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- Spoilers (8)
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Sex & Nudity
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- Kratos starts the game wearing nothing on his torso but a leather shoulder strap. This is done to show his muscular frame, but in a masculine context as opposed to a sexual one.
- The Dwarf Brok utters a few jokes containing sexual reference, but they are extremely infrequent and easily missed.
- Depending on what armor he's wearing, Kratos is shirtless. Some armor covers his full chest.
- Brok mentions "getting rigid down south" implying an erection.
Violence & Gore
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- Kratos kills monsters. Depending on which ones you're fighting, their blood will either be blue or orange. There are some monsters who do emit red blood though, such as some bosses and wolves. Kratos emits black blood. It's not that bad for teens 12+
- In boss battles (where the enemy emits red blood), the impact of the violence is made more mild by its stylized portrayal. You can kill elemental monsters by every trick in the book.
- Violence is mildered by the emotional father-son relationship and ad the fact that you aren't battling humans (except a humanoid god at the very beginning and at the end and norse warriors in the middle of the game).
- Violence throughout, including a cutscene where you kill a man as well as imaginary creatures you can kill.
- Overall, while the level of violence in this game is much lower than the one in its predecessors and it is done out of self defense, though the violence is still severe and intense.
- Kratos is seen carrying around a skull in some scenes.
- Wolves are frequent enemies in the very beginning of the game. They emit red blood.
- The violence depicted in this game is not as graphic as the previous games but still it's very frequent. It's also enhanced due to the extremely realistic and very highly detailed graphics, which despite looking gorgeous, they turn up the violence to a degree.
- Some cutscenes are very brutal.
- There are some very brutal killing animations featuring dismemberment and graphic violence. These animations are usually very frenetic, and depicts Kratos ripping off jaws, hacking mouths apart, breaking necks, crushing giants under large boulders, and despite them being stylized, they're still incredibly violent, and they actually resemble the "Glory kills" from Doom (2016), due to the styling of these kills.
- Graphic finishing moves. These include Kratos ripping the enemy in half, crushing the enemy's head by stamping on it, and hacking and slashing at the enemy's jaw.
- Not as violent as God of War 3
- A teen could stomach the violence, and the it's definitely not glorified as it was in Kratos's previous titles. In this game violence is born out of self-defense rather than rage and vengeance.
Profanity
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- F**ck is used rarely.
- The game's language by and large is not something to be worried about, besides rare uses of f**ck and sh*t.
- At some point in the game, you unlock a summonable squirrel made from pure energy. Whenever you summon him, he finds hidden healthstones or hacksilver for you to collect. Whenever he does this he comedically insults Kratos and Atreus. Some of these insults are vulgar.
- A dwarf named his mount "f**king gratitude"
- The devs left a cool easter egg in the beginning of the game, where if you move the camera to look down the cliff as the stranger is falling, at the right moment you can catch him giving the middle finger.
- Kratos is probably the only character who doesn't swear, but almost everyone else (especially the dwarves) do
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- One scene shows Kratos sharing wine from his homeland with his son.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- The monsters can be frightening.
- While this game is far less violent than the previous games, the violence is still graphic and fast-paced, which could disturb some. It also has a more mature tone than any other game in the series, mainly because it features a lot of emotional moments between Kratos and his son, and this game is basically the Logan (2017) of the "God of War" franchise. Nonetheless, this is still a great game made for anyone who loves games with a good, satisfying story.
- If this game was adapted into a film, it would be rated R for strong brutal violence, disturbing images and some language.
- The monsters can be frightening,it has a lot of emotional moments between kratos and his son atreus
- A few jumpscares during the game from monsters. Could frighten younger players but do usually end with the monster being killed.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- In a scene, Kratos decapitates a man with his Leviathan Axe after he tells him to do so. We don't see the decapitation itself, but we see blood splatter everywhere and the head is subsequently shown falling to the ground, where Kratos then picks it up and then is seen quite frequently throughout the rest of the game, as the man's head is visibly talking to Kratos and his son. This could be disturbing and graphic for some, but this scene is brief.
- There are a few extremely graphic scenes of violence near the end of the game.
- While you are in hel there is a cutscene where you extract a giants heart from its' lifeless corpse. While you don't see the heart being extracted the noises are very graphic and you are seen prying the giants chest open with some gore. Pretty gruesome.
- In one cutscene kratos slices a god with an axe in the side in the arm and then embeds his axe in the god's face with blood spraying.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- Kratos' son has to kill a deer, he shoots it with an arrow, and then his dad forcibly helps him stab it in the neck to confirm that it dies. Blood stains the deers fur.
- The ending scene shows Kratos and his son Atreus discover more about the latter's identity and after that, the duo spreads Faye's ashes on top of Jotunheim. This sequence is extremely emotional.
- Kratos is clearly shown suffering from severe PTSD in this game, since he's constantly reminded of and haunted by his horrific past throughout the entire storyline of the game, including being haunted by the spirits of the Gods of Olympus he had previously killed several years ago, including Athena and Zeus, and he also struggles to not let his son Atreus follow the same wrong path as him. This might be emotionally upsetting for some.
- Kratos son atreus kills a man for the first time and then starts breaking down and crying, very emotional and a little bit graphic
