Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is beautiful and terrifying at the same time. Its combat mechanics and puzzles are strong, but its true strengths lies with its ability to tell a story and craft a world that differentiates itself from other titles out there. Together, we're offered an adventure that is equally horrifying and brilliant - a true masterpiece of a game.

Rather than exploit psychological trauma so as to advance shallow narratives, the game is committed to putting an often-misinterpreted and dismissed subject front and center.

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is a complete experience for a bargain price. Struggling through life as a psychosis sufferer is an alarming experience, and Hellblade provides an illuminating glimpse into the lives of those afflicted by such terror.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is every bit as vicious, epic and dramatic as its predecessors in the Ninja Theory library, but interweaving a delicate storyline through simple, yet ruthless mechanics makes it one of the most visceral portrayals of psychological turmoil in recent video gaming.

It’s frustrating how close to a masterpiece Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is. It has the looks, the atmosphere, the swordplay and the heart. If only it had more focus on the storytelling and gameplay. First, it’s the burdensome narrative that almost drowns all the sensibility stored in Senua’s tale. It takes far too long to actually care for her. When the narrative finally starts to ease off towards the end of the game, it’s the repetitive gameplay that gets in the way. The game drags on for its own good, making it too often boring and laborious. All the same, Senua’s trembling journey is a one that needs to be seen to the close to get its true meaning. I realize I might have sounded quite harsh in my critique but my heart told me to rate the game better. After all, Senua's cry for help made me shed tears.

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is not going to appeal to all tastes, and nor does it try to. As a character action game, it has decent if underdeveloped combat and a mixture of some excellent and some overplayed puzzles. But it’s the way that the title utilises the unique attributes of the medium to raise awareness of mental health that elevate this release beyond the sum of its parts.

Ultimately what was intended as a thoughtful depiction of a terrible mental illness has ended up casting it as something of an asset: a helpful superpower that can give you the strength to soldier on through the darkness, so long as you can put up with the odd breakdown here and there. That, we suspect, was not what Ninja Theory intended. It's certainly not what we had hoped for. [Issue#310, p.112]

Vaya puto juegazo hermano,gráficos de lujo y la historia nada que decir simplemente una obra de arte

A história é muito boa, e a mensagem final consegue deixar tudo ainda mais impactante. A ambientação é ok e a gameplay também é apenas ok, sem nada muito especial ou inovador. Mesmo assim, o jogo consegue se destacar muito pelo peso emocional e pela forma como a narrativa vai se desenvolvendo ao longo da jornada.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

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...