The biggest problem I have with this game is that it undermines 2018 by having us play and get to know the dead woman Kratos/Atreus were grieving AFTER SHE ALREADY DIED. If the afterlife is just like the real world, where people can still die again and can fight and feel and think, but are just disconnected from the living, then... what is the point. Who knows what happened to Lysandra since the games seem determined to push her aside lmao, but Calliope in Elysium is so different from Faye's afterlife. Despite seeing Calliope, I can still feel Kratos's loss because the Greek underworld is a desolate, ghostly place. Even in Elysium, the spirits don't feel like living, breathing people, so Calliope's death remains a tragedy.

this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in any review ever

The last character you wrote about is put in the last video game you played for a week. Can they survive?

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Only if you do that can you hope to make the reader feel every particle of what you, the writer, have known and feel compelled to share.

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, and swallows calling with their shimmering sound; and frogs in the pools singing at night, and wild-plum trees in tremulous white; robins will wear their feathery fire whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; and not one will know of the war, not one will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, if mankind perished utterly; and Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, would scarcely know that we were gone.