I still am having trouble with the controls in God of War. It’s not that they are bad or anything, it’s just that there is so much shit to control with all of the shoulder buttons, that I get confused and mix shit up. The different combinations to do the specials and holding buttons while pushing another, then pressing the face buttons to do other specials or to get the axe to fly back to you. I wouldn’t say it’s clunky (well maybe a little) but more that I'm still not used to it yet.
I played for like an hour last night and didn’t progress the story at all, but I did some “side quests” I guess you would call them, which were still fun as shit and earned me a bunch of experience. I also met these 2 enemies that I was hardly doing ANY damage to and they kill me in one hit. I almost beat them by running and throwing my axe at them for like 7 minutes, but then one of them got me and I died.
I'm probably only going to be skimming this thread at this point because I just don't want stuff to be spoiled and I'm definitely going to be playing this at a slower pace than most people in here seem to be.