God of War Greek trilogy's horny minigames were 'designed by women'

'It's literally designed to be evocative of a vagina' Those who have only experienced the most recent era of God of War may think of PlayStation protagonist Kratos as a protective but loving father and a bereaved husband. But in the games from the early '00s, the god of war is lustful, vengeful, and impulsive. There are no shortage of hot, topless women throwing themselves at him, including the goddess of love herself, Aphrodite. Throughout the Greek trilogy, there are multiple minigames where Kratos has off-screen sex, and you have to keep time to the rhythm in a quicktime event. Former Santa Monica Studio writer Alanah Pearce shared some surprising details about those erotic minigames in a recent stream. "Fun fact: the God of War sex minigames were designed by women," Pearce said. "I worked with one of them. They were largely worked on by women on that dev team. In fact, when you walk into, I think it's Aphrodite's chamber, this was designed – again, including a group of women – to look like a labia. It's literally designed to be evocative of a vagina. And the women were the ones who did that. When you look at it, it makes sense, but I feel like a lot of people didn't notice that