Every once in a while I tend to think about love. Every­one who’s fallen in love before knows that love’s a very com­pli­cated issue to deal with. You get all these feel­ings and you start to think about many things quite dif­fer­ently. Most of the time, there’s only one thing on your mind: the one. Pretty roman­tic, isn’t it? Well, being happy is but one side of the coin.

The peo­ple you love are the peo­ple able to hurt you most. That’s pretty much the whole down­side but it’s noth­ing to be care­less about. If you’re tied up chances of break­ing up some day are really huge. And then it starts … the once lovely per­son you’ve been dat­ing for quite a while gets awk­ward. Per­son­ally, I believe that peo­ple can still be friends after they broke up. It def­i­nitely isn’t unusual for peo­ple to become friends after that. It doesn’t always work out this way, though. Things are really start­ing to get weird when you get to see each other again and again, maybe even have to work together.

Most peo­ple aren’t able to sep­a­rate their love life from the rest of their life. Their feel­ings pre­vail over rea­son and they’re unable to see each other for some time. If they have to, there are some things to deal with such as pride or still not sub­sided feel­ings. It’s mak­ing life even more dif­fi­cult than it already is. Ah, there’s noth­ing you can do about it … you can’t manip­u­late other peo­ple to han­dle things in a way you’d approve of. I don’t wanna hurt my ex-girlfriend any­more but I’d appre­ci­ate if she wouldn’t block every attempt of being friends. I fully under­stand that she’s vul­ner­a­ble as far as I’m con­cerned but I can’t see why we can’t be friends. It’s been half a year now and she’s act­ing like I’m infec­tious. I guess that’s some­thing I’ve to cope with. Frankly speak­ing, I don’t care the least why she’s act­ing the way she does. I sim­ply don’t like the state of affairs between us. It seems kinda unfinished …

Now, that's a game. I really enjoyed play­ing God of War. It's one of the best action adven­ture games on the PS2 up to date. For a review, check out GameSpot or IGN. It's one of those games where you enjoy every step. There's an excel­lent com­bat sys­tem, plenty of upgrades, and lots of chal­leng­ing puz­zles, and it's backed up by a bril­liantly work­ing story. Very high qual­ity stuff, indeed. OK, I won't bother you with details you can look up for your­self after I've pro­vided the links.

I guess you want to urge me to make a point. Fine, here we go: I seem to really have an affin­ity for anti­heroes. I really like those kinda mean-spirited guys most peo­ple would describe as unlik­able, ruth­less son of a bitch. They add some qual­ity to a story. You see, there's noth­ing like absolutely good or totally evil in this world. We judge things upon our per­cep­tions which are influ­enced by our upbring­ing, our teacher, our idols, our friends, our sur­round­ings. Even good char­ac­ters can do evil deeds and vice versa, in order to achieve a thing or two they believe in.

You may now under­stand why I feel so bad about those shiny and pol­ished heroes. They sim­ply are inhu­man. There is always more to 'em than meets the eye but no mat­ter how hard you try, the author won't let his main char­ac­ter down and you almost never get to know his dark char­ac­ter traits. Well, that's why I like Kratos. He's a tor­tured badass, a very capa­ble war­rior in com­bat and he's using every­thing he can think of to reach his goal – for­get­ting the sins of his past.

There'll be a sequel named God of War II: Divine Ret­ri­bu­tion and it's cur­rently slated to ship in Feb­ru­ary 2007, for the PS2 again. Lots of video mate­r­ial can be found here, and some scans are located here (thx to dragon_x_2 from the Offi­cial Prince of Per­sia forums). I'm already look­ing for­ward to play­ing it. What's cur­rently known makes the impres­sion of an even bet­ter game than the pre­de­ces­sor was …