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[NeoRaider]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkSYSFM4098

Senua breaks rune sealed gates and flees a burning village as she draws closer to the god of fire.

 

[Savantcore]

Watch with headphones

 

[CaptainSmirnov]

Really hope this ends up being good!

 

[stilgar]

The sound is pretty awesome, the rest...I don't know.

 

[DESTROYA]

Why does the fire scene look so dark? Is it just the video?

 

[Joey Ravn]

Graphically, the game looks great. But I really don't like such a narrow FoV. It makes everything look... zoomed in.

 

[Wishmaster92]

My most anticipated game of the year. I can't wait

 

[Soulblighter31]

Really hope this ends up being good!

Highly unlikely. The best we can hope for is that the way they tackled the insanity aspect if gonna be interesting.

 

[Rell]

The sound is pretty awesome, the rest...I don't know.

This is one thing I definitely noted about DmC: the sound and sound mixing were spectacular.

It always confused me why so many games have such poor sound design. You can't understand voices without subtitles, sound effects completely cover up the music, everything is either shrill and tinny sounding or a deep bass boom, that kind of thing. A lot of times it seems like there is practically no mixing or mastering of the sound at all.

At least most games give you the option of adjusting effects, voices, and music levels, but that's sometimes not enough to salvage poor design choices (I'm talking EQ, compression thresholds, etc).

 

[Plague Doctor]

Yeah... I am picking this up.

 

[IlGialloMondadori]

Love the viking stuff, love her design...but gameplay...eh...looks boring, tbh. I hope it's awesome.

 

[ArjanN]

Highly unlikely.

Not really, all their other games were at least decent, and this looks pretty solid so far.

It's probably on the short side, and the nice presentation might be a bit of a double-edged sword in that it means people will be likely to compare it with full on AAA games.

I expect the combat to be solid but the main appeal is probably the story/atmosphere.

 

[GavinUK86]

Solid premise, solid voice acting, solid gameplay. Yup, day one for me. Been following this one since day one and I cannot wait to play it for myself. Everything I've seen so far looks great.

 

[Lashley]

Gameplay looks really bland to me

 

[Arion]

I don't know about these puzzles. They seem tedious. The combat seems fine though.

 

[Falchion]

Been interested in this ever since the Game Informer cover article, looks cool.

 

[Deleted member 471617]

Does anyone know when the review embargo lifts for Hellblade? Thanks.

 

[Jawbreaker]

I'm only interested in this for its take on mental health. The gameplay itself isn't exciting me.

 

[Auctopus]

I wonder how many more trailers they can make before release, they must've broken a record already.

 

[lazyguy]

I'm hoping for the best as I do with every game but I can't shake the feeling that the hole mental sanity aspect that's being pushed will end up being nothing more than "KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR YOUR INSANO METER DO SICK COMBO TO MAKE THE CRAZY GO AWAY!!!"
Again I hope we get something more tactfull.

 

[drotahorror]

Pretty much on a media blackout at this point. Insane graphics, psychotic heroine, bullet time melee combat...I'm down.

 

[ezekial45]

Does anyone know when the review embargo lifts for Hellblade? Thanks.

August 8, midnight PST.

 

[Soul of the Beast]

0:20 Did the game just zoom in on something that's clearly visible to the player for 8 seconds straight?

Seriously, your players are not blind, they can see the symbols on the door, stoping taking their control away for no apparent reason.

Also, the puzzles are really dumb, she could have just draw the symbol on the ground to break the seal on the door.

 

[border]

Those puzzles look like the opposite of fun.

 

[Enigmatic Rainbow]

I was mildly interested in this game after I first heard of it, but this video isn't helping.

 

[mario_O]

it all looks so generic...does nothing to me.

 

[mortal]

That was some amazing use of atmosphere. Like I'm rather impressed with what I saw (and heard).


This is certainly a "headphones on" sort of game.

 

[kikiribu]

Combat and puzzles look bad. World looks dull.

I like her design though, and atmosphere at least seems good.

 

[matrix-cat]

Those 'line up the runes' puzzles really remind me of:

 

[synce]

I'm wary of any supposed hack and slash where the camera is 2 feet behind your character at all times. It looks more like a walking simulator based on this footage

 

[abstract alien]

The character moves as if she isn't even attached to the floor, like she has no turning animation and is sliding around.