🎮 Platform: PS5
⌚ Time to finish - 7.5h Story (9.5 with trophy clean up. I missed one collectible and had to replay story up to that. C'mon chapter select....). I also looked up most solutions since i HATED the puzzles in this game.
🏆Trophy completion - 100% - Really enjoyed collecting the lore stones and hearing the stories. I love norse mythology and this was stories from their mythology.
🤬Difficulty - its not a difficult game but the puzzles are tedious.
🌄Graphics – Very nice. Rivals AAA games. In general i like vibrant colors in games and this doesn't have that. But its very fitting.
🌦 Atmosphere/Music – AMAZING! This has some of the best sound design of any game i played. You Really feel like you are in the character's shoes and get a glimpes into her mental disorder. Its really well done. It reminded me of a better version of alan wake sound design.
📚 Main Story / Characters – I really liked all the main characters. They are complex. Senua is great. I really felt for every character in the game even if they were the "Bad" guy. There are only a few and they are very nuanced. There are things they tell you and things that are inferred. It made me feel for characters like top oscar nominated movies usually do.
🤺 Combat – Challenging and engaging and not too many brawls. I am not sure why so much negative criticism for combat. I actually liked it.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – I hated the puzzles in this game. They are all environmental puzzles and boils down to finding objects on the world, and look at them with a certain angle. I hated it. I looked up answers to most of them because it was really taking away from the game, and things were getting to a dead halt. Lorestones were great!
🚗 Movement/Physics – Great. Camera sometimes gets in the way during combat... which was annoying.
📣 Voice acting – Excellent. Some of the best if not the best in any game i played.
🥇 Best thing about the game - Story telling, sound design, characters. Everything about the story is 5/5 from the start to end. Its gripping. It will stick with you for a long time.
👎 Worst thing about the game - puzzles. I hated the puzzles here (1/5) as much as I loved the story. No chapter select for trophy hunters. This one level where everything is pitch dark seriously....
💡Final Thoughts:
Amazing game. If you find that you are getting stuck with puzzles, do yourself a favor and look it up. Do not let the puzzles get in the way of enjoying the game. I started looking up solutions after the 4th chapter and the game went to a 5/5 from a 3/5 experience. The story flows and it feels like i am in senua's head. I wish I could give this a 5/5 but i cannot because of the shitty puzzles.
I wish they picked somethign else between the story beats. Even more combat would have been better. Story and story telling was amazing, gameplay especially puzzles left alot to be desired.
I missed one lorestone and had to replay about 4 chapters. Honestly i thought this would be bad but it went by fast, and also because I knew the ending, I had alot more understanding about some of the motivation of characters in the beginning. You can only know this after you watch the ending.
Amazing game. play it!
⌚ Time to finish - 7.5h Story (9.5 with trophy clean up. I missed one collectible and had to replay story up to that. C'mon chapter select....). I also looked up most solutions since i HATED the puzzles in this game.
🏆Trophy completion - 100% - Really enjoyed collecting the lore stones and hearing the stories. I love norse mythology and this was stories from their mythology.
🤬Difficulty - its not a difficult game but the puzzles are tedious.
🌄Graphics – Very nice. Rivals AAA games. In general i like vibrant colors in games and this doesn't have that. But its very fitting.
🌦 Atmosphere/Music – AMAZING! This has some of the best sound design of any game i played. You Really feel like you are in the character's shoes and get a glimpes into her mental disorder. Its really well done. It reminded me of a better version of alan wake sound design.
📚 Main Story / Characters – I really liked all the main characters. They are complex. Senua is great. I really felt for every character in the game even if they were the "Bad" guy. There are only a few and they are very nuanced. There are things they tell you and things that are inferred. It made me feel for characters like top oscar nominated movies usually do.
🤺 Combat – Challenging and engaging and not too many brawls. I am not sure why so much negative criticism for combat. I actually liked it.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – I hated the puzzles in this game. They are all environmental puzzles and boils down to finding objects on the world, and look at them with a certain angle. I hated it. I looked up answers to most of them because it was really taking away from the game, and things were getting to a dead halt. Lorestones were great!
🚗 Movement/Physics – Great. Camera sometimes gets in the way during combat... which was annoying.
📣 Voice acting – Excellent. Some of the best if not the best in any game i played.
🥇 Best thing about the game - Story telling, sound design, characters. Everything about the story is 5/5 from the start to end. Its gripping. It will stick with you for a long time.
👎 Worst thing about the game - puzzles. I hated the puzzles here (1/5) as much as I loved the story. No chapter select for trophy hunters. This one level where everything is pitch dark seriously....
💡Final Thoughts:
Amazing game. If you find that you are getting stuck with puzzles, do yourself a favor and look it up. Do not let the puzzles get in the way of enjoying the game. I started looking up solutions after the 4th chapter and the game went to a 5/5 from a 3/5 experience. The story flows and it feels like i am in senua's head. I wish I could give this a 5/5 but i cannot because of the shitty puzzles.
I wish they picked somethign else between the story beats. Even more combat would have been better. Story and story telling was amazing, gameplay especially puzzles left alot to be desired.
I missed one lorestone and had to replay about 4 chapters. Honestly i thought this would be bad but it went by fast, and also because I knew the ending, I had alot more understanding about some of the motivation of characters in the beginning. You can only know this after you watch the ending.
Amazing game. play it!