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It's all about Senua's perspective with her visions and what's truly real being presented as one in the same. When it comes to portraying mental illness, Hellblade takes a sympathetic approach and isn't at all interested in showing the differences between reality and imagination. The true challenge and satisfaction comes from mastering the base combat mechanics, which is responsive, and fluid-allowing you to bounce between multiple foes easily, with her inner voices warning you of incoming strikes based on the position they're coming from. Aside from some new combat abilities unlocked at key story milestones, Senua's arsenal of skills and weapons is kept light till the end. Though combat is one of the core pillars in Hellblade, the game doesn't concern itself with offering numerous weapons or complex skill-trees to work through. With fast, heavy sword swings, as well as up-close hand-to-hand strikes, you can use some light combos to hack away at the Northmen, while using dodges and parrying their strikes to get the upper hand.

Despite her illness weighing on her, Senua is still quite adept at fighting and is able to take on a number of foes at once. These moments are when the combat comes into play, and it offers some of the most intense and thrilling moments of the game. On her journey through the cursed lands, Senua will come into conflict with the Northmen, an army of berserkers that appear out of thin air. These cinematic moments are blended into in-game graphics, giving each occurrence a somewhat surreal feeling, as if you're watching a live playback of an altered memory. While the story and world are presented through cutscenes and stone glyphs depicting the history of the land, Hellblade also makes clever use of live-action cutscenes.

Hellblade is an introspective experience, albeit with several combat and interactive story beats scattered throughout.

Pulling from Nordic and Celtic lore, the fiction of Hellblade evokes a dire and somewhat bleak atmosphere, making it seem like the world had already ended, leaving Senua with only the company of her memories.

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