Hellblade 2 Thoughts And Review From MrMattyPlays - Luke Reacts 

well they still can have liked it cant they? i mean the last sentence is a bit weird but hellblade 1.5 isnt a problem imo. i think hellblade 2 is a better game than skyrim and i know many people wont agree but also many people accept boring gameplay and bad games from bethesda and give em an 8, not different for me, cause skyrim always was a 5/6 at best (with mods)

@@JButterZJ absolutely they could have liked it :-) I just thought the wording of the second a tad odd. I've never tried the original Senua so can't comment as to which is better, I've got Elder Scrolls III, IV & V but prefer Elder Scrolls Online.

@@JButterZJ Bethesda games are 5/10. Hellblade 2 is 0/10

It reminds me of morons who were saying you can't compare Starfield to BG3. Xbots are a completely different life form compared to a normal human.

@@TwoHandedChargedBonk Man, I don't care about those console wars, but I just find it hard to believe that someone can actually like a game like Hellblade 2

gamepass then

@@benfrese3573 and that also the reasion why the gaming industry is falling apart and studios getting closed.

@@benfrese3573 gamepass is overrated. Even the couple tines i got it for a buck, it never felt like i was getting my moneys worth.

​​@@sumireravenclaw8034good, after they make atrocities like this what else do they deserve?

pun intended.

shut up and play the fucking game if you listen to option in games you will never be happy about any games

Stop yapping, this game is just not for you; Not every game will be for you

@@waynewayne8419 My boy is pressed over a video game 😬

And when I watched the arthousefilm i get to control the characters, right?

@@yellowbeez93 pressing forward on your remote aint much different then pressing forward on your controller

@@yellowbeez93 there was that one tv show where you had to select how the story went. What's the difference between the two? A couple extra buttons to interact with things?

Microsoft have never know what they were doing in gaming. PC gaming has thrived in spite them not because of them. They did well with the 360 because sony dropped the ball that gen.

I disagree. They’re a billion dollar company. Let’s just wait to see what the next system looks like. Hopefully it’s a PC/Hybrid if they’re smart

And even then, that focus could get derailed too. I mean...the last COD was hilariously rushed with its slap dash story and all. And now it's gonna be exclusive (timed or fully) to a console no one buys, on a service that is actively EATING purchases away from MS. COD, despite its legacy, might not even be the money maker Xbox thinks it is.

@@seanguinn Are you stupid?

@@via_negativa6183 ps3 still outsold the xbox in the end

Is this game review bombed with nice reviewz??? On steam people praise it but it's short and combats mid I'm so confused 😂

he not honest he salty about xbox the game is great

@@lofi1598it’s his review lol

​@@lofi1598can u essplane... to not an NPC... what exactly u mean Also... the game meh .even on a 4090

@@fepethepenguin8287 THE GAME IS GREAT

True 😂

Building a whole personality around a console you own is just so incredibly sad

Correct

TLOU2 couldn't be more far away from being a award bait. The choices they took with the story pissed like everybody younger than 25yo. That alone speaks for itself. And it's no easier or harder than the average game that comes out.

To call TLOU2 "award bait" is wild lol - who says that? Any source? Or do you mean yourself when you say "was accuses of"?

@@Ocean5ix the proof is in the pudding. Look how many awards it won at TGA and other outlets. You’re describing exactly what I said - fans didn’t like it but the reviewers did.

@@benfrese3573 if you search for TLOU2 award bait, TLOU2 goty bait, or TLOU2 Oscar bait, you can find discussions about this going back years.

It does look and sound like it has weight. But it's kinda shallow at it's core. An episode of Game of Thrones disguised as The Green Knight.

Probably the only rational comment ever spoken here.

I like the game and even I was confused at the marketing. Like, why didn't they just market it towards the narrative adventure game crowd and focus on that demographic, this game would be extremely welcome there. Imo they should've delayed it and rethought their marketing.

​@@icravedeath.1200it took them 6 years to release it. Delaying it more wouldn't do them any favours.

@@divinitygaming8673 no it fucking didn't you liar, development started in late 2020. Bleeding edge happened, forget about that?

I mean, people have different tastes? Not really that crazy. I mean some people strictly play sports games, which bore the shit out of me.

Just xbox players who are used to garbage like redfall and starfield.

@@ronthorn3 i will never understand sports game... just go outside and play sports 🤣

@@ronthorn3 Yeah, but at least there's replayability with sports games. I get people have different tastes. But different tastes in quality? Seems financially irresponsible. XD

Literally Xbot's

And poonies are in panic, part of panic is HB2 and the fact that Microsoft is buying Valve / Steam.

​@@dusermiginte4647 Xbox fanboy detected.

​@@PaulM68322same for you

@@GM-xk1nwfanboy detected

That part!

Just buy the xbox 360 lol

I miss when soyny released games.

@@dusermiginte4647they released one last month…

​@@dusermiginte4647 all of the best games released this year have been PS5 exclusives.

@@dusermiginte4647 Sony without a major release once "i mISS tHeM rEleASiNG gaMEs" lol

they wont they start working on new game and they will grow the studio more

​@@lofi1598im sure tango had other projects as well......

@@lofi1598 there's studio being shutdown midway of the development cycle. Just because they have been green lit for a new project wasn't a guarantee they won't get shut down.

@@zerenadli Before you write a stupid comment without understanding things, first, Microsoft built a new studio for them and helped them hire more developers, just as they did by building other studios. As for Bethesda Studios, problems arose between them and Microsoft. First, most of the developers in Tango left, and Shinji took them with him, so there were only a few developers inside the studio. So Microsoft closed the studio and transferred the developers to other projects, and the Astin studio did the same thing. They transferred them to other projects, and it is not as you imagine, they closed the black studios intentionally. No, you are wrong, like many people, they will definitely work on those titles. Xbox currently has a huge amount of wonderful games coming soon, and you will forget about these problems. Playstation and With the closure of several studios, just yesterday, PlayStation Studio London closed

Tango got a little over a year, my guess is maybe 6-8 months for Ninja Theory.

Its free for me

@@NukaRageyea because you got scam pass

​@NukaRage "It's free after you pay $15 a month bruh"

Free dlc

Xbox Lame Pass is not a scam bro

No, I think people you're overestimating based on what you think would happen, not on what is happening. You can criticize, it's not that "you cannot criticize", it's "expect others to criticize you". Free speech is a 2-way street. If you say X, others have every right to tell you, you're wrong. And it's fine. I'll give you an example: the Xbox President Sarah Bond and her interview, I saw people on the political right criticize her and I saw people on the political left criticize her for the exact same thing: her vague PR answers lacking any substance or information. No one defended her based on her race or gender. The criticism levelled at this game has nothing to do with the depiction of mental illness (I would say based on what I've seen they may have nailed that). What it is about is fundamentally: length (it's too short) and gameplay (not enough actual action, not enough things to do).

Or maybe some people just like the game..... LMAO

I haven't seen a single person defend the game based on its depiction of a heavily stigmatized topic. However, the first game DID get praise for it, because that game was actually good.

Even last gem games had that ha.

Really depends. I have to assume hellblade 2 is like hellblade 1 with positional audio, and youtube doesn't capture that-so being able to play hellblade 1 at least makes a world of difference versus watching it. I'm an audio person though.

Who cares how much time it took them? Journey took over 3 years to develop and is over in less than three hours. It's still considered to be a masterpiece by pretty much anyone who played it. Am I right to assume that you enjoy a real grind fest like Assassin's Creed where you have 10h of gameplay stretched over 150h? I mean if that's your thing you have plenty of trash to enjoy.

@@benfrese3573 the difference between Journey and Hellblade 2 is obviously budget, and the amount of devs working on the thing as well, Journey only had 7 devs on staff at the start of development, and it only grew to 18 over the course of its development. Not to mention the fact that Sony originally only gave the half a year to finish Journey, it’s 3 hour run time is understandable when you take all of this into account, but Hellblade 2s run time is an absolute slap in the face for 5 to 6 fucking years of dev time, with them having quadruple the amount of devs on staff as well (80). I say this as a fan of the first one but that’s inexcusable, not to mention the lead dev straight up lying about the games run time, there is absolutely no way to stretch this game into a 8 hour experience and tbh I feel some people would have been fine if they were honest about it’s runtime but they weren’t and that’s a big sticking point people keep forgetting. Sadly none of this fucking matters cause Xbox has supposedly greenlit its sequel but they decided to shutter 4 Bethesda owned studios so I’m pretty checked out of Xbox at this point, I find it absolutely insane that they shuttered Tango Softworks after Hi-Fi Rush but are gonna let Ninja Theory waste even more money on a sequel to a game that is being panned all across the internet, I just seriously hope Xbox doesn’t buy any more studios cause they have 0 clue what to do with them

@@zazombiezmasher0116 Originally they had half a year to finish Journey, right. Then it took them more than three years. You must've been furious about the lack of "content" back then too. Your whole definition of content as a result of budget makes no sense, sorry. Making games is a risk, Ninja Theory missed the mark. But to say that x amount of hours is not enough content considering how much time they spent on making the game ignores so many facets of game development that it's just an ignorant measurement.

@@benfrese3573 brother I don’t like journey, it’s not my kind of game, but I enjoyed the first Hellblade game and to see that the sequel which took around 5-6 years of development only add up to roughly 5 hours of content I seriously dislike, I like short and sweet video games, Alisa is a great survival horror game that is only around 4 hours, but it actually has replay value, same rouge-likes like Balatro, Dave the Diver, Hades, TBOI Repentance. I’m not some ubislop enjoyer, last 10 games they’ve released (from Unity up to Vallhalla) I’ve picked up at Walmart a month later for only $20 dollars, if even that, if I even have a passing interest in the game cause I don’t care for games like Ghost Recon (which is free on psplus) and shit like Trails, only game by them I’ve bought at full price recently is Prince of Persia, and that’s only cause that game had some actual care put into it and I was in the mood for a good Metroidvania. Again though, my point is that Hellblade 2, while very impressive graphically, should have just been a launch title for the Xbox Series X, cause all it is is a tech demo, it’s cool to see how nice games can look, and shit like that, but I’m not gonna pay $50 dollars to play that, I can just boot up that matrix tech demo that released for free if I wanna see pretty life like graphics, and it is a genuine step back from the first Hellblade game, everything I’ve seen on it seems more restrictive than Seanuas Sacrifice, and that game came out 7 fucking years ago. It’s incredibly disappointing to see that all that time in development led to nothing more than a pretty game with a lackluster story, with gameplay worse than the first, and puzzles worse then the first, just sucks to see cause I was excited for it but I won’t even put time into it even if it does go on sale cause it sucks to see a solid “IP” be squandered like that. Also, saying that X amount of hours is not enough content considering game dev time does make sense, look at games like Baldurs Gate 3, The Witcher 3, God of War (2018), and Red Dead Redemption 2, all of those games took a long time to develop and have more than 5 hours worth of content, and off the top of my head for indie releases shit like Alisa, that survival horror game I mentioned earlier, Slay the Spire, 7 Days to Die, Darkest Dungeon, fucking Vampire Survivors? All of these games have far more than 5 hours of content and most of them took more than 2 years to finish development, it’s a good comparison, you just don’t want to admit it

well UE5 released in 2020, so they obviously had to rework the game to fit the engine.

play it you wil love it

Its a niche thing, i'm just big on narrative and sound design.

dont listen to this guy play the game you will see its great

@@lofi1598i like the fact that the game is straight to the point.

@@lofi1598 I did play it and finish it. It’s truly great you and others had fun with it but in my case, it felt like they diluted some aspects I loved in Senua’s experience in the first game which is why it left a bad taste even when I was amazed at the gorgeous visuals

@@bosskey23 not many gammes like this and this is the best looking game ever made with GTA 6

dont llisten to this clown the game is great play it and you will see

I've been watching an Australian streamer play Elden Ring, and he took a break to play Hellblade 2. I managed to only watch 30 minutes because it was so boring.

I genuinely dislike chromatic aberration in most games. Unless a game's visuals are specifically targeting a sort of retro look or a look through retro film cameras, it's unnecessary. Heavy DOF where it's unnecessary used to be a problem back in the PS360 days. Less so these days

Pretty much this. The console war stuff is really mind numbingly dumb now. Neither company is doing exceptionally well, the only difference is that Sony can get away with it by already owning the console market share between the two from the PS4 era and can be as absolutely lazy as they want now while Microsoft does absolutely nothing to make their situation any better for a decade.

What? 😂🤣

Insane cope

My problem is not the price but the boredom.

@@benfrese3573 Why is that a problem? if you’re not into it then just forget about it.

Its desperate at this point 😂

@@Freddy-q3m they're fighting for dear life, meanwhile I'm just here enjoying Stellar Blade's new update with more modes and free nano suits... Life's weird sometimes.

Sadly this may be what the next gen becomes. Short games, simple gameplay, very linear game and level design for a casual audience to move upward on the left thumb stick for most of the time.

@@jimmyv3170 Well, as long as we get proper games like Resident Evil 4, Tears of the Kingdom, Spider-Man, God of War, Horizon, Mario Odyssey, Ratchet & Clank, Stellar Blade and many others, that show that gameplay will always be king, over any visuals, I don't think we need to worry, just yet. All those titles look stunning anyway, so if all they wanted to make was an interactive movie, that's fine, but gaming it is not.

Whenever gameplay becomes less of a priority in a game, it never ends well. Gameplay always transcends graphics, it's how some older games will outlive newer ones if the gameplay is just that good.

​@@neophenom Idk, God of War, Ratchet, Spider-Man and Horizon are aggressively average and mind-numbingly simpler for the casual audience to chew.

They are both shills.

No it really doesn’t lmao

@@filmnationstudios389 by a mile, the filters make hell blade 2 look downright ugly

@@TheMarine316 Nope

@@filmnationstudios389 whatever you need to tell yourself kid

@TheMarine316 He's an Xbox fanboy, he goes around desperately defending the honor of his favorite Multi Trillion corporation because he has all the time in the world to do it as the only game he's had to play for the last few months only lasted 5 hours 😅

I agree completely. This is Xbox main issue. Any game that comes out as an exclusive for Xbox can be played on PC at better levels. PS release exclusives that can only be played on PS and are games that justify buying the console.

thats a low bar to set

Plague Tale games are just glorified escort missions. Save your money on all three.

I mean, go buy a lot of other better games instead Edit: better than hellblade I mean, stellar blade is great

Is it comparable tho...

Or maybe this game wasn't for you lol, people who pick this up probably don't want to play stellar blade. Is it so hard to believe people outside your echo chamber actually enjoyed hellblade 2? Lol

Him and Coy Jandreau should compete in a Yap-Off

This is the wrong community for elevating the value of games. Luke will talk about how this game was a "disaster" for the next 6 months and his community will continue to regurgitate his thoughts without playing the game while accusing everyone who likes it of trying to "cope." This is just what gaming communities are now unfortunately

@bass7100 This is barely a game and am not saying this in a jokingly manner ! The character models and facial animations are the only amazing things about this game ! The rest of it is what Ninja Theory and XBOX should be ashamed of !

@johnwick8516 tell me more about how tetris isn't a game.

Where did someone ever expected it to be a 100h long open world souls-like?

You guys try to bring Souls to every fucking discussion lol

@@thesaint717because they are one of the last developers that actually put love and effort into making a game

Both Hellblades are 5 hour mid games. Some weird op simps on this vid.

@@bennyblunto973 they make great games, but don’t tell me about “effort”. Same engine and mechanics in last 15 years, only Sekiro played differently.

Yeah, just ask people who have both platforms and a PC and just want good games. Xbox have yet to release a game which makes me want to dust of my series X. PlayStation however......

Brother that adds maybe 2-3 more hours lmao, coping hard

Thank goodness it is that short because it’s not good !