

After that, you will be tasked with collecting enough mist echoes to upgrade the armor. Once there, you’ll need to collect nine pieces of rusted armor scattered throughout the realm. Players must first gain access to the shadowy realm if Niflheim, which is done by obtaining four Niflheim Ciphers scattered throughout the game. Mist Armor is popularly considered to be the best armor class in the game, but it’s by no means easy to obtain. However, if you really want the best of the best when it comes to protection, you’re going to have to work for it. While Kratos seemed to have been bare-chested for much of the series’ introductory trilogy, he’s since wisened up and kitted himself out in some of the best armor Norse mythology has to offer.

20Īrmor plays a pretty major role in God of War. The trouble is, most of the better upgrade materials are pretty tricky to get your hands on. This new game, however, puts much, much more emphasis on tricking out your version of the ashen deity destroyer and fine-tuning him to be outfitted exactly as you’d like.

Yes, you did spend much of the game buffing up Kratos in God of War 3, but that was hardly the focal point of the experience. The God of War series of games was never big on collectibles or upgrades. He’s also got a kid now, though he seems to have literally named him “boy,” as that’s practically always how he addresses him. To everyone’s surprise, the franchise was brought back, and, having already eliminated every living being on Mount Olympus, Kratos seems to have taken up residence in a mythical Norse world, presumably so he could never be too far away from his favorite hobby: destroying gods. When you spend the duration of five entire games doing nothing but dethroning ancient Greek mythological figures, you’re bound to run out of content eventually. Sure, longtime Sony partner Naughty Dog Studios brought Nathan Drake and company back for one final romp on the PS4, but the story of legendary deity slayer Kratos seemed to have been pretty much put to an end. Like many other PlayStation fans, I thought that the God of War series had run its course, and -with an already solid lineup of exclusives for the PS4 platform- Sony didn’t seem to need the series anymore.
