Hellblade is a really good game!

[Xen]

Jaicee said:

Xen said:

Yup. And indeed that is how it looked to me from the Jim Sterling review.

To experience a linear story, I would watch a movie. That is why I am likely never "playing" this. To have a game tell me a story, I will play Bloodborne or Persona 5. I frankly do not understand what do people find in these hyper-linear, barely-game experiences.

When I think of a "barely-game experience", I think of Gone Home, not this or Persona 5. And Gone Home is my favorite video game of all time. I guess I just don't really care about the semantics of whether something reaches X level of interactivity so much as the substance of whether its poignant or just plain fun to me.

In any event, Hellblade has plenty of those traditional game elements that you might desire.

As to Jim Sterling, I'm having an increasingly difficult time regarding him as a credible voice. I mean when you score this game a 1 out of 10 (even if just temporarily), you lose some credibility with me because that's just not a serious score or evaluation.

I meant Persona 5 & Bloodborne as game AND story experiences, rather that non-games. Granted that Gone Home is your favorite game of all time, I can see that you don't mind little interactivity, however.

1/10 or not, he still is entertaining to watch and certainly focuses on the aspects I care about in games, so in my eyes, he is just fine. A score is just a number, a review exists for you to judge whether the game is worth anything - and that 1/10 was out of pure annoyance.

I haven't seen the original review, but the revised one is certainly fine, and convinced me that this game is absolutely not for me.