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Ok so the main plot point is entirely wrong because they didn’t bother translating anything enough or caring about the mythology.

Odin’s wife is Frigg. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigg

This is known kinda like, Luke is Leia’s sister, Mary is the mother of Jesus that type of thing. But the way you pronounce the name is nearly identical to Freyja. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyja

Freyja is then in the game pretending to be Odin’s wife.

They get this fundamental detail wrong because they have such a poor understanding of the mythology. I’m trying to think of an equivalent for how wrong it is… like maybe using Mary Magdalene instead of Mary, Jesus’ mother as the Virgin Mary. She really wasn’t no virgin…

Ok but you’re apparently not caring that it is sensitive and meaningful to me.

Would you make these games:

-Hitler game where you murder Jews and it is very sympathetic to Hitler.

-Mohammed game where he runs a gay nightclub that sells more alcohol than any other club on earth and in his spare time poses for nude portraits the player draws

-Slavery simulation, you play as a slave ship and it shows how you go from a poor family with a small farm to a big happy family with lots of slaves on a big farm!

-Judaism simulator! You orchestrate a large international conspiracy and the game shows every single Jewish person as conniving and evil

-Mongol horde simulator, go through china and rape until you die, textures are randomly generated and you see the Chinese that you kill have cheated on their taxes so it’s fine

The common thread between all of these awful experiences being they would show great disrespect to the material. If you truly believe “no sacred cows man haha!” Please make one of the above.

You can even make it a god of war game!

Lots of the details are incorrect. Let’s use the “Sesame Street” analogy because I’m glad you don’t think it sounds bad… my intention was to illustrate a concept that’s realistic and might be interesting to explore but uses a character that makes no sense to do it.

It’s like making a remake of Rambo with Elmo as the deadly killer man. Of course there will be people who are amused of the absurdity in that scenario and in general there isn’t much I can say to your taste, but if you’re going to make a story about Elmo Rambo, let’s not make a follow-up about how the Prophet Mohammed runs a gay club next.

Things I really hated: Odin is never a bad person in the mythology. A complicated one but he doesn’t trick people or deceive people, that’s Loki.

They didn’t understand that Freyja and Frigga are two different people. Yes, I know that Tim and Jim do sound similar but I assure you that doesn’t make them a single person.

Dwarves are wrong. Just, plain wrong.

Yggdrasil is completely wrong. It’s a metaphor, not so much a literal place.

And I can go on for every detail and gripe for hours.

Again, it’s because this is my religion that it is more deeply held as something to respect, but beyond that I don’t feel comfortable having others pretend to “draw lessons” about something which has been done incorrectly.

In other words, go ahead have your Elmo Rambo but don’t tell children that Elmo was born as a hard killer and then show them a machete.

Unless you criticize the religion Kanye West did, apparently. Not saying which one, he’s criticized many religions but one got him into trouble.

Kinda like drawing Mohammad at Charlie Hebdo. Funny how the “respect” goes up accordingly with the consequences of disrespect.

Noted for strategy later.

Strange how few people are pointing this out. The only “grifters” here are the coffee company.

Also, if you’re just buying from a wholesaler… why does it being “YOUR” coffee matter? Hahahaha oh no.

I’m in agreement with you. But what I am saying is that the practice itself is fairly normal and has been turned into something far beyond what it ever was.

I think many people in the West just have brain damage.

I’m also fine with a game/movie about Jesus but my point isn’t so much that the figure is a sacred cow (Passion of the Christ proved there’s a lot of interest, amongst other media) but rather that /when/ he is depicted the depictions tend to run along the respectful side because it is the religion of others.

And it’s not about “faithful”. I’ve played the original games and obviously “Kratos” isn’t a historical Greek figure anyway, but the original games weren’t about /story/. They were hack and slash games with a bit of backdrop in the form of naked Greek women and ionic columns.

To me the problem is when you want to /act/ like you’re a story game with a big dramatic plot and worldbuilding, why bother using a mythology if you’re going to piss all over it and get it entirely wrong? It’s like doing a “Sesame Street” game and Big Bird has PTSD from wasting too many people in Vietnam and then shoots up a building. I really don’t have enough analogies for how much I hate the game’s story and plot… and characters. And setting.

But also, it’s a very good game despite that. It’s like playing a version of DOOM where you help out Hitler and everyone pretends Hitler is a decent guy and that Hitler is misunderstood. You’re playing DOOM, so that’s great but why am I wading through a pile of horseshit to do it?

By extension of that analogy, why should I have to wade through a hack writer’s truly awful fuckup of a story just to play the hacky and slashy bits people are buying the game God of War for. Why should I have to see dumb articles written about a dumb version of a story. Again, it’s like playing a game where Hitler is the good guy and then an article comes out “ways Hitler was misunderstood”. It’s such a fundamental fuckup of the reality it is astonishing to me.

(Sorry, I know being passionate is basically illegal here)

Feng Shui is just badly translated by Westerners. It’s not some magical art, it’s another case of Chinese confusing people. Consider how Organic Nomenclature (chemical naming) is done in Chinese. Chemicals like “azulene” are named in such a way that the literal translation is “mysterious wild grapes” when the practical meaning is just “azulene” in that context.

Feng Shui is /NOT/ “magical home energy power”

It’s better translated as “interior design with consideration to aesthetics”.

Shocked so many people don’t understand this.

Ah yes, God of War, who are so unable to get any level of mythology correct their “Germanic” story is the equivalent of Jesus and a Chinese Emperor teaming up to defeat Hitler, who then reveals that he is simply a pawn of the Kellogg’s Cereal Company.

Does that sound confusing and nonsensical to you? It /should/. God of War gets all of the details wrong and then opines about its own stupidity. If they do God of War: Bible, Jesus will be swigging wine from a bottle in each hand, almost incoherently drunk until you eventually discover that secretly he’s being controlled by a dark spirit known as Charizard.

Not sure that anything so off the mark is capable of handling any real themes because it cannot handle being consistent with the story it pretends to care about.

Personally, as I am Danish, this is still the religion of many people and it was ultimately a disgusting, juvenile, and false telling of the overall story.

I really hope they do God of War: Jesus and make him a homosexual drunkard who is only into communism and continually says he doesn’t believe in god.

It does make my blood boil, but basically in the same way that your blood would boil if a movie about “hackers” consistently showed them doing no actual hacking.