Suddenly, the whispers are all around you, and it’s impossible to tell how many people are speaking all at once. They get progressively louder, creeping into your left ear and then through to your right. Throughout the entirety of Hellblade, she carries his skull wrapped in cloth, unwavering in her quest to bargain with the Norse goddess of death, Hela.Īs the opening credits roll, Senua paddles past burned and staked corpses.
After discovering that her lover was sacrificed to Norse gods, she embarks on a vision quest to retrieve his soul from them. Hellblade:Senua’s Sacrifice is a beautiful, haunting action adventure game that captures the imagination and soul.The game opens with Senua, a Celtic warrior with severe psychotic mental illness, returning to her village following a Viking raid. The game is visually stunning and the cinematic use of shadows, dungeons, horror, hallucinations and violence creates a spooky, haunting, harrowing universe for the heroine’s quest. The game is extremely well researched for both it’s historical content and sensitive use of Senua’s psychosis to provide the narrative. If Senua does not succumb to the Perma Death or her demons, she completes her quest and is offered salvation from mental torment in the form of acceptance, understanding and release of the deaths of her mother who was killed by her father in his attempt to eradicate the ‘darkness’ he saw in her, and for the death of Dillion. Another constant feature of the game are three dimensional puzzles to be resolved so another door into consciousness can be opened an underscoring of Senua’s psychosis A potentially fatal flesh rotting disease strikes Senua if combat fails. Terrifying demons emerge from dark places, and combat ensues.
Visual and aural hallucinations and illusions as part of her evident psychological trauma, of which we glean more understandingĪs the journey progresses. We travel with Senua on her quest to regain the soul of her lover, Dillion, slain in a Viking raid. The effect is creepy and disturbing and serves to keep the gamer in a state of stressful, uneasy anticipation. With headphones, the binaury effect causes the voices in Senua’s head to become the voices in the gamer’s head, also. Set in the grimy, brutal underworld of 9th century Celtic earth in mythical Helheim, Senua, a Pictish warrior, convinced she is possessed, is guided and cajoled by the ‘The Furies’ (voices) which unceasingly plague her. Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice was released on the 8th of August 2017 for Microsoft Windows and Playstation 4, The current lowest price on 05-15-2023 for a Hellblade Senuas Sacrifice PS4 key in the USA is $ 12.23
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