COGconnected: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is one of the first successful mainstream games we’ve seen to tackle a real-world issue and dedicate a percentage of sales to a meaningful cause, which prompts an important question: where are all the other games for change?
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice gets a free PS5 upgrade with a 12.4 GB download size, launching alongside Hellblade II.
Admittedly, Hellblade: Senua's Saga is far from perfect and won't be a game for everyone, but now with a multitude of accessibility options it has made itself much more palatable for a wider audience, and with constant sale prices between $2-$4, Hellblade: Senua's Saga is too good to pass up for a unique experience that has stood the test of time and will do so once more with its even more robust and epic sequel.
The Hellblade games looked nice but they were essentially walking simulators with a minimal amount of combat tracked on.
At long last, it’s about time they upgraded it !
I didn’t like hellblade 2 at all, which lost all its mystery and originality in this graphically superb but extremely boring sequel. But I loved the first one. And I was pretty annoyed it was stuck on ps4 version on ps5. Bugs and didn’t run that well.
Now I’m going to play it all over again !!! In its nicest version on PlayStation.
Last Word on Gaming takes a look at ten games who treat mental health issues as respectfully and seriously as they ought to be in real life.
Titles that handle these themes well can genuinely help people feel seen or understood. Anyone interested in going beyond games and looking into real-world support options might find helpful resources at https://uvtreat.com/ especially for understanding different approaches to mental health treatment and recovery.
Not every game needs to do what Hellblade did. Hellblade is great, its message import, but we dont need real world issues and social justice warrior-ing brought into every game.
It's never enough for social justice warriors. They will never be satisfied, and they ruin almost everything they touch. If any particular topic is part of an artist's vision, that's fine, but trying to force things in the preachy, authoritarian manner in which social justice warriors operate ruins everything.
Yay preachy article trying to brow beat others into the authors beliefs... Woo
No offense to Hellblade at all, as it's a solid game, but........... we really don't need a surge in games that "tackle real-world issues".
Most people play games to escape real world issues, not tackle them.
Lmao! How did it make a difference? It’s a good game but what the hell are you even talking about? It certainly didn’t make enough difference to be smug and belittle ENTERTAINMENT lol.
Do you have a PHD in mental illness after playing hellblade? What’s everyone’s else’s excuse? They don’t revolve around your ignorant point of view. That’s their excuse. Dumb article.