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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

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.

 

[Kuranghi]

"And the award for most boringest and disappointingest game goes to!" *opens envelope*

 

[Hrk69]

 

[Three]

MS' Aaron greenberg said there will be marketing. I guess that meant them making videos with movie style quotes from game journos.

 

[winjer]

Congratulations in making the best tech demo of the year.
too bad they forgot to make a game.

 

[owandeseis]

Cringe faces: The videogame

 

[Robb]

Alternative thread title:

Senua's Saga: Hellblade II - Video Game Journalists That You Definitely Can’t Trust Trailer

 

[Jaybe]

Where’s Edge’s 4/10??

 

[GymWolf]

Where’s Edge’s 4/10??

Stevivor is more prestigious.

 

[Fredrik]

Loved it, they should make a no puzzles horde mode as an unlockable, the fights were awesome especially in the cave near the end.

 

[T-0800]

Cringe faces: The videogame

I think her mouth is trying to escape from her skull.

 

[Dazraell]

MS' Aaron greenberg said there will be marketing. I guess that meant them making videos with movie style quotes from game journos.

 

[Hrk69]

I'm tempted to make my own version but with the critique it got

 

[winjer]

Hellblade 2 is probably so deep in the red, that even that tweet was too expensive to make.

 

[Elios83]

Probably the biggest bomb of the year.
Predictably so because this kind of "interactive graphical experiences" are super niche products.
At least this should result into something completely new for the next project.

 

[damidu]

I'm guessing all the nines are the current active players of this flop?

 

[Damigos]

I finished it 2 weeks ago.
Excellent tech demo, but not a game

 

[AgatonSax]

Probably the biggest bomb of the year.
Predictably so because this kind of "interactive graphical experiences" are super niche products.
At least this should result into something completely new for the next project.

Bigger than Suicide Squad?

 

[Mr Moose]

Bigger than Suicide Squad?

 

[diffusionx]

brutal journey of survival

as brutal and long as my journey from waking up to lunch

 

[MacReady13]

Wondering what this game sold? Or are we still not doing sales considering Microsoft wants you to play via fire stick/samsung tv/gamepass/cloud etc… and we now measure a Microsoft games’ success via minutes played?

 

[skit_data]

I think this would have made a much bigger splash if it was a launch title. Considering it was announced with the Series X it wouldn't surprise me if some exec at Xbox thought that would be feasible and just greenlit the announcement with Ninja Theory going "wtf, we haven't even started working on it".

 

[anthony2690]

I actually quite enjoyed this game and I say this as someone who didn't like the first game at all.

It does have some insanely slow moments though, like the first game, and the shape puzzles return but they are a lot less annoying this time around imo.

And I wish there was a lot less whispering, just let me have some peace and quiet please

 

[Arachnid]

Somebody need to make a youtube channel dedicated to making joke accolades trailers that cherry pick all the bad reviews. Not because of this game specifically, but these things always come off disingenious. They always have perfect reviews from random ass sources

"10/10 GOTY You've never played anything like it! - Raj from Tajikistan Gaming"

 

[Tsaki]

Wondering what this game sold? Or are we still not doing sales considering Microsoft wants you to play via fire stick/samsung tv/gamepass/cloud etc… and we now measure a Microsoft games’ success via minutes played?

About 100,000; it bombed massively. It wasn't even played on gamepass that much

 

[Filben]

They did the same with Hellblade 1.

 

[adamsapple]

Fantastic game.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

sorry fam...wating for Aaron Greenberg's tweet

 

[midnightAI]

Wondering what this game sold? Or are we still not doing sales considering Microsoft wants you to play via fire stick/samsung tv/gamepass/cloud etc… and we now measure a Microsoft games’ success via minutes played?

Minutes played? More likely installs or game launches, those important engagement metrics

 

[Topher]

Dammit.....I sent this to Aaron Greenberg. How did it not make it into the trailer?

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Boring. I still haven't beat this thing.

 

[Shakka43]

Cringe faces: The videogame

Ninja Theory does have a hard-on for over exaggerated facial expressions, it has been a thing for them ever since Heavenly Sword.

 

[Pedro Motta]

More cringe than this games pretentiousness, is this Accolades trailer.

I wanna curl up in a ball and die.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Very good walking sim

Would love a horde mode of some sort

 

[semiconscious]

Probably the biggest bomb of the year.
Predictably so because this kind of "interactive graphical experiences" are super niche products.
At least this should result into something completely new for the next project.

yep. the 'graphic fetishist' demographic definitely exists, but not in numbers sufficient to fundamentally all on its own make a game successful...

 

[LordCBH]

All the ones rating it high are blatantly lying to themselves and the community. It’s a mediocre game with incredible graphics. That’s it. The gameplay somehow managed to be worse than the first one. And the story wasn’t great either.

 

[Sephimoth]

IMO these accolade trailers are so cringe when they're not for games that got 10s across the board from the big outlets

Like when there's a GAME OF THE YEAR EDITION of games that didn't even get mentioned.


At least get creative, like LEGEND sneaking The Guardians 2 star review on their poster:

 

[Banjo64]

Stevivor

 

[Topher]

All the ones rating it high are blatantly lying to themselves and the community. It’s a mediocre game with incredible graphics. That’s it. The gameplay somehow managed to be worse than the first one. And the story wasn’t great either.

 

[Evil Calvin]

Cringe faces: The videogame

Still hotter than your girlfriend......oh wait..........

 

[DragonNCM]

I was bored with first one & was bored with this one.
Fired game.....wow stunning visuals....gameplay ?
What GAMEPLAY ???