Beat God of War and couldn’t be happier to be through it. It was a real struggle to finish it. Tedious, a few bugs and lots of swearing.

The story was good and the developer did some real nice tricks to make the PS2 sing. There isn’t any loading between zones or areas and the art direction is top-notch. However. One section towards the end you have to jump up on some high platforms and then fight pairs of Satyrs until some platforms ahead of you appear. The thing is, I found some path up to the fight they weren’t expecting (from the right side) so I had to jump all the way back down blindly (they don’t expect you to do this so they don’t give you any camera favors) and this was really annoying because it was a bug that got me stuck (of sorts).

And really that same camera favor bit is kinda the weirdest aspect of this game. You can’t look around. The camera is an enemy of sorts. If you go to a corner, the camera might spin around revealing a chest with something in it. So you feel like your own viewport is something fighting against you. And this is what I mean by a game on rails. It’s a railroad platformer.