God of War Ragnarok side quest pays touching tribute to late developer

There’s a side quest in Ragnarok: Ragnarok, an incredibly touching tribute to Jake Snipes, a developer who developed the game , who passed away in 2020.

Across the Realms are said to be side quests, which you may find as you play, where you are tasked with finding four ingredients in four realms. But as developer Sam Handrick shared, the side quests were made in honor of his partner and colleague Snipes.

“There is something in Ragnarok that is the most special to me. I had to sell it and the team made it everything I could have hoped for,” Handrick wrote on Twitter. “I had hoped to wait a while to talk about it, but wanted to share it now, just in case. It’s the ballad of Jari and Somr.”

Hendrick went on to talk about their relationship, how they traveled around the U.S. visiting theme parks together, started sharing their baked goods with the team at the Santa Monica studio, and how the two wanted to “leave some of us in Ragnarok.” Symbol. Some signs in this game, we first met, we made the first game together. He once suggested simply a heart, with our initials in Nordic runes, inscribed in this we created World.”

Snipes tragically passed away in 2020 from epilepsy, leaving Handrick in a state of understandably heartbroken. “But when I go back to Ragnarok, I want it to be all he deserves. I wish I could have some of him in it,” Hendrick wrote. “When I got back to work, I asked Eric [Williams] If we may include Jack’s monument. He does more. ”

“I told Eric and his team Jack suggested we have our initials etched on a heart. He and his team came back with that and something even more special. Two men in an often cruel world The story of finding each other in the story, they found each other a place that simply belonged to each other.”

Handrick hopes it’s a story that “many gay people know” and that the game includes rainbow bonfires that “never stop burning.”