HELLBLADE 2 DISCUSSION THREAD

[Sphinx]

The sequel to 2017's cult classic Hellblade is finally out, with a decently polarizing reception.
Release week discussion threads. What are everyone's thoughts on it so far?

Personally 2 hours in and have been having good time.


Reviews From Some Major Publications.

GAMESPOT
IGN
EUROGAMER
GAMEINFORMER

 

[LIONT4MER]

3 hours in myself, an absolutely staggering display of photorealism and ambitious narrative focus, tho yea the gameplay still is all style and no substance which is fine for me, didn't expect anything huge here

 

[cyan]

My PC started melting.

 

[Forthcoming]

A few hours, Combat started to click for me personally. I find it enjoyable and cinematic, story is taking its sweet time to pick up. Lets see how it goes.

 

[obaid]

I wonder what made them think further simplifying the combat would benefit the game.

 

[RedPhantom70]

Excited to pick this up this weekend. love the first one. Reviews did left me a bit skeptical but will see it for myself

 

[RainMuda]

Taking the focus away from the solo journey of senua to a more NPC oriented journey is a double edged sword .

Will see how well it holds up till the end.

 

[StellaK]

Did the section of the caves today. Man it was beautiful. It reminded me of the movie " The Descent". Lonely below in the depths of earth, fighting through creatures unkown to the surface dwellers. Creepy and horifying.

 

[Gwenievre]

My visuals had this poor anti aliasing effect and only today I realzied it was caz of this Varible Rendering thing. Poor me

 

[picklerick]

As good as it looks the visual clarity is a bit messy at times because of effects that cant be disabled

 

[UnderTheInfluence]

Walking cinematic simulator 2024 XBOX edition

 

[Sphinx]

Ended it and can confirm Melina Jurgens once again delivers the best performance of the year caz Holy shit

 

[eXtas1s]

Fantastic game. Loved every second, but I wish the combat was a little better.

 

[eXtas1s]

Excited to pick this up this weekend. love the first one. Reviews did left me a bit skeptical but will see it for myself

If you like laid-back narrative-focused adventures, you should get it without hesitation. It has some shortcomings, but the negatives do not outweigh the positives.