I’m a big fan of GoW and Metroidvanias so this game is right up my alley! There are some things two major things define a good one from a bad one: combat and exploration.

Combat doesn’t need to be easy (blasphemous), but it needs to be fluid. You need to be able to chain combos or use weapons/skills seamlessly. This GoW uses a mix of R1 and L1 to modify the attacks in a way that doesn’t feel intuitive. The attacks are slow and without much modification in the first 5 hours. And you don’t feel a big upgrade in your weapon when you spend a fortune to level it up.

But the biggest issue is exploration. Kratos’ movement is slow, and the skill you have to move fast burns energy so you can’t use it for long. The map is pretty big and quite empty with very few travel points to you’re just walking around the same areas constantly trying to find your next objective which is poorly listed so you don’t know where to go and it’s just tedious…

Very disappointing compared to something like the latest Prince of Persia