This review contains spoilers
Disclaimer: this is a re-review to get my thoughts across in a more concise manner.
For starters, this is my favorite game of all time and I don’t understand how every single one of the most like reviews for this game are extremely negative, talking about how the story is a boring mess and the gameplay is repetitive, and I can understand the view on the gameplay and yes the story isn’t perfect but said story is the one thing I don’t tolerate dissing because it’s still phenomenal.
I think this game is about loss and mortality; Kratos lost Faye and is accepting of his mortality, Atreus is faced with the possibility of his dad’s demise and can’t accept it, Freya has Baldur, Thor has his sons, Odin has the possibility of defeat, Sindri has Brok, and the list goes on and on. Point being, every major character has some sort of loss they’re dealing with.
The gameplay is a mix between Final Fantasy XV and a souls like and I can understand how that would be a turn off to people but it’s easy to get used to.
The story goes like this, Kratos and Atreus are nearing the end of fimbulwinter when Odin appears and offers a truce, Kratos declines, there’s a fight with Thor after that which Odin uses to speak to Atreus alone and offer him to come to Asgard which Atreus declines for now. Now Kratos and Atreus are on a journey through all the 9 realms to gather an army for the impending war that is ragnarok. Good story right? What if I tell you that was just the stuff that was shown in the trailers and that wasn’t the whole story.
The characters are written better than any other game I’ve played, every character feels like a complex individual.
Play this and the free DLC if you like a good story, I promise you won’t regret it.
For starters, this is my favorite game of all time and I don’t understand how every single one of the most like reviews for this game are extremely negative, talking about how the story is a boring mess and the gameplay is repetitive, and I can understand the view on the gameplay and yes the story isn’t perfect but said story is the one thing I don’t tolerate dissing because it’s still phenomenal.
I think this game is about loss and mortality; Kratos lost Faye and is accepting of his mortality, Atreus is faced with the possibility of his dad’s demise and can’t accept it, Freya has Baldur, Thor has his sons, Odin has the possibility of defeat, Sindri has Brok, and the list goes on and on. Point being, every major character has some sort of loss they’re dealing with.
The gameplay is a mix between Final Fantasy XV and a souls like and I can understand how that would be a turn off to people but it’s easy to get used to.
The story goes like this, Kratos and Atreus are nearing the end of fimbulwinter when Odin appears and offers a truce, Kratos declines, there’s a fight with Thor after that which Odin uses to speak to Atreus alone and offer him to come to Asgard which Atreus declines for now. Now Kratos and Atreus are on a journey through all the 9 realms to gather an army for the impending war that is ragnarok. Good story right? What if I tell you that was just the stuff that was shown in the trailers and that wasn’t the whole story.
The characters are written better than any other game I’ve played, every character feels like a complex individual.
Play this and the free DLC if you like a good story, I promise you won’t regret it.