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Despite strong reviews, Hellblade 2 is struggling on Steam
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I played a couple hours last night on game pass. I have a 3060 ti and a real cruddy cpu (ryzen 5 2600)
The game is absolutely gorgeous and I was surprised how well it ran on my machine. It's a UE5 game though so obviously there were plenty of stutters. Definitely not the worst I've seen though. Much better than any frostbite game. So thats good. The audio design in headphones is also probably the best I've ever experienced in a game. Shit had me genuinely crawling in my skin when a random scary ass voice would start whispering at the back of my neck. Really cool stuff.
The gameplay though? Boring as fuck. I had assumed they would evolve the gameplay somewhat from the first game. I would have thought the devs would have realized that finding symbols hidden in a gray ass environment is about as engaging as a dollar store crossword book. But nope. It's pretty much exactly the same as the first game. I don't get it. Why devote so much money and resources into a game that just isn't engaging to play? Sure, it's gorgeous and sounds incredible. But if that's all your game has going for it just make a CGI TV show or something.
I never got the hype of the first game. Cool idea sounds and visuals, but the gameplay was trash. I felt burned paying for the first, no way I’m touching this one with real money. I’ll wait for a $5 sale maybe, but that’s it.
I bet a lot of people are in the same boat.
I thought the ambience of the first one was amazing, but that the gameplay was boring as shit.
Played a little bit of the first game and while aesthetically pleasing I couldn't get into the actual gameplay. I'd watch the fuck out of a Hellblade show, though.
That's kind of Ninja Theory's thing. Heavenly Sword was boring to play, but had an interesting premise. Enslaved was literally planned to be a movie and had the gameplay added on after that. The only game of theirs that I can think of that had good gameplay was DmC: Devil May Cry, and the story was absolute garbage. I don't know why anyone would pick up a game from them when their track record is so lopsided.