BALDUR’S GATES

Unable to feel pain, the relentless Baldur can take just as much of a beating as Kratos, and the pair butt heads. WARNING: SPOILERS

At their first meeting, Baldur is only “The Stranger”. It’s a sequence that teaches you the ins and outs of fighting and parrying, but feels like a truly brutal tussle in the snow.

Unable to die, the two really go at each other with shirts nowhere in sight. And the game doesn’t explain who The Stranger is or what he wants with Kratos for some time.