a weapon to surpass blaming yourself or god while knee-deep in the dead

writing on video games, by chuck sebian-lander

secrets on the scale are worth their weight in truth

I press on brick and tile in search of hidden passage, until

after terracotta rots and the house crashes down

I stand, triumphant, dead center in my labyrinth of ash

(this is an adaptation of a video essay of mine, which you can watch here.)

If you want to understand the function of mythology in God of War, both the original early-2000s series of games and their rebirth with 2018's God of War and last year's God of War: Ragnarok, consider that the titular “god of war” is you.

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