I finished God of War last night. Man oh man what an incredible awesome ride it was. Even the way the credits are done after you finish the main mission you can just tell the love that is poured into the game. And then after you beat it there are new missions that open up and after you complete one of em, you get the "real" credits with some awesome music. The climax of the game is like one of the best I can remember and lasts a long time. The last like 4-5 hours of the game are just non-stop action and the battles you encounter as well as the scenery and environments are just unreal. This and Elden Ring are definitely my favorite games of this past year. It's hard to say which I enjoyed more since they are just so different. One has this incredible story with very cinematic story telling, and one I couldn't tell you wtf the story is even about or anyone's name lol.
I would say I did have a few gripes with the game.
1. The Atreus parts were just tedius for the most part. I get that the point of them are mainly just to move the story along, but they dragged on a lot IMO, especially the first "long" one where you are basically doing chores and moving at a snails pace. It just dragged on way too long. Then when you get to Asgard for the first time I thought again it dragged on way too long, but I get that it was for story purposes.
2. The damn map. I hate the damn map in this game. I have how the circle with the direction isn't where you are - you are the dot BELOW it. It's just so confusing and I never got used to it, and the map just didn't feel to scale or something. I found it very hard to use the map and navigate how to get to some places based on trying to follow the map. I also wish you could drop way points or something to help you know where you have already been. It also is completely useless when you are underground or inside a mountain for instance.
3. Mystic gates - I just wish there were more of them on some realms. In some realms there just aren't enough of them and wasting time back tracking to spots when the map isn't very helpful, is just tedious and wasn't fun. For example there is an area east of Freyr's Camp that I was missing some stuff so I had to go back there and it just took forever to get there. Last night when I cut it off I am stuck inside one of the mountains on one of the realms and basically lost and not sure how the hell to get where I'm going. I know where I'm going I've been before since I see some stuff on the map, but I don't even remember going there since it was earlier in the game.
Again though, overall I loved the whole game and those are just some little gripes I had after putting 40+ hours into the game. Amazing experience.
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