History VideoGame / GodOfWarChainsOfOlympus

** Heck she even saves Kratos when he falls off her during the ascent so that they can fight. Why not just let him fall.

Taking place ten years before the original ''VideoGame/GodOfWarI'', Kratos curses the heavens after two months of servitude to the gods. To his surprise, the sun suddenly explodes and quickly plummets to the ground, sending him on a strange adventure to save the sun god Helios, as his absence is allowing the dream god Morpheus to put several other gods to sleep. In the process, he discovers that the ones behind the kidnapping are [[spoiler:Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, and the Titan Atlas, who scheme to use Helios' power to destroy the Pillar of the World]], forcing Kratos to make the hardest choice of his life.

Taking place ten years before the original ''VideoGame/GodOfWarI'', Kratos is sent on a mission to save the sun god Helios, as his absence is allowing the dream god Morpheus to put several other gods to sleep. In the process, he discovers that the ones behind the kidnapping are Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, and the Titan Atlas, who scheme to use Helios' power to destroy the Pillar of the World.

''God of War: Chains of Olympus'' is the fourth ([[AnachronicOrder chronologically second]]) installment in the ''VideoGame/GodOfWarSeries'', released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable in 2008.

Taking place ten years before the original ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', Kratos is sent on a mission to save the sun god Helios, as his absence is allowing the dream god Morpheus to put several other gods to sleep. In the process, he discovers that the ones behind the kidnapping are Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, and the Titan Atlas, who scheme to use Helios' power to destroy the Pillar of the World.

** Athena and Helios leave an unconscious Kratos at the very same cliffs where he will attempt suicide [[VideoGame/GodOfWar ten years later]].

* AdaptationalVilliany: Persephone in mythology was once of the nicest goddesses of the pantheon, and her marriage to Hades is known as one of the more stable and [[HappilyMarried happy]] ones. Here, Persephone is the BigBad, and hates her ArrangedMarriage to Hades.

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Calliope uses this on Kratos, when he's forced to leave her forever in order to become the Ghost of Sparta again so he can defeat Persephone. The game even twists the knife by making his pushing her away into a button-mashing minigame!

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Persephone had just gotten Kratos to cast aside his blades and renounce his powers as the Ghost of Sparta so that he can be with his daughter in the Elysian Fields. All she needs to do in order to win is ''leave him alone'' for a few hours so that her plan can be completed while he's playing with Calliope. Instead she makes a point of telling him that she's the villain of the game (Something he didn't have the slightest inkling of until she explained her plan), and that thanks to his actions the world will soon be destroyed, and that the Elysian Plains and all the spirits living there will be destroyed with it. This motivates Kratos to reclaim his powers and save the world.

* ArtifactTitle: Ares is nowhere to be seen or heard.

* TheUnseen / TheUnfought: Morpheus. Until Persephone shows up at the very end, it is pretty much outright stated from the very beginning that he's the BigBad, but he never appears onscreen, and if not for the narrator, we wouldn't even know of his involvement.

* BittersweetEnding: [[Spoiler:Kratos has successfully defeated Persephone and saved the world... but because of his actions, is permanently banned from Elysium and thus will never be able to see Calliope again, even after he dies]].

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* TheUnseen / TheUnfought: Morpheus. Until Persephone shows up at the very end, it is pretty much outright stated from the very beginning that he's the BigBad, but he never appears onscreen, and if not for the narrator, we wouldn't even know of his involvement.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[Spoiler:Kratos has successfully defeated Persephone and saved the world... but because of his actions, is permanently banned from Elysium and thus will never be able to see Calliope again, even after he dies.]]

* BittersweetEnding: ''[[Kratos has successfully defeated Persephone and saved the world... but because of his actions, is permanently banned from Elysium and thus will never be able to see Calliope again, even after he dies.]]''

* BittersweetEnding: [[Spoilers]Kratos has successfully defeated Persephone and saved the world... but because of his actions, is permanently banned from Elysium and thus will never be able to see Calliope again, even after he dies.]]

* BittersweetEnding: Kratos has successfully defeated Persephone and saved the world... but because of his actions, is permanently banned from Elysium and thus will never be able to see Calliope again, even after he dies.

''God of War: Chains of Olympus'' is the fourth ([[AnachronicOrder chronologically second]]) installment in the ''VideoGame/GodOfWarSeries'', released for the PlayStationPortable in 2008.

''God of War: Chains of Olympus'' is the fourth ([[AnachronicOrder chronologically second]]) installment in the ''Franchise/GodOfWar'' series, released for the PlayStationPortable in 2008.

* TheUnseen: Morpheus.

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