Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga

So this is what we waited for? Combat gameplay is ruined and silly crap compared to the almost perfect in the first game. In the first you had a fluent mix out of defense, attack, multi enemy combat and a clear control of heavy and normal attacks. You had full control all the time and there were clear rules. Now it feels like a random chaos out of "Smack the button which feels to be right. Sometimes they parry, sometimes not and almost all the time you can't hit with the heavy attack because they dodge always. So spam mouse1 and press ctrl when they attack. Done. Bye." Aside from the dumbed down "gentlemen fights" (enemies wait till you kill their pals, nice right?) you feel like in a "press W" simulator and "wait until the game is finished with endless dialogues and monologues" which are -10% interesting compared to the story in the first game. i bought it while it was 75% discounted and still feel ripped off. This game feels more like some dudes tried to copy the first game but didn't know at all how to reach it's perfection. So they just smacked some "cinematic" clone of it on the table and expect a AAA price. And one thing: Since many of the graphic effects (the art style looks fantastic though!) look ugly as hell you have at least to do this: "Open Engine.ini file and copy and paste these things: [SystemSettings] r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0 r.Tonemapper.GrainQuantization=0 r.Tonemapper.Quality=0 r.NT.Lens.Distortion.Intensity=0 r.NT.Lens.Distortion.Stretch=0 r.NT.Lens.ChromaticAberration.Intensity=0 r.NT.DOF.RotationalBokeh=0 r.NT.DOF.NTBokehTransform=0 r.FilmGrain=0 r.NT.AllowAspectRatioHorizontalExtension=0 r.NT.EnableConstrainAspectRatio=0" (by "Goldy". Look for it in the game's steam guides) Without these changes in the ini-file the game looks like some cancer in your eyeball while some draugr hammered two big black blocks in your face.

Jogo de only W, história pra boi dormir. Tem hora que pareceu o filme de high school music, só música e bla bla bla. Dinheiro jogado fora. Detalhe Muito mal otimizado, um i9 13980hx e uma rtx4060 sofrendo pra roda essa bomba mal feita.

Esta bastante bien el juego pero no es nada comparable con el 1, el 1 le da mil vueltas ya que este solo se dedica a contar la historia.

I’ll give Hellblade II a positive review but only because Steam doesn’t offer a neutral option and I had to give its predecessor a negative review. I’ll start with the positive. The graphics are not just great but, as with the first Hellblade, used in a really interesting way that goes beyond just “good” and “bad”. The voice acting is also terrific and is used in a way that really draws you into the story, which is genuinely gripping. In addition, the puzzles, while simple, feel less clunky than in the first game. The game is quite short, you’ll finish it in well under ten hours even while taking your time. That’s not necessarily good or bad, just something to be aware of. The gameplay in general is pretty minimal, this is much more of an interactive narrative than a true video game. Again, that’s not necessarily good or bad, just something to be aware of before you buy the game. Now the bad. The combat is overly simplistic. The first few times it feels cinematic but it wears out its welcome really fast. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the final boss fight. I literally paused the game to see if I was doing something wrong before realizing that no, I wasn’t, the fight is just incredibly repetitive and obnoxious. I also wasn’t a fan of the narrative choice in this game. Part of the appeal of the first game for me was wondering what was real and what was in Senua’s mind. Hellblade II does away with all that ambiguity. It’s like the writers said, “forget subtlety and ambiguity, let’s just start the game off with a biga** giant that eats people!”

Perdió toda la esencia y magia de Hellblade 1. Se centraron en mejorar los gráfico y, para ello, sacrificaron la narrativa y jugabilidad. Hellblade II es prácticamente una película con limitados movimientos, ambientado en una trama malísima de puros efectos.

Disappointing.

Walking simulator, boring ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game with a skitzo mc. You have to listen to 40 different people whispering in your headphones all at the exact same time while the character walks painfully slow and takes unnecessary diversions on her simple path. A river with 3 feet of water? you should walk an extra 5 minutes to avoid that. Graphics are good but everything else sucks balls. combat is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lame. you'd think a game called Hellblade would be the opposite but its just so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boring. I'm trying so hard to like this game but I cant find a reason to. It would have been so easy to add quick time events for sections that you have to run or make the combat more intricate but nah, just spam left click, dodge, spam left click more.

better go watch it on yt

a very great game. i enjoyed every second of it! it got deep. the sound, the cinematic atmosphere, the music.. everything was just amazing.