Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Great game with a unique experience. Awful PC port, from a performance point of view .

A true master-piece. I own 2 copies of this game but none of them are gog versions. One copy I got from Humble and other copy I bought in store. Now lets begin... Hellblade is action adventure with some easy puzzles. You play as Senua a kelt warrior who come to Nord lands trying to find Hella, Loki daughter... Game revolves around Nord mythology but it also shows her culture, way of living, Kelt religion and so much more... Why Senua? Who is she? This game rely mostly on pre-european culture, you don`t have to but it`s better if you do understand who Kelts were, how they lived, where they lived and sedra. So, Senua was Kelt Godess and very important figure in their culture. Originally she was protector of their families, so Kelts they would prey to her every night. They believed she would protect their family and keep their house safe. But for some reason they stopped worshiping her. We don`t know when that happened and why, history have no clue, there aren`t any written documents about her mostly because this happened so long ago. We are talking about bronze age of human civilization a period at least 600 years before the christ. Kelts had very early metalurgy they knew how to make weapons even then, we know that because of their settlements we found, but they weren`t good fighters, they lack military skills, they lost almost every battle against german tribes and that is why Kelts move all the way from South Europe to England. We don`t know when game is happening in what century, but we are pretty sure Senua came somewhere from France because Kelts migrated to England much later around VI century AD not before. Game is showing lot of things what she is wearing, how is she fighting, if you noticed she doesn`t use shield, those things tell us so much about her. Not enough letters to finish my review.... This is master-piece a must have game. Every aspect of this game is so well made and most important story is true, most of the stuff are even underworld.

One of the best games in the genre from the last 10 years. Incredible story, spectacular character development and game mechanics which lead to a fun and pleasant gaming experience.

I absolutely loved this game. From the music, to the puzzles, to the story, the gameplay. Everything was top notch. The whole game is very eery, and although it's not a horror, it definitely keeps you on your toes. The puzzles were simple, yet effective, and they worked very well inside the game. The only complaint I have is that the subtitles were not very good. Multiple times the subtitles just didn't show up, and sometimes the subtitles showed different things then what the people in the game were actually saying.

I don't really have anything negative to say. The game is really well done all around. Technically the game is good, the graphics are great, cutscenes are done in real time. Only complaints on graphics side is that most of the textures are quite low quality and can sometimes stand up from otherwise great looking game. And graphics options are missing some options, ini tweaking is needed if you want to disable motion blur, film grain and chromatic aberration. Gameplay works pretty well. Combat can get little clunky when fighting multiple enemies because the camera angle is pretty narrow, but i do enjoy the combat after getting used to it.