Game is pretty great. The combat is nice and smooth with many options to play around. However, the gameplay outside of combat can vary in quality from tedious to okay. Platforming is not the game's forte and unfortunately there's a level where it's almost entirely platforming and it's by far my least favorite level in the game. The upgrade system is nothing to write home about and is very basic although you have to hold down Cross in order to buy upgrades and later in the game that can become very annoying as the upgrades you need to use thousands of orbs and it doesn't speed up to account for that. Story is good nothing fancy but good enough to keep my attention and to facilitate the gameplay. The game's pacing is nice for the most part, but the Pandora's Temple section could have been trimmed a little bit. I definitely understand why this spanned such a long series and I hope Sony ports this and the other God of War games to modern consoles.