God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla GAMEPLAY WALKTHROUGH ( NO COMMENTARY ) | PART 3 | RTX 3070TI | HIGH

God of War Ragnarök is a 2022 action-adventure game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Initial release date: November 9, 2022 Platforms: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows Awards: The Game Award for Best Performance, MORE Nominations: The Game Award for Game of the Year, MORE License: proprietary license Composer: Bear McCreary Genres: Action-adventure game, Fighting game, Role-playing Video Game, Shooter Video Game, Hack and slash VALHALLA Sometime after the events of Ragnarök, Kratos receives an anonymous invitation to Valhalla. He and Mímir travel to the last remnant of Asgard and force their way through Valhalla's entrance. Kratos's equipment and magical powers are suddenly stripped away and he is defeated in combat. Waking up on the shores outside the entrance, they are confronted by Freya and the Valkyrie Sigrun, who berate Kratos and Mímir for breaking into Valhalla without informing them, but allow him entrance. Prior to coming to Valhalla, Freya, now Queen of the Realms, invited Kratos to join her council as the new Norse God of War, but he refused, reluctant to wield such power again after abusing it during his time in Greece. After fighting his way through Valhalla, Kratos is approached by Týr, who is revealed to have sent the invitation. While the two spar, Týr coaxes Kratos to open up and face his past, but Kratos's anguish prevents him from doing so. Týr reveals that Kratos must use Valhalla to master himself and come to terms with who he used to be. Kratos then proceeds through more trials within Valhalla, facing manifestations of past foes, such as Modi and Magni, as well as appearances from the illusory head of Helios. One attempt goes wrong, and Sigrun violates Valhalla's rules to save Kratos and Mímir from a definitive death, thus weakening her connection to the land. After several more sparring sessions, Týr helps Kratos confront a manifestation of his younger self in order to overcome his fears and self-loathing. Kratos concludes that although his younger self was spiteful and cruel, he also sacrificed himself in order to release the power of hope back to humanity,[c] proving there was always good in him. Realizing the difference between serving others and being of service, Kratos makes peace with himself and agrees to join Freya's council as a god of hope. Through more trials in Valhalla, Mímir reveals the history and depth of his romantic feelings for Sigrun. In the secret ending, Sigrun decides not to go through the trials to restore her connection to Valhalla, instead choosing to leave her post as a Valkyrie and travel the world alone to find her own purpose. Kratos, Mímir, Freya, and the Valkyries, Gunnr and Eir, see her off, with Sigrun promising to eventually return to Mímir. ABOUT GOW RK God of War Ragnarök is a third-person action-adventure game. It features an over-the-shoulder player-controlled camera, and the game is presented with no camera cuts or loading screens. The gameplay is similar to the previous installment, God of War (2018), including being single-player-only.[2][3] Throughout the game, players battle Norse mythological foes, with more enemy types than in the prior entry, including newer enemies, such as einherjar, wyverns, stalkers (centaur-like creatures with antlers), phantoms, human raiders, and nøkkens, among many others.[4] The developers also added more mini-bosses to give the game more variety.[3] The player primarily controls the character Kratos in combo-based combat and puzzle game elements. Kratos's main weapons are a magical battle axe called the Leviathan Axe, and his signature double-chained blades, the Blades of Chaos. He also dons his original Guardian Shield, and utilizes hand-to-hand combat. The Leviathan Axe is infused with ice elemental magic. It can be thrown at enemies and magically summoned back to his hand, similar to Thor's hammer Mjölnir. The weapon can be thrown at environmental objects to trigger a damaging explosion, and freeze objects and some enemies in place for puzzle-solving until resummoned. The Blades of Chaos, infused with fire elemental magic, are a pair of blades attached to chains that can be swung around in various maneuvers. A new mechanic for Ragnarök is that the blades can be used like a grappling hook to traverse over chasms, and pick up objects to hurl at enemies.[2][5] Kratos also obtains a new weapon called the Draupnir Spear, a close- and long-range attack spear that is infused with wind elemental magic and can make copies of itself; Kratos can throw multiple spears at an enemy then have them all explode at once. The spear is also used to traverse or unblock certain pathways.[6] Each weapon has standard light and heavy attacks. They can be upgraded with runes to allow for magical runic attacks, with slots for a light and heavy magical attack, providing a variety of play style options.