Why couldn't they stop him? How did a mortal kill so many gods?

Unironically this.
>fates determined Zeus was going to lose and his empire fall to his son just like his father fell to him
>thing is Zeus has a fucking pile of children
>proceed to fuck any of them up slightly looks like a threat
>Demios is naturally got a godly birthmark
>have him enslaved
>Ares starting to threaten a full on Olympic war
>position Kratos to kill him
>then Kratos starts his shit
Plus if you notice various hidden shit in most of the games a higher power may have deemed Kratos as a death god of sorts for all the god patheons
>killed a primordial death god + absorbed the soul of another death god + killed the fates and furies

destroyer of worlds my dudes

An undetermined amount of time occurred between Kratos being made the new god of war and Zeus stripping him of his godhood/killing him, but it was enough time that Kratos had made the Spartans into the strongest warriors in Greece and were conquering every other gods cities and worshippers with no shits given for years.
Funny enough GoW2 and GoW3 pretty much take place at the same time since he dies and goes to the island of the fates then travels back in time to the moment he died and started his fist fight round 2 with Zeus

He eventually became a god due to his undying rage and steam rolled olympus because of that

There isn't a single bad God of War game.

Unironically too angry to die

Yeah and he got it back

The new one? Gameplay wise fun but story wise yuck literally #notmykratos

Even his mere existence in Odins territory has completely fucked up the coming Ragnarok
>100 years early
>Baldur and Thors sons killed
>befriended the world serpent
>has in some manner won the respect of Surtur and turned the valkyries against Odin
>all without even trying

He got the sword back he didn't absorb the powers in it.

Yet the nu god of war implies hes still a god. I belive he no longer needs a golden apple and just became godly by getting stronger

I'd say ascension is probably the most questionable, it's not bad but felt very experimental.
>only has the blades of chaos
>rest of the weapons are all temp pickups
>some unique enemies never seen before or since
>storyline feels like it dragged on just slightly to long
>Orkos is one of the few characters to truly befriend Kratos and stick his neck out for him

He explicitely got weaker after stabbing himself with the blade at the end of 3. He was always "part god" he's still mortal.That's what a demi god is.

To be fair with the blade of Olympus in his hands he was channeling his own power, the god of war power, and some of Zeus's own power.
Canonically it's when he's at his most powerful and after stabbing himself it looked like what was left in the blade was drained out.
In freeing the power of hope he may well have absorbed what power was left in the blade to live and reach some form of godhood again.

I mean in greek mythology Cratos is an actual thing, he's defined as the personification of strenght, so it'd make sense for him to be an unstoppable force.

Hercules really thought he could kill the man who killed Ares?

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In his defense Kratos needed a lot of help to do that, which he wasn't getting here. Not that it changed the outcome, but still.

>dat feel when for a short period after GoW3 released the devs were teasing the idea of doing a Hercules spinoff game of Herc doing his 12 labors
>Kevin Sorbo was down to voice evil asshole Herc again

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Every besides 1-3 isn't worth playing.

Kratos is more god than human. His father is Zeus the most powerful Olmypian, descended from Cronos the most powerful Titan. Spartans are descended from Hercules who again is the son of Zeus and are generally portrayed in this universe as being the most capable warriors in Greece. He wouldn't be immortal but he would be exceedingly long lived on top of getting a bunch of magical buffs from other deities throughout the 7 games.