The part where Kratos told Odin "I am the vengeance, I am the night, I am BATMAN!" really sent shivers down my spine. Simply incredible moment.

My favorite part of Ragnarok is when Odin asks a dying Kratos “how about some Gwent?”

That part where Kratos thanked the bus driver with tears in his eyes and proceeded to jump off the battle bus was truly one of the most impactful moments in gaming.

My favourite part of the ending of Ragnarok is when Kratos yells “it’s Kratin’ time” and then Krates all over the Aesir.

My favourite moment was definitely when Thanos came to help Kratos so they both could get their revenge against Thor.

At the end, when Kratos says "Its Morbin time" I literally got chills...

Having the option to swipe the touch pad to enable or disable the HUD was the best thing. I played almost the entire game without the compass on screen and really never needed it in normal play. Only really when I went back to complete side objectives I would turn it on momentarily to get my bearings. It really is the best way to use the compass.

This man and Skillup are the two more thoughtful game reviewers. Skillup’s scripts can’t be matched but Luke’s willingness to pull no punches is also appreciated. Edit: lol bunch of little baby haters in the comments. Grow up.

Dude when Kratos discovered that Atreus was the front man for Atreyu the band, and then Odin became a groupie for the European tour and followed them around? Wow. I mean seriously I was blown away.

Yo that scene where Kratos pulls the blade of Olympus from in between his ass cheeks was epic. Who knew he had with him all along.

Spoiler: You play as Kratos.

It was great to see Kratos throw it back at the end of game.

I think the main reason they were originally gonna release it within 3 years of the previous one is due to the fact that in Norse mythology, Fimbulwinter lasts 3 years

My favorite part of the game was where Kratos and the California Raisins take over New Hampshire and Odin leaves them alone because he knows he can't compete with that

I couldn’t put my thumb on it but the Compass thing was a little wacky for me too so I went into settings and found that you could enable R3 to pan the camera in the proper direction… This is really helpful because you can just spam that button until you are where you need to be

Very interesting with the map. I've gotten into the habit of not really using the compass and just map+cardinal direction navigating myself through the world. I didn't even realize that was an issue in the last game too

The 2018 writing was better. And that's all I am gonna say about it.

Do you have any thoughts on the accessibility settings? Did you look at them? I've been reviewing Ragnarok & I totally agree with your wayfinding issue

That shirt makes it look like you’re about to board the Enterprise

I cant believe kratos gets lumbago and dies at the end of the game so sad

I don't know why this Starfleet Engineer is doing a review of a video game, but it's cool that he traveled back in time just to do it.

It’s crazy to even see a game come out anymore that’s actually finished and playable yet alone great out the gate

It was a bold choice for the devs to have a 20 min Odin X Kratos sex scene. Very wierd but brave

Can't wait to play this in 3 years when it releases on PC

Puzzles every 5 steps. Sections that drag out a lot. Navigation sucks. Bullet sponge enemies that constantly jump exactly 180 degrees behind you to inflict maximum annoyance since you have to move the camera in an insane degree making you dizzy. I didn't had those issues at the original...

2018 had the same compass and I preferred that over a singular direction because instead of trying to get to the location, it tells me exactly where to go instead of scratching my head to how to get to point “y”

I’ve had about two months roughly to marinate on the game and it’s still excellent and takes a spot as my favorite game.

On the compass: I like the way it is because I use it to confirm that I’m going in the wrong direction as a means of fully exploiting. In other words: if the compass is pointing me to a choke point I know that is the critical path and can turn around and explore. Beyond that you literally don’t need the compass for critical path. The characters are constantly egging you on in the critical path direction to the point of being annoying.

My favourite part was when Odin shouted: "It's treason then!" And then does a mad 360 spin.

The ending goes like this: Bob Newhart awakens and realizes it was all a dream.

The whole appeal to a lot of these Sony IPS is tied to the Story and Graphics. I have never once been impressed by the gameplay loops for either of the God of Wars or the Horizons for that matter. Having mediocre traversal puzzles sprinkled into a third person action/adventure game should not be a requirement.

Highly enjoyed the first one and now I’m on my second playthrough with gow raganrok. God I love this game 😊👏

Freya gives Kratos the compass in the last game, so maybe it being buggy is accurate because she’s pissed lol

I can’t believe Kratos strangles Atreus to death for the sake of maintaining the stability of the Norse realms

Didn't know David Fincher was a big fan of God of War and Star Trek. Very cool.

I love when the Kool-aid man from family guy busts through the wall of Kratos house😂 Best cameo EVER! Lol shit was hilarious bro. I love this game.

I loved when kratos said, "it's kratosing time" and then kratos'd all over everyone

Please do a 5 hour critique. Thank you in advance for your time and consideration 🎉

I think you didn't quite comprehend the weapon system-. You can do really crazy stuff. Like an undying Kratos or doing massives amount of damage melting even the toughest bosses withiin seconds.

Excellent review…was that a confirmation at 21 minute mark that NG+ is present at launch?

I’m actually quite fine with the compass system, makes it easier to not miss little gaps or entrances that you need to reach

I would love to see a "Critique" video for this game after release.

I don’t fully remember but wasn’t the compass the exact same way in 2018 cause I vaguely remember it was a pain at first but after understanding it I never got lost again

Have you fought the two secret bosses King Hrolf, and Valkryie Queen Gna?

when thor realized he was fighting on the wrong side and said "avengers assemble" i literally pissed myself

Can't wait to play this!

I just turned off the compass, and u can assign a gesture in the touch pad for it to show up when you need it. So I played the game with it off and only brought it up briefly when I was truly lost.

I DIDNT LIKE THE WAY THOR AND ODIN STORYS ENDED...I FELT THAT THEY WERE JUST SOMEWHAT STRONG AND NOT LIKE THE NUCLEAR POWER GODS THAT THEY WERE BACK IN GOD OF WAR 2018

oh please its a carbon copy except you get to play as his insufferable son now.

My favorite scene was when Kratos said "it's Ragnarok time" and God of War'd all over Odin. Truly one of the video games of all time.

You can easily toggle the compass on and off during gameplay. I very rarely use it

I loved the part where Kratos sits down and realizes its all a dream and his son is imaginary. His wife also sleeping with thor and kills him at the end, crazy!

I love when kratos just looks back at the camera before fighting Thor and says " get up and work harder if you wanna afford a PS5 and play with this" points to his ass

Puzzles in games are why I often stop playing and never finish. It’s often very tedious

I didn't like how Odin and Thor spoke, their dialogue was really weird, like they were mobsters or bikers. I thought Ryan Hurst was a great Thor and Odin was fine too, but the dialogue written for them just kind of takes me out of it and ruins the immersion in my opinion. None of the other God of War games were like that, and they never needed to be, instead they had solid writing and there-in, solid dialogue. The story of Ragnarok is fine even with the weird changes to Norse Mythological lore, they just should have phrased the dialogue different, so it doesn't feel like you're watching Sons of Anarchy or some other show, it felt just inappropriate for the setting.

Huh, one thing I would praise about 2018 is the compass. It always told me the exact route to go, which is beneficial to me. Instead of trying to figure out how to get to my destination, the compass tells me how. It's a good time saver. If I want to explore, I know which ways I can go because the compass isn't pointing in those directions.

Have I just become over sensitive to spoilers or are people showing things in thier reviews they say are spoiled free that genuinely suprise me and make me regret having watched it so soon. For anyone watching…. Around 10:00 in theres a scene that genuinely surprised me and I wish I would have learned on my own. This is the second time this happened with these reviews…. So I guess I’m going dark until I’m deep into the game. Can’t wait to start tomorrow at midnight! Ganna be a long night!

With the navigation it makes sense to me, especially if the map is busy in a sense mant different directions etc so in a complicated way it’s guiding you I’m happy with it, it might encourage you to even learn some of the map. So I like it

Dude I thought I was crazy about the map marker/ compass. Thank you for explaining.

I don’t the compass issue because I I used the touchpad to swipe and get rid of the UI swiping up for navigation assist

"I'm not gonna spoil anything" "Bear mcreary is in the game!"

My favorite part of Ranarok was when I got to actually play as Kratos. All the disney movie shit with Aterus pissed me off.

Can you hide the compass, or at least access it only when needed when touching the touchpad, like in the original?

I liked how at the end Kratos said: "I am god of war"

I agree with the compass point but maybe it's just me but because of how it was designed I was actually paying more attention to the world and overtime figured out where things were naturally although definitely at the beginning of each realm yes I completely agree that is a problem I'm glad it wasn't just me that was having that problem

I would really appreciate seeing how the game looks and runs on the base PS4 as I can't be bothered to spend money on a PS5 while there are so few games I want to play on it when my PC will probably get to play most of those games in a years time anyway.

It sucks that Luke disliked the compass so much, but I quite liked it in 2018, and to hear it's basically identical in ragnarok is good to hear, personally. I hope you can make it smaller though, it's a bit distracting at the top of the screen like that

When Kratos said. "It's in the meat!" I died.

Can’t stand the puzzles.

The media sold the first one as a generational game.. got it and it was a good story with virtually no gameplay progression and lazy enemy design. It's hard to trust the same people that gave the first game a 10. I'll wait for people actually dropping money to review this.

The compass worked the same way in 2018. I think it works better that way since there is a lot of traversal going on.

Anybody else think that shirt makes him look like Spock from StarTrek!! Lmao

Cara, estou muito ansioso para este jogo, espero que esteja a altura das expectativas.

The part where it's revealed that Freya is Atreus' mom was such a twist. I wouldn't have imagined that Kratos would get those memories removed. I guess I should have seen it coming since Atreus and Faye don't have the same hair colour but Freya's and Atreus' hair colour is the same.

I 100% thought he was dressed as a yellow shirt from star trek for a quick second... Still love the content man. Keep it up!

I can’t believe Kratos goes back to Greece to spend one last evening with Aphrodite!

You can literally turn off the compass which I did for the whole game. Also, I really don't understand your difficulty complaint.. there are literally 2 difficulties higher than what you played to make it more challenging? You didn't even talk about the actual flaws of the games, primarily the atrocious fast travel system, the map and the tedious traversal.

100% of the dialogue in this game sounds like twitter threads or millenials whining.

my favourite part of ending is when kratos pull olympus sword and start saying " eye of thundera, give me sight beyond sight!!

My favourite part was when Kratos and Gibbs teamed up to solve navy crimes

Bro I was impressed with the references Kratos says when he kills Odin. “They ain”t believe in us, GODDID” Literally made my heart melt with joy

assuming it wasn’t because of changing the setting in the settings but i’m SOOO glad you’re actually able to see the distance on the compass for markers - one of my gripes with GoW 2018 was blindly following the compass and not knowing exactly how close i was to the destinations

Is that a Lt. Commander Data shirt? Not being disrespectful, I dig it!

That shirt reminded me of the og star trek uniforms ngl! xD

I literally just completed the 2018 game for the first time yesterday, and immediately went n preordered ragnarok.. The navigation was probably the only real issue I had with the 2018 game, seems like this games nav might be just as jacked as the original one lol

Watching this long after I played and beat the game, sorry to hear you had some problems where I had little to no problems with my game and I had no problem with the Puzzles and so on. it took me 53 hours to play through and do everything plus I took my time doing as much as possible.

coldest moment 🥶🥶🥶was when they got the infinity gauntlet fo sho

Did a 2nd playthrough of God of War a couple of weeks ago and I noticed that the compass basically gives turn-by-turn navigation. It’s not too bad once you get a hang of it, but it can be a bit dimwitted in the more open areas.

GOW has always had puzzles in between its combat sections. They are a part of the franchise. And most indeed are hard at all.

Can someone tell me who blew the horn in 2018, I feel it was not addressed in the main story (or I might have missed something)?

The point on your compass doesnt change. It stays the same. The camera movement and the boundary of the compass line makes the point bounce all around that line. It's not a feature where there are more points leading to your destination

2018 is the better overall game. The writing is better am the story if more fluid. I beat the game yesterday an found that the story is a little confusing an convoluted. There r breath taking moments an absolutely boring moments that really bring the game to a halt. The game has surprisingly fun moments that I wasn't expecting. It's also quite the journey especially if u played this right after 2018. I'd also say things happen that just don't jive with me, the fashion with which they happen either r way to quick or utterly unbelievable. I also highly disagree that there aren't pacing issues. As I said above there really r. Just for my bona-fides I've played an beaten every entry at least 5 times each other then the phone game betrayal. I bought my ps5 cuz of ragnarok an wouldn't have played on a ps4 as i want to play these games the best way possible immediately. I love this series more then any other so when I feel disappointed or let down its to the extreme cuz I want this game to succeed. I turned so many people onto 2018 when it came to PC an they loved it. Idk if I can say to someone u will throughly love this entirely as I do with 2018. Still great tho I do really like it, its just 2018 was so refreshing an ragnarok is the same so the evolution isn't there this time. And again the writing isn't as sharp imo 8.75

I loved the bit when kratos fought eivor from assassins creed and then made out with the logo of ubisoft

Would be kinda keen to see how it performs on a base ps4. I've got a ps4 pro with an ssd and have been unable to purchase a ps5.

Mr. Stephens, are you going to do a deep dive, spoiler filled review of GOWR? I feel like about now could be a solid time to be able to examine it fully, since it’s been a couple of weeks for people to digest. Edit: Luke’s connotation of “mid” is absolutely hilarious.

Cant believe Luke didn't mention the scene where Kratos grabbed his axe after years of promising only peace for him and Atreus, looked his son in the eyes and said " I will once again be God Of War: Ragnarok (2022)" Truly one of the games of all time

Speaking about the compass, that sounds to me like exactly same thing they did in 2018 gow, and I found that very helpful even though at first Lil confusing, the way the map was created in 2018 one was soo "turny" that this compass for me atleast made the traversal ALOT easier but thats just me, soo I for one am happy it's the same setup

You have to delete your game save for the Heimdall fight so he can read your next move, great MGS Easter egg

After Thor was beaten by Kratos, i heard he asked for help from the Guardians of the Galaxy

When master chief pulled up on the banshee to help Kratos fight Odin 🤯 Unbelievable moment 10/10