Apparently this is an unpopular opinion on here (which makes sense coming from me lol) but I prefer the first game.
Don't get me wrong, this isn't a bad game by any means, but fuck me it feels wayyy too long. It drags real bad.
This game doesn't really improve on any of the problems I had with the first game, in fact in some cases, it's worse here.
but let's start with the positives.
the combat is been slightly updated to be a bit more fleshed out with more combos and new spells to use, however just like the last game I really only used 2 of the spells and ignored the rest.
ya know actually now that I think about it, I think every positive thing from the first game has been slightly ruined in this one.
Combat is better yeah, there's more weapons, but they're all crap unlike The Blade of Artemis. More spells yeah, but I only ever used like 2.
Also I complained last time about the damage scaling and the fact basic enemies can take forever to kill, it's even worse here, even with maxed out weapons you can be there for like 5-7 minutes trying to take out a wave of enemies, it just gets boring and annoying.
Actually one think that has genuinely improved, the world. The locations you explore are really cool, they were cool in the last game, but even more so here. I loved The Steeds of Time and the whole Atlas area.
The story is... it's not great. It really does feel like JUST the setup to the next game instead of it's own thing. I saw someone on here say "God of War 3: Part 1" and yeah honestly that's the perfect name lol. Also once again, you just spend the entire game looking for one thing, in this case three people. But for the full 11-12 hours it's just "find the sisters of fate" and it gets so tedious and boring.
I did like the ending though, the ending got me hype.
The main thing I complimented the last game for was boss fights, and yeah there are more here, however.... most of them are fairly crap and forgettable. I think the only boss fights I enjoyed were The Kraken and The Sisters of Fate, those boss fights went HARD. but man I dunno, Euryale and the others just were not fun at all, even the final fight against Zeus was a bit shit. I guess the Perseus fight was neat, but I had just watched Clash of The Titans like the day before so I was just excited to see him lol.
Also it's a small thing really but I don't like how they batched the trophies together in this one. In the last game you would get an individual trophy for certain story events or boss fights or weapon pickups but in this they're just batched together, like Boss Batch Trophy 1 and 2 etc. Like i want my cool individual trophies to feel like I'm actually progressing >:((
Oh and speaking of progression, thanks to the games extensive runtime, progression feels slow as fuck weapons and magic wise which kinda sucked.
Overall, I wouldn't call this a bad game like I said, but I do think it's a step down from the original, maybe the fact I played these back to back ruined my experience a bit, I really shoulda learned from Uncharted and KH that marathoning isn't the best idea for enjoyment lol. I'll probably play something else before GoW 3, so I can go into it feeling more fresh.
Don't get me wrong, this isn't a bad game by any means, but fuck me it feels wayyy too long. It drags real bad.
This game doesn't really improve on any of the problems I had with the first game, in fact in some cases, it's worse here.
but let's start with the positives.
the combat is been slightly updated to be a bit more fleshed out with more combos and new spells to use, however just like the last game I really only used 2 of the spells and ignored the rest.
ya know actually now that I think about it, I think every positive thing from the first game has been slightly ruined in this one.
Combat is better yeah, there's more weapons, but they're all crap unlike The Blade of Artemis. More spells yeah, but I only ever used like 2.
Also I complained last time about the damage scaling and the fact basic enemies can take forever to kill, it's even worse here, even with maxed out weapons you can be there for like 5-7 minutes trying to take out a wave of enemies, it just gets boring and annoying.
Actually one think that has genuinely improved, the world. The locations you explore are really cool, they were cool in the last game, but even more so here. I loved The Steeds of Time and the whole Atlas area.
The story is... it's not great. It really does feel like JUST the setup to the next game instead of it's own thing. I saw someone on here say "God of War 3: Part 1" and yeah honestly that's the perfect name lol. Also once again, you just spend the entire game looking for one thing, in this case three people. But for the full 11-12 hours it's just "find the sisters of fate" and it gets so tedious and boring.
I did like the ending though, the ending got me hype.
The main thing I complimented the last game for was boss fights, and yeah there are more here, however.... most of them are fairly crap and forgettable. I think the only boss fights I enjoyed were The Kraken and The Sisters of Fate, those boss fights went HARD. but man I dunno, Euryale and the others just were not fun at all, even the final fight against Zeus was a bit shit. I guess the Perseus fight was neat, but I had just watched Clash of The Titans like the day before so I was just excited to see him lol.
Also it's a small thing really but I don't like how they batched the trophies together in this one. In the last game you would get an individual trophy for certain story events or boss fights or weapon pickups but in this they're just batched together, like Boss Batch Trophy 1 and 2 etc. Like i want my cool individual trophies to feel like I'm actually progressing >:((
Oh and speaking of progression, thanks to the games extensive runtime, progression feels slow as fuck weapons and magic wise which kinda sucked.
Overall, I wouldn't call this a bad game like I said, but I do think it's a step down from the original, maybe the fact I played these back to back ruined my experience a bit, I really shoulda learned from Uncharted and KH that marathoning isn't the best idea for enjoyment lol. I'll probably play something else before GoW 3, so I can go into it feeling more fresh.