It’s about making both experiences better. When you start your journey, the question of whether or not Ragnarok is better quickly fades because it’s made abundantly clear that it’s not about being better. Yet Ragnarok is written in such a way that everything feels connected. The story told between these games is very, and I mean VERY, different. But rather than try to get into the loop of constantly needing to one-up itself, Ragnarok’s story brilliantly weaves itself with its predecessor, as if it wants you to not view it as a sequel but as one continuation of the journey through the Norse mythology - something Eric Williams said as much, too.Īnd I am not suggesting that it’s more of the same because it isn’t. That comes with the territory of being a sequel, after all. Ragnarok isn’t built with the idea that it has to be better. While I’ll undoubtedly admit that Ragnarok is in every way better than the last God of War, my experience throughout the entire campaign and its endgame content have given me a newfound appreciation for the former title. So, a follow-up to this masterpiece would understandably put tremendous pressure on the team and its new director, Eric Williams.īut how do you make a game bigger and better than the last? The answer is you don’t, or at least in Ragnarok’s case, that isn’t what it wants you to get out of it. It shouldn’t have worked, but it astonishingly did. He’s passionate, loving, and caring, all while simultaneously acknowledging his past and feeling remorse for everything he’s done. Yet somehow, Santa Monica managed to reinvent him, adding layers of depth that fit perfectly in a new world where he was no longer content with the idea of slaying gods. It changed Kratos as a character in ways we never thought were imaginable, given his lengthy violent history that’s been established. Thankfully, they managed to do the impossible, as God of War 2018 ended up paying off massively both with critics and fans loving it so much so that the game garnered multiple game of the year awards, counting one from us. So there was a risk here for the team, as it put them in a do-or-die situation. Many studios have tried it, and many franchises have died because of it, or at the very least, saw losses from their attempts to deviate from a winning formula. While the idea of rebooting a game was by no means a new one, it was rare that we would see such an endeavor ever succeed in gaming. For us fans, he was a stranger, as was the game itself.Ĭory Barlog (game director) and the rest of the team at Santa Monica were taking a massive gamble with God of War 2018. Kratos also saw a personality change no more was he the angry and violent man we grew to know him as. Gone was the intense, addictive, thumb-numbing button-mashing combat we all loved since the PS2 era. Then God of War 2018 was announced, a sequel/reboot that would change everything we knew about the franchise. He had no remorse, only pure anger that would even make the Incredible Hulk seem calm. Looking back at the God of War franchise, for nearly two decades, Kratos was developed as a character whose sole purpose was to get revenge in the most gruesome ways imaginable. However, after playing through nearly 60 hours of Ragnarok, 20 of those being solely on the story itself, the answer to that question isn’t as cut and dry as it might seem. We don’t blame you, because it’s a common one that gets asked for every movie, video game, or product sequel that ever gets released. “Is God of War Ragnarok better than God of War 2018?” This is a question that many of you are probably asking right now. All images are from the game’s final build, captured on the PS5. After four long years of waiting, the epic conclusion to God of War’s Norse mythology has finally arrived! Is God of War Ragnarok the sequel you’d hoped for or does it falter under its own weight? While we answer some of that in our hands-on impressions of the review build, we can now talk about the entire package touching on the technical aspects, the endgame and more! Read on to find out whether Ragnarok lives up to the hype in our spoiler-free God of War Ragnarok review!
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