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Daha ilkini oynayıp bitirmedim!
İlk oyun Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice'ı, aynı bilgisayarımda windows yüklüyken oynayamıyordum!
Linux'a geçince harika akıcı oynayabiliyorum.
Fakat oyun meraklısı olmadığım için bir türlü devam edecek ruh hâlini ve imkânı bulamadım.
Meselâ sonunda Vakıf serisine başlayabildim, ama oyun yapmakla uğraştığım için yine kaldı!
#Hellblade #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice #Hellblade2senuassaga #ninjatheory
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Daha ilkini oynayıp bitirmedim!
İlk oyun Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice'ı, aynı bilgisayarımda windows yüklüyken oynayamıyordum!
Linux'a geçince harika akıcı oynayabiliyorum.
Fakat oyun meraklısı olmadığım için bir türlü devam edecek ruh hâlini ve imkânı bulamadım.
Meselâ sonunda Vakıf serisine başlayabildim, ama oyun yapmakla uğraştığım için yine kaldı!
#Hellblade #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice #Hellblade2senuassaga #ninjatheory
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Daha ilkini oynayıp bitirmedim!
İlk oyun Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice'ı, aynı bilgisayarımda windows yüklüyken oynayamıyordum!
Linux'a geçince harika akıcı oynayabiliyorum.
Fakat oyun meraklısı olmadığım için bir türlü devam edecek ruh hâlini ve imkânı bulamadım.
Meselâ sonunda Vakıf serisine başlayabildim, ama oyun yapmakla uğraştığım için yine kaldı!
#Hellblade #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice #Hellblade2senuassaga #ninjatheory
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Daha ilkini oynayıp bitirmedim!
İlk oyun Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice'ı, aynı bilgisayarımda windows yüklüyken oynayamıyordum!
Linux'a geçince harika akıcı oynayabiliyorum.
Fakat oyun meraklısı olmadığım için bir türlü devam edecek ruh hâlini ve imkânı bulamadım.
Meselâ sonunda Vakıf serisine başlayabildim, ama oyun yapmakla uğraştığım için yine kaldı!
#Hellblade #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice #Hellblade2senuassaga #ninjatheory
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★★★★★ #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice (2017): Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice es un viaje al interior de la mente. No es un juego de terror, pero tampoco es una historia agradable. Es real, duro y cruel como la vida misma...
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★★★★★ #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice (2017): Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice es un viaje al interior de la mente. No es un juego de terror, pero tampoco es una historia agradable. Es real, duro y cruel como la vida misma...
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★★★★★ #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice (2017): Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice es un viaje al interior de la mente. No es un juego de terror, pero tampoco es una historia agradable. Es real, duro y cruel como la vida misma...
https://www.patreon.com/posts/hellblade-senuas-104773766?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link -
I’ve finished it! Overall I really enjoyed the storyline, but the gameplay was a little frustrating and restrictive. Clearly designed to make it difficult but still enjoyable for the most part.
Looking forward to starting Senua’s Saga.
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I’ve finished it! Overall I really enjoyed the storyline, but the gameplay was a little frustrating and restrictive. Clearly designed to make it difficult but still enjoyable for the most part.
Looking forward to starting Senua’s Saga.
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I’ve finished it! Overall I really enjoyed the storyline, but the gameplay was a little frustrating and restrictive. Clearly designed to make it difficult but still enjoyable for the most part.
Looking forward to starting Senua’s Saga.
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The combat system in Hellblade can be so frustrating. The way you can only focus on one enemy at a time, and it's even worse when enemies spawn behind you already have multiple in front.
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The combat system in Hellblade can be so frustrating. The way you can only focus on one enemy at a time, and it's even worse when enemies spawn behind you already have multiple in front.
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The combat system in Hellblade can be so frustrating. The way you can only focus on one enemy at a time, and it's even worse when enemies spawn behind you already have multiple in front.
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The combat system in Hellblade can be so frustrating. The way you can only focus on one enemy at a time, and it's even worse when enemies spawn behind you already have multiple in front.
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Hoy os traigo un texto a mi #Patreon, abierto para Tutti❤️
Mi Reflexión sobre #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice
Espero que os guste❤️🥰🥰🥰
https://www.patreon.com/posts/hellblade-senuas-104773766?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link -
Hoy os traigo un texto a mi #Patreon, abierto para Tutti❤️
Mi Reflexión sobre #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice
Espero que os guste❤️🥰🥰🥰
https://www.patreon.com/posts/hellblade-senuas-104773766?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link -
Hoy os traigo un texto a mi #Patreon, abierto para Tutti❤️
Mi Reflexión sobre #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice
Espero que os guste❤️🥰🥰🥰
https://www.patreon.com/posts/hellblade-senuas-104773766?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link -
Hoy os traigo un texto a mi #Patreon, abierto para Tutti❤️
Mi Reflexión sobre #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice
Espero que os guste❤️🥰🥰🥰
https://www.patreon.com/posts/hellblade-senuas-104773766?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link -
CW: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Spoilers
It seems somewhat crazy that fighting Fenrir is much easier than 5 normal(ish) enemies in close quarters combat. Especially when the combat system isn't the greatest in the first place.
Still, it makes the game a challenge.
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CW: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Spoilers
It seems somewhat crazy that fighting Fenrir is much easier than 5 normal(ish) enemies in close quarters combat. Especially when the combat system isn't the greatest in the first place.
Still, it makes the game a challenge.
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CW: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Spoilers
It seems somewhat crazy that fighting Fenrir is much easier than 5 normal(ish) enemies in close quarters combat. Especially when the combat system isn't the greatest in the first place.
Still, it makes the game a challenge.
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CW: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Spoilers
It seems somewhat crazy that fighting Fenrir is much easier than 5 normal(ish) enemies in close quarters combat. Especially when the combat system isn't the greatest in the first place.
Still, it makes the game a challenge.
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Something I've found annoying about Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is that it's not overly obvious when you can safely quit the game without losing progress.
There has been several times when I've exited the game when I think I've passed a major milestone and when I've loaded back in, I've found myself further back than I thought I would be.
There isn't a way to manually save it, so it's especially frustrating when you have to do a major boss fight again!
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Something I've found annoying about Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is that it's not overly obvious when you can safely quit the game without losing progress.
There has been several times when I've exited the game when I think I've passed a major milestone and when I've loaded back in, I've found myself further back than I thought I would be.
There isn't a way to manually save it, so it's especially frustrating when you have to do a major boss fight again!
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Something I've found annoying about Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is that it's not overly obvious when you can safely quit the game without losing progress.
There has been several times when I've exited the game when I think I've passed a major milestone and when I've loaded back in, I've found myself further back than I thought I would be.
There isn't a way to manually save it, so it's especially frustrating when you have to do a major boss fight again!
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Something I've found annoying about Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is that it's not overly obvious when you can safely quit the game without losing progress.
There has been several times when I've exited the game when I think I've passed a major milestone and when I've loaded back in, I've found myself further back than I thought I would be.
There isn't a way to manually save it, so it's especially frustrating when you have to do a major boss fight again!
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CW: Creepy hellscape in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Well that's not creepy at all! 😬
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CW: Creepy hellscape in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Well that's not creepy at all! 😬
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CW: Creepy hellscape in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Well that's not creepy at all! 😬
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In Hellblade lehrt uns Senua die Macht der Selbstbestimmtheit. Ihre Kämpfe sind mehr als nur physisch - sie sind ein Kampf um ihre Seele und ihren Verstand.
https://www.insidexbox.de/news/hellblade-die-bisherige-geschichte-video-veroeffentlicht-119222/
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#Xbox #InsideXboxDE #Hellblade #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice #Repost #SenuasSagaHellbladeII -
In Hellblade lehrt uns Senua die Macht der Selbstbestimmtheit. Ihre Kämpfe sind mehr als nur physisch - sie sind ein Kampf um ihre Seele und ihren Verstand.
https://www.insidexbox.de/news/hellblade-die-bisherige-geschichte-video-veroeffentlicht-119222/
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#Xbox #InsideXboxDE #Hellblade #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice #Repost #SenuasSagaHellbladeII -
In Hellblade lehrt uns Senua die Macht der Selbstbestimmtheit. Ihre Kämpfe sind mehr als nur physisch - sie sind ein Kampf um ihre Seele und ihren Verstand.
https://www.insidexbox.de/news/hellblade-die-bisherige-geschichte-video-veroeffentlicht-119222/
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#Xbox #InsideXboxDE #Hellblade #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice #Repost #SenuasSagaHellbladeII -
In Hellblade lehrt uns Senua die Macht der Selbstbestimmtheit. Ihre Kämpfe sind mehr als nur physisch - sie sind ein Kampf um ihre Seele und ihren Verstand.
https://www.insidexbox.de/news/hellblade-die-bisherige-geschichte-video-veroeffentlicht-119222/
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#Xbox #InsideXboxDE #Hellblade #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice #Repost #SenuasSagaHellbladeII -
Da bereits am 21.05. #Hellblade2 rauskommt, hole ich jetzt noch mal schnell #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice nach 👍
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Da bereits am 21.05. #Hellblade2 rauskommt, hole ich jetzt noch mal schnell #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice nach 👍
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Da bereits am 21.05. #Hellblade2 rauskommt, hole ich jetzt noch mal schnell #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice nach 👍
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Schließt euch dem fesselnden Live-Event an, das euch einen tieferen Einblick in das Herz und den Geist von Senua.
https://www.insidexbox.de/news/hellblades-deep-dive-ein-live-einblick-in-senuas-psychische-gesundheitsprobleme-117662/
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#Xbox #InsideXboxDE #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice #NinjaTheory #Repost #SenuasSagaHellbladeII -
Schließt euch dem fesselnden Live-Event an, das euch einen tieferen Einblick in das Herz und den Geist von Senua.
https://www.insidexbox.de/news/hellblades-deep-dive-ein-live-einblick-in-senuas-psychische-gesundheitsprobleme-117662/
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#Xbox #InsideXboxDE #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice #NinjaTheory #Repost #SenuasSagaHellbladeII -
Schließt euch dem fesselnden Live-Event an, das euch einen tieferen Einblick in das Herz und den Geist von Senua.
https://www.insidexbox.de/news/hellblades-deep-dive-ein-live-einblick-in-senuas-psychische-gesundheitsprobleme-117662/
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#Xbox #InsideXboxDE #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice #NinjaTheory #Repost #SenuasSagaHellbladeII -
Schließt euch dem fesselnden Live-Event an, das euch einen tieferen Einblick in das Herz und den Geist von Senua.
https://www.insidexbox.de/news/hellblades-deep-dive-ein-live-einblick-in-senuas-psychische-gesundheitsprobleme-117662/
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#Xbox #InsideXboxDE #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice #NinjaTheory #Repost #SenuasSagaHellbladeII -
Hier j'ai tout juste terminé Senua's Sacrifice et ça a vraiment été thérapeutique. La voir passer d'un état de doute, presque à la merci des voix qui la découragent ; à un état où elle se met à leur répondre et à exprimer que c'est elle qui décide. Même si au début elle a déjà décidé d'agir pour elle-même, on la voit gagner en assurance au fil du jeu.
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Hier j'ai tout juste terminé Senua's Sacrifice et ça a vraiment été thérapeutique. La voir passer d'un état de doute, presque à la merci des voix qui la découragent ; à un état où elle se met à leur répondre et à exprimer que c'est elle qui décide. Même si au début elle a déjà décidé d'agir pour elle-même, on la voit gagner en assurance au fil du jeu.
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Hier j'ai tout juste terminé Senua's Sacrifice et ça a vraiment été thérapeutique. La voir passer d'un état de doute, presque à la merci des voix qui la découragent ; à un état où elle se met à leur répondre et à exprimer que c'est elle qui décide. Même si au début elle a déjà décidé d'agir pour elle-même, on la voit gagner en assurance au fil du jeu.
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I recently played through #hellbladesenuassacrifice and it creeped me out more than any horror game.
The main character (=you in the game) has a #psychosis which one sees/hears throughout the game.
Just thinking that some people are really experiencing something like that...
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I recently played through #hellbladesenuassacrifice and it creeped me out more than any horror game.
The main character (=you in the game) has a #psychosis which one sees/hears throughout the game.
Just thinking that some people are really experiencing something like that...
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I recently played through #hellbladesenuassacrifice and it creeped me out more than any horror game.
The main character (=you in the game) has a #psychosis which one sees/hears throughout the game.
Just thinking that some people are really experiencing something like that...
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Il y a quelques jours je me demandais à quel jeu j'allais jouer qui allait être suffisamment linéaire pour que je me perde pas dans la collectionite d'un open world, suffisamment scénarisé pour que je m'implique émotionnellement et suffisamment dynamique pour que mon attention ne se dissipe pas à moitié dans une vidéo YouTube qui passe en fond.
Et là je viens de me souvenir que j'ai Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice et que d'après mon souvenir il devrait cocher toutes les cases.
Vous l'avez aimé ? Vous connaissez des jeux similaires (ou en tout cas qui pourraient remplir ces critères) ?
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Il y a quelques jours je me demandais à quel jeu j'allais jouer qui allait être suffisamment linéaire pour que je me perde pas dans la collectionite d'un open world, suffisamment scénarisé pour que je m'implique émotionnellement et suffisamment dynamique pour que mon attention ne se dissipe pas à moitié dans une vidéo YouTube qui passe en fond.
Et là je viens de me souvenir que j'ai Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice et que d'après mon souvenir il devrait cocher toutes les cases.
Vous l'avez aimé ? Vous connaissez des jeux similaires (ou en tout cas qui pourraient remplir ces critères) ?
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Kotaku: Xbox's Big 2024 Xbox Exclusive Looks Intense AF https://kotaku.com/hellblade-2-senuas-saga-sacrifice-xbox-2024-1851084894 #gaming #tech #kotaku #hellbladesenuassacrifice #singleplayervideogames #senuassagahellbladeii #actionadventuregames #windowsgames #ninjatheory #senua
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Kotaku: Xbox's Big 2024 Xbox Exclusive Looks Intense AF https://kotaku.com/hellblade-2-senuas-saga-sacrifice-xbox-2024-1851084894 #gaming #tech #kotaku #hellbladesenuassacrifice #singleplayervideogames #senuassagahellbladeii #actionadventuregames #windowsgames #ninjatheory #senua
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Kotaku: Xbox's Big 2024 Xbox Exclusive Looks Intense AF https://kotaku.com/hellblade-2-senuas-saga-sacrifice-xbox-2024-1851084894 #gaming #tech #kotaku #hellbladesenuassacrifice #singleplayervideogames #senuassagahellbladeii #actionadventuregames #windowsgames #ninjatheory #senua
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Newly added to #TheVideoGameLibrary! 📚
A wonderful #ArtBook celebrating the works of the incredibly talented Italian artist, Alessandro Taini. 🇮🇹
More than 250 amazing sketches and paintings for games like #HeavenlySword, #Enslaved, #DMC and #Hellblade.
👉 https://thevideogamelibrary.org/book/talexi-the-art-of-alessandro-taini
#VideoGame #VideoGames #NinjaTheory #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice #SenuasSacrifice #DevilMayCry #EnslavedOdysseyToTheWest #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Talexi #AlessandroTaini
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Newly added to #TheVideoGameLibrary! 📚
A wonderful #ArtBook celebrating the works of the incredibly talented Italian artist, Alessandro Taini. 🇮🇹
More than 250 amazing sketches and paintings for games like #HeavenlySword, #Enslaved, #DMC and #Hellblade.
👉 https://thevideogamelibrary.org/book/talexi-the-art-of-alessandro-taini
#VideoGame #VideoGames #NinjaTheory #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice #SenuasSacrifice #DevilMayCry #EnslavedOdysseyToTheWest #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Talexi #AlessandroTaini
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Newly added to #TheVideoGameLibrary! 📚
A wonderful #ArtBook celebrating the works of the incredibly talented Italian artist, Alessandro Taini. 🇮🇹
More than 250 amazing sketches and paintings for games like #HeavenlySword, #Enslaved, #DMC and #Hellblade.
👉 https://thevideogamelibrary.org/book/talexi-the-art-of-alessandro-taini
#VideoGame #VideoGames #NinjaTheory #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice #SenuasSacrifice #DevilMayCry #EnslavedOdysseyToTheWest #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Talexi #AlessandroTaini
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Newly added to #TheVideoGameLibrary! 📚
A wonderful #ArtBook celebrating the works of the incredibly talented Italian artist, Alessandro Taini. 🇮🇹
More than 250 amazing sketches and paintings for games like #HeavenlySword, #Enslaved, #DMC and #Hellblade.
👉 https://thevideogamelibrary.org/book/talexi-the-art-of-alessandro-taini
#VideoGame #VideoGames #NinjaTheory #HellbladeSenuasSacrifice #SenuasSacrifice #DevilMayCry #EnslavedOdysseyToTheWest #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Talexi #AlessandroTaini
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Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice uses unique audio and visual effects to present a positive and accurate representation of psychosis.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/46mnjBFn-jE
#HellbladeSenuasSacrifice #NinjaTheory #MentalHealth #SenuasSacrifice #Hellblade #Playstation #Nintendo #Xbox #PC #Gaming #GameDesign #Review #GameReview #SoundDesign
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CW: This review contains discussion of mental health issues & psychosis
August 29, 2023 - Day 241 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 261Game: Hellblade: Senu'a Sacrifice
Platform: Steam
Release Date: Aug 8, 2017
Library Date: Jun 29, 2019
Unplayed: 1522d (4y2m)
Playtime: 31mHellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a third-person action-adventure game, in which you play as Senua, a Viking-era Pict warrior, on a mission to enter Helheim, and save the soul of her dead lover.
The game opens with a mental health warning that it features representations of psychosis, with good reason.
Senua is experiencing psychosis, and hears voices.
I immediately found this challenging. I have lived with mental health issues for all of my adult life. While I have not experienced psychosis, I felt... a familiarity... with the game's expression of psychosis.
The game opens with Senua in a canoe paddling into a horrifying gorge in which bodies are floating in the water, and are impaled on stakes along the riverside, as the narrator speaks of Senua in the third person.
Senua is paddling into Helheim.
This tableau, however, is not an expression of Senua's psychosis.
The narrator is.
As the Senua paddles on, the narrator joins with a cacophony of other voices challenging, attacking, and goading Senua.
This is discomforting.
As Senua makes landfall, and progresses on foot through an environment that is no less harrowing than the river, light appears and fades; the screen distorts, the voices rise and fall.
The weight of this presses down on me. On Senua. On us.
Memories explode into view, and then fade.
Senua reaches the gates of Helheim, and engages in her first battle, which is frightening, and devastating in turns.
This has been a difficult and long review to write; the way in which the game shifts between the mental and physical is both visceral, and somehow weightless.
This too, feels familiar. It makes this a complicated game to play.
On a technical level, the visuals are excellent. The sound design is is something else; it lifts this game to another level.
There is no HUD, no health bar. No instructions on what to do.
With keyboard and mouse, the game relies on the standard WASD + F to use. Swordplay and blocking felt instinctive.
This game is only a few months newer than yesterday's game, yet almost perfectly embodies "show, don't tell". The attention that was seemingly lacking for gameplay in yesterday's game, is seen here in buckets, and the game is better for it.
However, these reviews aren't entirely a review of the quality of the game, but also whether I want to invest my gaming time in a particular game.
That is far more complex, because while this IS an excellent game, it's a difficult one for *me* to play; it is affecting on a level that I need to assess further.
As such, for me Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is:
4: Good
#HellbladeSenuasSacrifice #ThirdPerson #ActionAdventure #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay
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CW: This review contains discussion of mental health issues & psychosis
August 29, 2023 - Day 241 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 261Game: Hellblade: Senu'a Sacrifice
Platform: Steam
Release Date: Aug 8, 2017
Library Date: Jun 29, 2019
Unplayed: 1522d (4y2m)
Playtime: 31mHellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a third-person action-adventure game, in which you play as Senua, a Viking-era Pict warrior, on a mission to enter Helheim, and save the soul of her dead lover.
The game opens with a mental health warning that it features representations of psychosis, with good reason.
Senua is experiencing psychosis, and hears voices.
I immediately found this challenging. I have lived with mental health issues for all of my adult life. While I have not experienced psychosis, I felt... a familiarity... with the game's expression of psychosis.
The game opens with Senua in a canoe paddling into a horrifying gorge in which bodies are floating in the water, and are impaled on stakes along the riverside, as the narrator speaks of Senua in the third person.
Senua is paddling into Helheim.
This tableau, however, is not an expression of Senua's psychosis.
The narrator is.
As the Senua paddles on, the narrator joins with a cacophony of other voices challenging, attacking, and goading Senua.
This is discomforting.
As Senua makes landfall, and progresses on foot through an environment that is no less harrowing than the river, light appears and fades; the screen distorts, the voices rise and fall.
The weight of this presses down on me. On Senua. On us.
Memories explode into view, and then fade.
Senua reaches the gates of Helheim, and engages in her first battle, which is frightening, and devastating in turns.
This has been a difficult and long review to write; the way in which the game shifts between the mental and physical is both visceral, and somehow weightless.
This too, feels familiar. It makes this a complicated game to play.
On a technical level, the visuals are excellent. The sound design is is something else; it lifts this game to another level.
There is no HUD, no health bar. No instructions on what to do.
With keyboard and mouse, the game relies on the standard WASD + F to use. Swordplay and blocking felt instinctive.
This game is only a few months newer than yesterday's game, yet almost perfectly embodies "show, don't tell". The attention that was seemingly lacking for gameplay in yesterday's game, is seen here in buckets, and the game is better for it.
However, these reviews aren't entirely a review of the quality of the game, but also whether I want to invest my gaming time in a particular game.
That is far more complex, because while this IS an excellent game, it's a difficult one for *me* to play; it is affecting on a level that I need to assess further.
As such, for me Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is:
4: Good
#HellbladeSenuasSacrifice #ThirdPerson #ActionAdventure #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay
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CW: This review contains discussion of mental health issues & psychosis
August 29, 2023 - Day 241 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 261Game: Hellblade: Senu'a Sacrifice
Platform: Steam
Release Date: Aug 8, 2017
Library Date: Jun 29, 2019
Unplayed: 1522d (4y2m)
Playtime: 31mHellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a third-person action-adventure game, in which you play as Senua, a Viking-era Pict warrior, on a mission to enter Helheim, and save the soul of her dead lover.
The game opens with a mental health warning that it features representations of psychosis, with good reason.
Senua is experiencing psychosis, and hears voices.
I immediately found this challenging. I have lived with mental health issues for all of my adult life. While I have not experienced psychosis, I felt... a familiarity... with the game's expression of psychosis.
The game opens with Senua in a canoe paddling into a horrifying gorge in which bodies are floating in the water, and are impaled on stakes along the riverside, as the narrator speaks of Senua in the third person.
Senua is paddling into Helheim.
This tableau, however, is not an expression of Senua's psychosis.
The narrator is.
As the Senua paddles on, the narrator joins with a cacophony of other voices challenging, attacking, and goading Senua.
This is discomforting.
As Senua makes landfall, and progresses on foot through an environment that is no less harrowing than the river, light appears and fades; the screen distorts, the voices rise and fall.
The weight of this presses down on me. On Senua. On us.
Memories explode into view, and then fade.
Senua reaches the gates of Helheim, and engages in her first battle, which is frightening, and devastating in turns.
This has been a difficult and long review to write; the way in which the game shifts between the mental and physical is both visceral, and somehow weightless.
This too, feels familiar. It makes this a complicated game to play.
On a technical level, the visuals are excellent. The sound design is is something else; it lifts this game to another level.
There is no HUD, no health bar. No instructions on what to do.
With keyboard and mouse, the game relies on the standard WASD + F to use. Swordplay and blocking felt instinctive.
This game is only a few months newer than yesterday's game, yet almost perfectly embodies "show, don't tell". The attention that was seemingly lacking for gameplay in yesterday's game, is seen here in buckets, and the game is better for it.
However, these reviews aren't entirely a review of the quality of the game, but also whether I want to invest my gaming time in a particular game.
That is far more complex, because while this IS an excellent game, it's a difficult one for *me* to play; it is affecting on a level that I need to assess further.
As such, for me Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is:
4: Good
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Das Gesicht von Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice und Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, Melina Juergens, auf der gamescom in Köln.
https://www.insidexbox.de/news/gamescom-trefft-melina-juergens-auf-dem-xbox-stand-107255/
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