God of War Ragnarok: A Disaster Disguised as a Masterpiece - Critique & Analysis

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Freya: "Hey Kratos, want a glass of water?" Kratos: "Water...I crossed over water before I KILLED MY OWN FAMILY!!!"

The part at the start that states "it's getting harder to critique each year because people make franchises their entire personality" is painfully true and can be seen in these very comments.

My main issue with the game is that Kratos never really is in any "danger" from the prophecy that has been announced since 2018.

The reception of this game just truly shocks me. The entire planet claims that it's a timeless masterpiece, a flawless sequel, the 2022 GOTY, the best Sony game and so on, yet everywhere I look, the player base agrees on lots of issues. We hated the Ironwood chapter, the minibosses were overused, recycled and disappointing, the pacing is off, and these are just the top examples. So if that many of us found these problems serious, why are people still having this 10/10 discussion online? I just don't get it. It's a solid game but people are so blinded by hype it physically hurts sometimes.

Ragnarok felt... Anti-clamactic. Before I felt it was because the "war" itself was so small and short, but your video made these feelings make more sense: The story had no room to breathe, so I was rushed all the way until the end only to realize... That was it? I was being trained to expect story beat after story beat being beaten into my head with no subtlety, even within the optional side content, that finally hitting the end left it feeling empty.

Watching this is painful, because it makes me think of how amazing a well-executed trilogy would have been.

Let me just say dude. Straight up, first things first. WHY DOES IT FEEL SO MUCH LIKE A MARVEL MOVIE HOLY S

After finishing the game for the first time, I just felt empty. I’d been waiting for this game for 4 years and it just didn’t sit right with me.

My biggest issue is the Norse Pantheon being such a downgrade of antagonist compared to the Greek Gods. Took only two games for Kratos to deal with this mid pantheon of gods, but the action choreography was smooth though. The fight with Zeus was way more grand compared to the Odin fight

This is the best God of War Ragnarok critique I've seen. You explained why I was disapointed with the game so much better than I ever could

It's a shame this game gets worse the more you think about it. Imagine if it was a fully fleshed trilogy.

Just play them back to back and it’s painfully obvious how much better the first one is on a direction level.

This will be a good comments section

I personally liked gow2018 better in my opinion. It just seemed so much bigger and the story was excellent. Ragnarok was good but not as good as the one before it.

The Freya and Kratos conversation in the first vanaheim visit where they just try to out trauma dump the other is unintentionally so funny

My favorite part of Kratos' journey was not the end, but the part where Atreus yells at him "you never wanted to do this with me" and Kratos said "and yet I'm still here". Is deeper than they may have meant

this game needs a rewrite.

This was a great watch. While I disagree with some points, I think this video conceptually really hits the nail on the head. While playing this game it felt off and rushed despite it taking me 40~ hours to 100%. It was at war with itself and you described a lot of why it felt that way and articulated the points great.

it makes so much sense that this was at first intended to be a trillogy (the norse trillogy we could have called it) if they had split the first half into "GOW: Fimbulvetur" and focused on Thor as the rival to Kratos , with Atreus & Kratos spliting, THEN would have made "GOW: Ragnarök" propper with Atreus & Odin being the main conflict , then father & son reconcile! i enjoyed it in the end but it feels so compressed . Great feature length critique man, Kudos