It's a sad thing, really. I bought this game like 4 years ago and only played it for 11 minutes then. Not that I didn't like it, but I was jumping from game to game a lot and I didn't give it the time it needed for me to truly see it for what it was and appreciate it: this game is fun.

Not just fun, it's too fun. It has no right to be as in depth and entertaining as it was but I would find it hard to say I didn't enjoy every minute of it. You're a young warrior who goes to olympus to first seek items to help your people in the present calamity of the gods abandoning humanity. It starts off a bit slow but even in that slowness the game has so much to offer. Merchants to buy equipment, upgrades to your damage and attack speed, some god's are not even mentioned as part of your main quest but can be visited and taken on to gain an artifact to help your main mission (and some of them like hermes' staff that works both as a ranged weapon and hook-shot Zelda style, which also can pull items to you, are just ridiculous.

Each main god (and side gods most of them) have their own areas to explore and complete mini-objectives that will help you towards facing them. These aren't super long campaigns and most of them can be completed rather quickly if you're in a hurry to get to the god-slaughtering, but that's not because the areas are rushed; they all are well made and most of the areas have their own gimme to separate them from the others so taking on one god versus the other isn't just who you want to clash swords with first. It really changes the experience when in one world your roaming about metroidvania style like usual, another you're sailing the high seas and doing mounted combat, and another you're solving puzzles. I genuinely felt like I was playing a different game at times despite the core mechanics still being there. That goes for the bosses themselves as well.

The amount of weapons melee to ranged to special or summons and traps in the game is pretty big all things considered. I ended the game with quite a good number of weapons in my arsenal with only about a handful not found (I think I missed a few but I didn't care to search for the chests I missed) and it actually got pretty hard to choose which ones I would use since I was already overpowering the enemies and killing them was pretty easy after awhile. There is a decay system in this game similar to more recent games like breath of the wild, where weapons degrade with active use (swinging them is fine but hitting enemies, breakable objects, or the ground lowers the weapons durability until it breaks) but you can always buy more of that weapon from merchants or find them throughout the game in crates and chests, or as a drop from slain foes who will be using them just as you are. With the number of weapons and upgrades you get, you can play the game almost any way you want to be it sneaky assassin or beserker madness running at enemies with abandon. The enemies do put up a decent fight and won't just stand around waiting for you to off them but they get easy to read or get the jump on after a good minute playing.

What really gets me also is the sound design. From ambient noise in the background of the levels to the music to the enemy grunts and wailing; everything sounds pretty good. It's no Mozart and isn't trying to be but when I smash I guys head in with a battle-hammer, I can hear it and it sound exactly like what I'm seeing. Stab a guy and he dies? You can actually hear him choking on his own blood and gasping for air. It's a bit too detailed if I'm being honest, lol. The recordings for lines are nice and even too. Doesn't sound like someone recording in a closet. I don't even think this game needed voice acting for me to have enjoyed it but it's a plus for me.

Now I have to mention what I didn't like about it. Here goes:

BUGS.

SO. MANY. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. BUGS.

Ok, I'm exaggerating. There aren't that many bugs; in fact there's like a handful. But they're common and sometimes very prominent. Like sometimes the map won't show anymore if you tab out of the game. Or character models with disappear entirely until you reload a save. Or maybe you'll die because of weird collision (My first and only death was from an enemy throwing me and somehow I wen't past the wall he threw me at and then died 2 seconds late because I guess the game couldn't understand how I got there. And worst of all, the game just straight up crashing and sending you to the main menu which can be so bad that the game just crashes altogether and you have to restart. luckily, this is usually AFTER it makes an autosave, so you should be good where ever you left off, but it's so annoying to be in the middle of a boss fight and the game just decides it didn't get enough sleep at night. Aside from that a handful of glitches and bugs, like the discus weapon somehow copying itself in the market every time I entered, it wasn't too bad though.

I definitely recommend this one. It's pretty damn fun and I enjoyed it a lot. Hell, I might even look into playing the multiplayer if it's still active and isn't janky (yes, it has MP). If you're thinking about it at full price, I'm not so sure; maybe on a sale. But it'certainly entertaining (Especially the ending. God is was so cathartic). A good fun, game. Works for me!