I have fond memories of this game even bought the original on CD when it was all new. Since I have lost my CD over the years, imagine my excitement when I found the game as a free backup on gog. Well, my excitement soon turned into endless frustration because nothing is working with this mess since I synchronized it with gog. Whenever I try to enter the character or inventory menu, all I am presented with is a black screen. I cannot leave the menu anymore, I cannot continue anymore. Only way to get out of it is force shutting the game using alt+ctrl+del. At this point I have already tried all different graphic cards settings, have tried to start the game at different devices with different operation systems but nothing works. Please fix this. In this state the game is unplayable. And even worse - it destroyed the former working version of it which I had installed from CD but cannot install anymore because the CD went missing over the years.
The game seems to look nice and videos of it look awesome but I am unable to even start it because the game keeps crashing to the desktop right after displaying the intro. Already tried reinstalling, changing graphics settings, installing new drivers, trying to Start in compability mode... nothing worked. Very poorly programmed, even 1 star is too much :(
This is by far one of the best games I have ever played at all. Even my favorite Wither 3 reaches this level of video-game-making only barely. In my eyes, everything comes together here and forms a perfect journey through the mind of our hero Senua. Not only the game itself manages to excite through a deep, grim and complex atmosphere. Also the developer-team made an incredible job of research when it comes to the backgrounds of the game, be it historical or psychological. Senuas travel to free her beloved boyfriends soul from the world of Hel will throw you in a difficult quest where the borders of reality and psychosis are starting to fade. Incredible battles (yes, some of them are challangeing and can end up frustrating) as well as an convincing voice acting in combination with advanced motion-capturing form a character that feels so real as if it was you personally who is making this quest. The music and ambient sounds deliver an intoxicating atmosphere which will not let you go until you finish the game. The mixture between puzzle solving, dangerous, sometimes even delusional events and a world put in such detail creates an adventure unprecedented. Even the end deliveres further insight in the character - a point many games nowadays fail in. Everything here makes perfect sense and thus deserves the best rating possible. It was a real excitement to play this gem of a game!
I purchased the game on special offer and decided to give it a try. It is a nice story being told even though the world itself seems to be quite empty (people are mostly only there to have a few lines of dialoge and then behave like any non-important npc) and also the storyline of Scarletts brother was a useless one leading into nothing. But aside from that, it was a decent experience and some intruiging event told about the undead lord and his plans to strike through Venice and above... If it wasn't for the bugs though. First bug made the game already nearly unplayable for me, starting with random crashes and sometimes the game wouldn't even launch. A few of these bugs could be solved - then my graphics-card died and I had to replace it only to find that with the new one the game started more stable but whenever I was entering a new area, instead of loading the area, the screen was blocked with the map and I couldn't do anything anymore. So yeah - as far as I was allowed to play, this game was a nice experience. But in order to make it enjoyable there still has to be done a lot in order to make it actually playable.
