PS5 Home Screen tells me I’m 80% of the way through. Almost 100% on crater area before I moved on. Whole game should be like that!

15hrs more I reckon and it’ll be done.

It’s only main story progression. I think it says that when you hover over the icon.

Do the crater! It’s better than the rest of the game put together.

I keep forgetting that the PS5 can take discs and then I realise you’ve all bought the wrong one.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

I'm not even remotely up for it any more, pass on to another badger if there's interest. Really enjoyed the 2018 game but there's plenty of stuff I want to play more than this sitting on my shelf/gamepass/digital libraries already.

I’ve a high tolerance for quality walk and talk sections - hello RDR2 and any Naughty Dog stuff - but this title takes the fucking biscuit, dunks it in the tea for far too long and then makes you drink the sickly sweet slop from the bottom of the cup. There’s a bit near the end when it’s really ramping up, the game is playing a strong game, there’s a big plot point, we’re all angry, we need some vengeance, we agree on a WAR, we’re here, it’s kicking off. Now, walk out of this door and go back to the very first area, walk all the way through this area, sit down with the person you’ve walked all this way with and have a natter that could have happened either back at the house or at any point on this shitty walk. Once you’ve had a chinwag for all of 90 seconds get back up and retrace your steps, back to the place you initially fucking left and confirm that yes you’ll be having a war.

Obscene waste of the players time and not something I could see Moot tolerating. BUT by the time you get to Ragnorok your move set is just so wonderful and it just plays so well that it feels like it leaves a better memory than it deserves.

He starts with the blades as well as the axes, doesn't he? And you don't start the first game with them?

I'm not gonna overly defend it tho - it very much knows it's a game, and doesn't particularly hide from that I don't think

Yeah I got what you meant, was just saying there's similar stuff that was there, and agree it's an omission - but I guess I didn't really care about it, cos no sequel starts you as op as you ended the game before, hard to further progress from there... Yeah they could have dressed it up but folk would probably have complained about that too

Got (presumed) end boss half dead, but had to pause and go back to work nnnggg. Hopefully sewn up this evening...

There's ya credits. And then ya proper credits.

Seems a chunk more has now opened up. Might have a wee poke about, and I guess that crater needs a visit, but yeah kinda about dinner with it really. A solid [8] for me, occasionally a [9] for the pure production values etc - looks absolutely stunning throughout, from top to bottom, and just a rock solid play through. Have saved at the crater, so that'll I guess be my next and final bit.

People giving [6] or [7] seen pretty harsh, even if the pacing isn't always spot on...

It really is the pacing that lets it down. That middle slog was enough for me to put it down for a good while. Glad I came back but it makes you work for that ending.

Fully expecting an offshoot of the boy on his adventures btw.

It's that frustration of knowing you've got a good game, but if it trimmed out 30-40% of everything, it would be a better one.

JonB wrote:

It's that frustration of knowing you've got a good game, but if it trimmed out 30-40% of everything, it would be a better one.

Or it would’ve been criticised for being incomplete and when the third part came out, people would’ve said it should have been DLC, because it wasn’t distinct enough.

Went to the crater. Insta cba. I'm done. Deleted, disc out, available for posting.