Yeah this game is pretty boring. It has zero new ideas, but somehow decides it wants the focus of the game to be moving through a linear path with occasional talking. That feels like 70-80% of my playtime; combat encounters are brief and spread out from each other. What a shame!
I also really dislike how much the writings clashes with itself. Kratos is the same gruff and curt old man, but everyone else feels like they talk in modern day colloquial English and the characters lack unique voices. And even Kratos’ characterization feels confused in some aspects. The lore entries seems to be written from his perspective, so entries on friends read like this, which is along the lines of what you expect from him:
But then enemy entries are written like this:
For a moment I thought maybe the enemy entries were actually written by Mimir, the talking head on Kratos’ belt (despite there being no indication in a change in narrator), but one of these enemy entries references Mimir in third person. So it must be Kratos I guess?