why i HATE the God of War PC port - VERY disappointing

Hello, welcome back to a new video game

review. So recently I've been playing God

of War, which has come over to the PC from

the PlayStation console. And as an avid

fan of hack-and-slash action games, I just

had to give this game a try. I never

really got to play this game when it first

came out because at the time I didn't have

a PlayStation and I'm more of a PC gamer.

But it seems as though the PlayStation

exclusivity has expired and they decided

to bring it over to the PC. And to be

honest, I don't even know why they

bothered. This game is not even a very

good game in the first place. I don't know

why there was so much hype around it. I

guess it's because it was like a special

PlayStation-only game, and I guess it was

given special treatment by the Sony

fanboys in the same way that Halo was

given special treatment by the Xbox

fanboys, purely because it was an

exclusive title. Now, I kind of just see

this as a lazy cash grab. I don't really

think much work would have went into

porting this game over to PC, apart from

changing the controls and changing some

things so it runs smoothly on the PC. It

just seems like they don't really know

what else to do, so they thought, why

don't we just bring God of War to PC as

well, make some extra money? And

unfortunately, I don't think this game

really holds up very well in 2022. It's

quite an old game, and it's glaringly

obvious that it is pretty old. And I find

it kind of shocking that they have the

audacity to charge £40 for this old game

as if it was a new game. Just because you

port an old game over to the PC doesn't

make it new again. It always baffles me as

to why gaming developers expect us to pay

this extremely high price for this old

game as if it was a new game. Now, as for

the game itself, is it any good? As a

video game, I would say no. As kind of

like a cinematic interactive movie, I

would still say no. The game is extremely

heavy on cinematic cutscenes, and you

can't skip any of these cutscenes. They

force you to watch the whole thing, which

implies that they believe that the story

is very important. They probably think

that the story is so integral to the game

and the enjoyment of the game that they

wouldn't even allow you to skip any of

these. And you're just forced to watch

this bald, muscular guy with a beard walk

around with this little boy. And I get

this feeling they're trying to create this

endearing father and son dynamic, and

they're trying to make you really care for

the boy as if he's your own son, and

they're trying to create some kind of

emotional attachment to him. As someone

who doesn't really care about the

well-being of fictional characters, I

found it very difficult to form some kind

of emotional connection with the

characters and the boy, and I just really

didn't care about their stories or their

struggles. I just wanted to skip the

cutscenes and skip straight to the action,

which they would not allow me to do. So I

was forced to just sit there watching

these cutscenes, and the main character is

just really boring. He's just like a very

uncharismatic, very dull, gruff and rough

tough guy, and he just grunts and scolds

the boy over and over again. It's just

really dull and boring. The main character

is like a robot. He's got no personality.

And then when you finally get to the

gameplay, the gameplay isn't really that

great either. The gameplay is just very

dull. You just kind of spam the left mouse

button and the right mouse button for a

heavy attack, and then you've got to dodge

the attacks or block them. It's very

stereotypical hack-and-slash gameplay.

There's like 100 different games that all

have the same gameplay mechanic where the

enemies just kind of surround you and they

wait for you to attack, and then you've

got combos and you got blocking, you got

to dodge and roll out of their attacks,

and it's just not interesting. I just sat

there spamming my mouse button over and

over again waiting for these very dull

enemies to fall down, and they take quite

a lot of hits. For example, this guy I'm

hitting now takes like 10 hits to finally

take down. And then you've got the

cinematic set piece boss battles, which

are also just as boring. So instead of

fighting multiple enemies, you've just got

one really big enemy that takes even more

hits. It took like 100 hits to take down

this big giant who has a massive rock,

and it took me several attempts to do it

because— not because it was difficult,

mainly because it was just so boring. I

was falling asleep while spamming these

attacks and not paying attention enough to

dodging and rolling and blocking. And

these boss battles just take far too long,

and then if you die, you have to start all

over again from the beginning. And when

you're not hack and slashing these really

dull enemies, the rest of the game you're

basically just doing platformer puzzles,

basic puzzles, very simple puzzles that

all kind of feel the same. So you've got

obstacles to get past, usually a bridge,

and the bridge is standing up, sticking

up. You got to kind of wind it down, but

then when you let go, it goes back up

again. Then you've got to use your axe to

throw at a target, which freezes the

bridge from falling. Then you got to get

over the bridge. You have to do this same

kind of puzzle over and over again. And

the puzzles are so easy, I don't even know

why they bother including it. I feel like

they just added all these really mundane,

tedious puzzles just to pad out the game a

bit, give it a bit of variety. But the

puzzles just feel so pointless. You're

just aiming your axe at some target,

freezing the bridge so you can go over it,

or the boy climbs up and then drops down a

chain so you can climb up to where he is.

And I just feel like I'm just rolling my

eyes the entire time doing these puzzles.

There's also like an upgrade gear system

where you can add runes and apply

different attributes and points to your

weapons and armor, but I just didn't

really care enough to really get involved

with this. The menu system was quite

complicated and the tutorial was quite

annoying. You have to keep pressing E and

Enter to get all the little tips out of

the way. And maybe the game gets more

complex later, maybe there's more things

you can do with customization when you get

further into the game, but the game just

didn't really hook me enough to want me—

to make me want to carry on playing the

game. So would I pay £40 to play this game

and try and finish the game? I don't think

I would because I just felt so bored

playing it for the first few hours. I feel

like the rest of the game would just be

more of the same, just spamming the mouse

buttons, rolling and dodging, and then

upgrading your weapons a bit. And maybe

there's more puzzles later in the game and

then more boss battles. I think that

doesn't really sound like something I

would be interested in. So unfortunately,

I can't really recommend the game, and I

would give it a 2.8 out of 10.