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Denouement
After inflicting some wicked stigmata and engaging in general grappling,Kratos gets the better of Zeus and starts really sawing away at his stomach.
Athena comes running up telling him to stop. She says that she does not want to fight but will do what it takes to save Olympus. At which point Zeus says that "you have just started a war that you can not possibly win." He claims
victory because the fates have already said that he will. Kratos counters
this claim by swinging the BoO around but runs Athena through. That's miss number three Kratos. Is Kratos cross eyed or does he just have horrible depth
perception? As Athena lies dying we switch into Pre-reneded mode and she
tells him that she is not defending Zeus but she is defending Olympus (there
is no difference between the two.) In her final gasps she reveals that Zeus is Kratos's father and Kratos seems shocked to realize this. How many more
times do we have to go through this Oedipal, "I am your dad," rigmarole? I actually assume that every tyrannical overlord is the father of the
protagonist until I hear otherwise. Besides, in the first cut scene Zeus calls him son .
Kratos starts in with a dualogue about how he will destroy all the gods on Mount Olypus but it soon turns into a monologue because Athena dies. Kratos
looks into the camera and all I can think is how I really should be using Chap Stick more often.
Kratos then quantum leaps back in time to the period when the titans were waring the gods. He finds Gaia and lists off the positives: he has killed two
gods, has the Blade of Olympus and the gods are on the run. He pulls her into his time by using a lighting effect and she relays that effect to the other
titans.
Back on Mount Olympus, Zeus is rallying the other gods for the coming war. At the same time, Zeus's voice actor is trying to channel Patrick Stewart. Zeus
says the gods will prevail and then the camera pans up to a crumbling statue of Zeus. Mount Olympus really starts to crumble and all the Gods scramble to
the cliffside to see the Titans making an assault.
The camera zooms in on Gaia and Kratos is hiding in her bush, I mean holding onto her bush, rather, holding a bush. Kratos commands the titans on and in
turn starts a Cultural Revolution. And I mean that in the most revolutionary, communist way possible. The Titans really are just stand-ins for the
proletariat. They work hard in the factories doing things like hold up the
Earth (Atlas), grow plants (Gaia), and make wind (Typhoon). They are also
oppressed and exploited by the bourgeoisie class (Zeus and the rest of the gods). The revolution is also carried out by the lower-class rather than from
within. By overtaking the gods, the Titans seem to be promising a change of power and a new form of rule. The bulbous Titans even look like the figures
from Soviet era Social Realism painting. Way to go kids, you just started a Bolshevik-style overthrow of the government.  Kratos-Pinochet finding things to his liking
How do I think this revolution will play out? Not good. Ignoring the fact that coups from the military branch rarely consider human-rights as one of their big
issues, it is being lead by Kratos. Can you imagine him trying to head a junta where his idea of compromise can be summarized by his quote
"If all those on Olympus would deny me my vengeance, then all of Olympus will die." Furthermore, I am not so sure he really cares about the Titans. I
assume he is using them for their muscle and will forget them once his regime is in place.
Oh ya, the game ended, and the background says "The End Begins."
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