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Ass of Can Whooping
Member
rhodesianshepard
Banned
This Xbox bias with reviews is bullshit. There are no good examples where a game was dragged down because it was published by Xbox
TBiddy
Member
I know right?! Game Informer, Shacknews, IGN Spain and all those other bloody Xbox fansites ruining what could have been a great 6/10 score for you to to enjoy.
This game took 7 years to make and just 5 hours to finish?
No. Development didn't really start until June 2020 as per Don Matthews.
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FunkMiller
Gold Member
I kind of partially do... but I don't understand how a game developer can spend seven years working on a game that is apparently no better, bigger or more advanced than the first one, other than the pretty stuff, that is irrelevant to how it plays as a game.
TBiddy
Member
They only spend four years, though.
amigastar
Member
Uhm, thats not very much.Flop
FewRope
Member
The bomba of bombsFlop
yazenov
Gold Member
XboxEra 100
TheXboxHub 100
SomosXbox 100
MindoXbox 95
Generacion Xbox 93
Xbox Tavern 91
Windows Central 90
Xbox Achievements 90
FunkMiller
Gold Member
And yet, quite incredibly, they revealed the game in 2019 at The Game Awards.
Ass of Can Whooping
Member
Lol no way. They managed to make the combat even more shallow than the first game?
H-I-M
Member
I'd give it a zero just for that.
rhodesianshepard
Banned
I kind of understand it. The Xbox hardware brand is in a really bad place, to the point where it may be irrelevant in a couple years. That will kill traffic to these Xbox centric sites, and jobs will be lost
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FunkMiller
Gold Member
Flop
Again... why is anyone paying for this on Steam when it's on PC GamePass?
TBiddy
Member
As we both know, a reveal of a game does not equal active development.
Mownoc
Member
Because gamepass isn't popular on PC, steam is.
The last time we heard, during the FTC trial, it was 21.9m gamepass on console and just 3.1m on PC.
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digoutyoursoul
Member
I bought it for Xbox, simply because I hate Gamepass. Odd I know, I just hate this massive push for subscription gaming .
Skifi28
Member
I imagine because a good chunk of PC gamers like to "own" their games instead or renting them. This isn't exactly a new revelation.
Zheph
Member
They revealed that it was only that trailer and nothing else at that point
SJRB
Gold Member
Flop
It's 11:00 am in EU, middle of the night in the US.
Give it 24 hours.
This is a non-discussion. The point is they spent an ungodly amount of time and resources on what appears to be a five to six hour experience.
IlGialloMondadori
Member
Not true. If the graphics are amazing and the gameplay/game itself sucks, then 5/10 could even be generous.
The Order, Ryse, Perfect Dark Zero, Killzone Shadows Fall, lots of games have had top notch graphics that I never want to play again. Not saying that's hellblade 2, but graphics != gameplay. If it's primarily a narrative experience, more traditional adventure game kind of thing, then the writing and puzzles if they're part of it better be awesome.
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Zheph
Member
nothing odd mate, fuck subs
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
No we don't.
Spitfire098
Member
digoutyoursoul
Member
I would sympathise more if they weren’t such obvious boot lickers. Imagine asking these people for sincere answers about what and where Xbox is.
This sort of behaviour is a detriment to what they are supposed to be fans of.
TBiddy
Member
I don't know if four years is an "ungodly amount", but what I do know is that I will always prefer five to six hours of intensity with no filler over 10 hours of content with loads of filler.
Not saying that there's no filler in Hellblade 2, as I haven't played it.
LazyParrot
Member
Seems like a shoo-in for Prettiest Walking Simulator at this year's Game Awards.
That's an actual category, right? There are so many I've kinda lost track.
That's an actual category, right? There are so many I've kinda lost track.
Skifi28
Member
To be fair, that's every day he wakes up.You after waking up and seeing these review scores...
rhodesianshepard
Banned
100% fair. Plus, this will probably have the highest ratio of Gamepass vs people who actually purchased maybe ever. No way would I spend 50$ for a 7hr game. I'm not even sure if Steam will be a good metric. Gamepass FTW here
IlGialloMondadori
Member
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2024/05/21/senuas-saga-hellblade-ii-review/
"The sequel is a lesser game than its predecessor. There are fewer combat mechanics in play, removing the melee button and directional attacks and replacing them with nothing."
"The scale of the puzzles are also smaller, as the game's level design has shrunk. The former game had larger areas with vertical structures. This game's level design is mostly a straight line, with a few small puzzle areas to break up the pacing."
Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 review
Visually spectacular but narratively limp, this cinematic sequel fails to find a new path for Senua.
"You're constantly being told that you, as Senua, are accomplishing incredible feats and doing things no one else could have done—the reality is that most of the time you're just holding forward on the stick, or doing puzzles a child could solve, so it all feels deeply unearned. In one sequence where the characters were lost in a strange forest, I was heaped with praise for using my insight to find a way through—when literally all I was doing was following the one clear path in front of me. "
lol
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yazenov
Gold Member
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Dick Jones
Gold Member
XboxEra only gave Hellblade 2 15% more than Redfall. Damning praise.
One hour per year of development
lul
digoutyoursoul
Member
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2024/05/21/senuas-saga-hellblade-ii-review/
"The sequel is a lesser game than its predecessor. There are fewer combat mechanics in play, removing the melee button and directional attacks and replacing them with nothing."
"The scale of the puzzles are also smaller, as the game's level design has shrunk. The former game had larger areas with vertical structures. This game's level design is mostly a straight line, with a few small puzzle areas to break up the pacing."
Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 review
Visually spectacular but narratively limp, this cinematic sequel fails to find a new path for Senua.www.pcgamer.com
"You're constantly being told that you, as Senua, are accomplishing incredible feats and doing things no one else could have done—the reality is that most of the time you're just holding forward on the stick, or doing puzzles a child could solve, so it all feels deeply unearned. In one sequence where the characters were lost in a strange forest, I was heaped with praise for using my insight to find a way through—when literally all I was doing was following the one clear path in front of me. "
lol
10/10
BaneIsPain
Member
That's disappointing for 5 hours. They are really in development hell I guess
sankt-Antonio
:^)--?-<
How is this game getting 10/10 then? It seems worse than the Order.https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2024/05/21/senuas-saga-hellblade-ii-review/
"The sequel is a lesser game than its predecessor. There are fewer combat mechanics in play, removing the melee button and directional attacks and replacing them with nothing."
"The scale of the puzzles are also smaller, as the game's level design has shrunk. The former game had larger areas with vertical structures. This game's level design is mostly a straight line, with a few small puzzle areas to break up the pacing."
Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 review
Visually spectacular but narratively limp, this cinematic sequel fails to find a new path for Senua.
"You're constantly being told that you, as Senua, are accomplishing incredible feats and doing things no one else could have done—the reality is that most of the time you're just holding forward on the stick, or doing puzzles a child could solve, so it all feels deeply unearned. In one sequence where the characters were lost in a strange forest, I was heaped with praise for using my insight to find a way through—when literally all I was doing was following the one clear path in front of me. "
lol
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Would hit 75 or 76 if not for the paid 10's.
Klosshufvud
Member
Wow, this review is some high quality writinghttps://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2024/05/21/senuas-saga-hellblade-ii-review/
"The sequel is a lesser game than its predecessor. There are fewer combat mechanics in play, removing the melee button and directional attacks and replacing them with nothing."
"The scale of the puzzles are also smaller, as the game's level design has shrunk. The former game had larger areas with vertical structures. This game's level design is mostly a straight line, with a few small puzzle areas to break up the pacing."
Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 review
Visually spectacular but narratively limp, this cinematic sequel fails to find a new path for Senua.
"You're constantly being told that you, as Senua, are accomplishing incredible feats and doing things no one else could have done—the reality is that most of the time you're just holding forward on the stick, or doing puzzles a child could solve, so it all feels deeply unearned. In one sequence where the characters were lost in a strange forest, I was heaped with praise for using my insight to find a way through—when literally all I was doing was following the one clear path in front of me. "
lol
"You're never allowed to wonder about what a line might mean, or the significance of a particular facial expression or gesture, because the voices are there to talk all over it like YouTubers making a Let's Play. At their worst, they make a game trying to be intelligent and artful feel like it has no respect for the audience's intelligence, explaining the most basic of plot points multiple times in a row and offering a jumble of advice for overcoming simple obstacles. "
Brutal, and a very tiresome trend in modern games to simply assume their audiences to be brain dead.
Maddoxswe
Member
Ofc he was right, just phils balls not accepting the truth
Vroadstar
Member
5 hour experience.
WTF, someone already finished it and posted the full walkthrough on YT. So this confirms that it's a 5-hour game then.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Eh. Seems like a very solid, well thought out trailer for a game they'd put absolutely no development into. But I'm not sure even four years for a five hour game is exactly much better.
I enjoyed the first for what it was and would
5 out 5 for visuals and 0 out of 5 for gameplay.