If you are currently playing the latest installment of God of War and you want to keep the surprise of the plot, go your way. Because the PETA association has turned one of its protagonists into the center of a new communication campaign.
The famous association in defense of animals, recognized for its spectacular actions, denounces this time the violence against animals in God of War: Ragnarok. A video posted on Twitter thus denounces the fate of one of the “bosses” of the game, a mythological wolf of 18 meters, baptized as Garm.
“This dog has been chained up outside in the cold for a long time,” PETA said. “Kratos and Atreus [les héros, ndlr] found it in deplorable condition, enduring the cold ravages of the Fimbulvetr [l’hiver de la mythologie scandinave, ndlr] without any shelter.”
“Do you know it’s not a real wolf?” asks Cory Barlog, the game’s producer, under the tweet.
PETA’s message about Garm’s fate is not necessarily to be taken at face value. On the other hand, the association asks for a version of the game in which it is not possible to attack animals. In this case, most of the fauna present in the game could not be attacked.
This isn’t the first time PETA has gone after a video game. In 2020, the association criticized the Animal Crossing game asking to “cancel” [“cancel” en anglais, ndlr] a character who “encourages the villagers to remove the fish from their natural habitat so that they can be imprisoned in small aquariums.”
Source: BFM TV
