I think God of War's combat is way more varied and accessible than God Hand's.
How?
not to mention literally everything outside the combat in God Hand is mediocre to bad, from its anonymous attempt at level design/world building, its ugly visuals(even for the time), most of its non diegetic music, its embarrassing cutscenes, its attempts at puzzles/platforming/basically anything besides combat. Even the combat gets stale and repetitive after half a dozen hours(probably because there's nothing of worth around it to compensate or vary the pacing), and its an 12-15 hour game, for some reason.
What hot take of an opinion is this? God Hand has great gameplay.
Yeah, but in GOW you can customize your equipment with a bunch of different passive and active skills (and runic moves), you have tons of moves across the Axe, the Blades and the Boy and you have ranged options too. Also, enemies are way more varied, making encounters extremely unpredictable.
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I mean, the variety in encounters and the ranged options makes it much richer, IMO. God Hand feels much more limited since Gene simply isn't as versatile as Kratos+Boy due to him having essentially zero ranged options (from what I recall).
I too think you should watch some GOW videos, stuff gets pretty intense and it's very cool that you can tackle these encounters with skills equivalent to Witch Time and many others. I do agree with the point that an over the shoulder camera can be used in a good action game, with or without jumps might I add.
I don't remember much platforming or puzzle solving in the game, not enough to get worked over. The cutscenes are hilarious cheesy stuff and the music is hella fun. There are some superb fights in Godhand punctuated by a solid combat system that is completely original and fresh. Finally an action game that isnt cribbing off of DMC for once.
Yeah lets cherish the few single player action games we have left remaining and not bicker over camera angles, control schemes and budgets.
Why this meme exists again? they just made Monster Hunter World, a massive game and the biggest MH to date.
Utilizing animations again is one thing.
Sometimes i think people hype DMC 2 too much above the others in terms of clothes.
