God of War Ragnarok: Valhalla Is Too Good To Be Free...
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
- A review and breakdown of God of War Ragnarok: Valhalla the new DLC for God of War Ragnarok from Santa Monica Studios for free
00:00 - Intro
00:34 - Gameplay & Level Design
06:19 - Story
13:28 - Conclusion
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God of War Ragnarok, Valhalla, Review - Ігри
Because Santa Monica actually cares about and values their fanbase, this is their way of giving back after so many years of fan appreciation, patience and loyalties
Not sure if that’s the case. Listening to the fanbase too much will often lead to their downfall.
You know how people get when they are allowed too much input. They get controlling, send death threats, etc.
It’s also been mentioned in the past that they prefer “old style gaming” which is why their games are so long.
It’s so the game is complete from the moment of release. They even said that they hated the idea of making DLC way back in 2018.
Granted, even they have to get with the times, which brings us to the logical conclusion of a free DLC.
That way, there is no extra cost when buying a game. So it’s like you bought the full thing from the get-go.
That’s my assumption based on what little I remember about their old statements.
@moistfist1054 When I said that Santa Monica Values and Appreciates their fan base, I meant that in terms of loyalty, as in the people who show genuine appreciation for the things they've made, this is their way of saying "thank you for walking this journey with us". I mean that appreciation and value can come in a number of different ways this simply their way of giving back
Ea: HOW DARE YOU BE GOOD AND BE SUCCESSFUL
Santa: well jokes on you I'm going to make good content
Ea: you won't get away with it!
Meanwhile they get away with it by making great content
I love how this DLC really makes me respect Tyr as a character more. Because after you beat the first game, all you see him do is like meditation exercises from different mythologies, and I didn’t like that that was all we got of real Tyr. But when we got the DLC we get to see him fight and yeah I could see why he is the norse god of war
Exactly. He seems very much in line as the wise figure we learn of him in 2018
@@Comicbroe405 wise and peaceful but could still wipe the floor with you if need be
Bro this dlc was phenomenal. The amount of nostalgia that it had was insane. The moment when kratos pulled out the blade of Olympus I lost my mind. Just so many good things happened in this dlc it was just mind blowing, especially the ending to it. This was the best dlc I’ve ever played.
And I now have a HALERIOS image of kratos with young voice doing the intro to he man
I love that Tyr uses different weapons, Kopeshes, Katana, Spear, showing hints of other mythos and gods pantheons, can't wait to see Kratos trading blows with Jesus Christ
The background music will defo be evenflow
All honesty.....Chinese mythology could be next. Kratos vs Son wu kong?
@@jdp3578 Eh, it's probably the Egyptian mythology, Thoth appeared in one of the canon comics so they're already established as existing.
I have a theory kratos would become Jesus from a god of war to a god of forgiveness
@@diogod2347 I actually thought for a moment that was moses😅
5:38 GIVE ME MY FIRM HANDSHAKE
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I like how this DLC is just Tyr and Mimir giving Kratos therapy
We really need to start donateing, I feel like I stole something when playing this DLC.
Santa Monica taking the Santa part of their name literally this Christmas
God of Waffles
Game Companies should take note. This is how you do a free expansion and more companies should this in the future.
When I saw young Kratos I was fully expecting to hear TC Carson belittle old Kratos. A debate going back and forth. A boss battle would have been cool, but would have betrayed the theme of the DLC
santa monica knows wassup this the best DLC i eva played
Try re4 separate ways
I'm having a lot of fun with it. I've been playing Mastery difficulty and I've managed to beat max level Týr 3 times. IT IS HELL but the euphoria I feel after beating him makes it absolutely worth the effort
This was a lot better than I thought it was gonna be. And you can tell that a lot of the new enemies are clearly built off of pre-existing enemies, but the changes to how they work make them stand out. And Tyr alters how he fights even after the final story fight. He changes things up slightly each time you fight him.
Seeing young Kratos was so cool
Spoilers
Did you realise that to the left/opposite of the boat door there's a door to the desert. It the desert where Kronos roamed.
And up at the top u can fight the gravestone bosses. It's above the starting area.
I still have to beat the endgame content
its still weird how kratos needed the boat captains key to open a door that he could have knocked down in gow1
Tbh, this has been an issue the entire series, whether it be the Greek or Norse saga, there are times where Kratos should be able to just bypass the puzzles by just brute force or jumping, we see he has insane hops when he actually tries, and I don't need to explain why he's strong enough to ignore most puzzles. But, game going to game, it's the same reason he doesn't just one shot most enemies, although in the novels he usually does just bypass the puzzles lol, he ain't got time for that shit.
TBH with this dlc the blades of chaos are the best weapons. Especially when you use the triangle attack with the blades.
So many weapon perks for the blades are just great.
Then add in valour for healing or fury which you can use to if you didn't parry a yellow ring attack correctly.
So true, especially because their basic light and heavies have more range and can hit more enemies at once.
This dlc uses a lot of reused assets so k feel that this was a great idea. They added rotating set pieces and if they were working on it for just a year (though prob near the 3rd part of GOWR) it's really aweskme work.
If next dlc is a more story or an arc that also incorporated something with replayability. I would easily pay £25-40.
Not to mention they add new moves or abilities. Though it might be an atreus DLC. Could still be great if they exploring distant lands.
Hope they give him a shortsword or something if so.
Although the entire Greece area is very much original assets which is super cool
@RUSHYRUSHY39 yea but they reuse it for every dungeon crawl. So you'd continuously see the same area and it's recycled.
All the dlc is original to an extent (the realms are a mix of different distinct areas in that realm mixed to make somethjng new).
But the dlc (and other games of the genre) are a collection of assets swapped out and reused in different sequences.
Damn I was kinda hoping my man TC Carson would have gotten some voice lines. DLC is straight 🔥 tho!
In an era where game developers look for ways to produce money by their games santa monica drops the best free dlc and thought we wouldn't notice
Meanwhile Cyberpunk charges full price for a single new story DLC with content that should’ve been in the game at launch.
Wtf I was thinking 1-4 hours of dlc. 13-14 is INSANE
7:12 Bro where was your head at to think that shit up? 💀😂 I could hear Lucas and synthetic man along with Twitter eating that shit up
Lmao
I beat it in show me mastery after completing it fully in show me Prowess. It is the most satisfying win ever. After getting my ass beat many times, getting tht first win has never felt so good, I roared like Kratos when he roared against Bear Atreus (Bjorn) 😂
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Common Colin W
You love to see it
In December 7th was my birthday
Damn man... This is such a good video!
Also: God of waffles
The last battle with Tyr I only had to do once....I was shocked!!!
I am the god of war no longer I am …the god of waffles
I think they did a good job to help Kratos forgive his past, so he can look back as a guide for a better future and to tell him to continue the path he's on to be better.
Good work 👌🏾
I love helios so much hes so damn funny i hate that i love it
Couldn’t agree more man, loved this so much:)
No I think it's been a year in game since the end of Ragnarok. They talk about the plans and things they have been doing as if it's been awhile. And Mimir has that line "you're more yourself than I've seen in moons." Moons means months
So that “combat challenge inside a combat challenge” is actually 1 of 3. After you do the boat, you can go to another door on the far side of the”Olympus” and go to the desert from the first game. After finishing that, you can go to the highest peak of the area and fight a beserker boss, and the third time you do that it’ll be king hroulf
I hope insomniac takes a note and does the same for spider-man 2. I like the game, but i expected a lot more contents.
I found a practically immortal build with the spear, you need the ability that gives you a random siphon each time you throw the spear, range damage up, health burst for spear kills and, elemtal storm for the triangle ability when bifrost, ice, or fire element on the spear.
Santa Monica are too good but like the jesus and superman and any other good heroes they still give us happiness
Santa Monica is going to put pressure on other developers to do free dlc. I would have paid for this and they gave it to us for free.
Centaurs is what their called just to let you know
It makes sense that it's free. It's the only reason I played it.
I would like to hear about this “other dlc” confirmation mentioned near the end. I don’t want to set myself up for heartbreak
To me the dlc was pretty cool, still just a B or B+ like the main game. Gameplay and story and pacing just got worse after 2018 and it’s just not living up, but it’s still good. I’d give it a solid B+
You’re outta your mind, especially about the gameplay lol
I still can't believe gow Ragnarok was tanpered with by sweet baby inc and somehow came out this good!
I think it all comes down to how much interference they have. With suicide squad they pretty much had almost complete interference. But with this game I don’t feel like they had too much interference at all, outside of one or two notable things.
The less interference that they have with a game, the better it is.
You also gotta try noita and dead cells in the list of roguelike/lites
I mean, there are boss fights post-game after you beat tier the fourth time. That’s quite a challenge
Well I did NOT know you did god of war content you top 5 for me now
It's his favorite game I think
My favorite part of the dlc is seeing young kratos
God of waffles
Guess I gotta finish ragnarok lmao
When i first played this, i was sick.
That makes it so surprised that i SCREAMED when i got the blade of olympus
0:47 just letting you know that Sifu is a rogue like and I know you like that game so yeah
I guess thats more of a very soft roguelike u don’t get sent back as soon as u die and there’s no randomness
They could of easily slapped a 25 dollar price but for free shessssss
My only complaint is the random centar thing during one of the tyr fights
I think if Thor was a secret boss would’ve been badass like after u beat the game on the hardest difficulty and then go back to the trials and make it the end U fight Thor and not just a memory like the actual Thor after U beat him Kratos and Thor become rivals and can fight him whenever u want
Edit: Or have him as a companion and the 2 talk about their past and an interaction between Tyr and a Thor on the road of redemption would be pretty cool
My take on this is because GOW is still a sony exclusive. Making it free encourages people to get the console.
Hades is good. You really should play it.
Eventually
You didn't talk about the dessert you unlock, which is also like the boat, and the arena where you fought hercules in gow 3 exept this time you fight a beserker. Maybe because you didnt unlock them yet.
Didn’t play the endgame content yet
Every dlc should be free. $74 for a video game is ridiculous.
1:34 centaur
1:37 left one is a wraith and the right one is a legionnaire
anybody know how to use the blade in new game +
Wish they brought up that girl he shoved into a giant gear to hold that door open. He walked past debris and killed enemies he could have used and just dragged her to her horrible death as she begged for her life.
Imagine what ubisoft would charge...
i was lucky on the last fight i had health burst and rage burst on an r3 takedown soon has the other enemy's came out when his hp hits half . i put my weapons away and beat everything to death had my most of my rage and hp up by the time they were all dead
I’ll still pay $20 for 3 Spider-Man 2 DLC AND $70 for a venom game 🤣
Man santa monica loves us as much as we love them
The way he moves his camera while fighting is making me dizzy
I'm wondering if the future games are still going to be called god of war or they'll be renamed to god of hope now
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Only reason I beat tyr was because of my relic that let me keep attacking without being able to be disrupted mid attack 😭
magni and modi were no where near this juiced in gow2018
Lmao yeah.
GOD OF WAFFLESSS
Yes. I beaten it in the highest difficulty. And yes it is a fucking Soulslike
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My name is Colon.
CD project could learn from Santa Monica. Especially since they screwed up...
Great dlc just wish they brought back the original barbarian who almost bested him and set him on his destiny.
the only thing that disappointed me was that they missed the opportunity to do kratos vs kratos where the new kratos must overcome his inner demons and accept himself!!!
Well that's why there wasn't a fight. A fight implies he is fighting against his past not accepting it
5:50 😹😹😹
Dlc was definitely great but we low-key should have boxed young Kratos as a secret boss or something am I the only one who feels this way?
yeah u did not play the old games pretty evident
God of Waffles.
How??? You dont have to pay.
Fans: We want Thor Hammer as usable weapon for Kratos.
Santa Monica: How about Blade of Olympus instead?
Fans: *Fangirl style scream* Count Me In!!!
God of Waffles
It’s the same thing over and over again so that’s probably why
Stfu or the next one will be double the price
God of waffles