Once we decided that was the angle of the design of the quest the narrative then became all right what lesson can we teach here and it was

this sort of conflict between Atreus and his father of I want to help people we

shouldn't help people and that's just sort of a rich conflict to explore for the father-son dynamic.

Hey, what's up PlayStation Blockasters?

This is Aaron Kaufman. I'm the senior community manager at

Santa Monica Studio and we are taking over the PlayStation

broadcast with a new limited mini series called Worlds Collide. In this limited podcast series we're bringing together

different departments across our studio that collaborated together on a feature

at Evolve God of War. Now if you watched our full-length documentary Raising Cratus, you got a glimpse into our journey reinventing our franchise.

On this episode of Worlds Collide, we're going to dig in deep into one of the key critical pillars of God of War, the Side Quest system.

This system truly

helped evolve the game. You might remember in past God of War games with

Kratos in the Greek area, we had you on a roller coaster ride going from

point A to point B, and now in our new Norse mythology,

we wanted to create a world that let you explore it

in a way that you never imagined

that could be your own journey.

And on that journey, there were many side quests

that you could take on at any point in time.

The developers who helped put that together across the narrative, level, and

system did it in a truly unique fashion.

So we really hope you enjoy this episode and learned about the process that help bring the

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