8 Video Game Characters Who Desperately Need Therapy

If most were asked to describe God of War's Kratos in one word, it'd surely be "angry." 

In the original run of games his guilt-riddled trauma over being tricked by Ares into killing his own wife and daughter fuels his rage-filled rampage, and as cathartic as the violence might feel for players, it's far from a healthy or constructive outlet for the Ghost of Sparta himself.

Kratos is, not unlike Max Payne, a man who lives for revenge in the earlier God of War games, though 2018's new take offered up a more tactile, nuanced approach to Kratos' character, as he attempts to reckon for his brutal past by being a fitting father to his son Atreus.

The newer games make a concerted effort to show Kratos fighting to triumph over his entrenched toxic masculinity, though as is true of any one of us, he's certainly a work-in-progress.

Kratos has made great in-roads, but the best thing he can do now is find a nice comfy psychiatrist's couch to lay back on.