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2. Faye & Her Markings - God Of War
Everything in God of War is meticulously crafted with player experience in mind, feeling purposely placed and rewarding as you hurtle through a visionary take on Norse mythology.
No matter how agonisingly well designed a world is, there's always one niggling factor that renders it still just a game. Path markers. They're a necessary evil, but one unavoidably immersion-breaking feature all the same.
In God of War, Kratos is propelled by gold paint, gold steps, gold rocks - anything that indicates what's accessible to him has a little smattering of metallic coating on. And whilst this might seem like a friendly nudge from the developers, it's actually integral to Kratos' story.
Finding out his late lover Faye was actually a giant and had foretold of his journey long before he took it, it becomes clear that every mark laid out in this world was put there by Faye as a gentle guiding hand rather than an interference from behind the fourth wall.
It's a wonderfully sensitive touch, and only makes Faye's Jotunn secret all the more impressive when the whole world relates back to her actions.