r/GodofWarRagnarok

And I didn’t find Ironwood boring.

I had a great time with this game. It's was the only mainline game I needed to beat, and the ending had me on a choke hold. However, what I'm wondering isn't the thoughts on the ending itself, more so the final battle.

I've seen a number of people underwhelmed with the ending. Personally, I liked it. But I'm curious as to why some people find it to be not as good as the rest of the game. I don't think it's perfect or anything. I feel like the way >!Thor and Odin!< die could have been handled a bit better. And I wish the Odin fight was a bit longer. But aside from that, I can't really think of anything.

Just a little curious on overall thoughts of the final battle. (The ending itself I will not hear otherwise, that was perfect.)

i just wanna be immersed and if it dies it dies. if it becomes more pissed (like a phase transition) then so be it.

So we know that Garm is a mindless beast and can't die, until Atreus gave him a soul and Garm became Fenrir. But before that when Atreus visited Ironwood, Angrboda also said that she needed to tend to those animals which also do not have a soul (because her grandma took their souls away), and because if she doesn't, they'll die. So what's the difference here? Garm and those animals are both soulless but only Garm can't die?

I'm not sure if it counts as a spoiler but there should have been a hint that >!Odin was disguising himself as Tyr!< as early as Ironwood.

In Ironwood, Atreus is given the sack of marbles by Angrboda and told each marble contains the soul of a giant. Angrboda said "Or they could hide. In that choice they found peace. It made me think of the writing in Tyr's Temple "We will wait for word that gods grow good." The giants couldn't have hidden the tower *after* they hid in the marbles. I'm pretty sure it's explicitly stated that Tyr hid the tower to protect the giants. Odin as Tyr acts clueless as to where the giants could have gone/what happened to the giants because Odin himself didn't know what happened to the giants. Atreus should have been able to piece together that Tyr should know what happened to the giants but he doesn't.

That could just be bias on my part because I think the crew should have been able to figure it out sooner than they did. I also think Kratos trusted Tyr a little too much but I think that Mimir not picking up on it fooled Kratos by extention since Kratos explicitly trusts Mimir. Again, shouldn't Freya or especially Mimir been able to piece together that it was Odin in disguise? Knowing more about Tyr's personality during Valhalla it seems more unlikely than ever that Mimir could be fooled by fake Tyr's cowardice and cluelessness on things Tyr should have known about.

That said, I want to clarify the player could never see the twist coming and it was one of the best plot twists I've seen in gaming. I just don't think the disguise should have worked as long as it did.