laz

It is simply a different game, great that we have a "kratos" but this is not that character, and not that game anymore. Sluggish, boring, script heavy fights, useless stats, bad combat system. I have played through ALL of the God of War games, this is by far the worse combat wise. Will beat it because of the story, but have no illusion, this is an overscripted, rushed, sluggish junk. Close to impossible to play it with controller, as everything teleports, jumps, dashes. Animations are overdone and annoying. Chests, puzzles and all the collectables are just so zero effort, that I collected almost everything on first attempt without even trying. The whole open world thing here is nothing but an excuse for you to get lost and spend more time in the game feeling like it gave more playtime than it actually did. It is just insane, that the 20 years old God of War 1 with the broken camera, annoyingly hard fights had way better combat system and gave better experience than this GoW travesty. Here every fight is the same, you get exactly 3 heavy scripted dashing enemies, go beat them by beating the script. Hope there won't be another GoW game, because it is really going downhill.