M Smith

Closer to 3 and 1/2 Stars but I'll err on the side of four. I see a lot of reviews saying that it was buggy but I think a lot of those bugs have been worked out in the last few years since the game came out. I ran into bugs but no game killers. Easily reproducible bugs mind you but nothing like bad saves or glitches that some are talking about. I was actually on the Odyssey development team and I think what gets me screaming at the screen the most right now are the things we would have written up as bugs or gameplay issues that are in this version. I'm willing to bet that if we got a hold of their QA database we would see that their team had the same complaints. I would say some of it just isn't fun. Like at one point you have two swinging orbs and if it loads at a certain frequency you're simply not going to make it through and you just have to die and try again and after a few loads they'll finally sync up in a way that you can actually make it past. Some other issues that I've had to talk with programmers on several games where they want to make it difficult but what makes it difficult is the janky controls. You can't make a game fun by creating a challenge around bad control. That's just frustrating. But that being said I have laughed out loud so many times in this game when random stuff has happened, I've had a few jump scares, and I am overall enjoying it and will finish it for sure. It's worth the purchase.

I don't like combat. It's just not my jam. I used to develop games, so it's not that I don't have skills, it's just that I don't like it. I love a visually beautiful game with a good storyline. God of War is advertised as that but when I select story mode, I still find myself doing a lot of combat, losing to bosses, having to hit a boss over 100 times to kill it. That's not story mode. Horizon zero Dawn and forbidden West did story mode perfectly. In fact, I found myself often switching between normal to story mode, when fighting in the cauldrons, because I like a stealth character and stealth did not play well in the cauldrons but otherwise the combat was fun. I don't enjoy the combat in God of War at all. So I just want story mode. A quick boss kill and back to the beauty and story. Don't offer a story mode if it's still going to be annoying to lose to bosses over and over and to take a great deal of time to beat them. Story mode should be story mode.

I worked in game dev in my youth and beat the same drum I'll beat about this game now that I'm older. Games that are accessible to only a specific group don't deserve five stars. Yes I know it's almost all healthy young folk rating games but nerfing a game so entire demographics can't play is bad development. For example, I'm older now and can't read the tiny text. I can read text on almost all other games. Second, it's harder for older hands and eyes to see dark characters or move as quickly. So keep the game difficult for those that want it but why doesn't this game have different difficulty levels for those who aren't perfectly abled? It's such a beautiful game and I played for several hours before I gave up and walked away. It is exceedingly lame and difficult if you aren't a 21 year old kid with perfect everything, but I still paid for it. I still want to enjoy it. Not catering to differently abled people is poor process. Some of you whippersnappers will get this one day.