God of War Ragnarok is Not a Masterpiece
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- God of War Ragnarok is not a Masterpiece. It's a lazy, woke sequel that wastes the player's time constantly. Truly the most overrated game to release in the last few years.
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0:00 Intro
1:58 Combat
13:15 Level Design & Puzzles
18:32 The Story
59:22 Conclusion - Hry
Gee I wonder why Kratos wouldn't trust Odins offer for peace. Not like he's been tricked and deceived by Gods before or anything.
Exactly this man did not pay attention to this game and the other games as well
@@frogglen6350 that's not how it happened in the norse mythology
@@harjasdhariwal5960 it happened in the game
@@harjasdhariwal5960 wtf are you talking about? You know how many interpretations of mythology there are? That's why its called mythology. This is just another interpretation of it. Like it or not its all fiction
@@harjasdhariwal5960 I don’t understand this argument- do you really think a marked man named Kratos single-handedly took out the God of War Ares, slayed countless of other gods, caused Ancient Greece to implode, and then released the good back into world by committing suicide in REAL Greek Mythology? These games are INSPIRED by the source material. Stories are MEANT for interpretation. This is how Ragnarok ends in the GoW universe, if you want the real story go read the Eddas.
Odin was banned from 109 realms and still says it’s all your fault.
Based
he's a narcissist and controlling abuser. That's how they are. Nothing is ever their fault.
lmaoooo baaaased
Be careful
The ODL is a fierce enemy
So he's a jew?
Its scary how fast people go "You don't agree with me? Go eat shit and die" over stuff like videogames.
This. When i see a video i dont like, i don't watch it
I comment when i have criticism for a channel i like. People are so desperate for emotional virtue they will attack anybody into agreeing with them
@@guitarguy3221You’re not always going to know if you’ll disagree before clicking. It’s a foolish argument. That said, the reaction was overblown, even with some of his inaccurate statements. I heard of the hubbub about this beforehand and finally watched… it’s not as “angry” as I thought it’d be. Unless that hubbub was from the follow up video, and people are leaving comments here without actually watching it.
its a pretty tarded take, lets be real. He should probably go eat sht
That's literally how the far right acts. "ohh its political, go eat shit and die"
This generation doesn't have real family units, no religion, no sense of community. All they have are the products they consoooom. What else would they go at each other's throats over?
Movie game used to be a term for movie tie-in games. Now a movie game is a game that has the value of a movie at the price point of a game.
uncharted
Value of a movie? Bro a movie is gonna be 2-3 hours long for 10-15 dollars at the cinema. Gow runs you about 30 hours or more for 70. This is pretty standard video game length plus a good story. If you're not willing to pay a standard price that's fine i get it but to say it's the value of a 2 hour movie is crazy. You can rewatch a movie 10 times by the time you finished gow once and get sick of that movie while you can replay gow about 2-3 times if you liked the game. The value isn't even close
@@jonwifebeaterjones6389 Not the defense you think it is. I value my time and if the game does not value it then that makes it less valuable, not more. Gameplay focused games give you value for your time, but cinematic games are like paying for a season of a show. It's like a season, not so much a movie.
@@jonwifebeaterjones6389 tbh i couldn't even get through GOW 2018. My friend kept wanting me to play it for him because apparently he didn't want to but wanted to see the rest of the game. I felt like the gameplay sections just bored me and the cutscenes were the highlights of the game and I'm just not impressed.
@@megamax898 i hate dumb gameplay loop. Like if i wanted a dumb braindead game where you just kill aimlessly I'd play cod or something like that. At the end of the day you get challenge maps in almost any new game where you get pure gameplay. But i want a story and actual characters instead of just gameplay loop. Look at suicide squad. The core gameplay is good and fun actually but it feels like you're brainlessly mowing down enemies and don't even know your objective half the time because you're just doing gameplay loops so long until you forget the actual story.
The reason Kratos denies Odin’s so-called peace treaty at the start is probably because he’s learnt the hard way never to make a deal with a god, especially one he knows to be referred to as a manipulator and backstabber.
Yea, it literally says so in the journal
@@frogglen6350 This is my conclusion as well, either he didn't pay attention to the story at all or he just wants the attention by just misrepresenting the game. It's hard not to sound like some butthurt fanboy but I guess that'll be his defense.
The Odin Codex explains why he denies the deal
Actually, Kratos denies because in exchange Odin proposed that he would make Freya disappear. What exactly he meant by that wasn’t clear, but without good intentions. And Kratos didn’t want to harm Freya, because… she is a friend.
Still a shit story
Mimir trusted Odin, he got betrayed. Tortured.
Freya trusts Odin, she got betrayed. cursed
Freyr gives Odin chance, he got betrayed. burned.
Groa trusts Odin, she got betrayed. Killed.
Skadi trusted Odin, she got betrayed. Tricked.
Tyr trusted Odin's words, he got betrayed. Jailed.
Baldur believes Odin's word, He got used to death.
Sigrun just wants to help people, Odin corrupted her
The dwarves accept Odin's rule, they got exploited.
Midgardian thought Odin saved them, they become meat shields.
Heimdal put his faith in him, treated like shit.
His family, they are just tools.
Now. . I wonder why Kratos thinks he can't trust the old man?
Just accept his deal while being on guard? You can't outsmart odin.
Wait what you argue with logic?
You're just woke man
@@JadKaradin exactly, woke asf
@@hellatze why would he trust odin would keep peace? Had Kratos been an obstacle for him to finding that mask which he was as he required Atreus he wouldve broken that pact. The context is there you just ignore it.
This wasn't Odin. The writing was awful
@@hellatze pretty sure odin offered a peace treaty to vanaheim by marrying freya, but we all know how that ended
It’s funny to think even the actor who plays Atreus is annoyed by the puzzles telling you what to do 😂
He was??😂😂😂 not surprised how’s you find out?
@@adaptivegamer9905 he said it in an interview
@@adaptivegamer9905czcams.com/users/shortsfSM_69GZ5pM?si=l5PVeGJEvXy_3qLS
Kratos can't attack odin because atreus is in asgard.
You can't just roast a story without full context.
Exactly dude. I feel like most of his story gripes are pretty easily explained within the context of the story.
@Good For Nutting and no way into asgard
@Good For Nutting So? MF Kratos needed to jump Odin. It was a 3 v 1 and if Odin was attacked, it would mean war and then atreus WOULDN'T come back. 🤣
Me thinks he is pulling BS out of his ass
@Good For Nutting Yes, but at that moment and time Ateus was under watch in Aagard with Heimdall and Thor, both of which could have easily killed him.
"A bunch of fight arenas connected by straight corridors with puzzles"
Sounds like a God of War game to me
If you think the old god of war games where just "straight corridor's" you obviously didn't play them.
@@funaccount7665 some scenaries where exactly that kid wtf you talking about? Lol
@@matheusmazza4398 he implied that God of war was that as a whole moron.
@@funaccount7665 no, he didnt you pulled that from your ass and bad interpretation of words
@@funaccount7665 I’ve played every god of war game more than 2 times and the game design was a bunch of fight arenas Connected through a straight corridor, that’s literally what they were. You really didn’t play it then, lol
All this 2023 marvel dialogue in a game set in ancient Europe is doubly annoying.
I would also expect the son of a Spartan would be disciplined and not talking back to his dad like some modern teen.
“Children; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. They no longer rise when elders enter the room, they contradict their parents and tyrannize their teachers. Children are now tyrants.” - Socrates
Atreus not getting the backhand of Olympus at that moment was the most unrealistic thing in this fantasy series about gods.
@@peteybakedziti8908 indeed.
I really wish none of you become parents at this point, or at the very least the fact that it's fiction makes you disconnected because man so many of these comments on the side of the youtuber are so quick to go to hitting your child if they don't do exactly as you say.
@@lazypayday4476 more a context thing. More modern sensibilities.
Sweet Baby Inc take parts of this game story, dialogues, and characters.
Exactly what I'm saying. Libbies will keep seething at this being pointed out, though.
You are both imbeciles
The modern dialog is soo stupid in this game 😂 ancient gods talking like they in 2022
Also they say shit, asshole, fucker etc. That's really distracting.
I mean, the characters in the old games didn't exactly sound like they were in Ancient Greece. They sounded like a slightly more modern rendition of Shakespeare. Kratos even calls Hermes a 'Fly from the ass of Zeus'.
Not to mention that these games are in a goddamn uchronia that has no actual time period you can pin down. Kratos finds the Screws of Archimedes in Atlantis, which in real life has a _9400 year_ gap between them. I stopped caring about how characters spoke because historical accuracy hasn't been a thing in these games since the first game.
@@travisoliver6741 yeah but the Shakespeare dialog is a lot better then the new games for sure it sounds ridiculous there’s even a part where Atreus calls Kratos an Asshole
If we wanted to be lore accurate they wouldn’t be speaking English at all. Stop being such a drama queen.
I think it's hilarious your own chat was busting on you for sucking at the puzzles.
😹😹😹
The puzzles at the Elves kingdom were annoying. And finding chests were just boring
@@AlexTheDominator1453 Alex the dominator only thing yo dominate is your local preschool goofy ahh 😂🤡
@@alifhasan7699 maybe learn to spell before critiquing? idk just a suggestion
Yea no kidding
As games become "Masterpieces", the less I want to replay a game. I enjoyed God of War Ragnarok, story and combat, but when I think of how much wandering I had to do and how many cutscenes I had to watch, I doubt I'll ever go back and replay this game. People love that games are becoming more like shows and movies but to me this defeats the purpose of a "game".
That's why I like games like dark souls, it's just game, no cutscene at all, if I want to watch a movie I do it, but I'm holding a controller.
@@wul3391 Exact same reason I love Souls games and the others (like Elden Ring, Bloodborne, Sekiro, Nioh, Lies of P...) because it's 99% gameplay.
Man this is one of those things that doesn’t get talked about enough. I wanted to replay ragnarok but thought of that boring ass 40 minute ironwood part or even recently Spider-Man 2 where I have to play boring mj parts
@@zaiasm2305 Lol that's exactly it! I think we need to get away from cinematic stories in games. All the games I can think of that I loved the stories in, I don't replay. All the games I loved the gameplay in, I constantly go back to. Mario games are the most basic bare bones story you could ever have in a game but they're always a blast to replay.
Elden Ring was a major eye opener for me and made me realize that I can feel like I'm on an adventure without any characters stopping me for 20 minutes to flood me with exposition or ask me to gather 10 chickens for them, dropping a pin on my map flooded with 500 other side quests.
@@joelociraptorgaming80 Look I love Elden Ring as much as the next guy, but we have different genres for a reason. You can enjoy a nonstop action game like souls-like games, while also understanding someone else's enjoyment with a more theatric game like God of War (Norse), TLOU, or Uncharted. And when I say theatric I dont mean you watched more than you played because thats just wrong. All 3 of these have some frankly incredible action sequences. But hey Elden ring is a top 5ish game of all time for me, so Im not discounting what it does so well. Just that both sides can cooexist respectfully, and that not everyone has the same taste in gaming as you, or else we would just stick to one genre globally. Baldurs gate 3 is very cinematic, but has some of the best replayability to ever touch a game. I just dont really agree with the point your making as a whole. As always this is just my personal take on this, so take it as you will.
Watch as Gamers now do a complete 180 and slam this game as woke without mentioning you. Even without knowing SBI worked on it the propaganda was obvious. But it was easier to slander you than see the game for what it was.
nah I'm going on a fucking victory lap mentioning him by name and mentioning this as the reason I never watched efap again. Fuck that shit.
No one is making a 180 retard
No wonder I didn't like this game. I only completed it once and iron wood and the boring lame plot is the reason I just don't want to replay it 😞
lmao no. synthetic man is not going to ignite some kind of movement. almost all of his points were brain dead. dude complains about the game being hard but when he pulls up the level up ability tab hes sitting on like 15k xp...yea bro you are gonna struggle when you are meant to be buying abilities and upgrades and havent done so in the past 10 hrs.
owh my, some woke group show support to a game, that game have to be bad then.
here some easy logic, i as a lgbt people, support you @Sound557, and now you probably thinking that you deserve to be jailed and punished.
>Old God of War
Brutalizing haughty Greek gods with a huge sense of scale
>Nu God of War
PG-13 Marvel tier quipping and melodrama
@@frogglen6350 GoW3 was easily the worst of the original trilogy. Still better than the new games though
@@frogglen6350 .......you know how long you babysit her for? 25-30 mins tops lol compared to 22 plus the 2018 25 hours with Atreus which is an annoying character. Gow 3 is easily the best of the original trilogy
The hell are you smoking?
It is still a god of war, but it would be better as an +16 game.
Sony fanboys are going to threaten this man life for decades.
Sonyggers
@@SeathLorkencrain Cry
The funniest thing is Synthetic Man is more of a Sony fan than these Sony fan boys ever are, I remember in one of his videos he said "all these Sony fan boys are only Sony fan boys because they bought into the hype of the PS4 but had a Xbox 360 and thought the Ps3 was trash" Sony fan boys aren't Sony fans, they are called "Normies"
@@SeathLorkencrain how about you attract some bitches instead
@@SeathLorkencrain seriously lol
The game is utter garbage. Also why do literal Gods speak with the vocabulary of American children having a street argument? Also it's waaaay to lighthearted and soft, Nordic religion is very grim. It all just doesn't feel right.
Because atreus exist that were alot of the light harded stuff come in
They don't even sound American you have terrible ears
This is one of the dumbest complaints I’ve seen for this game.
If this was supposed to be lore accurate they wouldn’t be speaking English at all. Same goes for the old games. Clearly this is done for storytelling reasons. Jesus Christ.
@@mr.l5783 Do you know how to read? I never said it had to be a 1 to 1 copy, i never said English was a problem. I said it was too lighthearted and WHAT IS THIS VOCABULARY? Play any Legacy of Kain game after this trash and understand what mature English is.
Also why is the complaint that the game about a literal GOD OF WAR is too lighthearted, one of the dumbest complaints?
What do you expect from a game called God of WAR? A 25 hour long parenting/friendship simulator?
@@mr.l5783OP has to be autistic.
Alana Pierce definitely wrote the "BOW BEFORE YOUR IMMUNOCOMPROMISED CAT MOM QUEEN!". Line😂
You didn’t kill the boar in the first game. You clearly weren’t paying attention during the first game cause you were helping to heal him after you shoot him.
He probably fell asleep midway through the walking simulator of war cant be mad at him for it
@@miceatah9359 ah yes the story suck because of my brain does not catch it. dude literally admiting he is not smart. what are we doing again? reviewing a game that you did not play?
Exactly. This is not rocket science😭
@Chandler Burse this dude is just a miserable human being. He doesn't even want good new games to be made because that won't fit his narrative. He's just an edgelord who thinks being contrarian makes him better than everyone else.
@Chandler Burse he wants every new game to be shit so he's proven right and because of that he doesn't give anything a fair chance. He cries and wines about the smallest shit. I'm sorry but if all you can find is negatives about this game and elden ring you're just not being genuine. Then you look at some of the outdated games he considers masterpieces and it's obvious he's full of shit. Don't get me started on the fact that he's also a shitty person.
Mimir literally says "If he ( Odin ) says snow is white, he is lying". To me this line, is one of the best lines in the game.
That's part of the problem, everybody constantly talks about how bad Odin is, but the first time we actually see him doing something bad is closer to the end when he treats Thor in a very abusive way in the library, and then when he kills Thor and starts fighting. It's bad writing when everybody talks about something but it's almost not shown.
@@AntoshaPushkin I disagree. God of War 2018 was heavily building up on all the bad deeds that odin was doing. But you can only see it when you do the side quests and go see the Jotnar shrines. Also Odin is a master in deceiving others with his smile. Just like a psychopath. And again you don't have to overtly show the badness by abusing and killing someone. The Giants are dead because of Odin. The Sfartlfheim is in a very bad shape because of Odin. There are so many other examples that directly and indirectly indicate his evil behavior.
@@AntoshaPushkin God of War 2018 is littered with stories about how Odin is evil - the ending literally shows the results of his genocide of the Giants. When we actually meet him in game he isn’t any better. He supposedly arrives for a peaceful talk with Kratos but first brings his maniac son to intimidate us, then the moment Kratos calmly refuses he orders Thor to beat us - not a good first impression.
@@CSSoda we are told that Odin did it. We are shown some results of doing bad things that could be done by Odin, or maybe by somebody else. Let me give you an analogy. Imagine if Scarface was about a lot of people constantly talking how Tony is crazy evil maniac who sells drugs and kills people, but all you see on screen is a guy just doing his taxes and walking around his house, and at the very end kills one person. It would look ridiculous and stupid, how is he this evil guy everybody was talking about and all we see is one murder? That's how Odin looks like.
@@saltrxn you must be bad at comprehending text. That's literally the problem I named. We _hear_ stories of Odin being bad, from some third parties who might not even be fully truthful, and then we see a somewhat paranoid and obsessed grandpa, that doesn't look half as evil as he is described. This is bad writing, and the antagonist looks overhyped and absolutely underwhelming
GoW was already dead after 3
In some ways your dead right
The juxtaposition of god of war 3 footage over the worthless freyjr freya drama scene is perfection.
Perfection in a complete lack of comprehension of both scenes and their purpose. But if you think Freyr and Freya reuniting was worthless I guess you have a poor understanding of these characters and the story anyways.
@@robinanwaldtcope
@@DefonotMax Trust me, I’m not the one coping here😂
@@DefonotMax I'm sure that adds a lot to the conversation and is totally not a waste of time.
Cope
We can't have gore in games anymore but we have no problem implementing Casino gambling mechanics
Lmao true. Madness project Nexus 2 heavily censored on youtube? Yes
But at the same time videos promoting gambling or scamming? Blind eye
I guess you missed Mortal Kombat 11
@@Kickinthescience You mean that one game series, that would literally die immediately if they got rid of the gore? That is your point about gore still being shown in video games(plural)? Are you actually underage or just naturally stupid?
@@Kickinthescience 1 game
Can't have weak westerners panicking with their poor MUH MENTAL HEALTH lol gore scares these weak saps
OG GOW >>>>>> 2018/Ragnarok
Indeed best is gow 3
The meme of "Generic over the shoulder action game"
Like ALL other Sony games these days
@@joaoffandre all sonys games are completely different, just becuase its third person dosent mean they are the same.
just say you cant play them and your upset about it.
@@Setogayamari I can't play them and I'm upset at how the Over the Shoulder doesn't work for this game. a first person shooter? yes it works... but with something like god of war it doesn't.
What the old games did was better because you could see what your doing how the camera was further away, in 2018 and ragnarok you can't see what your doing and it gets worse when you hit a corner and Kratos's body is taking up you're entire screen
@@wadahelboiwadahelboi9408 my guy if your having trouble with the third person camera that is a you issue.
Many games do it, not an issue unless it's something you personally aren't very good at.
Which is fine, but that's not the games problem
@@Setogayamari Can you name a game that uses close up over the shoulder 3rd person that isn't a fps game?
Real thinking men understand how trash Nu-God of War is.
Dude foreal man, every badass male protagonist is getting soy. It's ridiculous.
@@koichitrump4147 soy is when man no act like animal
@@koichitrump4147 Kratos is still badass what are you on about?
Well, call me the biggest retard on the planet
@@jordannavarro2445he was about to get killed by a random (feminist) witch.
Also, he is too afraid to brutalize women, apparently (I KNEW he would never brutalize any in this game, after I've finished the previous one).
He can't hold his soy son in place; acts like a helpless father with no strong presence.
Best part is how people keep acting like he’s wrong when Sweet Baby inc themselves worked on this game...
That alone makes it not a great game in of itself.
They clearly must have not had a huge part. Probably just Angrbodas skin, thats about it
@@Brandon-bc5um this video alone points out like five other things that they DEFINITELY had a hand in bud...
@@Brandon-bc5ummost people like you are so poisoned by woke propaganda you can’t even see it.
@StoneJenk most people like you are poisend by right wing white suprematist propaganda.
@@Brandon-bc5um Bro, the entire game is infested whit woke crap.
Freya itself is a walking proof of that.
Honestly are we really believeing that moron can fight Kratos?
I've always said I'd happily take games with hours of normal cutscenes like the old MGS or Yakuza games than these ones with hours of holding forward. At least when it's normal cutscenes you can just set your controller down and enjoy it
100% agree I fucking hate just holding forward god damn it it sucks so much.
Yes, I agree with this so much.
For some reason game developers think that holding the forward button helps active engagement or something like that. I agree though; why can’t I just put my controller down and watch the scene, or if I decide it’s not important, walk away and come back in a minute?
AND you can skip them for your extra playthroughs.
Agreed, walking simulators are terrible
My favorite part is when angraboda reveals her secret is "I'm always angra" truly an enlightening experience
And then she morbed into Boda. And ya I'm a Raykin and I'm gonna eat your weed.
That was truly the moment that brodangra became heisenbunger.
I geniuely hate how soft and gullible Kratos has become. Im not asking him to be the exact same as he was before, but in 2 games we havent even seen him lose his cool. Yet if I bring any of this up Im just "stuck in the past and cant accept character devolopment.
Im also tired of them villianizing Kratos for Greece, as if all the gods werent evil, corrupt, sadistic, and literally tricked him into killing his own family. Guess he should have just said "thats a shame"
Kratos doesn’t wish to bring violence anymore. He literally turned Greece into a wasteland after killing all the gods. He brought more suffrage to innocents and killed innocents intentionally
@@thebobbaconsshow1685no that's not true. The mortals of greece always revered kratos as a hero.
"We haven't seen him lost his cool" did you and I play different games bro? In ragnarok, when thor tells kratos that odin has plans for atreus, he becomes pissed off and knocks a tooth from thors jaw, and then thor says "theres the god of war", and the second time is when heimdall threatens to kill atreus in the heimdall boss fight, and kratos eventually chokes him to death, and is called a monster by heimdall, which was his last word, even mimir is in shock of the way heimdall was killed. Kratos has definitely changed, but a part of him is still violent and chaotic, but this time that side only shows when someone threatens someone he cares about
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I play a 7/10 game like this while people praise it as a masterpiece.
god imagine knowing what an opinion is, some people consider this guy to give good reviews when in reality he’s bland and lacks critical thinking, does it make some sorta sense now?
@@artfulsparton7642yes it does
You’re taking crazy pills
@@SHMidlerPlaysngl Synthetic man is the prime of example of a gamer consumed by politics
@@CloverCryptic agreed
I wonder if there's a major story reason as to why Kratos would never dare to physically harm his child
Yea I really wonder why /s
Or why he wouldnt trust a promise from another god, really weird
all reasons (including spoilers):
killed his wife and daughter
killed a pantheon
lost pandora
loves his son
kratos is a good dad.
Also, hitting a child during an argument, exchange of words, sets an amazing example on how to deal with differences in opinions of other people, nothing as convincing as a good smack in the face, truly inspired idea.
@@marwandive1571 don't forget his mother
To be fair, Freya actually is the Queen of the Valkyrie’s in Norse Mythology lol
@Good For Nutting Bad take
@Good For Nutting Yeah, the fact that it was'nt explained in the story is really dumb. Except it was.. But at the very least your point still stands because she didn't even try to restore her fighting spirit and just remained a housewife. Except she did..
@@DP-wf8ws I mean they mentioned it before in the last game after you beat it
She's also the goddess of beauty, yet her beauty and femineity is zero.
Yo be fair Kratos fucking murdered Zeus, and every other god he’s ever fought has gotten killed or wish they had
Odin offers peace*
Kratos has flashbacks of Zeus at the beginning of GOW 2*
Kratos is now the God of Soy 😭☠️
They ruined him completely to me I mean what were they thinking making him a "good guy" more human like, the old "wise" man idk who that swole old man in the gane is but it sure as hell ain't kratos
After 20 years DSP somehow still makes his way into gaming history, what a timeline.
Well duh he did nothing wrong and did everything correct ^_^
My grandma plays better than DSP.
@@Myth_or_Mystery76 Your point?
Where is the hate from DSP even from?
@@AlternateKek his grandma pro
“Kratos would never talk to Zeus” that is exactly what happens at the start of GOW 3
He monologues and whips out his blades with the intention of murdering Zeus. He didn’t stand there and have a conversation with Zeus unlike Odin. He had no intention of murdering Odin and instead opted to threaten him unlike Zeus whom he was bloodlust to and determined to see suffer until the end of time. Don’t take the cutscenes out of context, everyone who’s played the first 3 God of War games know for a fact that Zeus and Odin were different beasts to Kratos entirely.
ZEEWWS
He screamed at and mocked Zeus, he didn't have a conversation with the dick
@@dirtyfighters7751 I mean the first words exchanged was kratos asking Zeus what will he do. Yeah he wanted to kill him but he always had the basic respect of acknowledging him as his father
@@GiveGodCredit LOL, he legit asked ‘What will you do father? You can no longer hide behind the skirts of Athena.’ That’s not a genuine conversation, that’s a sarcastic remark used to mock and/or provoke Zeus into combat with him. Like I said before, the conversations aren’t the same at all.
Crazy how they did it again but with spiderman 2
SM2 is fun af Fook you for typing that!
@@arkkrogue3870 story is doodoo wasnt talking abt the gameplay idiot
@@arkkrogue3870cope harder sony cuck
Remember when God of War was unapologetic badassery?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
@@LadtheMadbro his wife calls him a "good boy" fucking Kratos, this is why i pirate everythinh
"[Odin] sounds like a snake oil salesman"
Rofl the funniest part is that its true
None of the Berserker fights are mandatory. Yes, that first one is directly along the path of the main story but you can skip it.
The one he showed wasn't even the first one
@@dressboy5 its almost like he purposely does that to increase engagement in the comments. Lol I hate this new youtube where people tell you how bad something is without knowing anything about what they're talking about.
@@Whatacomedian_ You have the be the most braindead follower in this entire comment section. You literally think everyone you disagree with just "listened and believed". This is like the old insult where millenials cry "you just heard that from Fox News" anytime they disagree with anything. Hey maybe other people played the game too and came to the same conclusion. Maybe everyone you disagree with wasnt brainwashed and actually feels that way too. You arent a special snowflake.
@@AlternateKek youre like a fox news bot or something because I have no clue about anything youre talking about. 😂 all those codewords a brainwashed half wit would repeat online😂😂😂
@@Whatacomedian_ You don't even have the reading comphrension to understand what I said and you think common words are "code phrases". This is how utterly lobotmized you are.
My biggest gripe is the Atreus sections. I want to play as KRATOS AKA THE CHARACTER IVE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS Whole FRANCHISE. Kratos legit feels sidelined for half the game
Probably setting up artreus as the MC going forward. Agreed tho
I hate how he only has a bow as a melee weapon. When I got the sword in Asgard I was hyped, just to find out it was reduced to the square button with a cooldown.
Would've been better to set up artreus as MC in next game. By trying to do both they kinda failed with both rather than mastering one
The atreus parts were so fucking boring I quit the game so many times out of boredom
People when a game decides to tell a story instead of constant violence and button mashing:
My biggest issue with modern GOW is the stripping of the mature content. Its some kind of wholesome family experience now lol.
The first berserker isn’t mandatory. You are able to just walk right passed it and go to the gateway.
This is true, it is not mandatory.
I also played on hard (one level above balanced) and I managed to killed this boss because I had Lunda's armor upgraded and high luck stat. With that armor you should frequently use fists until you apply poison, because two set bonus from that armor gives +40% melee damage on poisoned target. I know people usually don't like fist fight playstyle, so they tend to avoid this armor, but it is really OP. Especially on 1v1 boss fights.
Classic Kratos
Yeah, that's a legitimate mistake I made in the video. My brain was fried from the stream and the fight is placed directly in front of you with both characters commenting on it so I assumed it was mandatory. Doesn't take away from my other criticisms of the fight though, considering the difficulty spike and simplistic moveset of the boss.
There was a berserker at the start? XD
@@SyntheticMan your wrong its pretty good I am fine if you saying it's not master pieces but it not bad I don't understand why you hate everything anyway my question is what is woke about it ?
Freya couldn't get to kratos because of the protection around his house, you played the game you know it
Most of these points just sounds like he didn’t actually pay attention and spent his energy being annoyed and picking at it.
@@JamesEatWorld7758fr a lot of these “complaints” are really just him not understanding a thing about the game. How ever I will agree the iron woods part of the game does suck
@@sentinelslayer8328 ironwoods was definitely needed as a break from heavy combat and pacing in alfheim. I welcomed it. It also gave a chance to expand on the lore.
@@TheZachary86 the walking between combat and boat rides were more than enough time between the fights of the game and the iron woods took way to long to complete and I was sprinting through the entire thing
@@sentinelslayer8328 Personally I think iron wood could be fixed if they went looking for apples, ran into the he grandmother then a angroboda gave Loki the marbles therefore cutting off about 30-45 minutes
As always, Synth Man is ALWAYS right.
I love how it has been proven that this game was woke as fuck and people pretend like Synth Man didn't do a solo war against Internet for daring to not blindly praise this garbage game.
woke of war
or
god of woke?
Woke of Woke
LMAO
Cuck of War - Uses his wife axe, Babysitting his stupid son, No Sexminigames, No nudity, No brutality, Kratos is a yes man to all idiots, Odin is a soyclown, Thor is an obese loser, POCs in Nordic mythos. Piss poor writing.
I wouldn't call it woke but its definetely boring.
God of Mid
Kratos basically became Aang from the Last Airbender in Ragnorok. Mastered all 4 elements (Rage mode is earth). Then, he refused to kill the final boss. They did explain fimbul winter destroyed their gear.
Ok
It's lame either way
The Ouroborous stretches things far less when he's eating himself, how does this even make sense?
Also they gave a reason that the spears could hurt Heimdall, it’s the reason they used that special ring to forge it, It’s supposed to “overload” his senses with the infinite spears but obviously that would be hard to translate to gameplay.
U got it wrong lmao
@@currentstatus5748 still to overload his senses
Didn't really seem like it overloaded his senses. He can clearly see Kratos throwing it. He's not blind.
@@Nightbanekaizer he couldn’t react that’s the point
@@EZW_Riptide I could've reacted to that. The concept of the spear was rather simple.
Bloodborne is the only Sony exclusive I care about.
It's Soo good
I brought my ps4 for Bloodborne. Infact Bloodborne is one of the only ps4 games i brought the game disk and not just downloaded an FPKG
nah dude, bloodborne have eileen. its straigt up woke garbage shit.
@@Kostte-zp6he how is it woke?
@@JosephVice idk man, it have strong woman i guess. half of these commenter complain about strong woman.
Kratos is emasculated because he didn't beat his son. What a take.
This is the ESG-farming, corporation-designated GOTY game for 2022, I'm not expecting youtube to play fair with this upload either...
"ESG-Farming" i love that im gonna use it from now on
@@gsc8713 hope you give A chair some reference
Its really not even a GOTY contender.
@@domehammer it is though
@@domehammercope lil man
what ? he refused Odins offer because Mimir has told Kratos how much of a manipulative person he is 😭
He even told him that also in Gow 2018
He could've accepted and then just went off with atreus to find tyr.
@@MrBigB he didnt know anything about tyr in that moment. He only knew that atreus had been looking for him.
@@MrBigB what would him accepting actually have changed? Thor still would have come after him.
@@thirteen_candles9806do you know what a peace treaty is
This was not God of War. This was marvel-drivel bullshit where characters such as Kratos don't belong. But here we are. I hope Sony leaves this character now alone.
Thankfully, they don’t listen to tonedeaf people like you. What is "marvel-drivel bullshit" even supposed to be?
Wow, they designed their game for lowest common denominator, interesting. I didn’t know that
One thing I'll say though, the reason Atreus turns into animals is because he's Loki. Loki from the ancient Norse myths was a shapeshifter who could turn into practically everything, so saying they "made him a furry" is a joke, sure, but not really a legit "criticism". Loki could always turn into animals.
In my opinion Kratos was considering Odin’s offer of peace right up until he offered to keep Freya from coming after him. He knows that the only way for that to happen would be Odin killing her or worse. That coupled with the fact that Kratos has learned not to make deals with gods makes it perfectly reasonable to say no.
Synthetic man is and always has been an absolute idiot. He never thinks about any of these things he just doesn’t like that kratos grew a beard and manned up a bit.
🤡
@@akadvcyoubeezy6748 funny thing is your the clown
Well he could have just said “I accept peace, also, I don’t need you to kill Freya”, it’s not like him killing Freya was a prerequisite for peace anyway, he just said it as an added bonus for kratos to consider peace so he would have been okay if kratos chose peace regardless.
@Chandler Burse so instead he basically chose war, then spends the whole game talking about how he doesn’t want war. Also he had 2 powerful gods in his house with his weak son, nobody is saying he should trust Odin but for the sake of protecting his son he realistically should have chosen peace, what would have happened if Thor and Odin ganged up on him at that moment or if Odin killed Atreus while Thor was whooping his ass? Those are outcomes that would realistically have happened the moment Kratos decided to not choose peace.
The game is more like The Last of Us 2 than it is a God of War game. Put this next to the original few games and the only thing that is similar is Kratos name and his white and red painted look.
From destroyer of pantheons to daddy simulator.
@@WakeUpToReality... its almost like that's the point 🤔
@@madfrog7913 No, it really shouldn't be. That's my point.
@@WakeUpToReality... They made it clear that Kratos was trying to be a peaceful family man in the 2018 game. Not only does it keep the narrative fresh, it doesn't come out of thin air either - even in the original Greek games, Kratos shows underlying tenderness for family (Deimos, his original wife and child, Ares' son, and Pandora), and the games going as far back as the OG god of war shows that Kratos' rage is self deatructive. After centuries of wandering, knowing that his completed vengeance gave him nothing in the end, it isn't unbelievable that he would finally be mellowed after getting another chance at family.
@@obligatoryusername7239 The point of his character is that he is cursed to never find peace & walk a path of vengeance. It's why the blades of chaos never leave him even after killing Zues.
These new games had no real sense of danger for Kratos or Atreus. No real expectation that either of them will die or some other event that will push Kratos back unto a new path of vengeance. It feels very safe in it's storytelling & has clear "woke" undertones & "subversions of expectation." that ruin it as well.
Now that the longman fans have all settled and the honeymoon phase has finally ended for this game, people are starting to realize that it aint a perfect sequel. Story wise it's pretty flawed and sweetbaby inc is to blame for a lot of this.😊
32:16 "you just can't admit it because you don't wanna be called racist"
.....What? You've lost me here, where is this logic coming from?
@Chandler Burse Yea I don't get it either. People are saying "it doesn't make sense for their to be black people in Nordic mythology" they're going based on irl logic but this is a videogame about God's and immortals. Their depictions or designs can change based off of artistic visions. Whatever the designer thinks looks best is what determines the design
People are so against "wokeness" and "sjws" that they become what they hate. Overly sensitive people calling out "injustices" or whatever they perceive to be "injustices" from every simple situation. It's lame honestly
@Chandler Burse Like reverse any of his points and he'd be the first one to shout it's dumb
Replace "He turns into a random black guy!" With someone saying "He turns into a random white guy!" He'd say they're pulling the race card
Replace "Freya is only there to serve as feminist character" to something like "Kratos is only there for toxic masculinity"
They'd make fun of that but it's different when they do it, it's dumb
@@P4PmmaFan Not one character in the past decade has turned into a white guy - It's only white people that get race swapped - straight white males..... Every single time. No exceptions to the rule.
It's anti Caucasian propaganda & it's getting old. .... "Artistic vision"??!! .... It's a bunch of blue haired crackpots going off the deep end with self indulgence.
..... The game was made in California.
What else do you need to know?
@@chandlerburse2754 You two sure are blowing each other awfully hard in this thread. Get a room. Echo chamber much? You two clowns would be soaking wet puddles of tears if they swapped immortals/black gods into white guys. Get a clue and a braincell.
@@P4PmmaFan You two sure are blowing each other awfully hard in this thread. Get a room. Echo chamber much? You two clowns would be soaking wet puddles of tears if they swapped immortals/black gods into white guys. Get a clue and a braincell.
They literally explain why Kratos can't call upon his ridiculously OP god powers in one of the ambient boat dialogues. When Mimir asked Kratos if he could conjure up any of that Magick from his homeland, Kratos says that he's tried and can't. Freya goes on to say that a lot of Magick is tied to the land in which it was originated, but Kratos pretty much destroyed Greece in God of War 3 and therefore cut his connection to its Magick powers. The Blades of Chaos are an exception because they were made directly using Primordial fire, as is implied by Surtr going "Yeah... there's Primordial fire in those". The Primordials and their Magick seem to be the progenitor of all Earthly created powers, but only as a basic start. That power can be cut off if the land it came from is destroyed. The Blades of Chaos are for all intents and purposes, a Primordial weapon and therefore require another Primordial weapon to match it.
Something you guys can't understand is that explaining something in a flat exposition-only scene is really basic, boring structure.
@@ShellShockerSporanox okay but a lot of the explanations done this way are *nice to haves*.
It's a damn videogame, and plenty of videogames don't even bother with these small explanations
@@ShellShockerSporanox stu kid, comeback when you find your brain
@@venividivici6738 Maybe the dude who can't even explain the concepts I'm talking about shouldn't be telling people to find their brains. Bruh?
@@ShellShockerSporanox is that what you tell yourself to feel smart bruh? Your simping for a low life nostalgia addict CZcamsr bruh, not even a brain could save you from your current predicament🤣🤣🤣
Bruh
This video made me want to replay the original trilogy after all those years and maaaan, those games are still awesome. I can remember every section of those games, I barely remember anything from the 2018 GOW besides a lot of snowy forests.
2018 was great just finished it for the first time...and yeah lacks some of the charm of the older games but its fun...8-9/10 for me
They were fantastic
Just pure brutality and rage with pure fun
The giant boss battles to the random hordes of enemies
Such a difference
I never finished the last game, didnt bother playing this one even for free
I dont have the patience for mindless backtracking and time wasting
If you are going to do open world do open world
Otherwise make Days Gone or RDR
@@NickReilly-iv6jg Ditto. I don’t understand how they went from the OGT to GoW to GoW: Ragnarök. Ragnarök was a snooze fest.
@@NickReilly-iv6jgwhere 2018 felt fresh and like SSM went out of their comfort zone to take the series in a completely different direction, Ragnarok felt way too safe and didn't take many risks, and the one risk they DID take was not giving you Mjolnir. At least you get the draupnir spear which is just as good though. The most atrocious part has to be the actual Ragnarok part. It felt so rushed and anticlimactic, like how tf are you gonna make the boring Atreus section longer than the actual fucking climax that the entire game is NAMED AFTER? It was so incredibly disappointing to also see Thor just get instakilled by Odin RIGHT when he turns his life around and stands up to Odin for once. Would've been awesome if the final battle had you and Thor fight Odin with Freya and Atreus come in to help later, which they absolutely could've implemented given Thor being a companion for a couple Atreus sections.
@@NickReilly-iv6jg Sony was still taking risks and making good games back in 2018, not to mention they weren't completely overrun by the ESG diversity hires.
Holy shit. I was going to play this game, but not now. They did Odin DIIIIIIIIRTY!! Why'd they make him such a weak, sniveling old bastard? He's supposed to a wise, stoic warrior. They just have to shit all over anything European.
This is the same franchise that made Hades a generic devil boss, if you wanted accurate representation read the poetic edda.
Are you GENUINELY lobotomized? If you look at the previous GOW games they took a lot of creative liberties on the Greek gods and mythology lol. There are plenty of videos out there pointing out the inaccuracies of the Greek trilogy
Biggest miss from this story was how little Thor and Odin were in
Yea no shit. I wanted more Thor. A lot more. And why did the collectors edition come with Thor’s hammer?! He was hardly in the game.
Lmao are you kidding. They were in there quite a lot
@@Dusterdimmu81 Thor was literally like in half the story mode man you guys are retards
Definitely wish they were in it more but the game was still incredible
@@Dusterdimmu81 the fact that his hammer was in the collectors edition really made me believe we get to kill thor and take his weapon. I was pretty let down when I realised it aint gonna happen
My only problem with the game is that everything after Brok’s death feels very rushed. The mission where you save Freyr is a cinematic walk to a boss fight, a cinematic walk to another fight, and then a cutscene till the mission is done. Surtr’s mission is a cinematic walk to an npc (granted this level actually had collectibles), and then a boss fight and done. In that time all the armies were gathered. And then Ragnarok was only one mission and it ended far too quick for my taste. It’s not enough to ruin the story for me because the character writing/progression was still incredible but the finale really left me wanting, and I honestly would’ve loved a GOW3 styled sequel where Ragnarok took place through the whole game, or at least a larger portion of it.
I agree tremendously I feel like Ragnarok should of been 2-3 hours alone and should have been a bigger spectacle a lot of parts in this game have pacing issues but that’s what comes with trying to stuff 2 games into 1
The issue you highlightlighted comes down to Santa Monica not wanting to have a norse trilogy. To me this game feels like what would happen if you took gow2 and 3 together but you take everything that happens in 3 and shrink it drastically.
The whole intention was to make a trilogy of games. The problem was supposedly because it was simply taking too long so they crammed everything into one game and it shows
Definitely felt like they ran out of budget near the end because for me ragnarok was the easiest part of the game where like 3-4 einhenjar fight you(not even captains)at a time till you reach thrud and thor just chucks you to the great lodge
I also find it weird that while he was still tyr he did not go for any important god and went for brok instead like seriously freya or freyr were good picks to kill with his spear which he seemingly materialised against thor to kill him
I enjoyed the game but the ending was uhh underwhelming to say the least I enjoyed the baldur final fight then thor and odin combined cause baldur had more spectacle and emotions to me
I think they skipped the whole peace talks and army gathering because it would be kinda boring to watch and hard to make, imagine that, Brok just died and now we have to go to all the realms again to try to gather an army, Kratos doing a bunch of Ted talks on how bad Odin is, plus a bunch of favour missions, having to introduce a dozen new characters no one cares about... They just went like: "Guys... we know you don't want to see it, and we hardly want to write it either so let's just say, Mimir convinced the dead people, Freyr convinced the elf people, and Sindri convinced the small people; And everybody lived happily ever after". But I agree the invasion of Asgard was very underwhelming, compare that to Kratos invading Olimpus with an army of titans or the end battle with the whole world burning on fire. Shit at the very least I wanted to mount on top of Ragnarock and see him climbing that goddamn wall like some attack on titan shit.
Why can I remember all the bosses in gow 3 but the 2 newest gow releases i can barely remember anything
gow 2018 the stranger
the dragon
the darkelf
Modi and Magni
the troll of Hel
Baldur
and like 20 trolls and 15 stone creatures
also the Valkryes 8 plus the queen i think
@@Morfe02 Baldur fights were the only cool ones imo. The dragon fight was cool too
It's okay that even many people who enjoyed and call this game a masterpiece barely remember the boss in the new Gow but personally I like Baldur and thor
@@kuro8151I loved every one of the Valkyrie fights even when they kicked my ass. the OST also carries me through those fights. and Baldur is the best fights in the newer ones cause that's probably where the most effort went into
Fun Gameplay over telling a Subpar story that disguises itself as a masterpiece and having the best graphics and accessibility
Games like God of war and the last of us bore me to tears. Tired, predictable, and bloated. The stories people consider masterpieces blow my mind.
@Kiryu eat a bowl of these
I’m starting to think 90% of you would die for this game. You can enjoy something while also giving it fair criticism. This was far from a masterpiece regardless of whether or not you choose to accept it.
I don't own a playstation but couldn't help myself and watched a walkthrough. Ragnarok was so rushed. Clearly smushed 2 games into 1 to rush it
If those are your own opinions then fine, just don't listen to Synthetic Man, he dosent know what hes talking about.
Would argue a lot of what hes saying isnt fair criticism, just sounds like somebody who hates life. and hell even I thought God of War Ragnarok had a ton of problems.
@@sebbo59 pray tell ?
@@carpathianhermit7228 He's a reactionary biased person who ironically injects his own politics into games. There.
The ULTIMATE GIGA CHAD turns into the BETA DADDY.
Weirdo
For fuck sake what have they done with kratos listen I'm all for positivity but this is a fucking game ok and this shit isn't kratos the sparta or whatever the hell he used to be he's become soft and boring why did they try to make him realistic
anyone who says chad or sigma omega beta all that bullshit does not go outside and daydreams about being the centre of attention
@@wiZrd0ne Okay then...
@@CoolguyinAngolabro please fix your skin color
Why lots of Sony games turn into over-shoulder game,
it actually make me feel every games are the same game just like UBISOFT's games.
It's because companies try to fulfill a trend quota of what's popular in markets rather than try to make something that's actually unique or fun.
In the age of deceit, truth will anger most people. Thank you for this review.
conformity for homogenising games is a cancer in gaming
This is the corniest thing I've ever heard 😭
@@JayPrakash-th4rd The truth is oftentimes stranger than fiction as well...FAX!
Like today in the face of woke ideologies
Jesus Christ that was damn lame.
6:18 -> None of the Berserker Fights are Mandatory, they are just optional content and are part of the "Fit for a King" sidequest.
Except they're all pretty straightforward except for the shitty developers design on the king -Holy FUCK, ridiculously OP, doesn't fit the gameplay whatsoever. Because of that, I tell everyone not to buy this shit. Fuck the studio, I hope they eat shit
@@wardencobb7442 🤣 you are ass he's easily than sigrun bruh
@@wardencobb7442 no wonder you god of soyboys hate Elden Ring haha you can’t even beat your own bosses, maybe turn the difficulty down?
@@pliskin5161 dude didn’t say he couldn’t beat them. He just said they weren’t mandatory. Calm down.
@@pliskin5161 i didnt know there were people like you who cared that much about the game of the year award
Tell me idk about any mythology without telling me you dont know anything about any mythology .
Who ever thought a close up camera like that is a good idea needs to be slapped out of the industry.
"and this mandatory berserker with way too much health" berserkers aren't mandatory and you gotta get a build going for strength if you want damage
Ign: 3/10 do hard enemys
A build? Son, this is not Baldurs Gate, what build? You can not fuck up some kind of build in these GoW games.... what are you talking about? Talking like there were some deep RPG mechanics in place made laugh, so... thanks for that
@@volkerputtmann5443 nice job totally missing the point lol. There are indeed builds as long as there are diferent armor sets with different effects
@@volkerputtmann5443 clearly you haven't played the two new god of war games if your talking like that. Or you trolling.
You can do builds with the armor stats and amulets/relics.
The stats means everything in god of war ragnarok as it does in god of war 2018.
@bastiat bro if its possible to beat things on lvl 1 gmgow+ then the builds only matter if you dont want to suffer
kratos said the reason himself, he denied odin because he no longer been manipulated by any gods, and more importantly, odin offered "peace" by killing freya, which is unacceptable
and yet he still refused to fight and kill odin.
it's a choice of choosing between a rock and a hard place for sure, but he choose to do neither and sit in the middle.
Oh who gives a good God damn ... You people are missing the point - This game is an SJW wet fart ... It's a pathetic joke.
@@ishitrealbad3039 I think the fault is on last game's post credit scene, the dream that Thor came to find kratos and Atreus, it has become a limitation to the story and pacing
@@bradley4385 sure you don't give a fuck about Freya's life and death, If kratos accept the offer, that would be a total joke
@@huiyangduan8242 This is exactly what I'm talking about - You guys simply do not care about gameplay AT ALL.
"The cutscenes look neat - 10/10"
.... Game critics are completely useless to me nowadays - with approximately 2 exceptions.
29:30 Just so you know. Angrboda is supposed to be the palest (whitest) and most beautiful of the Gods.
Edit : I couldn't stand Freya whinging the whole time about killing Baldur. The writing is shit because if you had let him kill her in the first game, he would have turned on you again and you would have killed him without the bitch being there to complain and go on about her 'loss'.
Do you seriously not understand why a mother would be hurt by the death of her son?
@@krasmasov6852 Of course, but when your son is a maniac as a result of your actions, you have only yourself to blame.
@@aggravatedintrovert7074 Lol you can't say "of course" and then go on to completely ignore Freya's perspective.
@@krasmasov6852 She wanted her son not to die, she cursed him with an unfeeling immortality that drove him insane. He wanted her dead, he was in the process of killing her when Kratos saved her, so she hates Kratos and chases him like a psycho. It was her actions that led her there. She has only herself to blame. Just as Kratos has himself to blame for killing his wife and child originally.
As i then stated before, Had Kratos just watched, Baldur would have killed Freya, then tried to kill Kratos because he was a mentalcase so Kratos would have killed him and then we would have been rid of both twunts.
@@aggravatedintrovert7074 I'm so glad Kratos is a better person than you
The first berserker isn’t mandatory to continue the story, you can walk past it
Ha
That's hilarious
this guy isnt very bright
If my son was a furry, I wouldn't trust him either.
Disowning would be just
very based lmao
@@doomerwojak1504"based!"🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
How they turned the god of war series into a corny soap opera family melodrama fukin kills me.
Let's just forget that this soft-reboot ever existed and keep playing the real god of war games
This game is God of Disney!!
Cope
@@themusicplayershawn Bow to your queen!!!
Jesus christ! This comment section is full of whinny neckbeards that love being mad over anything that have women and minorities in it.
Synthetic Man. I 100% agree. This game is cringe woke garbage. Check out Odin in the History Channel series Vikings, he's nothing like this portrayal. You are are right, they were going to kill Kratos in this game. I'm told they didn't, because killing Joel from the last of us went over badly. It would have been more poetic for Kratos to have died, it would have been more meaningful for Odin to have killed Freyja. The Odin boss fight in this game is rather like the Pelias boss fight in Rise of The Argonauts, a good game by the way. Kratos is Freyja s cuck in this game, her puppet general and she is a warmongering harpy throughout the entire game.
You sounds just as bad as those woke SJWs, you know? Woke SJWs think that that everything is against females while anti SJWs think that everything is against males. Both are equally wrong and are trapped in opposing sides of extremities.
@@kevinclement1533 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
@@s.m.g.2166 Can you give a better reply instead of using a nerd emoji?
@@kevinclement1533 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
@@s.m.g.2166 Can't think of a better reply than that, eh?
These games are overrated normie food. I don’t get the fuss at all.
It’s goyslop for the soulless plebs
I agree - it's a typical type of work you serve to casuals who don't care wether they play a game or watch a movie, and whose taste in both types of entertainment and expectations, are rather generic.
@turbotrup96 what do you play then posh bastard?
@turbotrup96 you're an idiot. the game is good, you're just blinded by your own misguided pretentiousness. I have completed every Souls game multiple times both normally and on challenge runs like SL1, I have played some of the best hidden gems out there like Spec Ops The Line, Darkest Dungeon, Risk Of Rain 1 and 2, and many others, yet this game is still among the best I've played (obviously minus the whole angrboda section but it's only like 30 min and the ending of that arc is decent so who cares). You're coping so hard
Having the game titled ‘Ragnarok’ was one of the most misleading shit I've ever seen, a game named after an event that would take about only 50 minutes of the story and with those 50 minutes it proved to be an absolute failure to the hype. Not to mention that we spent almost the entire game in an attempt to prevent what the game title literally says. My god was the story a big mess.....
I agree with you, there wasn't grandeur to the end. Even Thor's fight at the beginning was average in my opinion. It's Thor, we've heard about him throughout the previous Game, we've heard of his vicious deeds, let's see it. Let's see the monster that he is. Let him bring Kratos' monstrous side out again and let them tear Midgard to pieces. Let Atreus and Odin be the ones to call Thor and Kratos to order, let us see the gore and destruction because 2 god's are duking it out. Consider Poseidon V Kratos, Hercules V Kratos etc. The spectacle. It's Ragnarok after all, so massive spectacle is expected.
@@femiogundipe767 Exactly. That was definitely not the THOR we've been eager to see.
@@femiogundipe767you saying that just shows you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. The whole point of kratos now is so that he DOESNT become the person he once was
Then you're an idiot they have to build up Ragnarok first dumbass but none of you know what good story telling us so I get why you're so braindead
Tf did u want them to do. Have this event Ragnarok be the entire game. You can’t really do that because Ragnarok is there to destroy Asgard right away
The first berserker isn’t mandatory lmao. Just one of many mistakes in this video
It's complete garbage. Kratos' story ended in 3.
I never played this shit cause sweet baby did some "representation" work on it so even if it was the best game ever made I wouldn't play it
2:12 not mysteriously, they say several times fimbulwinter tears everything down. It’s the reason his old armor isn’t available and you have to upgrade his old shield, axe, and blades
@@CIA871 it’s not stupid, it explains a lot and is consistent. Freya mentions herself that a lot of the spells Odin cast on her she was able to remove because of fimbulwinter, if it can affect spells it’ll affect gear and tools, it’s a good plot device that narratively makes sense
@@Doaxrocks I felt that the creators really nerfed the game to introduce newer players picking it up for the first time that it made the decision to have 'fimblewinter eroded my gear away as well my move sets'. Honestly made the beginning sequence of the game slower and forced considering you built all of your skill sets from the last game only to be stripped away because 'new game came, start fresh now'. Grinds my gears that they didnt bring in a mechanic to transfer save data to bring 2018 gow gear into 2022 just only gain enough xp or whatever to at least get it back into shape at the most. Like mass effect for example so at least the people who dedicate time into gow 2018 don't feel punished to lose their favorite gear and sets just for the plot told outside of the story.
@@Blood5kull you're talking as though this is unique to this game, this has been a factor is these games for decades, it allows progression and understanding of the mechanics. Last game came out in 2018, not everyone who's played that game is gonna remember all of the mechanics and the new ones. Otherwise, players are simply overwhelmed
@@dragonheart967 If it has been a factor, then why didn't they transfer data from 2018 to 2022 GOW like I insisted. Like I stated before, you can have the simple basic tutorial at the beginning of the game, just let the player keep the loot from last game we dedicated to and let it build up again. That way, it gives the incentive to play more GOW 2018 as well of 2022 for more progression and investment in game which I find a better means to replayability.
Also, yes, people would get overwhelmed learning the game with these mechanics, but that will only last at most 30 mins and get into the flow of things. Its just that simple case of picking up an old game you haven't played in a few years that you want to play again, but it will get back very quickly.
@@Blood5kull because that's what you want, that doesn't mean that transfers over well into practice. It's game design, dude, there's only so much before you make the game too convoluted. We have decades of games, successful and failures to learn from.
To be fair if you fight all the valkyries in the first game sigrun says she is filling in for Freya. Issue with that story line is you have to go out of your way to find it out and not a lot of people fight then. They’re hard as hell.
Yeah thats the part I disagree with the most saying how Freya parts are woke and are feminst like, I'm sorry there are better examples of those like She Hulk and the recent Saint Rows game. Its just I wish this was a trilogy to visually show Freya's history.
@@madfox1006 Yeah, if they were gonna make Freya big strong independent woman then why would she forgive Kratos? Why would she even listen to him when he was tryna make her feel better about things?
She even feels sorry for him when he tells her about Spartan upbringing, if she was a hollywood-esque "Strong woman" she would dismiss him and be like "We are not the same, now stop talking".
@@madfox1006 Who cares if there are better examples. The idea that freya should be scripted to beat kratos is laughable. Also, valkyries were "warrior" sex rewards for vikings in the myth... the norse equivalent of 72 virgins. Besides which, you idolise freya, which is beyond pathetic, an idiot who spoiled her son so much she made him an invincible sociopath, and you want a trilogy on the idiot... SMFH. This game is pure woke trash of the worst, most braindead type, as well as it's fans. She hulk is just more obviously pathetic.
@krazeesk8r
valkyries are sex favours for viking warriors wearing armour. Calm down "They're hard as hell" ok.
Hard as hell XD. Dude, most of them are not a big deal, even at hard difficulty. One of the hardest was the one in the silent hill realm and that just because of the fog
Man that " be better" line is so woke i cringed so much
Explain
@@captainprice8644 "Be better" 🤣🤣 what does that even mean..🤣
@@asurvivor3846 it's a nod at gow4, when atreus first made a mistake kratos told him to "be better". Now that atreus is somewhat more mature he tells kratos the same thing so he doesn't make the same mistakes. Kratos also says it to Thor because he thinks they need to be better than their past self..... PAY ATTENTION TO THE GAME 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
@@captainprice8644 bruh, now this is some boring sh** everyone needs to "be better" so the game can be more childish and less violent 🤣 and I see you guys are actually paying attention to this bullsh** what a joke
@@asurvivor3846 bro it's called character development this isn't the same kratos from the old games. This is a older, wiser and less violent kratos. Just because YOU think it's boring doesn't mean anything
You didnt even mention how pointless freyas brothers sacrifice was. Ragnarok already has his sword in the heat of asguard, THEN her bother runs in making his sword spin kind of next to the blade, but its not actually doing anything or stopping ragnarok in anyway. Then hes like "go!" And they all jump through the portal thats like 3 feet away that he could have easily stopped spinning his sword and jumped through since he wasnt actually helping anyway. There was absolutely no need to sacrifice himself
It's implied that he's holding back a literal explosion. Heavily implied. In fact, it was blatantly in your face
@@goat9295 no. It isn't. It's implied he is waggling his sword and ragnaroks sword.
@@TheScience69not just that but anyone who is there could have just punched Surtr in the face or something and save Freyr.
Dude wants MCU Thor
there are far more depictions than just that of MCU
@@tyrant_tarantula Name one that's better than this game's depiction
@@AimForMyHead81 Outside of the countless depictions in various comics, Let's not forget about Movies/Shows that aren't Marvel
@@AimForMyHead81 not a fat guy
@@robertmcleasevro look at all the world's strongest men like for example Eddie Hall. are you gonna call a build like that fat when the man can deadlift more than your entire family tree combined? Thor is a mf god who requires a lot of calories to keep going to the point that he eats entire goats in norse mythology💀and yeah he has that bit of a beer belly but he still has that strongman kinda body underneath it lol it's an actually good depiction
Kratos didn't make the deal with odin because the last time he made a deal with a god it cost him his soul
And his wife and kid
Not for that, kratos said explicitly to ares that he give his soul if he gave him the power to kill his enemies.
The why of kratos not accepting the deal is on his journal in the page about odin
Plus mimir's advice
Synthetic Man. I hate this game's disparagement of Norse mythology. I have been a Norse mythology enthusiast since I was 24, I am now 43. Odin really is better than this. They forgot to include his wolves, Geri and Freki. I guess they didn't want to give Odin dogs, because that would make him likable. On the other hand, look how they shoehorned the death of Fenrir. To emotionally manipulate us into liking the antiheroes of the the game, right off the bat. Under The Mayo is right, the ironwood section is completely pointless and very annoying. This is not god of war. The aunt Jemima boss fight is just there to make you feel like the ironwood section had a point. You're right, it is so cringe.
Marvel Comics Handled the Ragnarok event better than Gow Ragnarok in Thor Ragnarok Comic Series. In that Series it was A Long Time ranging from Weeks to Months and Every Asgardian Died( Thor Died after becoming Rune King Thor).
@@hurricane7727 Odin really isn't that bad. Check out god of war Ragnarok's story is bad by superlucci.
I just felt it was kinda too safe, other than the tyr twist the story did everything I thought it would do. Sure I guess i didn’t know brok would die but there wasn’t many moments where I was like ‘wow that’s great’ like I did with the first game. I’m just a bit sad as well ragnarok was like half an hour in a 60 hour game and the finally fight compared to a final series battle like Zeus has absolutely no spectal, I think it kinda clear they didn’t really care for the final fight compared to god of war 2018 where I didn’t love the final fight but it was so much more grander than gowr. Finally for me personally and no fault of the developer i wish they had a fight where old kratos would fight young kratos as some symbolic thing about how he changed and see the man he use to be and realises he needs to open his heart blah blah
U should def see this video
it took you 48min to find a single mistake. SM must be crazy accurate.
@@DerUnglaublicheFrank how can you even prove that he watch 45min of nonsense like this horrible review
I would've liked my theory, which was that the "prophecy" Kratos and Atreus saw was actually a previous time loop, which Odin would put in place upon getting the mask, the only way he could "prevent" Ragnarok in death which would be to fuck everyone else along with himself. The giants would know the "future" due to their dreams which were actually just visions of past loops. But I guess that would've been too big brain to be worth it because 90% of casual fans wouldn't understand the nuance
Just like every PS exclusive since the start of ps5, everything safe
I feel like the reviewer missed so many things, some of which was painfully obvious.
The point of the wolf race was to cheer Angraboda up after the sad encounter after with her Grandmother. Atreus literally states that.
Freya couldn’t attack them because of the protection staves. That’s pretty much clearly stated.
Freya did not just randomly become a Valkyrie, she’s always been a Valkyrie.
You clearly saved the Boar in the first game.
This is in the lore entries, so missing it makes a little sense, but Kratos states that he refused Odin’s offer not because he wanted war, but more because he didn’t trust him.
Odin is meant to look old and frail. He’s not the MCU version, he’s meant to be deceiving and manipulative.
Faye’s dreams are partly to show their time together, and to show how she is still trying to push him to do what she wants.
While I do think Angraboda’s grandmother was a little strange, I’m pretty sure Angraboda explains the reasoning behind it. She’s taking the souls for the experiences of the animals, which I think they implied she grew addicted to.
Angraboda may not want Atreus to tell anyone because Odin has a large amount of power everywhere else. You’re constantly tracking down his crows, and the twist further solidifies how much he knew. Any mention of it to anyone bore risk.
He does not respond to or attack Odin because that is clearly what Odin wants. That’s why he’s subtly taunting and insulting him.
Some of this isn’t explicitly stated, but I feel like a lot of it could have been caught with a little more attention.
Great Comment I feel like this reviewer didnt pay attention to the game
He completely missed the point haha.
But he is still right overall...
Valid points but game still sucks. Im annoyed the ammount of hiden loading screens this game has with climbing sequences, leages and crawling parts. Honestly it doesn't feel like a god killing monster he was in the 1st 3 games
@@regularstan6212 r/whoooosh, the point of the game is that he ISNT the god killer he was in the first three games.
the problem with both of the recent GOW game
they start with an epic boss fight and then have barely anything significant happen
I also dislike the lack of gore. The finishers are nowhere near as iconic or satisfying.
@@Darkyan97both of these games lack anything iconic. Just another over the shoulder walking simulator with brief moments of repetitive combat. But it’s a finished product so that makes it a masterpiece in this era of gaming
Exactly majority of the game you are just walking around, rowing a boat and watching long ass cutscenes. 🤦🏽♂️
6/10 game won’t be buying the next GOW game.
My two biggest issues gameplay wise, to this day is the trash ass camera and the lack of a jump button. It’s a game, not a movie and I just don’t understand why this keeps getting pushed at the detriment to all games. These 2 simple things would categorically enhance the game period.
Specially when ot doesnt make a y sense to kratos.not.jump to explore or.fight, were the guy can jump Miles in a cutscene or fightong like a dbz character then the gameplay make.him move like a slog and take away all the finesse in Kratos moves
you're both dumb af. Best games have the camera at the back of the character and it works well. Why would I want to play with an static camera all the time, this is not the 2000s and it feels stupid and lame. F YOU BOTH
The camera was never an issue. The attack indicators and the quick turn button made it more than easy to fight anything.
@@Repudiate You’re just wrong. Objectively so, it doesn’t lend well to this style of gameplay and actively takes away from it. Literally a 50% zoom away would’ve fixed it or at least the option to. Even the devs keep telling Cory about this when they made the games but he was so stuck on doing it because he saw it done on a film set; which I don’t gotta point out the obvious difference between film and games, do I?
The writing in this game is absolute trash. Not surprising coming from a woke California studio.
They hired alanah pearce. So that's that for you lol. Ah man, the great gaming era is dying, as well as the movie era. We're in for a shit storm
Santa Monica was responsible for the old GOW games as well so I guess you never liked the writing in the whole franchise
@@Kickinthescience ah yes. Because we all know a studio can't change over time. 🤡