Ill begin by saying that I bloody hate the GOW franchise. Every time I play through one I have to open all the windows to try let the stink of quick-time events and lose Greek mythology out of my house. However, I will say that there are some pretty gruesome battles and its hard not to find gouging some beasts eyes out entertaining. But the fight if one could call it that against Hephaestus was so anti-climactic its untrue. You see him chained up and you think to yourself: Boy, if he broke free he would squish me like a bug, so I better not make him cross. But that squishing day never comes. When you finally do battle with him, its just one quick-time event to block an attack, and then slash a shrine of some description that causes a massive spike to stab him in the chest. Then its swiftly over, like an inexperienced sexual partner. What perplexes me is the boss battles are pretty fleshed out and last longer than eating packet of crisps, beside this one.