Much better than the first game but is still full of issues. Getting really tired of game makers treating its audience like morons (“Kratos you’re on fire!!” times 100), but with the amount of praise this game gets I guess most people are fine with that. Also way too goddamn long, so many stretches of the game are painfully stretched out to make the game superficially longer. The one-take gimmick is still awful. However the story is much improved over the first one’s trite-ness, and the voice acting is top notch from everyone. Combat is more varied (thankfully there aren’t as many boss re-skins), although a lot of traversal mechanics are painfully slow (I assume for hidden loading screens). The chapter with Atreus and Angrboda is far and away the best part of the game, so of course it’s the section that most gamers complained about the most lol. Overall the series continues to be massively overhyped, but I won’t deny I still had a decent time with this one.