Playing God Of War With GamerDad

0:03 i am jim fast dante and six months ago my wife and i welcomed a beautiful baby into the world know that probably doesn't taste very good I am whispering because he's actually in the room behind me I grown-up my entire life around video games they've always been a source of entertainment for me and a way to blow off steam and as a new parent there is a lot of steam to blow off so rather than look at games from a

0:32 critical standpoint I'd rather explore what are the positives about a game that you would make precious time for and since this is fatherly calm there's probably not a more suitable game to start with than the new God of War so this is not your dad's God of War probably because your dad didn't play God of War you play God of War but now you're the dad it's you dad's God of War and your dad and now Kratos is a dad and

1:00 it's late and I have a six-month-old I'm very tired it's really a maturation of the series everything has kind of grown up the stories the themes the characters the gameplay even and at the heart of that gameplay is you Kratos and your son at Reyes trampling your way through an entire new pantheon of gods to kill and if your first reaction is concerned for Kratos his son let me just assure you that he is a very warm and nurturing

1:31 father no the Ghost of Sparta is an emotionally distant dad who barely uses his son's name boy boy boy boy through this journey where they're figuring out the relationship is father and son it's just a very different kind of adult game than the God of War series is used to the first pillar in looking at this game through the perspective of a parent who wants to play is what is my time

2:01 commitment is this something that I'm going to be able to hop in and out of or am I going to to make sure that I have a little bit more time devoted to my playing sessions the answer to that is tricky because it's kind of both it's definitely a game that is incredibly well written with again interesting characters and emotional arcs that take a little bit to play out that will lose a little bit of their impact if you get interrupted but

2:29 there are definitely these moments of exploration that can happen in these bite-sized chunks where there's like a little bit of light open world trying to kill certain monsters or find ingredients that will help you upgrade your gear and also there are side quests that you'll find where you can kind of hop in do a side quest and hop out okay second pillar of looking at this game what makes it worth playing it's both the story and the gameplay itself I mean

2:59 it's still all of the fun and brutality that you would expect from a God of War game but there are a lot of fun turns there's a lot of fun characters I mean yeah I'm I don't think I'm spoiling anything for anyone when I can tell you to get ready for some cat in the cradle type moments between Kratos and at Reyes so the third pillar that I want to talk about is what I'm just gonna call twitch

3:23 ability and my four decades on this earth my reflexes are not what they used to be so with that the first thing that I would probably say is there is no shame in easy mode go ahead just turn it on feel good about yourself this game has a ton of combos and it might seem a little bit intimidating but if you button mash you're still gonna do an insane amount of damage okay so final thoughts we've got a four if you love

3:55 this series if action RPGs are your jam if you like a lot of story in your game pick this one up and the combat is way more fun than frustrating the only thing you might want to just be a little aware of is giving yourself that time commitment again to where the middle end of the game where the story really starts to pick up and flow you're just gonna want to not get interrupted during those moments it's just gonna have more of an

4:26 impact if you're able to kind of play through those so yeah that's our first session of dad gaming if you guys have any games do you want us to check out if you want to share your gamer ID to find like-minded and responsible parents to play with by all means please share those in the comments well thanks for watching and remember there is no shame in easy mode though that is a mantra that I've had for far longer than I've

4:52 had a child [Music]