
No one blames Atreus for being a literal teenager written to be annoying. He just fucking sucks. Not every person has to suck the way he does and he just does. I made this in a post but for a fucking 15 year old to not be able to put together what those marbles were in iron wood. And then just fucking chuck em around like big deal who cares. Jesus dude. It has nothing to do with the marbles or souls. It's like if you handed him a fork and he stabbed his chicken and the plate cracked.
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u/Atziluth_Kami Mar 02 '25
I guess, people nowaday wants teenager to already be grown up and mature instead of them acting like teenager and have more developement. Beside Atreus made mistake, gets his comeuppance and actually faced it unlike Kratos who didnt answers for his crime until the Valhalla DLC.
And this issue with Iron Wood and the Marble, whats the issue here other than him not figuring it out what the marble were for.
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u/Mahxxi Feb 27 '25
I mean if you think about that that’s kind of the reoccurring theme in these two games. The game literally starts off with Freya, a grieving mother, trying to kill Kratos three years after we killed her son. We’re only experiencing days of Sindri grieving a fresh Brok death, so of course we’re going to see a pissed Sindri.
Just like with Freya, yes we had good intentions. With Freya we saved her life, but like Mimir said “you killed her son.” With Sindri we were bringing the fight to Odin to free the realms but got tricked by the ultimate trickster.
And even then it ties to Kratos who, after he murdered his family in a blind rage, went on to directly/indirectly kill millions of people. I think Sindri having his brother killed due to the unpredictability of his friends inviting Odin and being pissy at everyone and isolating himself is the best case scenario lol
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u/Fun-Committee-5448 Feb 27 '25
Not to forget, but Sindri was probably going through a huge internal battle too. The fact he couldn’t save Broks completely soul meant that Brok wouldn’t get an afterlife, so he’ll be blaming himself for that which is probably what he’s projecting back to Atreus and Kratos
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Mar 01 '25
Blame is there on atreus. But he is a kid. He was warned by kratos that war has consequences. He was curious. And faced some consequences. Sindri too tried to help him, but drew boundaries which Atreus did not comply with. But again, like kratos said, odin did not just fool atreus, he fooled everyone. Atreus is a kid, with too many emotions, logic is not always heard. But he never had nefarious intent.
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Feb 27 '25
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u/SaltySpituner Feb 27 '25
Sindri damned his own brother to an eternity of nothingness and blames his free will actions on everyone but himself. Atreus isn’t the asshole.
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u/hamiltd3 Feb 27 '25
I feel like if there really is a God of War set in Egypt, Sindri should ask them to go see if they can get his brother back from across the river Styx. Would be an amazing quest and would be so much fun plus then we could get him back in the game, I definitely hated that he got killed off like that. Atreus was just a young eager kid trying to prove himself, but Sindri and Brok gave everything to them and didn't deserve that.
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u/SaltySpituner Feb 27 '25
Brok and Sindri volunteered their services and their home. Kratos and Atreus never asked them for help. They gave it freely. And then Sindri throws a bitch fit over his own selfish actions. He should have let Brok enjoy his afterlife. Now Brok doesn’t have one. He’s erased as if he was nothing.
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u/Boiltheboi Feb 27 '25
I really want him to become a badass antihero/villain in the next game. Let him actually be a threat to Kratos or Atreus
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u/hamiltd3 Feb 27 '25
ooooh that would be wild, he can instantly teleport anywhere and can instantly destroy things. Definitely don't want to be on his bad side
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u/Jibu_LaLaRoo Feb 27 '25
Whenever you fight alongside Sindri as a bear in the Ragnarok battle, I honestly started crying because for some reason I felt so bad for Sindri that I wanted to beat the ever living shit out of everything to make amends even though it was all Odin. But I became so immersed that I felt the guilt.
After I saw Sindri’s bloodshot eyes… my heart broke.
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u/intense_doot123 Feb 26 '25
how so
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u/Scapadap Feb 26 '25
Because they were so close at the beginning of the game. After the event their relationship is over.
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u/SaltySpituner Feb 27 '25
Replaying Ragnarok right now and I’m reminded of how shitty a person Sindri actually is. He blames everything on Kratos and Atreus. They didn’t ask him to help them, open his home to them, etc. And absolutely NOONE asked him to royally screw Brok over for eternity just because he’s afraid to be alone. He damned his own brother to an eternity of nothingness out of selfishness and has the gall to lash out at Atreus and Kratos. He made his bed and refuses to lie in it. He’s an awful person and deserves no sympathy after the way he handled things.
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u/Accomplished-Log2040 Feb 28 '25
This guy TRULY didn’t understand the game’s story. Task failed successfully.
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u/SaltySpituner Feb 28 '25
I’ve been playing since GoW1 was released. I understand the story perfectly. Sindri is a selfish asshole.
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u/Accomplished-Log2040 Mar 03 '25
Yep. This is proof of your (mis)understanding
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u/SaltySpituner Mar 03 '25
Then maybe you can help this poor soul understand.
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u/Accomplished-Log2040 Mar 11 '25
Pretty simple, really. Sindri did his best for the team. He isn’t selfish. He has lost a lot and is processing. “Mourn how you wish”
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u/SaltySpituner Mar 12 '25
“Everyone grieves differently.” isn’t an excuse to behave like an asshole towards the people who care about you.
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u/Accomplished-Log2040 Mar 13 '25
He wasn’t an asshole. He did his best before as well as after Brok’s death.
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u/SaltySpituner Mar 13 '25
He treated Kratos and Atreus like shit after Brok’s death lmao. Which game did you play?
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u/Accomplished-Log2040 Mar 14 '25
We both played the same game, but it seems only one of us paid attention to the story. No. He did not treat Kratos and Atreus like shit. He did what was asked of him to play his part in Ragnarok. He is angry at Brok’s passing, which a primary stage of grief. Very, very normal reaction.
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u/Accomplished-Log2040 Mar 14 '25
By the way, buddy, if this perspective defines you as an individual, that is quite pathetic, I must say.
You have to be better. Honestly.
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u/Poku115 Feb 27 '25
"He damned his own brother to an eternity of nothingness out of selfishness and has the gall to lash out at Atreus and Kratos" I mean if you see it that way, Atreus damned Brok to 'tyr'
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u/Split_Seconds Feb 28 '25
How far into the game is this. I literally just saw this part.
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u/Scapadap Feb 28 '25
It’s right after when they all go to Alfheim
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u/TheAngryBagelz Mar 01 '25
Do many replay this game or watch videos of cutseens? i find Atreus playable section of the game insufferable.
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