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I have lived with mental health issues for all of my adult life. While I have not experienced psychosis, I felt... a familiarity... with the game&#39;s expression of psychosis.</p><p>The game opens with Senua in a canoe paddling into a horrifying gorge in which bodies are floating in the water, and are impaled on stakes along the riverside, as the narrator speaks of Senua in the third person.</p><p>Senua is paddling into Helheim.</p><p>This tableau, however, is not an expression of Senua&#39;s psychosis.</p><p>The narrator is.</p><p>As the Senua paddles on, the narrator joins with a cacophony of other voices challenging, attacking, and goading Senua.</p><p>This is discomforting.</p><p>As Senua makes landfall, and progresses on foot through an environment that is no less harrowing than the river, light appears and fades; the screen distorts, the voices rise and fall.</p><p>The weight of this presses down on me. On Senua. On us.</p><p>Memories explode into view, and then fade.</p><p>Senua reaches the gates of Helheim, and engages in her first battle, which is frightening, and devastating in turns.</p><p>This has been a difficult and long review to write; the way in which the game shifts between the mental and physical is both visceral, and somehow weightless.</p><p>This too, feels familiar. It makes this a complicated game to play.</p><p>On a technical level, the visuals are excellent. The sound design is is something else; it lifts this game to another level.</p><p>There is no HUD, no health bar. No instructions on what to do.</p><p>With keyboard and mouse, the game relies on the standard WASD + F to use. Swordplay and blocking felt instinctive.</p><p>This game is only a few months newer than yesterday&#39;s game, yet almost perfectly embodies &quot;show, don&#39;t tell&quot;. The attention that was seemingly lacking for gameplay in yesterday&#39;s game, is seen here in buckets, and the game is better for it.</p><p>However, these reviews aren&#39;t entirely a review of the quality of the game, but also whether I want to invest my gaming time in a particular game.</p><p>That is far more complex, because while this IS an excellent game, it&#39;s a difficult one for *me* to play; it is affecting on a level that I need to assess further.</p><p>As such, for me Hellblade: Senua&#39;s Sacrifice is:</p><p>4: Good</p><p><a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/HellbladeSenuasSacrifice\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>HellbladeSenuasSacrifice</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/ThirdPerson\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>ThirdPerson</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/ActionAdventure\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>ActionAdventure</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/MastodonGaming\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>MastodonGaming</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/Gaming\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/Project365\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>", "contentMap": { "en": "<p>August 29, 2023 - Day 241 - NewPlay Review<br />Total NewPlays: 261</p><p>Game: Hellblade: Senu&#39;a Sacrifice</p><p>Platform: Steam<br />Release Date: Aug 8, 2017<br />Library Date: Jun 29, 2019<br />Unplayed: 1522d (4y2m)<br />Playtime: 31m</p><p>Hellblade: Senua&#39;s Sacrifice is a third-person action-adventure game, in which you play as Senua, a Viking-era Pict warrior, on a mission to enter Helheim, and save the soul of her dead lover.</p><p>The game opens with a mental health warning that it features representations of psychosis, with good reason.</p><p>Senua is experiencing psychosis, and hears voices.</p><p>I immediately found this challenging. I have lived with mental health issues for all of my adult life. While I have not experienced psychosis, I felt... a familiarity... with the game&#39;s expression of psychosis.</p><p>The game opens with Senua in a canoe paddling into a horrifying gorge in which bodies are floating in the water, and are impaled on stakes along the riverside, as the narrator speaks of Senua in the third person.</p><p>Senua is paddling into Helheim.</p><p>This tableau, however, is not an expression of Senua&#39;s psychosis.</p><p>The narrator is.</p><p>As the Senua paddles on, the narrator joins with a cacophony of other voices challenging, attacking, and goading Senua.</p><p>This is discomforting.</p><p>As Senua makes landfall, and progresses on foot through an environment that is no less harrowing than the river, light appears and fades; the screen distorts, the voices rise and fall.</p><p>The weight of this presses down on me. On Senua. On us.</p><p>Memories explode into view, and then fade.</p><p>Senua reaches the gates of Helheim, and engages in her first battle, which is frightening, and devastating in turns.</p><p>This has been a difficult and long review to write; the way in which the game shifts between the mental and physical is both visceral, and somehow weightless.</p><p>This too, feels familiar. It makes this a complicated game to play.</p><p>On a technical level, the visuals are excellent. The sound design is is something else; it lifts this game to another level.</p><p>There is no HUD, no health bar. No instructions on what to do.</p><p>With keyboard and mouse, the game relies on the standard WASD + F to use. Swordplay and blocking felt instinctive.</p><p>This game is only a few months newer than yesterday&#39;s game, yet almost perfectly embodies &quot;show, don&#39;t tell&quot;. 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