After 3 years of Fimbulwinter, Ragnarök approaches. Kratos and Atreus must prepare themselves for the apocalyptic battle, journeying through all 9 realms to do so. This is a movie edit of the video game by the same title. This video will look the best on HDR screens, but has been custom color graded to look great in SDR as well. This video also supports 5.1 surround sound.

If you've never seen one of my movies before, the idea is to take the story of a video game, and edit it in a way where anybody can watch and enjoy it, whether they play video games or not. If you haven't played this game, this movie will give you the opportunity to enjoy this story you might have missed otherwise, but even if you have played the game, this movie can allow you to enjoy the story in a new way. I often find that watching these stories in this way allows me to see the bigger picture of the story better than when I'm playing myself. Of course, with the length of this movie, you will likely need to break it into smaller sessions. Chapters are provided for good stopping points, but I will also be releasing this story as smaller episodes every week on my second channel, @APGames

My goal is to bring this as close to a movie watching experience as possible, with a focus on the core of the story itself. I try to reduce any gameplay down to just what's necessary to understand and enjoy the story. If there are sections I can cut without introducing plot holes, and can be done in a way that doesn't feel jarring, I will generally try to do so. That being said, this is still a long game, with the core story often taking over 30 hours to complete, with a high percentage of the story missions being critical to that story, so this was a difficult task. Typically I will avoid side missions, although in this case there were a couple small details from some side missions that I felt were important to avoiding unresolved story threads, as well as helping the flow of the story in one spot, with only minimal impact to the runtime (just a few minutes).

On top of that, one of the things that really sets my content apart from other similar videos is that I try my best to remove as many "game indicators" as I can. Elements that appear on screen that remind you that you're watching a game. I disable as much of the HUD as possible, but then I also go through extensive VFX work to remove as many button prompts and pop ups as I can. Not everything is removable (especially some elements that appeared center screen), and there are some that I missed, but the vast majority of these elements have been removed. For this movie in particular, I worked on 541 total VFX shots, covering 133,893 frames, or nearly 75 minutes of VFX total. Additionally, when I'm able to, I do try to keep a nice control over the camera, trying to make any gameplay feel as cinematic as possible. My movies are always recorded on replay, and I watch walkthroughs to prepare as well, so that I know what I'm doing and where I'm going in my gameplay.

As always, if you like this story, please consider supporting the developers by buying the game if you can. They really put in some phenomenal work with this game, and this movie only scratches the surface of the experience of playing it for yourself.

If you've come this far, you know that what I do takes a lot of work, with this project in particular taking about 4 months to complete. Obviously, with a release schedule like that on youtube, it can be tough to earn enough money to pay the bills. If you like what I do and want to support my continued work on this channel, please consider joining my Patreon:

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0:00:00 - Surviving Fimbulwinter
0:52:28 - The Quest for Týr
1:42:31 - Old Friends
2:06:30 - Gróa's Secret
2:36:30 - The Lost Sanctuary
3:40:03 - The Reckoning
4:33:10 - The Runaway
5:08:59 - Into the Fire
5:34:17 - The Word of Fate
6:03:39 - Forging Destiny
6:51:27 - Unleashing Hel
7:14:56 - Reunion
7:57:58 - Creatures of Prophecy
8:38:27 - Unlocking the Mask
9:07:53 - Hunting for Solace
9:28:32 - The Summoning
9:51:01 - The Realms at War
10:54:48 - Epilogue
11:12:58 - Credits

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