Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 review: a captivating tale of darkness and desolation
Review info Platform reviewed: Xbox Series X Available on: Xbox Series X|S, PC Release date: May 21, 2024 Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 is a narrative-driven action game almost like no other. Developer Ninja Theory’s sequel to the 2017 game Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice delivers a harrowing, bleak, and heavy experience that will live long in the memory. Subtle and unobtrusive traversal, exploration, and combat mechanics collide with world-beating audio-visual design, out-of-this-world motion capture, and stellar character performances to bring a captivating adventure across Iceland in an unmissable tale. While Senua’s journey in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 starts in relative simplicity - to confront slave traders and end the theft of her fellow Orkney people by Icelandic raiders - it soon becomes something much deeper and darker as she crosses a clutch of distinct and rugged Icelandic landscapes that are rich in a thick sense of place and atmosphere. Some parts of that ...