Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

From the beginning to the end the athmosphere is truly impressive and the graphics are great. I found it really hard to interrupt Hellblade and it really cool to learn about norse mythology. But I didn't like some things about Hellblade. It fellt more like a movie, which is interrupted by action/puzzling. Especially at the beginning I got really annoyed to watch another unskippable. And I found the figthing quite awful. You are always locked onto 1 random enemy. It doesn't matter who is attacking you or which one you would want to attack, it is always locked onto the wrong one and you will die due to that. It is clearly not built with keyboard/mouse in mind. I also had some technical problems with version 1.01, which should be relatively easy for them to fix.. There was something wrong with the resolution settings. I don't know to what the resolution settings are changed, but it doesn't change to what I put into it. For me the resolution used was to high. I don't know if it has something to do with using a 16:10 monitor, but it looked like it was always using the next higher resolution. Every time I died, the game froze for about a minute until it ran normally. The soundtracks would begin to run out of sync. At first I just thought the subtitles would just have flaws but the whole tracks seemed to get delayed somehow. The subtitles are not exactly what is spoken (especially further into the game) and I have seen some spelling/grammar mistakes. Why is the Hellblade Feature Movie not in fullscreen? For me it fills only about half my screen. All things considered, even with those flaws I would absolutely recommend Hellblade to anyone,.

No point in describing the game at length, it needs to be experienced in order to be understood. Just know that the subject matter is incredibly well depicted, and all the elements of the game are so carefully balanced to make a game that is an amazing example of what the media is able to convey. This is something you must try for yourself and embrace.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is an astonishing experience. I own it on GOG, and wanted to give Ninja Theory more money so I purchased it on Steam as well. It is deeply engaging from its mechanics, to its sound design, to its visuals and more. Please support developers like Ninja Theory for crafting compelling character driven video games like this that continue to redefine the potential of video games as a medium!

Loved it, you can tell that it is an indy game and thus Ninja Theory was able to explore very unique paths with this one. The game is very well done and had a nice ballance of suspense, mystery, action, and story telling. I also loved the lenth of the game, it didn't feel grindy and allowed me to enjoy the storyline. The game for me revolved around being in Senuas shoes and observing the world around her and thus it was great for immersion. I haven't played a lot of hack and slash games but I did enjoy the fighting mechanics. The story, graphics, sound design, motion capture, etc made this one a gem!

It's really been some years since I've played a game of this magnitude. This one seriously goes back to the whole vibe of making a game for a story to be unraveled and appreciated as you keep going. While a short game this however works to an advantage it's long enough you'll still feel the sense of gratitude and your moneys worth and not too long it drags on, the fights plus puzzles are very well paced that they don't feel just forced in and they also never feel unfair you'll see the way they wanted to test what you know but not be callous and assume you've obviously mastered this by the second time, the backtracking is not murder for the only 2 times you genuinely will have to do it and the very big thing is that it's not trying too hard to actually be scary there's no lame predictiable jumpscares runing the whole element of fear I was very skeptic at first thinking the whole psychosis part would just be every now and then but it genuinely is there the whole game nagging away at you impossible to ignore I can not find anything bad to say about this really that wouldn't just be nitpicking an absoulute spectatle 10/10 if you haven't already buy the damn game