I originally started this on January 1st, and eventually gave up like halfway through. I was worried that this was because it was bad. It was in fact because I had replayed GoW 2018 too thoroughly and too recently (ie finally platinum'd it hours before starting this one lol.)

It is actually very good. The story was v good and the playing as Atreus and the spear added some good Variety.

Things I hated:

- Atreus and Thrúd voiced by actual teens or near-teens and then Skjöldr very obviously voiced by a guy who's like 35 doing a teen voice CRINGE and BAD

- Backtracking... to complete things. Paths are so convoluted so that they can have deep convos while you go through the first time, which is fine, then you go back and it's like but how the frick do I get over there. The map does not actually help you navigate.

- On a similar note, the entire Vanaheim crater thing with the switching from day to night and the you have to do X quest you have no idea exists in order to be able to do Y quest that you have already started but it doesn't tell you that, and you have to happen to wander by these 9 things to start the Hunts etc.... bad

- Supporting cast says "hmm what if we did this" too fast like even when I have already started doing that thing lol