God of War Ragnarok Has a Side Quest That Is a Beautiful Tribute to a Developer Who Passed Away - IGN

Spoilers for a broadside quest successful God of War Ragnarok are ahead!

God of War Ragnarok has a sidequest that is simply a beauteous tribute to Jake Snipes, a gameplay programmer astatine Santa Monica Studio that passed distant successful 2020.

The broadside quest successful question is called Across the Realms, and its value was shared connected Twitter by Sam Handrick, a elder gameplay programmer astatine Santa Monica Studio who was besides Snipes' partner.

"There's thing successful God of War Ragnarok which is the astir peculiar to me," Handrick wrote. "I got to transportation it and the squad made it into everything I could person hoped. I had hoped to hold for immoderate clip to speech astir it but privation to stock it now, conscionable successful case. It's the Ballad of Jari and Somr."

Those traveling done God of War Ragnarok's satellite whitethorn person noticed the archetypal signs of the broadside quest by the greenish hearts that are painted connected rocks crossed the realms, and the root of them and the quest began with an thought by Handrick and Snipes formed years ago.

The 2 would speech astir however overmuch they'd "love to permission immoderate awesome of america successful Ragnarok. Some denotation wrong this crippled that had been the crushed we'd archetypal met, our archetypal crippled made together. He erstwhile suggested simply a heart, with our initials successful Norse runes, carved into this satellite we made."

We'd speech astir however overmuch we'd emotion to permission immoderate awesome of america successful Ragnarok. Some denotation wrong this crippled that had been the crushed we'd archetypal met, our archetypal crippled made together. He erstwhile suggested simply a heart, with our initials successful Norse runes, carved into this satellite we made pic.twitter.com/3QpcS5MMNu

Sadly, Snipes passed distant successful 2020. Once Handrick was capable to instrumentality to work, helium knew helium wanted to marque God of War Ragnarok "everything [Snipes] deserved." He besides wanted to guarantee Snipes' representation would everlastingly unrecorded connected successful the game.

Snipes asked God of War manager Eric Williams if it would beryllium imaginable to see a memorial to Jake successful the games, and helium "made it truthful overmuch more."

"I told Eric and the squad astir Jake's proposition of our initials carved into a heart," Handrick shared. "And helium and the squad returned with that and thing adjacent much special. A communicative of 2 men who find each different successful an often cruel world, and who find a spot to beryllium simply with each other.

"I wanted this communicative to beryllium 1 galore queer radical know: journeying done a satellite that doesn't ever recognize you to find a spot that genuinely feels similar home. And sometimes that spot is simply a person. And thing arsenic elemental arsenic a look tin beryllium a nexus backmost to that home."

During the quest, you volition hap upon a rainbow campfire that "never stops burning." This is portion of the representation of Jake that volition unrecorded connected everlastingly more.

This occurrence ne'er stops burning. Through the coldest days, done the nights you don't privation to unrecorded through. It volition basal successful this satellite we astatine @SonySantaMonica created for each of time, carrying the communicative of a antheral successful whom I recovered thing unnamable. Something I inactive transportation now. pic.twitter.com/I9XbP5DGJZ

"This occurrence ne'er stops burning," Handrick said. "Through the coldest days, done the nights you don't privation to unrecorded through. It volition basal successful this satellite we astatine @SonySantaMonica created for each of time, carrying the communicative of a antheral successful whom I recovered thing unnamable. Something I inactive transportation now."

The quest, for those curious, has you traveling crossed the realms to find 4 ingredients that volition make a Meal of Comfort that permanently increases each of your stats by five. It is simply a "delicious instauration that warms the assemblage and soul."

For much connected God of War Ragnarok, beryllium definite to check retired our review, however its puzzle-filled level plan is simply a acquisition from the gods, and how immoderate connected the squad said, 3 months earlier the highly-anticipated sequel launched, "holy crap, the game's not good."

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Adam Bankhurst is simply a quality writer for IGN. You tin travel him connected Twitter @AdamBankhurst and connected Twitch.