God of War Raganok

And I have completed! a few stats for you.

Time: 27h 20m. On PS, ( however TT has me at 33 hours ?) How anyone completed in under 20 hours beats me.
Skill: easy/tell me a story and yet I still struggled a bit on bosses. died twice in game (both times boss fights) but had the stone to resurrect myself.
Unlocked skill trees to 2 of the 3 weapons for Kratos and fully unlocked skill tree of "BOY's" Bow and I think Freya's
5 favours/side missions complete.
Opened 3 of the Rune chests
Only killed 14 of the ravens ? Green birds.
Trophies: 1G 3S 11b

Overall, really enjoyed, I did absolutely get stuck on puzzles a few times though and this did harm my playthrough. I loved the story though and the cut scenes were always very welcome. It was also emotional at times. I always find this with Children in a story, more so since I am a father. The game also ran wonderful even with spells going off left right and Chelsea. I do have loads of side content to play, but my nephew is alao champing at the bit to play, so maybe not.

9/10

Hi revan, that wasn't actually aimed at you but more when I looked on "How long to beat" that said with your sub 20 hours, but even that seems fast, did you not "soak up" the world and atmosphere. You must have run virtually everywhere ?

Bloody hell, that's taking if pretty slowly. Currently on 15 hours and chapter 9 and I'm not exactly racing through it.
Finding the side quests far more challenging than the main ones in places now that I'm wandering around to mop stuff up. Had to drop the difficulty right down and enable mini boss checkpoints for one of them in Alfheim

I used the checkpoints as well, didn't want an experience where I was smashing my head against the wall.

Yeah I ran most places after a few hours as I found most areas pretty boring. Plus half the game you've already visited in the last game . There were a couple of areas later I really liked though and one was amazing but sadly you were only there a very short time. Plus I used the r3 technique so I always knew which way to go.

I play most single player campaigns on easy/story mode now. A couple of reasons why, mostly due to being pants (seriously, I can't remember button press sequences in fights for example) at games but another reason is pretty much what you are saying. If I have to repeat the same area/fight over and over, which doesn't change anything in the narrative, I will lose interest pretty quickly. The main qualities in any game for me are its story, characters, world and the atmosphere.

Interestingly there are 3 of us at work who play a lot of games and we all get different things out of it. One mate is a total cheveo whore and I mean he completes every game with 1000g's he will also play the same game over multiple platforms purely for the gamerscore. I think he has played Minecraft on at least 4 different machines, likewise GTA V on 360 and on series X.  The other mate (PS only) plays every game on the hardest setting (allowed) from the off, no matter if he fails the same area 100 times etc and that is what gives him joy. I just want the journey and experience with the least frustration.

Yeah I'm finding the default pretty much perfectly balanced. Never feels too easy and stays the right side of frustrating.

Whatever difficulty, everyone should turn off that extremely annoying compass.

I think I may have wandered into areas that Im not supposed to be in yet, to be fair. I was managing OK on the higher one but went to explore and everything there hits like a truck.

There is one of those 'reach in the portal and fight what comes out' battles where two fat guys with sticks hit me for 80% health each time. Then there is the big monster, then there is the marble head ghost thing and... yeah.. fuck that.

I honestly think that the only way this game is able to generate difficulty is to put you in situations that the game's combat doesn't handle very well. That and having enemies with large windows where they just input read your attacks and are programmed to dodge perfectly.

The berserker fights are absolute snooze fests because of that shit, they do an easily dodged or parried attack and you go to follow up with an attack and it's like, naahhh sorry I'm programmed to take 0 damage for the next 5 seconds, I'm going to dodge the instant you hit attack and even if your weapon physically passes through me I will still take zero damage.

Also the one with is without a doubt the worst boss fight I've ever seen in a game.

I'm in the "I don't see it" camp, quite firmly for this one. Decent story, nice visuals let down by plodding gameplay pacing, a lack of spectacle and combat that frankly falls apart any time more than 2 enemies are involved in a fight.

Getting them in one place is always the challenge, though. So many annoying enemies in this who seem intent on surrounding you.

It's always so immensely satisfying ripping those acid spewing enemies off walls and kicking the shit out of them.

Just ensure you "look out Brother" at enemies behind you.

even Atreus gets in on that one!
Also re Mimir I want to hear stories of when he was in Govan on the ship yards! Get it up yer

I don't think I've ever got stunlocked. Have you tried blocking?

*runs*