Posted on: October 15, 2018

Patob3ur

Jeux: 615 Avis: 5

L’enfer, c’est les autres

Quelle expérience ! Tout d’abord, ce qui saisit dès la scène d’introduction du jeu : l’ambiance ! Chaussez-vous d’un casque de bonne facture et de votre plus belle paire de lunettes de vue, vous êtes devant une œuvre à contempler avec tous vos sens. L’interface inexistante nous plonge directement en immersion dans les scènes, sans artifices pour nous rappeler que nous sommes derrière un écran. La beauté des décors, les effets des délires de Senua ou l’omniprésence des voix nous enfonce un peu plus dans son univers. La caméra nous place très près, derrière l’épaule de Senua. De cette manière, on ne peut pas voir ce qui se passe dans le dos de notre héroïne, et certaines fois, Senua s’adresse directement à nous, comme si nous étions une de ses voix, que nous faisions partie intégrante du conflit qui se passe dans sa tête. Ces voix justement, nous encouragent et nous dévalorisent sans cesse. Nous sommes au cœur de la tempête. Les énigmes — l’obsession de Senua pour les runes, qu’elle cherche dans son environnement et qui sert de clé pour avancer dans le jeu — sont bien pensées et malgré leur schéma identique sont assez diversifiées pour ne pas ennuyer. Et tout ça reste merveilleusement bien intriqué dans l’histoire qui nous est racontée et trouve un écho dans la personnalité de Senua. Quant au système de combat, avec sa difficulté automatique, il est bien pensé. Jamais frustrant par sa difficulté, on ressort de chaque affrontement avec un sentiment de s’être surpassé. Les ennemis ne sont pas très variés ce qui assure aux joueurs les moins expérimentés un défi mesuré, mais qui peut frustrer les amateurs d’action pure. Pour conclure, Hellblade raconte une histoire avec une maitrise exceptionnelle. Ninja Theory a tout mis en œuvre pour que nous vivions l’expérience narrative la plus crue possible, et ça fonctionne parfaitement. Les quelques heures passées dans la tête de Senua ont été de grands moments et m’ont engagé émotionnellement comme peu de jeux avant.

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Posted on: April 7, 2019

ChicknDuck

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A weird one

Full text: https://paste.ee/p/lDaIE The big question for me is, for which audience this game was made. The game consists of: * Walking in a linear, static environment * "Collectables" (Dialogue with another character, Stories based on european legends) * Puzzles (Matching forms, using things in a specific order) * Cutscenes * Combat Roughly half of the game consists of walking through a dead and static world. No moveable objects, nothing reacts to your presence. You go the path, that the developer had in mind for you. The productionquality is high and probably the reason, why it got so well received. Graphics, voiceacting, faceanimation, sounds, music. Not much to criticise. The elephant in the room is the lack of interactivity in this game, but in the same time not consequently going down the artistic walkingsimulator-path. Imagine Dear Esther with occasional fighting. I personally expect a game to be a game. Give me enough interactivity or I will be bored. And I was bored for longer periods. Hellblade is for me in total a mixed bag of boring and entertaining parts. A friend of mine likes easy and slow games. Your typical casualgamer. While she hasn't played the game, I imagine the long fights with many enemies and bosses to be frustrating. For her it will be likely a mixed bag of relaxed enjoyment and frustration. Both types of gamers would ask themselves, why the game can't be more focused on the enjoyable parts and get rid of the annoying ones. And the question stands, for whom is this game? It doesn't want to be consequently a proper game nor a pure artpiece. It is schizophrenic. Risking to leave everyone unsatisfied at the end. My personal recommendation: Start watching an uncommented playthrough of it. If you develop the urge to do, what you see, on your own, go for it. Final thought: My guess is, that they tried to press something into the shape of a game, that would have ended better in form of another medium. Maybe a film?

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Posted on: July 27, 2020

Chaku

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Original approach but middling success

After reading many glowing reviews for the game, I thought this would be 100% my cup of tea. Alas, this games has flaws that hindered my enjoyment. For starters, the intro is vague and loooong, very loong with very little tangible information. You just press forward listening to the ever present voices that in the end did get on my nerves because I had no thread of story to attach to to understand what was happening. I almost quit because I did not enjoy the first 1-2 hours at all. After that, you're given a bit more context and story to chew on but not enough in my opinion, i did not like the way it was delivered. My enjoyment did increase though, but not to "exciting" levels. Then gameplay, it is simple, which I don't mind but gets very repetitive. The big stand out is one boss fight that I did really enjoy (you'll know which one if you play the game). Also the puzzles get old very quickly, and do not add anything to the game. So to summarise, don't expect flawlessness, soldier on through the boring beginning because the game really gets better and is worth experiencing. As a side note, I got really tired of the way the Norse mythology was delivered, I think that linking story to hidden objects is weak because you might miss them and as such, miss some story details. At the same time, I was not a big fan of the mythology at all so, I don't feel like going back and find the bits I missed. I know this might all sound very negative, but in the end I had a positive experience, this game did make me "feel" the events and story, which in my book, is the greatest achievement a game can have.

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Posted on: April 22, 2021

Solarflight

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Interesting premise, but poor execution

I had such high hopes going in to this game. I'd heard it would be an emotional game that dealt with mental health issues, which sounded really interesting and unique. I was excited to play it. If only the game had focused on that, instead of trying to shove in action and puzzle elements as well, I'm sure I would've loved it. Instead, I uninstalled it after 3 hours of play. I will say that they nailed the atmosphere for this game. The graphics are gorgeous and moody, the sound design is also appropriately unsettling. Unfortunately, the combat controls are clunky and slow, making fights a chore to get through - even on easy mode. Even more annoying, each boss fight is accompanied by a long unskippable cutscene beforehand, and with the way the autosave system works, you're forced to rewatch them if you decide to exit out of the game and come back to the fight later. Eventually I realized that I wasn't even that invested in the main story either; I was far more interested in the Lore collectibles telling the mythology of the Norse gods, than I was of the actual game's story itself. Senua's story is your typical fantasy quest of a warrior who has to fight/get revenge on the gods in order to rescue her lover. The mental-illness selling point of the game involves Senua hearing voices in her head...wow, how original [/sarcasm]. Honestly, by the end of my playtime, I was more annoyed at the gimmick than emotionally invested in Senua. The developers might've have some interesting ideas, but IMHO the game was marred by clumsy execution. If they'd focused on fine-tuning the story rather than trying to wedge in the action elements, it might've been a good game, but as is, this game isn't worth my time to finish.

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Posted on: April 9, 2022

Franck_K

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Ce jeu est comment dire...assez moyen.

Au début, l'ambiance est prenante et c'est assez intéressant d'apprendre l'histoire de Senua la picte et la mythologie des Northmen. Et il y a de bons moments flippants qui fonctionnent très bien. Par contre, par la suite, après avoir fait le tour des possibilités au niveau gameplay (combats et énigmes des runes) le jeu devient vite lassant répétitif et trop macabre, sans que ça n'ajoute quelque chose au récit. Certes, on plonge dans le désespoir de Senua et en "Enfer" mais sans trop divulgâcher, il n'y a rien de nouveau au niveau psychologique sur les traumas, c'est juste une lutte dans les ténèbres qui s'éclaircissent de façon abrupte, maladroite à la toute fin. Je n'ai vraiment pas trouvé cela transcendant malgré la mise en avant côté marketing sur le côté psychologique, notamment la folie. J'ai largement préféré de ce côté-là le DLC de This war of mine Father's Promise, plus court, moins cher et beaucoup plus marquant.

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