The God of War Ragnarok team's reaction to their reviews is adorable

From Games Radar: "The God of War Ragnarok review embargo dropped yesterday, and the game's developers have a lot of feelings about the critical acclaim they've received.

At time of writing, God of War Ragnarok is sitting at a Metacritic(opens in new tab) score of 94. Dozens of perfect scores have helped it to joint-sixth place in this year's rankings behind only three other games. Elden Ring on PS5 and Xbox Series X are in joint first alongside the Portal Companion Collection on Switch, all on 96, while Persona 5 Royal on PC and Xbox Series X follow up on 95. At 94, Ragnarok sits in with the Switch port of Persona 5 Royal, and Elden Ring on PC.

It's an undeniably impressive achievement, and the devs are revelling in it. Writer Aly Samson said she was "so emotional," and that her work on the game "challenged me & helped me grow as a writer & a person." Gameplay animator Euna Park, who has moved on from Sony Santa Monica since working on Ragnarok, simply asked(opens in new tab) "How am I supposed to get any work done today after this?" Senior gameplay programmer Sam Handrick(opens in new tab) noted the amount of time the developers had spent on the game "trying to make something special," but that "you get so close to it that you never truly know if it's everything you wanted it to be until others try it. So to see reviews today - it's really special.""

[SullysCigar]

Well deserved. You guys enjoy your moment for a bit - you've certainly earned it.

[crazyCoconuts]

It's amazing to me how a handful of companies (or less?) in the industry can continue to deliver amazing games so consistently while so many others never release even one game that's in the same class. It must be so hard to do, yet these guys do it again and again somehow.

[AuraAbjure]

Proper head of studio, and game directors and managers e.g. creative director, technical director, design director, managing producer.

[GhostScholar]

I bet you really love the color blue huh.....

[Lightning77]

They deserve every bit of praise for this absolute master piece.

[masterfox]

cant wait to play with the adorable Kratos. :D

[DeathTouch]

Angrboda is not black. Go woke, go broke. /s

[Crows90]

Huh? They didn't go woke simply by changing the lore a bit. It's quite a bit changed already. They only go woke if they implement woke writing/bad writing. Not the case here I'm sure.

[DeathTouch]

I know. It's sarcasm. And if you think people don't consider this woke, you missed this: https://n4g.com/news/244177...

Take a spin on the comments and try not to pluck your eyes out.
Good luck.

All the success to SM, though. And good for them for not caving in to bigots and keeping their vision.

[Flewid638]

I have a feeling this will pop up again. lol

[Crows90]

Thanks for the link. It was enjoyable. But it stands to reason in an age full of tokenism for there to be some concern. But again...the concern of woke is directly linked to poor writing and slapped on effects. Adding a black character doesn't make a game better or more diverse.

Diversity in skin color is racist. Diversity in thought regardless of skin is the way to go. Which again boils down to the writing. Lots of comments in that link express that concern and in extremely superficial level it can sound like racism in this period of time where your offensive if you dress up as a black superhero while being white.

[DeathTouch]

Agreed. She is a great black character, kudos for SM.

[myfathersbastard]

Fimbulwinter also happens when Loki is an adult. And he wasn’t part Greek god. And Mimir is an Aesir god, not some type of fae.
The lore is changed in a BUNCH of ways. But THATS what you want to complain about?

[Vithar]

so happy for them! what a team :)

[darkrider]

They deserve. For creating such a great game. What's next! That's the question?

[Demetrius]

This is how u push hardware Santa Monica showing other devs how it is, plus also naughty dog I don’t even play linear games like that cause they’re too short at times but with the uncharted series that’s one series I would definitely keep into but congrats SM :) come on next Wednesday!! Lmao

[rulparra]

FOR SURE, SONY PAID FOR IT.

[GaboonViper]

https://ibb.co/n1ngDBR

[Elda]

Triggered.

[XxINFERNUSxX]

Still surprised The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time still holding the #1 spot at 99 metascore after all these years 😊

[MrNinosan]

Back then, no journalist was scared of giving 10s, nor did they fanboy journalism exist in the same way as it does today.

Today we see bad scores on amazing games, just because the journalist favour other games.

Back in the PS1/N64 era we didn't have that, or at least to the part it got obvious.

Final Fantasy games got amazing scores because they were great, and Nintendo Power didn't review it.
Zelda and Mario games got amazing scores and Playstayion Magazine didn't review those.

Today, Playstation journalists put scores on Halo, Forza and Gears, while MS journalists put scores on all the exclusive Playstation games.

Then we have extremley biased journalists that just want clicks, as Metro, Stevivor etc.

Ocarina was an amazing game and deserve the 99, but if games like Elden Ring, Last of Us and God of War was released at the same era, I'm sure it'll scores close to that.

[XxINFERNUSxX]

Yeah I believe that to. If Elden Ring, Last of Us and God of War, might as well put Uncharted up there to, they would all score close. 🙃

[Ezio2048]

Ocarina is 99 not just because of that era but also because it has only 22 reviews. Gta IV was 100, Gta V and RDR2 were 99, BotW and Elden Ring were 98 on 22 reviews. If Ocarina had 80+ reviews it won't be having more than 97.

[ironmonkey]

What a treat for playstation fans.

[HeliosHex]

Congrats for setting the bar high for other devs.

[InUrFoxHole]

Standing ovation!

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Nothing can top Corpse Factory, Needy Girl Overdose, Chaos;Head Noah, Loopers or AI: The Somnium Files - Nirvana Initiative for me this year. Those are definitely the top 5. Witch on the Holy Night might even beat those 5 though and be GOTY.