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Played a little more tonight. So Gaia, the personification of the Earth from whom all the gods and titans are descended, is helping Kratos in this game. She's upset with Zeus for going to war with the Titans. It used to be Zeus who apparently gave you the power to save in the first game, but I guess Gaia can take over such duties.

The Pegasus has flying levels attached to it, where Kratos cuts up some Gryphons as he travels. They reduce the number of attacks and combos similar to the climbing combat but you do have access to dodge moves and a boost. He's traveling to an island to find the sisters of fate (who, if you've seen Disney's Hercules, are the three girls who cut the threads of people's lives, though I've always heard them called just "the fates,") so that they can send him back in time to before Zeus betrayed and killed him. Partway there, though, the Pegasus gets crushed by the hand of an ice giant while Kratos is able to bail safely. The Pegasus is okay, it has no broken bones or anything, but Kratos has to get it out from under the big hand by hitting it while in his Rage of the... Titans mode. He doesn't have that yet, so he has to go on a little adventure nearby, where he meets Prometheus, who is being eternally tortured for helping humanity. I think it's a good idea to bring up this story since they're trying to re-establish Zeus as a villain and it does make him seem kind of nutty. I didn't know this until now, but apparently in Greek tradition Heracles eventually freed Prometheus but the original sources that tell what happened next have been lost. Since God of War is a very edgy game, the best Kratos can do is kill the guy, which he has to retrieve a bow power up to manage. Functionally, the bow is identical to the lightning toss move from the first game. There's a sort of mini boss fight against the ice titan's head where you put both his eyes out but don't actually kill him.

After Kratos rescues his horse and they go through another flight section, you wind up on the Island proper, which was apparently built to prevent people from getting to the Fates. I expect it will be where I spend most of the remainder of the game, similar to the temple in God of War 1. So far, although I expected a very similar game to the first, I'm surprised by just how similar it actually is. It's basically the exact same game with new levels. I got reintroduced to the minotaurs and gorgon enemies from the last game, as well as the cerberus-like dogs. I think the only new random enemy I've encountered so far is a little piggy that the Cyclops can kill and throw at you. Kratos can also kill the pigs with one throw.

There have been two human bosses, the first being Theseus, which I thought was a fine boss in its first phase, where he just fights you hand to hand, but stopped making any sense in the second phase where he climbs up out of reach and you have to finish him with the bow. He starts spawning minotaurs in this phase, which means that even if you're weakened you can heal back to full off them. The second boss fight is against the ghost of the barbarian that Kratos needed Ares' help to kill back in the day. You get his hammer after you win, but it's heavy and slow so it doesn't seem like a very useful weapon. The boss fights were the highlight of the first game for me, so even though these ones haven't been as impressive as the minotaur boss from the first game I am glad they're here. So far, Normal difficulty is probably easier than I would like.

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