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I had a similar experience. I know there was puzzle solving in the first game but in Ragnarok the world felt so artificial because you can't move more than three feet without having to solve a series of convoluted contraptions and there was far too much of it, it felt like padding.

Story-wise, I also felt that Kratos had very little agency and spent most the time just listening to people monologue at him about their own issues and ambitions while he reluctantly got dragged along to all the major story beats.

It's not a game I'd like to play again, and I much preferred the first.