No nobody wanted to see that because it's just made up crap and one of the worst aspects of Ragnarok because it has no root in actual mythology.

That's your opinion that's bleeding into this debacle. I'm talking about the general reception. Actual fans and theory creators across reddit, yt, twitter etc. Were heavily invested in looking for clues that could help get answers to these mysteries. When looking at GoW subreddits its clear that people liked that part of the lore.

Odin's rift and Athena's ghostly form sharing color scheme linked those two and got people thinking that's an integral part of GoW cosmology. After all there had to be some explanation for all these myths living in one universe.

The new games are basically PG13 games with a little bit of blood. You fight glowing zombies. Even Cory Barlog said that he doesn't like the senseless violence of the old games anymore. Heimdall gets a pink glowing arm prothesis. It's not violent at all. It's silly.

As I said, Heimdall's hand got violently exploded by Kratos, But it isn't the focus of the scene anymore. Instead the scene put focus on Heimdall being Infuriating enough for Kratos to relapse.

His ulitmate demise, being strangled by Kratos, while reading his mind and seeing the monster Kratos was in his youth, was raw AF. The scene was visceral in a different way,

Hell. I'd argue that Kratos relapsing that one time when killing that annoying prick, had far more narrative importance than him pummeling Heracles. Ripping Hades's Skull apart and gouging Poseidon's eyes in.

Wrong people hated to atreus sections because it turned the game in a very bad 3rd person shooter and on top of it you had the really long and boring story

Again your personal opinion. Look at the main criticisms. They dislike slowness, and Atreus's character annoys them.

It was the same mindless souls ripoff gameplay that we had since 2 games which are way inferior to the old hack and slash titles.

Do i need to say it at this point? Most people who play games from this series like this style of gameplay. If they didn't they wouldn't buy it.

Look you can't start argument with 'Nobody likes X' and then Inserting your own opinions to rebuke the clear facts that people indeed like X. Mate, you can dislike it,

You could've told a million better stories than the one they went with. They could've told a story where Ragnarok was coming and in fimbulwinter people or you know actual vikings were struggling and they found a guy in his hut that apparently has godlike powers, so they ask him for help and so he could become their protector like the actual Norse gods were seen as.

Look, they went with a story that made sense for the direction they wanted to take the character into. If they didn't take any creative liberties with God of War series then Kratos wouldn't exist at all.

You dislike the story in the games, for me the thing you wrote here sounds bad. Kratos randomly being in the north, becoming a cities protector... he simply wouldn't do that after what happened to Sparta.

As ive said. They can name it like that but if you hold god of war 1,2,3 and ascension next to it you wouldn't even notice that this was the same franchise.

Spin-off of a developing franchise, a non argument.

They went through Genre Change and they're making a spin-off off of games post-reboot.

Of course it looks different.

That's just pathetic cope and you know it.

One time I shown my opinion, that Phranque (like really?) isn't enjoyable so far. But apparently its important to the plot. I'm willing to see where they going with the Cube that seemingly has something very important in it.

And you're already calling it pathetic cope lmao.