Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 Left Me Disappointed... | Review
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- Опубликовано: 20 май 2024
- Thanks to Xbox for the review code. Hellblade 2 was a game I had marked on the calendar and was extremely excited for. The first entry was exceptional with my review stating it was "why we play video games." It was an experience to say the least. Sadly, Hellblade 2 leaves behind a lot of what I found was special in the original and I felt unsatisfied by the game's finale.
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1 hour per year
10 bucks the hour 😂
Ouch.
@@chaddubois8164 unless you play it on gamepass ;)
emberassing
Damn.
Crazy to think Microsoft bought ninja theory for 100 mill and Sony bought insomniac for only 100 mill more and ninja theory has produced a six hour game in 7 years.
You forgot Bleeding Edge 😂
To be fair Insomniac is 6 times bigger than NT
It’s all good well they can at least create a beautifully visually game now they just need to make a more action based game they can add dlc and the fact it’s only 50 bucks they didn’t do as much as they could
But u def have a point.
They also did some campaigns for Disney Infinity 3.0
"Death Stranding it's a walking simulator ."
Hell Blade: Hold my beer.
😂
I don't think the comparison really holds up as death stranding is actually a walking simulator or more accurately a travel simulator and it turns that into gameplay where as other games people call walking simulators they use that as an insult to simply describe a game where all you do is hold the left stick forward.
@@codyadams3051 Yeah, "Walking Simulator" was used as an insult for a very different type of game than Death Stranding. It never made sense to group it with those games.
It's a traversal game with an MGS5-style approach to systems which was cool. There's a good balance of risk and reward. The Director's Cut in particular is fun which I wasn't expecting from the coverage of the game online. When you use the launch pads, Sam flips through the air more than Spider-Man. haha.
Omg 😂 that one was good.
Plus Death Stranding last way more than 5 hours, Open world and it has vehicles and several combat, so way better game than Hellblade 1 and 2 together.
If only Xbox had a studio that could put out a visually appealing title with fun gameplay that critics and players love.
What a high rush that'd be.
(HIGH FI)ve
A real shame they don’t seem to have people to develop stuff with that sort of fidelity
@@TheOtherOtherAccountWell it's mostly MS fault for not giving them devs the advice and support they need.
Bungie left them so..?
Oh Tango , they be fked when their head dev and mastermind behind the Evil Within and Rush, abruptly left the studio and all was left behind was a bunch of redundant programers. Stop simping for Tango people, it's not the biggest deal you're making this out to be.
yeah, why not an Uncharted or Last of Us rival.
So it's essentially a tech demo
Yep.
7 years for a tech demo 😂
Ahhhhh tech demo for $50 lol
It is the Order 1887...Only with better reception (undeserved), because of inflated scores from outlets liking the overall theme (mental illeness), and fanboyish sites inflating the score. This should be in the low 70s, at best.
@@khalidamajoud4114 100% agree!
This is mostly exactly what I expected and feared ever since the gameplay reveal trailer
Play the game
@@Mmachine88no thx. This is barely a game
@@bobbyrivera2951 Okay homie, you're opinion counts for zero then lmao. Get F'ed.
“It was their vision…..” narrative loading…😒😒
@@Mmachine88 only if you already have gamepass. You probably can get the same experience just watching it on youtube and yes I have played the game.
40 minutes of gameplay without pressing any buttons? In a 5 hour game? What the fuck.
Total rubbish. It's 10 minutes of walking, running and climbing until first combat sequence. You tube wannabe gamers need to pay more attention. Senua can run she doesn't have to walk there's even a toggle so she will run all the time without holding a button. Combat is similar to Arcade games like golden axe with regards to buttons.
@@S7eventhHeavenYour Delusional. Combat is the most intense True to life combat in the history of video games. The physics of the characters in combat is unmatched in video game history. Sound also is unmatched in the history of video Games. The graphics are number one in the history of game. A must play with Headphones. Makes you feel as if you are the character. You get a first person experience in a third person point of you. This JACKASS would be giving Hellblade 2 a 11 if it was a PlayStation game!!
@@infuriousone5225exactly 💯
@@infuriousone5225 honestly, I liked combat better in the first game, but I understand why they made the changes they did. Sound and graphics are awesome, sure. I am shocked that this guy put Plague Tale: Requeim above Hellblade 2 tho. Plague tale was absoulte garbage compared to this. If you're going to complain about puzzles and bad combat you can't mention plague tale, because that game was a 4/10 at best and he says that it overshadowed Hellblade 2??? Sure, I agree the first game was better, at least in my opinion, but Hellblade 2 is also a great game with a powerful message behind it.
@@S7eventhHeaven And Hellblade 2 is the most polished game ever released. I have not seen one glitch video. THAT alone should add points to score!!
Man it took me 2 days to finish it and loved everything about it..
someone needs to investigate how the hell it took them six years to make a six hour game. I have nothing against shorter games, but this is absolutely ridiculous.
Employees worked M-W 4 hour shifts free coffee
I know jack shit about game dev but this does seem wild to me.
I cant help but think there's probably some nuances to it that we don't know that explains it, but it is interesting. Rebirth is a big game from what I hear and that was made in 3 years. Technically 4 but a year of that was mainly dedicated to dlc for Remake.
They mocapped everything and due to covid they couldn’t start that work as early as they planned. I believe they only really started the process toward the end of 2021. Because of their desire to mocap every animation, basically everything was on hold until then. You can’t fully design combat when you don’t have the combat animations yet for example.
The team isn't big at all.
I preordered an Xbox Series X specifically to play Starfield and Hellblade 2. I regret that decision so badly.
Same. Luckily I have ps5 and switch too. But I’m selling my Xbox after this. Everything will come to ps5 and if it doesn’t, who cares. They make horrible exclusives.
This my point if you think for this whole generation Xbox won’t have games sell the console to someone who will like it then I’ve had both consoles since ps2 og xbox days I’ve never once got untill the oh u a fan boy thing none off us own stock in these companies or work for them it’s not that serious to me I play what I like on both consoles if hell blade wack ima just say it’s ass and go play something else 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️ and based on these reviews the only thing ima be mad at is downloading this shit 😂😂😂
Loll... Well that's a spectacular fail. Sorry man don't mean to insult you but you have to admit the Series consoles were a waste of time and nobody should buy another system from these fools
I bought mine because I can't stand ps controllers and I gears of war is my favorite franchise of all time. I only bought my Playstation tor God of war ragnarok and that's the only game I've ever downloaded on my Playstation. It literally just sits in dust otherwise lol
@@CaptainBoltoks not anyone's fault you have shit taste for controllers and most games bud.
Hellblade 2 had twice the amount of development time as A Plague Tale Requiem and its a third the playtime as Requiem. Requiem visuals are also absolutely fantastic and the story telling is very good. I absolutely loved the last chapter of that game.
Wait…the only combat you have is of people roughly the same size as you??? What happened to the second trailer’s fight against the giant?! Was that false marketing?
I'm playing through the game right now, not too far in but I hope this isn't the case
There’s no false marketing, I just finished the game. No trailer shows actual gameplay combat vs a giant. You might have got certain impressions or expectations from trailers but that’s your mind at work. There’s nothing sneaky about the game. Play it. I enjoyed it but it’s a bit of a niche experience in my opinion. A lot of people won’t like it 🤷♂️
@@redletterl78 i aint paying $49.99 for 5 hours of gameplay.
spoiler ahead :
there are 2 "giant" fights in this game, but they're done in a platforming manner, not in a combat one : the giant sends waves of lava/water at you as you run from shelter to shelter until you get close to them, first boss was about freeing the giant of their anger so you'd get closer to chains that you'd hit, rince and repeat until cinematics, the second giant was sorrow themed and so you're trying to get to the eye of the storm it created, once in the center you get your ending cinematic.
Only battles are 1v1 with I'll admit, great transitions, but the gameplay itself is quite boring and feels extremely slow.
Those "fights" I mentionned is when you enter their psyche or something, its a battle that seem to happen in Senua's head, not in reality, where she "reaches" to their pain and heals them or something. Storm giant is the one you saw in the trailer, and the fight starts litterally at the end of the trailer
7 years... That's a shame
Yep. And each year in development was equal to one hour gameplay..
They apparently hadn’t even started Hellblade 2 when the 2019 December trailer came out.
So the game was made in the last 4 years and 2 of those was during a pandemic with their game being mostly motion capture.
Confirmed to have started development in 2020 but still 4 years. Makes me think if Ninja Theory even wanted to make a sequel.
@@JstBringIt this is an equally negative situation if true. Especially considering how many great titles we've gotten that have also gone through pandemic development time
@@JstBringIt And? There are studios that release 2 top games at the same time or one big title with 40 hours of playing time.
The team may be small but what was it called? "With MS money the game will be huge and mega and everything will be great"
NT should now dress warmly if MS rates the success in the same way as with Hi-Fi Rush
The first announcement trailer was a lie and entirely CGI...Full Inengine My As*
When will I escape my desire for "The Order 1887: It's longer" 😫
What is shocking to see the IGN review is how they give it a 8! R u kidding me.
The Order 1886 is a whole lot better game than this
@@asifmetal666 did you play it? i don't think so.
Order 1887 should've been longer. PLEASE!!!
@@asifmetal666I really liked that game. Idk why it was so short but I wish it got a sequel
Bro fr it was such a dope game so next gen too great story would love a sequel
5 years for a 5 hour game pass game is not sustainable. I feel bad but this might be the end of Ninja Theory.
Even worse; 6 years. HellBlade came out in 2018
Why would it be the end that’s dumb to say
@@WillOnCode because they’re producing work that isn’t worth their cost.
@WillOnCode diminishing returns..obviously
@@WillOnCode if tango got closed and put out hfr, nt is getting nuked you live under a rock?
Just finished it myself on PC. As someone that has not played the first game I actually really enjoyed ot overall. I enjoyed the story and visuals but hated the puzzles.
Do yourself a favor and play the first one you will be surprised.
So Ninja Theory is the next studio to be closed?
There are rumors that they won't do that, but that has been said about other studios too and we know how that turned out lol
Most likely. Just wait for the next quarterly reports.
I hope so. It'd be annoyingly unfair to see Tango got cut but NT didn't.
Jez Corden has said they've had another game greenlit
i mean Ninja deserved it tho
Sega released 7 Yakuza games in the time span between Hellblade and Hellblade 2, not counting the three games in the Legacy Collection
In my opinion Yakuza series would benefit from slower releases, making stories tighter and gameplay more polished.
chad Sega vs virgin Xbox studios
And they're better too
@@aaaaaaa9200I’ve had enough of the Japanese developer dick sucking. You don’t like this game, that’s fine, but don’t make Japan out like they’re some kind of messiah. Especially since 90% of Square Enix’s games suck now and Capcom is really bending over to the microtransaction trend as of late.
And some of these games are 100ish hours long if you want to 100% them. Insane amount of content and all of them are very enjoyable imo. I really like the Judgement series.
This is why there was no marketing, we all knew this game wouldn’t be anything groundbreaking. I just don’t get it, with how many people are in the studios there has to be ideas and creative ambition to make new big games. Maybe Xbox just has to go through the phase of games we had in the beginning of the last gen where we’re trying things out and getting a foothold but who knows if these studios will learn and get another chance. I know they said it’d be a short game but like…really, at the end of the day these are video games. People joke on ps4 titles as walking simulators but they have fun padded out gameplay most of the time, with lots to experience. For what hellblade 2 is, it’s cool, but their ambitions were a bit misplaced and should’ve been higher. This is Ryse son of Rome : Take 2. Ryse arguable gets a pass being from back then and more of a step into the new gen. Maybe this is the same, but because the idea was that ps5 and series x was advertise as the new gen, it’s a disappointment considering the games we’ve gotten don’t feel like a leap from where we were. Hopefully we get some big improvements by the time of the real next gen. Hype for Indiana jones though.
You think Indiana jones is going to be any better?! 😂😂 how are you not seeing a pattern with Xbox?
I'm both sad and unsurprised that Hellblade 2 is not that great. Back when I heard they were doing a sequel I was like 'What else is there to explore in a sequel?'. I feel like at most they should've made a short dlc to the original to elaborate on some of the characters Senua hears then move on with another IP.
I’m a PlayStation fan and find your takes fair. You don’t just shit on Sony for the sake of it, so I respect your work.
A shame there's no others like him in that vile fanbase
I agree some folks just can't handle facts ...the comparison matty said are very sound
@@MichaelM28
There's MytsicRyan he's an awesome PlayStation centric channel that doesn't play "muh console warz"
@@mutalixYeah Man Ryan is a very professional dude and I've seen him calling out Sony for their bad and greedy moves again and again and that definitely shows his professional integrity. Even though he's PlayStation centric I've never seen him shit on Xbox even a single time and when something big or bad happens at Xbox he just mentions it like the news rather than clickbait garbage.
I’m a PS Fan too but I find Matty and COG tolerable & reasonable Xbox fans lol.
I was a bit shocked people don’t like him from the intro.
No, Matty, I'm a Playstation fan, and I love you
Same
You shouldn't be a fan of any company, just play on the best platform which is of course PC that gets dam near everything :P
Cringe @@Battleneter
@@Fablemahn Nah he has a point. PC gets everything. 50 years of gaming
@@Fablemahn Why is that cringe? Seems people tend to overuse that word nowadays.
Wait why am i finding out hellblade came out today from a youtube review after googling Hades 2 review… was there no advertisement budget? Like i don’t even remember anyone on the timeline tweeting about it.
They didn’t advertise it bc they knew it’s trash and Xbox wants it to fail so they can close down the studio in a couple months
My god 🤦♂️. This has had trailers and previews. If you follow games on major sites like IGN, Gameinformer and Eurogamer you would have noticed ages ago.
Xbox games disappointing???? Lmao the only people surprised by this are Xbox fans. Everyone else knew it wasn’t going to be good
Have you played the game?
I respect your opinion but I have to disagree on this one. This game is a great continuation to where the first one left off. Both the combat & audio are improved. As for the puzzles I feel they were a little more complex in the first but I appreciate the extra variety & more casual nature of them here. I understsnd not everyone liked the first games puzzles. As for the story by the end we get a completely different Senua then the one basically just out for revenge at the end of Sacrifice. Playing these back to back was an absolute treat. I hope we get a 3rd 🙏
After playing Hellblade 2 I'm surprised by all the negativity. This game is a technological wonder and an incredible demonstration of the next generation of gaming. Breathtaking graphics, cinematic gameplay alongside a remarkable story. Hellblade 1 set the foundation and Hellblade 2 built a whole damn house! It was a pleasure and an honor to play this game from beginning to end.
Hold the left thumb stick up. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇👏👏👏👏👏
Matty… pay no attention to the haters. Your opinion is your opinion.
Idk with the new wave is hating Xbox so he might get more people agreeing with him than disagreeing lol. But it’s just his opinion.
@youderpy2795 game already has a lot of positivity behind it, and it might go up a little or down a little, but they don't usually have a drastic shift, but who knows
@youderpy2795 game already has a lot of positivity behind it but it might go down a little or up a little but they don't usually change so drastically but who knows
@@youderpy2795cry harder xbot
Game is trash deal with it
Ninja Theory is going to get shut down isn't it?
I hope so. 7 years for this??
their next game is already greenlit according to Eurogamer today.
Who cares. A 5 hour game??
Ya, I say most likely so
No da, 5 hours of content over 7 years, what where they doing that whole time
Looks like Ninja Theory Blew 90% of the budget on Visuals 💀
Stick to your guns, Matty, no one is hating you over here, always been thankful to the information you provide. Thanks for the review, and the money you saved me.
The late review embargo made me nervous...dang
8/10 on metacritic is very good though
@@kylemartin8991 Yeah that’s good, but I think most people was expecting HellBlade 2 to score in the high 80s, and low 90s on Metacritic
Cracked at 9am for PC.
@@kylemartin8991 until you go find the three runes...... and then walk and then go find the three runes......
@kylemartin8991 it's 6/10 the Gane was 7 years in dev, a sequel to a critically acclaimed game, doesn't improve on the first whatsoever and isn't a new studio.. ninja theory deserves to get shut down 😂 everyone giving this game getting 8/10 is generous😊
Matty described this game as a 6-hour movie. Most movies on average are about 2 hours, in my country I pay £5 to go see a movie. I'm struggling to justify why this game should be worth more than about £15, it's £50 on Steam. I know it's not all about playtime and visually this game is stunning, but no way am I paying anywhere close to £50 for this.
Uhhhhh its on gamepass
Buy Hades 2 instead
@@dtube441it's not worth a membership
Watch a walkthrough on RUclips, they are already up
You guys got a huge steal then. Movies in Canada cost about $15-18 CAD
And this SonyMattyPlaysFamboy played the first one? Ohh matty your review is 3/10.
So I just finished the game and absolutely couldn't disagree with Matty more. It was fkin phenomenal. Yes, there were a few parts drawn out but I was invested entirely in the story and characters. The graphics are simple Fucking astonishing, the sound design is impeccable, the combat is fantastic. I cannot recommend this game enough. Length of the game was also fine. Beat it in 8 hours 12 mins.
I finished it too yesterday, and it was terrible! 90% of the game is Senua walking somewhere!! 😆
Absolutely. This game is my current GOTY until something else as good drops this year
Its just an interactive movie
Kinda like God of war.....that everyone seems to love. Yet there were tons of complaints about the gameplay, and it being more like a movie.
@@KC-lg8qfthat game has a hundred times more gameplay than this. This is what idiots like you see sony games as.
@@KC-lg8qfnever compare this turd to God of War ever again.
@@KC-lg8qf😂😂😂. Pathetic. God of War has a deeper and more polished and refined gameplay esp the combat.
@@nayyarrashid4661 does it though? There were a lot of complaints about the gameplay of the last game....
I understand Ninja Theory is not as big as Naughty Dog or those other AAA studios, but there's absolutely no excuse for a 5 hour game to take 7 years to make AND charge 50$.
Heavenly Sword and Enslaved....were amazing games. Fun and great stories. And people didn't support them. We should have gotten sequels but that's our own fault... Hellblade was them pivoting....they made it for cheap and made a tidy profit. But they're never gonna be huge successes.... I totally agree that Ninja Theory was Naughty Dog level. If only we'd given them the chance. Imagine they'd made a Heavenly Sword 2 now....with their current skills.
@@wkadalieif only they got a chance? My dude pretty much no other studio today got as much of a free chance as they did with this game and it's a 5 hour disappointment
@@silverback1074 Not really...like I said Heavenly Sword...and Enslaved were big AAA games.....that massively under performed. If people had massively supported them with those two amazing titles. Things might be different....Hellblade 1 was made on a budget. So when they were bought by Microsoft..that was probably a selling point. And I bet they went massively over budget for this one. So no i don't think they're in a good position.
@@wkadalieninja theory on naughty dog level? talking about delusion maybe?
bruh, just play it on Gamepass and move on mate
Imagine releasing this kind of product after a ton of trailers and announcements
When you’re trying to appeal to both sides for views, but then they both end up hating. Stop pretending to be someone, be yourself.
If sonys games are movies, what is hellblade 2?
A SHORT SLIDESHOW
Its an episode of an incompletw tv show.
A video game…god this argument is sooo tired
😂
@@turkiedurkie4895 Think it just shows how dumb that narrative was in the first place. It's like people who say "Nintendo games are kid games!"
People come up with childish ways to downplay good games on rival platforms.
@@idakev yup it is. Nothing wrong with cinematic games like detroit become human, until dawn or hellblade.
The Xbox cult is mad at Matty for being honest LOL
Nah he's smoking crack.
Hellblade 2 is awesome so far.
Sony ponies are just jealous
@@dcmastermindfirst9418 I don’t think a single PlayStation player is jealous of this game
@@brandondrake69 I would be.
But they can enjoy their shitty remasters I guess.
@@dcmastermindfirst9418 I think ps players will be fine not pushing the left stick for 3 hours
@@thedonzhorzh At least it's a NEW game.
;)
I remember seeing that studio present their game at an animation festival when they first formed. I am starting to believe big corporations may be bad for video game developments.
One console got a Mid Blade, and the other got a Stellar Blade.
Both have the same critic score funny enough. Stellar Blade having a higher user score only because of culture war warriors defending its honor. Both mid in certain aspects.
We all saw this coming from a mile away. Instead of going bigger and badder they decided to do Hellblade 1.5
It's worse than hellblade 1
@@brunolopes5482😂😂😂 you haven't played the game
@@MrHarnaldo i did.. 3 hours of it... It's boring...
@@brunolopes5482 It's fine if you find it boring but in what way is it worse than the first game?
@@MrHarnaldo he played 3 hours… basically half the game 😆
Walkblade 2
Did anyone laughed during the credits whenn there was that lonely UI guy? ....like, what did you do? ...there is none. xD
Whelp if Tango Gameworks got axed even after the success of Hi-fi Rush I don't think Ninja Theory is going to be around much longer.
They will be, and Gamers will be puzzled as to why?
Ninja Theory has NO VALUE, yet Microsoft will not disband them.
Watch. 😅🤣😂
@@MinisterofViolationsthey made the second worst dmc and I don’t get how people have faith in them.
99% cinemantics, 1% game. 👎
Got it in one...if a game is nearly all story and little gameplay I might as well watch it on RUclips
I bet in 3 months there getting shut down
Did you not play the original? These are story driven games
@@Jd-kw9yz I played it for a couple hours but I did not feel intrigued enough to continue playing :/
@al_my_pal please riddle me. Why you would want to play the sequel to a game you didn't like
Yeah, Ninja Theory is not getting on Naughty Dogs level in any universe
Thank god. Keep that shit far away.
Ikr ..that's a wild take from him
I don't feel anything for either of them 😐
why would anyone want to be on that level of shit?
Yall can have Neil Druckmann lmfao
50 Bucks for 5 hours of 80% Cutscences, 15% walking and 5% combat 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
TRASH
I would be a jackass and say that sounds like your typical Metal Gear Solid game outside of Phantom Pain (shots fired!) but those at least have 10% combat next to 50 hours of cutscenes/cinematics 🤣
I like Metal Gear you snowflakes!
$50? where did you buy this game? for me it was like $20
@@lukababilodze4283 Its the official Price, ok when you are on steam and PC its easy to get it cheaper, but just on consol. Ok most xbots are not buying games using Gamepass. End of the Story this Game makes no Money, Studio will be closed and Xbox and Gamepass will end as a CoD streaming Platform
@@lukababilodze4283 It's 50 on steam
Glad to see the steam reviews differ a bit from your opinion, if only for the sake of the survival of Ninja Theory. Hopefully, critics and other gamers like this a bit more than you do and they don’t get shut down
Wow AAA games are going to shit so much that even walking simulators are being affected by it lmao
Saw this coming, there's a reason we've seen almost nothing of the game before launch
No wonder there wasent much advertisment
You've seen the reviews yes....? More outlets than matty's channel
@JupiterRhys na I can't read... of course I've seen other reviews
I'll have to see for myself. Hellblade was a walking simulator and I expected Hellblade 2 to be more of the same, but a pretty looking one.
It's crazy how Hellblade 2 learned nothing from the first game, while Plague Tale Requiem improved in every aspect from the first game and was overall a marvelous game.
Playing Plague Tale Requiem right now. It doesn't have the hyperrealistic graphics and insane mocap that Hellblade 2 does, but it doesn't have to, it's got heart, it's exciting, and its pacing, unlike that of HB2's, is amazing, and it's so gruesome to look at sometimes, but always balances it out with beauty. HB2 tried with some beautiful vistas, but it was so insistent on everything looking drab as hell, even the pretty vista rewards fell short.
You know why you found Hellblade 2 disappointing? Because it plays like the first game. Super mid. I just don't get the blinders people put on when it comes to Hellblade. The "gameplay" is a joke. It looks great, sounds great, has a neat, novel story...and that's it. A glorified tech demo. A Plague Tale 2 is a superior game in every way.
TLOU2, Uncharted 4, Ryse, and The Order: 1886 are also games that people criticized for being interactive movies but they offered far more fun and interesting gameplay than Hellblade's "look at this, look at that, button mash, gameplay". Even The Order had more replay value than either Hellblade game, and it was only a 12hr game.
$10 per hour…insane
You poor bro
The game is 6 hours on average, and it's 45 dollars, ur comment makes no sense 😅
@@jvue7297 nah bro don’t do me like that
@@ryanguy6789 so about that "how to find a remote job" video in your playlist...
@@ghoulex642 Oh, so it's 7.5 dollars per hour instead of 10! 😮 Now that's what I call cheap!
After DmC they said yeaahh… we don’t do “gameplay” anymore. Everyone said Limbo was cool tho!
Information: This is somebody's opinion, you can play the game and make your own mind up, just because Matty doesn't enjoy the game, doesn't mean you won't. As you can see online the positive reviews outweigh the negative reviews. People are entitled to their own opinions, so lets try and be civil. It's only a game at the end of the day, it's not that serious.
This was one of my most anticipated Xbox games and man I didn’t like it. And I was blown away by the first one.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who kinda saw this as Xbox’s “The Order: 1886”. Called this since they showed it at the Game Awards
Though I feel like this game is a bit of a parody of what people think PlayStation games are. Those games still acknowledge that their still VIDEO GAMES
But the Odor actually had a pretty gold story. This felt incomplete. Sort of reminds me of those episodic games back in the day.
@@cardassa Not to mention, The Order (When it allowed you) the gameplay is fun lol
Getting hate from fanboys is the biggest compliment you can get as a critic.
What is bizarre, is the fact that the number 1 complaint of the first game was the puzzles and how many there were…….so in their infinite wisdom they decided…….to double down and do more puzzles……….what?, the puzzles in the second game, unlike the first also have this……stink of only being there to pad out the games run time rather than being integrated into the story like they were in the first game.
The puzzles feel like they are there to pad the game time out, because they are at best really easy, or annoying and leaving you scratching your head to try and find the thing that matches the symbol you need to find out in the environment.
The combat also took a nose dive, (seriously, why did you get rid of the glowy sword mechanic from the first game??.) and why are we fighting one enemy at a time?, when we could handle fighting more than one in the first game just fine? The second game just feels like a big step backward in gameplay when compared to the first game which is baffling to me. (It makes you think: “man, how do you fuck this up?”.)
And the voices, it felt like they took what they did with them in the first game, and then smooshed it down, turning them into an obnoxious mess that really just outstays their welcome, and will never shut up even while characters are talking in cutscenes, which is just annoying, they grate on your nerves as your playing, and you get to the point where you just want them to shut up for 5 seconds because they bring absolutely nothing to the game, unlike the first Hellblade where they were a pretty big part of it.
And Senua suddenly having to deal with giants just felt so out of place, (they also started to treat her psychosis as a superpower, rather than a mental illness that she needs to work through like in the first game which I found jarring.) at first I thought the giants were just in her head, but then the other characters started interacting and talking about them, and then that just took me out of the game.
And that ending……wtf even was that, just awful.
All n all, it’s just another disappointing game released by one of the studios Microsoft bought that got barfed up onto gamepass, so nothing new….
I loved the first game but man…….the second one was wholly a huge disappointment, and it just feels like everything that made the first game special was just thrown to the wayside, they just completely missed the mark.
Ok so what the hell were you all expecting?
Because to me it sounds like you never played the first game and completely forgot Ninja Theory is not Naughty Dog, is not Insomniac Games and it definitely is just a studio that was there for making the game they wanted to make.
"Xbox bought them to make blockbusters" Did they? Was Hellblade a Blockbuster? Was it a 10 million copy seller?
So again, what the hell were you expecting? Hellblade was already a very experimental narrative game.
There's a reason xbox didn't asvertise this game
I wonder where that "70 hours of combat mocap" went
65 hours of reshoots lmao
Went straight on showing over the shoulder looks of the actress and constant emotion face ...like in every Freaking trailer of the game smh
@@11d3adly11 wtf is "constant emotion face"
@@lockekappa500screaming non stop lol
@@lockekappa500 Acting apparently...
If Matty, an Xbox worshiper says this game sucks it must really be dogshit. 😂
they have somehow put a lot of positive reception behind this game on social media . i knew this game wasn’t good
new level of xbox gaming - lightning torches lolz
Good bye ninja Theory
I’m confused, what were you doing for the first 40 minutes ? Sat in the menu? Because I got into my first combat fight within the first 10 mins 😂
Seriously! after this review I dreaded starting the game but it picked up quickly.
Honestly all this negativity made me want to play the game it’s not bad at all do I like these types of games no but it’s HellBlade it’s a slow cinematic game
For real! So many people are being mislead. He also said the torch section was an hour, yet he beat the game in 5 hours? It feels like expectations were way too high for a sequel to a very niche indie game.
Tbh I didn’t care for the first one, just not my type of game.
I remember when xbox fanboys said that God of war ragnarok is cinematic movie game, but at the same time they were hyping up Hellblade 2.... also they were hating on the first Hellblade for the same thing...
Xbox fanboys HAVE to do a lot of mental gymnastics in order to justify their undying loyalty to Xbox. Otherwise they'd have to accept the reality of the fact their favorite console is doing POORLY this gen. No exclusives. No GOTY- winning games. And MS keeps shutting down studios. They're DESPERATE for a win, but I stead keep getting handed Ls.
@@aries4378 This is a great game though and I own bought systems.
THANK you! Damn you don’t like the game don’t like it. Don’t say it’s not a game. That’s just ignorance to creativity and really limits what we can do with video games. People are boring af
GOW is a movie game, you get the same experience just watching it on youtube.
Hellblade is similar but hellblade definitely atleast has some anxiety driven moments that GOW doesn't have.
@@Lolatyou332 With that logic the old GoW games were also movie games, hell the old ones didn't even let you skip cutscenes. GoWR has 30+ hrs of gameplay that mostly consists of combat. The game has 3 main weapons with fully unlockable movesets, magic powers(which futher have unlockable moves) and skill trees. The new DLC consists ENTIRELY of combat, just because it has cutscenes and it's linear doesn't make it a "movie game".
Also, shout out to the 5k of us here at 5 am already. You're doing something right, Matt !
watching this at 11am in Central Europe , Just sayin
Other time zones exist lol.
Thanks for calling out this crap "game." These bad playable movies are ruining gaming. Best review I've seen sums it up well.
A joyless slog of barely interactive entertainment and a muddled portrayal of mental illness… that just so happens to have the best graphics ever on a video game console.
Having just finished the game, and played the first too, it’s funny to read all the presumptive comments here. Just play the game. It’s not going to work for everyone. I really enjoyed it, but I would say the story is a bit less focused and the combat has been paired down to a more cinematic concept. People need to stop thinking that this is some kind of Xbox blockbuster. Ninja Theory is still a relatively small studio that has made a niche game.
Just listened to the Friends Per Second podcast where they interviewed the game director - the guy looked and sounded dead inside. He clearly knew what was coming...
imagine working 7 years of your life on this piece of shit game lol
@@anis6800 4 years, Bleeding Edge was released too
@@imo098765 thanks for reminding me they spent 7 years making two pieces of shit lmao
Or you know it could be that his tired from working day in and day out on the game? I mean why the disrespect for devs that genuinely want to make a good game just miss the mark.
@anis Will whine about games being hollow soulless shells of live services and battlepasses but simultaneously shut on the people who try to make something different.
@@nathanmitchell7961 No disrespect to the guy, I’m sure he wants to make the best game possible. But his answers were so hollow and clearly scripted - I’m sure he’s on a very short leash from Microsoft in what he can and can’t say. Clearly a lot of pressure on him - I’m not saying I’d be able to cope any better
6-7 years for a 5 hour game is just unacceptable. Even $50 may be too much for that length.
Especially cause you just can buy game pass for 1 month
I really wonder why such a short game is on game pass, who even buys the game?
$30 on cdkeys
Resident Evil 3 remake was about 4 hours.
4 or 5 years dead bird
@@cor.tenebrarumit was also 80% gameplay at least
When you can watch one of those “Hellblade 2 the movie” videos and feel like you pirated the game just by watching it.
It’s funny because with games that are more story focused, there’s no reason to really play when you can watch your favourite RUclipsr play it.
Hmm... Are you sure you played Hellblade 1? Its pretty much the same thing as what you're describing this as. Why's this one bad compared to that? Beside looking good, Hellblade 1 was some boring, puzzle solving, fight every once in a while, walking around slowly piece of bullsht. It's like yall are just creating content without proper reseach for views. The first game established that Hellblade is a graphics show with story telling so why are yall acting like Hellblade 2 was suppose to be something else? I ask again . Sid you even play Hellblade 1?
Man, is Xbox ever going to get a W? I’m even skeptical of Indy and Avowed now. No one seems to know how to make a great game over there anymore. Well, except Tango... cut for making everyone look bad.
It's literally getting great reviews my dude, one RUclipsr isn't everyone's opinion 😂
Even ACG loves it.
@@TheTennesseeFistMachine I mean, it's hard to take it seriously when you look at all these Xbox sites giving it 100/100 and it looks iffy asf. PC reviews however are much more realistic, tons of 8/10 but mainly because of the graphics. It's a polarizing game, and even then, HI-FI rush got universal praise and look what they did with the studio.
Considering Outer Worlds got a lot of valid negative criticism after the "bethesda btfo" hype died down, I'm not expecting much.
You're only skeptical of Avowed now? Have we been watching the same gameplay? It's looked pretty bad for a while.
@@TheTennesseeFistMachine unfortunately this was the first one I came across. Glad it's getting reviewed well by others. Was always going to check it out on game pass anyway, but I was also expecting disappointment so a bit of confirmation bias kicked in early.
I didn’t have high hopes for more fleshed out gameplay, none of the marketing material gave me confidence in that. However, the fact you’re suggesting it got WORSE, is bewildering to me. How tf could they have managed that lol and if the story isn’t justifying the repetitive, shallow mechanics, idk man. That really is disappointing. I’m sure it’s a looker though.
YMMV, other reviews say the combat gameplay got better. Maybe it all depends on expectations that an increased budget will increase runtime?
I don't think the combat is worse, I wouldn't trust this guy. Mainly because I dont think the combat could possibly get worse from the first game.
@@lockekappa500 He didn't say the combat got worse, he said it got leaner and that he loved the combat sections. The problem is there isn't enough of it.
@@kookiemunster-ni4yg So just like the first game. There were way more puzzle and walking sections in the first game than combat sections. This game is essentially the same but combat is imo better than first game and I hated the puzzles in first game and here while theyre still here theyre more bearable so the second game is still better than first game for me.
You sound like you played the game. Play the fn game and you'll know the combat isn't repetitive 🤡
Yoooo the fanboys on Twitter on in full meltdown mode over this. Dealing with their favorite corpo’s plastic box’s drastic change in strategy has them in full conspiracy theory mode.
Yup, they are already begging for it to come to PS5.
Not just in Twitter but in RUclips too
The game was priced at $15.99 in my region and I enjoyed it a lot and it was worth it took me around 9 to 10 hours to finish it.
The game felt more like the interactive stories like House of Ashes games which I like. I would definitely recommend this one.
I am SHOCKED...
I remember when Xbox fans were complaining about PlayStation games being short, and the shortest ones are 3-4 times the length of hell blade 2.
What games are you refering to? I don't think anyone's necessarily happy about the length though.
@@JeffZ1028 Spider man 2
Tbh i still don’t like ps exclusives, i just also don’t like helblade. Though stellar blade looks pretty fun, thats probably one i would try.
Oh they love bitching about 30FPS cinematic walking simulator... Well look what they got! 😂
@@nabieladrian Not only 30 fps but also a walking sim, they got the whole thing in one package lmao
I felt Hellblade 1 was ok but was too short too, and I don't seem to remember many complaints about that. Now if everyone is complaining that Hellblade 2 is too short...
Though as far as I remember the first one was also around 6 hours ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I just renember xbots saying GOW, Uncharted, Horizon Forbidden West were walking Sims, cinematic sims, walking art shows ..now, those games were bigger no, vast compared to this after-school special.
At least xbox has more variety beyond walking Sims.
That's all Sony does
@@dread1262Ratchet and Clank, Returnal, GT7, Helldivers 2, Spider-Man 2, how are any of these “walking simulators” ??
@@dread1262 what exactly has xbox done this gen aside hi fi rush???? a mediocre halo? LMFAO
@@Adrianhernandez-ex8cjhalo infinite is really good.only problem it has is micro transactions
@@dread1262 Bro you sound brain dead. gow and tlou are good games, but they are not the only thing sony has produced. Hell we just got stellarblade on top of cristophers comment below. Hifi rush is arguably the best exclusive game xbox has dropped in recent years. That's fucking sad
I'm a Playstation fan and started to see your videos because of this drama 😅 but we need competition, if xbox go down like Sega we all lose...
I can't say I'm surprised.
Ye, the first one was cool, short, tbh It did not need a sequel.
Matty you are trippin😂 I thought the first game was alright, so I didn't really expect anything from the sequel, but I gotta be honest, it's better in every aspect. The story is more interesting imo, they (mostly) removed the annoying "find shapes in surroundings" riddle (theres two at the beginning of the game), that the first one threw at you every 10 minutes and thank goodness they fixed their shitty combat encounters. They no longer feel super random and they keep them 1v1 (fighting multiple enemies in the first game with that camera angle was awful).
It's obviously still mostly a "walking simulator" but I mean it's a sequel to Hellblade... if you enjoyed the first one, you will definitely like this one as well and if you had the same gripes with the first game as I, you will like the second one a hundred times more than it's predecessor xD
“Snoozer time gaming” caught me off guard 😂
It's kinda crazy honestly.
It seems that EVERY studio that Microsoft acquires, gets no growth. Sure, they might staff up. But their games don't feel like they're expanding.
Hellblade 2 looks great! But it's just more Hellblade 1... after 7 years...
Halo Infinite, had an open world! But the open world was worse than every other open world. Multiplayer had tons of issues at launch. Halo 5 looked and played better imo.
Starfield, was more Fallout / Skyrim, but far worse.
Gears 5 still uses the same restrictive ACT structure.
Forza Horizon 5 is great! But it's the same structure as Forza Horizon 1.
Forza Motorsport... The same.
Avowed looks to be on the same scale as the Outer Worlds.
State of Decay 3 will prob have the same mechanics State of Decay 2.
I think RARE is the only studio that felt like they "expanded". Going from 3D Platformers, Viva Pinata, Kinet to a fully open world, online Pirate game.
But I don't know if it's just studios not wanting to really push boundaries, or Xbox continuing with their no-managment strategy. Whatever, at this point, it's crazy that 7yr dev time games are beaten out by games from 10 years ago.
Ok that's it :)
Your honest feedback is what led to me subscribing to you. I was looking forward to this game, i will still check it out, but won't have my expectations set that high.
I'll be very surprised if this Studio hasn't been closed by the end of the year.
Coming from someone that just played Hellblade 1 for the first-time last week and rolled right into Hellblade 2 the day after completing the first, I think the game is an appropriate and worthy sequel. I didn't have years of nostalgia and hype setting my expectations up high on a precarious framework. I literally played them back-to-back and from my perspective the second game plays just like the first. The first game had plenty of sections with no real gameplay where you were just walking forward while the voices, narration, and set design drove the story. There were long puzzles that were "lighting torches for an hour", but again, the story was progressing during these times. This same thing is happening in the second game.
To say that the first game did it right, and the second did it wrong (when they did it basically the same) tells me that you might have some rose tint on your glasses as you look back in your memory of the first game, where now you are looking at the sequel with fresh eyes.
I do think it is fair to criticize the fighting mechanics and the lack of improvement there, but I didn't go into the second game expecting to find a great fighter game, I was looking to experience a story told in way that I've never felt outside of the first game.
Too long of a comment for the hating club here. Just play your games and stay away from this negativity
5-6 hours for a linear ass game had to be exceptional. I was worried when they announced the $40 price tag that it wouldn't be that great. The idea that it's ok because it's on gamepass is no longer a good reason.
yeah they are done...
Matty I've been playing for less than 20 min and I have had my fair encounters of fights already, you said the first 40 min is just you walking?
How it took you 1 hour to reach the first combat? Most people I watched took 20 minutes, and before that there are 2 puzzles
That’s still not a flex bro.
20 mins of walking 🚶 in a video game when you first pop it in doesn’t make a good first impression
Very nice to see an honest review. Game reviewers will hype the reviews on this game because it basically showcases their life with mental illness.
This times 100. A story about mentally ill woman? They know who reviews these games don't they?
IGN spent their whole review speaking only on sights and sounds...says it all
@@seancdavis13 calling other people mentally ill is pretty mentally ill. Get over yourself