I almost stopped playing God of War 3 because I was completely sick of Kratos's bullshit.
I should have stopped, in hindsight.
Kratos was a fucking joke character that didn't even work as an anti-hero five minutes into the second game. He's also dumb as a stack of bricks.
Athena warns him to stop leveling Rhodes. "Olympus will be angry, and stop being a choleric asshole in general, you prick." He doesn't listen, so she tries to stop him by animating the Colossus of Rhodes. Zeus steps in and offers help. "Grab this here sword and put all your power into it, it will make you stronger. Some-hooow." Dumb fuck Kratos, instead of smelling the trap, actually herp derps his way over there, castroids himself and only then notices the heinous betrayal. Zeus decends, takes the sword, says something about him not being a danger anymore and impales him with the thing for another trip to Hades. "Wuh? Zeus no Kratos friend? Kratos mad! Smash Zeus! Smash Olympus!"
This is what an ending looks like, but it was the start of the game. Time for more revenge, now revenger than ever. It was a fun game, but good lord do I want to piss in anyone's face that ever thought he was a good or even cool character. He just about worked in the first game because he was sort of kind of tricked. That's some motivation at least.
