Board 8 > Bartz and Commodore play the God of War and Uncharted series

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I have every intention of making some sort of update each time I play.

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Hey all this is Bartz btw.

Hah, I did a GoW trilogy playthrough topic AND an Uncharted trilogy playthrough topic this year too.

So, TAG.

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On this topic, I need to acquire GoW3 so I'll be ready when the time comes. I have GoW 1,2 and UC 1,2.

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Hey all this is Bartz btw.

We've both recently acquired the games. Neither one of us has played either series.

We're starting out with God of War 1, playing through all of them, then moving on to Uncharted. We're both pretty busy guys, but we're gonna try to keep this moving along as quickly as possible. I'm starting up now since I have the flu, he'll be catching up this weekend.

(spoilers from here on out, obviously)

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God of War 1 - Aegean Sea

The whole reason I decided to play GoW stems back to my slight obsession with Greek mythology. Since I was a kid I've been fascinated with the Greek gods and goddesses, thinking they're just about the coolest mythical beings to ever exist. The idea of playing through a well-received series based on them has always interested me. Now that I finally have a PS3, this was undoubtedly first on my list. Its impossible to be a video game fan and not know of Kratos. Everyone who isn't living under a rock has heard of this guy by now. And from the very first cutscene, I can see why. He's a freakin badass. Just look at him. The body art, the chain swords, this man is the epitome of a Greek hero.

I decided to play through on medium, because I haven't played this type of action adventure game in a LONG time and I never was too good at them anyway. The first battle, I manage to rack up a 30 hit combo. Not bad, I guess. I just did a whole lot of button mashing tbh. First mini-boss is the Hydra head. Block, string of light attacks, block, repeat. I don't think I got hit once. Awww yeah look who's good at this game.

The story part begins now. I'm trying to rescue this hobo from a cage and he'd rather die on some sinking ship than let me help him out. I don't know what Kratos has done, but it must be pretty bad. I try to chop him out of his cage anyway to no avail. **** it, this homeless dude can die. I'm Kratos and I got hydras and **** to obliterate.

This next hydra is tougher. I'm a pretty good button masher, but when that dragon caught me in his mouth, I only O'd my way out of it 1/3 times. Maybe its because I'm sick, but that required a lot more speed than I had in me. I'm introduced to air combat. I suck at it. Half the time I pop fools up, he jumps up with them. Other times he pops them up and stays on the ground. Might be a gameplay issue, but its probably just me sucking at action adventure games again.

On that note, HOLY HELL. Balancing on these planks is way too hard. And the damn CAMERA MOVES while I'm doing it. I'm offered Easy mode for dying so much. Suck my ass, I'm staying on medium. Almost considered switching to easy on the next part. Damn box broke like 10 times before I managed to get it up front. Then I hear some slampieces being ravaged by an unknown force and want to get in on the action. I'll find your key alright.

I got dat RAGE and reached a 50 hit combo. Thats what I'm talkin about. Story-wise, I noticed Kratos threw himself off a cliff for no longer being the gods' favorite hero. 3 weeks earlier, he's getting his first gift from a god? That's a pretty quick turn-around. Anyway, I took down the boss with ease and realized Kratos is giant ******* as he steals that bro's key and drops him into the hydra's stomach.

Oh nevermind, that was the key to go unlock those moaning broads. Well played, Kratos. Well played. We are rewarded with two sets of animated chesticles. Score.

Question time:
If Zeus forbids that the gods attack each other and ****, how come Ares is able to attack Athens in the first place? Why isn't Athena standing up for her city? Sounds like Ares is breaking the rules, so why is she being such a wuss and making Kratos fight for her?

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God of War 1 - The Gates of Athens

Remember those chicks Kratos saved last chapter? Now we get to know them in a biblical sense. At the same time. Via a mini-game. Fantastic. If you know me at all, you know how many times I played this minigame. I was waiting for that urn to give up and stop respawning, but it never did. Anyway, Kratos nails the slampieces, giving him enough “orbs” to “upgrade his weapon”. Boing-oing-oing-oing.

The new enemies are slightly annoying, but nothing my handy new L1+X attack can’t handle. The minotaurs suck and damage me way too much. The Cyclops are laughably easy and fill me back up. Easily completing the box jumping section, I move on to meet this ***** Aphrodite. She couldn’t be cool like Poseidon and just give me a present. No, instead I must take on the half chick/half dude/half reptile Uma Thurman with her huge boobs, man hands, and snake hair. I finally get Uma’s head and her ugly ass face can freeze minotaurs. Unfortunately I still like Poseidon’s gift better because it racks up my hit combos and doesn’t take forever to work. Thanks for nothing Aphrodite.

I make my way along the climbing portions, wondering why anyone would try to kill these things with anything other than the grab insta-kill. One quick way to anger the gods is pushing over their statues and jumping on their head, Kratos. Just a tip.

Apparently the Gorgons are pissed I killed their Queen Uma Thurman and now I must fight them as well. After more climbing (and realizing I can’t always use the grab insta-kill), I rock some minotaurs’ world with my kickass bow and arrow. The Oracle of Athens appears to me, spewing forth some bull**** about Ares, but Kratos is mesmerized by her blue ***s. He reaches forward to grab one, then stares in disappointment as his hand passes through her bosom. Now, what the hell did she just say? Oh well, we’ll figure it out. While we have the Oracle’s breasts on our mind, lets “upgrade that weapon” again. Boing-oing-oing-oing.

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protip if you do the special stab-in-the-mouth kill on the minotaurs they will always drop health and if you do the special head rip on the gorgons they will always drop mana

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Two incredible series

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Are we friends on PSN Bartz? If not, what's your username?

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God of War 1 - The Road To Athens and Athens Town Square

New Moves! Four of them, I understand. Then I see “Hades Revenge”. I press Square or Triangle or R1 while in Hades Reverse (Parry) Pose. Uhh…what? I wasn’t aware I had a Hades Reverse (Parry) Pose. No time to worry about that. Gimli is pissed off and terrorizing an entire colony of ants. But wait…Gimli doesn’t throw fireballs. That gigantic ginger must be Ares. The clouds above him are swirling, so hopefully Zeus is going to take care of this.

I travel down the linear path, breaking into everyones’ homes and stealing their ****. Turns out looting everything does feel good after town disasters. He finds no bare-chested women and doesn’t get to upgrade his weapon again before the next boss fight. Three Cyclops appear this time, more difficult to beat than the ones earlier. At first I started getting low on health, then I asked myself WWKD. Kratos would kill all the townspeople for their health, because he’s a badass like that. Alright, maybe that doesn’t fit his character all that well, but I haven’t seen anything to convince me he isn’t a homicidal maniac yet.

He’s just minding his business, plowing through marble hallways and some broad keeps appearing up a ways screaming, “Stay away from me!” Kratos is not after you. Kratos just had a threesome with two naked chicks on a boat and groped an oracle. Kratos can do much better than you. After being harassed by this ***** for the umpteenth time, Kratos gets pissed and charges forward. Dumb broad runs straight off a balcony. Kratos doesn’t care and loots her dead corpse for a shiny new key.

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Big time tag here.

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God of War 1 - Rooftops of Athens

Whoaaa this game got serious all the sudden. The wraiths/cyclops combination kicked my ass the first time I encountered them. The next time I fared a little better (sorry Aphrodite, I appreciate your gift of Uma Thurman’s head). This level starts to become a little more challenging than the game had been up to this point. I found myself getting low on health at times. The “puzzles” are still laughable, but I’m starting to realize I need to make friends with the block button.

After running around in circles for a while not knowing what to do, I finally ended up back on track. I think I climbed the ladder in the save area and attempted that section too early. I had to backtrack and then go that way again.

Got dat ZEUS’ FURY! Bout time I picked up a ranged attack, those archers were getting on my last damn nerve. I decided to upgrade Poseidon’s Rage around this time. I feel like my blades are strong enough, but my magic was lacking. Plus PR level 2 offered some kind of spinning attack.

Kratos encounters the coward. He is afraid to release the lever because of the monsters. Kratos could’ve talked him down, been like, “Yo, I’m a badass. Look at my muh****in chain swords and lightning bolts. I got ya.” Instead, Kratos kills him in the face and makes the lever move by sheer willpower. Kratos ain’t got time for wimps.

The oracle gets kidnapped, her half-covered cans flopping around in the wind as she’s carried away. “FIND ME KRATOS!” Don’t you worry, he’s gonna do a lot more than just find your fine ass.

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I always imagined Kratos is sexing up the nearest woman in the loading screens.

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Yeah, I can't help it. There is so much boobage in this game, and its obvious he's after it every chance he gets.

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God of War 1 - Temple of the Oracle and Sewers of Athens

The harpies carry the Oracle into the temple as Kratos stands there with a smug smile. They already ripped one of her pant legs off. Half the work is done. Then all hell breaks loose. Apparently the harpies have kamikaze attacks now, then some old ass man says he’s digging Kratos’ grave. I tried to kill him, but it wouldn’t let me. Damn.

In my attempt to open all the chests in the area before going for the Oracle’s chest, she became the single most annoying character I’ve encountered in a video game this year. The more she screamed at me to hurry up, the less I wanted to save her. When I finally do, she doesn’t even put out. All she does is give Kratos flashbacks showing him that he’s a badass. Guess what? He already knew that. His wife started bleeding from her eye sockets though, I bet that has a lot to do with his past. Like she forgot to make him a sandwich and he flipped out or something. In remembrance of her and partly due to his frustrations over the Oracle, I let Kratos “upgrade his weapon”.

On a more serious note, I ran up that gigantic mountain as soon as I exited the temple. It seems I found the very cliff he’s going to jump off in 3 weeks. Also, it says the statue of Athena is not responding to his prayers. She better ****ing respond if she wants me to save her city. Ungrateful *****.

The sewers were entirely too easy. It was unsettling given the increasing difficulty of every level so far. I was expecting something to pop out and kick my ass, but it never happened. Oddly placed level.

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God of War 1 - Desert of Lost Souls, Pandora’s Temple, and Rings of Pandora

Since the Oracle turned out to be a bust, Kratos decides he wants to find Pandora and get in her box. First I gotta plow through this desert and kill a bunch of broads with sandy vags. They’re screaming in pain, which makes it pretty easy to find them. Kratos grabs them in a bear hug, apologizes for their feminine problems, and snaps them in half. He doesn’t have time for creams. He’s gotta find Pandora and open her box. Later he blows a horn to let Pandora know he’s on his way, and it turns out vag dryness is an epidemic around here. About a dozen Mileena look-alikes bust out of the ground trying to attack Kratos. He disposes of them easily, having dealt with plenty of ugly girl sororities in the past.

To make sure we’re all clear, Kratos then climbs a mountain for THREE DAYS to enter the Temple of Pandora. THREE DAYS. Pandora’s box must be the stuff of legends. I bet Yeezy reupholstered it. Kratos eventually runs into some guy that looks like his grandfather who seems unimpressed that he’s made it this far. Warns him he’s gonna die, then opens the gate for him anyway. Some grandpa you are.

Some new cyclops show up, bigger but no better than all the ones he’s encountered so far. I did notice the button sequence to form the killing move seemed to move a bit faster than on previous enemies. I get inside, waste some wraiths and soldiers, then read the book. The temple was erected in honor of Zeus. I thought this was Pandora’s Temple? Did Zeus somehow get to her box before Kratos did?

I run into Artemis and she gives me a blade. Unfortunately, I already have two kickass chain blades. So thanks for nothing, Artemis.

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God of War 1 - The Challenge of Atlas

Hopefully this means the game is going to get challenging. I’ve been kind of flying through up to this point, with a few minor setbacks. Other than getting lost, this level didn’t provide much of a challenge either. I was disappointed to receive the Shield of Zeus and Shield of Hades but not being able to use either one.

The saws in this level I can deal with. You time them, move past, no biggie. The crushers are a different story. There is no discernable pattern. They simply slam shut whenever the **** they want, particularly when you’re trying to roll through them. Weak move, especially when you’re about to have a long ass climbing portion. I finally made it through this part after 3 attempts. Then I got some health from a combo chest. I made it through the next battle with ease and grabbed the handle of Atlas (another item I was disappointed to learn I couldn’t use).

Can I just go on record saying I don’t think he should’ve torn off the Architect’s Son’s head? I feel like that’s bad karma.

We finally get a glimpse into Kratos’ background. So he sold his soul to Ares in exchange for winning the war against the barbarians. That must be why he didn’t tell Athena to **** off when she told him to stop Ares. He doesn’t care about Athens, he just needed permission to go **** Ares up to try to win his soul back.

This game is only difficult when its being stupid. Like when you have to jump off the rolling log. It shouldn’t take me 7 ****ing tries to get from a log to a ladder.

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Since the Oracle turned out to be a bust, Kratos decides he wants to find Pandora and get in her box.

Euwww....

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God of War 1 - The Challenge of Poseidon

Aww look it’s a puppy! Cute little puppy! Wait…what? EVIL ****ING PUPPY! This battle could’ve been difficult if I hadn’t spammed PR right next to the big Cerberus. Then all the little puppies who kept attacking me were easier to take care of with the big one gone.

I’m completely baffled by that big movable block after the Cerberus battle. There is absolutely no use for it. I thought maybe it was there to shield you from the archers up ahead, but turns out their arrows make little bombs that explode and hurt you anyway. If anyone knows the purpose of that ****ing block, I’d really like to know.

I was delightfully in shock when Kratos has to burn a human soldier alive to enter the room where he gets Poseidon’s trident. The game does help you out though. By the time you reach the flame room, his *****ass screaming has become so annoying you are happy to shut him up.

Kratos then starts making out with water spirits or some ****. I don’t know, I’m not really paying attention at this point. Swimming around isn’t very exciting. Especially when I die 15 times in a row trying to outswim the ****ing underwater conveyor belt. Easily my least favorite part of the game so far.

We meet Amphitrite and realize what a boss Poseidon is. He has his “faithful” wife stuck watching over a cursed room, forever. The room isn’t even that impressive. Meanwhile he’s out screwing mermaids and sea nymphs and them water spirits from earlier. At this point I just get completely lost and end up in some sandy room where I get extra health, magic, and experience. I guess that’s a good thing.

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reading through this game makes me realize how much better GoW2's design is.

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Level design.

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Good. Because it just took me ENTIRELY too long to find the Challenge of Hades.

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From: KCF0107 | #009
Are we friends on PSN Bartz? If not, what's your username?

I friend requested you. KBartz7

I started the game tonight. I'm pleased with the HD upscale for PS3. I saw the intro and instantly thought, "oh, this is going to be a flashback." I was right.

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Ok, so I'm playing on Normal. First time through a game I will usually choose normal mode so I can play the game as it was intended to be played.

I guess in this game I play the role of Kratos. That being said, whenever I say that I did something, I generally mean that I caused Kratos to do that thing. Hopefully that is understood throughout this playthrough.

Anyway, so I'm on a boat. First big fight is with this giant fish snake thing. I had to do a QTE to kill it. Walking tip-toe across some planks because I guess Kratos is alergic to water (like many video game characters).

Some guy in a jail cell is sassing me, but the game won't let me end him for his insolence. Continuing on, I find a bunch of bats and people. I guess I'm not supposed to kill the people, just the bat things. Then the snake comes again and I kill it some more. Once it's down, I accidentally fall in the water, and it turns out that Kratos is not alergic to water. I try to jump out of the water for a bit before realizing that I need to swim through a little hole in the ship. After getting out of the water, Kratos runs up onto a fallen mast, loses his balance, and falls in the water.

YOU ARE DEAD

Ah, the old convention that water kills characters only sometimes. It's like a trial and error thing. The only way to know if the water will kill you is to jump in it!

This game doesn't have any sort of lives system, just checkpoints. That's good. I climb across the planks to another boat and witness a yellow glow. Walking towards it, the game pauses for a cinematic and this guy who thinks Kratos is the s*** and come to rescue him. Well, he dies too. I save the game and take a break. Gotta go out for an hour or so and take care of business.

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Why am I pushing a box around? I'm f***ing Kratos! Wanted to talk to those guys hiding behind boxes, but I accidentally grabbed one instead and stabbed him to death. Guess it doesn't work.

Got poseidon's rage, now I can do a sparkly blue attack. Boss time. I guess that "snake" was actually a bunch of hydra heads! Well, I have to fight 3 at once!

It was funny to me because I thought I was going to save the old man before he got eaten, but nope. It took me a while to figure out what to do. At first I thought that I head to down both heads at once or they would just recharge. Then i finally figured out to stab them with those hanging things. The final head was a pain in the ass. He kept roaring and blowing me down. I dodged his bites and after a couple QTEs, he was a goner also.

Oh, the old man is alive inside the neck. Will Kratos save him? Nope, he just grabs his key and lets him fall. Kratos don't give a s***. Time to use that key on the door I saw earlier.

I think I'm supposed to save the women. Maybe not, they already dead. Another cinematic

oh, boobies!

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The boat touched down in Athens. I'm there to kick some godly ass, I guess. I have a statue on the boat that tells me what to do.

Midway through Aphrodite gives me the power to turn things to stone. Not really, though. I got the power from killing a boobsnake.

This level was fun until the fight with the boobsnake and minotaurs at the same time. That one beat me around for a while until I figured out to focus on the gorgon first. Then I easily turned the minotaurs to stone and broke them.

The rope was annoying as I really just spammed X to kill the baddies on it. Then i got killed by a group of minotaurs because the camera angle was on their side. Really awful. Second time I made easy work of them.

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So this blue hologram woman tells me to find an oracle I think. I walk up the way and see this giant with red stomping on people and like grabbing them. He should do like a body slam and just kill everyone, I think.

Kratos sees him and is like "God of War" and I'm like HEY THATS THE NAME OF THIS GAME! But the gate to the oracle is locked so I have to go into the town. I walk down a straight path for what seems like way too long, swing on some ropes and get into Athens(I thought I was already in Athens!) at last.

Some trolls or ogres or something in the town square. Those guys are really really nasty, but I have like unlimited people to kill so thats fine. Right now I'm chasing some b**** through the town while she screams at me to get away.

Hope this doesn't turn into one of those rape sims ;)

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oh she died. dodged that bullet.

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From: KingBartz | #030
oh she died. dodged that bullet.

My exact reaction. I was like "Phew, thank god for that one"

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Finished the rooftops of Athens. The wraith/cyclops fights were hard, but I upgraded my sword and laid hell to them. Didn't like the platforming section immediately after, and I must have tied 10 times trying to jump to a door that I think is inaccessible. I thought the puzzle to open the door to Zeus was interesting, but I have to agree with Commodore, the puzzles in this game are eh.

I laughed out loud when killing that coward with the lever got me across the gap. Honestly wasn't expecting that. And finally, when the Oracle got carried away, her pleas for me to save her were easily the worst sounding lines in the game so far.

I'm enjoying myself, but I'm done for today. Gotta go celebrate Christmas. Probably play some more tomorrow.

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After seeing the Oracle abducted, I played around in Athens Town Square and grabbed some treasures that I didn't get before. There was one platform that took some carefully timed jumps to reach, but I got them. The only notable part of the Oracle's temple place was the part where I didn't notice that I could use the statues to block the places where those bat people come from. I kept trying to use all sorts of techniques to get across the rafters, including Poseidon's rage.

Wow, the oracle was awful. She kept screaming for help and saying she was the only one that could save Athens. It was tempting to run out of time on that timer, but I figured it would lose me the game, so I saved her in the nick of time. She reads Kratos mind and apparently that is going to cause Kratos to (eventually) jump off that cliff. Speaking of the cliff, I found it, and it's a pretty location.

The sewers were as straight-forward as could be, and despite having a couple tough fights, they take me back to... the Gates of Athens? Um, ok, whatever. Could I have just walked back the other way instead of traveling those sewers? I don't know. It looks like it's off to the desert for Kratos!

Fun times. I got my second health upgrade and my second magic upgrade. I imagine some of these are missable. I'm sure I missed one or two Gorgon Eyes or feathers so far.

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God of War 1 - The Challenge of Hades

It took me entirely too long to beat the first section where you sacrifice the centaurs. I sat there for 15 minutes killing them bastards over and over again in that damn circle and nothing happened. I didn't realize there were two circles. >_>

Then it took me a good 30 minutes to get through a f***ing maze because they randomly decided to hide enemies in the most idiotic places. Up on a ledge where all you can see is his feet? Great. Sideways to a gigantic crusher thing? Sweet. I definitely knew to look for that. I see what XIII was talking about with the level design for this game. Sometimes its really not well thought out. I don’t even want to talk about the walking on the planks with saws part.

However, I will say the boss fight was pretty damn good. If anything, it was a little too easy once you figured it out. It was still a cool looking boss and an epic fight, so that redeemed this level a tiny bit.

Kratos, I understand you’re a badass. But I think I said earlier, I don’t like you ripping the skulls of this dude’s dead family members. This is gonna come bite you in the ass. Just because you haven’t grabbed a tit in a couple chapters doesn’t mean you gotta go acting all belligerent.

Hades gives a KILLER POWER. Seriously. Summoning up some red demon spirits to kill everyone for me...Artemis should take a f***ing hint. The next puzzle is still a little too simple. I just kept turning s*** until everything matched up. I’d been trying to shine that diamond light at pretty much everything so I knew it was what I was looking for this time. I get on the elevator and some woman tells me I’ve only conquered the lower levels of Pandora’s temple. What the hell? All that work and I’ll still not inside her box?

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God of War 1 - The Cliffs of Madness

Alright, the satyrs are a great enemy. They’re fun to battle, don’t go down too easy, and look cool as hell. Major style points. This battle is followed by an equally impressive cutscene, showing more of Kratos’ past and how he got to this point. I was thoroughly enjoying it until I realized:

If the Blades of Chaos are permanently attached to him, how is he able to take them off and switch to the Blade of Artemis? Make no sense.

Anyway, this level is MUCH better than the previous one. The difficulty is there, its not poorly designed, and its much more varied. The puzzle to get the Necklace of Hera, while not difficult, was still different from previous levels. The addition of an extra piece was pretty slick, I was expecting that you’d have to turn a piece sideways so it wasn’t part of the puzzle. Overthinking it, I know.

Later on I had to backtrack to get a health chest. Thank God I had to backtrack to get a health chest. If I had stumbled around those cliffs for hours trying to figure out how to advance, I would’ve thrown my PS3 out the f***ing window. I got lucky and everything is still intact…for now.

Kratos runs into another ORACLE! Yesss booby time! Ugh oh man its some old woman. Lame. The last oracle was much hotter. The plot finally hooks me, but its still moving along too slowly. His two final victims made him swear revenge on Ares. Who are these victims? Why couldn’t they just go ahead and tell us in that scene? I’m gonna assume wife and son.

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God of War 1 - The Architect’s Tomb

Here we go ripping off heads again. Still think he’s gonna have to answer for all this.

More killer puppies come out to play! Tons of killer puppies. I put this song on in the background as I tear into their flesh. Take that Sarah McLachlan and your depressing ass commercial.

Then I come to some moving floor parts and eleventyfour thousand harpies. I see a painting on the floor that predicts someone will fight Zeus directly. Let me guess…its gonna be Kratos isn’t it?! I finally retrieve Pandora’s Box, only to discover its an actual box. I was hoping they were going somewhere else with this.

My jaw literally just dropped. I had a plotgasm. From the big ass spear to the dead family ashes to double-killing that sailor from earlier. Holy s***. This just got REALLY good.

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I've collected all the Gorgon eyes, or so the game tells me. I still have a few feathers left to grab, though.

I hate sandy desert areas in games, because they are so difficult to explore. I had to chase down a few sirens and that wasn't hard thanks to their singing. The sequence following the desert had so much potential to be awesome but fell a little short. A conveyor belt leading directly into some sort of grinder, and a fight with enemies while trying to push a block against the belt. I was ready for awesomeness, but then a random strike broke the whole contraption down, eliminating any element of danger. Too bad.

After blowing a few horns, Kratos had to climb up a titan to get to a rock. There he fought two beasts of unrivaled stregth. What happened to big bosses having visible health bars? That was like a special feature of the hydra?

Inside the Pandora temple place, I got this new blade of Artemis. Although Commodore seems to think that they didn't have much use, I thought it was great. I immediately upgraded it for more damage and used it in The Challenge of Atlas ahead. Being able to take out the weaker enemies in a single strike is very useful. There was an instance where I had to take out hordes of enemies before a crushing wall crushed everything; that Blade of Artemis just sliced through that horde like warm butter. The resulting combo got me a trophy, hooray.

The first segment of the challenge had me collecting two ornamental shields to embed in some artwork. Once I did that, the door opened, and I saved. Gotta play some more tonight!

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God of War 1 – The Path of Hades and The Temple of the Oracle

All I can say for this level is I love checkpoints. Fortunately, they were placed so frequently that in the million times I died, I never got frustrated. As soon as I reached a new platform, the next checkpoint set in. Then I get to some big spinning spiked wall thingy. The game tells me “I Got The Touch” after I scale it effortlessly. The next column knocks me off quite a few times, but I make it to the top before too long.

Ohhhhhh that’s what Mr. Tumnus was talking about when he told Kratos was digging his grave. Its all starting to make sense now. I head through the ruined city and face Ares.

The entire ending of this game was awesome. I loved the storyline, the final battle, the clone battle, everything. Turns out he killed his wife and daughter, not wife and son. Oh well, I was close enough. He takes his throne on Mt. Olympus as the new God of War, which I guess I should’ve seen coming given the title. It never did occur to me though. I figured the title was from his feud with Ares which would carry over til the 3rd game. I didn’t think he’d kill him this early and take his place.

Overall, I’d give this game a solid 7.5/10. There were a lot of parts that I had minor problems with, but I definitely enjoyed it as a whole. I also had to keep in mind that this game is almost 7 years old and almost unanimously the weakest of the series. That said, I’m stoked to see how great the other two are and plan on starting God of War 2 tonight.

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great series

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Next part of the challenge involved dodging a lot of trap blades and crushing things. I died a few times in the fight room with the trap door. I guess there is a time limit to that fight. Finally finished that challenege, then moved on to Poseidon's challenge. Started off by wrecking a bunch of Cerberus dogs with my upgraded Blade of Artemis.

Then, I had to make a human sacrifice and my reward was... a water level! oh joy oh joy. I don't feel like writing up the water level. It sucked and was boring, like most water levels. Suffice it to say, I finished the challenge and used those Muse keys to get nice and upgraded.

Now it's on to the center of the rings. I'm guessing this is the challenge of Hades!

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The challenge of hades was long and somewhat monotonous. The boulders running down the hill just pissed me off. The planks with the blades had me die several times over. There were too many puzzles and not enough fights, in my opinion.

The boss fight was fun. Finally a real boss to kill. Army of hades was pretty sweet, but a huge magic cost. I don't know if I'll use it that often.

I've upgraded my blade of artemis to the max. I love juggling enemies with that thing. Also have max on poseidon's rage. What will I upgrade next? I hardly use the Blades of Chaos, so I'll probably upgrade the Zeus Fury or Army of Hades.

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THE CLIFFS OF INSANITY!!!

uh I mean Madness. This was a fun sequence with a few good fights and a few good puzzles. It was nice to be outside again. The necklace gathering was easy, but it was cool to discover a bunch of experience orbs hidden in the fountain.

Once I got to the top, I had to do a puzzle in order to open 3 doors. The fight on the belts inside was one of the worst I've done. Used Hades to kill alot of them, but I was still being hit repeatedly by harpies and archers. Once that was done, I grabbed Pandora's box. More plot exposition, Kratos is becoming a more sympathetic character, I'm glad. I figured from the beginning that he killed his family, but I wasn't expecting him to get impaled on a pillar.

Luckily he's too badass to die.

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From: CommodoreTN | #039
I figured the title was from his feud with Ares which would carry over til the 3rd game.

haha no, this series escalates pretty quickly past that >__>

But yeah GoW1 has some of the best late-game events ever

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God of War 2 - Rhodes

Yeahhh opening scene shows Kratos with two slampieces at his feet.

The first cinematic is kind of disturbing. Kratos is pretty bad at holding up his end of a bargain. Gave his soul to Ares, then killed him when he decided he didn’t like that. Athena makes him a god, he rebels against her. Chill the f*** out dude. Quit signing up for things you aren’t going to follow through on.

I already love the menu. It is much more user-friendly and detailed than the previous game. And I finally get a moves list! Awesome. More great things right off the bat – awesome new L1 moves, longer window for hits to count towards a combo, R1 performs actions instead of R2. The first boss battle is incredibly easy, but its still fun.

SEX MINI GAME RETURNS! Wooooooo!

Colossus tries to step on me, not today b****. The second time we fight is actually much tougher. I was terrible at timing this guy to dodge and block so I just went straight offensive. I didn’t have much health left by the end, but I managed to best him first try.

Zeus offers up the Blade of Olympus, which makes me skeptical (oh hey Kratos feels the same). Why the hell would Zeus be aiding him right now? He’s been nothing but a gigantic douche so far trying to destroy Rhodes for funsies.

Yep, called it. I mean you can’t really blame Zeus for killing him. He did kinda have it coming this time. It appears this game is going with the idea that the gods are corrupt and the Titans were the good guys. Interesting.

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Damn you guys are speeding through these games.

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God of War 3 came in the mail today. Not too soon as I will probably be on that by the end of next week.

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GoW 2 >= UC2 > > GoW3 > > GoW1 > UC1

Haven't played UC3 yet. Loved the second games of both series.

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UC2 > GoW3 >= UC3 > GoW2 > GoW1 >>>> UC1

I never finished UC1 because I suuuuuuuucked at it.

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