{"id":15287,"date":"2022-11-09T16:11:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T16:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/i-will-never-play-games-like-god-of-war-ragnarok-on-anything-but-easy-mode\/"},"modified":"2022-11-09T16:11:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T16:11:52","slug":"i-will-never-play-games-like-god-of-war-ragnarok-on-anything-but-easy-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/games\/i-will-never-play-games-like-god-of-war-ragnarok-on-anything-but-easy-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"I will never play games like God of War Ragnarok on anything but easy mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/i-will-never-play-games-like-god-of-war-ragnarok-on-anything-but-easy-mode_636bd14801da2-1000x600.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/i-will-never-play-games-like-god-of-war-ragnarok-on-anything-but-easy-mode_636bd14801da2-1000x600.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/i-will-never-play-games-like-god-of-war-ragnarok-on-anything-but-easy-mode_636bd14801da2-400x240.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In preparation for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/god-of-war-ragnarok-guide\/\"><u>God of War Ragnarok<\/u><\/a>, I spent last weekend powering through Kratos and Atreus&#8217; maiden voyage for the first time since 2018. Despite remaining familiar with the action brawler&#8217;s mainline story beats, I was surprised by how much of its minutiae I&#8217;d forgotten in the interim \u2013 which made reacquainting myself with Freya, Jormungandr, and the game&#8217;s litany of larger-than-life baddies all the more enjoyable. The word &#8216;epic&#8217; is overused in casual parlance these days, but it really is the best way to describe the showdowns that involve hulking dragons, screen-filling Norse gods, and ripping the heart from the gatekeeper of Hel&#8217;s rib cage, to name but some of the memorable conflicts in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/god-of-war-guide-walkthrough\/\"><u>God of War<\/u><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/i-will-never-play-games-like-god-of-war-ragnarok-on-anything-but-easy-mode\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for God of War Ragnarok, I spent last weekend powering through Kratos and Atreus&#8217; maiden voyage for the first time since 2018. Despite remaining familiar with the action brawler&#8217;s mainline story beats, I was surprised by how much of its minutiae I&#8217;d forgotten in the interim \u2013 which made reacquainting myself with Freya, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15290,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287\/revisions\/15290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}