good good good great great great.
it is so rare that i plow through a game with the fervor and speed that i displayed playing through this thing, but i couldn't help it. it's just GOOD!!! it's fucking good!!! i could nitpick and say that it holds your hand a bit, or that the bit extended slow bit with two characters in the middle act was a little dry, but that all of that is completely overshadowed by a multitude of extreme positives. it's well acted, to the point that i felt as though i was watching an extremely well made film, and it's fun to play! the combat is so fucking good and responsive and all of the crazy abilities you get as you progress are so exciting and feel so good to use. nothing feels better than flawless tearing through a horde of enemies as kratos while atreus does some fucking crazy backflips.
the world they created here is so fascinating and so obviously well researched, and every inch of this thing is dripping with obvious passion. it feels so lovingly crafted and it so easily succeeds in pulling you into its world. the characters feel so real it's like you could reach out and touch them. and what this does for kratos as a character is just...... profound. very very very good.
there's a particular sort of atmosphere that some works of art manage to create which i call the "god is watching" mood. it's always hard for me to describe, but it's this sense that something big is going on just beyond what you're seeing. the feeling that every single action no matter how small is leading to some profound, grand climax. shows like evangelion, serial experiments lain, lost, etc do this very well. i love this feeling. and, of course this game, wherein the crux of the plot is that there is a huge catastrophic world ending event that has been foretold for generations looming on the horizon and our characters have to deal with that, succeeds in creating that atmosphere flawlessly. i don't think this will matter to too many people, but it's something i really adore and goddamn does this do it well. GOOD SHIT!!!!
it is so rare that i plow through a game with the fervor and speed that i displayed playing through this thing, but i couldn't help it. it's just GOOD!!! it's fucking good!!! i could nitpick and say that it holds your hand a bit, or that the bit extended slow bit with two characters in the middle act was a little dry, but that all of that is completely overshadowed by a multitude of extreme positives. it's well acted, to the point that i felt as though i was watching an extremely well made film, and it's fun to play! the combat is so fucking good and responsive and all of the crazy abilities you get as you progress are so exciting and feel so good to use. nothing feels better than flawless tearing through a horde of enemies as kratos while atreus does some fucking crazy backflips.
the world they created here is so fascinating and so obviously well researched, and every inch of this thing is dripping with obvious passion. it feels so lovingly crafted and it so easily succeeds in pulling you into its world. the characters feel so real it's like you could reach out and touch them. and what this does for kratos as a character is just...... profound. very very very good.
there's a particular sort of atmosphere that some works of art manage to create which i call the "god is watching" mood. it's always hard for me to describe, but it's this sense that something big is going on just beyond what you're seeing. the feeling that every single action no matter how small is leading to some profound, grand climax. shows like evangelion, serial experiments lain, lost, etc do this very well. i love this feeling. and, of course this game, wherein the crux of the plot is that there is a huge catastrophic world ending event that has been foretold for generations looming on the horizon and our characters have to deal with that, succeeds in creating that atmosphere flawlessly. i don't think this will matter to too many people, but it's something i really adore and goddamn does this do it well. GOOD SHIT!!!!