God of War: Ascension asks "what if God of War tried to be Uncharted but had the plot of Marvel Studios' Captain Marvel?" The answer is, you get a decent game that stands out as the worst of its franchise. Needless changes to combat and an obsession with being cinematic drag down a really good game to being just a pretty good game, and it's all tied nicely together with the greatest character arc in storytelling: badass with amnesia becomes badass without amnesia.

I won't say that I didn't like Ascension, because I did, but I WILL say that, while playing it, I was constantly mentally critiquing what I didn't like about it.