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I can appreciate an edgy as hell 2000s character today. Characters like Jack Garland in Stranger of Paradise and Vergil in Devil May Cry 5 are fun to me because they're practically caricatures. They could've done that with Kratos, but taking a character the least suited for parenthood, especially single parenthood and putting him in that situation was narratively interesting. Kratos processing his wife's death, reconciling his relationship with his son, and ultimately learning to let both go is more adult than running around ripping everything in half because angy.
Kratos and Vergil are very different kinds of edgy though. It's like The Punisher and Shadow the Hedgehog
Shadow The Punisher who also kills cops in his game.
I'm pretty sure Shadow the Hedgehog does kill cops in his solo game, and I think you kill the president in what I assume is the good ending