YMMV / God of War: Chains of Olympus

• Ass Pull: The game builds up Morpheus as the villain for most of the game, then you meet Persephone, and five minutes later, out of nowhere it's revealed that she's behind everything.
• Badass Decay: All the gods, including Zeus, are helpless to stop Morpheus without Helios. What makes this so striking is that Morpheus isn't even a major god.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: While still generally thought of positively, this is definitely one of the biggest complaints leveled at the game—it's only around 1/3 of the length of a typical GoW game.
• Magnificent Bitch: Persephone, Goddess of Spring and unwilling Queen of the Dead, was forced into marrying Hades. Disillusioned with the gods that abandoned her and mortals for their selfishness, Persephone decided to destroy the world and return it all to Chaos. Freeing the Titan Atlas, she sent him to kidnap Helios, causing the sun to fall and Morpheus' influence to spread, putting the gods to sleep, neutralizing them. She then sent Atlas to break the pillar that held the world up while at the same time using a vision of Kratos' daughter to lead him to her. Playing on his love for his daughter and his apathy towards humanity, Persephone tricks him into giving up his powers to purge his sins so he can join his daughter in Elysium, scorning him afterwards for how selfish he is. Driven to nihilism by the fate thrust upon her, Persephone came close to destroying the whole world.
• Narm
  • After killing the Basilisk, Kratos yells at the sky cursing the gods once again (around 4:48 in the video). There is a Beat during the shot of the sky, making Kratos look less like somebody yelling at the heavens and more like, well...◊
  • Kratos has an emotional moment being reunited with his daughter Calliope in Elysium, before realising it is a trick by Persephone to rob him of his powers. He regains his powers by pushing his tearful daughter away, but the process is turned into a QTE. Since the cutscene is tied to the player's frantic button mashing, it loses much of its emotional impact and is instead made comical, especially given that the awkward animation makes Calliope seem unreasonably strong despite being a small girl.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: You have to find Helios, the sun god, and restore him to the sky to fend off the assault of Morpheus. Not only do you not fight Morpheus in the game, but it turns out the real Big Bad is Persephone, and Morpheus just took advantage of Helios' disappearance without ever knowing why the sun vanished.

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