This game feels bittersweet to me.
This is the most mixed ive felt on game in a while. I'll first start with the bad. The general combat when it works can feel amazing but, when it doesn't and the enemies experience no hitstun while they stun lock you into oblivion it can start to feel extremely unfair. The abilities are very hit or miss in terms of synergy with the blades of chaos. Moves like Poseidon's rage and Hade's army are great to finish off a combo or open a fight with. But, the lightning bolts and Medusa's head are simply too slow and jank to use without dropping a combo or getting punished. The glory kill system can be extremely hit or miss. The ones with just button presses or nothing are great and service the gameplay well but, those fucking horned dog whatever the fuck's QTEs are horrible. They require a strict button mash that need impossibly tight timing to perform, destroying your fingers whenever you face more than one. There are also way too many fucking times they want to "mix up" the gameplay by having you fight on random terrain like walls or ropes, and they all feel horrible depending on your luck. Sometimes you will breeze through feeling badass and other times you get into a constant cycle of getting grabbed, waggling your joystick to get free, thus leaving you open to be jumped on again. There is also a heavy dose of archaic ps2 action game bs in here too. Many instant death pits, spikes, walls and shitty camera angles that move in all the wrong places.
While it does sound like this game is unredeemable there is still plenty of good here. The story is great with a nice dose of power fantasies and cool implementations of the greek mythos. The cutscenes have a really fun presentation and you can feel the passion behind this games creators. Like i mentioned earlier there are still times where the combat feels great and everything just clicks. After finally finishing the game and its story, I finally started to understand the combat. Given the bumpy pacing and interesting experience I had, I am left skeptically optimistic for what the rest of the series has in store.
This is the most mixed ive felt on game in a while. I'll first start with the bad. The general combat when it works can feel amazing but, when it doesn't and the enemies experience no hitstun while they stun lock you into oblivion it can start to feel extremely unfair. The abilities are very hit or miss in terms of synergy with the blades of chaos. Moves like Poseidon's rage and Hade's army are great to finish off a combo or open a fight with. But, the lightning bolts and Medusa's head are simply too slow and jank to use without dropping a combo or getting punished. The glory kill system can be extremely hit or miss. The ones with just button presses or nothing are great and service the gameplay well but, those fucking horned dog whatever the fuck's QTEs are horrible. They require a strict button mash that need impossibly tight timing to perform, destroying your fingers whenever you face more than one. There are also way too many fucking times they want to "mix up" the gameplay by having you fight on random terrain like walls or ropes, and they all feel horrible depending on your luck. Sometimes you will breeze through feeling badass and other times you get into a constant cycle of getting grabbed, waggling your joystick to get free, thus leaving you open to be jumped on again. There is also a heavy dose of archaic ps2 action game bs in here too. Many instant death pits, spikes, walls and shitty camera angles that move in all the wrong places.
While it does sound like this game is unredeemable there is still plenty of good here. The story is great with a nice dose of power fantasies and cool implementations of the greek mythos. The cutscenes have a really fun presentation and you can feel the passion behind this games creators. Like i mentioned earlier there are still times where the combat feels great and everything just clicks. After finally finishing the game and its story, I finally started to understand the combat. Given the bumpy pacing and interesting experience I had, I am left skeptically optimistic for what the rest of the series has in store.