You’ll find the same stuff inside as the other chests, but there will be more of it with higher levels. Some of them have a floating mask on the front. These chests look like big, fancy, stone freezers. These contain anything from enchantments to runic attacks to crafting materials. They function like any other chest, though, so our guides will just call them red chests. These are the coffins that Kratos slides the lid off of and loots. Glowing red, stone sarcophagi (sarcophaguses?).Small, wooden chests that Kratos “opens” by smashing through the lid with his fist.There are four kinds of chests you’ll find as you explore: Chests SIE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment After they’re dealt with, you can collect your reward. Other tears will spit out a handful of high-level enemies that you have to defeat first. Some tears will close at this point and reward you with a rare crafting resource. When you encounter one, Kratos can close it by jamming his hand in. Realm tears are small holes in the fabric of reality. Realm tears SIE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment More importantly, though, you can sell these collectibles for good money at the shops. Collecting all of the items in a set will earn you an XP reward. Those last items follow a theme for that region - there are four of Atreus’ childhood toys scattered around his home in the Wildwoods, for example. There are lore markers to read, spying ravens to kill and knickknacks to pick up. There are sets of collectibles scattered around the various regions of God of War’s map. Collectibles SIE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Completing favors (and even the component steps of a favor) will earn you enough rewards - like XP, hacksilver and enchantments - that they are usually worth the time. These usually involve Kratos murdering something (spoiler?). Favors SIE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainmentįavors are tasks you take on for an NPC. If you know something is nearby based on your map, you might just have to wait to find it.Īlong with the exploration and discovery aspects that are inherent in open-worlds, God of War has a couple of the other trappings of open-world games - namely, side quests (called favors) and collectibles.
All of that means you’ll be making multiple visits to some locations to discover every item. Other areas and items are blocked by barriers that you can only open with later-game abilities. Some locations are populated by high level enemies that you won’t be able to fight until you get better gear. There are places where it’s just physically impossible to get to until later in the game.
SIE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive EntertainmentĪ lot of God of War’s exploration is gated. This will make your journey through the game’s main story much easier, but they aren’t, strictly speaking, necessary. You’ll earn experience points and hacksilver (in-game currency) and find new gear (see below) while exploring. Exploring the open world of God of War is (largely) optional. It’s new and different for a God of War game, though, so it’s worth mentioning here. You probably already understand the concept of an open-world game. We’ve talked about the biggest differences in another guide, but this guide will teach you about the new concepts and core mechanics you’ll be dealing with most often as you traverse Midgard. Kratos is still grumpy, the gods are still jerks and murdering mythological creatures with your bare hands is still fun.
There’s a lot about God of War that feels familiar.
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