God of War (2018) Developers React to Incredible Valkyrie% Speedrun

The Valkyrie's in God of War are a set of optionable bosses that can be taken on towards the end of the game. Turns out, beating them as fast as possible is quite popular with the speedrunning community. So watch as speedrunner Clowned187 takes on every single of these challenging foes on the game's hardest difficulty, no less. Also, did we mention that the developers who worked on this boss also happened to stop by to witness the feat? Ride along with Mihir Sheth (Lead Combar Designer), Denny Yeh (Lead Combat Designer), and Rob Meyer (Senior Staff Technical Combat Designer) from Sony's Santa Monica Studio as they watch this incredible speedrun.

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[beardofwar]

For those wondering. This run was done on new game gmgow. Weapons and armor are not fully upgraded since you can't farm muspelheim and NG+ wasn't even available yet. Also, Katy (GUNNR) is named after Katy ""Parry" 😆

[dylans]

Watching devs react to players playing their game is so satisfying to watch idk why

[teamhndo]

The analysis of the mechanics is really fascinating. Fantastic combat system they put forth in this game.

[TheSteeltec]

36:00 they made the last bit of the health bar worth more?!?!?! Bro that's just evil af 😭

[erobertt]

it's funny that the blades doing more dps was unintentional because it's nicely balanced out by the fact that you have to quick throw the axe to interrupt the valkyrie flying moves making it more risky to use the blades

[obscurity]

It must feel so rad to listen to the game devs applauding your sick evades.

[wolf]

Had no idea you could avoid the blind by just not looking at her...

[Juttargoe]

This is my favorite game of all time. Knowing these little secrets is awesome. I’ve spent countless run thrus just trying to sort alot of this out myself. And not doing dew runs or cheating but really learning the mechanics in and out

[xShogunx]

The amount of time this dude had to put into the game! Respect!

[afibuffygirl]

Now we know who is responsible for a lot of us players pain and misery when it came to the valkyrie queen lol

[RyanKuebel]

Its rad as hell to have witnessed game progressions and it gets lost over time.

[Datboy]

The names in the speedrun tracker are the best part tbh

[joepowell]

So the "Bag of Holding" is canon in GoW. Sweet!

[abyan]

6 years late to playing this game, and you’ve helped me a great deal. Thank you

[humanbass]

Funny how the last hit against Sigrun was an Atreus arrow.

[alamecommentator]

People calculating in minutes and hours on hunting Valkyrie
Me: days 😏

[Lootbox-aus]

Both rota and sigrun took me over an hour each to beat.This will be 🔥 🔥🔥

[hexagonshorts]

He turned Norse Kratos into the Greek Kratos

[jayh]

He made it look so easy those valkyries are nightmarish!!!

[matjakobs]

Sigrun was my hardest boss fight ever. Took me hours to beat her on normal difficulty. Harder than the soulsborne bosses. For me it was harder than Melania.