Bear McCreary, the composer for God of War and God of War Ragnarok, has revealed during an interview with VGC that he feels his time working on the franchise is ‘complete,’ but is open to the idea of returning in the future.
McCreary recalled his recent experience at the 20th Anniversary Retrospective Gallery for the franchise, where his sheet music for both games was on display. Reflecting on his work, McCreary feels that his journey, which started nine years ago at E3 2016 and wrapped with the Valhalla DLC, is now complete, and also brings about a closure to Kratos’ story.
We were just with the cast at the God of War 20th Anniversary Retrospective Gallery. There were exhibits along the wall for all nine games, so it’s this pantheon. I’m looking around the room, and I’m seeing all the artists that have contributed. It was quite moving to realize how many people had been involved and that no single person has been involved in all of them in any kind of primary capacity. There’s been a sort of brain trust of people that go back to the first game.
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Coming into that room, I saw the God of War 2018 and God of War Ragnarok sheet music on the wall – my signed scores in frames that I had given to Santa Monica – and it really hit me that I got to contribute to this. Even with the God of War Valhalla DLC, there’s an ending cinematic to that, that really was important to me to score.
It brings a sort of closure to Kratos’ arc, so I feel like my contribution, starting with E3 2016 all the way through to Valhalla, feels complete. I feel complete. I feel like I told a story.
God of War celebrated its 20th anniversary last month, and Sony marked the occasion with a free update for God of War Ragnarok that added the Dark Odyssey Collection; a collection of new armour sets and other items inspired by the working title for God of War. However, many people voiced their disappointment online, as it was expected that we would receive a God of War Remastered Collection reveal.
[Source – VGC]