God Of War - Review After 100%

Talking about my experiences with the 2018 God of War that see Kratos in the lands of the Norse Gods.

Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:08 Difficulty
02:28 Story Set Up
03:24 Power Progression
05:30 Atreus
06:12 Gameplay/Worldbuilding
08:53 Combat
13:50 Endgame
15:44 Positives
16:58 Negatives
17:28 Conclusion
18:30 Wrap Up

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#godofwar #godofwar2018 #gaming

[mhjmstultiens]

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...

[Ketooey]

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.

[fitz]

I've had this game in the backlog for a long while and your review just convinced me to bump it up

[Munditiae]

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!

[TheBlueDeath]

Other than wanting more enemy variety, I thought this was one of the best action games of all time

[rkxiiwk]

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.

[happyninja]

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.

[kaidorade]

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!

[tacbravo]

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!!

[aleszol]

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.

[blueshift]

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

[GamerGrade]

Thanks for your work! Your content output is insane 👍

[matthuck]

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.

[Duckman]

Didn’t know Mort was a father. But it seems everyone who is a parent absolutely loves the story of this game.

[namelessking]

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 :)

[nokronis]

Would be nice to get a deep dive on what you thought of the story. Good review.

[NeonLightsMedia]

Damn 100% is already impressive but making such a quality review is even more impressive ^^ Great job!

[franciscomira]

The dialogue in this is one the best i ever saw and listened.
It's brilliant. An amazing game in all aspects.

[DSzaks]

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.

[musguera]

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).