Senua's Saga: Hellblade II REVIEW: Outstanding & Not A Fun Game
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II has arrived on Xbox Series consoles and PC. The first game was dark, oppressive, and unique with it's very serious and mature subject matter.
Ninja Theory's sequel continues Senua's journey, with themes of psychosis, depression, anxiety, resolve and empathy.
** The game was played on PC and Xbox using Xbox Game Pass - We have no partnership or affiliation with the dev or publisher **
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About the Gaming Arcadia review & rating system:
There is no perfect way to condense reviews down to a score. BUT scores can still serve a purpose, they can still convey a lot of information in a tiny frame. Our ratings try to consider the vision and ambition of a game, and how well it delivers. Scope & Execution.
Scope - Letter-graded, A-F
A - Typically the AAA budget blockbuster, aiming to be the best what it does - Be it a huge open world packed with content, a cinematic action game that spares no expense on presentation, or anything else. Big games
B - Aiming to be the best at what it does, pushing boundaries, but with a tight scope
C - Likely to be a moderately sized team effort, but not too lavish on production value and not pushing boundaries
D - A small, tightly focused project
E - Small-small, perhaps quite singular in focus
F (U?) - There is no discernible ambition. Troll project
S - Unicorn. A game that sincerely attempts to push above & beyond anything we've seen (ie Star Citizen, but real)
The scope will broadly align with the budget of the game, but it isn't a direct correlation - it's more an in-exact way to represent how ambitious the game is. There's no shame or shade in a game having a tight scope, so this really isn't a scale of 'good to bad'.
Execution - Numeric scale, 0-100
100 is perfect execution in everything the game attempts.
We use the full scale, not the weird 65-96 scale you may see elsewhere. There isn't an exact science to the score, but we feel it is important to recognise and reward the things a game does well (it can be surprisingly easy to overlook those when you are trying to critique)!
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