Finished it, the ending feels very rushed and anticlimactic with pretty pathetic final fights that make all the grinding feel pointless. But the most striking thing from the last act is that the game literally does this meme:
Mechanically the game feels worse than the previous one, fights are far less interesting or have ways to utilize finishers, or force you into using specific weapons or strategies. It's just endless gauntlets where the enemies are barely varied, and you'll eventually get sick of doing finishers because they take too long. One terrible trick the game constantly use is to give some enemies zero reaction time attacks that will still do full damage (which can be fatal on the higher difficulties), as well as making fights against multiple enemies atrocious as the camera is too zoomed in to see all the threats (and going into the disgustingly over saturated"accessibility settings" would have probably made it too hard to see individual enemies).
Visually the game looks pretty much the same as the previous one only with more skin folds but with horrid bloom and absolutely eye bleeding over designed environments, the character design also sucks balls.
The Asgard characters are barely used and everyone else is several times bitchy than previous game. The worse is Freya that has a moment where Kratos tells her a story and she interrupts him in the middle to ask him how they story is supposed to make
her feel good. Fuck this character with a wooden stake and I wouldn't touch the post game since she's locked in as a companion.
The game is way too cinematic, too much "press forward for plot", I fucking miss old cutscenes where you can at least put down the controller. I can't see how you can replay it without going insane.
Now for the plot... It's just bad in a lot of ways, I don't even know what's the worse: The fact that the game builds up into making it's own gay avengers and ripping off the "we brought everyone" scene in the cringiest fashion possible, or the fact that the entire game is about abusive parents, excuse me abusive
male parents - Women can't be bad mothers while men should only throw a stern word or two while letting the kid do virtually everything they want without supervision, now listen to your wife and let your child cut off her dick, otherwise you are a gaslighting bastard like Odin.
And Ragnarok and the talk on fate still makes no sense and are essentially plot holes (with Ragnarok being treated in a way you'd think it wasn't the end of the world that only leaves like 10 people along), along with the Mask from the Jim Carrey film which ends up being a mystery box with no payoff. There is no references to Kratos time in Greece, so fuck you if you thought you'd get more info. Really there are a ton of things the game builds up as important and then ignores.
The only redeeming qualities are that Christopher Judge is still awesome, and killing things and exploring is fun, but that's probably true for other better designed games.
