Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Absolute masterpiece, beautiful, deeply touching and scary at the same time. A bit repetitive but not long enough for this to be a problem

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

This game got me back to writing my thoughts and working on them practice. I used to do that long ago. The protagonist seems to suffer from depression because the thoughts she has are pretty negative and self-accusatory. The game has beautifully brought out the inner story of this character Senua. The whole story slowly slowly comes together, I couldn't figure it out so I used help online to understand. Sometimes she calls on to Jonas (I think that's what the name is) and his voice guides her. That felt really good in this game. The battles are good. She blocks well. However, the fights are stressful and annoying (which is why I've reduced the stars). The amount of monsters keeps on increasing until I started hating this game. It became a real chore to keep up with 10 monsters and then 20 I hated it. The game gets worse and worse with difficulty level (and I played at Easy combat). Because those people will attack simultaneously (2 at a time though). Their attack indications aren't that easy to grasp (at least for me). They might lift up their sword and instead of plummeting down they will do 2 rounds of sweep which cannot be blocked (gets annoying really fast when you're surrounded). And she cannot move well. She somewhat limps and moves during combat taking baby steps. While the monsters can take big strides backwards and completely avoid your swings when you activate slow mo (another annoyance). The combat is still fun in spite of these flaws. The world is beautiful for the most part. I wish the dialogues were more focused and less vague though because it becomes very hard to make sense out of the story unless you read about it online. Once I got to know the real story I found the protagonist to be quite lovable. I wish I was there to help out because she's doing it all alone and she's surrounded by really too much of crap.

This game is the reason I will never trust critics again. I saw soooooo much praise for this game that I assumed it's good. But no. This game is not good at all. In fact, it's a horrible game. There's nothing to do in this game. And I mean NOTHING. You just walk ahead, sometimes you do a random puzzle, and then fight one of the 2 existing enemies. using the same 2 moves. The only good thing about this game, which prevented me from giving it a 0, are the visuals and the sad story. I don't care about the "message" for menthal health. I don't care about the "message" of a strong woman. The critics were afraid to criticize its gameplay for these exact reasons and praised it. It **** me.

Jogo chato ,vazio com batalhas pobres e repetitiva, praticamente uma dlc do primeiro jogo lançado há alguns anos , visual maravilhoso e um ponto positivo, mais é um jogo massante e curto demais , muito parecido com o primeiro com um visual melhorado...