I want to preface this review by saying that this is not necessarily a bad game, but I can't bring myself to give it a positive recommendation as it rather quickly got to the point where I was playing the game purely for the sake of finishing it.
There are aspects of this game that I did enjoy - namely, while some of the humour is a bit tongue-in-cheek, other parts of it (particularly if you're already a fan of the chaos that is Greek mythology lore) is amusing. The world looks great, the music is awesome and heroic, and the combat mechanics are fun. However, I struggle to say much else in its favour as this game frustrated me to a degree I haven't experienced before in gaming.
For starters, the game takes forever to load and constantly lagged, even after I installed an updated driver to try and resolve the issue. The game itself had weird moments where the dialogue and subtitles cut out for no reason, which broke the immersion of the story when it happened. The story itself isn't bad, but isn't anything especially spectacular and honestly the ending (while the puzzle ended up being kinda cool and one of my favourite puzzles of the game) felt like a cheap twist with an anti-climactic resolution. The puzzles of the game can be good, but 90% of them were more time consuming than actually challenging, and those that were challenging were an incredibly frustrating grind where you would get screwed over by little things like bad luck or button time-outs.
Overall, I'm glad to have stuck it out and finished this game, but it's not one that I intend on coming back to. The open-world aspect was cool, but having to repeat the story and the grind is a demoralising thought. As such, I recommend anyone who would like to give this game a try to wait until it is either on sale or being offered for free/second-hand.
