Reading the top reviews for this game is pretty damn funny. It's a great game, wouldn't say it's a masterpiece but it kept me going for the 40 or so hours I spent on it.
The story is obviously what moves this game forward and I don't really give a shit about "le games being movies" because truly the cutscenes are so well made and look so damn good. This is a damn PS4 game, why do games really gotta look any better than this and run like half as well? I like the story of Kratos and Atreus, but it can feel a little wonky, especially the whole arc of Atreus actin like a shithead cause he learned he was a god. But some parts are just really well crafted and really are moving.
Anyways for the real gameplay driven stuff a lot of it is in the side content, which is like a whole nother game within itself. I played on the hard difficulty and going into the side content I started raging cause I did a lotta late game stuff during the early game. Got so bad I switched back to normal, which then turned super easy as I got really good gear with all the grinding, which made the game feel a bit button mashy at times, where I'm pressing my attack buttons, the arrow button, and the summon button really hard until I win.
Besides some enemies that really ass to fight, like the dark elf captains who fly around, avoiding all your hits and blinding you 24/7, the valkries are the games biggest challenge. Seriously, especially the last fight, which was, if I am allowed to say it without having my skin ripped off, "souls-like". Damn satisfying to beat.
The exploration was something I was always looking forward to, but man do I hate all the little shit in between. Like exploring everything for the first time is dope because you're looking at this new area and it's pretty dense with a lotta shit. But then a lotta stuff you gotta backtrack to find and then you realize how slow this game is. The animations for opening shit take like 3-5 seconds walking to and from, and backtracking in areas tryna get everything I just groan at those moments. Especially in certain places where they don't space fast travel points well. They shoulda given Kratos like a jetpack or somethin or maybe he can grapple hook with his blades.
Still tho, I had a pretty good time playing this one. Currently playing Ragnarok as I'm writing this and i'm hyped to go through that.
The story is obviously what moves this game forward and I don't really give a shit about "le games being movies" because truly the cutscenes are so well made and look so damn good. This is a damn PS4 game, why do games really gotta look any better than this and run like half as well? I like the story of Kratos and Atreus, but it can feel a little wonky, especially the whole arc of Atreus actin like a shithead cause he learned he was a god. But some parts are just really well crafted and really are moving.
Anyways for the real gameplay driven stuff a lot of it is in the side content, which is like a whole nother game within itself. I played on the hard difficulty and going into the side content I started raging cause I did a lotta late game stuff during the early game. Got so bad I switched back to normal, which then turned super easy as I got really good gear with all the grinding, which made the game feel a bit button mashy at times, where I'm pressing my attack buttons, the arrow button, and the summon button really hard until I win.
Besides some enemies that really ass to fight, like the dark elf captains who fly around, avoiding all your hits and blinding you 24/7, the valkries are the games biggest challenge. Seriously, especially the last fight, which was, if I am allowed to say it without having my skin ripped off, "souls-like". Damn satisfying to beat.
The exploration was something I was always looking forward to, but man do I hate all the little shit in between. Like exploring everything for the first time is dope because you're looking at this new area and it's pretty dense with a lotta shit. But then a lotta stuff you gotta backtrack to find and then you realize how slow this game is. The animations for opening shit take like 3-5 seconds walking to and from, and backtracking in areas tryna get everything I just groan at those moments. Especially in certain places where they don't space fast travel points well. They shoulda given Kratos like a jetpack or somethin or maybe he can grapple hook with his blades.
Still tho, I had a pretty good time playing this one. Currently playing Ragnarok as I'm writing this and i'm hyped to go through that.