Finished the story on No Mercy. Honestly feel like I would have enjoyed it a lot more on a lower difficulty but ah well. The combat system never really clicked for me.

On the story side I feel like the new god of war games lose a lot by trying to present the characters as real people instead of the over-the-top caricatures they were in the old games, because real people need a lot more characterization to feel compelling than, say, what the Aesir gods get in this game. I felt like I knew I was supposed to hate Odin but was never really given proper time and motive to do so until the very end of the story.

Basically I'm skeptical of the whole concept of these games, and I really hope they make a new thing instead next time.

Also Capcom should port God Hand to PC and modern consoles and then also make a sequel to God Hand.