Ending was so WTF I don't think it wraps anything up and I think the entire plot and characterization of the game was the worst we've seen since God of War 1.
Why the hell doesn't Athena just come back to life since she's buddies with Hades? Why doesn't Hades just resurrect his own dead wife? Why does Athena just decide to have a change of heart and go "You're right! Let's kill Zeus"? What happens after Kratos dies? Does Aphrodite just have lesbian sex on the top of Mt. Olympus for the rest of eternity?
So fear entered Zeus when Kratos opened Pandora's Box, but Kratos got hope. Why the hell did he get hope? Pandora's Box is full of evils and an incredible power, not "goodie goodie" feelings. And why did Athena respond to Zeus locking away the evils with "Hey, I'm going to put an awesome power in that box"?
Why does it take until the end of the game for Kratos to realize that he's destroying the fucking earth by killing the gods?
Why does he kill himself? Nobody had to fucking die and he decides to kill himself? Why was Athena pissed that he killed himself? "You ruined it" or something like that.
What is Athena trying to say? Is she the real Pandora or something? What does she mean "my power" and all that shit?
Why the hell is Helios such a wasted boss opportunity?
What the hell happens when Kratos dies? Does "Hope" get spread around the dead, lifeless earth and it regenerates or something?
How does Gaia survive but the other Titans die when they fall off a giant mountain?
How can Kratos finally show some human emotion in the third game, yet it's towards a stupid, false girl who happens to be an embodiment of a key for the box? She's not even real. And why, with all that new emotion coming into play, does he still INSIST on killing every fucking thing? Olympus wasn't even going after him. They didn't even attack him. HE decides to climb up there and knock the shit out of everything. Zeus even gives him further chances to just back off and cool it, and he destroys the earth around him in his vengeance.
Then at the end of the game, in a sort of matter-of-fact attitude, he's like "look. everything's dead lol" yeah no shit you killed everything. Was that worth it?
I'm guessing Kratos having the power of Pandora inside him since the first game is what has allowed him to kill all the gods? Why can the Titans kill the gods? They don't have that power.
It can't be asked enough. Why the fuck does Kratos show sympathy to a stupid fake girl when he's killed women and men all the time without blinking an eye? Hell he didn't even care about Pandora in the beginning.
He only needed her to open the box! And then he's like "NOOOOOOO! I DON'T EVEN KNOW OR CARE ABOUT YOU BUT DON'T BE THE KEY TO OPEN THE BOX! DON'T SUBMIT YOURSELF TO YOUR PURPOSE EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE FAKE AND THE WHOLE REASON I CLIMBED UP THIS FUCKING MOUNTAIN WAS TO USE YOU AND NOW I'M GOING TO MORONICALLY INSIST THAT WE FIND ANOTHER WAY TO GET ZEUS PLZ DON'T SACRIFICE YOURSELF"
Why is Hera such a drunk bitch?
Why do bugs come out of Hermes' body?
Why does Hera's death kill all plantlife?
Worse plot-holes than Heavy Rain.
WTF are they talking about "tying things up". Nothing was tied up. The entire ending is open-ended, and I can't even find that thing Keighley and Stig were talking about.
This game is fun but holy shit did their team cut out some important stuff when they threaded together this entry's plot.
On the topic of puzzles, I don't recall any actual worthy puzzles in this game aside from the one that leads up to the acquisition of Apollo's Bow, and of course, Hera's Rooftop Gardens. The rest were all basically pushing blocks around, right? I mean, I was kind of grateful for that. Didn't want a shit ton of contrived switch/puzzle garbage breaking up my chaotic rampage. Having one concentrated puzzle sequence free of combat was actually the best way to go (the rooftop gardens) and I was very pleased with that.
Oh wow you are so wrong it hurts. The puzzles in GoW2 were so incredibly awesome the fact that the team lazily left everything but block-pushing out is what makes this game inferior to GoW2 in some way.