It is way too late in the night and I am still awake and so frustrated that I am actually writing this blog entry. I am playing the Challenges in God Of War : Chains of Olympus (don’t ask me why but I am) and it is absolutely stupid ! I think there was a lack of QA support for this part of the game ! I have restarted the challenge about 300 times and I am not exaggerating one bit ! These Challenges are so bad that I don’t know where to start. Here is an attemp. I hope someone from Sony and/or Ready at Dawn reads this blog entry of mine and does something about it.

  1. To start of with - Why do I have to kill 20 bad-ass enemies without getting hit even ONCE ???
  2. The enemies just swing their swords at one place and even though I am far from them I get hit and of course I die cause the challenge is to kill all of them without getting hit even once.
  3. There are 5 of these guys coming at me at one time
  4. The shield I have is LAME !!
    1. It has to be activated at the exact time. A fraction too soon and a fraction too late and thats it - you’re dead !
    2. Some times the shield doesn’t even activate !!
    3. You can’t keep the shield up for a long time. It works only for a second after you activate it
  5. If you press a key to use a combo to kill an enemy then you are a 100% sure to die ’cause you can’t press any other key at that time to block your self
  6. It seems that when 5 guys are hitting you at one time all you are expected to do is block, ’cause the moment you try to run, jump or hit back, you’re probably dead !
  7. You cannot jump to escape the enemies, so even though the enemies are swinging the swords on the ground and you are in the air - you get hit and die !
  8. Sometimes you can’t even see the enemy attacking you because of the camera angle

And the worst part is - this is only the second challenge !! I barely crossed the first one after like 20 retries !!
Don’t get me wrong - I love the entire God Of War series and I have finished them all, but I really hate it when developers go super-crazy and do shit like this. I wonder if the developers ever played the Challenges themselves and finished it !!

My sincere question is - What is the point of making the game so difficult?

Update 1 : I have seen some videos of Challenge 2 on Youtube and I am impressed with the skills and patience some players have. I guess I am old now and don’t have that kind of patience anymore ! I still don’t understand why the developers are so anal about these things. Why don’t have these Challenges on different difficulty levels? I am surely sick of this and if I owned this game (I am playing a borrowed copy) I would take this shit and trade it in for peanuts !

Update 2 : I have given up on the challenges and will be returning the game back to the original owner !