
but is now plagued by visions of his deceased family that will haunt him for years to come. Bittersweet Ending: Kratos has successfully slain the Furies and freed himself from Ares.Bifurcated Weapon: The golden staff-lance thing owned by Castor and Pollux can split in the middle, forming a broadsword and a mace for them to wield.For sure, they can hang on the Harpies'talons to throw spears at Kratos from above. The Beastmaster: Implied that the Amazons of Delos can tame and fight in tandem with the monsters.Bad Boss: Castor is introduced berating the slaves working in the temple and impaling their leader through the head when he tried to politely explain himself.Auto Cannibalism: During the boss battle against Aegeon's mutated head you end up feeding it its own hand mutated into a parasite.Also, one of the powers of the Souls of Hades summon gigantic pale arms that attack nearby enemies for a while. Attack of the Monster Appendage: Alecto's Sea Monster form first appears as massive, spike-tipped tentacles emerging from the waters as Kratos climbs Apollo's Statue, but the true form is shown later.Arc Villain: The Furies, primarily Alecto.All a nod to Python, the mythical serpent slain by Apollo, whose hide was hung in Delphi's shrine. Animal Motifs: The Snakes for the temple of Delphi as whole, being decorated with snake imagery and needing three massive snake machine's to be accessed.Judging by the way his eyes are moving when Megaera infests his head, he's still alive and fully conscious through it all. And then Megaera uses her parasites to infest different parts of his body and turn them into monsters to fight Kratos.

For starters, when he broke his oath to Zeus, the Furies hunted him down and put him through the mother of all Fates Worse than Death: having his body petrified and hollowed out and turned into a giant prison for those who followed his example.


Anachronic Order: The game switches back and forth between the present, with Kratos imprisoned by the Furies and trying to kill them and escape, and the past several weeks, which shows how he got there.
