Critic Reviews
- When the issues of a game are rolled and stomped by its greatness, then it’s something to invest on if you have some spare.
Leif Rey Bornales · Jun 13, 2024 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - This game took seven years to make, even though it is a relatively short game. Its visuals are so much more realistic than the original title, which was gorgeous for its time. Now, thanks to Unreal Engine 5 and technologies like Nanite, it is amazing.
Dean Takahashi · May 31, 2024 Reviewed on PCRead full review - If you sincerely appreciate masterful visuals, pitch-perfect audio, and visceral story-telling then Senua's Saga: Hellblade II is about as perfect of a game as you can get. However, those looking for substance gameplay-wise will wish there was much more to it.
A.J. Maciejewski · May 23, 2024 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - Hellblade 2 continues Senua's story with grace, confidence, surprising brutality and thundering conviction.
Johnny Chiodini · May 21, 2024 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II delivers a spellbinding adventure packed with cinematic spectacle and story surprises that maintains a surging sense of forward momentum and never wastes a second of its slender run time. Its combat manages to feel consistently intimidating and immediate despite its mechanical simplicity, and its perspective-based puzzles regularly scratch cerebral itches even though they largely rehash or rework concepts from Senua’s previous story. A journey as brutal as it is beautiful delivered with hardware-pushing visuals and persistently absorbing audio, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II is another Viking-worthy feast for the senses that meets the high bar set by its predecessor, even if it never really manages to clear it.
Tristan Ogilvie · May 21, 2024 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - Though Hellblade 2 has the power to force your jaw open and give you goosebumps, too often the whole project ends up feeling like a very expensive tech demo – an absolute tour de force of technical achievement bogged down in its own sense of gravitas and mystery. Keeping you off the stick for so many of its most impactful moments, and not giving you enough to play with when you do have control, hobbles the potential of this visual and aural masterpiece enough to make the whole experience feel like it was constantly trying to find a foothold on that dread Icelandic scree, and never really getting to its feet until you come staggering over the finish line.
Dom Peppiatt · May 21, 2024 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - With too much focus on cinematics and too little on creating an experience that is engaging, Senua's Saga fails to reach the same highs as its predecessor--even if it does look stunning whilst trying.
Jessica Cogswell · May 21, 2024 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - While Hellblade 2 might not set any new standards with its gameplay, from an audio-visual experience standpoint, it's frankly stunning. Hellblade 2 is as close to playing the leading role in a big budget movie as you’re likely to get, and Ninja Theory’s continued coverage on the complexities of severe mental health issues deserves to be commended.
Dan Webb · May 21, 2024 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 is the best-looking video game we've ever played. It sounds incredible, Melina Juergens acts herself inside out, and on a purely technical level this is just next-level stuff all round. However, we still don't feel as though extending Senua's plight into a Saga is a good idea. We remain unconvinced, and it's because this sequel feels like diminishing returns, as we had worried it might. It's not as vital or as unique in 2024, and it goes for bombast as a means of smoothing things over, resulting in a good game, an interesting eight hour romp, but nothing that screams must-play. Weak combat and dull puzzles are just more salt in these wounds, unfortunately.
PJ O’Reilly · May 21, 2024 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - I think you can guess from what I have written that I am in awe of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II. I loved Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and I adore single-player story games, so it was always going to be pretty nailed on that I’d like this one. But even if you didn’t particularly get on with things first time around, I implore you to at least try Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II – it is nothing short of stunning and more than capable of taking your breath away by some of the set pieces.
Gareth Brierley · May 21, 2024 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review
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About the game
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The sequel to the award winning Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Senua returns in a brutal journey of survival through the myth and torment of Viking Iceland. Intent on saving those who have fallen victim to the horrors of tyranny, Senua faces a battle of overcoming the darkness within and without.
Sink deep into the next chapter of Senua’s story, a crafted experience told through cinematic immersion, beautifully realised visuals and encapsulating sound.
Developer: Ninja Theory