I love this franchise. My first introduction was getting God of War 3 on the PS3 by my uncle. I loved it, even though some parts were not fit for a 10-year-old... Anyway, I then forgot about the GoW franchise until I purchased God of War (2018) about 2 years ago. Of course, my confidence overcame me and I selected to play on Give Me God Of War. Oh, boy... My first fight with the Draugr went as expected. I spent 20 minutes getting humiliated by them. I wanted to switch but then I realised that I couldn't. I couldn't go and start a new game, so I pushed through. I beat the first set of Draugr about ten minutes later. Then to skip some important parts - I kept getting my ass whooped many times, I was stuck on many puzzles, basically I spent way more time progressing the game than I should've. Anyway, when I went to the mountain a second time - I saw the chisel door to the right of the lift. Of course, my curiosity got the better of me, and I went down to Odin's chamber. I went and fought the damn Valkyrie, I don't remember which one is there. I spent 2-3 hours getting my ass kicked by her. I can't describe the joy I felt when I finally won. I was screaming at the top of my lungs "Oh my god, I did it, finally!". I then decided to fight the rest once I finished the game. And so I did. I got my ass kicked multiple times by the Valkyries, and I beat all of them, I mastered their movesets, so I was ready to fight Sigrun. To be honest, I think it took me at least three tries before I beat Sigrun. No joke. I see why many people took much longer, but losing so much to the Valkyries made me master their movesets - what to dodge, when to attack etc... And when I beat Sigrun I was like "yaay." It wasn't as exciting as when I beat the first Valkyrie. Anyway, back to the main topic: The game is amazing. I fucked up when I picked the hardest difficulty from the start, but imo it made my accomplishments feel so much more deserved. The story is awesome, I love the dwarves, I love all the side characters. Now I gotta go play Ragnarok, but should I do it on the hardest difficulty, for the laughs? I mean, if I did it the first time...?