Senua's Saga: Hellblade II Review & OT "The hardest battles are fought in the mind, not with the sword".

[Alabtrosmyster]

I still don't get what the constant pauses are during combat animations, this is horrible.

 

[Darth Vader]

I still don't get what the constant pauses are during combat animations, this is horrible.

First thing I noticed during combat, it's horrible. How people can say it's fantastic is beyond me, especially after restarting a TLOU2 play through.

 

[ApolloHelios]

They are QTE fights so those are waits for button prompts lol

 

[2spooky5me]

I saw quite a few people complain about how a lot of fights are 1vs1, but then some off-screen jobber will tackle you, and you have to wait for the animation to play through - no variation.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

They are QTE fights so those are waits for button prompts lol

I was never a fan of Dragon's Lair back in the days.

 

[Swolf712]

I still don't get what the constant pauses are during combat animations, this is horrible.

Because there's no flow to it. All those mocaps they did were just converted into scripted animations that are then summoned by the button presses. The most control you have over the combat is canceling into guard.

It is literally QTEs.

 

[Swolf712]

First thing I noticed during combat, it's horrible. How people can say it's fantastic is beyond me, especially after restarting a TLOU2 play through.

I still don't know how people are saying it's good, or even IMPROVED over Hellblade 1's combat. That actually felt like combat.

 

[saltyashell]

I still don't know how people are saying it's good, or even IMPROVED over Hellblade 1's combat. That actually felt like combat.

I used to joke that Hellblade combat was just a glorified Infinity Blade. HB2 somehow made it's combat even more simplistic and worse than Infinity Blade.

 

[John Elden Ring]

Ninja Theory has taken the mantle from Epic in showing off the best of Unreal Engine 5. With Senua's Saga: Hellblade II on Xbox Series X|S and PC, the team has leveraged Nanite micropolygons, real time global illumination and reflections, movie quality assets, characters and a presentation that is hard to fault. Is this the new benchmark in real time rendering? Our IGN performance review tells all across console and PC.

00:00 Introduction
00:30 The Cinematic Game - A short history
01:48 Unreal Engine 5 Visual Pillars: Materials Lighting & Shadows
04:22: Nanite: The world quality & delivering on the Epic Promise
05:42 Lumen: Real time Global Illumination & Reflections
07:14 MetaHuman: Character models, animation, virtual camera & photorealism
09:04 Sound production, mixing and atmosphere building
11:36 Xbox Series X vs Series S Visual comparison
13:52 Xbox Series X|S Performance testing
15:06 PC Performance scaling, Visual quality,Latency & Vram
18:47 Summary

 

[Petekilla]

What a . Lol

 

[Darth Vader]

What a . Lol

Did that fucking moron say TLOU2 has shit gameplay? I'll give him the GoW thing because that could be subjective, but TLOU2 having incredible gameplay is not subjective in any way, and it obliterates anything XGS has released ever, not just HBII. In fact, it obliterates most 3rd person action games ever released.

 

[Sircaw]

Did that fucking moron say TLOU2 has shit gameplay? I'll give him the GoW thing because that could be subjective, but TLOU2 having incredible gameplay is not subjective in any way, and it obliterates anything XGS has released ever, not just HBII. In fact, it obliterates most 3rd person action games ever released.

I am not a Tlou2 fanboy, but the game's combat was superb, a 10/10.

 

[Plextorage]

I am not a Tlou2 fanboy, but the game's combat was superb, a 10/10.

Same as GOW combat. Claiming it is boring is.... a buffoonery at least. It is far from boring and no.... That's not subjective.

 

[Sircaw]

Same as GOW combat. Claiming it is boring is.... a buffoonery at least. It is far from boring and no.... That's not subjective.

yep, loved Gow combat, nothing wrong with it at all.

 

[Plextorage]

Soon EDGEs review scores will be published. Any predictions? First one was rated 4. My prediction it would be 3 for this one.

 

[Sircaw]

Soon EDGEs review scores will be published. Any predictions? First one was rated 4. My prediction it would be 3 for this one.

9/10

If I am wrong we ban the @Nhomnhom, deal?

 

[Petekilla]

Soon EDGEs review scores will be published. Any predictions? First one was rated 4. My prediction it would be 3 for this one.

I wonder if Jim Sterling will also review this.

 

[Plextorage]

9/10

If I am wrong we ban the @Nhomnhom, deal?

No deal

 

[Swolf712]

9/10

If I am wrong we ban the @Nhomnhom, deal?

I accept your terms.

 

[quest4441]

I wonder if Jim Sterling will also review this.

He gave it an 8, figures this game does attract a certain crowd