DO NOT BUY God of War Ragnarök

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

God of War Ragnarök, and as an avid fan of

the God of War series and, and action

combat games in general, I knew I just had

to play this game. Unfortunately, so far

it's been rather bland, boring,

uninspired, and kind of lacking in lust.

So as one of PlayStation 5's brand new

flagship games, you would expect this game

to be really impressive, amazing, 10 out

of 10, and just all around a really good

game, visual-wise and gameplay-wise and

basically everything-wise. Unfortunately,

the game just kind of falls flat at

everything. If you were expecting anything

new from the previous God of War game,

you'll be sorely disappointed and this new

God of War game plays almost exactly the

same as the previous game, but just looks

slightly better since it has revamped

graphics. If you've ever played a God of

War game, then you'll know exactly what to

expect. Bog-standard hack-and-slash combat

which isn't very deep or challenging,

really boring and bland puzzles that

doesn't really require any kind of

intelligence. To be able to solve. They

might as well have made the puzzles

completely skippable because there's no

point trying to challenge any kind of

adults with these puzzles because they're

just so boring. So in the previous God of

War, you have your son and he's a little

boy and he can assist you with certain

challenges and puzzles using his bow and

arrow. And in this God of War Ragnarök,

you also have your son, but he's a bit

older and bigger now because time has

progressed. And he does exactly the same

thing that he did in the previous game.

He shoots his bow like a little sissy

girl, and he helps you do some puzzles

where you have to shoot some targets. So

that aspect of the game is also exactly

the same. Also, the combat in the game is

exactly the same. You're just multiple

targeting these enemies that surround you,

and then you spam your hack and slash axe.

You've got light attacks, heavy attacks,

you can do some combos, you can juggle the

enemy up into the air. There's some

finishing blows, decapitation style like

Mortal Kombat, which look okay, they're

pretty cool, but they do get kind of

boring after you've seen them 100

bazillion times. You can also do a ranged

attack with your axe. So basically the

gameplay and the combat is literally

exactly the same as the previous God of

War game. I don't know how they can just

make a new game and call it a new game

whilst it also plays exactly the same as

the previous game but just looks slightly

better with the graphical fidelity since

it's a newer game on a newer console.

This just seems like a very cheap and easy

way to make a sequel to a game, but it

seems it works because people are hyping

it all up and really loving the new game,

it seems. The combat for some reason just

feels very light and spongy. It doesn't

feel satisfying. You're supposed to be

this really big, ripped, muscular guy

who's swinging this massive axe around,

but for some reason it just feels like

he's swinging a candy floss around. The

attacks don't really have much of a heavy

feeling or an impact on the enemies when

you hit them. There isn't really a

satisfying feeling when you fight these

enemies. Most of the enemies are just kind

of dumb. They stand around waiting for you

to attack. There's no challenge to the

game like in Elden Ring where you've got

to be tactical and roll around and

conserve your stamina and use counters and

parries and blocks and choose which kind

of weapons and playstyle you want to

choose to be able to progress in the game.

This game doesn't really feel like that at

all. It feels like there's no actual

thought or intelligence that has to be put

into the fighting. It's just hack and

slash, really dumb. Gameplay that doesn't

really have much depth to it. Has the

emotional depth of a shallow bucket.

There's no way you can get emotionally

invested in this character because he's so

boring and bland. He's just like some kind

of RoboCop Terminator kind of character

who has a big axe. How are you supposed to

care about this character when he's got no

charm at all? It's just really boring

following his story. He just seems like a

big tough guy with an axe that wants to

chop everything into tiny pieces. And then

you've got his son who is like the polar

opposite of him. Who's like this stupid

whiny little weakling coward kind of wussy

who shoots people with a bow and arrow

like a woman. It's just so hard to

actually care about the story because the

2 main characters are so bland, boring,

and annoying. I just don't really care

about their goals in life, or I don't

really feel like I'm rooting for them to

succeed either. I just feel very little

interest in both of these characters for

some reason, and I think the story writers

of the game have just done a really poor

job with Number one, writing a story, and

number two, coming up with interesting

characters. Doesn't really seem like

they're very good at it. This game just

seems like it's trying to be Elden Ring,

and you can kind of see the gameplay

elements it's taken from Elden Ring, such

as the big boss battles, the kind of

dragon-themed monsters, and the kind of

world that it's created seems like it's

taken some inspiration from Elden Ring.

Unfortunately, unlike Elden Ring, it's

kind of fallen flat on its face. To create

an interesting looking world and an

interesting playing game and an

interesting character. And the gameplay

and the weapons just don't really feel

that fun to play with. After a few hours,

I felt a bit bored with the game. I didn't

really feel challenged, and as someone who

likes to feel mentally challenged with his

video games, this game just wasn't really

delivering to me what I wanted in a video

game. So unfortunately, I won't be able to

recommend this game, and I think I'd have

to give it a 3.9 out of 10. At this price

point, it's a bit expensive for what it

is. When it comes down in price a bit,

maybe I could bump it up to a 5 out of 10

and might be able to recommend it. But in

its current state, I think it's just not

that great of a video game. If you really

want a good RPG fantasy-based action game

with RPG elements, then you'd better off

playing Elden Ring or something like that.

I would recommend skipping this game for

now. Maybe if they improve it in some

aspects and give some DLC or make the

gameplay more interesting, then it could

become a better game. But right now, I

don't think it's very good.