Day one... If it didn't cost 70 USD. I refuse to pay 70 dollars for games. I'll wait patiently.

Now if I could only get my hands on a PS5 to play this on. I put an order in months ago.

Man, your head is gonna explode when someone teaches you about inflation. 

I bet there was a time when people said 'Bread? For more than a quarter? This country's gone to shit!" 

And with inflation taken into equation even if we ignore that the cost to make games have gone several orders of magnitude higher the price for the games is lower than they were 20 years or 30 years ago.

Man, your head is gonna explode when someone teaches you about inflation. 

I bet there was a time when people said 'Bread? For more than a quarter? This country's gone to shit!" 

It would probably be an easier pill to swallow for more gamers if it was $70 across the board for games, but Nintendo and Xbox are still charging at max $60 for their first party games for the foreseeable future, if not the remainder of the generation alongside other major studios like Capcom and Sega. Causing more doubt in gamers if $70 is actually necessary. 

Not to mention the scummy companies like EA and 2K charging $70 for their sports games when they're still riddled with microtransactions. It just causes even more questions as to whether $70 is justified.  

When it comes to electronics inflation doesn't always go up.  The medium costs less today than it did on the SNES/Genesis/N64.  A blank carts could cost up to $30 back than, while cd's, dvd's, blu ray's cost pennies and buying it digitally  cost's even less in distribution costs.  My first computer in the early 2000's costs double what my current macbook costs and it had less memory than my watch these days.  Tv's, blu ray players have all come down quite a bit over the years.  Yes the cost to make bigger and bigger games costs more, but that is for developers to figure out how to be as efficient as possible when making games, because there is a huge amount of gamers that are not willing to pay $70.  Developers also put in microtransactions and now nft's to try and squeeze more money out of gamers.  Hell you can buy 3 years of game pass for cheaper than 2 PS5 games if you search out a deal and get 3 years for $90-$100.

It would probably be an easier pill to swallow for more gamers if it was $70 across the board for games, but Nintendo and Xbox are still charging at max $60 for their first party games for the foreseeable future, if not the remainder of the generation alongside other major studios like Capcom and Sega. Causing more doubt in gamers if $70 is actually necessary. 

Not to mention the scummy companies like EA and 2K charging $70 for their sports games when they're still riddled with microtransactions. It just causes even more questions as to whether $70 is justified.  

Sony games (With only a handful of exceptions) Are not riddled with Microtransactions. When you buy something like God of War or Horizon or Ratchet & Clank or Demon's Souls or Returnal, you get a full game. Fullstop. Yeah, charging exorbitant prices on games that also have microtransactions and all that crap is bad, but for the most part Sony (And Nintendo) don't do that. And, since Inflation is a thing and game budgets are ballooning in order to keep up with demand, hiking the price up is perfectly reasonable. 

Remember, video games are a luxury, not essential. Either pay the price or don't, but whining about it just makes you look petty and ignorant of actual economic factors involved. 

This 'games shouldn't be 70 bucks' narrative is just baffling to me and always has been. Gamers as a whole are one of the most entitled groups of people I've ever met. a shame since videogames are my favourite medium by far. 

Initially I enjoyed the combat (against regular enemies), and having Atreus opening up enemies or following up on Kratos attacks.
Though for reasons I can't put my finger on, later on it was not un-enjoyable, but just whatever to me. An obstacle to get to the next storytime between Kratos, Atreus and Mimir. Which were great all the way through the game.

I enjoyed every Valkyrie battle. But after a couple of attempts against the Fire one, I was debating on whether I should try to kill the last two, or start a new game. And I went with starting a new game.