Japanese
Everyone knows Japan for the feudal warlords (well, that and ninjas), and a God of War set in feudal Japan would be pretty awesome. The time period is something that hasn’t really been explored aside from the Dynasty Warrior games, and Japanese mythology has plenty of creatures for the player to brutalize that it feels like a no-brainer. There aren’t just dragons, there’s serpents, ghosts, and fox spirits. Who wouldn’t want to go up against those guys?
Instead of stopping a god or being a god, like we’ve suggested on the previous pages, what about sucking up to a god? What’s to stop a soldier from killing their warlord and striking out to make their own destiny? After all, at some point, you have to make your own luck, and that’s what this soldier would do. In their eyes, killing the other warlords would bring the attention of the gods to them, perhaps enough to make them into a god. Of course, the other warlords won’t be too happy that someone’s going around picking them off. This is where something similar to Shadow of Mordor’s Nemesis system comes into play, and you could even wear the armor of fallen enemies to trick other warlords into doing battle with each other. After all, the game is called God of War, and sometimes, a god has to get their hands dirty.
