1:27 it looked like if Baldur was actually going to thank them, but Freya fucked it up

He probably was going to hug them...and say thank you.....making the end even more heart wrenching.

vaclav baldur was going to kill them even if freya did nothing he does thank them...... will he is attempting to kill them and if you look closely it seems that baldur was about to charge at kratos and atreus

What’s dumb is they only said that he can’t feel pain but that’s it, death and feeling are 2 different things you can hit but not feel it but your body still gets punched

sulsty baldur is invulnerable and feeling nothing is a side effect of that

I honestly think that was what happened. Baldur was actual started out kind until agony of unable to feel drove him insane. So when Artreus broke the spell for him, I thought he is actually going to thank him and then walk away happy. But then Freya had to butt in and reminded him about the feeling of hate again and the fight continued

@@x3dgame123 That's clearly not the case, since he clenches his fists and cracks his knuckles. He fully intended to slaughter them both to pay them back for their slights against him. Baldur was driven to insane rage not only due to the sensory deprivation, but also due to the fact that there is not risk or challenge to combat. That's why he throws himself at any chance to fight, in the hope that he'll be able to feel something in a fight. Baldur planned to kill Kratos, Atreus, and Freya, in order to finally tie up all his loose ends.

@@manuelmateo3392 It looks like he was just about to take off the piece of shard stuck in his fists and hug them

@@jeybrydoesthings4415 He was cracking his knuckles, since he visibly folds his left hand into a fist. His posture also shows that he's getting ready to fight them, and he never outstretches his arms in a show of peace or anything like it. In fact, if he really did want to show them gratitude, he would've thanked them before he advanced, but the only thing on his mind was finally killing them both after all the trouble they put him through (and for his first real fight), and killing Freya afterwards.

Why baldur is powerful why at the start he doesn't feel pain from kratos punches

Magnus Malo is this a history or mythology

Julius Apollo Ambit so loki is atreus when he grown up he became loki the mischief god

Ayman Hunterz what? No. Loki can transform in everything, even humans and gods. He made himself look like Arteus

SzalonaSam did you not listen to the later conversation between Atreus and Kratos?? Loki is not making himself look like Atreus. His mother intended for his name to be Loki, but Kratos objected to it, and wanted to name him Atreus. There's no Loki shenanigans here or disguise.

NickAndrewx ??? I think you're talking about the game, but I was talking about mythology, not the game

He was

Remember when she tell Artreus to destroy that Arrow

@@apexpredatorx7840 looked like he was pissed off and about to rip the arrow out to start fighting.

@@sumbigdumkunt i figured hes more ecstatic to have a fight he can finally feel

@@friccle_ yeah absolutely, but these dudes are implying he ran in to hug Atreus or something lmao

It’s God of War-tier 🙏

I see what you did there.

yea well he died.

AC Valhalla did him dirty by killing Baldur off screen

That’s what made this game so good. It’s an extremely intimate story between Kratos, Atreus and baldur. It’s also no surprise that Baldur is not too dissimilar from kratos when he was a younger god and just murdering his own family because of what they did to him. I think it works beautifully to have an older now much wiser kratos have to be forced to fight someone like baldur who’s absolutely unrelenting and insane, and can’t be killed. It’s the perfect antagonist for Kratos.

He's honestly so cool in this game. His look, his voice actor, his demeanor, his powers... Super sick dude 👍

That still hurts to look at

that part made me laugh 😂

@@doolenny9458 I have experience that before. It doesn't hurt. It's extremely scary. What feels like 5 minutes to you is only 5 seconds.

@@ice2163 Yeah I have heard of those where you body just genuinely won;t let you breath it sounds horrifying

@@ice2163 what, getting your breath knocked out of you? To me the time felt the same but i was just so unable to do anything add on top of that being in the middle of a road plus a lot of pain

He was about to become the Baldur from mythology. Then Freya stopped him, and the fight continued.

Mr Lakiro What’s the difference in Baldur from mythology?

Ian Liz he was gonna turn against Odin and eventually get killed starting Ragnarok (i think)

Ian Liz unlike the drunkish brutal man we see now he was a gentle man in mythology. His presence was enough to bring happiness to all the gods, that was until Loki killed him.

Mr Lakiro that’s interesting

I don't blame him

Centuries of feeling nothing has driven him insane. Hate and letting that hate spill to the earth was what kept him going... It's something you can't let go at a moment's notice.. He's too far gone at this point. If this was pre-Helheim Baldur it might have been different

I dont blame him. Hate is stronger than anything I can tell

Yeah hate blinded him... but also if he just “walked away”, it would make odin and thor quite upset... specially thor... dude is a maniac...

@@CrystallizedBlackSkull as Kratos himself has said, "Hate is stronger than Duty."

You're already an embarassment to Valhalla's Code of Fight Club, so why not go for the High Score? Rule no#???. Giving your opponent in a fight a handicap is a proof that you are badass enough. If people give you handicap, that means your opponents think you're a mommy boy. And you started with Invulnerability on right from the start.😋🤪🤭

​@@salamanderred8148wtf is this did baldur do something to you or what

@@faridabouhi9500 no, just my opinion of this Baldur... And his relationship with his peers. "Mom, I'm a big kid already, release me from this "I am a special kid with special needs" label." "I'm not a wimpy boy, damnit, even I dare to shed my blood for the glory of Valhalla, damn it, why won't I bleed ?!? MOM !!!" "You make look weak in front of my crush and minions" Also their minions : "he told us to be brave and dare to die, while he sit in his invincibility chair, what a leader we have. He is ThE DeFiNiTiOn Of SuPeR ChAd." See... This is why Baldur hates his mother. And he is also ridiculed at Valhalla Fight Club, he can join, sure, but whatever his fight results, the acknowledged results will always be the same. Let's assume there is a tournament, with 8 chars. Baldur 3 win, should be champion, but... Thor 2 win, 1 lose from Baldur, officially Runner up, but no, he is the acknowledged champion in the fight club. Loki 1 win, 1 lose, and then win again placing him on 3rd, but now 2nd in their heart. And so on. See, Baldur is basically disqualified and dishonored, he is no longer brave Valhalla Gods, just invincible Mommy boy in Valhalla Fight Club (which prides itself in Valor).

Nice to the Emperor giving good feedback for a change.

Its more that "no! My son can be hurt, and hes facing kratos of all gods"

@@f687sNFM Freya destroyed his life, she is extremely selfish and should have never been a mother.

​@christianriddler5063 funny this is what made me lose love for her character in the first place. Now I just have mixed feelings for her character

@@sarapinkdiamond866 Right, I felt that it was offensive in a way that what she did is ignored by almost every other character as well. Baldur gets no empathy or sympathy from anyone except for possibly Kratos but even then in just a limited form. Baldur's story was so sad and there was no redemption for him, it made me really sad.

It’s selfish. It was never truly about sparing him from the cold of death, but herself from the pain of loss…

@@coreythepeanut that's it!

@@coreythepeanut...well said.

she’s the true villain in the game, downright despicable

I just don't get like he was choking her out and we save her and she gets mad. Like b*tch please, he would have died anyway if he keeps on attacking people and we saved your life lol

Yh cos he can be killed

Probably because he's fighting against a well known and powerful God killer

Breath as in breath of the wild. You mean breathe.

142doddy edited, hehe sorry.

That was probably what he was going to do before Freya stopped them

He didn't want to fight with them he only wanted to kill Freya but they didn't let him had his revenge

Baldur had orders from Odin to get Faye, cuz Odin knows she's a giant and can get him to Jotunheim. However, both Odin/Baldur don't realize she's dead, and just think Kratos and son are hiding her, so that's why Baldur keeps coming for the pair. Which is why Baldur, wouldn't be able to walk away, as that would mean defying Odin, which would be very bad for his health lmao.

@@GloomEater nope Baldur thought Kratos was Faye. Revealed at end

@@fuadrahman2783 he thought Kratos is Giant

Nervein Z nah, he woulldda killed em

Lol

Believe it or not he was going to thank arteus, and just go back to asguard but the developers thought nope there has to be a lost fight

You can see Baldur's posture like he was ready to fight them so he has no intention to thank them.

@Kahmij Hall it was the mistletoe...

Lmao underrated

penyuwan *ha hahaha ha*

you underestimate my powers

penyuwan dont you mean Darth revan?

You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them. Bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness!

@THX22 Hello there

Lmao!

I think his immortality and invincibility made him a masochist. He looked like he was having fun while fighting Kratos in the first fight (in spite of his begrudged invincibility), now in the final fight he looks like the time of his life now that he got his wish to feel his senses.

He felt no touch of anything.

Bintang Adhyaksa and break the curse.

im sorry but why did freya cast a spell on his son?

Because she saw a prophecy that baldur was going to die a needless death so she cast a spell on him to protect him.

They were mistletoe arrows, it made baldur vulnerable that's why she destroyed the arrows

Yes! The first time I played GOW I just let that detail slip through, last week I re-played it and realized Freya's true intentions. It was a huge foreshadowing.

I'm surprised he didn't do that right away. Seriously just got granted everything he's wanted, might as well say bye to the both of em and run off

Thatd be the Good Baldur Lives Ending lmao

He was going to hug atreus i think

Honestly? I was happy because I could finally hear this guy screaming in pain but... well, it didn't help with my wish

@@lollojojjo6612 He was in pire ecstasy from feeling pain again, if you heard his comments during the next fight

Zubin? Tf u doin here

Baldur: i don’t care

@@transieucuong1 Kratos, Atreus and Mimir: *OOOOOOHHH!*

Freya: What?!? Baldur: You heard me ya fuckin' bitch!

oddly relatable. moms, amirite 😭

z

You mean 0:31

zaidan esem I typed the same thing on another vid of the same clip, how dare you copy me, I’m reporting you

XD

Kick Ass no you didn't

Looks like he was cracking his knuckles

It genuinely looked like baldur was gonna thank atreus for breaking his spell

You can also see Kratos putting down his axe before Freya stopped them, he knew what he was trying to say with his motion and reaction to feeling pain.

Overlord reference. Respect

But he already knew pain wasn't he?

@@alfredohumberto2222 he’s saying it in the meaning that he can feel pain and damage

Rekken 200 sometimes I can pee red, do I need a doctor

This is the most random comment I've ever seen

Well that was random

Good for you, Baldur piss on himself, and doesn't feel a thing.🤭

I shit standing up.

actually no if u watched the video then you'd see the spell that makes him that way is broken now

Apart from mistletoe

@@lisatrappedmeinygsbasement848 it's a joke dipshit

@@lisatrappedmeinygsbasement848 idiot

@@lisatrappedmeinygsbasement848 But Baldur is blessed with invulnerability to all threats, physical or magical!

He gave it because it was more powerful than normal arrows

It's not Baldur's weakness, it was what was going to break the spell. It's rather what Baldur needed.

I re-played GOW again last week and now I remember Freya telling Atreus not to use mistletoe arrows because they're wicked, covered in "bad" magic or something. Just now I realize she was trying to protect Baldur.

Sindri didn't know that. Because other way why Sindri just didn't give the arrows directly to Baldur instead a long time ago already?

@@HazerV2 so his weakness

Not only unpleasant parts - he was denied from all parts. He couldn't feel neither pain nor pleasure, no taste, no smell, no feeling, not any kind of "response" from contacting the world. It is like being forever kept in a cell, with ability to only see the reality through the metal bars. For centuries. That is why Baldur became obsessed with hatred, even though initially he was quite kind and rational god. That is also why he sought with with Kratos - he knew that Kratos is a killer of gods and hoped that maybe that person would finally make Baldur feel anything.

You sound like the type of old guy who thinks the key to being a good person is being hit when you're a child 🤔

@@Integritys_Sum I mean...yeah.

@@MrJustonemorevoice as a child from an abusive home. know that i would shoot you in an instant and then carry on with my day like nothing happened 🥰

@@Integritys_Sum As someone who also experienced such a household, I think one of us internalized the experience far better than the other.

MaNayme IsChef i think after you right

Why is it pointless? Baldurs quest isnt to feel again. He was after Kratos' wife, because Odin wanted her. She was the last of the Jötun. He didn't know she was dead tho. And seeing Atreus is her offspring, Odin would have wanted him too eventually. So it was either killing Baldur or losing his son.

eren ozdemir Well I didn't know he followed odins order because he seamed strong and reckless enough to take on anybody. I fought he was a guy who only followed his own rules.

The thing is that is how I understood the quest of Baldur. Eventho I think that is the reason Odin sent Baldur, he might have told Baldur that killing Kratos will make him feel again. But when Kratos and Atreus are in Jötunheim and they see the paintings on the walls, Kratos says: 'Baldur was never sent to find me, he was tracking her all along not knowing she is only ashes.' So his real "hidden" quest was finding Kratos' wife.

eren ozdemir Yeah which led him to kratos, kratos presense always fucks up destiny. Like he was creates to fuck with the gods and their minions. In 1 Hand yes kratos did help find baldur his long sought death in the other he sadly was still vegencefull towards his mother, which made me consider him being actually still good at heart. Sadly he couldn't forgive his Mother for protecting him. Btw is it states in the game that Freya knew Baldur's death would lead to ragnarok?

Eric George No because in Norse Mythology Baldur dies by a mistletoe to the neck

Fish Cats isn't he dead with the mistletoe on his chest?

and all my life believed good things happen when you kiss a girl under a mistletoe but noo somebody going to die haaa. Thanks for ruining my childhood.

@@wakekeman yeah that can lead to all sorts of trouble

@@wakekeman I mean bro if you kiss someone else's guy or girl, somebody is bound to kill you

kinda weird

Baldur was looking to break his curse when he went to Kratos home. He thought he was a giant ("I thought you will be taller"). Since only they have magic like that, that's why Odin and Thor killed the giant race to stop Ragnarok from happening. "Give me what I what" "I'm not like my brother (Thor)" He was actually a good guy.

You feel bad. He can't feel

Freya was the villain of that game.

Yeah but the blades are powered by Primordial fire. It's from a different realm, but it's the same thing found in the 9 realms, as confirmed by Surtur. So in that sense, the Blades shouldn't harm Baldur either.

"Accidentally".

*"ACCIDENTALLY"*

It is like fell pain for him is like u feeling so good, and i can't even imagine this point

In the game i think he live 100 years or a little more like this without feeling nothing, not feeling sex, food, and drink, and pain, so i can't imagine the feeling or being able of feeling something after all these years, Pure joy

He was happy because it's literally the first thing he's felt in a 100 years

@@averyangrygringo6440 I think freya put this spell on him when he was a baby right after he was born so literally for his entire life since he was a baby he hasn't ever felt anything

@@thor8765 No because when baldur see the souvenir of is past in Helheim he say to Freya "Drinking, Feasting, Women its all gone

Exactly. Kratos liked Freya and owed her. He couldn't stand by and watch her crazy herself to death. Let's be clear, Freya is the villain of God of War 2018.

@@hagamapama I can agree until the ragnorok game. I’m not arguing she’s the villain of that game but she does redeem herself in the second game.

@@Reviewer2016That's why I said "God of War 2018." That first game was about peeling back the layers of Freya and perhaps not unexpectedly finding yet another monstrous god at the center. Freya does a lot to redeem herself in the second game and has many good and great qualities even in 2018, but she was still ultimately the villain of the story of the first game. One of the best arcs in Ragnarok is Freya finding her own monster inside herself, deciding that she didn't like how that felt, and coming to rely on Kratos of all people to learn, as he learned, how to not be that person anymore. This is why Kratos and Freya understand each other so well. They each walked down the monstrous path with every step paved with good intentions and now they're there to pull each other back onto a better path when they stumble.

@@hagamapama well put👍

😂

Not entirely but you tried

A+ for effort.

Who else can give him the perfect fight he always wanted? If this was an AO game we'd be seeing his throbbing boner the entire fight from how combat sexual he turned out to be.

Yeah but living so long with the curse make him insane

@@averyangrygringo6440and he was ordered to by Odin

@@gabuscus9108 Of course, Odin doesnt care about his son, even his children are just tools to him, Fucked up and sad

he wanted to kill freya kratos stopped him

I mean... Yeah, dude... That's the plot of the game 😂

There's literally no feeling

He feels nothing lol

That's the interesting part. Baldur did grunt & yell whenever he was fighting Kratos earlier in the game but at the same time, claimed not to be able to feel anything. If he could feel nothing, why would Baldur even make any sort of noise relating to physical strain when put into a situation that should call for it? Either Baldur was lying and did at least feel some level of sensation or perhaps his physical pain was converted into a non-physical type such as emotional/psychological pain. The game doesn't make it abundantly clear though due to certain cutscenes seeming to contradict what has been said.

@@darinlunderman8063 Most likely just exertion. Even if you were fully numb you would still lose your breath.

Like the dental freezing you get when you have a cavity but everywhere for 100 years straight

Zack Smith What over protective mother make her kid feel no pain for a hundred years?

Zack Smith being overly dramatic and protective are different things

@@fifth6150 Freya is definition of Overprotective and selfish. She values her own selfish wants for her son more than what her son actually wants in life.

No, he was definitely trying to kill them.

TitanGT66 look at his gestues, that is definatly not an fighting stance, also, look at Baldur's face that is clearly the face of joy not the face of wanting to continue a fight

No, his facial expression from 1:00-1:20 was pure joy. And that expression completely changed back to original face at 1:23 . Think about it, you don't walk towards someone to thank them after you were trying to kill them ever since you first met them. He would have thanked them from where he was standing. Even Kratos raised his axe in response to Baldur moving towards them, and Freya knew the fight was going to continue. If he were just going to thank them, he wouldn't have responded "No! Mother!!!" when Freya stopped him from moving. In a culture like this, warriors like to die in battle against worthy opponents. Which is why he was telling Kratos "c'mon, do it" while Kratos was choking him later. Not just that but Baldur again attacked them after Freya moved them away from him. He literally charged right at Kratos even though they didn't attack him yet ever since he became vulnerable, so he would have no reason to just change his mind because of Freya. So why would he go from wanting to thank them and not fight anymore, to immediately wanting to fight again moments later? That makes no sense lol. And he did end up thanking them when he had Kratos pinned and held Atreus by the neck. The only chance they ever had of Baldur not coming after them anymore might have been when and if Kratos had let him kill Freya.

@@TitanGT66 I don’t see it like that, I understand your view point and you may be right but to me, that looked like a passive stance and definitely looked like a thank you. Or alternatively maybe he was happy and appreciative but wanted death so he tried to force Kratos to do so.

Nah he deserved it i’m so happy kratos killed baldur,

@@ausername4487 K

@@ausername4487 No, he didn't

3/5 taunt

Your magic won't save you

Unfortunately he can't do that because he is now desperate to kill Freya because the moment this calms down she'll try to put the spell back. If he kills her now before she can do that, he's free. Baldur is so completely understandable after the spell is broken that he almost stops being a villain in the first place.

She probably didn't imagine that it would be used as any sort of weapon