That segment of the game does take a bit of suspension of disbelief though - it's like Atreus was born yesterday, instead of growing up there.

I may have missed or forgotten the explanation behind that though. I suppose he was always stuck in the safe area around their house?

That aside, the new God of War games are great, and the whole franchise is a good example of how they took a fairly straightforward character - savage, angery fellow - and evolved his story and character over a long span of time, subverting itself etc.

(The Valhalla DLC is where Kratos goes to therapy lolol)

> suppose he was always stuck in the safe area around their house?

"Don't go there - there are mines there" is what my mother would say occasionally back when we were living in Kuwait in the mid 90s.

I guess it's a similar situation.