5/5 ★ – Just_Deli's review of God of War: Ragnarök.

What can I say that probably hasn't been said about this masterpiece. I can start with that, this is a masterpiece. They took a masterpiece from 2018 in the original reboot title and made it better in every way. If you played the 2018 God of War, this games takes the grounds laid 4 years ago and made everything bigger, better and more breathtaking. This game is beautiful. It is the continuation and finale of Kratos and his son Artreus living within the 9 realms of Norse mythology. The combat feels similar, but amped up. They created more environmental interactions within the fights, they added more verticality to the world, and they created so many ways to go about chopping, slashing, or stabbing enemies that you always feel like you yourself are a god. And everything just flows so well together within fights. One of 2018 God of War's criticisms was lack of enemy variety. They laid that to rest here. You will go through this game fighting so many different types of enemies you will think you started playing a third separate game. This game is huge. God of War Ragnarok looked like it was positioned similar to Spider Man: Miles Morales as a smaller supplementary title in between big launches. Boy, could that have been more wrong. The run time on the story alone is somewhere around 30 hours. And this game is packed tight with "side" content to do either while completing the main story, but also endgame bosses and quests that continue pushing the world forward. If I had to have a criticism here is that due to the longer story, there are a few parts where it tends to drag. And if you have played you know specifically what part I am talking about. I didn't hate that part, but it went on for too long. Side content can't be understated here. Not once did I do a "side" quest and think it wasn't meaningful to the overall world. There is no "side" content here. I have only one boss left before I have 100% this game, and the only reason I haven't done it yet is because once I do, I will be done with everything. A huge highlight for me here is characters and their interactions with each other. The acting cast here deserve an award all to themselves. Christopher Judge won Performance of the year (well deserved) but the whole cast belongs in a category all on its own. Everyone, from the friendly dwarves to the multi-personality tree squirrel to the rage-filled Freya feel like real people who you truly can resonate with. The fact that the entire time I have played this game pushing through all it has to offer, even after beating the main story, the characters STILL have new and interesting things to say. I can confidently put God of War Ragnarok in my top games of all time. This is the reason I bought my PS5, and this is a must-play in my opinion. (P.S. I bought the Thor hammer)