Thats what makes those games so effin awesome.
PS - This reboot looks gay.
Yeah it was funny at first but it's gotten predictable and stale, thats why they brought in Nero in #4, they've already done as much as they could do with Dante. I only beat 1 & 3 but in both those stories, he had big confrontations with his father and brother, his backstory was told well enough. It would have been, "lets throw dante in a european club rave scene, where he fights marionettes!" New location same shit, too many limits with an established character. If they would have kept most of his moves people would have said its too much like the original games, if they changed up all his moveset, they would have been straying too far from the original games. Fans are a fickle bunch, this way they can make a whole new moveset and list of powers while keeping fans happy.
That said I'm not a fan of these character models so far.
I think god of war showed these kind of action games are best in a trilogy.