Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Review (Karl)
Objective interpretation, hardware report, and total game progress
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a 3rd person adventure game. The game was ran on two different systems, which included an Intel 9900k/Nvidia 2080 super, and an Intel 13900k/Nvidia 4090. No system crashes occurred and zero crashes to desktop noted. One playthrough was completed at 4k resolution, max graphical settings, no DLSS enabled, and steam achievement perfection was attained.
8/10 score and steam review template is posted below the subjective interpretation
Subjective interpretation
This game certainly was distinctive, and upon reflection of my experiences with it, I conclude that there is little to no faults in its implementation. The game ran flawlessly with zero crashes occurring between two different systems, and no bugs or soft locks noted. The only issue that came up with how this game ran would be the stability of the FPS, as I often dipped into the 30s with a 34 low noted, but this isn't necessarily the softwares fault, as the capabilities of hardware to project images at this level of graphical quality has limitations. Graphics are everything in this game, and this title certainly does not disappoint with the magnificence of video quality being projected to the player. The game encourages the player to soak in the environment, take it slow, and savor the art form being presented. This game is a graphical masterpiece and inspires boundless creativity into the mind of the consumer, and this is further enhanced by the sounds of this game.
Desperation, sorrow, madness, malice, and hope! There's a track for everyone of these emotions in this game, and through this combination of visual/acoustical stimuli a successful immersion into this world is provoked. Although, I did think the ending credits song was out of place in this game, but all gamers skip through ending credits anyway. Now lets talk about this games weakest aspect and that's the game play. There's combat. It's rudimentary and quite easy. The other part of the game is looking around the environment searching for shapes. This is cool at first, but gets tiresome as the game goes on. If you're looking for something more complex game play wise this is not the game for you, but the story is certainly distinctive.
This narrative is very disjointed and unfocused, but that's intentional. It's distinctive and disturbing, but that just means its engaging, and that's that always a good quality for a story. The player will be caught in a tornado of emotions, and you will be thrown all over the place. This is awesome through! I never thought I would enjoy a portrayal of madness such as this. To wrap this up this game frequently goes on sale at 90%, which comes to 3$. Buy it then. I also wish to say that most people will not enjoy this game, as it requires a computer that is capable of projecting the full potential of this software, and most people don't have this type of PC. However, if you are a PC hardware enthusiast this is an excellent game to acquire on sale, as means to test your hardware to fullest extent of its capabilities.
---{ Graphics }---
☑ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☑ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☑ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
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☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☑ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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