When you break down the hunt of the deer, it makes very little sense, but the part of note is that it when the boy looses an arrow and misses, Kratos yells angrily that now it will be on it's guard. But he's wrong. Literally three minutes later, the Deer is calmly chewing on some grass not 50 feet away from the giant and remarkably loud troll battle that happened.
Now, lets back up and admit that this is one really dumb ass fucking deer. The boy's yelling when he found the tracks didn't scare it off, it wasn't scared off when it literally ran into the boy except to run away a few feet, and then somehow didn't run away from the booming sounds of giant troll battle literally shattering the ice river, thinking it was safe it because it lightly jogged a couple feet. Maybe this deer was the equivelent of Alan Wake and can't run for more than 5 seconds without having to catch his breathe. Regardless, it's a miracle this fucking thing didn't die from walking itself into a cave and putting its neck inside some bears jaws before Kratos ever got hungry. Natural selection got lazy I guess
But of all the comments I read on the game and with how the narrative is depicting him as the learned hunter who is passing on his wisdom onto his child, no one seems to have pointed out that, by the evidence of the game's events themselves, Kratos is an ignorant shit whose one of the two pieces of advice to his kid was dead fucking wrong. The other piece was "think of the deer as a target". Yeah, thanks Kratos, where would your kid be without having to have it pointed out to him that a deer is a target. But that would mean we have to acknowledge Kratos as incompetent, and if there's one thing we can't have, it's that.
