Like most of the games that released on PS3 PS4 and now PS5 that are critically panned or didn’t get the respect they deserved at launch.
Games like Driveclub also had decent human characters which to be fair were not bleeding edge even at the time, but considering how realistic looking the rest of the game was that was impressive. The game also had as much gameplay as any other street racing game ever made. But it was treated like garbage for having practically no functional online day 1 which to be fair to the reviewers was a marketing point for the title. To undersell the visuals driving, mechanics the, dynamic events and all the other stuff that was all there day 1 really helped kill the franchise and developer. It was petty and uncalled for. The media was also very quick to totally forget that Driveclub existed when its online became functional.
There were games like Beyond: Two Souls which was “a walking sim” and even that had more than 5 times the gameplay as HB1 never mind SS2HB. B:TS was a PS3 game, too. It really broke ground regarding realistic character rendering in 2013. Many other games had so many of these aspects but the first to combine them all from the sea to the sky was Death Stranding which turned the literal act of walking itself into a focal point of the game. DS is legitimately a walking simulator!
DS on PS4 and the PS5 Director’s Cut managed only a slightly higher score than SS:HB2. Of course DS also is more than just about delivering packages on foot there are many vehicles and tools you can use along with all manner of other things to do and combat encounters. SS:HB2 is just a 1 weapon walking story game with braindead puzzles. How can that be rated as highly as a game like Death Stranding?
HB 2 is not bug free like any other game there are bugs and glitches people are running into. Just watched a video of someone clipping through the ground and another where Senua gambled up to slip through the environment falling back to where the player started (videos below).
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Add to that, I don’t know what Hellblade 2 is doing that we haven’t already become accustomed to, besides being a videogame devoid of player control.
