And that makes it kind of confusing to navigate since you have to think fourth dimensionally - your explorations will change over time. Your access to everything in and around that hub is gated (also like many other open-world games), but it’s gated in multiple stages. The Lake of Nine region of Midgard serves as your hub. SIE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment via Polygon

What is the Lake of Nine? The Lake of Nine and its surroundings. They’re not story-related, necessarily, and you could argue that they’re not technically spoilers, but if you’re looking to avoid any spoilers, you should probably take caution with the rest of this article. We’re going to try keep this explainer spoiler free, but there are some unavoidable (very) minor, early game spoilers below. Then we’ll talk about what that means for how you’ll use our God of War guides. In this guide, we’ll explain how the Lake of Nine works and talk about the various stages of gating. God of War is an open-world game with a lot of the mechanics you’d expect from the genre, but some of them don’t work quite like you’d expect - like the Lake of Nine - and that’s confusing.

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