Hellblade is one of the most enjoyable games I've played in 2017 so far, I loved the main character, I loved the story, the visuals and the excellent audio, all reasons to give this game all the five stars it deserves here if it wasn't for two major issues: The combat: Frankly, I think the combat system is the game's weakest part. The fights are very repetitive - you face the same four (or maybe five) basic enemy types over and over again and instead of mixing up their patterns to increase difficulty it just throws more enemies at you. Especially at the end of the game this gets very frustrating because it just takes forever to kill wave after wave of enemies. Some fights are just too long and boring. I understnad the reason for the lack of variety and I think I could live with that if it wasn't for the length of the fights. I recommend playing it on easy combat difficulty since increasing it doesn't seem to change much and also doesn't enhance the gameplay in any way. Performance for AMD-Users: The first 4 to 5 hours of the game ran perfectly on my RX 580, usually at around 60-64 FPS with everything turned up to high or very high. But later in the game you get to larger areas and there the FPS will never go above 13 FPS. This problem is widespread and Ninja Theory already announced a patch as of today (08/10/17) which is nice and all but thew game is still shipped unplayable for AMD users - which just isn't acceptable. So if you're not buying it for the combat and you use an NVidia Card - go for it, it is a great experience, especially for how much it is.
