So God of War’s new game plus came out last month and after finally getting around to it I have some mixed feelings. The new mode supposedly increases enemy difficulty and changing some attack patterns, whilst allowing you to keep your old skills abilities and gear, adding stronger versions of old gear plus all new “Perfect” tier gear and materials. There may be some spoilers in from this point on wards and I’ll try and keep them to a minimum but as this is a post game unlock I’ll assume most people reading this have played it at least once.

What I do like about the game is the addition of the new gear for both Kratos and Atreus. I’m not going to list all of them as the list is longer than I expected but the two that caught my eye is Traveller + set, which gives a slowly regenerating shield that takes one hit as well as a buff to bare-handed attacks. The other set, and my current goal for this play through is the Cod of War set, from what I understand this is a reoccurring joke in the God of War series, which adds various bonuses to collecting health and rage stones. A nice feature they added solves an issue I had with finishing the game, excess Exp. Exp can now be converted into hacksilver at one of the stores.

Now to my issues with it which are mainly to do with the difficulty. Now i play on the default difficulty because in my first play through that was the perfect setting for me, however it was a joke. I breezed through all the fights leading up to Tyr’s Island, my stopping point for this review, and honestly not even the Baldur fight was anything more than an inconvenience. I have read that the difficulty does get harder as you progress and my issues may be caused bu simply now the play style that works for me but I’ll have to play further to find out. To it’s credit though the exploding draugr where far more common this time around and where the main source of my grief.

Let me now in the comments what you guys thought of it. Was it just me play on too low of a difficulty or did you guys feel the same?

Next post is going to something spectacularly, amazing and was a real blast the whip through.