God of War rebooted is what I call a console blockbuster game done right. It's not only got the bells and whistles, but also the gameplay to back it up. Many of its characters get a good bit of spotlight, so you're not fighting with or against strangers. If only the industry could be brave enough to step away from the overdone collectible hunting as a means to primarily stretch game length, but we all know this is not going to happen soon...
I really love how there are multiple points in the story where Atreus or Kratos will say something like, "Should we continue on, or gather resources for the journey?" It makes your choice to pursue sidequests feel completely nestled in the main story, wished more games did this.
When I stumble on to a new game I want more info about I repeatedly found myself searching for the game name and your channel hoping you already have a review for it up - oftentimes you do. Keep up your thorough and excellent work it is so much appreciated!
I can't remember if I posted this here or on another video. But I also related to this version of Kratos, as a father struggling with his own past while trying to become the father that his child needs. While have loved the GoW games for nearly 20 years, it was nice to make a new connection with a familiar character.
I really love how the relationship between Atreus and kratos evolves not only in the narrative but in gameplay aswell, Atreus started out as a joke but later on the game becomes unplayable without him.
I loved playing this game with the unarmed/shield focus. I found it a LOT easier, for just about any enemy, to stagger them and do a grapple kill, than to try and switch between weapons depending on their resistances and other factors. Plus, I found that while you are in a kill cutscene from a grapple, you can sometimes still trigger Atreus to attack with his bow, so he can be softening up the next target. Once I got him the arrows that mostly did stun damage, it was SUPER fun to be spamming stun arrows from Atreus, while I ran charging at some poor enemy, do a shoulder tackle or shield slam into his face, and pretty much instantly stun him. Then he'd either just die if he was a minion, or take a HUGE health hit from the cutscene attack. SO much fun to just run in there and grab them and smash the hell out of them. I rarely used the axe or blades, unless it was just required or something.
Mortym, thanks so much for the excellent review. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. GoW looks like an amazing game and I am excited to play it. The game is on my list to 100%. If all I play are games from your 100% reviews, that leads to thousands of hours of rich gaming enjoyment. As a side note, yesterday on the Steam Summer Sale, Clorthax led me to discover a new RPG that might be a good future candidate for 100%. The game is the Rising Star 2 RPG/Simulation with 129 Steam achievements. There are a lot of people that have hundreds of hours of playtime, some have 1,000+ hours. That says something. The dev is communicative, and down to earth. Beyond that, you're the best!! Keep up the fantastic work!!
As someone who's played through this game multiple times with a lot of love for it, this video breaks it down very well and has very good points throughut it, my only critic is that I would've liked you to talk about the story a little more but overall fantastic video. Also being able to basically upgrade a piece of blue gear to red in new game+ is super cool because the blue gear would have a fantastic ability but the stats it gives Kratos are lackluster compared to for example the armor Valkyries drop and being able to build craft with these new game+ pieces was super enjoyable to me
I'm playing GOW for the first time, and I agree with the fact that sometimes you don't feel like god, since some fights can be a bit hard. And there are some pretty annoying enemies, like the flying dudes and the teleporting witches.
4:36 The large variety in gear, which slowly boils down to a few particular sets reminded me of how The Witcher 3 did it. At some point we each realized that only the witcher gear truly mattered. ⚔
I want this, and FF7r (and Bloodborne) for PC, but I don't like the full (or nearly full) AAA prices right now. When they're on sale for like $20, I'm there, though. So, maybe next year.
You are right, I remember this game being a competent souls-like with a great story. I played GOW3 in PS4 because I got it from PS Plus, this reboot is more mature and the combat way better than the older games (never liked hack ‘n slash games). But with all the great story and all, I still prefer FromSoftware games and Nioh games (which have better combat than Dark Souls itself).
Ima have to see a play through on that my man. Game is hard AF. If you beat it on Give mii War - - - hats off. I’m set on Give Mii a challenge and I haven’t struggled this badly since Ninja Gaiden’s Xbox reboot.
Having a severed head companion looking back towards the player was such a good idea. Every 3rd person game ever is "look at this tough guy's back all game" but GOW gave us a delightful, talking, severed head to look at too.
one of my favourite games of all time its amazing and i think you should mention mimir. mimir is a gamechanger but yes, it has problems. enemy and boss variety is too low and atreus behavior is sometimes strange (storywise) but overall its amazing. combat, graphics, animations and the interaction between the characters are mindblowing p.s. you should try the last of us part 1 after its released on pc :)
I just finished this game last night after having it in the backlog forever. I would agree with most of your points. Absolutely loved the story, and the base difficulty curve felt balanced. I do wish the game ended on a stronger note, or at least presented itself slightly differently. The "final" boss of the game kinda felt like a downer. The story surrounding that fight was amazing, but the fight itself I thought didn't have enough impact, and I wasn't even wearing the best gear (was only level 6)
Besides the fantastic story, combat, music etc., what really immersed me is the entire game being "filmed" as one long continuous take (if you don't fast travel ofc :) ). This game is just a technical masterpiece really :)
I'm "OG" fan of God of War series and as a few of us i have to say that this reboot is better than all game that came before it. hope 2nd game will live up to the expectation or even surpass it
I’m pretty out of touch with console games, so I heard of God of War but never expected to play it. It looks good and I like mythology based games, like Titan Quest.
I kind of want to play through the other games again before I do this one (excluding the mobile games). I know I played 1 and 2 back in the day but I don't think I played part 3. Maybe they'll do a PC port of the older games at some point since this one did well.
I feel the combat less interesting the more of these attack skills you get. Like, by the end I spent most of my time abusing those. After all are done, hold out for a few seconds for cooldowns to rest before getting back to skill spamming. That's kind of the best way to play but also not a very fun one, at least after a while/ Kind of hope they fix that for the sequel... and also a better equipment system because this one wasn't very good.
I like my games to be quite challenging so I played this game on "Give me God of War" from the outset, and while I beat it and enjoyed it quite thoroughly, I also had a similar moment of Ludonarrative Dissonance where I was questioning why the GOD OF FREAKING WAR was getting his ass kicked by a regular wolf. I would agree that narratively the correct difficulty is Story mode. So if you like playing on higher difficulties, just be aware that its gonna feel a bit weird at times.
I liked god of war a lot but 100% does not sound fun. There are SO many collectables, and then those extra realms feel like straight mmo dailys. The hardest difficulty is more painful that dark souls as well
Bro, what's going on here lol? we've been playing the same games lately, from Dragon Dogma to ME and now GOW? 16:00 same here, the story resonated a lot now than I'm a father (i'm a decade older than you though)
Pardon me for being so blunt Morty: But considering we are close to the same age, why is it that you are only now playing some of the greatest RPGs that have been known in the past generations? I know I am fan of RPGs but I def don't consider myself more than a casual but I know I played some of these top titles during their prime. Sort of a disservice to play them so late when tech has evolved so much in new games. Just really curious to know why, if you would care to indulge me.
@@MortismalGaming Not quite what I was asking, let me clarify: I was asking from the perspective of purely being a fan of RPGs in general. I imagine you have been gaming long before you became an influencer on youtube. so just being a gamer, I am rather surprised you waited this long to play some of the golden oldies. Just curious what kept you from personally from playing some of these games in their prime. As far as your job as an influencer goes, I have never adopted to the social media and rarely participate, so I can hardly have an opinion on what you stream. Just a bit surprised that some of these are your first time playing.
@@MortismalGaming Damn, real sorry to hear that. If anything, congrats to you for getting where you are today compared to where you started from. I can somewhat relate to getting displaced... had a little crash course in Shanghai (had my wallet and passport stolen). Hope some of these golden oldies hold up well in your eyes when you get to them.
@@MortismalGaming Ouch, I wasn't expecting that. Sorry if this felt too much like a probe but on the other hand congratulations for turning it all around. I can't say I have been homeless but there was a stint where I lost my passport and cash and was displaced in a backwoods area of a pre-dominantly non english speaking country. So I guess I got some idea. Seriously, good for you. I have known a lot of people that get used to way the things are and never do anything beyond.
It was a good game, but for me over hyped. I enjoyed the story including the game itself. I only seemed to have issues with navigating and using the map.
Oh, dude, i can't describe how relived i am, hearing a review with a good objectivity to the good and bad elements Had quite some argumets with people exagerating the negatives and sayng stuff like i am blindly worshipping the game, and these people's chritics had bullshit like "blando story" and "juvenile dialogue"... Sorry, Just a rant, parte of why i don't use twitter
As a father, that scene in the beginning where Kratos begins to lose his temper as Atreus looses his arrow too quickly is so god damn spot on that it's just incredible. This is a masterpiece game. It's not perfect, but holy shit is it close.
God of War rebooted is what I call a console blockbuster game done right. It's not only got the bells and whistles, but also the gameplay to back it up. Many of its characters get a good bit of spotlight, so you're not fighting with or against strangers. If only the industry could be brave enough to step away from the overdone collectible hunting as a means to primarily stretch game length, but we all know this is not going to happen soon...
I really love how there are multiple points in the story where Atreus or Kratos will say something like, "Should we continue on, or gather resources for the journey?" It makes your choice to pursue sidequests feel completely nestled in the main story, wished more games did this.
Careful, you might get called a heretic and burned alive on a stake If basement dwellers catch you preaching what they think is "hAnDhOlDiNg"
I've had this game in the backlog for a long while and your review just convinced me to bump it up
Other than wanting more enemy variety, I thought this was one of the best action games of all time
When I stumble on to a new game I want more info about I repeatedly found myself searching for the game name and your channel hoping you already have a review for it up - oftentimes you do. Keep up your thorough and excellent work it is so much appreciated!
I can't remember if I posted this here or on another video. But I also related to this version of Kratos, as a father struggling with his own past while trying to become the father that his child needs. While have loved the GoW games for nearly 20 years, it was nice to make a new connection with a familiar character.
I really love how the relationship between Atreus and kratos evolves not only in the narrative but in gameplay aswell, Atreus started out as a joke but later on the game becomes unplayable without him.
I love this game so much. I’m glad you liked it too.
I loved playing this game with the unarmed/shield focus. I found it a LOT easier, for just about any enemy, to stagger them and do a grapple kill, than to try and switch between weapons depending on their resistances and other factors. Plus, I found that while you are in a kill cutscene from a grapple, you can sometimes still trigger Atreus to attack with his bow, so he can be softening up the next target. Once I got him the arrows that mostly did stun damage, it was SUPER fun to be spamming stun arrows from Atreus, while I ran charging at some poor enemy, do a shoulder tackle or shield slam into his face, and pretty much instantly stun him. Then he'd either just die if he was a minion, or take a HUGE health hit from the cutscene attack. SO much fun to just run in there and grab them and smash the hell out of them. I rarely used the axe or blades, unless it was just required or something.
Dude finally beat the valkyries.
Thanks for your work! Your content output is insane 👍
The dialogue in this is one the best i ever saw and listened.
It's brilliant. An amazing game in all aspects.
Mortym, thanks so much for the excellent review. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. GoW looks like an amazing game and I am excited to play it. The game is on my list to 100%. If all I play are games from your 100% reviews, that leads to thousands of hours of rich gaming enjoyment. As a side note, yesterday on the Steam Summer Sale, Clorthax led me to discover a new RPG that might be a good future candidate for 100%. The game is the Rising Star 2 RPG/Simulation with 129 Steam achievements. There are a lot of people that have hundreds of hours of playtime, some have 1,000+ hours. That says something. The dev is communicative, and down to earth. Beyond that, you're the best!! Keep up the fantastic work!!
As someone who's played through this game multiple times with a lot of love for it, this video breaks it down very well and has very good points throughut it, my only critic is that I would've liked you to talk about the story a little more but overall fantastic video. Also being able to basically upgrade a piece of blue gear to red in new game+ is super cool because the blue gear would have a fantastic ability but the stats it gives Kratos are lackluster compared to for example the armor Valkyries drop and being able to build craft with these new game+ pieces was super enjoyable to me
I'm playing GOW for the first time, and I agree with the fact that sometimes you don't feel like god, since some fights can be a bit hard. And there are some pretty annoying enemies, like the flying dudes and the teleporting witches.
My favourite game reviewer on RUclips, you deserve all the subs.
Didn’t know Mort was a father. But it seems everyone who is a parent absolutely loves the story of this game.
Would be nice to get a deep dive on what you thought of the story. Good review.
4:36 The large variety in gear, which slowly boils down to a few particular sets reminded me of how The Witcher 3 did it. At some point we each realized that only the witcher gear truly mattered. ⚔
It was my GOTY when it came out! Sure the game has issues. But I still love it! You should check out ghost of Tsushima!
One of my favorite games ever made :)
These reviews are really really good. That's the merit of someone who actually played the game AND being good at reviewing what they played.
I want this, and FF7r (and Bloodborne) for PC, but I don't like the full (or nearly full) AAA prices right now.
When they're on sale for like $20, I'm there, though. So, maybe next year.
You are right, I remember this game being a competent souls-like with a great story. I played GOW3 in PS4 because I got it from PS Plus, this reboot is more mature and the combat way better than the older games (never liked hack ‘n slash games). But with all the great story and all, I still prefer FromSoftware games and Nioh games (which have better combat than Dark Souls itself).
Ima have to see a play through on that my man. Game is hard AF. If you beat it on Give mii War - - - hats off. I’m set on Give Mii a challenge and I haven’t struggled this badly since Ninja Gaiden’s Xbox reboot.
Thing is for me it is a good game but....i prefer the gameplay of previous games as the combat just resonated with me a lot more
Damn 100% is already impressive but making such a quality review is even more impressive ^^ Great job!
Having a severed head companion looking back towards the player was such a good idea. Every 3rd person game ever is "look at this tough guy's back all game" but GOW gave us a delightful, talking, severed head to look at too.
one of my favourite games of all time
its amazing and i think you should mention mimir. mimir is a gamechanger
but yes, it has problems. enemy and boss variety is too low and atreus behavior is sometimes strange (storywise)
but overall its amazing. combat, graphics, animations and the interaction between the characters are mindblowing
p.s. you should try the last of us part 1 after its released on pc :)
I also complete the game recently. Note that the game run very well on Linux/steam deck.
"Review an action oriented game before going back to mass effect 2"...my brother in christ...
I just finished this game last night after having it in the backlog forever. I would agree with most of your points. Absolutely loved the story, and the base difficulty curve felt balanced. I do wish the game ended on a stronger note, or at least presented itself slightly differently. The "final" boss of the game kinda felt like a downer. The story surrounding that fight was amazing, but the fight itself I thought didn't have enough impact, and I wasn't even wearing the best gear (was only level 6)
I got through this game in a week and wish I could wipe my memory and play it again! SO GOOD.
Congratulations on beginning your family journey.
This game is great
Besides the fantastic story, combat, music etc., what really immersed me is the entire game being "filmed" as one long continuous take (if you don't fast travel ofc :) ). This game is just a technical masterpiece really :)
Good review. I liked the game as well, I consider that the port was successful,pretty rare this days.
I'm "OG" fan of God of War series and as a few of us i have to say that this reboot is better than all game that came before it. hope 2nd game will live up to the expectation or even surpass it
I’m pretty out of touch with console games, so I heard of God of War but never expected to play it. It looks good and I like mythology based games, like Titan Quest.
I kind of want to play through the other games again before I do this one (excluding the mobile games). I know I played 1 and 2 back in the day but I don't think I played part 3. Maybe they'll do a PC port of the older games at some point since this one did well.
Best game I have ever played, hands down.
I wish there were fewer railroid passages in the game.
I feel the combat less interesting the more of these attack skills you get. Like, by the end I spent most of my time abusing those. After all are done, hold out for a few seconds for cooldowns to rest before getting back to skill spamming. That's kind of the best way to play but also not a very fun one, at least after a while/ Kind of hope they fix that for the sequel... and also a better equipment system because this one wasn't very good.
I seriously hate the time puzzles for axe throw... controller is hard to aim :X
I like my games to be quite challenging so I played this game on "Give me God of War" from the outset, and while I beat it and enjoyed it quite thoroughly, I also had a similar moment of Ludonarrative Dissonance where I was questioning why the GOD OF FREAKING WAR was getting his ass kicked by a regular wolf. I would agree that narratively the correct difficulty is Story mode. So if you like playing on higher difficulties, just be aware that its gonna feel a bit weird at times.
free comment.
I liked god of war a lot but 100% does not sound fun. There are SO many collectables, and then those extra realms feel like straight mmo dailys. The hardest difficulty is more painful that dark souls as well
is it good on the mouse kb? Im old
Probably better, attacks from behind are common and having a free camera without the need for lock on makes combat less restrictive imo.
It really is a fantastic game, despite the repetition of enemies which is in my opinion it's biggest sin.
Bro, what's going on here lol? we've been playing the same games lately, from Dragon Dogma to ME and now GOW? 16:00 same here, the story resonated a lot now than I'm a father (i'm a decade older than you though)
Pardon me for being so blunt Morty: But considering we are close to the same age, why is it that you are only now playing some of the greatest RPGs that have been known in the past generations? I know I am fan of RPGs but I def don't consider myself more than a casual but I know I played some of these top titles during their prime. Sort of a disservice to play them so late when tech has evolved so much in new games. Just really curious to know why, if you would care to indulge me.
I do things when I feel like doing them, and as long as the views keep coming I feel no pressure to do things on any particular time table
@@MortismalGaming Not quite what I was asking, let me clarify: I was asking from the perspective of purely being a fan of RPGs in general. I imagine you have been gaming long before you became an influencer on youtube. so just being a gamer, I am rather surprised you waited this long to play some of the golden oldies. Just curious what kept you from personally from playing some of these games in their prime. As far as your job as an influencer goes, I have never adopted to the social media and rarely participate, so I can hardly have an opinion on what you stream. Just a bit surprised that some of these are your first time playing.
@@cardassa I was homeless and poor most of my life and simply had neither the time nor the money to play a lot of games people considered staples
@@MortismalGaming Damn, real sorry to hear that. If anything, congrats to you for getting where you are today compared to where you started from. I can somewhat relate to getting displaced... had a little crash course in Shanghai (had my wallet and passport stolen). Hope some of these golden oldies hold up well in your eyes when you get to them.
@@MortismalGaming Ouch, I wasn't expecting that. Sorry if this felt too much like a probe but on the other hand congratulations for turning it all around. I can't say I have been homeless but there was a stint where I lost my passport and cash and was displaced in a backwoods area of a pre-dominantly non english speaking country. So I guess I got some idea. Seriously, good for you. I have known a lot of people that get used to way the things are and never do anything beyond.
It was a good game, but for me over hyped. I enjoyed the story including the game itself. I only seemed to have issues with navigating and using the map.
Did you play this on kb+m?
Correct
Oh, dude, i can't describe how relived i am, hearing a review with a good objectivity to the good and bad elements
Had quite some argumets with people exagerating the negatives and sayng stuff like i am blindly worshipping the game, and these people's chritics had bullshit like "blando story" and "juvenile dialogue"...
Sorry, Just a rant, parte of why i don't use twitter
Nice dude try out Horizon Zero Dawn
As a father, that scene in the beginning where Kratos begins to lose his temper as Atreus looses his arrow too quickly is so god damn spot on that it's just incredible. This is a masterpiece game. It's not perfect, but holy shit is it close.
I really tried to finish this, but hours in i got bored as hell and simply couldn’t finish it.
Same.
This game's difficulty names should be switched around lol. "Give me God of War" makes you feel like a weakling at times doing barely any damage.
Quite overrated, and the combat is really clunky. But the game looks beautiful and it's optimized to run well on PC.
I think this is a great game, but the worst god of War.
I’m stuck on the Valkyrie queen, my last trophy for platinum 🫡.
You kinda sound like LGR, lol