 Maybe maybe maybe that's the only way Fuck I gotta be careful about what I say. I gotta be careful. I gotta be careful Gotta be careful. You never know who's watching Man, I have no idea how to review this game on the one hand if I'm completely honest with you This is gonna be dislike bombed into oblivion on the other hand if I oversell some of the game's positives I'm gonna look like a liar, especially to anybody who watched my streams Yeah, Cobain Doing pretty alright. Not that I've done much today other than You know just have a horrible poop just a horrible horrible poop Is the head Mexican Last night See this is this is how you know, it's a reddit game. You can't kill the turtles One of the first things I did in Elden Ring was kill the turtles. Oh Boy, it's been a long time since I've made a comment response video And it's not like I was lacking in opportunities to make one as you probably know if you've been around here for a while I was made aware of a response video made by zero needs coffee called the worst god of war Ragnarok review synthetic man This guy I can already tell this guy's a bundle of sticks. I can already tell as You can imagine I was having flashbacks to my doom eternal videos and the responses that followed And I won't lie when I saw this on stream. I was pretty tilted And this kind of goes without saying but please do not go to this video and harass this person The last thing I need is another reason for YouTube to shut my ass down Yeah, that is a thousand likes while you guys do your job dislike bomb the video I don't give a shit. I don't care if I get in trouble from YouTube Every one of you come here dislike this video No, no, I might get in trouble from YouTube you do what you bust I guess So a couple days ago a youtuber named synthetic man uploaded this video It was a review of God of War Ragnarok, and I made a video responding to his review He reacted to the video on one of his streams were at the end of the stream He encouraged everyone watching to go over to my channel and dislike by my video Which is against YouTube's community guidelines and also is a pretty fucked up thing to do Just kind of shows what type of person we're dealing with. Oh, how it isn't that like the the I'm trying not to say tranny version, but the alternate universe version of of Marceline That's like a boy or something So already we have like an effeminate male character that you're using your avatar really not helping Really not helping. This is this is let me just Love up a little bit just flex Show off my my raw masculinity versus this effeminate twink Like what is making you give a fuck about this? I always use adventure time characters as my pfps on my social media because I really like the show as a kid And the one for my YouTube channel just happens to be Marshall League I didn't choose this picture because I'm woke or something and like the fact that it's a gender-bent version of Marceline I chose it because he's voiced by a childish Gambino who I really like the music of please stop bringing this up It has nothing to do with the game. You're just reaching super far to try to find things to insult me It just looks fucking stupid If you haven't played the game yet, I recommend you go check it out But if you're not able to play it or have an Xbox or something then you can also check out a video like this like a full game No commentary video. I highly recommend you go do that Don't watch this video go experience the game first and then come back instead of you know playing the game yourself Or just waiting until you could get a ps5 He suggests that you watch a full game walkthrough and the part He's leaving out is when you then pretend you've played the game yourself and have a real opinion on it Are you fucking kidding me, dude? I hate zoomers so much. I Did not find a single comment Refuting any of my major points from the video I am deeply disappointed with Sony fans this time if this is the best defense you can muster for the game of The year of 2022 according to you then gaming is truly dead And it's never going to improve because you consumers keep eating this shit up Don't ask questions just consume product and then get excited for next product So I pretty much lose either way, but at the end of the day, I would rather be as honest as humanly possible It's pretty much the only policy I've stuck to since the start of my channel So I've come to terms with the fact that this will likely be one of the most disliked videos I'll ever make in my likely short career on YouTube The worst thing a video game can be is boring and Ragnarok is one of the most boring Games I've ever played half of this game is either watching a cutscene Walking in a straight line or engaging in one of the games many hidden loading screens Whether that be rowing a boat riding a giant yak climbing a wall shit We've seen a thousand times and it gets old this game does not respect your time Just like you're not respecting the game's story You put this section an eight-time speed as if it's a loading screen or something This is a very touching scene where Kratos talks to his now dead wife in a dream You're just skipping over it like it's literally nothing Where Kratos talks to his now dead wife He thinks that's like a big emotional vote. No no dude. This isn't real. This is like a parody Please tell me this is a parody like holy shit, and he's like oh look at the subtitles It's super emotional as you slowly row a boat in a straight line No, come on dude, please This guy's got to be underage right please tell me he's underage. I will I will Retract my statements if he's underage it. Do we have a confirmation like please tell me he's like like it It's a trust tell me please and whatever. Let's just keep going. Let's just keep it I got to stop pausing every two seconds. I'm pulling an e-fap. I really am pulling an e-fap Why is it so hard for left-wing people to just address the arguments being stated in a video? They have to make up all these motivations and I Don't you know it's God it's annoying He's not left-wing. He's right-wing. I don't believe that There's no way he would like this woke mess if he was right-wing. No, there's no way that's true trance need zero chance He complains by SJW's and woke culture. Yeah Well, then he's just jumping out of bandwagon then because this game is Disgustingly woke. Are you kidding me? He's another blue-pilled bundle of sticks You know what I really want to say I'll cut this part out of the video though. I'll cut this part out of the video though You never know who's watching And I already know just based off of these criticisms You already think I hate this game and have no credibility left or maybe you thought that a long time ago But I promise you that I am absolutely Trying to make my review of this game as fair as possible Possible despite the fact that despise all of the movie games that Sony's been making for like a decade at this point They definitely have a lot of good aspects to them and this game is no exception So let's just start off with the best part of the game that being obviously the combat now I remember back when God of War 2018 came out that it was pretty controversial this change in direction The biggest change obviously being the over-the-shoulder camera, which is still annoying even in this game, honestly But you do get used to it eventually and I would personally recommend you turn up the sensitivity on the camera So you can turn around faster especially since this game has very generous auto aim as for the main combat mechanics themselves I'd say they're pretty fun. I thought they were fun in the last game, too It does take a while to get going for some reason They pulled a Metroid with this game and Kratos just mysteriously has lost almost all of his abilities and gear from the last game I'm not sure why I expect a Metroidvania style explanation, but I do want to I Want to know why? He got rid of all the artifacts that we found in the previous one. I mean, is there any reason The reason why he lost all his shit is explained in game The reason Freya never came to their house is because of the stave which stops other people from coming inside It's like this guy didn't pay attention See here's another arrogant comment that completely misses the points in the video Obviously, there's an explanation for why Kratos lost his equipment Me saying in the video for some reason was me poking fun at Metroidvania games for taking away all your equipment at the beginning I'm not sure why I expect a Metroidvania style explanation, but I do want to I Want to know why? He got rid of all the artifacts that we found in the previous one. I mean, is there any reason I'm upping my strength, maybe the enemies will be less spongy Can't believe you guys talked to me out of hard mode when normal mode is Is the combat gameplay the same? Yes, it's almost like the same They always find some dumb reason and God of War Ragnarok is no exception. I don't care whether or not there is a reason I Want to know why he got rid of all the artifacts that we found in the previous one I mean, is there any reason it was a criticism of the game design to start you at square one again Kratos just mysteriously has lost almost all of his abilities and gear from the last game And just saying that fimble winter destroyed their stuff is fucking stupid. Let's be real Isn't it nice how fimble winter ward on all the helpful magic we acquired? It's somehow new terrors only flourish as a fun cue I Am of the belief that you don't have to start the player off with zero equipment Because you should make a sequel Assuming people played the previous game and if they didn't they can catch up to the mechanics Eventually just make the early game encounters easy enough that you can still get by if you don't use runic attacks or reposts or any of the other mechanics Uh deathlock 997 thinks of five bucks since you notice how runic attacks from 2018 are normal attacks here kind of cool I guess Not really Kratos should feel like he's getting stronger Not that he was forcefully pushed back to where he was at the start of the last game because it's one of the many Elements of this game that makes it feel more like a giant Expansion than an actual sequel and I'm not gonna get into a debate about what makes a good sequel versus just an iterative lazy Ubisoft-esque $70 expansion But let's just say Ragnarok did not meet my expectations of a sequel and you're free to have your own opinion on that I really don't care And so the game kind of feels afraid to give you all the combat mechanics until about 10 hours in Which makes those early combat encounters a bit more boring it doesn't help that I was playing it on hard mode Which I'll save that for the end since I'm being positive at the moment I'd say the combat ultimately feels mostly satisfying juggling enemies in the air is fun Just like it was in the original games Runic attacks feel pretty powerful and the fact that they just use a cool down instead of some kind of magic meter is Honestly more fun to me personally because then you can use them pretty much every encounter and don't have to rely on magic chests Kratos also just has a pretty wide range of actions that you can do on top of having light and heavy attacks on the runic attacks You can throw the Leviathan axe you can use the blades to grab people and pull them to you or pull yourself to them You can buff the blades and axe with their corresponding element There's also a meter you can build up by hitting enemies without getting hit yourself that once is full allows you to buff one of your Weapons and make all their attacks like twice as powerful which really feels satisfying and rewarding Obviously, there's also blocking dodging parrying now I will say the parry feels pretty weak until your starting shield gets repaired And then you actually get invincibility frames on the riposte, but before that point I was very disappointed in the parry against many bosses and bosses You would actually have to parry them multiple times in the same combo just to stop the onslaught Which was honestly infuriating So you also have a partner character in the first game atreus would shoot arrows on command I think he also had a runic summon, but I don't quite remember so in this game It's not too much different except now your partner is really good at putting one of two debuffs on the enemy that Amplifies your other attacks and debuffs and it kind of goes without saying but from here on I'm gonna be getting into Spoiler territory for various aspects of the game I'm probably going to talk about them for the rest of the video So this is your last chance to leave so eventually you get a third weapon a spear that can generate infinite copies of itself And you can detonate those spears on triangle I actually really enjoyed this weapon now when you first get it it doesn't have any abilities So it kind of feels like shit which completely ruined the moment, but after you pump some XP into it It's actually probably my favorite weapon in the game much like God of War goes to Sparta Playing as a Spartan with a spear and shield just feels right and the spears that you can detonate in enemies Actually juggle them further into the air and all of the spears attacks do stun damage a Significant amount of stun damage compared to the blades in the axe So the DPS for this thing is probably the highest in the game or at least it kind of feels that way in the runic attacks I got were pretty powerful as well. So yeah, actually great concept one of the few alt weapons in this series That actually feel satisfying the last positive I'll mention are the boss fights which given this game is 25 hours long not doing any side content. There's actually a lot of bosses Especially compared to the previous one I'd say all of the main bosses were at least somewhat fun with the first Thor fight at the beginning and the Heimdall fight about 3 quarters the way through the game probably being my favorite the Heimdall fight is the only one in the game that Required me to think outside the box and actually play differently So I'll definitely compliment the devs for that and all in all it's a solid selection outside of one specific Extremely cringy moment in the game Just remember this boss fight on screen here for later when people keep talking about how mature God of War is now The mini bosses on the other hand are a mixed bag Some of them are pretty great Some of them like to hate for are just fucking annoying to fight have random unblockable moves that make no sense The fucking God of War can't block a random fire skeletons x-wing My immersion is destroyed When you apply that logic to any other game it just sounds stupid How can the legendary crime fighter Batman die to a random thugs punch? How can the superhumanly powerful doomslayer die to a random projectile from a demon this sucks immersion ruined? Die to a random thugs punch. How can the superhumanly powerful doomslayer die to a random projectile from a demon this sucks That is true though like this dude has Like this dude has literally no understanding of how video games work the fucking arrogance of this guy to say I don't understand video games I would bet any amount of money I played twice as many as you have and likely far more than that across my life The fucking God of War can't block a random fire skeletons x-wing. My immersion is destroyed Oh Well, it's ludonarrative dissonance or something because we couldn't just have Kratos kill everyone one hit Well, why not have it like the original games? We couldn't just have Kratos kill everyone one hit Remember the beginning of God of War 2 where you kill like a hundred Athenian well, they weren't Athenian. They were before that you fight the Colossus of Rhodes you kill a hundred Soldiers, I guess they were maybe Athenian type by whatever. I don't give a shit. I Feel like in the video. I got to bring up God of War 2 Kratos Just killing all these Greek soldiers with no effort You know as a god at the beginning of the game and just compare that shit to this Oh, no Kratos the God of War is gonna get mauled by a bear and die like Come on. Yeah, I've already died the frogs for In the previous game he fought, you know, essentially the final boss in the beginning of the game and he's struggling to kill bear So yeah, we're guys got thanks to 10 bucks imagine killing Zeus and then you get mauled by a bear Yes Kratos has fallen on hard times Humans who stand a chance against the God of War Imagine Kratos getting killed by big human The God of War gets killed by big human Well, yeah Kratos is supposed to be super mega powerful. I know that's easy to forget given how badly this game butchers him Just remember him holding open like Kronos's fingers trying to crush him like he's absurdly strong But you know now he's old and frail and weak The good Kratos is getting killed by a flame skeleton. Let's just fuck Also the fact that a blue shield can stop the God of War. I Got to say the dialogue is horrible fucking horrible. The story itself is okay I don't really like that the driving force is just oh, let's go find tear the God of War of this realm That's just not that much of a plot hook, you know, I mean just compared to the old games again like God of War one Kratos is Well, he's been serving Aries for like a decade and Athena helps him kill Aries, right? So there isn't exactly much of like an inciting incident because like fighting the Hydra. I Mean is one of the greatest tutorial missions ever, but it's also Like ultimately means nothing for the plot, but whatever. It's a video game, right God of War 2 Zeus betrays him when he ascends to Godhood and he loses his Godhood and he has to get revenge on the gods Okay, that's that's actually a pretty simple works perfectly and then God of War 3 is a continuation He finally after killing the fates at the end of the second game He goes to kill the pant the Greek pantheon there you go. I mean Easy just simple in this that's not really anything the plot hook The only real plot hook here is just that Thor and Odin decide to finally show up. I mean that doesn't really There's not You know it just kind of happens I guess. Oh, yeah, my other complaint is the blades of chaos got nerfed They're too fucking weak. They probably do the same damage as the fists I don't know if this supposed to be an AOE weapon But they don't have nearly the range that they did in the original games So it doesn't really make sense bye for us to text Heals over time before all pits can detonate it for extra damage. Oh boy more humans that can kill Kratos Nido I Don't even have a problem with that mechanic like that's a neat mechanic But why did you give it to Joe and or me with mace, you know random guy with mace can kill the God of War Extreme linearity sometimes it's only when it's too obvious, you know like Again got adult the out of ours for very very linear, but they they had like open zones There's this too much too much hallways. It's all hallways Magic rate is having to pick up health items for every single battle instead of regaining health as it kills people Well, you had to open up health chests in the original games Odin's occupation of this realm has its hooks in deep Resist and you made an example of Bravery for even the strongest of folk fear keeps them safe and alive Remember in God of War one when you could kill civilians to get health back I'm am be Enough of this, but there's more. I do not care War with Odin is not the answer It worked out pretty well in the original games This it kills Zeus and attempt to kill yourself and fail that that pretty much That got the job done look around you Athena The world stands in ruin like there's nothing about this game that is better than the original God of War game only protect I know I know and we both know the place is protecting your child can take you This again the character assassinations pissing me off. I Got a Kratos was unironically more complex I think when he was just killing every god people say Kratos shouldn't be wearing armor forget He was wearing heavy armor every became God of War. Yeah, it was ceremonial though And he immediately lost it to be new God of War 2. Did you play God of War 2 Leonardo? He didn't need the armor You have it for one mission He should be who he was because guess what he was winning when he was the God of War The world stands in ruin. I want to remind you That Kratos well, okay, he didn't do by himself. He got a bunch of Titans from the past to help him but Kratos Just time travel grab some Titans and then You know just did the shit. He didn't have to fucking gather an army Granny this bullshit He just I Hate this And the first berserker fight which is mandatory by the way We can get to it with your spear. I think this way That gravestone is a keyhole that looks to fit the help you found and if I'm right you best prepare for a fight Hey big guy Has way too much fucking hell Oh, yeah, and I was bumped down to normal at this point too when I finally managed to beat him I think it took me three straight minutes of dodging and countering the same four attacks over and over again To actually whittle down his health bar. It doesn't help that filling the stun meter doesn't give you a free Execution type of attack on him. It just opens him up to damage for a few seconds. It just opens him up to damage for a few Seconds at least the other berserkers are endgame optional bosses that you can come back and fight when you have better gear That gravestone is a keyhole that looks to fit the help you found and if I'm right you best prepare for a fight They intentionally designed this first one to take this long to kill with only four fucking attacks That gravestone So because I'm feeling charitable at the moment I will start with the more Reasonable issues that were brought up with the video and then get to the less Reasonable ones to put it lightly probably the most reasonable criticism of my video is the simple factual and accuracy I made around the first berserker boss battle. It is not in fact mandatory You can actually just walk right past it. So why did I think it was mandatory? Well, a few reasons one my brain was completely fried at this point in the stream This is about 20 hours into the game and I was so Unbelievably bored by the game that I had trouble paying attention a lot of the time So when you come across this fight, it is literally on your linear path to the end of the level It is right before the end of the second spartal time visit So when both Kratos and Freya comment on this boss battle right in front of you that made it seem like it was mandatory Then the rest matters little I saw a gateway near here overlooking the bay we can get to it with your spear I think this way so when both Kratos and Freya comment on this boss battle right in front of you That made it seem like it was mandatory that gravestone There's a keyhole that looks to fit the hilt you found and if I'm right you best prepare for a fight Hey big guy Now obviously in my brain I must have hallucinated the main objective marker over it because clearly it's not there But it is in fact optional. You can just walk right past it. So here's the question Does this actually matter? Not really. No, it doesn't take away from any of my other points about the boss battle At least the other berserkers are endgame optional bosses that you can come back and fight when you have better gear How it's a very obvious Difficulty spike and no it doesn't matter that it's optional because it's placed directly in front of you How many people are gonna fight this boss and then just quit and leave? I would hope nobody because for all the comments I saw about me having a skill issue or mad cuz bad or whatever Stupid zoomer gotcha variation. We're using this month. I actually beat the boss without quitting Placing an optional super boss right in front of the player Means that you're expected to be able to take him at this point My issues with the boss have not changed whether or not he's optional He has too much health and too small a move set given how much healthy as for what point in the game You're expected to fight him But despite my issues with a few bosses in particular I'd say overall I had fun with the combat when I actually was allowed to fight enemies Now, of course, I do think the combat does have some flaws Just like everything has flaws So I'll just bring up the few that I think are significant enough to drag down the experience The first issue I'll get into is the enemy variety as this was something the developers actually praised about this game And it feels completely unearned because guess what they reused almost every enemy type from the first game And I mean exact same animations and attacks. Oh my god The game takes place in the same world as the last game. It's gonna have some of the same enemies Okay, this is how I know this guy's a retard You just argued that I don't know how video games work and then you just made a meta argument for why in Universe the same enemies would appear. You're a moron. I'm just gonna say it I don't care if I get in trouble for mocking you. You deserve to be mocked for a statement like this Why didn't the old God of War games reuse every enemy type then it was grease It would have the same enemies, right? Because it's fucking lazy. It makes the game feel like the last game Have you never played a sequel in your life? This is the absolute state of gamers, dude This is why I have no respect for anyone who buys and plays modern games and actually enjoys them Maybe have all new enemies don't reuse any like literally don't reuse any enemies. I think that'd be a good idea What's bad about reusing enemies Oh, why is that a problem? I don't know dude. How about you just stop sharing your shitty opinion? There's an idea Same executions too and oh I could talk about the executions and how almost all of them are lacking any sort of gore Because they're scared of gore they're absolutely scared of gore modern gaming is so scared of gore They've cut the gore. They've cut the gore. No gore gore doesn't exist in modern games No real gore from this rated M This is about as rated M as the Halo games are these days Because they're scared of gore. They're absolutely scared of gore modern gaming is so scared of gore Same executions too and oh I could talk about the executions and how almost all of them are lacking any sort of gore Which yes, the last game also did it just seems like modern games in general are scared of gore for one reason or another This game is rated M. So what's the fucking problem? I would rather be as honest as humanly possible. It's pretty much the only policy I've stuck to I Don't know I guess this is supposed to be satisfying, but it's really not Probably because it's no gore it was And to get back to the enemy variety I feel like a lot of the new enemy types are just kind of lame like generic Viking Raiders on Midgard or the Asgard Warriors which are all zombies the frog enemies that surprisingly show up in like three different realms And a lot of the ones that aren't lame visually anyway are actually very annoying to fight like the new light elf variant That's a samurai or the Asgard warrior who has a bifrost pick and a hammer These motherfuckers can attack at lightning speed and have unblockable moves or moves You have to parry and can dodge out of the middle of combos shit like that That just makes them not very fun to engage with unless you're spamming runic attacks and for my last major Criticism of the combat. Let's talk about hard mode somewhat briefly as tempting as it is to talk about this in length because I Unfortunately played about two-thirds of the game on hard mode or give me no mercy It's a waste of time because most people will never play it on hard and trust me It's a mistake and not for the reason you're thinking most people would think oh the enemies just do too much damage Or they have too much health well I didn't find out what the real problem was until about 15 to 20 hours in Because originally I did turn down the difficulty from hard to normal just a few hours into the game But it turns out there's a bug where sometimes your difficulty change will not save even after the checkpoint restart So I actually ended up playing the game on hard for about eight more hours Until I finally decided to check it again after dying really quickly to neath hoag All right Sometimes I wonder if like the difficulty is bug. There's something like I never actually left hard mode Let me just double-check Wait what wait a minute what? Wait a minute guys I've been on hard mode the whole time Unfortunately, I let chat vote on whether or not I should stay on hard So I still ended up playing on hard all the way up until that first berserker fight and after a few more combat Encounters I finally figured out what hard mode really does it gives every enemy in the game Super armor. Yes, even basic enemy types So my original recording for this combat section was actually much more negative than this Because I was very annoyed by the fact that every single enemy would either dodge out of the middle of your combo or Attack straight through the motherfucking god of wars X swings to the chest I just figured it was a normal gameplay mechanic that only heavy attacks and runic attacks would actually stun the enemy Because I don't think I've ever encountered a hard mode that introduces super armor What a horrible fucking idea that said there was one upside to playing the game on hard and then later on normal That being the realization the enemies have way too much health even on normal mode What the hell were they thinking that every single enemy in the game takes at least six hits to kill from the motherfucking god of war If you have an insane difficulty then I'm gonna pick hard I'm not gonna pick you know pussy as normal now imagine the amount of Criticisms quote-unquote that would open my channel to if I played games on game journalist difficulty Playing on hard just removes one more thing that people can take away from my videos Not ever I guess I'll just this will be yet another criticism of this 10 out of 10 game of the year game Not that I didn't have plenty of criticisms for For Elden ring which unfortunately is probably Probably gonna be game of the year if you have an insane difficulty then I'm gonna pick hard I'm not gonna pick you know pussy as normal you can get all three. All right. Where's the third one? I want a cheat someone Give me always let me guess it's here. God damn it. I wasn't paying attention chat. Feel free to give me the location of the third Spinny thing. I'm free for chat to cheat for me if they want that'd be fine by me Why would I go on YouTube? I'm not cheating on stream. I Did that annoys me when people even suggest you like that? I? Fucking hate he can arbitrarily decide if the second hit in his combo is is Unblockable it is so fucking awful. Yeah, it's pixelating at one second. Let me just fucking We're like bad a game Zed Well, like eat my dick But on easy I'm not playing this game on easy you out of your mind I guarantee they only tested this on easy mode because they knew all the game Journalists and the developers played on easy mode, too. They all suck. Yeah. Oh, you're just supposed to get good Yeah, whatever fuck. Yeah. Yeah, you didn't play this as fuck you you did I don't believe it. I need to get an upgrade that just makes all the attacks freeze guys or something because There's too many buttons To do the thing I want to do. Yeah, I a game where it takes 20 20 hits to kill an enemy as the best combat. Yeah, and that's another thing to do anything different or experiment You're punished dude. This is too many moves. I'm gonna forget some of these They want you to combo the blades and the axe. That's stupid Or X the ice axe does more if you do the birding first No one's ever doing that shit. No one's ever doing that. See even with me like max damaging That took like a shit ton of this dude. This is too many moves. I'm gonna forget some of these I wasn't paying attention No, that's my fault not the game's fault. It's my fault Above you can't freeze it above the wheel. What do you? You have never been able to freeze water. You couldn't touch You have never been able to freeze water. You couldn't touch. This is bullshit. This is utter fucking bullshit The game literally I have thrown it at shit that doesn't freeze. This is so it's bullshit. No, that's not an L That's I've I want to call it words that I can't say That's that's a bundle of sticks is what that is Motherfucker these guys are dude. No, they didn't test it. They didn't they test it on easy for the journalists This is a fucking bullshit your opinion is shit and no one should take you seriously ever again on any video It's just yeah, just resist every move you dick And jump backward you see that you can just jump backward at any time do I think people just say it's shitty Because they're bad at it What do these goals do am I getting something out of this? I'm getting exp. Okay, I Should probably check skills how much exp I got 8,000. Yeah, I thought it was about time That's so obvious. Well, how did I miss that? Motherfucker the auto targeting is pissing me off. I know I can lock on but I don't I think people just say it's shitty Because they're bad at it What how did that hit me? Okay, I need to breathe because because the silent rage the silent rage is worse than the loud rage And and and some retard is gonna be like Don't you just kill you just kill you just kill you just kill you just kill you just kill you I'm not gonna cheese them, but I want to see if you can now you can't cheese them They thought of it. Look you can't even hurt him. I just I had Skill issue the skill issue can't why does thought dude I locked on to this guy didn't hit the right The whole buffing fire thing is stupid. It's fucking stupid. This is a bad boss It's just a bad boss. I think people just say it's shitty because they're bad at it But you're the God of war of course you made a paper. Well, it's hard mode dude It's hard mode, but the funny thing is there's a difficulty above this. There is a difficulty above this So I think Using hard mode as an excuse is it's not it's not a good excuse when it's not even the hardest difficulty, you know Especially when in a lot of modern games hard is the new normal obviously not for this though You've made a bad boss. I want to restart checkpoint again Just kill me. I'm restart checkpoint yet Cuz let me get let me just pull out my notes. Let me pull out my notes I'm gonna write down all of the let me just memorize. Okay, so let's get this straight one He could do a random unblockable as a second of a combo to he can input read and cancel his three-hit combo at any time Next point he buffs himself and if you hit him he explodes for no reason so you have to throw him with the ice I wasn't paying attention No, that's my fault. Not the game's fault. It's my fault. I'm tanking the hits just to Get his meter up Okay, go get what? Oh, you don't get an attack. Oh my god. It's pointless. It's pointless. It's stun meter is pointless It's stun meter is pointless. Okay. That's another one for the bullshit list the stun meter doesn't work on this boss It doesn't do a move. Are you fucking joking? I could this game be any shittier. It doesn't even follow its own rules This game sucks this game sucks I live that all three of it made this This game sucks this game sucks. This is normal difficulty. This is normal difficulty this game sucks. Just kill a shoe Just kill a shoe Look how long that took look at how long that took Good good fucking game design motherfucker God damn it. I didn't even get a directional indicator for that poison really I wouldn't be surprised if they think like most gamers are extremely incompetent at games and need shit spoon fed to them Constantly. Oh, yeah, it's fire skeleton number four guys. Let's see how many times this one takes me to kill I Hate the mechanics of this game. I really do dude. This is too many moves. I'm gonna forget some of these There's too many buttons Do the thing I want to do. Okay, I guess I can I can level her up. I guess. Oh She go Valkyrie mode man that actually might have helped me If I had upgraded her that might have actually helped me a little They want you to combo the blades and the axe. That's stupid Or X the ice axe does more if you do the birding first. No one's ever doing that shit No one's ever doing that see even with me like max damaging that took like a shit ton of bits Dude, this is too many moves. I'm gonna forget some of these I don't want to have to like change one of my maiden points in the video Well, not change it but just say like in the beginning of the game enemies are too sponge, you know Is now I'm doing proper damage Man that is really good I wasn't paying attention No, that's my fault not the game's fault. Oh my god now every one of you saying I'm bad the game is to take it back No, you have to take you have to apologize. I want to see I'm sorry synthetic man in the chat I want to see it. That's not a DSP moment. That's the opposite. You dumb asses. I swear to God That is the opposite. You're saying I'm DSP for playing it on hard mode Retards actual retards you guys if I chat I didn't I can't believe you guys are this dumb There's dumb people in the chat fairly. Why would I replay the game? What are you talking about? I'm not gonna give it a higher score. Anyway, I don't like the comment Yeah, I know but I feel like downgrading a criticism from the gate the enemies are spongy to Hard mode is spongy is not nearly as much of a criticism against the game You know, and I'm not gonna play it again on normal to find out if it's not spongy on normally I Swear to God I have to hit him or a blow up, but if another guy hits me while I'm recalling my axe I can't block the skill issue the skill issue the skill issue the skill issue the skill issue Oh my god, don't blame the game for your lack of skill you haven't even played the game I love when people don't play the game. Tell me not to play the game. That's the funny part skill issue This skill issue the skill issue this skill issue. I'm never dropping down to easy BP Jordy play the game. Just play the fucking game and every time you die I want you to tell me tell me how many times you died record it write it down But you'll lie because your pathetic weak ego won't allow it I'm really just kind of mashing my way through this at this point The game is pretty inconsistent like these guys are dying pretty fast partly cuz I had my fire Like that the combat works, it's just there's a lot of buttons for us and I'm fucking up the buttons Now again, once you have runic attacks and all these different weapon buffs and things that isn't really the case anymore In fact by the end of the game I was pretty much just swapping between my three weapons spamming the light and heavy runic attacks and everything was dead So the comet was still fun. This is not me like counteracting my previous statements. I still think the comet is good I just think the enemies have too much fucking health I think in a full-blown RPG which I wouldn't consider this one It is an action game with light RPG mechanics But a full-blown RPG like Dragon's Dogma which actually played a little bit of directly after I finished this game on stream In the early game enemies do feel like they have too much health because your attack is too low But that's built into the game systems so that once you're level 50 and have better gear You can kill all those pussy-ass enemies in one hit. There isn't really an equivalent in God of War There's only one time during the game story where they purposely throw enemies with less health at you to make you feel Powerful and that was one of my favorite encounters in the game These stats attached to armor seem to have a very minor influence on your overall stats Someone actually did testing for the original game and found this out and it seems like they haven't changed anything So the only things that matter are the passives which range from incredibly situational to actually pretty damn good and your overall gear level which is by far the most important thing Once again, it feels like this game was designed primarily for casual gamers people who don't care about stats or numbers or min-maxing If I had upgraded or that might have actually helped me a little They want you to combo the blades and the axe. That's stupid. Dude. This is too many moves I'm gonna forget some of these. There's too many buttons to do the thing. I want to do You just equip the gear that has the highest number and move on and the few people who do care that Gear is saved specifically for the end game So it makes you question why the gear system even exists Well, I feel like the obvious answer is the same answer that you could give for any modern game that has crafting or a million side quests or activities Scattered throughout the map the AAA industry all copy off of each other They see what works for one company and they steal some of those concepts and add it to their game They call it feature creep right and while personally I hate crafting I actually usually like RPG mechanics. They're just two bare bones in these last two games So now that we've talked about combat pretty thoroughly. It's time we talk about level design This is not gonna be a long section because the level design is very Simple and exactly the same for every realm in the game. Stop me if you've heard this one before It's a set of combat arenas connected with linear hallways Everything that's in between a combat encounter is either a puzzle or a minor optional little side pathway That has a treasure chest at the end. I know a shit ton of you are gonna have no problem with this whatsoever You might not even notice that it's all a bunch of linear hallways But I just want to remind you that back when Final Fantasy 13 came out everyone called it final hallway 13 And the resemblance is truly uncanny Yeah Now this has become increasingly Common in any single-player game that doesn't feature a sandbox now these last two God of War games have featured both Sort of anyway the mini sandboxes are just islands Connected by a glorified loading screen. So it's not all that different But at least it has the illusion of exploration, right? Which is much better than the hallways I'm not shitting on it if you see a treasure chest right across an invisible wall that you could just feasibly Jump over which of course you can't fucking jump in half of modern games either Which is just bizarre Everything feels like a hallway in a circle in a hallway in a circle in this game And there's only so many ways I can complain about that before it gets tiresome Just know that I'm not asking for another sandbox or open world I'm just asking for a little bit more player Interactivity a little bit more actual control over the game player choice, right? I know it's a bit of a meme term, but when you restrict my controls so heavily by putting invisible walls everywhere It makes the game less fun every single time without exception So we might as well talk about the puzzles too. I fucking hate the puzzles Every single puzzle has the same exact solution you look around the room and you throw your axe or you throw your blades That's it. The difficulty ranges from extremely easy and brain-dead to Weirdly difficult just because you miss something obvious or you forget how a mechanic works People made fun of me multiple times on the streams because I forgot a simple mechanic like Runic arrows can explode fire which made a puzzle way more difficult than it was supposed to be But the puzzles just feel completely pointless and like padding because they feel less like puzzles and more like a game of I spy Oh so someone said shoot middle pillar then the missing flame then directly the blue flame that doesn't work that doesn't work that doesn't work we've we've done this already we've i you can't it doesn't activate the flame what what there we go I literally already did that this game is pissing me off it's pissing me off it's pissing me off it didn't work are you guys saw me shoot it like a few minutes ago I literally did that already I literally did that already this is bullshit games bugged buggy puzzle mechanics have nothing to do with with intelligence I don't know what the hell you talking about there's almost no actual thinking involved and look I know in the original God of War games it wasn't that much different just replace I spy with block puzzles and you have essentially the same thing right okay so it doesn't stay actually don't know which way I'm supposed to be pointing this I think I gotta turn it on first you know it'd be great if I could just ask a trace to hold this for me I think that'd be cool I mean I know he's weak and pathetic but you know I like that damn it I didn't just barely off I that thing looks like you get hit but obviously you can't maybe if I throw a heavy throw will knock it slightly no 200 IQ there the game is about to call me a retard I know it and I'm gonna feel bad about it when we said I mean this has got to be it but if I let go it goes up oh wait a minute you know maybe I'm supposed to let go and just time it fuck yeah yeah that's what you're supposed to do can I just do it from here or up there no okay yeah you gotta time it dammit all right there's almost no actual thinking involved but there were way too many puzzles in this game yes some were just optional norm chests but you really think I'm gonna ignore this loot right in front of me no the game is 25 hours long why the hell do you need this many puzzles man it makes no sense and that's not even mentioning the backseat gaming from the NPC's every single one of the story mandatory puzzles one of the characters will literally give you the solution if you take too long which doesn't sound so bad right except how long do you think is too long just take a guess it's less than whatever you think it is it's like one minute dude there have been several puzzles in the game where I was actively in the middle of solving it and the character told me what to do it pissed me off so goddamn much fire or something and you turn it somehow yeah I can turn it but I don't I haven't even figured out the puzzle yet woman give me a second swing that torch to the other shush shush I'm gonna kill you ten out of ten babies you told you exactly what to do what the hell shut up what do you do oh my god listen I've had my retard moments during these last few streams I'm not I won't pretend I didn't what stop stop stop I'm putting this in the video I'm putting this in the fucking video this is no you can't defend this you can't defend this and you want to know why the developers did this you'll never believe it it's because of dark side Phil DSP and if you don't know who it is it's not worth explaining to you but let's just say he's one of the worst gamers of all time he's notoriously horrible at every video game he plays rated M so what you're telling me adult men are actually like fully actually retarded like we're talking unironically you your brain doesn't fucking work why not simply hold right there's almost no actual thinking involved and they fucking designed their game around him of all people so now it's finally time to get to this story as you can probably tell by how much is left of the video I had a lot to say and most of it is not positive as hard as I tried up until this point to be as fair as I possibly could to this game this is about where that stops I fucking hated this story I honestly struggled to think of anything I actually liked about it and I mean anything and there's a reason that non-sony fans call these games movie games because they really are fucking movies 70% of this game is some type of cutscene 70% is not spent actually playing the fucking game I'm said to you still streaming this well I have to play the whole game so I figured I'll still stream it while while I feel like streaming I think at a certain point I probably will stop just because I mean you guys I'm gonna run out of the only major reactions after a certain point are just gonna be to story moments and those are gonna be few and far in between the exploration gameplay 70% of this game is some type of cutscene 70% is not spent actually playing the fucking game story moments and those are gonna be few and far in between the exploration gameplay down to some of the quick time events not even being real quick time events as in you cannot fail them okay you don't want me to hit the problem right oh no you have infinite time don't you yeah oh my god 10 out of 10 11 out of 10 12 out of 10 every every game Sony makes is a fucking masterpiece yeah good Sony good job normally I would never spend over half a video talking about the story but when over half the game is the story I fear I have no choice I know I've already said a few times it really feels like the story is padding at this point but I don't know what the fuck is even I don't know what our goal is going into Ragnarok you know like what are we attempting to achieve before Ragnarok you know so so none of it's good none of the story is good so here we go the complete story breakdown of God of War Ragnarok so Ragnarok is a direct sequel to the last one to no surprise but there has been a time skip I think it's an undefined amount of time so I'll just assume it's four years Atreus has hit puberty and no that's not a specific plot point but it might as well be it doesn't even matter because despite literally being given a waifu he doesn't show any sexual interest in her whatsoever she's a child bro they're the last two of the species dude and it's ancient Norse okay someone educate this play slate this is these are ancient times that the fucking age consent didn't exist it turns out in the time between games Atreus and Kratos have literally just been hiding in their house waiting for the world to end I wish I was fucking joking but yes despite an apocalyptic winter coming to midgard the heroes do nothing we prepare for a fight for which we are not ready I just wish Atreus were not so restless I care only for your safety my story doesn't end hiding in these woods I should be out there finding out who I am who Loki is I will not allow you to pick a fight with God I will not march my son to war he is no Spartan I would keep it that way I can hide no longer I do not want this war we have suffered enough yes despite an apocalyptic winter coming to midgard the heroes do nothing dude Kratos literally fucking says it in the game they're training for when the gods eventually find where they're hiding out and attack them they're not doing nothing oh they trained oh so what are the results of their labor if they were training so hard wouldn't they start with more abilities than they had in the last game they wouldn't start at level one with level one equipment right they wouldn't just stick with the same equipment and abilities if they were training so hard for three years right it turns out that Freya has been trying to kill Kratos for the last four years but despite knowing exactly where he lives she somehow has failed every time despite the game trying to tell us that Freya is totally a threat guys she's a super badass she could probably even take Kratos you know I would have beaten you what earlier if a Treyas hadn't been there hmm perhaps we could go again find out for certain I would rather not I'll bet you maybe you should try listening to the video before you make presumptuous comments like this at no point did I say Freya should break into their front door and challenge Kratos directly or kill him in his sleep I guess how does that make any sense the point is she could easily plan a better assassination than flying bird form from above and try to get a surprise attack in especially after likely three years of attempts Freya is a super powerful mage and warrior aka a Mary Sue and that's the best she could do really now I understand why everybody makes three-hour videos these days because unless you explain every point you make in detail someone will attempt a gotcha instead of applying any critical thinking why do you think Freya had only two options and yeah I don't think I need to expand on this comment any further I think I put it pretty succinctly here the problem isn't that she didn't show up at their front door to attack them it's that she had no plan and didn't use her vast magical ability to assist her in some way so the story really begins with Fenrir dying you can consider this the first of many Ryan Johnson-esque subversion moments in this story because if you know anything about Ragnarok from actual Norse pathology you know Fenrir is a big part of it the game also tries really hard to tug at your heartstrings here but we literally just met this wolf we've never seen him before so it doesn't work Sony sucks so goddamn hard now yes we will kills the dog in the beginning of the story to hook you it's like we don't we didn't even see the dog and fucking soyboy weirdos don't even like dogs anyway literally the first 20 minutes are one giant cutscene you don't even really get to play the game unless you count engaging with a quick time event and moving the analog stick left or right as game play Atreus runs off into the woods Kratos chases him turns out he can now turn into animals yes the biggest character development for Atreus is that he is now a furry and so Kratos now determines that his son can't be trusted since he can't control his emotions or something remember this plot point for later then Odin and Thor finally show up and honestly the game could have just started here and this is the second major point of subversion because despite God of War 2018 building up Odin and especially Thor as being like these badass super powerful guys Odin looks like a frail old man and sounds like a snake oil salesman you know who I am back before winter set in there were some misunderstanding regrettable ones but I think we all have a better idea of who we're dealing with now what you did to his boys self-defense Odin is meant to look old and frail he's not the MCU version he's meant to be deceiving and manipulative I don't even necessarily disagree with this it's more just a wider statement about how the Norse gods are all kind of pathetic rednecks that the game is trying to make a statement that even the gods are human look they have human flaws which makes them more relatable why do characters have to be relatable why do gods of all things have to be relatable isn't it more refreshing to have some divine supreme being that is hard to understand because they've always been better than everyone else kind of like how they wrote Heimdall actually which is probably why he was my favorite character having the gods all be losers is just kind of depressing I don't know it feels deeply cynical even in a way that's hard for me to comprehend but I don't think most people think about it that way they just like the fact that the gods are human just like us well I don't personally I hate it and some people have implied that he's supposed to be a Trump allegory but I will give the developers the benefit of the doubt this time and just say he's supposed to be some generic fascist smooth talker I guess there's always a why are we talking to him the plan was to kill him they literally said this in the story the plan was to kill him you can choose to be better oh my god fringe no there's no choosing that fuck off what happens next I will never stop why did they make Odin's vocals similar to Trump I don't know why would they weird Odin used her and she unwittingly paid the price classic Odin she is a monster also this Odin man bad shit is is like reaching meme levels where it's like the Odin that's talking to a trace is like a nice old man dude who's acting like you know an uncle or grandpa and then the game constantly tells you how horrible he is he really is like the Trump of this game and some people have implied that he's supposed to be a Trump allegory but I will give the developers the benefit of the doubt this time some people have implied it sucks I'm too honest it really sucks it I'm too honest Thor is a fat fuck alcoholic who has daddy issues we don't learn most of that until later but we might as well get it out of the way now and God I just fucking hate this design anyone who says he looks like a strong man has never actually seen a strong man even Eddie Hall at his fattest had more muscle definition than this what the fuck are you talking about there's a lot of strong men that look like thwart Odin came to this what is this not is he not retarded you can't see the difference between these two pictures you put that in your video you put it in your fucking video oh don't look like the same picture to you this is like the meme this is the it's like the opposite of the meme actually all right this this guy's retarded this guy's actually blind and retarded I can't I can't fucking I'm mad I look at his chest look at the arms yes his arms are covered in there but still the point is are you fucking in lots of strong man and he literally just shows Eddie Hall which was the fattest Eddie Hall bulked up to like 430 pounds for that or something like that and at 6 2 6 2 and a half again you don't know what you're talking about but you pretend you do the fucking Dunning Kruger is pissing me off the arrogance people say I'm arrogant but at least I know what I'm talking about like holy shit this is just embarrassing this again same picture same picture that definitely looks like the same thing but people who don't lift people don't lift will tell you this is this I don't see the difference looks like the same guy it just made the Nordic gods a bunch of like trailer park trash they're all rednecks again it makes no sense I don't know because why white people bad or something I don't know it's avert your expectations directed by Ryan Johnson whatever I'm wasting too much time on this basically Odin came to offer peace Kratos refuses which might as well be a declaration of war just keep that in mind for later and so you get your first huge boss battle with Thor which actually was really fun one of the most fun parts of the game for sure very similar to the first game where you fight Balder in the beginning and we also find out during that conversation that Atreus somehow was sneaking off during the in-between years searching for tear in the other realms and of course Odin found out as he has spies everywhere so Kratos eventually decides okay son let's go look for tear which they put off for no reason by the way that was so obviously the setup of the previous game why do they keep trying to make Kratos the reluctant protagonist and honestly the truth is he's not even really the real protagonist of this game Atreus is and you play as Atreus for roughly half the game and his gameplay segments are the worst they're completely fucking brain-dead it basically turns the game into a third-person shooter where you just charge up elemental arrows and then charge up normal arrows and the game is such a generous aim assist that you don't even feel like you're playing the fucking game I purposely didn't talk about Atreus during the combat section because it would be purely negative even on hard mode his segments were completely fucking brain-dead I think I only died one time and it's because it wasn't paying attention anyway so rather anti-climactically you find tear in Svartolfheim the dwarf realm and Ryan Johnson subversion number three the god of war is a fucking pussy and he does absolutely nothing for the most of the story now obviously those of you who finished the game know why and in retrospect it is slightly justified even considering the twist this still comes across like the developers spitting in the face of the player because they spent so much time building up tear in the last game that when we finally meet him he's fucking worthless God killer the Giants are were very private people didn't die she lied a meal fit for a champion I never thought I'd have the pleasure of seeing you again Frick don't call me that they stole drop near what would drive you to such mischief is this look he's doing enough I'm dolls dead I can't believe it there's no stopping it now Odin swore peace only so long as you spilled no more ace your blood I refuse that deal yet he honored it I'm fine I just hope unlocking this thing was worth the cost you have it what did it show you I feel like the whole tier being owed in the whole time thing they came up with like later I don't think that was the original idea for the game that's my theory because Bori Balrog didn't direct this one for whatever reason I think I think that was a change in direction then in the next section of the game the characters don't really know what to do and one of the major themes of the game reveals itself being that Kratos is an overprotective father and despite being the god of war he doesn't want war which actually doesn't make any sense given what we saw at the beginning of the game when Kratos refuses Odin's offering of peace seriously somebody explain this he doesn't want war yet he refused peace you can't have it both ways at no point did I imply Kratos should trust Odin that would make no sense but you knew that you knew I knew that but it's easier to attack one of the weaker arguments of the video instead of defend against my more significant criticisms that said I will concede I didn't explain my point here very well so I'll explain it better if Kratos truly wanted to avoid bloodshed he had only one choice except the peace treaty that doesn't mean he has to trust Odin or let Freya die obviously he would have to find a way to avoid Odin's Ravens but ideally he would try to save Freya immediately after accepting the treaty and she still wouldn't forgive him but it would be a step in the right direction now obviously you would have to rewrite a lot of the plot to make this work but you could probably still work in the tear twist so Odin would know of Kratos breaking the treaty then Odin would pretend to not know to get Atreus to complete the mask it's not a perfect fix but at least Kratos wouldn't be constantly moaning about not wanting war I don't care enough to make a video rewriting the plot but I'm sure someone on this platform will so the point I'm trying to get at here is that I didn't actually care whether or not Kratos accepted the treaty my point was he's constantly bitching and moaning about not wanting war as the god of war you know one of the major points of Ryan Johnson-esque subversion in the story and it just gets annoying and repetitive and tiresome after a while and so he doesn't trust Atreus off on his own because yeah he's only a teenager but Atreus sneaks off anyway to go try and make peace with Freya and this whole plotline is fucking stupid they killed her son there's no fucking way Freya would ever team up with Kratos but eventually they do convince her way later but for now of course she refuses and she almost kills Atreus and I was absolutely rooting for her at this part do it kill him do it but no she lets him go and funny enough I actually forgot what happened in the next couple hours of gameplay I had to review my footage because I literally forgot why the crew then goes to Alfheim it turns out it was to seek wisdom from Groha the keeper of knowledge and eventually after fighting your way through the now light elf dominated landscape and guess what the light elves are bad too everyone's a bad guy in war who would have thought are the developers trying to tell me that Ukraine aren't the universal good guys who are gonna save the world and defeat those evil fascists in Russia I'm surprised as somebody hasn't tried to cancel Sony Santa Monica for this is there a right side in this war oh no are you saying Ukraine might not be the good guys oh no the developers can't be saying that are they let's cancel them on Twitter guys come on I thought Ukraine was they were always the good guys they were fighting for the free world it's only lights now I guess and light is also bad the dark and the light are both bad guys expectations subverted so then we fought our way through an army of dark elves to get to the light you interfered in the health war not by choice we sought to fill our bifrost and they attacked us the dark elves were covering you with their sticky hive stuff when we freed it light up came you seem better in alpha did they now I see the elves continue their war yeah so much for things being better in alpha we don't want to hurt you we do not have a choice we're the ones who freed the light why are you fighting us we help you last on trace focus most unfortunate they attacked us more will follow once we're inside is there truly no other way not like they're giving us much of a choice so your father said I'm just naive I suppose no just an optimist old friend this statue depicts the elves before the war before they discovered the power of the light after the creation of the nine realms fallen souls began to gather down in those waters when the elves discovered its potential they built this temple to harness that energy a smashing success to see the many of them became addicted to their newfound power and thus the light elves were born temple looks so different than I remember it was all broken and covered in hive stuff last time we were here these elves use alphine's light and themselves by the look of it so if these elves use the light to build doors and make themselves stronger what do the dark elves want with it to return it back to its source to them the natural resources of alphime are sacred none more so than the light itself hi the light elf success came at a terrible price alphine's once lively desert withered into a storm-ridden wasteland soon after the creation of this temple I get it now why they keep fighting the turk elves want the souls in the light left alone the light of us want to keep using them that's the long and short of it hi so then which side is right rarely is it so simple and not our place to say this is an elven conflict I said as much the last time we were now five right here the last time we were here killed the dark elf that's unfortunate I'd wonder in what became of smartly offer we had to defend ourselves but when he died he told us we helped the wrong side I see all this time I thought the dark elf came I thought all the dark elves were here yes did we help the wrong side hmm are you certain that's the right question I what's the right question is there a right side exactly what do you think atreus is there a right side in this war I I don't then perhaps you shouldn't pick one and light is also bad the dark and the light are both bad guys expectations subverted forgive me if I don't pay attention to the countless pointless dialogue quit talking over the game but you really want to hear all this shitty dialogue dude blow the $70 yourself on the shitty game if you really care about the dialogue I didn't like it before I played it yeah that's the ultimate cope in fact actually if you're asking to hear the dialogue again you're part of the problem all this sucks none of this matters the light elves are bad too everyone's a bad guy in war who would have thought in fact actually if you're asking to hear the dialogue again you're part of the problem your opinion is shit and no one should take you seriously ever again on any video game I wasn't fuck I wasn't paying attention who's fray talking about chat fill me in who's mad at us not that it matters the next game is not gonna be here either it'll be about Treyas or they're gonna reboot it finally I hope they I hope they you know honestly I hope they just let it die because Sony can't be trusted with the God of War requires no refreshment yeah let's just cut off that conversation I remember that was the thing in the last one too I'm glad I got to cut him off enough talk for now be ready I hope we never hear the rest of that story help it Treyas is this meant to scare me well you should know it's working why is he talking I'm upgrading there's you don't need to talk I'm fucking fuck you dude what is with this game I'm doing something you don't need to talk to engage me like what I hate I hate it I hate it give me my janky PS1 bullshit any day over this part of five sounds you need a Treyas all right yeah interrupt his stupid ass who cares God you know what people can shit on item district descriptions from souls as much as they want but at least it made engaging with the world optional the game telling you what what the backstory is is way shittier than item descriptions dragon's talking with who would be the best game ever if night dog steps worked on it with Japan's oversight I'm assuming you're joking right if I really not been paying attention that much I just love it was bad enough having a Treyas and Mimir talking now I have tear talking to stop just stop talking to stop don't talk anymore knuckles is the only knuckles and rouge are the only arguably black characters and sonnet designed by a trans person by the way so you can think of it as a first Sona an unofficial unofficial trans character the light elves are bad too everyone's a bad guy in war who would have thought I wasn't paying attention no that's my fault not the game's fault it's my fault after fighting your way to the end of the level the game discovers that the prophecy that Groha told Odin was a lie and that Ragnarok would not be the end of all things but only as guards specifically and atreus now believes that he will be the champion that leads all these armies Kratos obviously does not like the idea of this again now that he's a cartoonishly overprotective father and so the writers decided we don't have enough forced melodrama yet so we get a kind of bizarre moment but what if Loki going to ironwood is the only way that my son I should be out there finding out who I am who Loki is I will not allow you to pick a fight with guards someone that could give us answers about the giants and who Loki is supposed to be when that helped to understand what I'm becoming the trace do you learn control we'll take no unnecessary risk there's something you should see now just trust me you'll want to trust a broken my trust he knows tier could unite the realm against it plus the giants greatest ally so enough maybe they just need a couple of gods to come along and take the fight to him trace that is not why we are here I was only joking war is not a joke especially where gods are concerned it seems to us you intend to recruit here as an ally for war I just I'm trying to keep our options open maybe finding tears our best protection seemed like Odin really didn't want us to find her once tears free and can be god of war again Odin won't have time to worry about us if that is his war to fight he may have it father what if a war with Odin isn't just tears to fight what if it's ours to war is not the only way okay so we came here looking for tier because we don't trust Odin right if you think I'm good sure hope tears here betray us we seek information I know stop acting like I'm trying to start a war yet you do not say otherwise maybe we can lay this to rest a bit a I can't help but feel like you're angry with me or something ever since we got to Svato fun you've been critical of my every move if you don't think I can lead us just say so it is not your competence that is in question okay but what does that mean consider your intent I intend to help the god of war stop Odin and that means freeing him from whatever prison he's in right now here well I certainly don't think this is where tier come layers he's got to be here someone this mine is huge trace what do you intend to stop Odin from doing you speak as if you know his plan I don't know his plan that's why I'm brothers with fimble winter underway and Ragnarok around the corner Odin will be desperate whatever he's planning to do surely won't be to the benefit of anyone but himself exactly okay new exercise let's think about tears probably feeling locked up in this mine I were imprisoned by Odin and finally freed Odin would obviously be at the top of my list but I would just want to fight something anything even if it was just another mental exercise would one who spends their life fighting such as tear have any desire to prove themselves the proof destruction but if the wake of destruction is a bunch of bad guys what does that matter you're strong and you did the right thing war does not measure the strength of a man I hope one day you understand why risk Odin's wrath to free me well Ragnarok is coming I hope you knew that we thought you'd want to help you freed me only to start a war no um we can beat Odin we are not present in any of this but that was tear leading the charge against Asgard plus how's army was there in the elves champion okay whoever that is doesn't matter look I just want to do the right thing in according to prophecy speak no more of prophecy war will not give you the purpose you seek only slaughter so what are we supposed to do roll over do nothing enough you want war Treyas see if yourself the legacy this one has left for the Barons what if the Giants are counting on me what Giants that used the judgment of a man and not of a child and so the writers decided we don't have enough forced melodrama yet so we get a kind of bizarre moment but what if Loki going to Ironwood is the only way that in fact actually if you're asking to hear the dialogue again you're part of the problem all this sucks none of this matters I don't know dude how about you just stop sharing your shitty opinion there's an idea am I the only one who thinks Sindri is like a groomer or pedophile or something every single time a trace is by himself Sindri is also there is like a creepy tiny old man encouraging all the strange whims that a Treyas has against his father kind of reminds me of certain discord communities I just need to look out for the people I care about keeps bad things from happening to them there's like a pedo working for Sony who's like Sindri should be with the Treyas in every scene yeah I see why are they they are pushing the gay vibes they really are well if you'll follow me rock mentioned you need somewhere safe to spend the night and I believe someone make a gay joke I miss the opportunity I'll Sindri just sounds like a bundle of sticks I wonder if Sony was allowed to be full woke like these devs if they would make them like lovers to some shit I just Sindri they made even gayer I feel like then he was before so I'm just I'm getting that vibe disturbing like pedo vibes alright time to continue the giant race let's go we're skipping dates not even gonna kiss let's just go for it I'm in yeah he's a child bro they're the last two of the species dude and it's ancient Norse okay someone educate this thanks late this is these are ancient times that the fucking age consent didn't exist disturbing like pedo vibes and so now a Treyas starts singing of iron wood which earlier Jormen Gander told him about and he is transported into a magical pocket dimension first he starts seeing visions of the worst moment from the last game where as a small child he kills Thor's son in cold blood it still pisses me off to this day that Kratos didn't beat his son immediately after that I could probably make a video just about the emasculation of Kratos in this game but but we'll get into that more later so now that he's been shown the worst parts of himself he wakes up inside of ironwood this magical forest being protected by giant magic and he meets our token black character for this game and Robota is a completely fucking pointless character she does nothing of relevance in the plot except give Loki a bag of marbles she does nothing of relevance in the plot except give Loki a bag of marbles I realized most gamers are midwits these days rip well most people are midwits you cannot tell me with a straight face of this character wasn't added just for the sake of diversity you know it was why of all cultures of all mythologies would northern Europe possibly the whitest place on earth have black characters yeah I'm sure this what was even she even the god of already forgotten this game is massive disappointment to nor Norse mythology yeah um yeah she even the god of already forgotten the apple core it's not very Norse sounding if I had known how much they would already butcher Norse mythology leading up to this it really doesn't even matter that she's black at this point it's like they don't even give a fuck they're already spitting in the face of anyone who cares about Norse mythology already did wait a minute is there no Valhalla she even the god of already forgotten well you know if I was a conspiracy theorist I would say they're purposely subverting a let's just say indisputably white culture right there they're purposely subverting white culture I you know maybe I shouldn't continue this thought process considering I suspect I am being suppressed in the algorithm but you know if she even the god of already forgotten when am I going to Scandinavia to study Norse mythology and Viking history never it sucks that I'm too honest it really sucks that I'm too honest well it doesn't matter because I'm a bigot for asking I'm a racist for even noticing in the first place and I couldn't even tell you the real answer if I wanted to because I'd be banned from YouTube it doesn't help that all of her dialogue sounds like modern dialect it's like if a Redditor was transported back to ancient Scandinavia and Angrobota is not the only character that speaks in new speak Mimir does it a lot as well and it is incredibly distracting what that combined with all the quips completely removes any tension from any scene in the game characters cannot shut the fuck up stop telling me what the fuck to do she's literally getting me killed and it doesn't help that this is the worst part of the game by far it's two straight fucking hours of not just a traces brain dead gameplay but walking in a straight line listening to a worthless character talk about things that don't matter and worst of all it ends with you fighting Angrobota's giant grandma who is stealing the souls of the animals in the forest because the life is pointless this shit comes out of fucking nowhere and it only exists to give Angrobota a purpose in the story she does nothing of relevance in the plot except give Loki a bag of marbles and it only exists to give Angrobota a purpose in the story I'm confused and anybody telling you this game is fucking mature just take one look at this boss battle and tell me with a straight face that this game is fucking mature this is some baby game shit this is Kingdom Hearts level ooh the giant voodoo black woman throws magic out of her pot at you and you've got to shoot the symbol to stop her and there's nothing about this that is God of War you don't kill her at the end you don't even like maim her in some way no there's just some weird message about how Angrobota will always be in Atreus's shadow just a minor character in his story kind of based this is simultaneously both hilarious and extremely cringe if you didn't cringe at this you are woke beyond any recovery there is no hope for you this is awful and you know it and you just can't admit it because you don't want to be called racist it's that simple while I do think Angrobota's grandmother was a little strange I'm pretty sure Angrobota explains the reasoning behind it she's taking the souls for the experiences of the animals which I think they implied she grew addicted to I noticed you're completely brushing over the woke cringe factor here which was once again obviously my point of the video so you pretty much proved me correct I knew not a single leftist would touch this shit with a 10 foot pole at the fear of coming across as a racist so I accept your concession what a tonal whiplash after that emotional scene it's like we're not allowed to feel sad for more than two seconds well then that's two out of three let's try race me come on I see what you're doing you know you want to rematch after last I appreciate last time I beat you I'm pretty sure it was a tie pretty sure it wasn't so prove me wrong one two three go fine you come in or what no you don't I feel like the reviewer missed so many things some of which was painfully obvious the point of the wolf race was to cheer Angrobota up after the sad encounter after with her grandmother Atreus literally states that at no point did I imply I didn't know this was the case that's pretty obvious it's that simple what a tonal whiplash after that emotional scene this doesn't change the fact that it is a tonal whiplash after what is supposed to be a very sad scene the statement I made during the stream is perfect I wouldn't change anything about it what a tonal whiplash after that emotional scene it's like we're not allowed to feel sad for one two seconds so really the purpose of the scene doesn't matter it's still bad I'm still right so I don't even know why you wrote this okay are we done with this cuz I'm gonna end the stream if the if the like hopefully if the segments about to end I'll play to the end of segment but I'm gonna end the stream isn't that a good man they spent 62 bucks they have ebt and as guard over this is this is you know in going high I'm right what a tonal whiplash after that emotional scene then this horrific section of the game ends with angry Bota making atreus promise her that he would tell nobody about this place not even his father what purpose does this serve through the story nothing but more emotional conflict you can't tell anyone about iron wood not even your father the biggest thing keeping this place safe is that Odin's not looking for it my warts can keep the wildlife at bay but if asgard ever came looking I get it I'm sorry I won't tell anyone what would have happened if Kratos was told about ironwood nothing in fact it would be a net positive for the story because then we wouldn't get more fucking waste of time shitty emotional bait cutscene bullshit anger Bota may not want atreus to tell anyone because Odin has a large amount of power everywhere else you're constantly tracking down his crows and the twist further solidifies how much he knew any mention of it to anyone bore risk okay but why doesn't atreus just tell Kratos in private when it's only them in the room in cindy's place you can't tell anyone about iron wood not even your father as far as we know Odin's ravens can't see through walls and if tear aka Odin was listening through the door you don't think anyone else in the house would have noticed and again you're brushing over the actual point that it exists to create more emotional drama between father and son that was clearly the writer's intent but again you're ignoring that so atreus wakes up inside his house on midgard instead of back its cindy's place but Kratos quickly finds him and confronts him where he's been atreus dodges the question and implies that Kratos needs protecting not him are they completely retconning the end of the first game we already saw the prophecy where Kratos dies during ragnarok that was literally the last thing that happened at the end of the first game well suddenly a valkyrie shows up and it's a pretty good boss battle but it turns out it was Freya as Freya is the real queen of the Valkyries not Segrin it wasn't enough that she's a super powerful mage who could revive a massive giant no she's also a combat expert I served in her absence but it wasn't enough for the all-father he used an archaic piece of magic corrupting my sisters I tried to contain the damage by imprisoning them in places where they could cause no harm but Freya is the real queen of the Valkyries not Segrin it wasn't enough that she's a super powerful mage who could revive a massive giant no she's also a combat expert on par with Kratos as she nearly kills him despite the fact we win the boss battle we effectively lose Kratos nearly gets killed by Odin's crackhead ex-wife you can't make this shit up fuck this feminist bullshit dude I'm so tired of this what was even she even the God I've already forgotten everyone complained about that purple hair chick from the last Jedi yet I haven't heard a fucking peep about Freya and it's just as bad actually in some ways is kind of worse because she's way more present in the story from this point forward what was even she even the God I've already forgotten I don't know dude how about you just stop sharing your shitty opinion there's an idea Freya did not just randomly become a Valkyrie she's always been a Valkyrie while this is actually correct the fact that anyone remembers this from four years ago is deeply depressing to me I know autists will obsess over anything and remember every last minor detail but yeah this one was so minor and so out of nowhere and just didn't fit at all that I just blocked it from my brain I guess and once again it doesn't change my point which was Freya is a Mary Sue not only is she a super powerful mage but she's also a super powerful warrior who can take on Kratos Kratos is the best at everything ever stop ruining my Gary Stu power fantasy you you liberal fucks and on top of that the story is constantly telling us how horrible Kratos was in his past and how all the things he did was wrong but everything Freya has done and does in this game is right and on top of that the story is constantly telling us how horrible Kratos was in his past and how all the things he did was wrong but everything Freya has done and does in this game is right your opinion is shit and no one should take you seriously ever again on any video game but instead of killing Kratos she decides to set a temporary truce as the two work together to break the curse that prevents her from traveling between the realms so you travel to vanaheim which is like the jungle realm I guess and there you meet the diversity squad Avengers and none of them except Freya's brother get any kind of development whatsoever I really have no idea why they even exist maybe they're the writers self-insert characters but it was certainly distracting I don't understand why they bothered to model like this dude's Avenger Squad when they don't really do anything you know the diversity squad look at this diversity squad here do as you wish we got a dwarf a human I'm assuming I don't know I guess he's human who fucking knows and then we got elves diversity your opinion is shit and no one should take you seriously ever again on any video game another major issue with this level is that throughout the entire thing Kratos tries to convince Freya that he's not her enemy and he's sorry for what he did and she needs to move on and he also tells her about his own family that he was tricked into killing I've already explained how this would never happen and it's pretty clear that the only reason it does happen is because the writers didn't want Kratos to kill their strong female character but what makes it worse is that throughout the entire thing Kratos is constantly apologizing and capitulating to everything Freya is saying and he admits he basically wouldn't even defend himself against her if she tried to kill him again because he could bear to kill his friend why'd you refuse to fight me every outcome would mean defeat what does that mean I have never wished you harm Freya you helped us you saved a trace when he was sick I did not wish to live with killing you anymore than I wished to die I see how the fuck is this Kratos dude this is such character assassination you can't convince me for even a second this is the same person that was in the original games does anyone remember the time that Kratos crushed a woman under a fucking lever to hold a door open a completely innocent woman honestly just making Kratos a mature wise old man was a horrible idea in the first place there's no way they could ever pull it off in a realistic way so anyway you fight your way through you make your way to the world tree roots and neath hoag the guardian of Yeeg Dressil shows up and you just straight-up killer are there any lasting consequences of killing the guardian of the world tree to even think something could keep her away from her babies terrible just terrible it has come to my attention that neath oak has been slain and as a result her offspring have been let loose into the nine realms one of it unfortunately without a proper role model to supervise them the little rascals are certain to fall to mischief in time said mischief could culminate in nothing less than their devouring of the nine realms entirely are there any lasting consequences of killing the guardian of the world tree of course not and I'm not gonna count a side quest where you have to find her children because it's completely optional now Freya is free to wander the realms in her human form and we get a scene straight out of a soap opera when she reunites with her brother pushing the message set me on fire how did you expect me to react like my brother like the boy that used to have my back no matter what and who I always supported no matter how selfish is choices I expected to come find me no matter how hurt or angry I hate every character if it was possible to hate every character I think I hate every character god damn I'm getting sick of this shit all right I'm gonna try and wrap this up as quickly as possible once they return to sendries place Kratos finally confronts his son in another infuriating scene the truth is you know that's no way to change a man's mind he doesn't have any faith in me it's fine if you just slap your son fucking slapping her secrets hard to be stuck with this guy oh okay the pussy ass writers like do you know how many dads would you fucking bitch slap their sons if they spoke to my dad no I want Kratos to be the father who's always disappointed in his son I would love that that'd be awesome yeah I don't give a shit about Treyas so I want him to die come on beat your son that I want to see it I want to see the cut scene where Kratos beats his son it's never gonna happen Kratos should have beat his ass I was I'm still annoyed with that we had another moment where he should have beat his son I love that's the biggest contribution to the sequel is playing as a shitty son who's inferior to his dad in every way it's a generic you know teenage boy story except he doesn't get punished at all looking for tear this isn't what I wanted this wasn't what I meant not if it meant losing Brock we know what she is you know so then a Treyas being a spoiled brat teenage boy does exactly what his dad doesn't want him to do and goes to see Odin but first we need to climb this massive wall to get inside well it's just another generic linear section with no hard battles whatsoever very lame compared to traversing through Pandora's Temple in God of War one just to name one example of the many cool things Kratos did and once he makes it to the top we finally meet Heimdall probably the only based character in the game I think you could pull me up or no I don't think I will I am profoundly unimpressed I suppose I should expect nothing less from athletes don't call me a half and what are you going to do exactly you toddlers are boring oh no no no you are going to spare me out of pity do not get to decide my fate what an absolute sigma male and once again our expectations are subverted as Asgard is just a generic Viking village straight out of Skyrim honestly I wasn't even surprised anymore at this point is that Odin's palace palace do you think the all-father needs to puff himself up like some mortal chieftain I guess not that is the great large which the all father built with his own hands I'm sorry if that is a letdown for you real power you see does not need to float it emerges when the time is right don't you agree as guard is just a generic Viking village straight out of Skyrim honestly I wasn't even surprised anymore at this point what do you mean this looks beautiful and it looks like what these two people would come from yeah did he really just say that did he really just say that and he cut out my point where I compared it to Mount Olympus well we'll see maybe inserts it right after this I don't see what's wrong with this but yeah that's pretty much oh oh god so you just have shit taste then you're soulless a soulless golem for the masses and he I guess why he didn't address Freya being a Mary Sue very anti-woke guys but just compare Mount Olympus to this shit after Heimdall makes a mockery of Atreus in an unwinnable boss fight Odin takes Atreus under his tutelage anyway and gives him a quest to find all the pieces of this mask that will allow him to see into this realm tear that somehow might have all the secrets to the universe or something guess what we never get to see what's in it even more pointless subversion all this does is blue ball the player I mean really you set up this huge thing that the villains trying to accomplish and we don't even know if it's actually important or not and during this entire segment Atreus is emasculated by multiple characters not just Thor who's obviously much bigger and stronger but Thor's daughter through also is bigger and stronger than him and Sif even though she does literally nothing is also much bigger than him so Atreus just looks small and weak. Sif is also much bigger than him so Atreus just looks small and weak. I'm the only sane man in this mad world and I think they were trying to go for sort of a Peter Parker underdog type of thing but I just don't like Atreus at all and this made him feel even more pathetic so as Atreus and Thor team up to find one of the mask pieces Atreus slips away and finds Angrobota again and they watch a prophecy which tells them of Sir Turr and his waifu who are both giants and they combine to become Ragnarok which is pretty obvious for shadowing for later. Shortly afterward Thor and Atreus find the mask and we're back to playing his Kratos again and he finally takes agency in the plot the only time this entire game that he makes a decision for himself. Show me Atreus who are planning our next move. Oh so where are we going? Off I'm home of the elves. The Shrine of Groh a young one. Your father tells me you found it there. You don't get to make that choice. Not with the debt you owe me. I am not here for debts. I would always have helped you. Did the Norans tell you how to get Atreus back? Do we have a plan? The Norans say Atreus will be killed by Harindal. The plan is to kill Harindal first. Oh wow. Okay. Harindal. Let's see. Never loses. Sees everything coming on popular parties. This won't be easy. Whatever his advantages I will overwhelm him with my own. That's the idea. You gotta overpopulate his senses see. And I got just the thing in mind to help you do it. Prophecy will not dictate our actions. Yeah. Our allies need help. That is our focus now. Let it go. You may live. We'll need to find Sartal. Ratatosker was able to procure this. The three of us will go. I know just where to look. Splendid. I will be your general. It will be an honor to fight alongside you. Get those people to safety wherever you can find it. We will see it done. Prey and I will do what we can to slow Ragnarok. He was not mindless before. See if he will listen to reason. Odin will not get away. If he does. I know. Don't you know what I've done? Yes. But what will you do now? We don't change. And we're back to playing his Kratos again. And he finally takes agency in the plot. The only time this entire game that he makes a decision for himself. I know. It does seem like I'm fishing for something to complain about. To go seek out the Norns who are the fates of the Norse dimension. After fighting your way through quite a lot of enemies on Midgard, Kratos and Freya ride on a kelpie to the bottom of some lake and find the Norns who are also very cringe characters. The ghost of Sparta furrows his brow menacingly. He resists the urge to grunt. He fails. And they tell us that fate is not real. People do have free choice. They just very rarely make a decision that they can't predict. This might be the only metaphor in this story that I actually agree with. Went to see the fates, which was kind of lame. The fates really didn't say anything of value. It was just another subversion of expectations. I'll probably add it to this video. This quest was not for nothing as Kratos does learn that Heimdall plans to kill his son. The fates really didn't say anything of value. Who cares? Nobody cares about good writing anymore. Nobody. And so to kill Heimdall he's going to have to forge a new weapon in Sparta of Heim. An infinitely duplicating spear. And even though I think the weapon's awesome, this weapon sucks. The new cool weapon sucks. They didn't test their game. I think the weapon's awesome. The actual quest to get it was incredibly lame. This felt like padding once again. You don't even fight a cool boss in Sparta of Heim. All you do is make your way to some lake, give the mermaid the ring and she makes the weapon. That's literally it. Yet another missed opportunity from this game to do something really cool. For all the parallels to Marvel movies that you're about to see in a second, I'm surprised they didn't just rip off of Infinity War here and make something over the top. Then Kratos and Odin have a verbal confrontation. Once again, the old Kratos would never talk to Zeus. He would just try and kill him as soon as he's on. He's doing well, by the way. And will continue to do so just as long as I return to Asgard. See, the real Kratos would have grabbed him by the fucking throat and beaten Odin to death. He would not have fucking taken that sitting down. But you know, he's a mature old man now. Now let's get to a comment that I agree with in spirit, but it really wasn't my point in the video. At 44 minutes and 30 seconds, I said this. And yet more evidence that the writer's emasculated Kratos, he never tries to kill Odin here. Even if it wasn't out of rage, which it would be, if he killed Odin, the plot would be over and he would win. I'm not saying he should win here, but he should at least try to kill Odin. He shouldn't just fucking stand there and get roasted and say nothing in return. And so this commenter said, I mean Atreus was still in Asgard, so if Kratos tries to kill Odin in this scene, then Atreus would likely be killed by the gods in Asgard. Yes, absolutely, I agree. But that doesn't mean that the writers had to handle it this way. The problem is, a lot of these comments are treating it as if this game's story was written in stone, it could never be changed, or they don't want to address how it was written at all. And so instead of addressing my criticisms of the writers themselves, these comments just say, well, that's what happens in the story. Didn't you see what happened in the story? Yes, and I disagree with it, I think it's horrible, that's my point. Then Kratos and Odin have a verbal confrontation. Once again, the old Kratos would never talk to Zeus, he would just try and kill him as soon as he's on. See, the real Kratos would have grabbed him by the fucking throat and beaten Odin to death. He would not have fucking taken that sitting down. This is just, everyone is a fucking liar, I guess. Wouldn't it be way more interesting if Odin actually pissed Kratos off and he made a mistake? I think so, instead of just watching another slow-paced, pointless cutscene that we learn nothing of value from and it just wastes our time, like most of this game. So, yes, while I agree with you, in spirit, the problem is the situation itself. This is just another scene that exists just to make us hate Odin more, even though there was already a shit ton of those. And it once again further assassinates Kratos' character, or, I mean, character development. Yeah, that's a good one. How can you even call it character development if it happens off-screen in between God of War 3 and 4? I mean, just imagine if we actually did get a boss battle here and Odin was too strong for Kratos and just makes a mockery of him, just wipes the floor with him and then just laughs it off and goes back to Asgard and continues using his son. Wouldn't that be way more interesting than what actually happened? Yes, it would be. Bullshit, Kratos is the best at everything ever. Stop ruining my Gary Stu power fantasy, you liberal fucks. I mean, just imagine if we actually did get a boss battle here and Odin was too strong for Kratos. Bullshit, Kratos is the best at everything ever. He does not respond to or attack Odin because that is clearly what Odin wants. That's why he's subtly taunting and insulting him. Again, no shit. Do you really think I didn't understand that? That doesn't matter. Sometimes doing what the villain wants and giving in is interesting. Kratos is known to be quick to anger, at least he used to be. He used to lash out at everything that pissed him off. That was one of his defining traits. This doesn't make him look more mature, it just makes him look like a pussy. That was my point. And again, the scene just could have ended far more interestingly than it did. Honestly, it would be even more interesting if Kratos did kill Odin and his son did get killed as a consequence. And then Kratos has to grieve Atreus and come to realize that he is trapped in a cycle of vengeance. In fact, there is a line in the game already that basically says this. Justice is not what we seek. It is vengeance. Every path I walk leads back to vengeance. But you guys don't want interesting writing. You want your Marvel cape shit generic baby subversion that has no real consequences instead of actually interesting dramatic moments in the story. You'd rather have characters talk about their emotions ten more fucking times. And the sad part is this is probably the most reasonable criticism I got, at least of the story. Because even though I made several other factual inaccuracies in the video, the people who wrote these comments made a lot of bad faith arguments and suggestions around my intent or implications of those points in the video. I didn't explain all my points in the video all that well, and there is a reason for that. The way I make video game reviews is different from most other people. There are generally two types on YouTube. There are the mainstream reviewers that give very vague praises and criticisms toward the game. They're typically the ones that get review codes and then release their videos as soon as the embargo is up to maximize views. I'm sure all of you can picture at least one person on this platform that's like this. And then there's the other end of the spectrum. The Joseph Andersons or Matthew Matosis or maybe H. Bomber Guy or something. Who will spend a month working on a video, writing the script, making sure it's airtight, having all their points organized and together. And these videos are usually over two hours long. Now I am somewhere in the middle. My videos are much longer than the vague mainstream reviewers, but they're also shorter and far less organized than the video essay YouTubers, right? Because the way I make videos is I just give you my unfiltered thoughts. Now unfortunately this will lead to a lot of factual inaccuracies and it has over the course of the nearly three years of made content because I don't really care to do research. I do most things based on notes and my own memory. Forgive me if I don't pay attention to the countless pointless dialogue. Quit talking over the game. You really want to hear all this shitty dialogue, dude? Blow the $70 yourself on the shitty game if you really care about the dialogue. In fact, actually if you're asking to hear the dialogue again, you're part of the problem. All this sucks. None of this matters. I don't really care to do research. Is she even the god I've already forgotten? I corrected some of the mistakes I made in the video itself. And I'm not saying this to say that you can't point out factual inaccuracies. You certainly can. Just know I'm never going to change how I make my content because I don't care enough about YouTube videos to write this massive airtight script for something people are going to forget in a week anyway. Because that's the fact most content creators don't want to accept is that YouTube content is extremely disposable. And that's how I've always treated it. I give my opinion and I move on to the next thing. Genuinely enjoy your stuff, man. Keep being real. You're the rare exception in the ocean of mediocrity. Well, thanks. It does mean a lot. I try. Just know I'm never going to change how I make my content because I don't care enough. YouTube content is extremely disposable. Being the one real gaming critic, it's not good, guys. It's not good. Everyone's against me. Unfortunately, I have standards for myself now and I can't really make rambly shit anymore without feeling bad about it. Just know I'm never going to change how I make my content. And this scene was just painful to watch. I feel like the game can't decide whether or not Kratos wants war. He refused peace at the beginning of the game, yet we're constantly told he wants to avoid bloodshed. Doesn't want to kill anybody except Odin, which is pretty much impossible. That's just stupid and naive to believe that would even happen. Not to mention Odin straight up calls him a cuck in this scene, dude. That boy of ours is everything I expected. So clever, kind. He's sure he's yours. And the writers obviously didn't play the old games. I know they did their research on some of these stories, or a different writer entirely wrote the stories while you're writing on the sled or in the boats that reference the previous games, but they clearly forgot that in God of War 2, Kratos did have worshippers. Spartans worshipped him while he was a god, and yet he says nothing here acting like Odin was correct. What do you even know of godhood? In your lifetimes has anyone ever worshipped you? And yet more evidence that the writers emasculated Kratos, he never tries to kill Odin here. Even if it wasn't out of rage, which it would be, if he killed Odin, the plot would be over and he would win. One could say you're on the verge of returning to form. Does it scare you, aiding another violent god? I'm scared for you, brother. That spear could start a war, THE war. If that no longer concerns you than maybe Threa's right, maybe the giants had you in mind all along. I'm not saying he should win here, but he should at least try to kill Odin. He shouldn't just fucking stand there and get roasted and say nothing in return. Come the fuck on. And then when he returns to Sindri's place again, he cries. Yes, Kratos pretty much cries. I don't think we see a tear leave his eyes, but come on, look at this. Or I don't want to kill guys. I'm so mature now. Now watch me cry on screen. Fucking Kratos crying. I don't even know if I'm supposed to feel sad here. I mean, why? He just doesn't want to kill any more gods, I guess, after killing a Kajillion. He's killed so many. Again, why am I supposed to be sad here? Oh, he misses his son. He misses his wife. That's it, I guess. I don't know. There's a particular incident that is inciting this, so it's hard to feel something. And then he has a vision of his wife. This is actually the second vision. I didn't name the previous one, because honestly, none of the three visions matter at all. They're completely pointless. There's only one purpose they serve to the story. Kratos settled. Ultimate Gigachat settled. Prove me wrong. You can't. Like, this is another pointless scene. I don't give a fuck about this. Oh, I'm so ashamed. I can't do bad stuff in the past. I'm such a bad dad. Self... All this self-pity is disgusting. Now we play as Atreus again, and he makes his way to Helheim to find the next piece. And spoilers, the piece isn't there, and no, they don't explain it either. Someone told me that Atreus was lying, but if he was lying, why would the mask be glowing when he's going in the supposed right direction? Was he manipulating it? He seemed rather confused when it wasn't there, and freeing Garm, the giant wolf there, which can tear through dimensions, that seemed to be unintentional, so how could it be a lie? Let's be honest, it's just more contrived bullshit. So Heimdall, fittingly, shits all over him for fucking everything up. So Atreus runs home to Daddy, and honestly, him hugging his dad is one of the only decent moments of the story, so I won't shit on it. So it's up to Kratos and Atreus to team up to imprison Garm once again. You get a pretty cool boss battle, and then at the end, our expectations are unsubverted, as it turns out, Atreus trapped Fenrir's soul, and now releases it into Garm, who now becomes Fenrir, right? So now there's a giant heckin' Pupparino. How very cute. Then we get a scene where Kratos finally accepts his son is a big boy, and can take care of himself. At first I was annoyed with this scene, because Atreus was coming across as pretty condescending to his father, but obviously that wasn't really the intention of the writing here. Falling back into my old ways. Angry. Really? Really? This is a pointless scene. Another pointless scene, dude. How many goddamn pointless scenes are there? At first I was annoyed with this scene, because Atreus was coming across as pretty condescending. It's not character development. It's character assassination. At first I was annoyed with this scene, because Atreus was coming across as pretty condescending. This is just classic like, I didn't have a good father, so I'm gonna write what I think a good father is, and guess what? They're failing. This is not, no. This is, no. No, no, no. This is how you raise a pussy. At first I was annoyed with this scene, because Atreus was coming across as pretty condescending. So while it was somewhat sloppily handled, and I really don't like the message of be better, especially the implications in the story that you should never kill your enemies, right? All your enemies can be forgiven. Even though this is not something anybody actually follows in real life, try and find a leftist who doesn't think a conservative is a Nazi. Good fucking luck. And they're certainly not looking to forgive him anytime soon, but once again, at least I felt something here. It's obvious that this version of Kratos is very lonely and doesn't want to let go of his son, but Atreus is a big boy now, even though I think he's only 13, so he's really not that much of a big boy. This is one of many moments in the story that you can tell a lot of elements of this game were rushed, and it was clearly supposed to be a trilogy. We're getting major story development points all crammed into this massive 25-hour experience that a lot of elements feel underdeveloped. Like, remember in the beginning of the story when Atreus was supposed to learn to control his emotions so he could utilize his animal forms? Yeah, well, that only really comes up right at the end of the game, and he just kind of does it. What do you feel when you change? Anger. The part of you unleashed the wolf with that anger. Maybe you just need to find the part that will guide it? How? You can fight with all sorts of emotion in your heart, not just rage. If rage lets it out, another might help you... stay hue. Bring the wolf, Loki, but under your control! He was supposed to learn to control his emotions so he could utilize his animal forms? Yeah, well, that only really comes up right at the end of the game, and he just kind of does it. But once again, I'm stretching out this review far beyond what it ever needed to be in the first place, so let's get back to it. So when we return to Sindri's house, yet again, the gang decides we're not going to kill Heimdall after all, and instead we're going to try and help the people of Vannaheim who are being attacked by Odin's forces, so we once again return there, and once we arrive at Freyja's camp, we find out that the boar that you kill in the beginning of the first game didn't die and is in fact a random black guy. You clearly saved the boar in the first game. Once again, who the hell would remember this and why? It doesn't matter in the least, and yet again, that does not change my point that he becomes a random fucking black guy who does nothing of value in this game. That was the clear point. Again, for someone who says I didn't pay attention to the story, you clearly didn't pay attention to my video. I'm not making this shit up. What is the point of this character? Someone tell me why this character exists. You can't. Go with him, Atreus. I will aid Freyja. Yes, sir. With their attention drawn elsewhere, you and I can assault the main force from behind. While Atreus and Hilda's Finis slip in to rescue your brother in the confusion? Yes. And when did Lord Freyja put you in charge? He didn't, and I don't want it. But when I have counsel to give, I can help but give it. Love. He taught Lord Freyja everything he knows. That is good enough for me. I know. I'm just... tired. As are we all. So after meeting some more heckin' Pupparinos and gaining the ability to manipulate the sun and moon, it's my favorite type of prophecy story where you need to avoid the prophecy, but you're also required to fulfill every part of it. It's stupid. We encounter Heimdall once again. And even though I said earlier, it's probably my favorite boss fight in the game, it is kind of dumb when you think about it. His ability is to read people's minds, right? So the gimmick of the boss is you have to use the spear and detonate it on the ground to be able to hit him. But if you can read your mind, why doesn't he know when you're about to detonate the spears and simply just jump out of the way the one's on the ground? Maybe because he has to meet you directly in the eyes and so he can't also watch the spears on the ground. If that's the case, why can't you use any other method of ranged attack to hit him? Like maybe when you call the axe back to you, it hits him in the back of the head or something? Eventually you do kill him and it's very unsatisfying. I was hoping Kratos would crush his skull into the dust. Kind of like how he pulverized Hercules' face in God of War 3, but no. They pussy out on any kind of disturbing gore. And so the gang meets up with the Discount Avengers squad and they escape on a flying boat. Unfortunately, they're attacked by wyverns and so broken sword guy, I think his name was Hamburg or something, sacrifices himself and they build it up to be this really epic moment like oh my god, I can't believe that guy sacrificed himself. Who was he again? And so we once again return to Cendri's house and luckily Heimdall had Galarhorn in his hands which allows you to open portals to all the realms at once. I guarantee all of us predicted what the climax of the story would be as soon as they told us what this thing did. And so this is where another very stupid moment happens in the story. Atreus, for some reason that is not explained in the least decides he wants to help Odin again complete the mask because maybe the secrets of the universe will help you find a way out so that you don't have to kill him. I thought we all agreed we were going to kill him now. Why are we suddenly doubting this? Why would you help the villain complete his quest? Am I wrong? I don't much like it, but it is our best play. Dividing Odin's focus would buy us time and give us a pair of eyes in the enemy's inner sector. But if there is truly a source of infinite knowledge you can't let Odin have it. If I can finish what I started there. Awaken the mask, get answers. Maybe that's our way out of this. And you know what's even funnier about this is who's in the room right now with them. If you know the twist, you know what I'm talking about. It really brings some dramatic irony to this scene on the second watch. And so Atreus journeys to Asgard again and we soon find out that Thor is a depressed alcoholic who knows his daughter and wife are disappointed in him and he just wants his daddy's love. God this fucking sucks. Well Thor is a fat fuck in this and not muscular in any way which is very disappointing. Thor is just a fat fuck with no muscle definition but he's a badass. And they try and make it entertaining by having a bar fight scene but guess what, it just takes away some of your combat mechanics. That's the opposite of fun. You should give me special mechanics just for this encounter. Anyway, Atreus and Thor make their way to Nephalheim. You get the mask without anything really special happening in this realm. And then Odin shows up but so does Sif and a couple of Valkyries and Sif manages to convince Thor to try and kill Atreus since Kratos killed Heimdall. But he uses his get out of jail free card that Sindri conveniently thought to give him before he returned to Asgard again. Now the good guys have the mask. Except one problem, Brock of all characters notices that Tyr is calling Atreus Loki and so it turns out Tyr was Odin the whole time and he kills Brock but Kratos manages to get the mask out of his hands just in time so it was completely pointless? Well I guess not completely but I don't care about Brock at all, I'll be honest. Once again the writers are trying to build this up as a huge emotional moment but if you don't like any of the characters this scene's gonna completely fall flat and it gets even worse when you realize because Odin didn't get the mask the game is now dragged out for another three hours. Are you fucking... What the fuck? No, what the fuck? No, no, no. This is extreme character assassination. This is fucked. No, let me back in there, fuck you. No, no, what are you doing? Stop. This is, oh my god, this is the shittiest writing in the world. Yeah, masterpiece, my fucking dick. Estrogen wins. I just love... The women are more masculine than the men and no one's complaining about it, you know? Again, the people pretend to be against wokeness but nobody's against this game. Suck my fucking cock, you sell out pieces of shit. I want to know how much money they got from Sony, there's no way. If they're that cowardly that they didn't get any money and they just didn't want to piss off their fans fuck you... They're pathetic, all of them are fucking pathetic. Every reviewer... No. No one cared about Brock that much. Nope. NPCs maybe but not like real humans. You know, humans who can imagine the apple in their head, right? Humans who have an inner voice. Now NPCs maybe they shed a tear for little blue man. Nobody else. And to be honest, even those three hours feel really rushed because in the final act of the game the heroes decide they need to build up their armies across all the realms. So that sounds like a huge epic quest on its own, right? Could probably be the plot of its own game and might have been originally. But instead Kratos and Atreus just make their way to Muspelheim again, meet Surtur and he's once again another depressed character who doesn't want to help. Specifically because he knows both him and his wife would die but it turns out that Kratos can use the Blades of Chaos to enhance his powers instead which actually does have consequences so I'll give the writers a bit of credit for that. And so while Kratos and Atreus fight off two Valkyries at the same time Surtur becomes Ragnarok but it seems he's not quite ready to start the siege so Kratos and Atreus return to Midgard and all of the allies gather and spend one last night in a little camp outside of the Yggdrasil portal room from the first game. Atreus, who I once again remind you is a teenage boy request to sleep with his daddy one last time. There was an old man who chopped wood for his village. Fuck you, oh my god. You know, when I played the oldie out of war games you know what I really wanted? I wanted Kratos to tell his fucking son a story. His teenage son, a bedtime story. What the fuck? Kratos is like crying again. God damn it. Really, I wanted to see Kratos cry. That's really what I wanted to see. I don't think he ever shed a tear on screen like remembering his original family. Him killing his original family. I don't know, maybe they did, I don't remember. But... He's crying over some random bullshit. And we are given the final flashback of our vision of Faye, Kratos' wife and it's a completely pointless scene. I wish to better a future but will exist without me whenever that day comes for you and for our son. Yeah, it's amazing how people don't call out wokeness anymore. Amazing. It's not in video games. Because everyone's a fucking grifter. They know those views and calling it out in movies and TV shows. Fulmination of love is grief? What? Yeah, exactly. There's no views and shitting on video games that the media tells you to like but there's plenty of money and shitting on movies and TV shows. It makes no sense. It makes no fucking sense. And then the next morning right before the final battle, Kratos and Freya give a rousing speech probably the worst I've ever seen. I mean, holy shit, there's so much wrong with this scene. I don't even know where to begin. Whether it's the bad cinematography or the incredibly bland room that the actual speech is set in to the writing which is not inspiring in the least... I can hide no longer. I do not want this war. We have suffered enough. Why couldn't Kratos give this speech after he blows Galarhorn? Prophecy did not lead us here. Nor will it win this battle. Wars are won by those that are willing to sacrifice everything if that is the cost of vengeance. So be it. Why couldn't Kratos give this speech after he blows Galarhorn and like Jormand Gander and Fenrir are in the background or something and we're given like a wide shot of all the armies or some shit. You know, something like Lord of the Rings, something that feels epic. Man, this is just lame. You can't tell me Sony Santa Monica looked at this and thought, yeah, this is fine. This is cool. This will get the players amped up for the finale. For Brock. And so anyway, he blows the horn. They travel to Asgard and we get our huge Avengers Endgame moment. And all of our buddies from the two games show up in wage war against Asgard. And it's supposed to be a really cool moment, but honestly, it's not. I know people are going to say I fucking hate everything, especially since I'm sure plenty of people played this thought this was cool. But none of this crazy epic background stuff that's happening affects the gameplay outside of some random wyverns raining fire on the arenas. If you just ignore the Skybox, this might as well just be a normal level of the game except they just throw a slightly wider variety of enemies against you. It doesn't help that multiple times during the goddamn apocalypse, the characters stop to have a heart-to-heart with each other. Are you fucking kidding me? You've taken all the tension out of the story so many times. FaZe dreams are partly to show their time together and to show how she is still trying to push him to do what she wants. Again, this doesn't even matter to the story at all. The culmination of the three flashbacks or visions, whatever they are, is for Kratos to tell his son that he should feel bad for the things he kills. He should have empathy for every living creature in the world. What's wrong, Andreas? I was wrong. Open your heart to their suffering. And do as your mother's wish. Mind as well. Fucking Kratos of all people says this. That is possibly the most defining moment of character assassination. I'm actually kind of annoyed at myself that I brushed over it. So thanks for reminding me of another horrible scene from the end of the game. Not to mention you have to play as Atreus again and he gets to go full bear mode, guys. He's upgraded from a wolf to a bear. He's climbed another tier on the gay scale. And then immediately he talk no jutsus through out of killing him, blaming Odin for everything and it works. Oh my god. The apocalypse is happening. The apocalypse is happening. There's no fucking time, dude. This is just a bad movie. I love how a good video game story is a bad movie. That's what people think. Holy shit. We've only known this guy for like 10 minutes total of screen time, by the way. And so all the good guys team up. Kratos finally has his second show down against Thor. After beating him, he actually manages to convince him not to fight anymore for the sake of their children. This is God of War. This game series is known for letting you kill gods. That's like one of the main points of playing these games. Again, the power fantasy, but whatever Kratos is a changed man. He's super mature now, guys. And of course as soon as Thor agrees to lay down his arms Odin stabs him in the back literally and kills him. And so now we have our final boss battle with Kratos, Atreus and Freya all teaming up to lay waste to him. And it's an absolute button mash fest. All I did was spam runic attacks the entire time and did surprisingly well, beat him in one try. It really feels like a step down from every other final boss in the series. Even the fight against Balder felt more epic than this. Because there's really no sense of scale. You're just fighting him in a basement and he shoots magic spells at you. Oh and somehow I almost forgot at the end of the first phase against Odin Freya gives the cringiest line in the game. Wow, so brave. Stunning and fucking brave, dude. Not woke at all, guys. Not woke at all. You always sought knowledge well. Now I'm going to teach you what it's like to lose. Everything. Bow to your queen. Really? My god, this comes across as some kind of feminist torture fantasy. What the fuck? And of course when you finally beat him instead of killing him Kratos lets his son decide and he decides to trap Odin's soul inside of one of the giant marbles. But then, like an absolute chad Sindri comes in and smashes the marble. That's what comes next. I take back everything I said about him being a possible pedophile. As soon as his brother dies he actually becomes the only other based character in the game. And so the heroes have won except there's one problem. Because Surtur didn't fuse with his waifu Ragnarok is out of control but the heroes manage to escape off-screen and the game ends with you traveling to the top of some mountain where Atreus tells his father that he needs to go off on his own quest with Angroboda to go find the rest of the giants and in the only other touching moment in the game Kratos finally lets go of his son and allows him to be his own man and I really have nothing to complain about here I think this part was actually well done Iron Giant did it better Well yeah, that's because Iron Giant sacrificed himself Kratos is still alive And then immediately afterward we find out there was a secret second prophecy that Kratos was to become the new revered god of the Norse realms effectively tying him to this place meaning this is the end of his story And thank god for that I don't want to see Sony butcher Kratos anymore but I absolutely promise you I will not buy a god of war game starring Atreus so they better either reboot this shit or just let it die The sad thing is you get to play the post game immediately after this and there's a bunch of other side quests there's all those berserker super bosses to fight and when I played a few more hours I actually was having fun consistently you know why? because I could actually do what I want I could actually engage in the gameplay and fight enemies and just ignore the ambient background dialogue because it really didn't matter without having to deal with forced walking sequences or countless cutscenes or stupid emotional bait or any of the other bullshit that is in modern Sony games just wandering around the realms even though it was areas I'd already been to was more fun the actual goddamn story mode the linear story was less interesting than wandering around the world doing side quests how do you fuck up this bad? forgive me if I don't pay attention to the countless pointless dialogue quit talking over the game buh buh buh buh you really want to hear all this shitty dialogue dude? blow the $70 yourself on the shitty game if you really care about the dialogue I'm the idiot me I'm the guy who doesn't understand video games he doesn't understand narratives but the game is totally 10 out of 10 guys if you just ignore all the constant cutscenes and walking simulator moments and fake loading screens and shitty atreus gameplay segments it's totally 10 out of 10 game of the year 2022 no doubt I'm not going to name any names here because I don't exist to just start drama with random other youtubers but there are people who are supposedly real film critics people who actually analyze stories in their structure who are ignoring all of the obvious flaws with this game if this was a film these people would be ripping it to shreds but because it's a video game they have no standards just tuned in to Mahler's stream for 10 seconds and he's soying out over the dog yeah I can't believe we're like 10 minutes into the game and they already did like a seriously impactful death how the hell did you do that? performances man they're already top notch I'm not 100% sure on the name of the actor for atreus but man he was selling that emotion I like as an almost response to the trauma critics is like let's fight let's just get our minds off it atreus this time doesn't even like usually he probably concede with a complaint but this time he just says nah fuck that he's selling my dog and critters respects it too so he's soying out over the dog like why do we even like video games this is why I want to ask people like Mahler where it's like if you're okay with this if you think this is amazing why do you like video games why not just watch movies or TV shows or read a book like I'm not doing anything I just can't believe he literally does not hold the same standards like he does for movie storytelling as he does for games like this literally has almost all the same problems as the marvel movies have but he's just letting that slide are you fucking kidding me yeah exactly I'm wondering if he hates last was too just a bandwagon because I feel like the two games have a lot of the same problems what the fuck is this we're here to kill gods this is the worst possible time we're having this conversation the apocalypse is happening the apocalypse is happening and they're having a heart to heart you're telling me Mahler was okay with this this is what I'm saying like holy fuck these people who are respected in the community are incompetent hacks any thoughts on how Mahler has nothing to say about this now to mess with it I already said by the many things I think he has incredibly shit taste in video games I'm glad he only talks about like movies and TV shows now as far as I know I stopped watching his channel like a couple years ago but I'm glad he stopped talking about video games because those were his worst videos definitely I mean the game is written by Anthony Burch yes I yeah yeah I know I actually left a line for that I was thinking what do I put there what do I put is like the clip to represent Anthony Burch but again you know Mahler likes it so I mean it's a masterpiece I'm just saying Mahler got off at that part did you see the sword protect him wow is he really a full blown grifter now like why is that impressive this is Netflix level writing yes but no it's awesome I mean they have said it's great guys it's good oh my god no this is cringe I'm cringing just start tearing people's heads off and having their entrails like decorate everywhere this is horrible yeah stop writing just stop Mahler likes this game by the way he loves it this is a great game they are really pretending we're supposed to care about this 10 out of 10 though Mahler loves it dude great game Mahler likes this yeah remember that it's so bad Mahler likes this just keep that in mind just keep forevering Mahler likes this the problem is most people are dumb and they become fan boys so they're not going to be like Mahler the guy famous for like really logical criticism is ignoring all the logical criticisms from this game now are you going to remember that and take that forward and maybe reconsider some of his opinions no they won't because most people are retarded you know does Mahler actually enjoy this how much does he play to the game I can't believe Mahler well I can believe it but imagine playing this to be like this is awesome I love this this is great in what way I mean I don't know dude Mahler's game criticism has never been that good like I don't like Dark Souls 2 but his Dark Souls 2 9 hour series was very flawed I can't remember anything specific it's been so many years since I saw it but I remember being like this argument doesn't make any sense like multiple times Mahler's game criticism was never that good it really wasn't does anyone like him does anyone like Atreus seriously any person Mahler likes him oh this gave me more reason to not take eFap seriously on any video game I mean I already came to that conclusion a while ago but yeah actually I might actually have to agree with that about eFap sucking after Dishonored Wolf left if you play video games actually play video games you would notice this is why I suspect Mahler doesn't really play video games I don't think he does because the lack of level design is so obvious in appearance and it's boring just running in a straight line is boring who cares about Mahler a lot of people is pretty popular he's on like four podcasts or something I wouldn't be surprised if he's on more podcasts than that Mahler's as bad as the Act Man well you can judge someone by their friends right by their choices and friends and we know he surrounds himself with generits somewhat if I'm ever on eFap this is not going to go well it's not going to go well at all I'm just going to insult all of them and then get banned that's just going to happen I know exactly what I'm going to call Rags which is going to get me banned I know exactly what I'm going to call J which is going to get me banned that's the problem they all have very obvious flaws it's low morale but it's accurate are you interested in debating Mahler on eFap if you're able to I don't know maybe see this is the only thing having an editor would be good for is there's too many bits in this stream that I want to put in the video but I would have to go through the entire stream and also say all the things I want to say outside of that it's just too hard to make that one video so obviously this guy doesn't have very strong principles or is a liar as are many people on YouTube all these people is supposed to people with integrity that you can always trust if a game is good am I a fan of Mahler I'm a neutral of Mahler I don't really watch his stuff anymore he just I feel like most of his content fuck it we could even just check most of his content is like crapping on things we already know are bad like yeah multiverse of man is sucked we all know that uh I don't even know what GDELB is I'm guessing that's something he introduced in the last couple of years uh critique of force awakens part 4 what the fuck wait a minute force awakens that was the first of the new ones he's still working on that are you fucking kidding me black widow we all know that was bad the father I don't know what that is dude I like how just like see this is something I can relate to just like my channel he praises something that people don't know what it is only 170,000 views which might sound like a lot but then you're like oh this is 2 million this is a million this is 1.5 million this is 6 million from 2 years ago man he makes no content anymore he just shows up on podcasts and collects money big fucking surprise and he has a bunch of dick suckers but I don't hate him this is a fact I'm just pointing out facts but I would have to go through the entire stream and also like say all the things I want to say outside of that it's just too hard to make that one video man he makes no content anymore I fucking knew it they were talking about me in the Mahler subreddit imagine being so obsessive I literally didn't mention him by name in the video but these these these pathetic fuckers dig and dig and dig like oh my god they insulted my favorite E-Celeb but I literally had the courtesy to not bring him up by name Mahler Mahler Mahler Mahler Mahler Mahler King of Evap said it's great guys I don't know how anyone could honestly say to themselves this is a 10 out of 10 I have to imagine those type of people just don't play games which imagine having the audacity to say somethings a 10 out of 10 when you've only played like 50 games in your life or something like that you know what I mean? it just doesn't make sense how is this 10? I don't even have to tear apart aspects I just need to ask why people would say this is a masterpiece well it doesn't have to be objectively 10 out of 10 you couldn't objective and game criticism don't go together they just don't there's a reason why the Mahler rights just call them the Mahler rights those type of people they talk about movies and TV not video games because fun is subjective and video games are extremely subjective you can't really argue what one person likes someone else is going to hate there's nothing more painful than game of the year being a game that's just inferior to another game that's 10 years old and then people pretending like that's not true just because they like to hit circle a lot of times these enemies are shitty as fuck they're objectively poorly designed because there's no quick way to get rid of them objective and game criticism don't go together they just don't they're objectively poorly designed if you've played nearly as many games as I have there's just too many fucking flaws way too many flaws and we're going to get into the subjectivity versus objectivity argument I don't really care what people think I care what I think objective and game criticism don't go together they just don't don't even give them that don't even give them the teach their own they just say they have shit taste that's what I always do anyone who says this is bad done you're dead to me objective and game criticism do don't go together they just don't I just want to know how many morons like would still trust the youtubers who gave this 10 out of 10 and just be like oh well it's just their opinion it was totally their opinion they aren't sellouts only not sellouts at all you have to keep in mind I thought raid shadow legends was one of the less bad ones that's why I took that one on top of them paying a lot only not sellouts at all and there's no there's any reasonable price that a game developer would pay me to give a good review for their game I just don't think that exists you have to keep in mind I thought raid shadow legends was one of the less bad ones that's why I took that one on top of them paying a lot it is fucking sad to sell out that's why I took that one on top of them paying a lot oh my god this sucks 10 someone never mind I can't do it I'm already probably blacklisted but you know if anyone wanted to take initiative out of my audience and go and find the people who gave this 10 out of 10 give them a little hello for me I think that was the term like honeymoon phase something like that whenever that starts to wear off there are a lot of flaws now they're obvious to me someone who has played absolute shit ton of video games way too many but to these overly excited fanboys eventually they'll acknowledge obvious flaws oh man you're one of the few trusty reviewers left like g-man lives and I'm like g-man lives thinks every game is good good luck finding a game g-man lives doesn't like I thought raid shadow legends was one of the less bad ones that's why I took that one on top of them paying a lot how do I avoid controlled opposition stuff also please never become like drinker or moist critical uh just don't be a sell out that's why I took that one on top of them paying a lot people aren't being more critical lots of policy cause everyone is a sell out and I mean basically everyone that's why I took that one everyone is a fucking grifter everybody that's the only way to make it on youtube that's why I took that one on top of them paying a lot like okay retard I don't care if you don't care you can't just ignore all the problems that's the argument I always make for video games there's no such thing as a flaw this game but if the flaws really really ruin the enjoyment which they absolutely do and you're just lying to yourself objective and game criticism do don't go together they just don't I'm the idiot me I'm the guy who doesn't understand video games he doesn't understand narratives look at the recommended twitters critical and uh some ordinary gamers it's like that's like that might as well be like a trifecta of like normie shit probably the act man collab probably never because at some point he became a leftist cuck I don't know when that was because I seem to recall him making a Anita Sarkeesian video I feel like if it ever comes to that see always have your receipts right and always know your own body of work right if people come after me use anybody who comes after me is gonna be someone I probably started shit with and the only people I start shit with I know I've seen over half his videos at least I saw that video I don't care what he says he's gonna be like oh I've changed yeah that really that only works when a leftist says have you noticed it have you noticed it I thought gman was an australian no he's definitely not is australian critical drinker is extremely successful and a lot of his videos are half fast I mean my videos are half fast too but like some of his shit is just like completely pointless I just think kids like his accent to be honest I don't think he's bad at all like I think his channel is fine again he's a moral right what's wrong with drinker I thought I already explained my problem with drinker I just think a lot of his content is pretty low effort I don't think he's that funny I think kids just really like the fake drunk Scottish accent I don't know it's just like another generic like I keep calling him mauler right I definitely want to make clear mauler obviously didn't invent film or TV or video game criticism Randy that shit obviously not it's just kind of all of it's like kind of a similar ish style you know it's funny how nobody tries to copy off of red letter media which you know in many ways is like at least it's higher quality film criticism I kind of got sick of their stuff eventually too but but red letter media at least you know you're getting a little bit higher budget content you know I just find it I'm blown away that in the film community there's a fuck ton of people who are against wokeness in movies and shit I mean like I brought up you know critical drinker you know he's like one of the most popular film critics he's very anti-woke right but in video games there are no anti-woke people the name a single like actual anti-woke gaming critic why are people protecting game criticism are they being paid off I mean I really have to start questioning it check out the under the mayo I hate under the mayo though forgot about 2018 lots of his points still stand should help your video on this game under the mayo is the doom eternal fan boy I don't like him I wish I could make super lazy edited videos like this because then you can spend about you know 80% of the time making the video like scripting not that I write scripts but that's obviously how he does his riffing gaming is annoying he's a perfect example of how to make it on youtube with like shit quality content I mean he is basically just the gaming cologne of leafy so you just react to everything that's happening I mean the dude mother fucking defended cod vanguard I can't believe I have to like take activan side and be like this is like it's a shit game everyone knew was a shit game and griffin game he's like dude it's great I don't care about anything you're talking about they do key you know how much I'm gonna fucking laugh if these fat I almost said it if these bundles of sticks don't want to dress my existence because they think it'll make me more popular you know how sad that is absolutely sad that is that that is beyond pathetic why am I not surprised under the mayo release review for god of war ragnarok it's pretty long but some parts are worth watching stop trying to shill him he's shit on me for my doom eternal video how do you guys forget this I think he literally called it the worst doom eternal review on youtube or something griffin seems to have had quite the character he definitely seems to be a bit different than I remember but I don't know if he at least likes my shit whatever I don't really care I don't have anything specific against him I love your views by man but your woke argument is a bit old I don't think you do love my reviews then that happens to any of my videos if any of my videos get into the algorithm it's always normies who hate any criticism I wish people brought back disliking videos over like principles instead of like stupid fanboyism people actually dislike the video that you just disagree with like the premise or like I feel like dislikes are used for all the wrong reasons it's just like triggered children anyone asking about me balding is getting timed out that's final warning it's just like triggered children yeah that is a thousand likes well you guys do your job dislike bomb the video I don't give a shit I don't care if I get in trouble from youtube everyone of you come here dislike this video no no I might get in trouble from youtube you do what you must I guess instead of it being like oh I'm an adult and the premise this video is stupid or something like I disliked act man's latest video so that was completely pointless and I completely disagree with the stupid statement he said about gaming is better than ever which is just such a there's no and yes I'm removing the context from that statement but in context it's still stupid so regardless there is no context where you can say that and be correct both side 2 was so woke see like god damn the people complaining about wokeness is so inconsistent the amount of the people I had to unsubscribe from over the years I'm subscribed to about 40 channels right now and I think over the course of you know my account is what 14 years old I probably subscribe to like 400 channels in that time you know I've just unsubscribed from so many barely been getting into the algorithm lately so who knows maybe they're finally starting to suppress me I saw that declining this like this like ratio it's every time it's just because it's not like millennials give a fuck was it core Cory Balrog that did God of War 2 and 3 though I don't think that's true maybe it is but I find that hard to believe get educated mother fucker I've been saddest or dark moments in games I'd rather just do like contrarian shit my mother wanted me to cast out candy to kids I didn't want to do it but then she kind of forced me to do it and I don't know I was cringe he forced to do something by your mommy at age 27 that's what happens when you live with your mommy there are more youtubers than you think that delete comments they don't like and some of them have admitted to it it's like what the hell is wrong with you I'm fucking pathetic that people got me anyone asking about me balding is getting timed out that's the final warning how did we go from a greek tragedy which yeah had a lot of juvenile moments it was definitely intended for edgy teenage boys to a degree but that's not to say the original games had no depth there's a video called god of war was always deep you cowards great title by the way by endless jest that covers the subject pretty extensively so I'll just direct you to that video instead of extending this one even further to now this infantile pseudo mature marvel movie for man children people who refuse to actually grow up and have real responsibilities that being getting a wife and having children right being an high natalist does not make you mature it just makes you a depressed nihilist like everyone else and this is not me acting holier than thou I have never pretended to be mature I know what I like I like the super edgy shit I like darksiders I like the original god of war games I even like fucking shadow the head jog it's a bad game but I like how over the top it is given it's a fucking cartoon character with guns it's you people who are pretending that this is some super deep shit that have the issue the last of us one actually was somewhat deep to a degree it was a very well told story even though it was a story we'd already heard dozens of times by now right this is not well handled in the least the writing team is highly incompetent and in no small part because Anthony birch wrote for it a man who is a literal and whose wife divorced him and took his we you and he's done plenty of other pathetic things in his time but if you let an actual come a mia right for god of war what the fuck is wrong with you sony you are fucking dead to me and I know I've already said that multiple times but they are so dead to me at this point dude I'm only playing these games to review them that's it certainly not for my own enjoyment now all of that being said is this a bad game no it's not and only because the gameplay is good the combat designers did their job in fact they're the only people on this team worth their salt they actually made this dumpster fire fun at least for the 20% of the time that you're actually fighting things the other 80% was either incredibly boring or insulting to both my intelligence and my masculinity and I think that was the intention I've said it once and I'll say it again games are not made for gamers anymore and they're slowly trying to not make them for men anymore either at least not catering to men's tastes they're trying to make games quote unquote for everyone there is no such thing you cannot make a good game that also appeals to everybody you just can't you can make a mediocre game that does that and many exist but a good game caters to a specific audience and unfortunately they do not want the god of war audience fuck this game and fuck all the sony fanboys who think it's a masterpiece that word has now lost all meaning I hate to say it but Elden Ring is probably game of the year this year despite having one of the most critical videos of it I think it's considerably better than this game that's about it I'll see you next time guys it's obvious that this dude didn't like the game before he played it I didn't like it before I played it yeah that's the ultimate cope oh boy we can get a recap because you know the game was so good that we forgot the entire story oh boy more sad Kratos that's what I've always wanted to see sad Kratos only when it's kill he's killing his family because at least that's understandable but what what is he sad about this time I didn't like it before I played it yeah that's the ultimate cope quit talking over the game you really want to hear all this shitty dialogue dude blow the $70 yourself on the shitty game if you really care about the dialogue I didn't like it before I played it yeah that's the ultimate cope sad equal deep according to game journals yeah from what I've seen of the leaks and no I will not say what I've seen for the few people who care here I would guess most people who came here don't give a shit about spoilers still not going to say anything this is the last Jedi of God of War from what I've heard if it is as bad as and I'm 90% sure that the leaks are correct so that oh and I don't understand what's going on oh in fact actually if you're asking to hear the dialogue again you're part of the problem all this sucks none of this matters have I really not been paying attention that much that oh and I don't understand what's going on oh yeah this guy is real based guys real anti-wook he's literally saying all the things left to say he might as well be reading out of their playbook even if he does think like you know they've gone too far he's clearly center left at at best and once again the most tired leftist argument of all he just hated the game before he even played it my question is why do you keep adding politics to everything like how is that leftist how is it anything I said in this entire video like leftist at all like we can even just look back to what I said I said I didn't feel like looking at the rest of you review because the review is bad and you probably didn't like the game before you played it how the fuck is that leftist at how does politics have anything to do with that at all I didn't say one thing in the video at all that was political except for the fact that you think the game is woke that's the only political thing I said like everything I say it just goes through your ear and comes out the other as a leftist nothing I said was leftist bro I just said your review is fucking trash if somebody says a yo mama joke to you you're gonna think it's fucking leftist everything is a leftist argument to this man I mean god damn it I I'm actually mad I knew I would be mad it took me over a week to make my video I'm glad you responded to it with your half-assed shitty opinions you parasite yeah that is a thousand likes well you guys do your job dislike bomb the video I don't give a shit I don't care if I get in trouble from YouTube every one of you come here dislike this video no no I might get in trouble from YouTube you do what you must I guess I'm okay I think I'm gonna end the stream now like I feel like dislikes are used for all the wrong reasons it's just like triggered children or here's an idea you're a fucking fanboy with your head up your ass you have really shit taste in video games because you haven't played any really good games evidently from 1980 all the way until like 2005 the vast majority of video games had minimal cutscenes all of the ones that had excessive story were notable for that because the vast majority of games didn't have more than an hour of cutscenes across the entire game it's only in the past 10 years that games have had more and more cutscenes which you would know if you actually played video games which I don't think you do which means you have no authority to talk about games and you clearly haven't seen many of my videos where I've talked about games I like that are obviously primarily gameplay focused so again this is an embarrassment you should absolutely feel ashamed to yourself that you shit this video out without thinking about it for more than 2 seconds but no you're going to continue to churn out content and slowly accrue more and more subscribers because YouTube doesn't care about quality it only cares that you cover trending topics which I'll admit is something I've done myself many times over the past 3 years it is a necessary evil to gain any traction on this website but not a single one of these points refutes any argument I made in the video not a single argument I made in the video has been refuted about it being a giant fucking movie game about it being woke as fuck about the combat being too similar to the last one which I actually pulled my punches on that I didn't make that a big point I didn't my original draft but I decided to be nice and mostly stay positive for the combat section about Kratos character assassination about Atreus being an effeminate cock about Freya being a Mary Sue none of these things refuted these are all the most important criticisms of the game and then there's the lack of gore there's the Marvel movie ripoff shit there's the fact that this game is clearly made for people who don't actually enjoy video games which is why you're not even playing the game the majority of the time but if you love movies if you love staring at the fucking screen not touching the controller except when a fake quick time event comes up then you'll love this I guess game of the year 2022 right so I honestly have no idea how to end this video a synthetic man wins commenters lose again big surprise I'm the greatest see you next time guys it's all right all right so there's Ryan Johnson mark number one a look low reddit humor he's turning a page with a pipe if you didn't play the first one don't play this one it's that fucking simple I hate I used to get mad about this all the time when I was a teenager where people would play sequels to games without playing the first it's like okay maybe if you're like a kid and your parent buys you the latest one or something then I get it but it doesn't make sense otherwise especially if plot the plot matters which it absolutely does okay I have a serious question what's the point of distinguishing between a block breaker and unblockable if he combos after a block breaker with a unblockable tech that's bullshit emotional manipulation we need like a counter for this shit that's number two he's too fat to be intimidating he doesn't sound Nordic he sounds like a loan shark yeah I again the Ryan Johnsoning gets tiresome after a while is this subvert your expectations instead of like Zeus who was you know like a gigachat we have fucking that was a bad point to pause is there anything over here okay why does this exist then just for continuity I love when games tell me don't go that way well that used to there was a time maybe a brief time or that meant you should go that way because there's secrets now when they tell you not to go that way yeah it was fucking now when they tell you not to go that way they really mean it like it's like there's nothing over there just we've just wasted time modeling this area my dad likes Lou who doesn't who doesn't like Lou that's not funny I love how Kratos is the main fucking character and he's the butt of the jokes they're constantly mocking him being like a masculine man this is it just gets disgusting after a while yeah this is what Marvel movies have done to humor I mean just not being allowed to be offensive in any way is kind of what destroyed humor really you don't necessarily have to be offensive to be funny but not being allowed to be offensive really steers humor in a specific horrific direction and it takes someone truly talented to write something funny that doesn't rely on you know offending something I'm so tired of the Marvel humor please make it stop I need to be better than you one day huh if you are not I have failed your son is a pussy he will never be better than you Kratos anyway sweeping hams so thanks to two books how's dad of war more like soy of war or god of soy or dad of soy John winterman inventor of winter yep I killed her you know what I'm gonna alpha your anus Freya you piece of shit oh god it made it worse what the fuck is this humor dude I feel like I need to cleanse my palette I'm getting to n words screaming conflations because you're fucking little objective said the fuck down said the fuck down look at you bro you're nine kills bro that is literally nativities bro get your fucking money up you fucking black George Floyd welfare collection fucking son of a bitch those are fucking awful I wish I will find this man I will give him some red gold oh my god guys I'm gonna get banned from the game I hope act man doesn't expose my youtube channel for my racism why do these character miles look so awkward look at him like I don't know if he just kind of looks autistic to me but like him staring off to the side and not directly into the camera looks really weird does that not look weird looks weird I don't know if it's because the upgrade or not it just seems like the blade to cast to less damage I guess there's supposed to be AoE or something but I don't like it you heard it here guys you can never atone for your sins God of War Ragnarok 2022 if you commit a crime it is always bad your forever bad says the leftist why the hell can't you grab enemies whenever you want because that would be too many mechanics for the average person to understand this has been asked before but what is the optimal time amount of cutscenes should be in my in my Ratchet and Clank 2 review I basically said one minute what I'd say like one to two minutes it depends on if if the if it's a major story cutscene I I say you could go up to five minutes like you could have a five minute cutscene if it's a really important to the story Jesus just watch the game honest whaley you basically just proved all of our points watch the game watch the game just just sit on that thought sit on that statement for a while if you do not see a problem with the statement watch the video game you are ruining the industry you are part of the fucking problem like you could have a five minute cutscene if it's a really important to the story you are ruining the industry you are part of the fucking problem what I think is the soundtrack definitely not as good there's no memorable track so far no memorable track so far the god of war is a coward a weak coward don't don't you like your expectations being subverted see what I mean dude this this is the last Jedi of god of war it is and yet people are saying it's fucking awesome two god of wars who don't seek war I don't know how to write in a nutshell here's voice so bad all the voice acting is normal in this nothing is epic nothing sounds like dramatic and over the top this is ryan johnson dude the guy who directed this actually worked on the other god of war games so I don't know why he's doing this subvert your expectations shit but it's just the poison the poison of california and modern politics and the way the world has shifted I'm the only sane man in this mad world the kuk writers want to kill kratos when atreus dying would definitely be the better writing a thousand percent what is that what is that what was the point of that that was fucking pointless it was just like oh man remember him i memeby prepare our own design to zoos smash the blood down they want to subvert your expectations don't you get it it's part of the ryan johnson experience does anyone like seriously i want to know like any real human being not an npc any real human being like oh man i want freya to be good guy i liked her in the first game she would need to be a good guy to help us we all team up against evil odin he's a fascist oh no i've heard about this here we fucking go the old kratos would have grabbed that thing and snapped its neck with one hand the story is uh odin bad gotta kill odin there you go cause we were looking for tear but we found him in the first zone so now i guess they're just finding a way to kill him oh i see this is literally tutorial zone what the hell is the point of that you can practice your combos for youtube videos and then make a clickbait thumbnail like whoa this this combo sick crazy blow what is tear doing being a pussy cause our expectations are subverted don't you get it a god of war who doesn't want to fight it's the classic cinematic soundtrack where there's no memorable tracks and the game is nearly silent when things aren't happening cause god forbid someone hear a 3 minute loop of a good memorable track in a video game in a modern fucking video game no memorable tracks time to go back in no player choice what's that i don't know it's a modern game player choice doesn't exist attempting treasure chest diamond sand i wonder how much money they wasted having like a line of dialogue for every slightly notable thing in the game i'm sorry it just reflects how little i give a shit about this imagine if a trace actually did become evil traitor said to kill his son i think that would be way more interesting than what they're doing this is like an alternate universe version of freya's house i don't know how how the hell does atreus not recognize it isn't it kind of obvious i'm 14 this story is so deep yeah really what i'm disgusted with this greatest disgusted not really they're gonna shit on spartans now spartans are absolute sheds are you kidding me are you kidding me dude you are raised in the agoyi we march till we drown fought for scraps of starved our elders beat us till we could not stand at night we made our way home alone or we're food for wolves that is how spartans are made they're gonna shit on spartans now it is one glow concealed because of this champion i still don't even remember who Kuroa is i really don't Specter to get over her son being killed. It's just this is a horrible horrible idea like this is some Marvel movie shit You do not become friends with the man who killed your son You don't and you also don't like Kratos The the the god the gen the guy who genocided up Pantheon of gods is not gonna be like oh this God is trying to kill me, but she's my friend I can't help my friends. Yeah. Oh, he's mature now. He grew up Fucking piece of shit. I I I swear to God if one like 35 year old man shall the no kids and a hundred Funko pops Is gonna try and tell me about maturity eat a fucking dick dude portals Why couldn't they just do that the start of the fight? If portals can chop people in half or Decapitate him and they've just like closed the realm terror to start of the fight kind of an obvious blow hold anything You had a way around Odin's cuffs this whole time No, I discovered it once you unlocked realm travel and it solves very little this form is Extremely limiting she was stuck as a bird though. I don't know can't Kratos close the hole or something Look at her the super mega badass She's like crying over like tears and fucking forest heart thing my god Look at Kratos groveling in front of this strong female character Shall we I killed one more God than I should have you say this as if like the Greek gods didn't have families I mean they were a family Most of them were related And you killed all of them without mercy This can be powerful. Yeah My wife a talk be that I Hate every character if it was possible to hate every character. I think I hate every character This is this modern woke writing is every character is unlikeable as fuck Like it's selfishness hurt the person that you care about the most Everyone's crying and apologizing how mature God of war is that they're expressing their feelings. Oh Was a soap opera shit. Yeah, I I know who no one gives a shit. I don't give a shit The sword guy do anything He has a sword Why does he just exist? You see like someone's self-insert if this was God of war one two or three Any of these mounting sections like the beginning with the dogs or when we were riding that huge yak with Angra boat of the black chick or any of these boats You would have been able to attack. They would have designed a section just for this You could hit square and triangle and hit stuff, right? Because that makes sense if you're if your goal is to design a video game Then you try and make things feel unique have the encounter stand out in some way in a modern shitty Cinematic Sony game you're instead just oh row row row your boat Like fucking what why what fuck you dude? Anyone who thinks this masterpiece has shit taste and should never be listened to again. I'm serious Is that far behind I can't believe it is that far behind after that long He didn't immediately bolt after his son as soon as he transformed. Are you fucking kidding me? It's so poor it of the great writing guys great writing told me I'm going to to kill you and ask a hard I'm though I thought you didn't believe in that How could Kratos not believe in that if he literally killed the fates in his realm that doesn't make any sense I and I didn't know it But I asked a soul into my knife. He put his soul Yeah, let's see if it's up see they subverted your expectations just to actually do it anyway So now Garm is effectively Fenrir Okay, I don't like the message of I feel like under ten layers of Deeper meaning the message here is trust your teenage kid when they make a life-changing decision Like chop their dick off. I genuinely forgot who tear was yeah, cuz he's done nothing They built it up at the end of the last game is like, oh, this is the next big quest Well, because it combined two games in the one you get tear in the first few hours And then he does nothing of relevance Ever he's really fucking useless Any unfinished business in other realms you wanted to take care of I'm sure the Lord would love to help They're like, please go do our side quest guys We spent we spent months on our generic shitty side quest. Please do them this song was almost December Can't have memorable music in video games and might distract from awesome super special combat and Or something so I'm talking about like Does this sound like two gods talking to each other and you find a way to make it better. Well, that's certainly true How? In all the nine realms Did you manage to kill him doll? Now I knew our spear with no one believe that Kratos killed like a whole pantheon of gods I feel like constantly they act shocked when he killed another God. The plan is to kill him doll first. Oh Wow, okay time doll. Let's see never loses sees everything coming unpopular at parties. This won't be easy Kratos I've never seen anyone so much as lay a finger on him. Not one You're gonna lose her you may be working with all father and enjoying his little it's a lot of balls But stay out of my family's business and it seems out of character. It's just I don't understand What's the point? We already know Thor is gonna die So why like I don't know they're trying to get us to care about him Like oh look, he's not just a dick Is this really the right time for this is this really the right time for this He's an alcoholic because his daddy doesn't love him This is really what I wanted in God of war God of motherfucking war dude Oh good a character Talking about how worthless here is good We can slip into Asgard and do it ourselves right under his nose We gain the knowledge we need to shatter this prophecy of war once and for all Except begging your pardon. You don't have a way into Asgard or or What if you sing the mask and gazing into the tear is what causes Ragnarok? Are we not gonna think of this as a possibility? I? Feel like just I just thought of that immediately I don't you know or none of the characters gonna think of this whatever who cares Now we kill And anyone who gets in our way Yeah, why is Freya more God of war than the actual God of war leads back to the vengeance Yes, Kratos. That is who you are you are vengeance That is that is your character and that's not necessarily bad So that was completely pointless scene I love how Brock dying was kind of pointless because Kratos managed to get the mask anyway from Odin How is this mature and real a bore is a black guy? What are you talking about? What do you mean? Like it's here didn't do anything of relevance so it doesn't really matter that he was owed it You know I guess I should have guessed just because they didn't do anything with them But because the writing was so bad for a lot of the game. I just I didn't think they would do that. That's my bad I guess Yeah, I don't know why exactly they're doing this. I'm surprised. I didn't just roll credits Well, I'm not that surprised, but they should have just rolled credits. I Need you to hear I Appreciate I can't leave. I don't know why oh My god, I appreciate you so much Anger voted didn't even fucking do anything. Why did she exist again? Oh, right diversity points, right? Game's not woke though 10 out of 10 and death arrived He asked why the old man had called for him. Oh god this Callbacks don't work if they happened like one hour ago if they try to make another God of War with the trace as a hero I will not play it. I swear to you. I will skip it. I will review anything else That's a promise remember in games when you could just hit something I want I want trace to die like I want trace to die So Kratos has the will to like be the angry God of Oregon. Wouldn't that be so based Kratos is a hero now I miss when Kratos used to fuck hot girls now. He sucks Yeah, we are down here to help I know that but I'm usually the one who drags us around trying to rescue animals. Why do you care so much? Jesus Christ man stop asking the same question. No Maybe he's trying to help his son. I know that's crazy Kratos Kratos being a good dude I don't believe it either, but really I don't but uh, I this is like completely pointless dialogue right now Like completely fucking pointless This was not a distraction No, then why are we really out here? Have you ever considered? He just wants to spend time with your lad while he still can Really we do not know what lies ahead, but if rock barock approaches Who is to enjoy the time we have left? I? I don't know what to say Thank you For bringing us out here I'm glad we did this as am I cream Cream Imagine I like imagine if they subverted our expectations in like an actually interesting way and Atreus just Insulted her constantly would that not be awesome. I think that'd be great. This is God of war Slaughtering the gods and screaming is more mature than this. I will never let that go I will argue that I will die on that fucking hill This isn't who you want to be. Shut the fuck up Mamiir. This is exactly what I want to be Brush his face. You don't care about anything beyond yourself Beyond the monster who kills without cause Like a sigma male Chad even hope so you know there's toxic masculinity is dead look guys. It's a whale Let's stab it in the eye. That's what cradle the real Kratos would do Why can I not stab it and I didn't know what it was like to be chained in one place for years at a time With nothing to occupy your mind, but pain Why it would God of War of any franchise try and teach you about morality. Why can I not stab it? You know now that I know more about the Dark Elves I wish we didn't have to fight them. They attack us well This is their home and considering what happened the last time we were an alpha Can you really blame them? Oh? Boy more God of War teach me a rat morality basic Yeah, Sony games is so mature, dude. What if we're the baddies? Oh my god crazy, dude I never that's that's the who would have thought that that's nuts Don't call me a lot to learn little girl starting Yeah, I'm doll is the supreme gentleman Like if any breadtuber wanted to take me down they could just pull up a bunch of stream flips That's all I would take you know what banter when I was a kid was full of it's both slurs And when you have slurs then your banter acted as power. I fucking hate wokeness with every fiber of my being I despise it. I try to keep those segments of the videos to a minimum But it's impossible when modern games are so So disgustingly Poisoned by leftist ideology like this input reading I was gonna say a word that stopped myself like that This bundle of sticks arey. I don't know It's like they want us to hate her. How could you still like her? I know redditors are like soy boy cocksuckers They're all secretly gay It's like here's the thing Like if you're an actual cuckold, I mean and I mean literally not the meme version But like you know you get off to men fucking your wife You're self-inserting as the woman you're gay. There you go. Boom. There's my theory. That's that's my diss That's that's never mind who cares whatever I'm I'm correct We don't need universal health care. You want to give these fat fucks. You want to pay more taxes This is what the euro fags. Oh, it's fuck. I said it you're all Pours you're all pores Don't understand Is that you guys pay like over half your income to the government who fucking stabs you in the back And you have no rights in some way. I do want to talk about how the women I Mean I already mentioned like the female characters take charge and are always right or whatever for those of you who are here Which is probably not most of you if you watch the oh look a women I love beating women with my fists and my giant shield Diversity the strength of diversity. We have female enemies, which means in cells can beat the shit out of women and get away with it At least I get to kill women a woke. I mean, I Don't know Freya Stabbed Kratos and they're building her up to be a badass or something. That's about it. I guess this female enemies The scene was definitely written by a woman Why did they make Kratos to a huge was because women and Anthony Birch wrote this story There were four female writers on this, right? That's that's what people were saying someone told me this four female writers On this game. I know a lot of Pierce was one of them Yeah, a lot of Pierce was one of the women's even and we already know there's at least four diversity hires on this In terms of in the writing staff a lot of Pierce was bragging she got to write but she's not credit is such Accessibility for dumb people Really, so she didn't actually write is ever saying Maybe her writing was that bad. There's still four And look he's on the ground. She's standing up. So already making him look inferior There's definitely this is an agenda here. There's a fucking agenda here a lot of Pierce and never mind I know I'm not gonna say anything. I'm gonna get in trouble. I'm gonna get in trouble Where your parents this is fucking it's fuck all the you know any person who ever simped for her needs to be executed and I'm sorry. I can't say what I want to happen to a lot of ears I do too, but I can't say every simp should be killed. She's gonna peg him Maybe maybe maybe that's the only way Fuck I gotta be careful about what I say. I gotta be careful. I gotta be careful. Yeah, be careful. Oh Oh Man a woman beat man a thing. I think I got it. How about I mean granted he's never done it before but still Woman has to save a man again. Oh boy, she went she won again. Thank you want to get she should peg him Just peg a trace. God. This is cringe the cringe levels with her for her dude Hey, all these badass women except look she can't even keep her emotions together She was a super badass in the fight more female enemies by the way guys a lot of badass women in the Norse dimension Don't ask questions many of our people as possible my responsibility one you didn't take seriously then and from the looks of it One woman good man bad Not quite Whammon It's a It's a strong female character here to actually save the day not the main character You have no hold on me Wow So brave Stunning and fucking brave, dude Not woke at all guys not woke at all. Oh No, look how strong she is. She's very strong. I'm weak. Look at how weak the man is and the woman is very strong You know, do we want to talk about women? I suppress it because I hate to say it I I never would have guessed me of all people that female viewers. I mean I do self-censor a bit, but regardless You know, we could talk about women and why I'm in the situation I'm in but I feel I guess it's just a bad idea as I've already given YouTube enough reason to ban me This is literally this guy doesn't need to exist. It's just like they needed a black guy That a black girl. So you need a black guy since your last I guess No, there's literally no other reason for this guy exists if I was working for GameStop It'd be like fucking base, dude. I'll bring up that Refund right away. Even if I get fired Yeah, but I want to say I wanted to say something I would say a slur, but I can't say it imagine if Kratos was racist, you know They would never they would never dare they would never dare Kratos can't be interesting. You can just grunt and say wise depressing things So me and her we obviously need to breathe and then I execute all my sons and then Breathe with the daughters execute all those the grandsons read it anyway Anyway The slurs have been taken away from you so you use monkey emojis He's like the showrunners a big mouth. They're romantically interested in babies Pull it with the anti-semitic remarks someone's gonna use their feeling clips against you go ahead I'll stand by on that one the ones that I'm worried about at the You know talking about them Well, I'm a nobody so as long as I don't do anything the algorithm triggers or you know do something nobody watches Then I can at least reference something that we all know what's going on We all know if he's not Jordan Peterson. He's sold out and he's controlled opposition now Just look at who he's hanging out with I don't know what to call him like team Republican Something I don't know small hats There's no way to say it without saying it everyone wants there to be an equivalent to the Illuminati But it just doesn't like that's just not how it works in reality There are multiple groups of people trying to bring down Western civilization and they're not all on the same team There's a certain Common factor between all the teams if you do your research, obviously, you know certain never mind anyway You guys all know I'm sweet preaching to the choir look up some things. I can't tell you to look up things about I Don't know 2% of the population Controlling a significant amount of the media and the government Wikipedia is not a good source for a lot of reasons like a lot of reasons he used to just be oh anyone can edit the page Well, it's not even it's not even that actually it's almost the opposite where many pages are constantly guarded by Well, they use bots, but there's still subhumans regardless for setting up bots to monitor There's no making this right is there they started even because of the noticing when we've started removing a particular thing From the early life section of many pages. It is vengeance. That's why that's exactly the reason why I'm suspect of people like Critical drinker again. I'm not saying he's controlled opposition But this is something I don't know I guess when you condense a problem to the message instead of naming them, which yes, I realized you can't name them I'm not gonna name them on YouTube either But I'm just saying VP Geordi. I've already said too much politically Like the dog whistles are not like as whistly as you'd think the amount of times I've talked about certain group of people is That is far. It's already way bad like to that's already crossed the line like there's no going back from that It just shows how cowardly the right has become that there hasn't already been an uprising The founding fathers would have started who are you a boogaloo a long time ago? What the American government has done to us is far worse than then the British government did to the colonies So I'm just saying the problem is we're vastly outnumbered by normies If you're not willing to take up arms cost of vengeance, I mean that literally Then all you can do is vote with your wallet Some of the snowflakes will release a video exposing you will you watch it on stream? Only if it gets a lot of you I'm not gonna give attention to I Realize the irony of this when fucking demand lives doesn't want to acknowledge my existence But I just think when it's like a tiny youtuber who has no identity. It's a little different, you know like if I made Like this was he called Something bread or something you guys said his name earlier or potato. That's what it was the potato guy I don't think he is really a content creator Maybe doesn't seem like But I Don't know whatever I can just be a hypocrite. I guess who knows if I'll even ever be in a co-lab I guess people don't want to address. I exist because I have real opinions about video games I don't think there's any game reviewers. I trust anymore. I I trust myself in my own opinion That's but it genuinely enjoy your stuff, man. Keep being real. You're the rare exception ocean of mediocrity Well, thanks That doesn't mean a lot. I I try being the one real gaming critic This it's not good guys. It's not good. Why can't we just I don't even know if anyone has any real opinions anymore. It's just everyone is a fucking liar I guess spoilers the video is gonna be called God of War Ragnarok is the new last Jedi because it exists just to subvert your expectations, but again all these people is supposed People with integrity that you can always trust if a game is good. Don't fucking Tell you this so obviously this guy doesn't have very strong principles or is a liar as are many people on YouTube The only people I start shit with are people I know Invited on the sitch and Adam show privacy. It's me dude. I've never been invited to anything