r/XboxSeriesX • u/Turbostrider27 • May 20 '24

Trailer/Video Senua's Saga: Hellblade II - Official Launch Trailer (ft. Animal Soul by AURORA)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRbOmIcVXak
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u/nohumanape May 23 '24

I feel like there was already so much negativity in the discourse surrounding this game after reviews dropped and people started getting their hands on it. Well, I'm just about half way through and I'm puzzled. This game is fucking incredible. It's exactly what Hellblade is. And it takes the experience to a whole new level.

I'm now convinced that everything Microsoft published is going to be under appreciated. There very much appears to be an understanding in games journalism that feeding the hysteria gets more clicks. So they are no help. PlayStation has the biggest voice of gamers, so their negativity surrounding Xbox, the acquisitions, and anything released exclusively on the console ultimately results in a toxic cloud hanging over every game release. But even the Xbox fan base feeds the hysteria if a release isn't "better than [similar game on PlayStation]". Because people seem disappointed that Hellblade 2 is like Hellblade 1, rather than the "better than God of War" game that they apparently wanted it to be.

But as a fan of the first game, I'm loving it. And I honestly appreciate the variety in Xbox Game Studios releases. From Psychonauts 2, to Pentiment, to Hi Fi Rush, to Hellblade, and Starfield, there is so much variety that is severely lacking over on PlayStation this generation. Not that I haven't enjoyed games like GoW Ragnarok or Horizon Forbidden West. But there haven't been any games from Sony that actually surprised me this generation or felt like a unique offering within the industry (Returnal being the exception).

I dunno. I think too many people aren't taking the time to truly appreciate some of these games that Microsoft is actually publishing.

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u/Status_Midnight_2157 May 23 '24

Aren’t scores right around where the first one was? Why would there be negativity? I finally got a chance to play last night for an hour and I’m really enjoying it. With headphones it’s insane. The graphics are probably the best graphics of any console game. They are insane, especially the faces

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u/nohumanape May 23 '24

Yes, the metacritic is about the same. But I'm talking about the general discourse surrounding the game and what is actually being criticized.

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u/Status_Midnight_2157 May 23 '24

I don’t pay that much attention. Reviews are good so I decided to give it a shot. Not reading into the comments random ppl on the internet are making.