God of War - The Story of Baldur // All Scenes
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God of War - The Story of Baldur // All Scenes
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I like how Baldur has a really wild fighting style, as you'd expect from someone who doesn't have to face the consequences of pain.
Or someone who wants to feel the pain.
Yeah true
Eh it was surprisingly easy to figure out after the first fight in the first encounter. It got really wild in the end whenever he FINALLY feels everything and can access fire shit
if you watch, he drags his feet into the ground when he dashes and such, since he can't feel the pain of friction
@@silverspectre69 good point
It's honestly kind of funny how this whole mess began because neither Kratos or Baldur has decent people skills.
Lol had they not been such petty introverts
If they had originally talked, things would have been WILDLY different perhaps
Roddie Irison fellow homestuck
@@catofprovidence oh, hello there
Roddie Irison Or the game would be dramatically shorter.
Love how so much shit happens because of a small misunderstanding
For real
It's all over a stinging Roger
Hey lots of shit happened in Game of thrones all because bran saw two people having sex
Ethan Baker its a narrative comparison how one small thing can blow up into something far larger than you could ever expect
Its remarkable of what happens
Small touch, but I like when Baldur mentions that he rehearsed everything he wanted to say to Freya. I feel like we’ve all done that for someone who’s wronged us.
I know I am, to this day...
I do it every day. There’s a lot of evil out there, and justice is left howling at the moon.
And we actually get to see some of it, when Kratos and Atreus encounter him in Hel
@@jasonking7570 just about to say that!
@Sandor Clegane, the Hound THE HOUND HOLY F-
It’s sad because Baldur is the God of purity, joy, and light. He could’ve became that, if he wasn’t cursed by his own mother.
Also said to be the most handsome.
@@bryanaa196 must've been the god of irony aswell
@@bryanaa196 holy shit dude, you just killed Baldur's voice actor.
Maybe he was like that before he was driven insane by his curse.
remember thor is suppose to be a noble warrior XD this world everything is reverse
Keep in mind. Freya knew mistletoe could reverse her spell, she knew all along and went out of her way to make sure no one but her understood the truth. Even when Baldur begged her to take it away, she could have but chose not too. When he got the curse broken, she tried to pass it off as their chance to start over, even though she could have done it at any time. The Aesir are evil, but she's no saint either.
But maybe at that time she seeked him, she was going to free him. Freya tried to stop both Kratos and Baldur from fighting, also shout "Listen to me!".. Heck Freya didn't even got to talk because they keep cutting her off... until it was too late
Chuchai No she wasn’t,she had no intention of helping him at all and getting “cut off” isn’t an excuse when you can raise your voice. Freya’s selfishness lead to her own son suffering endless for centuries where he couldn’t feel anything like emotions,a woman’s touch,eating or sleeping. It doesn’t matter if she love or wanted to “protect him”. She let her son rot so she could feel better.
@@LegendXD00 Indeed, if she was a true mother, she'll not get so over-protective and have faith in that her son can take care of himself, and handle anything that comes towards him. Making him essentially immortal lead his mind go insane and instable due to her spell. Baldur is a victim if could've became a great, honourable man.
wow. I never thought about that..
Interesting indeed. Freya is such a bitch.
But didn't she know that if he died it would start ragnorok? So it was one part keeping him safe but also one part knowing that he was the key to keeping everything else shes ever know going. Like she new if he got his wish he would find a way to get into a situation where he would probably die and doom them all. So she loved him even more for the sacrifice he had to make (an actual life) its kinda a christianity (jesus and the martyr thing.)
She tried to take away his pain but caused him so much more
Deep.
@@kw4584 Was about to reply: "That's deep!" But I'm noticing that someone already noticed.
@Brandon copenace Never noticed that detail! Thank you! :O
Dylan w
Wow..very deep sentence
Not to take away his pain, just prevent his death. Not being able to feel anything was a side effect. Magic is a bitch.
"snow" .... he knew Ragnarok had begun. It really was his death that started it.
I think it was just him being happy to feel snow for the first time
@@immaasshole4964It is said that Baldur's dead is the beginning of Ragnarok...
@@immaasshole4964
You are right. People look too much into it. Theres snow eveRYWHERE
@@giacomorinaldi8803 nope its was ice cause by thamur, when baldur dies its the start of Fimbilwinter
It says that in the game
IMMA ASSHOLE no like baulders death causes Ragnarok. That’s how it was in the mythology. This is not an accurate characterization of baudler but I assume that still holds true
I thought you would be bigger, he confused Kratos for his Wife a giant
Yes! Alot of people look that over. Kratos thought baldur was after him because of his past, but baldur was looking for faye and called the giants "enlightened" not greeks
Duuuuuuude it all makes so much sense now. The fact that he thought he was bigger, the enlightenment and better than us shtick, the part where he thought he knew what Kratos was. Baldur thought this whole time kratos and Atreus were giants
Edit: Holy Shit, I’ve never got so many likes! Thank you so much! Continue to like if you’re already ready for G.O.W 5
Btw does anyone else have an idea of who blew the horn after Atreus got sick
@@AfroHayot It was Kratos
@@AfroHayot I think it's a foreshadowing of the future which would be shown in the next part
Kratos: "Wait wait wait, what exactly is it that you want?"
Baldur: "The way to Jotunheim, as if you didn't already know"
Kratos: "Why would I know how to get to Jotunheim?"
Baldur: "Because you're a giant obviously"
Kratos: "What? I'm not a giant, I'm an Olympian from Greece, just trying to start fresh"
Baldur: "Oh, my mistake, sorry for all the trouble. I could have sworn you were a giant"
*ROLL CREDITS*
No sir. Baulder NEVER wanted ro go to jothiem. HE AND ALL THE ASIER ARE FORBIDIN RO ENTER. SO WHY WOULD HE WANNA GO THERE. If baulder wanted to go the jothiem he could have went when they opened the bridge atop the mountain. Baulders job was to kidnap atreas and bring atreas to odin.
2 pac Baldur was sent by Odin to find a way to Jotenheim. Baldur wanted to feel again and Odin took advantage of that by lying to Baldur, telling him that in order to feel again, he had to find Jotenheim, but in reality mistletoe is what cures Baldur, and his wild goose chase was all for Odins benefit
@@K-11609 doods did u ever watch the ending of this game? In the end Kratos says "Baldur was never sent to find me. He was tracking her (Faye, wife of Kratos who was a Giant) all along" so no he wasnt sent to neither find a way to Jotunheim nor bring Atreus to Odin. He was only sent to find her as she was the last Giant in Midgard, except of course for Jormungandr
S_w_a_t_ob [LOCA] yes but you forgot the line “not knowing she was only ashes.” Baldur couldn’t have known Faye was dead, so he assumed Kratos was the giant he was after. Then when he realized kratos wasn’t, he assumed it was Atreas. And why do you think Odin sent Baldur to find the last Joten guardian? To find a way to Jotenheim, as Mimir has told us in his stories. So he tricks Baldur into believing Jotenheim is how he can feel again, when in reality it was mistletoe.
@@K-11609 it's jotun, not joten. Plural is Jotnar, if you're curious. Some people spell it jotunn, but it's definitely not joten.
10:17 “I’m not my brother, If you’d have given me what I wanted it wouldn’t have ended this way”
-Wow after playing the full game with the Mimir’s stories of Thor’s brutality, seeing the victims of Thor’s rampage simply b/c Odín ordered it....crazy how it shows Baldur is vastly different than his brother this early in the game...
*half-brother
The implication that Baldr - the twisted, maniacal, bratty, yet completely justifiably enraged monster of an Aesir - is the BETTER of the two between himself and Thor really speaks volumes for how twisted Thor and all of this version of the Norse pantheon really is.
@@patricktsao9630 if gods existed in this way it is not unthinkable they would do exactly what they did in this game,greed and power the desires of a weak mind,God or man,although the details of their actions in this game are a bit more complex than that.
The difference between Baldur and Thor is that when Baldur wants to know something, he actually asks the person he’s interrogating before proceeding to kick them in the teeth.
Thor would just kick them in the teeth and interpret the bloody gurgling noises they make as asking for more.
Baldur is the God of Joy and Light he isn’t naturally a violent person but the curse on him made him psychotic and crazy
I do not see him as a villain honestly.
He’s very much like Kratos living a cursed life.
Indeed. Kratos would've done the same if not miles worse if he were in Baldur's position.
i think kratos recognises this too.. he prevents baldur from following the same path.. by killing him xD
Wallace 'Wallácé' Kratos literally did much worse than anything Baldur could have and has done.
He’s a dynamic character
@@missmoxie9188 not really
You know, something I actually like was when Buldar died. He didn't explode or anything like the Greek Gods did in previous games.
Kratos doesn't just unleash his fury like he did before, if this was fully pissed kratos; baldur would be all over midgard.
Jay not exactly. When Kratos killed the Greek Gods, he showed vicious brutality. Their deaths caused massive disasters all around Greece. Here, with Baldur being the Norse God of Light, nothing happened.
Lightman 2120 Baldur’s death didn’t create a plague, but it started the events for Ragnarok to start. In a sense, his death began the death of all from Asgard.
Shadowflame099 I know, but I mean his death wasn't so dramatic or over the top, like an explosion or something.
There are a few gods, that didn't explode. Look at Charon from Chains of Olympus. Also, Cronos in GOW 3 didn't disintegrate like Gaia did.
in Indian mythology, we have a quote from a wise character - "When gods want to defeat a person, they take away his mind so that he sees things wrongly, the rest is done by himself."
Indeed. Sounds very much a like a similar quote from Greek Mythology. "Whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad" - Prometheus. :-)
@@michaelblower7363 Yeah but in real world God doesn't exist so
@@michaelblower7363 Thats kinda what Aries and Zeus did to Kratos.
Can’t wait till Kratos makes his way to India
Benjamin Auvae
God of War 12: Kratos in India
At first I thought “your kind” referred to kratos being a Greek god in the Norse world
I'm sure that was the intention.
They were hiding the big reveal at the end of the story
Has anyone notice that the thing that holds the axe is shaped like the God of War symbol?
@@dreademperor2094 Did you mean Omega?
@@giantalbinoeel yep
"The cycle ends here"
-Zeus(God of war 2)
Ahri Fox Lady thank god someone commented this (prob everyone knew that reference)
Ahri Fox Lady God of war 8 Horus must die 😂
The Cycle Of Patricide
Except Kratos had the stones to actually make sure the job was done
Oh so that's what he meant xD
Gotta say, for all that Kratos goes around bare-chested, he looks really good in plate armor.
In some armors yes
In god of war 2 he had plate armor too before that statue fell on him
As he did in GoW 2's God Armor.
@@xyprototypexy8299 Good thing that you can wear it again if you unlock it in the game...
All of that to prevent him from dying a needless death, and yet it was her own actions which led to it. One often meets their destiny on the path they take to avoid it...
"There are no accidents."
Exactly.
"Wuldsetiid los tahrodiis. Those who try to hasten the end, may delay it. Those who work to delay the end, may bring it closer."
- Paarthurnax
"Needless" means it need not happen. It is like prophetic reverse-psychology. It all but said that she could just avoid it by not going crazy.
Many prophecies end up to be self-fulfilling. Greece was full of them: Chronos eating his children so one couldn't rise up to take his position lead his wife to hiding one of their children away to grow up and do just that. Zeus kidnapping Kratos's brother started the path towards Kratos fulfilling his place as the Marked One. Including his death by Zeus's hands.
Baldur had such a fate. In giving him immunity to death at the cost of all feeling, he would gain the hatred to never leave Freya alone until one of them was dead. Forcing Kratos to killing Baldur, as he promised to do if he didn't leave Freya alone. Thus starting up Ragnarok.
However, there is an extremely interesting critique to all of this: Magni and Modi were supposed to live after Ragnarok. Modi acknowledges this as a fact by questioning how Kratos could have killed Magni and then when he states that "I earned that fucking hammer!" Because he and Magni are supposed to be the new wielders of Mjolnir after Thor's death against the World Serphant. Mimir also acknowledged this twist of fate by how the winter that precedes Ragnarok is coming centuries before it was prophesied. I think Kratos, coming from a Greece whose fate was destroyed, is no longer bound to fate. Ironically, Odin's attempt to use the giants to twist fate in his favor lead him to becoming enemies to the one man not bound to any fate.
At first I thought baldur was just another asshole god. But after the scene where we see him begging freya to break the curse, and him actaully crying, I felt bad for him, cause I realized he was a victim.
Turns out he wasn't like the other gods. He wasn't crazy hungry for knowledge and rule like odin. He didn't crave blood and violence like thor, or attetion and recognition like thors son. He just wanted to be free, to be able to feel and live a normal life. But he couldn't cause of his mother, who selfishly made him unable to feel anything.
Now...one COULD argue that freya didn't know baldur wouldn't be able to feel anything, not even taste. But with her knowledge of magic, this seems silly.
And by the time we see him here, he's desperate, and desperation can make someone do crazy things, or even make them crazy.
And even when he was free, his mother STILL would not get the point that he is happier now, and kept trying to biyt into his life and affairs to protect him.
And let's be honest...freya probably would have done the spell on baldur again if given the chance
She would have and probably is trying to revive him she revived mimir’s head for God’s sake doesn’t seem too far off plus she may either be a villain next game or may just grow as a character and return to the side of kratos and atreus
He had the right to kill her and Kratos should not interfere.
@@ivanSMart54 I hope so because I want to kill her so much!!
They even stated that baldur was a happy child who once gave freya a flower.
@@ivanSMart54 Mimir himself said that what Freya has done to him mustn't be done to anyone. He is reanimated, but not fully revived
Ironic how in the end...Baldur begged his mother to feel and hated her for everything she took from him...and now seeing him dead, Freya can finally and truly understand what Baldur felt. Every ounce of anger and sadness Baldur felt for 100 years, his mother now feels
That's deep and sad
@@omkarkene9714 don't feel sad for that overbearing hag. If she was my mother i'd hate her forever.
Not really the same
i hope she rots that kratos takes every little ounce of hope and joy and lets her rot
@@Grintock No the same in context, but in feelings is very similar.
Apparently, the 6 red runes on the top of Baldur's back spell out the word "cursed." Rather fitting, wouldn't you say?
a lot better than a "damaged" tattoo on his forehead that's for sure...
Tells his whole story
@@JD-ji5xs 2016 was a dark time
1:06:13
Best delivery of BOI in the entire game
100%
Jeremy Davies won BAFTA for this performance. I'm so happy for him :)
He's absolutely stellar in this. Also Freya cursing Kratos and breaking down at 1:05:08 is so powerful, that I stop breathing every single time.
@@ormhaxan It's absolutely amazing, but don't let that take away the fact that it's her fault he's dead to begin with.
@@windghost2 if baldur died ragnorok would of happened and freya is probably a bad parent
@@Devastator21 Well Ragnorok is happening and Freya, while yes she was trying to protect her, made a horrible choice without his consent and even after the curse was broken she tried to pass it off as something that wasn't THAT big of a deal when she proposing they restart their relationship as a family together. So yes, she IS a bad parent.
1:00:28 The greatest Father/Son beatdown I have seen!!!!
Even better when the Grandson comes in to make the save. 😂😂😂
That's true! It totally slipped my mind that all 3 generations of kratos' kin were in this fight
@@crossedwingedairguard5539 Can you explain? I have no idea and I am so intrigued.
@@Jerry7Msa in mythology, the snake is Loki’s child. Therefore he is Kratos’s grandson
47:17 I just love how sarcastic and nonchalant he is when referring to the terrifying creature that will one day bring the very end of the Norse universe lol Baldur was such a unique and amazing character, he can't physically feel anything at all essentially depriving him of every possible pleasure in life so he just doesn't give a fuck about anything or anyone. His death was really sad...he had finally regained his ability to feel but he was so ecstatic and blinded by emotion that it led to his downfall. The last thing he ever got to feel was the cold embrace of death..
"snow..."
Well his invulnerability is a key part of his cocky attitude of picking a fight with the world serpent. Also he is insane from not feeling anything for centuries so he doesn't have fear
@@finnheisenheim8274 yes, precisely what i just said.
When you fight Fromsoft's bosses with invulnerable hack
It almost reminds me of barbossa from pirates of the Caribbean when he finally got to feel but when he did he died
He said snow because he realized that ragnarok is gonna start with fimblurwinter or whatever
Baldur is invulnerable to all threats physical or magical.
Thanks Mimir
Wait, but I thought he was invulnerable to all threats, physical or magical?
Except mistletoe
@@lightheart5 no, i'm pretty sure Baldur is invulnerable to all threats physical or magical.
@@lightheart5 How would mistletoe harm Baldur? He’s invulnerable to all threats, physical or magical!
Who else thinks young Kratos and Baldur would've gotten along really well
Let's kill Pantheon's together.
*strolling hand in hand across the rainbow bridge*
To similar they would of clashed
@@hotlinechernobyl5157 NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Definitely not
doubt it lol.
Though to be fair, I think either Thor or Odin would probably try to kill both Kratos and Atreus.
This game is really phenomenal! The cinematography , the ideas, the messages are like far better than what a movie could do ! It's amazing!
I clearly agree, lad
indeed, boi.
Sketchios completely agreed with you
💯
Well a movie doesn't exactly run for longer than 10 hours.
It's crazy we all thought that Baldur was talking about Kratos In the beginning.
madman191 wait what who was he talkin about
carrot top his wife Faye who was a giant
@@carrottop6897 Baldur thought Kratos was the giant he was looking for told by Odin. But in the end he finds out his own mother Freya was the giant he was looking for all time. He was looking for the giant cause he was told that the giant has the cure for not feeling anything. Minute 1:06 when Kratos opens the door and Baldur see Kratos for the first time, he said. I thought you be bigger. Cause he is looking for the giant, Odin told him. But Kratos is not a giant, he is a God. But he doesn't know.
@@heyJustephan the giant he was looking for was Laufey, Atreus’s mother not Baldur
1:00:59 Jormugandr: Here I come daddy!
Freya I am angry with. She had his cure the whole time but did nothing.
Haywood2 She did?
@@AfroHayot The missletoe is the cure. She know what it was and also Atrius gave it to her.
Yeah but I was thinking that being the wife of an all father who’s seen ragnorok would know that baldur’s death was the catalyst for it. Wouldn’t it have been better to tell him, even if he wouldn’t listen
freya didn't want to break the curse/blessing, dumbass
Try too hard to protect someone you love yu destroy them instead
“Straighter than heimdall and perfectly weighted”
Damn so my heimdall and Thor fanfic goes out the window. Damn shame.
Haha wtf
@@reggieation7390 straitgh as hetero
Or just take it as Sindri being sarcastic and keep writing for all us crack shippers of the internet
He IS supposed to be depicted as the whitest. I guess White=Straight?
Straight in this context just means he's not crooked. Not corrupt.
I understand now why Freya didn't want Atreus to have the mistletoe arrows. They could free Baldur and make him vulnerable. So she asked them to destroy it.
@@hasty-carnaage1518 Easy dude... Of course I don't know shit about Norse Mythology. I just realized it from the game not from what the hell is written.
@@hasty-carnaage1518no he didnt he tricker baldurs borther to do it, he was blind and thought it wont harm baldur like all other weapons, but loki lied to him about it
@@johnyoak6369 don't think any way about it its just a story and like with all stories in all of history their are often reimagining's of old characters in history
No she just hates the color green with pointy thing.
@@filthyweebs759 The spell that made baldur invulnerable comes with one weakness you need to pick 1 element when that element touches baldur he loses his invunerability freya his mother picked misletoe because its not very common
51:25 Saddest thing is. It looked like he was about to thank them.
At first look. But he is actually just taking out the mistletoe and preparing to get back to fighting
It looked more like he was gonna pull the mistletoe out his knuckle and use it on them
Imagine he hugged Kratos or Atreus instead then ran off cheering.
Hard to say, but that is one possibility. He does thank them later, so it was at least on his mind. He could've been about to thank, then fight them, or just thank them and go after his mother without fighting them until they intervened. Too bad Freya interrupted him before we could get something definitive...goddess has got bad timing eh?
@@fulcrum6760 That would've been...very awkward and brief, but also very, very sad...
Also, he probably would've run off to kill his mother, but yeah, considering he spends most of the ensuing fight marveling at the feel of the wind, and even pain, he's pretty ecstatic at being able to feel again...
Baldur is so awesome character. Who agree?
Me
Me
1000% on par with Killmonger as a sympathetic villain. Jeremy Davies as the voice of Baldur was incredible.
Everyone! Baldur is awesome!
I agree.
I love how this game shows character progression even in the smallest details in combat like when Baldur rushes Kratos:
4:21 Kratos hasn't been attacked like this in a long time and can't do anything against this combo so he gets thrown around a lot in the air.
50:00 Same attack as before in their first encounter but gets launched up higher in the air and gets interrupted by Freya intervening. Only choice he thinks of is bracing himself for landing impact.
1:00:20 Baldur does it a third time, turns out punching Kratos higher to the air was a grave mistake, as well as becoming predictable. Kratos catches up on this quickly and now recovers much faster; shows his quick wits as well by using the blades of chaos and pulling himself to Baldur allowing for a powerful attack from above.
That's why he's the god of war, not the god of strength: he learns and adapts quickly in the middle of combat and turns the enemy's force of attack on his favor.
I didn’t even notice this detail, that’s so awesome. I love how much we’re able to tell that the devs truly care about these games
51:24 feel like baldur just wanted to give them a bro hug for relinquishing him of his curse, till mummy got in the way
Cute but he still tried to kill them immediately afterwards.
Tyler Slagel He probably got so angry at Freya trapping him that it clouded his thinking. Maybe that’s why he changed his mind so quickly.
Baldur is my favorite character. I love him.
Assire same he has a cool mix of intensity and hilarity I also kind of empathize with him
Assire This is obvious.
David McFarland He is the best antagonist ever!
Baldur Welcome Baldur.
@@baldur6149 haha! XD
If he wants to feel pain all this time
Why not step on a *lego*
Haven't been invented yet
@@finnheisenheim8274 r/woooosh
@@kaidouthebeast7725 r/badjokesforbadcomedians
That's why he wanted to get into Jötunheim so much.
Legos are the secrets of the Giants.
Well obviously if he would have stepped on a lego the game would have been alot shorter. duh.
Man, the writers for this game were outstanding. Not just for the story, but the dialogue itself.
Like when Kratos and Baldur meet for the first time:
"I thought you would be bigger." I interpreted this as him having heard of the Ghost of Sparta and was expecting something...more. Actually meant Kratos seemed small for a Giant.
"Long way from home, aren't you?" As in, a long way from Greece. Actually meant a long way from Jotunheim.
"I thought you people were supposed to be so enlightened." I thought this was a reference to the Greeks as a whole, with their plethora of philosophers. Actually meant the Jotnar.
Classic case of letting people make assumptions based on what they think they know. Foreshadowing everything that would later be revealed without anyone realising it. Very impressed.
Well Zeus was much taller than him so it would make sense that if Baldur heard of his story he'd assume that something much bigger and much more powerful than the Greek God of thunder would kill him, it wouldn't be a stretch to think that some of the other Aesir gods thought so as well.
I love that in a way he kinda dies happy. He got to feel again, and he sounds so at peace when he feels the snow.
Odin: "okay Baldur, i need you to find this giant woman. Get it? Giant. Woman."
Baldur: "gotcha"
Also Baldur when he saw a tattoed bald beardy dude literally the same height as him: "Ahh you definitely the one."
Kratos is the same height as Baldur? Dude there's a huge size difference.
Meanwhile in asgard Odin face palms.
They did say he's slow
True! What the fuck did Odin tell Baldur when he was on his mission too finding Faye?
Aah I appreciate this comment even more after playing Ragnarok and hearing in Odin’s voice. Yeah very legit he might have said that😅
41:00 what's this?? Am I feeling sympathy for a villain!?
Not a villain, and more like a victim.
A lot of media's have it
It's nothing special just sign of good writing
GENERALYOUSIF how did killing bulder end the cycle because fraya will continue the cycle of vengeance because she vowed to take revenge for bulders death.
Well, it makes sense. Imagine an eternity without ANY kind of physical pleasure, not being able to feel a cool breeze on a hot summer day. Never feeling the comfort of a bed, never being able to taste or smell any kind of food. Immortal, but with the highest price to pay.
@@haydenkallay2123 But Kratos did end a cycle of family killing each other, but Freya wants revenge on another person. Not a family member
Baldur's performance in this game is epic. Jeremy Davies deserved getting that award.
I think he'd make an excellent Arkham Joker
You know it’s only now that I know why kratos seems harsh on his son. He sees a copy of himself in the making, his temper. The Boys constant desire to pick a fight. Kratos is trying to temper that fire in him
You guys ever think about how Mimir just gets flung around and eats dirt during the fights
Bruh 😂😂
Nope because we know Mimir doesn’t care, he’d rather be in that position then stuck to a tree being tortured by Odin, hell he even said to Kratos that being dead is better than that tree
Omg this game was so fucking good. Baldur is so badass. I wish he had some kind of redemption but that might've just ruined the character. In the real life lore Baldur is essentially universally loved by all (IIRC)
Scout he did but he refused to take the chance remember the end
Dalton We could still see more of Baldur. In Norse mythology, he actually is revived and survives Ragnarok. We could actually see his redemption if he comes back. It really depends on the writers however.
i hope we can play as Baldur, he might be the Dante of GOW
@@openshores4288 Kratos is the Dante, Baldur will be the Vergil, and Grown Atreus will be the Nero?
@@johnseed4241 I know this comment is 2 years old, but I feel like keeping him dead would be better. Also, we SHOULD see Vali in the next game which would be awesome. He's Baldur's brother and in the mythology, his sole purpose is to avenge Baldur's death. It's tailor made for a boss fight and I hope the devs catch that. Besides that, Vali's pretty much a blank slate the devs can do whatever they want with him.
It's ironic, in the first fight between kratos and baldur, kratos wins by breaking baldur's neck in the same exact way he kills him at the end. Little details like that are what makes this game great.
That's not irony, its foreshadowing.
Has actually never thought about that. Amazing.
they that bookends
Baldur was a dope boss. I like it at 36:00. The way the music goes with it when Kratos runs looks sick
It does
I like it too
His breathing! His anger! Such a powerful moment
Freya is a terrible mom and that's the hill I'm standing on. She even says that she was a bad mom herself and that she gave him his curse for "her own selfish needs".
The only reason Baldur's death was "pointless" was because at 51:21 he was probably about to thank Atreus and possibly even stop right there out of pure joy. The fight could've stopped right there but his mother intervened and continued the fight.
Yeah he could literally stop the Goddamn fight right there and even thanks both The Boi and Kratos. But no he chose to continue the pointless fight because he was blinded by his own emotion. if only he didn't be so reckless he might be survive and even start a new fresh life. And his mother are the one to blame because she was overprotective and that cause her son end up being Bratty Maniac who losing his mind because his inability to feel anything
@@jovif.spemudaindonesia1841 odin would’ve probably killed him
@@desiarnes4731 Not likely. Baldur dying is step one towards Ragnarok. Might have punished him a different way though.
He did not look like he was gonna stop, mans was crackin his knuckles in preparation for an ass kickin.
Actually, I think he was just removing the arrow tip from his hand. Judging from his expression, he was going to fight them again.
I think his death was pointless because had he let go of his anger towards Freya, Kratos would've let him live. But even with his ability to feel restored, he refused to let go of his hatred, and Kratos killed him to stop him from killing Freya.
That's how I see it, anyway.
I wonder if Baldur believed that Kratos was Laufey the Just. The whole conversation makes a lot more sense when you put it in that context
So all their talk in the prologue fight is out of context. Mimir saying there's a coincidence in the winds of fate is definitely accurate.
He did. Baldur's tracking skills couldn't identify if the person is dead so he thought kratos was faye, since he(kratos) was carrying faye's ashes
The one thing about this that confuses me, I thought it was established by Mimir that the Aesir knew Laufey was a woman. Wouldn't he instantly see that Kratos was, in fact, not a woman, and therefore know he wasn't Laufey. Probably he thought he was a Jötunn as well, and maybe they didn't thing Laufey was the guardian.
@@tripleb5197 illusion magic was common in norse tales
That's the same question I want to know
You know, rewatching these scenes and reading these comments........
It really shows how we were all touched and influenced by this incredible story. This game proves that the medium of video games has the ability to reach and touch people in great ways.
LONG LIVE THE MIGHT CORY BARLOG!!!!
Sit down please Sir.
Stabby Bear don’t be a dick just cause you can through commenting and have no repercussions
i thought you said carlog for a sec, but yeah, this is a magnificent game and the story and script's are amazing
funny how I don't have a PS but just watch these like a movie. Very nice hey and interesting.
King Juggalo north California is still in the US lmao
It's time for PS5
Let’s play on PC
YOUR MISSILE TOE IS NO MATCH FOR MY TOE MISSILE!!!!!!!
-Baldur
Freyas gonna be one hell of a boss to fight and to think I haven't even beaten all the valkyries yet.
Odin robbed her of her warrior spirit. She couldn't fight even if she wanted to.
@@irisvonpadoru830 It's easy to give it back for him to be sure. Odin could use more villains against Kratos. In wall they swoed a dead kratos and scream of Atreus. I think he was calling world serpent. We know what will happen if thor and him will meet.
@@ladyselin35 kratos will die, it was shown at the end of the game in the walls, it shows kratos dead this isnt fate, its the future. but kratos might get out of hel, after all he died several times and came back
@@Prefusify actually if you really look into the frame on the wall of his death it doesn’t really resemble kratos. There’s a lot of theories floating around about who it could be. Guess we won’t know till it happens
The best part of the game is how Atreus said “so you’d let me kill you” & Kratos said “if it meant that you would live, Yes”
Foreshadowing exactly what the mural at the end told: Atreus with kill Kratos.
Very Dope game!!!!
The game had actually a lot of foreshadowing in different ocasions. The good thing is it was well done, quite subtle.
Bro if kratos dies then my heart breaks
@@fxckitsdeakz I think he will die but not stay that way
I see my boi loki will continues the greek tradition of patricide.
in the original greek mythology it is always that way.
ouranos killed by cronos.
cronos killed by zeus.
zeus is fated to die by the hands of his son.
@@jorgenitales412 we had a huge ass fight with cronos in gow3 and you really out here saying zeus killed him
When I played the game for the first time, I was familiar with the mythology, so I was jumping with joy when I got those arrows, thinking "come at me now." I screamed when Freya destroyed the arrows, thinking that beating him was an impossibility. It's bad enough playing it again, thinking "How could I have missed that." It's worse playing it the first time with a knowledge of the mythology.
Do you watch rick and morty by any chance?
Being a parent means sacrificing for your child - even sacrificing your own happiness and living a miserable life by killing them.
She did this all for herself!
And it's because of that Baldur becomes insane from not being able to feel anything for centuries. And the sad part is SHE COULD'VE ENDED THE CURSE WHEN SHE FIRST PUT IT ON HIM!
Yeah but this isn't a normal parent, child relationship. She said her son was weak and frail and she also knows that if he died then Ragnarok would begin.
It's more of a situation of would you rather let your only child suffer to save the world you know?
@@blindeagleace3629 That is true but did Baldur know that? All she said when he asked her why she did that to him is, "I'm your mother and I know what's best for you." Like she didn't even tell him why she did it and she lied to him about ending the curse. She knew from the beginning and did nothing to end his suffering.
Besides it was prophesied he would die a needless death and because of Freya herself that came true at the end of the game.
Going back to your question, it's more of a question like this "Would you let your overprotective feelings and willingness to do something cruel to try to save your son, blind you to his happiness and what he wants?" That's what I think the question should look like.
@@windghost2
These are my assumptions from here on out but I think Baldur knew. Assuming the reason Modi freak out over Magni's death was because it was prophesied that they were supposed to survive Ragnarok and Kratos killed Magni basically proving the prophecy wrong. If they knew their fates concerning Ragnarok then I think Baldur knew that his death would have led to Ragnarok. Again this is just my assumption.
@@blindeagleace3629 Those are some good points. If Baldur did know then maybe after getting the curse lifted, he would've been more careful in his fight with Kratos and Atreus.
It is absolutely beautiful how when baldur dies he doesn’t say any evil words or curses or even he’s sorry he feels the smallest but most fulfilling thing snow idk just loved it
The word snow meant the beginning of fimbulwinter AKA beginning of Ragnarok
Jeremy Davies did such a good job as Baldur. He stole the show in every scene he was in and it’s a shame he wasn’t even nominated for best performance in the 2018 VGA’s.
Jeremy Davies got the award for best performance in the BAFTA 2019. It was well deserved.
On a scale of 1 to threatening harm to Kratos' son/family, how bad is your idea?
Krugg Kruscherp 19/10
Krugg Kruscherp like an 8
Like, telling yugi to draw his last pathetic card out of threatening harm to kratos’s son/family.
On that scale, To the point where you’d wish you were invulnerable to all threats, physical or magical
Baldur is best antagonist, I love him but I love kratos more.
Baldur is blessed with invulnerability to all threats, physical or magical.
@@johnnysfriend4515 what about mistletoe
@@animatednerd3428 Baldur has left the chat
holy Crap!? Freya said Kratos's name at 48:44. during the whole game from my memory, Kratos has never given his name out to anyone, nor does anyone say his name outright, only during when killing Hels gatekeeper for his heart and he saw the delusion of Zeus saying his name to him. that really showed that Freya knew who he was from their first meeting and after thinking and realizing this, what she said to kratos makes a lot more sense about why she didnt say she was a god. wow what cool little detail!
That first fight was SO Dragon Ball. Hell, most of the Baldur fights are pretty Dragon Ball.
Especially with the punches and tackles up in the air.
The fights with Baldur were so entertaining i enjoyed it a lot.
GmodPlusWoW Not surprising considering these two are Gods.
Please don't compare this to weeb shit
GmodPlusWoW No just no
Freya take away her son ability to feel pain, and yet he felt the most pain in his heart and mind,
such a genius writting
"This path you walk... vengeance. You will find no peace. I know." One of, if not, his greatest quote that truly defines his character.
I felt bad for baldur. Honestly, he couldn't feel pain, so he tore himself up inside his own mind. He just wanted to be normal.
Baldur’s story is fantastic. In a way both Kratos and Baldur are the same, but Kratos has figured out a way to control the pain he had felt. He figured out a way to control his anger as he said to Atreus. Baldur is blinded by his anger (and understandably so). Opposite sides of a coin, immovable object vs unstoppable force, the ruthless and emotionally/mentally strong vs the invulnerable and fueled by rage from a century of mental torture. In a way they are the same coin, the same objects, and the same souls deep down. The perfect enemy to fight and one that will genuinely leave a lasting impression for years as he already has.
Baldur is what Kratos was in the Greek Trilogy: An angry, violent, hateful young man who lost everything due to trusting the wrong person and is obsessed with taking revenge against his godly parent.
Baldur had a chance to walk away, but the poor man was too far gone.
Considering how much Freya fucked him up can you blame him?
This is the best game and I am the best character ever!!
Baldur You are the best man in the world.
It is and yes you are!!
Baldur you're best aesir god and awesome character
Baldur :)
YOU FAIL ME BALDUR
FOR THAT I SHALL RESURRECT YOU AND MAKE YOU MY PERSONAL SLAVE
Baldur: *gets thrown across the room*
Also Baldur: aRe yOu eVeN tRyiNg
I have genuinely never wanted a "villain" to win more in my entire life, revenge was his to take, it's the least he deserved. Freya certainly didn't deserve forgiveness because she *never* changed, him being cured was entirely accidental, her death by his hands was more than earned. Instead the only thing he got to feel in his entire life was a brief amount of cold and pain before his victory was stolen from him by an unrelated party.
I don’t know if you can call his last fight a “brief” amount of pain. The man was stabbed, burned, frozen, electrified and beaten to a literal bloody pulp. Yet he was in ecstasy. I hope that at the very least, he enjoyed the fight to the fullest. He also felt the cold ever since the spell was broken so I don’t think him feeling the cold was brief either.
I love how Baldur has a look of child-like innocence upon his face in the thumbnail. His mother's pursuit to keep her child safe left him as nothing more than that, A CHILD. True Maturity, True Manhood she denied him and refused to let him have, she refused to let him choose. The Poor Guy...😔 I know how he feels...😐
Still sad for Baldur, I mean, in the real mythology, he was a kind god, and it still showed here, just look at the scene in Helheim, instead of killing Freya immediately, which the current him would with no hesitation, the past him just left her, not doing anything, just leaving her.
This game is crazy beautiful, as well as in its race building. Baldur’s fighting style is a mix of Aesir strength and Vanir elemental magic. While Thor’s is more insane strength mixed with the unstoppable power of mjolnir.
The only time the name Kratos is mentioned in this game was in the end when Freya was talking to him not to kill Baldur. How did she know his name? Was Olympus' destruction that widely known?
SubXer0Fyr ; yea it was afterall it led to the destruction of the Greek pantheon and the world
@@kensebego199 Makes you wonder how much Odin fear him.
I think it was. Mimir was bound to that tree probably before Kratos was even born, yet he also knew about the events in Greece and eventually figured out who Kratos was.
ok you kill a whole pantheon of nai immortal beings with powers TO SHAPE THE COSMOS and lemme see if anyone doesn’t notice
@@sirbiakan1527 Fair point. But really I just wanted backstory to when they learned his name or how they became aware of him.
Watched the whole story and seeing 24:50 just make me sad.
I know! I wanted Freya and Kratos to have a semi-romantic relationship. Killing a gal's son will put a kibosh on that every time though lol
I never wanted a friend for Kratos / aunt for Atreus SO BADLY-
What Baldur went through is honestly kind of dark, I started thinking about it and for some reason the thought of not being able to feel anything, knowing you’ll live forever, with the thought that there is no way to end the curse just made me feel like losing my mind, in a really bad way. I feel really bad for Baldur
Imagine feeling like you’re walking in a void. Can’t even feel gravity. Now imagine not feeling the food you eat.
It's awful indeed. Anyone would go mad living like that for so many years. Freya is to blame.
I honestly don't see a reason to complain about his "curse".
TopShotta Will maybe a few 100 years would change your mind, btw look at this through his eyes, not your own. You’re thinking about all the thing you could do for your own life, but not his
Nono my boy MYDEAR SWEET BOY” how can you call someone who tries to kill you sweet funny definition of sweet
J Foster most
Baldur is the god of happiness in norse and prob would of been in gow aswell but the curse ruined him apperntly he used to give freya handpicked flowers
Freya: "Stop hurting my son!"
Kratos: "Bitch tell him to stop hurting me!"
Baldur: “shut up! I’ll kill you all!!!!”
I never liked Fraye.
I understand that she wants revenge for her sons death, and that she didn’t want him to die, but the fact is she was beyond controlling as a parent should.
A parent needs to have control in order to raise their children, but to literally control every second of every moment and therefore deny a child to develop enough of their own life in order to begin handling the world, is more harm than good.
A child needs to get scraps on their knees, needs to climb trees and maybe break a bone, it helps them to learn how not to do things and it’s more effective than simply saying it will hurt.
I’m old enough to understand (somewhat) how both of my parents want me to grow up and maybe not be hurt by the world, yet they have given me enough room for me to learn heartbrakes, money saving and so forth. It’s been developing moments that help me to understand how they want to protect their child from a world that does have a lot of darkness, yet they also have showed me the good it still has too.
Freya knew baldur's death would bring ragnarok a prophesized event met to she was preventing the worse from happening and protecting her child as well. She was trying to be a good parent and goddess
the animated nerd ah...
Need to refresh my Norse mythology
Oldin would kill baldur if he found him. So freya was in a catch 22.....i think. Havent played the game or read norse stories.
@@animatednerd3428 I'm sorry but I gonna disagree HEAVILY. Freya knew from the very beginning that mistletoe was the one thing that could end his curse. Even when he was on his knee's crying & begging her to take it away, she did NOTHING because she was so focused on keeping him from dying that she forgot about what made HIM happy.
That's not good parenting, that's really being so over-protected that she doesn't care about the consequences in her actions, even when the curse is broken she's upset and horrified that her son can feel again.
Multiple times from the start of the battle to the end of it, she tries to bind him and keep him from doing what he wants. That's someone who'll do whatever they can to keep someone close to them save regardless if that person agreed to it or not.
Honestly it's sad because she tried to prevent his death and in the end, she was the one who caused it to happen. Baldur was a victim of his mother selfish desire to keep him safe from everything and that caused him to go insane from not being able to feel anything.
Was he justified in wanting to kill her? Absolutely. But Kratos was there and it was because he was high of the fact he could finally feel again for the second time in centuries and the fact that he wanted revenge, he got neck snapped plain and simple.
the animated nerd actually she doesn’t know it would bring Ragnarok, in this story according to the wiki the runes fortold he would suffer a “needless death”. In this GOW version of Norse mythology none of the characters know what causes Ragnarök to start.
Baldur is the best character in GOW and you will not change my mind.
5:13 “Pointless!” *gets smashed in the face with a tree*
she took every thing from him and acted like gw was the bad guy when he killed him saving her
Never in my life i had felt so bad and regretted for killing an antagonist . This is the first time i am emotionally and sorry for doing it! This game is the definition of “ greatness awaits” such a masterpiece for this gen console!
It’s a lot more awesome watching the beginning sequence knowing that Baldur thinks Kratos is a giant and not the ghost of sparda
in retrospect he never figures it out
@@UncommonSenselad Kinda sad that he died never knowing it was the BOI who was the giant and not the big guy that has the highest chance of being the giant
bladur is the most jacked skinny guy I've ever seen. what I (a naturally skinny person) give and or do for a physic like that
Better than Ken Kaneki or Giorno "Joestar" Giovanna.
Me too, I’d shock everyone 😈😅
So that moment when Kratos was going off on his son. Did everyone feel like he was talking to you too? lol
*Baldur is blessed with invulnerability to all threats, physical or magical.*
Boasting of a god. Everyone has a weakness.
@M.G. Michael "You just said that?"
@M.G. Michael What is the source of this power?
@@creativepseudonym9872 his mom cursed him to not feel and be immortal. Only a misltoe can kill him
@@tristanceles7738 I'm aware. I'm referencing it. It's a running joke.
Really like that first fight. It really feels like a fight between gods.
Few campaigns I can just watch like this, such a visual master piece cinematically, and the story leaves me in awe… God I love this series so much. Thanks for this ordered grouping of all the scenes this chapter had to offer. To think it’d be cool to see an anthology type of one of these, of all the games in the series when it concludes in the hopeful very far future because this series has so much value to offer and unravel as of now. Anyway, it is appreciated.
4:40 is the moment from which Kratos starts taking Baldur very seriously and realises he must eliminate him for the sake of Atreus.
Ironic that Baldr in that actual mythologies is the god of sunlight, and is said to be one of the most humble and compassionate deities among the entire Norse pantheon.
Well, maybe he was like that in the game, but his sanity went down to hell when Freya cursed him with that annoying spell, maybe he was one of the very few Aesir to be good or neutral.
I honestly think that Freya was scared of Baldur.
I mean, look at what he was able to do when he could feel. He's easily one of the strongest gods at that point.
I think she was scared because she knew what he would become, and limited his power (through the curse) to save him from that path, but she inadvertently caused him to go down that path.
@@kristopherbarker3282 nope thor and odin are faaaaar stronger than baldur
@@AmaanKhan-fq4io I'm speaking in terms of characters we've seen in the series so far. I'm sure that Thor is stronger.
I think Odin's power is more about what he knows, and who he can get to do his dirty work, not raw power
@@nomado.3855 We actually saw that baldur in the helheim visions. It was that last act of not killing freya is when the good baldur "died" and we are left with this shell of a god
Damn, for me Baldur was the best character in the game.
I just realized, it wasn’t just Freya that caused Baldur to have a needless death, it was also Odin since he sent Baldur on a wild goose chase with empty promises.
"I thought you'd be bigger" But... I'm still taller than you...
now i know why Baldur want death/freedom because his mother didn't try to understand him at all even the last his moment his mother still want to make his life a living agony ( put new spell/curse on him again, I sure Freya deceived Baldur to accept it in the first place, make me think that Freya have done this it wouldn't surprise if she will do it again regardless her son's suffering )
Is no one going to talk about how Baldur looked like he was going to make peace with them after the spell got lifted? He straight looked like he cupped his hands together and was about to thank them until freya stepped in again
Yeah, she fcked up again
No, if you look closely, right before he turns around Baldur frowns his eyebrows and his eyes become focused. That expression is of someone ready to fight not of someone about to be thankful.
The old Kratos wouldn't have hesitated for a second tearing Baldur's head off simply for knocking on his door. Him now taking verbal and physical abuse, only grudgingly fighting back and even holding back so not to endanger his son really shows how much Kratos has changed since he came to Midgard. If he had gone all out like against the Pantheon of Olympus (Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hermes, Hercules, Ares, etc.), the entire area would be nothing but a massive crater.
Baldur : *knock knock*
Also baldur : *DIES*
Damn right it shows his infinite fucking mercy they Kratos didn’t rip baldurs heart out and use it as a sex toy after that slap
Destroying an entire civilization can really change a person. Who'd have thought it?
@@RawPower867 comment of the fuckin year