The God of War high I was on earlier this year led me to this game and the series and I was pleasantly surprised with how it played and the characters involved in it, especially the main character. The comparisons to old GoW and Zelda def didn't help since it feels too painfully close to them in level design and puzzles and the short arena combat sequences, and they really didn't click with me or I found it generally to be very lacking and missing that one striking element for me. I'll probably return to this once grad school calms down during the summer, but I heard the sequel is a little better.