Something to remember: the first Hellblade was made with a self-imposed indie game mentality, as the dev team wanted to see whether they could deliver a AAA-quality game on a fraction of their usual budget and manpower. Whether they succeeded or not, I leave such judgements to you. With that in mind, what's this game's excuse?
Ninja Theory is a weird dev. They have ideas, but some are hit and miss, mostly miss. Try to make things more cinematic, then enough story, to combat to make sure you did not fall asleep
Yeah the first game felt like a 15-20 min tech demo that was stretched out into a full game for some reason. It was all show and no substance. It also might as well have been a computer generated movie instead of a game for how much gameplay was in it.
The appeal of the first game was that it felt like a delusional psychotic break and was atmospheric enough to carry that feeling. It was never fun per se, but it was a fascinating experience. You were constantly questioning whether any of it was real, or whether Senua was just running around an empty valley battling things that weren't even there. Hell, the boss fights were literally analogies for mental health conditions. It didn't need a sequel, it was a complete experience and story in and of itself. To go with all the mythological stuff being actually real is even more baffling.
I always assumed in the first game basically none of the stuff was real. We even see her "die" at the end, then become the god.. I took that to mean it was all just her metaphorically accepting a horrible painful truth, being changed by it. But now there's others people, towns, etc., so.. it was all real? Kind of disappointing.
That's just depressing, they accidentally ruined their great depiction of psychosis by the sheer fact of a sequel existing. Imo they could've done good by pulling the scope back by a lot, the structure of hellblade doesn't work at such a large scale.
Completely true about how little we interact with villagers. When they were trying to ambush the giant, one of the characters called two of the villagers by their names, and my immediate thought was "Oh shit, they were given names, they're 100% going to die within the next minute", and then they died within a minute
Then once enough people say they're offended by the depiction of mental health, we'll get a game where she gets therapy and some meds and we'll call it Senua's Sedation.
Senuas sickly, sinful, spectacles stand, shuffle, shamble and saunter shamelessly in mine scandalized sight! I suggest a solution... Surely such sedition should sour and succumb, the salacious, scandalous and sensational servant, Son and scion of sordid acts and slayer of squalid serfs! See how I stroll, stride, swagger and swirl, spin, slash and stab at stupid, senseless scum! Soon they shall swoon, shall seek solace and death from sundry torments wrought on them by my strategic, severing, scintillating shower of shimmering strikes! Send for the sword - summon Sliverslash!" Oh wait this about Sigvald.
The teeth problem isn't that Senua "Looks Weird" in that vague and nondescript fashion that gets tossed around. The teeth problem is that the specific style of motion capture that this game and many others love so much has a serious problem with jaw animation, so EVERYBODY looks like they're snarling every line through clenched teeth. I had the same problem with Until Dawn, for instance.
As someone who lives 10 minutes away from Tunbridge Wells, I am absolutely baffled that I have just heard the words "Tunbridge Wells" in a RUclips video.
As an American, I always have to Google all these small British towns that appear in Yahtzee's videos. Funny, he hardly ever mentions any Australian towns, despite having lived there for 20 years.
That first boss fight had me going “oh my god this is so badass and cool” I just wish it hadn’t been preceded by a 25minute unskippable cutscene and succeeded by more of it
I was convinced the game was going to end after the first boss tbh and was profoundly saden to know the game continued for another 2 hours, at least the second of two bosses was only an hour away with the same gameplay loop.
I always forget that this isn't the only thing Yahtzee does. He does other shows, he writes books, he makes video games AND he's a dad. I wish I could manage time like that.
Hearing Yahtzee talking about Tunbridge Wells whilst sat in my home in Tunbridge Wells feels most peculiar for reasons I can’t fully explain. I guess I best check that I’m not being imagined by Yahtzee imagining Senua imagine the town…
I can't remember which game, but back in an old ZP he dropped "St. Louis" of all places and I likewise had the uncanny feeling that Yahtzee was making sure that I--me specifically--knew my current residence was tosh.
I work at a retro game shop. Theres this nordic fella that comes in now and again, and he absolutely gushed over the first game. I asked him about the second, and he just remained all quiet. Make of that what you feel.
That was my experience with this game; I really liked the first one, but this one just made me sad and mad... I'm glad yatzee called out the tomb raider comparison, it was all I could feel while getting jerked and slapped around all game...
I literally love the candid blurbs from the creators during the credits! It's made even better by Yahtzee's dry, sarcastic addressing of there needing to be one. (This is not sarcasm; I really, truly like them, no matter what.)
Not knowing what was real and what was an illusion was one of my favourite points about the first one. So i think it's a real shame tge devs dropped the ball in the sequel by showing that for exemple giants are real and others can see them too... Also, having other people around you in general felt weird. The constant isolation felt fitting and made everything more surreal. Having actual dialogue with people you can see instead of voices and shadowy figures breaks a lot of the atmosphere. Having your allies be just out of focus or frame, somewhat blurry figures like Senuas memories of Dillion would have worked wonders
@@thearcadebotSo what about the other people who see them, then? Are they hallucinations, too? Like Yahtzee said, once you start going down that route, where does it end?
@@BurntFrost Idk! Personally, I like going down that route. I like that we have Senua as an unreliable narrator with so much in question about what’s real and what isn’t. Maybe some people are real, maybe others are imagined. Maybe the ENTIRE game is imagined by Senua, or maybe she only hears voices. I really enjoy how much freedom the story gives you in deciding what to believe and take away from it all. Definitely not for everybody, but that’s another thing I like about the game haha. The AAA world is typically so focused on marketing everything to everyone, and I like that this is just the devs doing something they really wanted to do themselves. Even if a bunch of folks hate it haha.
1:28 You gotta love Yahtzee's creativity; he's the only one I know that can take a ham with the first slice looking like a mouth and stable two soccer balls for eyes and BOOM! there's your giant's face XD
I kind of figured it was a game that should have been left alone. The first one definitely had weak combat, but the story carried it. Her journey was awesome, and the revelation that much of it may have been in her head and she has to learn to live with her demons was a great ending. I didn’t see how a sequel was going to carry that momentum and it seems the devs didn’t either.
"Can I be a leader to these people?" ...I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that when one of the "no" votes comes from within your own noggin, not in a "vague self-doubt/imposter syndrome" way but in the form of an actual voice, it's probably correct.
My favorite thing about this game is the in game combat cutscenes. You’ll be fighting a guy and suddenly some idiot will push you to the side to take them on, only to get their skull pushed in soon as they get in range.
Cheers to Yahtzee for consistently making 50 episodes a year, every year for almost 20 years. Also, in the latest "Yahtzee Tries" (15 minute one) -> Yahtzee does go over his own game, Starstruck Vagabond. Check that out if you haven't already.
I actually did a theatre piece wearing make-up inspired by Senua, but this was before renewed interest in early medieval cultures caught up to what archaeologists have been saying for a while: the Vikings didn’t wear warpaint outside of heavy black eyeliner (according to records anyway). Similarly, the idea that Celtic Britons and the Picts did it has been called into question recently, at least as far as using woad to do it, since woad is crap as both a tattoo ink and as a body paint.
The band Heilung (who composed the soundtrack for Hellblade II) has a term for what they're doing: "Amplified history". The premise is explicitly not historical accuracy, but the creation of a certain atmosphere and vibe based on historical elements, but amplified to work in the context of present day media landscape. In some way it's not that different from legendary sagas.
@NeovanGoth I can vibe with that as a Heilung fan and it does work in games that are going for a more larger than life feel. Films and TV though? Unless you're going straight fantasy, it can easily just come off as lazy (especially when it comes to costumes or set design) or attempting to other your subjects.
@@GallowglassVT I agree, there is a huge difference between intentionally creating a certain vibe and just lazily using whatever may match the audience's expectations. I very much liked The Last Kingdom for example, which surely wasn't authentic by any means, but also didn't loose itself in cliches too much.
@NeovanGoth I enjoyed The Last Kingdom, but it definitely fell foul of the problems I mentioned in terms of costuming and portraying certain historical characters. That being said, it wasn't nearly as bad as Vikings in that department. Vikings started off alright, albeit with little intention of being genuinely historically accurate or really very nuanced, but leaned more and more into crap as it went on. Last Kingdom at least kept consistent in its tone, despite deviations from the source material and from history.
You are right. Senua is Pictish. And she fought a whole lot of Norse creatures like gods and jötun to put her lover to rest properly and not “lost in Hel.”
But shes NOT a norse warrior and she IS a pixie, or rather she is a Pict, the people living in the present-day UK that were raided by the norse vikings.
🤔 Given her mental state. This makes it even more bonkers. Maybe the voices, or spirits took on a personality, when she blanks out, so in combat maybe a Norse Warrior takes over
More specifically, they lived in Scotland, and by the time the Vikings showed up, the Picts were both Christian and pretty much indistinguishable from Gaelic Scots in terms of language or culture. Then again, for all its commitment towards portraying psychosis well, I doubt historical accuracy was at the forefront of the developers' minds.
Nobody cares least of all the developers as they didn't indicate any of that in the games whatsoever at any point. That fact wasn't important enough of them to include or make important to the plot or setting or gameplay in any way shape or form then it's completely pointless in just a bit of fluff to make history nerds gasm their pants. Let's be honest the player base as far as they're concerned sees this is just another dumb viking bullshit game in a long line of dumb Viking bullshit game stretching all the way back to Skyrim. I for one am sick of the constant dumb Viking bullshit. Making your game based around Norse mythology isn't creative or unique anymore.
Hellblade 2 is a symptom, the first game was perectly servicable and didn't need a sequel, but it was moderately popular and thus has name recognition, and so they must crank out an inifinite supply of shitty sequels until all of the respect for the brand has dried up
Yeah just classic corporate decision making based on numeric projections instead of common sense. They saw how profitable the first game was compared to its budget, and went durr-hurr maybe with 10x budget we get 10x return for the same company. Pretty much never works like that though, definitely didn't here
But with the lack of marketing it almost seems like this game was made by mistake, like it was only made for the people on the official fans discord server so they can stop nudging when will the sequel come out.
And the irony is, I think that a big part of the reason the first game was successful was because it kind of came out of nowhere. A sequel, by its very definition, simply can't capture that specific type of lightning in a bottle.
I never got into Hellblade 1: This is the subtitle, but honestly, I've heard so many people praise it as a good game. Makes me wonder how they'll react to this one.
I'm a huge fan of the first one and I can't help but feel a bit disappointed with the sequel. The first one, while still not a typical game, provided a very distinct experience that I'd argue couldn't have been just made into a movie. And also a small in quantity but still engaging combat. With the sequel they went for improved graphics while sacrificing everything else. The story still is pretty good, not as touching as the first one imo, but the game aspect is pretty much completely lost. It feels like a movie that you have to hold forward throughout with a bit of repetitive, albeit pretty looking combat. Although there are a bunch of people who enjoy the sequel more for the improved graphics and don't really care about gameplay, but I'm not in that group.
It was good because of the unique way of telling the story and the amazing graphics. But I never saw the appeal in playing it a second time. The second one just has the amazing graphics left. Everything else seems to be like the first one which at this point is just done and boring.
The second one is a lot more polished, but both in a good and a bad way - it's easier to play (combat is better) but it's also less headfucky and a lot more straightforward. I enjoyed it, but I also can't argue with the review.
The way you describe the combat randomly brought Condemned to mind. I'm assuming I'm giving Senua's Saga way too much credit comparing it to that, though.
As a neurodivergent person, I did smash my head against non literal walls for years, and only stopped until counseling and medication, so this actually tracks!
Fun fact: the developers used bird poop to "organically" (hurhur) designate climbing walls. And specifically: the spots that Senua uses to climb. So every time that Senua climbs a cliff side, she will, without fail, always reach directly into the bird poo. Every time! She just can't help herself! May this knowledge enhance your enjoyment of this psychological horror game.
That's pretty much the issue with all of the Walking Sims. There's so little interactivity, that the game can be experienced just as well via non-interactive video.
@@Malidictus Pretty much. And then you have some special people telling you to not do it because it "ruins the artistic vision or whatever other reason they come up with that you couldn't care any less about.
@@simplysmiley4670 Yes just as those peopple couldn't care less about the things you'd like. At the end this game was made in their vision. Not all games need to have everything that a game is "supposed" to have and that's alright. Thats what "indie" games are.
@@RameoMTL That would be valid if the game didn't feel the need to pretend that it *does* have the things it's supposed to. Combat pretty much boils down to agonisingly long and slow quicktime events - they're not fun, and they add nothing to the story (and in fact probably *detract* from the story). I would have enjoyed the game a lot more if they'd either committed to making it a walking sim or committed to having actual combat.
To this day, the best gameplay ninja theory ever did was DmC, mostly because they had capcom breathing at their necks to ensure they do it well. And is still a letdown compared to other DMCs.
You're right but at least you don't have to mortgage your house for disgusting snacks and sit in a badly maintained, filthy room with other humans coughing, snorting, talking, staring at their phones and ignoring their bratty offspring that shouldn't be there.
I was so much behind the curve that what had happened to you, man. Once I found out I came here to support and subscribe. Keep up the top teir content man!!
The double funny of that last comparison is that the dildo with a bow on the end would actually suck, precisely because of the bow that is tacked on to make it look nice but actually interferes with the functionality and makes the whole experience worse. Which is a great analogy when you think about it.
It's very frustrating seeing videogames continue the broadcast TV trend of "ofscrean-itis". Hey brother, look at how many ships are in my fleet, that right behind the camera. Hey watch Picasso paint and mistreat women for two hours while the camera stares at the *back* of the easel. Hey watch us write all these complex equations on a chalk board the is just out of frame. Hey Watch Blackthorne draw a map of the world that we'll never point the camera at after he's finished it. At least videogames have the excuse of needing to save disk space and limited processing power. It seems like directors these days want to give the audience less reason to look at the screen.
And some wonder if the audience has a low attention span. When it's the fault of the artists or writers not giving enough to keep a viewer invested. All of the details are set aside due to time or budget. If it's not needed, then don't put that stuff in the story Maybe break the fourth wall? Something, anything to keep from it being drivel
I think HBO's Rome had some pretty clever ways of not showing some big historical battles (because they ran out of budget). It takes good writing though to make it not seem too contrived.
Often times these issues are a fault of the studio not wanting to pay for background extras or more sets or whatever. 99% of the time the director would LOVE to show these things, but they don't have control over the budget
@@kadosho02The low attention span is due to folk being unable to sit still for more than 5 minutes without picking up their damn phones, that and social media.
I feel like the plotlines where the main character always "has to" do something is almost always for female protagonists. Which makes me think a lot of writers are still not comfortable writing for a female character, and that's subconsciously reflected in these plotlines which make the character more an object of their environment and circumstances rather than a subject with full agency. Maybe they have difficulty fully warging into the mind of a woman, and are uncomfortable depicting the internal thoughts and struggles of a female character. So it's easier to just view them from the outside and subconsciously remove the character's ability to decide things form the story. Or maybe it's some deeply internalized patriarchic thing around a woman who enacts violence. Like they've reached the point where they can accept a woman who enacts violence - but what they still can't accept is if that woman enacts violence without the moral high ground. They can accept a woman who fights and kills - but only if it's always clear and never questioned that she holds the moral right when she does. The easiest way to do that is (a) make the protagonist's enemies obviously and simplistically evil and/or (b) take away the protagonist's ability to choose to conduct violence. So if Lara Croft kills a bunch of soldiers by brutally slashing their necks open, then (a) the soldiers all need to be Illuminati terrorist pedophiles who kick a puppy in a cutscene and/or (b) Lara Croft cannot be shown _choosing_ to kill them; the choice is forced on her and she _has to_ kill them. What Lara Croft can't be is a female Jason Brody from Far Cry 3. In a lot of the broad strokes, the plotlines of Far Cry 3 and the Tomb Raider reboot are very similar - privileged white upper-class kid gets trapped on a remote island and must learn violence to survive. But Jason Brody's character development is us seeing him spiral and lose himself, as his deeds of violence change him into something dark and disturbing. While Lara Croft's character development is us seeing her rise triumphant, and violence is the unquestionable moral means by which she reaches the best part of herself. And the difference between them isthat Jason Brody is a subject - a thinking human being who may be facing desperate circumstances but is certainly the one who chooses to fight and kill. While Lara Croft is just an object at the mercy of events - a victim of circumstances who never has a choice except to pick up a knife and merk some bitches. Videogame writing might still have some way to go. (And yes, I know, Rhianna Pratchett was the lead writer for Tomb Raider and she is in fact a woman - but in all her works, most of her female characters are basically the same: two-dimensional good archetypes who are forced by the acts of the villains to let their heroism emerge and there's just no complexity to them at all. So I argue that either Pratchett is shit at writing for female characters, or just shit at writing.)
Tonbridge Wells got me because I have a very funny story from there involving unexpectedly rowdy youths, a family friend's kids, and an outdoor jazz concert
The remark with the teeth I can totally understand. They put so much effort into the faces of the characters the last years and especially in this game.... but the teeth all look somewhat the same, right?
The tech is actually a step backwards. Now it's using AI and conventional photography. It's cheaper and easier, but it clearly works a bit worse than before.
Is this basically a microcosm of what AAA games are now? All of the effort is put into graphics and story and the gameplay itself is almost a literal after thought?
What I found most entertaining about the first Hellblade was the implication that all that actually took place was that a severely mentally ill woman took a canoe into the middle of the woods, wandered around for a while, then got lost in a cave, all the while hallucinating various monsters and the spirit of her dead boyfriend (who actually was never her boyfriend, just a guy who took pity on her and gave her a few sword lessons.)
god damn i end up in the comments agog (actually agog, that only happens here on this channel, EVER) and wanting to internet hi-five yahtzee every damn review these days. its astonishing, the man is well on fire, even if its some kind of enviro disaster decades long tire burning type of fire. no one would mistake any of this for high brow literature/classroom fodder, and only very particular types of personality would call it anything like lyric genius (or even understand enough grotty corners of the english language to touch bottom in his ocean of depravity) but good goddamn sir! you top yourself every damn week somehow! i can tell you truly, there is no where else on earth i can go right now in order to hear a phrase like 'sucks lukewarm catarrh through a human centipede' believe you me, my psyche is a dark place unfit for children, but i dont think i could have million monkeyed my way into anything in that zip code ever, and i do truly feel enriched, as if i am now living a better fuller life having heard those words in that order. it makes me feel like he deserves some sort of award and/or recognition for this, because he has dropped at least one twisted, steaming log of a sentence into every single review since he broke from the chains of caring even remotely about some sort of editorial censure I feel like i have just been flashed by a demented english professor in a library bathroom, but with such aplomb and such a perfectly stuck landing that my first instinct is to applaud instead of run screaming for the police although thinking about it for a few seconds longer, maybe a youtube comments cheering section made up of people who read too much who have also just been put off their dinner for the umpteenth week in a row is exactly the right sort and amount of recognition he deserves. truly life is a mystery. please never change yahtzee, and please continue to make me laugh about chihuahuas twitching in offal up to their eyebrows or whatever delightful phrase you produce next
"Unless you like the experience of two posh British women whispering your shortcomings in your ears." I mean, that's just day to day life for me. Minus the posh British women part.
I'll admit I laughed WAY too hard at just...ham giants with soccer ball eyes. I dunno what about that specific combination got me right in the funny bone.
I really hope Yahtzee reviews the Paper Mario remake. He's one of the only critics that seemed to appreciate it when it was released, it was aggregate 6/10 at the time, still pissed about it.
A very cathartic Fully Ramblomatic on Hellblade II. Yahtzee said everything in my mind regarding my issues with the game. One of the most beautiful looking games with not much else going on besides that.
Hellblade 2 feels like one of those expensive and wildly impractical burgers that are only made to look appealing, with no actual thought as to how well it succeeds in being food that's supposed to be eaten.
@@SimuLord listen, I’m not here for *your* opinion on the game. I’m here because Yahtzee is funny. Take your nitpicks about whether the game allows you to “actively play” in whatever way you think it means and send them to a feedback forum so someone else can ignore you.
"They're right over there, beyond that ridge" gave me a Death Stranding flashback. Really pissed me off how much being a delivery boy was meant to help the survival of people you never. Fucking. See. Unless you count a 3fps repeating hologram animation.
Fully Ramblomatic Icelandic death metal track of the week: *I Slay Because I Must* by the *Hallucinatory Fog Spelunkers* (Names obviously translated from Icelandic)
Other people might not consider this innovative, but I'd enjoy an innovative idea of that the characters DO understand that the creepy village/whatever before them is going to nearly kill them half a dozen times and they really don't want to go, but they're being chased by an invincible monster at all times and so their choice comes down to dealing with something that MIGHT yank their skeletons out their nostrils or staying put with something that WILL yank their skeletons out their nostrils. And there could be a little comedic point where they actually stop and think about which of the options is worse.
So... It's a walking sim with tacked-on combat because the devs wanted to make a "real game"? So it's basically the same as the first one, at least in concept.
Yahtzee gave into the posh voices in his head telling him to do a credits message
“Posh voices in his head” is a weird way to spell “Nick.”
If Frost and Yahtzee were to start reading badly translated instruction manuals at the end of the videos, I would be down here asking for more!
@@SimuLordplease remind them next year lol
Something to remember: the first Hellblade was made with a self-imposed indie game mentality, as the dev team wanted to see whether they could deliver a AAA-quality game on a fraction of their usual budget and manpower. Whether they succeeded or not, I leave such judgements to you.
With that in mind, what's this game's excuse?
it's trying to see if it can deliver a mediocre indie game experience on an AAA budget
Ninja Theory is a weird dev. They have ideas, but some are hit and miss, mostly miss. Try to make things more cinematic, then enough story, to combat to make sure you did not fall asleep
Microsoft buying up the studio and trying to make them make a game that it's not
Yeah the first game felt like a 15-20 min tech demo that was stretched out into a full game for some reason.
It was all show and no substance. It also might as well have been a computer generated movie instead of a game for how much gameplay was in it.
That despite extra budget. The team for this game really isn't all that much larger than the first game.
The appeal of the first game was that it felt like a delusional psychotic break and was atmospheric enough to carry that feeling. It was never fun per se, but it was a fascinating experience. You were constantly questioning whether any of it was real, or whether Senua was just running around an empty valley battling things that weren't even there.
Hell, the boss fights were literally analogies for mental health conditions.
It didn't need a sequel, it was a complete experience and story in and of itself. To go with all the mythological stuff being actually real is even more baffling.
I always assumed in the first game basically none of the stuff was real. We even see her "die" at the end, then become the god.. I took that to mean it was all just her metaphorically accepting a horrible painful truth, being changed by it. But now there's others people, towns, etc., so.. it was all real? Kind of disappointing.
That's just depressing, they accidentally ruined their great depiction of psychosis by the sheer fact of a sequel existing.
Imo they could've done good by pulling the scope back by a lot, the structure of hellblade doesn't work at such a large scale.
Completely true about how little we interact with villagers. When they were trying to ambush the giant, one of the characters called two of the villagers by their names, and my immediate thought was "Oh shit, they were given names, they're 100% going to die within the next minute", and then they died within a minute
"There's some engaging and fun game play behind that fog obscured ridge. You'd like it. Probably."
“Sexually aggressive piano” sent me 😂
Sent you where? Are you able to come back?
In addition to the sequels Yahtzee suggested, I hope to see Hellblade: Senua's Superman, Senua's Storytime, and Senua's Sex and the City.
I chuckled as I pictured a Sex and the City episode narrated by Senua xD
And then the prequels; Senua's Seesaw, Senua's Sleddogs, and Senua's Sickle-Cell Anemia
Then once enough people say they're offended by the depiction of mental health, we'll get a game where she gets therapy and some meds and we'll call it Senua's Sedation.
Senuas sickly, sinful, spectacles stand, shuffle, shamble and saunter shamelessly in mine scandalized sight! I suggest a solution... Surely such sedition should sour and succumb, the salacious, scandalous and sensational servant, Son and scion of sordid acts and slayer of squalid serfs! See how I stroll, stride, swagger and swirl, spin, slash and stab at stupid, senseless scum! Soon they shall swoon, shall seek solace and death from sundry torments wrought on them by my strategic, severing, scintillating shower of shimmering strikes! Send for the sword - summon Sliverslash!" Oh wait this about Sigvald.
Perhaps she could get a late-night chat show called Senua's Celebrity Sofa and a range of vegan nibbles called Senua's Soy Snacks.
The teeth problem isn't that Senua "Looks Weird" in that vague and nondescript fashion that gets tossed around.
The teeth problem is that the specific style of motion capture that this game and many others love so much has a serious problem with jaw animation, so EVERYBODY looks like they're snarling every line through clenched teeth. I had the same problem with Until Dawn, for instance.
Motion capture is neat on paper, but if you don't do it well you end up with a game full of Gmod face.
We’re not at the level of Gollum mocap for games yet, I guess
@@ashuggtubeIronically most readily proven by that recent infamously bad Gollum game from last year, not that said game really tried I suppose.
@@ashuggtubeRDR2 was performance captured and that looks really good.
@@Elriuhilu R2D2?
As someone who lives 10 minutes away from Tunbridge Wells, I am absolutely baffled that I have just heard the words "Tunbridge Wells" in a RUclips video.
Same, it just doesn't seem to exist to people on RUclips.
@@WIldXIIII have now heard it on RUclips and still don’t believe it exists
Tunbridge Wells' only true contribution to culture prior to this video was setting up a really nice moving city joke in the Mortal Engines quartet
Same here, glad he didn't add the 'Royal' to show he's still anti-establishment 😅
As an American, I always have to Google all these small British towns that appear in Yahtzee's videos.
Funny, he hardly ever mentions any Australian towns, despite having lived there for 20 years.
2:25 the mountain with "none of this matters" brilliant.
That first boss fight had me going “oh my god this is so badass and cool”
I just wish it hadn’t been preceded by a 25minute unskippable cutscene and succeeded by more of it
I was convinced the game was going to end after the first boss tbh and was profoundly saden to know the game continued for another 2 hours, at least the second of two bosses was only an hour away with the same gameplay loop.
I always forget that this isn't the only thing Yahtzee does. He does other shows, he writes books, he makes video games AND he's a dad. I wish I could manage time like that.
He's the most disciplinned Millenial I have heard off, that isn't a Nepo Baby.
@@WolfHagenSdW is it time to bring out 'ok boomer' again? because ok boomer
let's be honest, money definitely do help
The Kinky Dolphin has returned! There is still hope for humanity!
🐬🐬🐬 💦🌊
The evil ocelot goddess as well!
He never left. You just weren't paying enough attention.
Hearing Yahtzee talking about Tunbridge Wells whilst sat in my home in Tunbridge Wells feels most peculiar for reasons I can’t fully explain.
I guess I best check that I’m not being imagined by Yahtzee imagining Senua imagine the town…
You could be. Tunbridge Wells is such an unlikely name it has to be fictional.
@@bewilderbeestie it used to be Royal Tunbridge Wells. I’m not quite sure why we lost the Royal bit…
I can't remember which game, but back in an old ZP he dropped "St. Louis" of all places and I likewise had the uncanny feeling that Yahtzee was making sure that I--me specifically--knew my current residence was tosh.
I work at a retro game shop. Theres this nordic fella that comes in now and again, and he absolutely gushed over the first game. I asked him about the second, and he just remained all quiet. Make of that what you feel.
Did he then scream, go outside, and shield bash the first person he crossed?
@@bluemooninthedaylight8073 No, he asked me if he could pick up our CIB of Command and Conquer for the Sega Saturn.
The Nords don't end conversations like they used to.
That was my experience with this game; I really liked the first one, but this one just made me sad and mad... I'm glad yatzee called out the tomb raider comparison, it was all I could feel while getting jerked and slapped around all game...
@@ChrisMGermann Glad I never played either of them.
I literally love the candid blurbs from the creators during the credits! It's made even better by Yahtzee's dry, sarcastic addressing of there needing to be one. (This is not sarcasm; I really, truly like them, no matter what.)
While the gameplay wasn’t much, this game did make me want to experience the location in person. Tunbridge Wells, here I come!
If the next instalment will continue this trend of naming it “Senua’s Sa+something”, then I’m waiting for Hellblade 3: Senua’s Sashimi.
Not knowing what was real and what was an illusion was one of my favourite points about the first one. So i think it's a real shame tge devs dropped the ball in the sequel by showing that for exemple giants are real and others can see them too...
Also, having other people around you in general felt weird. The constant isolation felt fitting and made everything more surreal. Having actual dialogue with people you can see instead of voices and shadowy figures breaks a lot of the atmosphere. Having your allies be just out of focus or frame, somewhat blurry figures like Senuas memories of Dillion would have worked wonders
I don’t want to say anything too spoilery, but the end of Hellblade 2 does throw into question whether the giants were real or not.
@@thearcadebotSo what about the other people who see them, then? Are they hallucinations, too? Like Yahtzee said, once you start going down that route, where does it end?
@@BurntFrost Idk! Personally, I like going down that route. I like that we have Senua as an unreliable narrator with so much in question about what’s real and what isn’t.
Maybe some people are real, maybe others are imagined. Maybe the ENTIRE game is imagined by Senua, or maybe she only hears voices. I really enjoy how much freedom the story gives you in deciding what to believe and take away from it all. Definitely not for everybody, but that’s another thing I like about the game haha. The AAA world is typically so focused on marketing everything to everyone, and I like that this is just the devs doing something they really wanted to do themselves. Even if a bunch of folks hate it haha.
Those are her giants. Fear, Guilt and Rage. In that order. She conquered them with compassion instead of continuing to feed them what they want.
@@ryannalls1480 LOVE this.
My favourite Fully Ramblomatic for a while, that was very cathartic, thank you Yahtzee
"Sorry I misread that" and then he just nonchalantly inserts some of the funniest lines I have ever heard on this platform. Well done sir
1:28 You gotta love Yahtzee's creativity; he's the only one I know that can take a ham with the first slice looking like a mouth and stable two soccer balls for eyes and BOOM! there's your giant's face XD
Ok Yahtzee, said and done. I've considered supporting you guys on Patreon.
Finally gotcha
I kind of figured it was a game that should have been left alone. The first one definitely had weak combat, but the story carried it. Her journey was awesome, and the revelation that much of it may have been in her head and she has to learn to live with her demons was a great ending.
I didn’t see how a sequel was going to carry that momentum and it seems the devs didn’t either.
"Can I be a leader to these people?"
...I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that when one of the "no" votes comes from within your own noggin, not in a "vague self-doubt/imposter syndrome" way but in the form of an actual voice, it's probably correct.
My favorite thing about this game is the in game combat cutscenes. You’ll be fighting a guy and suddenly some idiot will push you to the side to take them on, only to get their skull pushed in soon as they get in range.
Cheers to Yahtzee for consistently making 50 episodes a year, every year for almost 20 years.
Also, in the latest "Yahtzee Tries" (15 minute one) -> Yahtzee does go over his own game, Starstruck Vagabond. Check that out if you haven't already.
Wow yeah we gotta be close to 1000 now.
The fact that this video has more views in an hour than any Escapist video in weeks says everything.
I actually did a theatre piece wearing make-up inspired by Senua, but this was before renewed interest in early medieval cultures caught up to what archaeologists have been saying for a while: the Vikings didn’t wear warpaint outside of heavy black eyeliner (according to records anyway). Similarly, the idea that Celtic Britons and the Picts did it has been called into question recently, at least as far as using woad to do it, since woad is crap as both a tattoo ink and as a body paint.
The band Heilung (who composed the soundtrack for Hellblade II) has a term for what they're doing: "Amplified history". The premise is explicitly not historical accuracy, but the creation of a certain atmosphere and vibe based on historical elements, but amplified to work in the context of present day media landscape. In some way it's not that different from legendary sagas.
@NeovanGoth I can vibe with that as a Heilung fan and it does work in games that are going for a more larger than life feel. Films and TV though? Unless you're going straight fantasy, it can easily just come off as lazy (especially when it comes to costumes or set design) or attempting to other your subjects.
@@GallowglassVT I agree, there is a huge difference between intentionally creating a certain vibe and just lazily using whatever may match the audience's expectations. I very much liked The Last Kingdom for example, which surely wasn't authentic by any means, but also didn't loose itself in cliches too much.
@NeovanGoth I enjoyed The Last Kingdom, but it definitely fell foul of the problems I mentioned in terms of costuming and portraying certain historical characters. That being said, it wasn't nearly as bad as Vikings in that department. Vikings started off alright, albeit with little intention of being genuinely historically accurate or really very nuanced, but leaned more and more into crap as it went on. Last Kingdom at least kept consistent in its tone, despite deviations from the source material and from history.
@@GallowglassVT "Consistent in its tone" is an interesting observation.
I thought Senua was a Pict and was retrieving her boyfriend's soul from the Norse afterlife to put it in the correct one.
Picts didn't speak in posh English accents.
@@scottneil1187 The Norse probably didn't either. Neither would even have spoken English at all.
@@Elriuhilu Not would whoever the English are at this point.
@@grievuspwn4g3 Pretty much - at this point 'English' was about as close to Modern English as Latin
You are right. Senua is Pictish. And she fought a whole lot of Norse creatures like gods and jötun to put her lover to rest properly and not “lost in Hel.”
But shes NOT a norse warrior and she IS a pixie, or rather she is a Pict, the people living in the present-day UK that were raided by the norse vikings.
🤔 Given her mental state. This makes it even more bonkers. Maybe the voices, or spirits took on a personality, when she blanks out, so in combat maybe a Norse Warrior takes over
More specifically, they lived in Scotland, and by the time the Vikings showed up, the Picts were both Christian and pretty much indistinguishable from Gaelic Scots in terms of language or culture. Then again, for all its commitment towards portraying psychosis well, I doubt historical accuracy was at the forefront of the developers' minds.
Thank you, was going to comment similarly that she is a Pict
Yahtz can’t get everything right 🤷♂️
@@SimuLord pretty much yeah
Nobody cares least of all the developers as they didn't indicate any of that in the games whatsoever at any point. That fact wasn't important enough of them to include or make important to the plot or setting or gameplay in any way shape or form then it's completely pointless in just a bit of fluff to make history nerds gasm their pants.
Let's be honest the player base as far as they're concerned sees this is just another dumb viking bullshit game in a long line of dumb Viking bullshit game stretching all the way back to Skyrim.
I for one am sick of the constant dumb Viking bullshit. Making your game based around Norse mythology isn't creative or unique anymore.
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Hellblade 2 is a symptom, the first game was perectly servicable and didn't need a sequel, but it was moderately popular and thus has name recognition, and so they must crank out an inifinite supply of shitty sequels until all of the respect for the brand has dried up
It sounds like this might be it, the last drip in the tank. No more left. You can only take a concept so far
Blame Microsoft
Yeah just classic corporate decision making based on numeric projections instead of common sense. They saw how profitable the first game was compared to its budget, and went durr-hurr maybe with 10x budget we get 10x return for the same company. Pretty much never works like that though, definitely didn't here
But with the lack of marketing it almost seems like this game was made by mistake, like it was only made for the people on the official fans discord server so they can stop nudging when will the sequel come out.
And the irony is, I think that a big part of the reason the first game was successful was because it kind of came out of nowhere. A sequel, by its very definition, simply can't capture that specific type of lightning in a bottle.
You know, I'm fine with just listening to the music during the end credits. It's awesome!
Woah I didn't expect yahtzee to reference my home town of Tunbridge Wells lol.
I never got into Hellblade 1: This is the subtitle, but honestly, I've heard so many people praise it as a good game. Makes me wonder how they'll react to this one.
I'm a huge fan of the first one and I can't help but feel a bit disappointed with the sequel. The first one, while still not a typical game, provided a very distinct experience that I'd argue couldn't have been just made into a movie. And also a small in quantity but still engaging combat. With the sequel they went for improved graphics while sacrificing everything else. The story still is pretty good, not as touching as the first one imo, but the game aspect is pretty much completely lost. It feels like a movie that you have to hold forward throughout with a bit of repetitive, albeit pretty looking combat. Although there are a bunch of people who enjoy the sequel more for the improved graphics and don't really care about gameplay, but I'm not in that group.
It was good because of the unique way of telling the story and the amazing graphics. But I never saw the appeal in playing it a second time.
The second one just has the amazing graphics left. Everything else seems to be like the first one which at this point is just done and boring.
@@kingbaard5395 and no more tango gameworks...FUCK.
I played it cause it was dirt cheap, wish I hadn't, dull as dishwater.
The second one is a lot more polished, but both in a good and a bad way - it's easier to play (combat is better) but it's also less headfucky and a lot more straightforward. I enjoyed it, but I also can't argue with the review.
Presumably "looks nice and isn't too long" is enough for some people.
Stand back, lads! This guy's about to get... FULLY ramblomatic!
I'm so glad you did this game, because I had the same experience.
Thanks for the review, I got the vibes that were described here from the trailer. Good to know the whole game is like that...
The way you describe the combat randomly brought Condemned to mind. I'm assuming I'm giving Senua's Saga way too much credit comparing it to that, though.
As a neurodivergent person, I did smash my head against non literal walls for years, and only stopped until counseling and medication, so this actually tracks!
Dmc is an affront to God
@@aquaticengineer Detroit Medical Center?
I love how Yahtzee pretends he isn’t ND though
Fun fact: the developers used bird poop to "organically" (hurhur) designate climbing walls. And specifically: the spots that Senua uses to climb.
So every time that Senua climbs a cliff side, she will, without fail, always reach directly into the bird poo. Every time! She just can't help herself!
May this knowledge enhance your enjoyment of this psychological horror game.
The issue with hellblade 2 is there is nothing it provides that a Let’s Play/Longplay won’t give you the exact same experience
That's pretty much the issue with all of the Walking Sims. There's so little interactivity, that the game can be experienced just as well via non-interactive video.
@@Malidictus Pretty much.
And then you have some special people telling you to not do it because it "ruins the artistic vision or whatever other reason they come up with that you couldn't care any less about.
@@simplysmiley4670 Yes just as those peopple couldn't care less about the things you'd like. At the end this game was made in their vision. Not all games need to have everything that a game is "supposed" to have and that's alright. Thats what "indie" games are.
@@RameoMTL That would be valid if the game didn't feel the need to pretend that it *does* have the things it's supposed to. Combat pretty much boils down to agonisingly long and slow quicktime events - they're not fun, and they add nothing to the story (and in fact probably *detract* from the story). I would have enjoyed the game a lot more if they'd either committed to making it a walking sim or committed to having actual combat.
This comment perfectly encapsulates everything that's wrong with these sorts of games that masquerade as movies.
Iceland in Hellblade: Freezing cold, dangerous wild men, questioning your sanity.
Iceland in Britain: The same but you leave with frozen food.
To this day, the best gameplay ninja theory ever did was DmC, mostly because they had capcom breathing at their necks to ensure they do it well.
And is still a letdown compared to other DMCs.
I heard Enslaved: Odyssey to the West was a fun game, which they made.
@@AlmightyPolarBear It's a very solid game, but the gameplay is still very simplistic.
Senua isn't Norse. She's Pictish.
Didn't you know that thanks to Intellectual Property laws, her use of woad as face paint automatically makes her Norse property. /s
eh, picts or it didn't happen.
$10 per hour of gameplay is a hard sell. That’s worse than a movie ticket.
Probably best to just grab a month of Game Pass and play it that way.
You're right but at least you don't have to mortgage your house for disgusting snacks and sit in a badly maintained, filthy room with other humans coughing, snorting, talking, staring at their phones and ignoring their bratty offspring that shouldn't be there.
Yeah, if I ever get this, it will be on steep discount.
"Sexually frustrated piano" was not the descriptor I was expecting, but... appropriate, somehow.
"Meadow O' Used Needles" lmao
I was so much behind the curve that what had happened to you, man. Once I found out I came here to support and subscribe. Keep up the top teir content man!!
I'm a simple man. I see a Bathory shirt, I upvote.
The double funny of that last comparison is that the dildo with a bow on the end would actually suck, precisely because of the bow that is tacked on to make it look nice but actually interferes with the functionality and makes the whole experience worse. Which is a great analogy when you think about it.
Holy this is out? There's been no advertising for this. 😮
That whole repeated "you'd like them probably" joke got me good!
It's very frustrating seeing videogames continue the broadcast TV trend of "ofscrean-itis". Hey brother, look at how many ships are in my fleet, that right behind the camera. Hey watch Picasso paint and mistreat women for two hours while the camera stares at the *back* of the easel. Hey watch us write all these complex equations on a chalk board the is just out of frame. Hey Watch Blackthorne draw a map of the world that we'll never point the camera at after he's finished it. At least videogames have the excuse of needing to save disk space and limited processing power. It seems like directors these days want to give the audience less reason to look at the screen.
And some wonder if the audience has a low attention span. When it's the fault of the artists or writers not giving enough to keep a viewer invested. All of the details are set aside due to time or budget.
If it's not needed, then don't put that stuff in the story
Maybe break the fourth wall? Something, anything to keep from it being drivel
I think HBO's Rome had some pretty clever ways of not showing some big historical battles (because they ran out of budget).
It takes good writing though to make it not seem too contrived.
Often times these issues are a fault of the studio not wanting to pay for background extras or more sets or whatever. 99% of the time the director would LOVE to show these things, but they don't have control over the budget
@@kadosho02The low attention span is due to folk being unable to sit still for more than 5 minutes without picking up their damn phones, that and social media.
@@scottneil1187ok boomer
I feel like the plotlines where the main character always "has to" do something is almost always for female protagonists. Which makes me think a lot of writers are still not comfortable writing for a female character, and that's subconsciously reflected in these plotlines which make the character more an object of their environment and circumstances rather than a subject with full agency. Maybe they have difficulty fully warging into the mind of a woman, and are uncomfortable depicting the internal thoughts and struggles of a female character. So it's easier to just view them from the outside and subconsciously remove the character's ability to decide things form the story.
Or maybe it's some deeply internalized patriarchic thing around a woman who enacts violence. Like they've reached the point where they can accept a woman who enacts violence - but what they still can't accept is if that woman enacts violence without the moral high ground. They can accept a woman who fights and kills - but only if it's always clear and never questioned that she holds the moral right when she does. The easiest way to do that is (a) make the protagonist's enemies obviously and simplistically evil and/or (b) take away the protagonist's ability to choose to conduct violence. So if Lara Croft kills a bunch of soldiers by brutally slashing their necks open, then (a) the soldiers all need to be Illuminati terrorist pedophiles who kick a puppy in a cutscene and/or (b) Lara Croft cannot be shown _choosing_ to kill them; the choice is forced on her and she _has to_ kill them.
What Lara Croft can't be is a female Jason Brody from Far Cry 3. In a lot of the broad strokes, the plotlines of Far Cry 3 and the Tomb Raider reboot are very similar - privileged white upper-class kid gets trapped on a remote island and must learn violence to survive. But Jason Brody's character development is us seeing him spiral and lose himself, as his deeds of violence change him into something dark and disturbing. While Lara Croft's character development is us seeing her rise triumphant, and violence is the unquestionable moral means by which she reaches the best part of herself.
And the difference between them isthat Jason Brody is a subject - a thinking human being who may be facing desperate circumstances but is certainly the one who chooses to fight and kill. While Lara Croft is just an object at the mercy of events - a victim of circumstances who never has a choice except to pick up a knife and merk some bitches.
Videogame writing might still have some way to go.
(And yes, I know, Rhianna Pratchett was the lead writer for Tomb Raider and she is in fact a woman - but in all her works, most of her female characters are basically the same: two-dimensional good archetypes who are forced by the acts of the villains to let their heroism emerge and there's just no complexity to them at all. So I argue that either Pratchett is shit at writing for female characters, or just shit at writing.)
I'd play Hellblade 3: Silly Sausage.
Senua's Sausage... oh wait.
Tonbridge Wells got me because I have a very funny story from there involving unexpectedly rowdy youths, a family friend's kids, and an outdoor jazz concert
oh wow, I was not ready to hear Yahtzee mention Tunbridge Wells, I think I missed the rest of the video after that!
1:07 don't threaten me with a good time.
Didn’t know he had another channel.
Some of your best gags yet
"Shouldn't have eaten all of that rotten shark"
Seems like someone has heard of Hákarl.
He said tunbridge wells....finally! I feel seen
"unless you like the sound of two posh British ladies listing your shortcomings in a slightly ethereal way"
...
I mean...
The remark with the teeth I can totally understand. They put so much effort into the faces of the characters the last years and especially in this game.... but the teeth all look somewhat the same, right?
The tech is actually a step backwards. Now it's using AI and conventional photography. It's cheaper and easier, but it clearly works a bit worse than before.
Is this basically a microcosm of what AAA games are now? All of the effort is put into graphics and story and the gameplay itself is almost a literal after thought?
What I found most entertaining about the first Hellblade was the implication that all that actually took place was that a severely mentally ill woman took a canoe into the middle of the woods, wandered around for a while, then got lost in a cave, all the while hallucinating various monsters and the spirit of her dead boyfriend (who actually was never her boyfriend, just a guy who took pity on her and gave her a few sword lessons.)
female character: (exists)
Yahztee: "manic pixie dream girl"
god damn i end up in the comments agog (actually agog, that only happens here on this channel, EVER) and wanting to internet hi-five yahtzee every damn review these days. its astonishing, the man is well on fire, even if its some kind of enviro disaster decades long tire burning type of fire.
no one would mistake any of this for high brow literature/classroom fodder, and only very particular types of personality would call it anything like lyric genius (or even understand enough grotty corners of the english language to touch bottom in his ocean of depravity) but good goddamn sir! you top yourself every damn week somehow!
i can tell you truly, there is no where else on earth i can go right now in order to hear a phrase like 'sucks lukewarm catarrh through a human centipede'
believe you me, my psyche is a dark place unfit for children, but i dont think i could have million monkeyed my way into anything in that zip code ever, and i do truly feel enriched, as if i am now living a better fuller life having heard those words in that order.
it makes me feel like he deserves some sort of award and/or recognition for this, because he has dropped at least one twisted, steaming log of a sentence into every single review since he broke from the chains of caring even remotely about some sort of editorial censure
I feel like i have just been flashed by a demented english professor in a library bathroom, but with such aplomb and such a perfectly stuck landing that my first instinct is to applaud instead of run screaming for the police
although thinking about it for a few seconds longer, maybe a youtube comments cheering section made up of people who read too much who have also just been put off their dinner for the umpteenth week in a row is exactly the right sort and amount of recognition he deserves.
truly life is a mystery.
please never change yahtzee, and please continue to make me laugh about chihuahuas twitching in offal up to their eyebrows or whatever delightful phrase you produce next
It's been a long time since I've seen the "phwoar".
Me during the end credit scene: "I'm on a g**d*** bicycle ok?!? I can't stop and skip right now!!" 🤪
godamn
"Unless you like the experience of two posh British women whispering your shortcomings in your ears."
I mean, that's just day to day life for me. Minus the posh British women part.
I'll admit I laughed WAY too hard at just...ham giants with soccer ball eyes. I dunno what about that specific combination got me right in the funny bone.
Not gonna lie the reminder to like is appreciated. I usually don't but you're the exception
I really hope Yahtzee reviews the Paper Mario remake. He's one of the only critics that seemed to appreciate it when it was released, it was aggregate 6/10 at the time, still pissed about it.
Ngl, I loved senau's hellblade 1 intro. it was perfect asml
Huh... I actually started to watch this channel on a regular basis. Doesn't happen to me that often these years.
A very cathartic Fully Ramblomatic on Hellblade II. Yahtzee said everything in my mind regarding my issues with the game. One of the most beautiful looking games with not much else going on besides that.
You'd like them. ... Probably. Don't know why but that really landed for me.
Hellblade 2 feels like one of those expensive and wildly impractical burgers that are only made to look appealing, with no actual thought as to how well it succeeds in being food that's supposed to be eaten.
Ok the Dragon’s Lair joke was worth it 😂
These games have always seemed like walking sims but with slightly more gameplay.
I've played many walking sims with far more gameplay than Hellblade.
I dug the vintage sound Yahtzee's dubbing had on this one 👍
🤣😂That ending credits bit cracked me up😂🤣
Always hyped to hear your thoughts on a game I’m actively playing!
How can you be "actively playing" a game that is 5 hours long?
@@PirateMacDougall end of sitting one about to do sitting two
@@PirateMacDougall because I started playing it last night and only had an hour to dedicate?
@@SimuLord listen, I’m not here for *your* opinion on the game. I’m here because Yahtzee is funny. Take your nitpicks about whether the game allows you to “actively play” in whatever way you think it means and send them to a feedback forum so someone else can ignore you.
@@Doct0rLekter Why read the comments, if you're not here for other people's opinions?
THE BACKGROUND IS CHANGING COLORS, I AM BOTH CONFUSED, SCARED, AND UNCOMFORTABLE.
Thousand Year Door next Yahtz! You've been banging on about a re-release for years!
"They're right over there, beyond that ridge" gave me a Death Stranding flashback.
Really pissed me off how much being a delivery boy was meant to help the survival of people you never. Fucking. See. Unless you count a 3fps repeating hologram animation.
For second wind!
I did indeed enjoy the namedrop of my crusty snobbish hometown and I will go and write that joke on my toilet wall immediately
LOVE. that facial expression
1:52 in the words of pyrocynical, *ITS ALL IN LE HEAD GAME!!!*
3:44 I love when Yahtzee says something so weird that the characters have to break the 4th wall just to call him out XD
Fully Ramblomatic Icelandic death metal track of the week:
*I Slay Because I Must* by the *Hallucinatory Fog Spelunkers*
(Names obviously translated from Icelandic)
I hadn't laughed out loud until the "audio mixer thinks you're a dick" line, but rules are rules, liked and commented.
Other people might not consider this innovative, but I'd enjoy an innovative idea of that the characters DO understand that the creepy village/whatever before them is going to nearly kill them half a dozen times and they really don't want to go, but they're being chased by an invincible monster at all times and so their choice comes down to dealing with something that MIGHT yank their skeletons out their nostrils or staying put with something that WILL yank their skeletons out their nostrils. And there could be a little comedic point where they actually stop and think about which of the options is worse.
I'm going to be using Fuck a Duck in conversations from now on.
So... It's a walking sim with tacked-on combat because the devs wanted to make a "real game"?
So it's basically the same as the first one, at least in concept.