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6/22/2025, 6:08:30 AM
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I actually played it recently out of curiosity after years hearing about it being either the best or worst thing ever. The game itself is alright as long as you don't focus on the combat; amazing visuals and I found the level design to be mostly good. The combat, however, is terrible and the thing that pisses me off the most is that you can kind of tell there was somewhat of a decent foundation at first, but it was completely evaporated with some of the most dumbfounded choices I've ever seen in an "action" game: terrible lock-on, cooldowns, levels and gear like it's a fucking RPG. Also, some enemies are abysmal like those witches that teleport all the time and have awful hitboxes. The only fights I would say were mostly good without a lot of "buts" attached are the Valkyries, and you had to go completely out of your way for them. Still, fighting some of those you realize how bad the combat is because that's the only time the game more or less seems to want you to take it "seriously" as an action game, but the garbage system won't allow it because everything on it kneels to moronic RPG mechanics.
I'm not even a big GoW fan and when I think about 2018 in the context of action games it makes me mad. Sony Santa Monica should have caught more shit for selling out like that, but everyone praised it like they reinvented the wheel instead of taking away mechanics from whatever was popular at the time and slapping them together in a known brand.
I actually played it recently out of curiosity after years hearing about it being either the best or worst thing ever. The game itself is alright as long as you don't focus on the combat; amazing visuals and I found the level design to be mostly good. The combat, however, is terrible and the thing that pisses me off the most is that you can kind of tell there was somewhat of a decent foundation at first, but it was completely evaporated with some of the most dumbfounded choices I've ever seen in an "action" game: terrible lock-on, cooldowns, levels and gear like it's a fucking RPG. Also, some enemies are abysmal like those witches that teleport all the time and have awful hitboxes. The only fights I would say were mostly good without a lot of "buts" attached are the Valkyries, and you had to go completely out of your way for them. Still, fighting some of those you realize how bad the combat is because that's the only time the game more or less seems to want you to take it "seriously" as an action game, but the garbage system won't allow it because everything on it kneels to moronic RPG mechanics.
I'm not even a big GoW fan and when I think about 2018 in the context of action games it makes me mad. Sony Santa Monica should have caught more shit for selling out like that, but everyone praised it like they reinvented the wheel instead of taking away mechanics from whatever was popular at the time and slapping them together in a known brand.
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