Although featured less prominently in the two most recent installments of the series, every God of War entry has been known to include QTEs for specific actions, where players have to either enter a series of inputs that correspond to differing button prompts or rapidly press a single one. It was a significant deviation for the franchise, which had previously used QTEs against larger enemies, mini-games, and boss fights. An especially barbaric example was when Kratos butchers Hermes, preventing him from running by slashing his legs off in what once was the God of War’s traditional style.

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A video posted to Reddit, created by danny_lazarus, presents a gym workout involving several different pieces of equipment, each with a QTE. A rotating, glowing circle hovers over a bench press, just like how God of War would indicate the beginning of a QTE, with a person waiting for the event to commence. The screen freezes, affording viewers time to read “Press [the X button] to complete the workout of the Gods,” which is then initiated and requires a stick to be rotated. After the user lays back and lifts the bar, the glowing circle returns, but this time moves up and down continuously, prompting rapid mashing for the workout to be completed.

Interspersed throughout are moments where the art style for God of War is mimicked, and the person working out adopts the appearance of Kratos. It occurs during the use of battle ropes, which require the consecutive inputs of the left and right buttons for them to be operated. The workout concludes with hammer curls as square and circle alternate control of each arm, which then makes use of “L3 + R3… God of War available,” to once again assume the form of Kratos and finish with a hilariously captioned combo streak.

A final pop-up writes “put the weights back now,” offering Kratos important gym etiquette a little too late, seeing as the free weights were thrown down moments before. Despite these QTEs no longer being a part of God of War, those that do remain have benefited from God of War Ragnarok’s extensive accessibility features. For any who wish to experience a more comfortable gameplay experience, rapid inputs can be altered to require holding instead, making such moments much easier on the hands.

God of War Ragnarok is out now for PS4 and PS5.

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