One of the most important things that we did was for every one of his combat actions, we sort of applied, we came up with a single pose that sort of was emblematic of that action.

And so, you know, when he was in that very unique recognizable pose, you knew what he was going to do.

Hey, what's up, PlayStation Blocasters.

This is Aaron Kaufman.

I'm the senior community manager at

Santa Monica Studio and we are taking over the PlayStation Blocast 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 Kratos, you got a glimpse into our journey reinventing our franchise.

On this episode of Worlds Galide, we're focusing on our boy, Atreus.

This young God, sorry everyone, spoiler, son of Kratos, was without question the most important

pillar of God of war that defined nearly every direction we took in narrative exploration and combat.

For Etrayus, we knew we needed to build a systematic AI

that would scale and maintain his believability

across both the narrative and gameplay.

So, while we worked hard on developing his positioning, traversal, and

progression, it was a Traus's core combat system that became an even greater

monumental challenge. The design, tech, and animations of Traus' combat,

it was meticulously planned for almost every imaginal gameplay situation,

including how he interacted with Kratos in battle to boot.

So, on this episode, we're bringing together our senior senior combat designer and senior animator to discuss how

Atreus's combat went from feeling mediocre

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