If you're someone who likes surface level narratives and have no concept of what makes a good story, than i'm sure God of War 2018 is for you.

If you're the kind of person who resents the gameplay aspect of games and thinks more mature = mature themes that are written in the bare minimum THEN GOD OF WAR IS FOR YOU!.

If you like gameplay that involves pressing 3 buttons and characters who are so one note that it feels like you're watching a marvel movie THEN GOD OF WARRRR IS FOR YOUUU.

It's depressing that something like this is considered the peak of gaming and a height for the medium, when so many other games are so much better written while still revelling in the fact they're games. Designers desperate to be movie makers who hold contempt for their own creation and feel they're making something sophisticated when really their grasp of writing anything is barely present beyond making a bunch of cliches and walking setpieces.

This game is for people who get confused when characters experience more than 1 emotion at the same time.

I'm gonna be honest, I expected so much more from this game. The visual style of battles is very fun and the overall presentation is incredibly charming. The dialogue can be very hit or miss but hits pretty hard when it does.

The real problem lies with the combat. It's very wonky and you can be halfway through an area before you die and have to go through LOADS of the same dialogue and considering 99% of the dialogue is jokes....reading the same repeating jokes multiple times because you didn't want to go all the way back to an older save point and got forced into multiple fights in a row is just...horrible.

The game incentivises making friends over fighting and while that's all fine and dandy...its down to multiple options sometimes that can do different things that you have no way of predicting how effective they can be and some battles are endurance battles. Some also REQUIRE you to hit the enemy before acting again after. It's very confusing.

The game wants to let you play the way you think is best to create a unique journey to share with everyone, but that just makes the decisions far more annoying to pick between because you don't know what's going to do what.

The bosses attacks can get so absolutely stupid and almost undodgable at times and overall each fight is so unpredictable and wild that it leads to this constant frustration with figuring out what to do. I probably should be more patient but it's so hard when I feel like the game isn't very deserving of said patience.

The game has a lot of decently strong points but I also feel overall it came out a weak experience that could have been much better. I was excited for this to release after seeing so much of it for the last few years but it just left me frustrated and kinda disappointed.

I'VE GOT 10 SECONDS TO WRITE THIS REVIEW, INJECT THE DOPAMINE INTO MY BLOOD.

You know when you see those videos that's Subway Surfers under a Family Guy clip? This game is basically riding on that concept of zero attention span and quick dopamine rushes being the lifeblood of your character and it's fucking amazing. You got 10 seconds, better impress the chat by murdering the shit out of every dude you see and climb the corporate tower to save the Influencer. Don't forget! if you work hard you too can own those sick shoes!, it's not an unobtainable goal they parade to you to keep you working a meaningless, endless cycle! You too can make it on the list of the TOP 500 BILLIONARES! JUST GO, GO, YOU GOT THIS.