Dick Jones
Gold Member
I checked the trophies. 12.8% beat all nine. One in eight owners is a decent number to beat the Valkyries. It's a nightmare but with the number of sales, fair fucks to all the ones who managed it.
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God of War Sigrun Fight is Still Giving Players Trouble
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poodaddy
Member
She was damn tough on the highest difficulty, that's for sure. To be honest, after I beat her I was happy for a moment, and then I felt silly for how much time I wasted fighting her and how much it probably rose my blood pressure. It was healthy in that way I suppose, due to that experience I no longer feel bad for lowering the difficulty on games if I'm just not having fun any more. I no longer concern myself with "proving to myself I can do it." I know I can do it, but sometimes it's simply not worth the effort.
TheGodfather07
Member
you just need to practise avoiding her moves. once you do, you'll have no problem defeating her. its a nice feeling to get your ass kicked over and over but to than the tables around.
Numenorean
Member
Im glad that I tried somewhere between 20 to 30 attempts. I was at level 8. At my almost 40 years old, I thought that my reflexes were no longer at the height of a young man in his 20's but seeing these comments I see that I am not so bad after all
kyliethicc
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TheMay30thMan
Member
Were gamers supposed to just… evolve in the past 3 years to be naturally better at fighting the Valkyries?
LectureMaster
Member
Beat her on give me god of war first playthrough, a hell of fight, basically zero forgiveness.
NG+ fight became a lot easier as you could transfer armor set bonus to gems and made yourself much overpower.
NG+ fight became a lot easier as you could transfer armor set bonus to gems and made yourself much overpower.
alabtrosMyster
Banned
I didn't even get to the last Valkirie!
Note that I still appreciate a lot the fact that they were not affraid to put time on content not everybody gets to see.
Note that I still appreciate a lot the fact that they were not affraid to put time on content not everybody gets to see.
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Oddvintagechap
Member
Easy if you buy the stone.
kyliethicc
Member
Lol yeah that one always makes me laugh.
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Duchess
Member
Took me a couple of hours with the game set to the easiest mode. She's still a huge challenge even then.
Something I find helps with stuff like this is simply to watch the no-hit runs on YouTube; the players often employ tactics that you can use yourself during the fight. I had real problems getting past the boss rush in Shovel Knight until I watched one of those and could clearly see the patterns the bosses used and what I needed to do. I beat them all first time when I returned to it.
re: Sigrun. I found that going into the fight with full health, full rage, and having the rage stone was the best bet. I believe there's an ability you can assign that makes rage hits restore health (I think I also had Atreus set to drop health pickups). Basically, I would fight her as usual, then, once my health got low, I would use rage and beat down on her a lot, to restore as much health as I could, while also dealing more damage to her. Inevitability, she would knock me down, but Atreus would bring me back with the rage stone. Things would get dicey here, as I'd have little health, and would need to go at her while raged to get health back. I eventually managed to beat her and I was very happy to have overcome the challenge.
People asking what the reward for beating her is? The reward is the knowledge that you possessed the skill and determination to do so. Also, you get a trophy
(something very useful - when she jumps into the air, throw the axe at her to bring her back down the ground - that'll help you a lot)
Something I find helps with stuff like this is simply to watch the no-hit runs on YouTube; the players often employ tactics that you can use yourself during the fight. I had real problems getting past the boss rush in Shovel Knight until I watched one of those and could clearly see the patterns the bosses used and what I needed to do. I beat them all first time when I returned to it.
re: Sigrun. I found that going into the fight with full health, full rage, and having the rage stone was the best bet. I believe there's an ability you can assign that makes rage hits restore health (I think I also had Atreus set to drop health pickups). Basically, I would fight her as usual, then, once my health got low, I would use rage and beat down on her a lot, to restore as much health as I could, while also dealing more damage to her. Inevitability, she would knock me down, but Atreus would bring me back with the rage stone. Things would get dicey here, as I'd have little health, and would need to go at her while raged to get health back. I eventually managed to beat her and I was very happy to have overcome the challenge.
People asking what the reward for beating her is? The reward is the knowledge that you possessed the skill and determination to do so. Also, you get a trophy
(something very useful - when she jumps into the air, throw the axe at her to bring her back down the ground - that'll help you a lot)
luffie
Member
Yep, it's actually a "mediocre" design, it's all about memorization her moves, period.
There's no such thing as super reflex to avoid her move, her wing stab is too fast to avoid the moment you see it, so eventually you memorized that if she strafe right, it's 100% a wing stab. I can guarantee nobody evades those stab the 1st time.
She strafes left, it's wing spiral, she stays middle, it's wing stab too, so you keep on moving right or left. Her "Valhalla" has no sound, so you MUST dodge backwards so that you can see if she's going to do it again. If you don't backwards (but sideways etc), you are GUARANTEED to get hit by her next Valhalla or a wing stab (because you are dodging blindly, and she actually stops doing Valhalla).
It's really artificial difficulty that forces you to react in a certain way. There is no avenue for other approach, you can't distance yourself and tackle her creatively, her wing projectile homes and the only way is to block it, her Valhalla closes the distance immediately etc, you get the point.
The only part you get to choose is which skill you are going to beat her with.
Kagey K
Banned
Did they do anything to alter the difficulty of the fight?
If not isn't it just the same as day 1 and really not worth writing about?
Imagine writing an article "15 years later and kids are still 360 no scoping me on CoD"
Or 25 years later people are still falling off of Rainbow Road.
How about it's been 87 years and people are still dying to the first Goomba in world 1-1
If not isn't it just the same as day 1 and really not worth writing about?
Imagine writing an article "15 years later and kids are still 360 no scoping me on CoD"
Or 25 years later people are still falling off of Rainbow Road.
How about it's been 87 years and people are still dying to the first Goomba in world 1-1
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ChoosableOne
ChoosableAll
I hate to fight flying monsters so i skipped them after 2-3 battles.
Yeah, they are hard too
Dav-Kripler
Member
41 yo here and it's satisfying to know I'm not the only one who is coming to terms with reflexes not being what they used to be
Also as a father of 2 GOW really got me in the feels. If Atreus won't give up on freeing the Valkyries then neither will his dad!
Armorian
Banned
I skipped them
I switched to easy (from hard I belive) to beat Valkyries and get the trophy for platinum. LOL
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Yep, she was bastard hard. I did it on normal, so not quite as hellish as some of you on the harder levels, but it was bad enough. Came as a massive surprise as well, because nothing else in the game is like it.
smart_brazileiro
Banned
Took her down first try. (switched to easy) 
BlitzerRadic
Member
I beat Sigrun on GMGOW without having to use the semi-invincible cheese build.
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Everybody has their random specific talents
I have somewhat issues with Ace Combat and SW: Squadrons. For some reason I'm quite terrible in dogfights and the like lol. I was coincidently remembered by this this very morning while playing the 'catch the thing' fly segment in Skyward Sword. Just takes me longer than I think I should lol
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vodka-bull
Member
N00bs….
On NG+ Give Me God Of War difficulty I think I must have played it about 30 times before I learnt her patterns and beat her. Once you nail that down it's working on your timing to avoid her "Valhalla!" move. The timing on that one is a bitch and if you miss it's either insta death or most of your healthbar gone.
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SkylineRKR
Member
Sigrun can pretty much only be beaten if you understand all other Valkyrie's moves. I ended up beating her on Normal (played most of the game on Hard), simply by getting better each time. When she ascends with red circle my muscle memory was on square button. When she blocked I had double tap shield in my memory. Yellow attack was parry, etc. Her variations though keep something to be aware of, its not always 3 stomps, it can be 2 with one stab. etc. But, the tells are there though. Another thing you needed to remember was to only pick up health when she's stunned.
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The Shepard
Member
I felt like a god playing the game for 40 hours at launch and killing all the valkyries, felt like nothing could stop me. Then this bitch turns up and wipes the floor with me. After about 20 attempts I finally beat her and got the platinum.
Really do need to replay the game before part 2 is out on ps5. Fave game of last gen.
Really do need to replay the game before part 2 is out on ps5. Fave game of last gen.
Revolutionary
Member
nvm
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sircaw
Banned
existensmaximum
Member
I don't get it. Why would she stop giving new players trouble? I suppose the difficulty is the same as ever..? 
GermanZepp
Member
Is an optional boss it's fair to be more challenging. In fact it was the only challenging boss in the game. I struggle but I beat it eventually. A good boss fight is always welcomed. You know what's bullshit? Dozens of collectibles in a open world. That's why I didn't get the platinum fuck that.
Kuranghi
Member
Everybody has their random specific talents
I have somewhat issues with Ace Combat and SW: Squadrons. For some reason I'm quite terrible in dogfights and the like lol. I was coincidently remembered by this this very morning while playing the 'catch the thing' fly segment in Skyward Sword. Just takes me longer than I think I should lol
Well its probably too late for that bit, but I highly recommend switching to button controls for the harder flying bits, I'm not joking I got the statue in less than 60 seconds last night without even trying.
Then I went back to motion controls and was going to the big green laser and it took me like 3 mins to get the red rupee off the nearby bird lol.
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Try 4 minutes or so with the button controls, haha.. Asshole bird was always turning while I was swooping in.. But to save a little bit of my gamer (TM) cred; the non inverted flight controls took some while getting used to ... Also I guessed just getting close enough and dash 3 times wasn't going to work because it would be to easy (all in my head) so I chose to ascent and just rush downwards with perfect timing.. probably made it harder for myself than necessary lol
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SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
It's a hub world. Not an open world pigeon collectathon like GTA.
They even tell you what you are missing in each island.
I hate collectathons. I have left so many platinums recently because of them even though ive beaten them on the hardest difficulty or have done the hardest challenges. SOTC time trials were brutal but collecting lizards? fuck that. getting SS in resident evil 8 mercenaries and finishing it in village of shadows? no problem. collecting toy horses? no thanks. same with returnal. did all the hard fights, but collecting shit in an rng game is not my idea of fun.
But GoW did them well. you can see what item you are missing with a press of a button.
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SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
yeah, i was gonna post this but you need a NG+ gear set (zeus armor) for this and the last most important part is the helmet which is only dropped by Sigrun on NG+. so this can only be done on NG+2.
Umbasaborne
Banned
Lol i never beat one valkery, i played on normal and died a ton. The combat in this game kicked my ass.
Fake
Member
This Valk get all the valks behavior into single one.
To be honest, the Valk inside the toxic world is more annoying. My problem trying to beating this last Valk is because my Dualshock 4 get problems. Since I get a new one, took me less than 3 tries in the last difficult.
Just listen some tuto on youtube, increase vit and def, make heal when you parry and use the bear shield skill that protect you while attacking.
To be honest, the Valk inside the toxic world is more annoying. My problem trying to beating this last Valk is because my Dualshock 4 get problems. Since I get a new one, took me less than 3 tries in the last difficult.
Just listen some tuto on youtube, increase vit and def, make heal when you parry and use the bear shield skill that protect you while attacking.
RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
Yeah I fought the first Valkyrie, died liked the piece of shite I was, tried again, died... Skipped all Valkyrie's... Now you're telling me there's a boss one... Fuuuuuuuuuuck dat