Santa Monica Studio

And it wasn't just Insomniac.

It was Santa Monica Studios over there in the volume.

And you get close to these people, you know? You get really...

And it's a lot of vulnerability.

Hopefully, we have God of War coming very, very soon.

We're four months away from a new God of War from Sony Santa Monica.

Yeah.

That's unbelievable.

that you know that regularly for a good amount of time uh you know uh shelled out bangers and these are the and you know every studio

misses right yeah yeah i mean let's be honest sony santa monica hasn't always been perfect naughty dog has not always been perfect you know and those are two of the most prolific game studios you know square enix has never been perfect, you know? But when you look at Bioware, right, well, one, I didn't know they did Sonic Dark Brotherhood for the DS.

I had never heard of it.

Neither, neither have I. I mean, I heard it.

So, as is usually the case in the first episode, I've got a few notes here about some of the development aspects, a couple of little bits of information, and then we can have a quick recap of the original God of War, and then we'll discuss the first two chapters, which wasn't a huge amount of playtime, I think probably about seven hours worth, something like that, six, seven, eight hours, I think was where I ended up.

So the game and its origins, obviously a direct sequel to 2018's God of War, developed by Santa Monica Studios, came out on the 9th of November 2022 on PS4 and 5, so a cross-platform release, and then two years, just about two years later, onto the PC in 2024.

The series is a direct sequel to God of War, continuing Kratos and Atreus' journey through Norse mythology.

I think probably the main difference is that the game was directed overall by Eric Williams, who had worked on the previous series.

And so, nowadays, we have a lot of American companies.

Santa Monica Studios, who makes God of War, one of my favorites.

Rockstar Games, who makes GTA.

And, you know, the list of Sandfall, which is French, they exist.

I've

said before that I wish that games would release blooper in that I understand it would be odd to do, but it's something that was very sad about working at Sony Santa Monica Studio.

Every single build that we get obviously is instantly replaced the minute that you download the next build.

So they cease to exist.