After the 1st hour of gameplay which is action adventure akin to the old God of War in many ways it then plunges into open world action RPG with sprinkles of ogre/troll "boss" battles which turned me off as everything advertised and promoted (including reviews)before release was action adventure.
I quit the game after another 3 to 4 hours of gameplay in the open world action RPG stuff. I would say if you can stomach the action adventure to get to the action RPG you will find less things to do then in Zelda by far. GOW isn't as open world as it seems just little short paths that lead to chests and more locked magical chests that require you to unlock 3 seals. Sadly, the Nordic language decoding is also weak.
Zelda very strong in discovery GOW light in discovery. GOW is also very easy on normal as I never needed the fight tree just simple light or heavy attack you learn in the first 20 minutes.
HollywoodJ's comments