God of War Ragnarok reviews in!

[DonFerrari]

Machiavellian said:

SvennoJ said:

I'm just starting the game now, jeez what a lot of settings, yet no way to skip cinematics! The beginning is the typical don't care, let me play first before you talk my ears off. I was not in the mood for a movie but guess I'll just have to wait until their done 'setting the mood'. Naughty Dog handles the start of their games a lot better.

Oh, I think I'm allowed to press a button now.

Hmm, can't find an FoV slider or how to move the camera back. I loved that from Tlou pt1, this low FoV and Kratos filling up a big part of the screen is not a nice way to play. Damn this game is hard to get into.

These settings... Any clue how to detach movement from camera direction, like any normal 3rd person game? How do you look behind you while running in the other direction?

The game is a story based light adventure and pretty much the same as the first game.  There really is not a lot of cinematics in the game but there is a lot of story based side missions that flesh out the characters.  

You cannot look behind you, you can only quick turn.  Reading the red indicator that lets you know an enemy behind you is going to hit you is how the game let you know not to mention your side characters.  Its the same formula as the first game and it does take time to get use to.  Most times its just wise to position yourself to see as many enemies as possible.  I like to run to certain spots in order to see my surroundings better before attacking that way I can see when attacks are coming and parry.

Sometimes I prefer not to see the other enemies so I guide myself by the type of enemy attack and if there is an arrow. Sometimes when you can see all of them you don't really see regular attacks that doesn't have the circles on them.