He’s the best there is at what he does, and if God of War creator Cory Barlog had a say in the skillset of the X-Men’s resident berserker, it’d involve a bit of the ol’ corporate slicing and dicing.

So how do you make one of the best video games of all time even better, boy? By giving it a PS5 upgrade. The new God of War patch is out today, and “replaces the current video graphics mode option” with a new default setting that will “offer the best of both performance and resolution to our PlayStation 5 players” Santa Monica explained.

last year’s God of War reboot which did indeed star dad of boy Kratos and his luxurious lumberjack beard, almost didn’t include the iconic character.

The original Kratos was death on two legs, a walking extinction event whose emotions fluctuated between angry, peeved, furious and rage. 2018’s Kratos is a man who is older, broken and tired. In other words, Sony’s resident deity-slayer comes off as more…human. Doing just that, was just one of the challenges that drew creative director Cory Barlog back to the franchise.

God of War's been five years in the making for the team and Sony Santa Monica and game lead Cory Barlog. While many people seem to think games are made by robots, there are real people behind them – who’re proud of their work. They become overcome with joy when their games are well received, and are heartbroken when they aren’t.

This year’s God of War may not be a series reboot, but it very much is a reset of the character who defined a generation.

With the fear of expense and technical issues, Sony nearly forced Sony Santa Monica to cut one of God of War's most important characters.

Change isn’t just good, it’s necessary. The key factor in said change however, is to not forget who you were, but to let it help you decide who to become in the future. For a long-running series such as God of War, it’s that very change that is helping to breathe fresh air into the franchise.