The first God of War game was the only one I had not played until now. I think it has overall aged fine, there's some frustrating camera angles, enemies and level design, specially during the last hour.
The way the story is told wasn't that interesting to me but since I already knew pretty much the entire plot I guess that's on me.
Gameplay wise the core is very similar to what I remember of GoW 2/3 and the psp games, I was surprised by that! I though there would be fewer powers and just one weapon, for example.
Graphically it looks okay. some cutscenes look worse than the gameplay (something insane to even think about nowadays lmao), there's some also some visually appealing sceneries here! I can imagine how good a remake of this one and 2 would look (hopefully they're more of a visual remake although I hope the gameplay is a bit improved).
The puzzles were nice, some were a bit boring, but overall they're fine.
The soundtrack was nice!
The voice acting is also good although some lines sounded almost satirical.
Overall, it's a fun hack and slash game with an interesting MC, backstory, cool boss fights and some frustrating sections.