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Arts, Music & MediaWho is Kratos in the Agency editorial?
Kratos is the protagonist of the God of War video game series. In the Agency editorial he appears once, in Issue.9, where the author lists the lives he lived inside games: slaying giants and meeting gods in ancient Greece in the skin of Kratos.
In short
Kratos is the protagonist of the God of War video game series. The Agency editorial names him once, in Issue.9, in the chapter where the author tells how he spent his youth immersed in games. The sentence reads "I slayed giants and met gods in ancient Greece through the skin of Kratos". The edition does not name the game. Kratos stands there next to Geralt, Fallout and Call of Duty as an example of the thousand lives the author says he lived in a thousand different worlds.
Key facts
- Which work does Kratos belong to?
- The God of War video game series. Issue.9 does not name the series; it only places the character in ancient Greece, among giants and gods.
- Where does the Agency editorial name Kratos?
- Once, in Issue.9, in the chapter 9.2, where the author recalls the games of his youth.
- What is Kratos an example of in Issue.9?
- Of the heroic characters whose skin the author says he wore while playing, in a list that also names Fallout, Geralt and Call of Duty.
Who is Kratos?
Kratos is the main character of God of War, a series of action video games whose first titles are set in the world of Greek mythology. This is the only identification given here from outside the editions; Issue.9 itself names only the character and the setting.
How does Issue.9 use Kratos?
In the chapter 9.2 of Issue.9 the author explains where his talk about metareality comes from: he says he spent his juvenile years playing games and lived a thousand lives in the skin of heroic characters. Kratos is the first name of the list that follows, with the giants and the gods of ancient Greece. Right after the list the author asks how real life could compare to that, and later defends that people who play are learning new things.
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