Wolf Gives Up on Hellblade 2 and Plays Spyro Instead

Checking out Ninja Theory's latest (and likely final) game before Microsoft inevitably shuts them down like everyone else.

[@MoonlitMarch]

I just don't understand how this game was ever supposed to make money - releasing it on GamePass day one and pricing it at $50 when it's 6 hours long and has no replayability is financial suicide. What were they thinking?

[@mrshmuga9]

I think it's the opposite. At some point Xbox probably realized "we pumped money into this and there's no way it's making any of it back, send it out to die". They had 80 people working on it compared to the original's 20, for the same amount of time (around 4 years). They'll be lucky if it breaks even, especially since most will likely play on GamePass and definitely won't bring in any long-term subs. They'll rent it for $10 that month and then cancel.

[@FactoryDan]

It seems like a weird artsy fartsy game to me. The devs probably don't care about the money. They would've made a more relatable / normie game otherwise, lolol

[@SliceofKris]

but they added different voices in her head for replay value so you enjoy slowly walking for 5 more hours with different annoying voices ruining your experience again.

[@Stealth-ve7nw]

Could be worse, they could have released it with a season pass for future parts to the story and then studio gets closed.

[@Zlumpy77]

I bet the production conpany wrote it off since they didnt see a way to extra monetize it via micros and dlc. They probably knew if they axed it the twitter mob would have gone ballistic. Theyreleased it for brownie points and to see if it gets any gameshow awards they can promote the whole platform with.

[@Bunny-zg4hd]

Who threw Wolf down a well

[@vileluca]

4:03:15 you're welcome

[@arkoa0000]

Now I am imagining Rags barking at Mauler that wolf fell down a well and they need to save him

[@anthonyrocha1518]

​@@arkoa0000 I can imagine Mauler running to save wolf, looking like Jack Skeleton running animation

[@carried9130]

​@@arkoa0000 😂🤣👍🏻

[@Sleepgarden]

"I made it through Scorn! I made it through Agony!" oh god, Hellblade 2 is THAT bad?

[@looinrims]

It’s not

[@JustAboutTime]

At least Spyro isn’t suffering from having a bunch of whiny Karens nagging at him the whole time.

[@GarionDAdkins]

There's something so infectious about him losing his shit over the mic being backwards. I can't help but laugh.

[@WARLORD626]

Rage ASMR.

[@hariman7727]

Wolf has artistic/entertaining and sympathetic rage, like Razorfist, or Michael Savage, but with less political commentary.

[@lovestospuge666]

"Not in a million years."

[@mattmark94]

I still remember the context for that awful line in DmC: DmC

[@SpardasTechReviews]

Just for his hair to go silver at the end of the game. Lol

[@sirthicc1908]

I feel like they spent most of their time perfecting showing off her teeth and gums.

[@officialpennsyjoe]

We live in an era where conartists can get away with gaslighting customers for not buying into their cons.

[@martonszokola3806]

Any chance for a highlight reel of this :D ?

[@amandahuginkys7878]

I've heard more inner dialogue from this game in an hour then I have in my own head all week. If I wanted to be nagged all day I'd stay home, jfc

[@yumyumeatemup]

Studio head just release a tweet on X this week titled "Senua's Saga "in which he goes into bizarre detail on the struggles of making this game, and just how proud he is of his team's hard work, and how happy he is for fans telling him everyday about "how excited they are" for the release of the game, and it all...just...rings...hallow. Like a suicide note left behind by a doomed man who has nothing left in him and is prepared to meet his maker. This trash fire of 3 hours of "gameplay" that Wolf suffered through is proof that the studio is probably getting shuttered. Probably WAS being shuttered, and the studio head was probably informed of this well in advance of the release, hence the bizarre reactions coming out of their social media space in the past few weeks. Like a last desperate good bye from a company, whose days are numbered. Well screw em, the western dev studios in gaming have become an increasing blight on the industry and for too long have taken gaming down a path of skin deep, Hollywood wanna be story telling experiences, instead of the FUCKING GAMES theyre supposed to be. Good riddance!

[@dandyman2182]

It honestly breaks my heart how this game turned out in spite of not being perfect I adore the story, characters, And tone of the first game its the most immersed I've been in a game story but this game just fucking sucks and it pains me to say that

[@Iceman9122]

Wait.....wait........wolf? Now thats a name i have not heard in a long time

[@testtube173]

"YOU ARE FASTER!!! YOU HAVE PURPOSE!!!!.... He can read your every move." Sums up the whole game in about 5 seconds. No rhyme or reason just poorly written and slammed together voice work.

[@nhagan001]

Glad I wasn’t the only one thinking that. Contradict yourself some more game. And I guess a boss fight where you’re getting cut up a bunch doesn’t have any lasting effects. You trying to build her up? Tear her down? Help her accomplish her goal? Sabotage her? You gonna piss on her shoe and tell her it’s raining? Not gonna tell you to make up your minds, but MAYBE DONT TALK MORE THAN THE SUICIDE SQUAD GAME.

[@coreyhughes1456]

Ah, the voices in her head weren't making sense? Wild.

[@nhagan001]

@@coreyhughes1456is she a superhero? Combat injuries don’t affect her, she can take on multiple men with weapons back to back, and the voices in her head are so constant and contradictory that it’s a wonder she can even make decisions on the daily. And this person went to hell to kill a god?

[@yaboiportch]

_(sees video length)_ Well THAT can't be good...

[@ThaneAnderson]

Damn if I knew it was gonna be Spyro I woulda stayed longer and came back more often!

[@BobbyBlackhearts666]

When she's fumbling in the water at the start it felt to me like Tasi Trianon but 3 times worse. So much talking stating the obvious. And the style of speech, dripping with melodrama. The penis rune cracked me up lol. I look forward to Wolf's commentary going forward! Edit: I'd love a Highlight that is only Wolf speaking. I thought the voices would stop after the second cutscene. I find it horrible that they keep going, pointing out everything. I would've muted it after the first few minutes.

[@-Azure.EXE-]

I know its just the intro but wtf is 20 minutes of cutscenes interspersed with holding forward on the stick. And why is there random voices telling me what I can see?

[@TheHalogen131]

The voices are an integral part of the story. Senua is crazy, I think she has schizophrenia, or some variation of it. When it comes to cutscenes + walking, blame fucking Naughty Dog for introducing the cancer, that is "cinematic gameplay".

[@Phuckseeds]

​@@TheHalogen131 I have no context or prior knowledge of this game or the first. That said, I have no idea the appeal of playing a psycho woman... Is the game on her head? So like a dream that you play in her crazy brain? Wait, is she Even a woman?!? What is a woman?

[@W00JDA]

​@@Phuckseedsthat's why you should play the first game. Everything is explained there

[@SpardasTechReviews]

​@@TheHalogen131she has psychosis. I think in the first game it works well, but in this game where there's more than just senua and the voices are talking while they are it's a bit annoying. Lol

[@looinrims]

@@SpardasTechReviews …that’s what happens to people with psychosis…almost like it’s the whole point when trying to show people what someone suffering with this disease goes through

[@sarah-rq2rf]

this game just always looked very self-fellating to me.

[@Lauren007E]

First one was pretty good though. Good story at least, very shallow but fun gameplay

[@TonyTama]

3:33:40 and Signalis (the game my userpic is from) is also made by 2 people save for the soundtrack.

[@CLOAK-000]

I'll take smooth and satisfying gameplay over "realistic graphics" any day of the week. Check out the indie gaming scene, there's so many talented people making decent games, no they don't look like real life but they have character....and at only a fraction of the cost of AAA games 😂

[@upon-fe2720]

I think Hellblade still likes to consider itself indie. I think it's a similar kind of size to Helldivers, Hellblade being only 80 employees and 20 at the time of releasing Hellblade 1. At the end of the day dross can be indie and dross can be AAA, Playstation have generally shown how to make good AAA experiences over the past decade so it's not a complete lost cause.

[@looinrims]

It’s wild to me to see a community known for getting mad at non descriptive terms…use non descriptive terms There’s nothing rough though about the gameplay

[@65firered]

What makes it worse is that he was halfway through. He could have beaten the game an still had time to do full stream of Spyro.

[@Dutch_man20]

2:57:31

[@W00JDA]

I think it's the first time i played game i liked but i would never recommend it to anybody. Im heavily biased towards games focusing on story and atmosphere than gameplay, like Pathologic 1, Vanishing of ethan carter or Dear Esther but......fucking hell. Hellblade 2 is a case study of what happens when you throw all your money on graphics. It feels like a film that somebody slapped scraps of gameplay into to just claim it'a a game. Hellblade 1 is like call of duty compared to this. It had more personal and tight story and gameplay changed from time to time. Here we have a moment where two shape puzzles are seperated by walking. I don't feel mad or scammed, just dissapointed. Edit. I'm trying to finish it again for achievements after the initial excitement is gone. It's a fucking nightmare, fuck this game, it's awful.

[@aytony4090]

I tried to warn you lol. But seriously this was my Last of Us 2 i think. Didnt need a sequel but felt like there must have been a purpose and so many things could be improved only to be shat upon.

[@mattmark94]

Nailed it. The first thought I had when I finished TLOU was: This ending is perfect, there is no need for a sequel. When they announced Part 2 I knew they would F it up, I just wasn't expecting a complete disaster xD

[@looinrims]

‘I tried to warn you’ who are you exactly? Some messiah of gaming? You may need a reality check

[@mattmark94]

l@looinrims it's just a figure of speech

[@aytony4090]

@looinrims At the beginning of the stream I wrote a message about how I found the game disappointing which Wolf read, lol.

[@looinrims]

@@aytony4090 oooooh so you’re just a random who got their message read, okay ‘Tried to warn you’ as if you are anyone worth listening to, I mean that’s how smart people get their views of media, from unknown people on the internet they’ve never seen message comment or review anything Meanwhile you’re out here sniffing your own farts about how the content creator agrees with you therefore you’re smart, or something.

[@Sokushinbutsu_Siamang]

II love that the consequence of high fidelity graphics and animations, this “Metahuman” stuff on UE, is that we get more characters who don’t talk or emote like actual people. We get big, grimacing and screaming faces, scrunched up ones, big flapping mouths showing too much tooth and gum while talking and then plenty of obnoxious close up shots where you can basically hear the devs telling you “LOOK AT OUR MOCAP!!! AREN’T YOU IMPRESSED???”. This shit is the opposite of immersive; I get more immersed reading a text box in a cRPG while the NPC stands there completely still.

[@reval1989]

Artisans is such a banger hubworld track

[@Spink_Prime]

If Wolf appreciates pronunciation, then I should let him know that Rujnuj is pronounced Ruynuy

[@dandyman2182]

Dont you just love how the parry mechanic in hellblade 2 is essentially just a cutscene activator lol theres not a single enemy you kill in hellblade 2 that makes you feel like you as the player beat them

[@65firered]

So it's a downgrade.... HOW IS IT A DOWNGRADE!?

[@NarrativeArcade]

I hated the first game. I break down video game storytelling from a screenwriting perspective, and the first game sounded like a student film with a massive budget. Horrendous, and it didn't need a sequel. Just looking at the first 5 minutes reminds me of why I hated this so much. The way they use the narrator is the most redundant, nonsensical storytelling device I've seen in a while 🤦‍♂

[@SaintMecha]

Wolf gave up in less than 3 hours, which was mostly boring walking and cutscenes. Ninja Theory what are you doing

[@bazzy5644]

The exact same shit they did with the first game of this "series" it's honestly hilarious only now seeing pepole wake up to the fact, that this studio is shit and always has been.

[@DerichndofCoomland]

Preparing to be shut down I guess

[@FactoryDan]

Like the show kung fu. Cool name, boring walky talky show, lolol

[@soulsearcher9620]

Hellblade is just a more depressing pc version of a Honkai Impact game, but with worse combat, less creative aesthetic and fewer predatory microtransactions.

[@looinrims]

I love how this is the hallmark criticism ‘my favorite content creator gave up in arbitrary time!’ Like, okay

[@rockbottom2822]

Oh, it's the crazy woman walking simulator again.

[@sunny113866]

😂😂 perfect description!

[@65firered]

Twice the crazy, twice the walking.

[@jdaws4896]

It’s been called a “tech demo “ . I really liked the original, think l will just replay that one

[@bazzy5644]

Okay... I get it. I mean pretty much every one and their dog complained about the shape puzzles in the first game, I understand not wanting to have much of these anymore, but of all things they focussed on the combat? The most clunky barebones part about the whole thing and NT wants this even more limited "iteration" carry it through the whole sequel.... for real? Wow that is pathetic....

[@Armin1983]

Female selfreaffirmation by intrusive voices: The somewhat interactive walking simulation inbetween cutscenes Game

[@ericv00]

Dude, that's a much better title

[@vermithrx1744]

TRhis doesn't even feel like a real game, you know what I mean? It's just interactive cut scenes. It reminds me of that Phillips CD that had games with impressive graphics for the time but the games were;t really games.

[@Dutch_man20]

Well, that was something.

[@hariman7727]

Okay... I'm never playing Hellblade 2, because if I want to listen to inner demons haunt a soul I'll just give my own inner demons another beating. Edit: I can't see anything in Hellblade 2 anyway

[@jamescasselman939]

Thanks, I hated it. Let ninja theory Burn

[@flareanon]

I must be the only one who insisted the first Hellblade was never very good either. Aesthetically very well done, but the gameplay loop has always been incredibly dull, and it was a game entirely reliant on wowing the player with its filmic depiction of psychosis.

[@bazzy5644]

Which is percisely why this should never ever have gotten a sequel. In fact it really reeks of NT capatalizing on just collecting browny points, becasue it showcases a condition rarely touched upon in media. But if that was truly not their intent, they should have left it by a single game on this topic and moved the hell on.

[@Exodus-sh5mq]

Nah, there were others myself and Griffin gaming included who didn't like the game. It just happened that more people praised it than what it actually was worth. I guess this is why we didn't get another Heavenly Sword, or Enslaved for that matter.

[@mrshmuga9]

@@bazzy5644 Who knows. Microsoft picked up the studio after the first game, so it's possible they said "make a sequel" and NT went with it since it was relatively low budget and a recent success to bank off of. But "thanks" to Xbox, the team grew from 20 to 80 people, and took about the same 4 years to make. They pumped money into a niche game, that was never gonna make back an inflated budget. But Xbox probably wanted one o' them cinematic games to get some kind of accolades since they've basically been absent from every awards show. Ironic that they let the one studio close that _did_ get awards and fan acclaim, in favour of a game that'll likely be forgotten and not even be nominated. Or may get nominated for some kind of visual awards and that's it.

[@EmileTherese]

Same. I liked the voices and visuals of the first one but was sick of the gameplay by the time I finished it.

[@samwellcheck562]

It had serious novelty value. That novelty was gone after the first game. This is one of the most tacked-on sequels in history. It has nothing new to offer and no reason to exist.

[@evillee4261]

I'm also in the process of kitten proofing my wires.

[@Axvil]

At least she's not ugly.

[@starsigma1155]

Not really pretty either lol

[@Indigo_1001]

Bruh why do people care so much of a character looks if they are a female character. People never bring up as a point of discussion if the protagonist of a story is male. But if it’s a female character they have to look like a model? Ya’ll need irl girlfriends

[@Axvil]

@@Indigo_1001 If a male protagonist was 5"2, fat, bald with coke glasses, I would not want that either. No one would.

[@badman5852]

@@Indigo_1001 I think if Kratos looked like a doofy nerd with spaghetti arms people might have a problem with that. I don't play games to be me, I play them to escape from reality for a short time. How many of the most memorable male game characters are stick men?

[@badman5852]

@@Axvil so Mario with glasses? He does have some beautiful, thick hair though.

[@Denien82]

Is Hellblade 2 even a game? Stuff like this has cut gameplay instead of cut scenes...

[@lukew6725]

I wonder how the Xbots feel now that they have their very own snoy movie game? 😂

[@samuraibobafett1118]

Spyro supremacy

[@user-pm7pw1tl3t]

Ninja theory couldn't add more then 3 moves in a game even if you payed them xD their combos are always low and basic

[@cipherenigma]

"Holy smokes! This game is next level. Unbelievable single player experience so far. The pacing of this game is much more mature than Hellblade 1. I love the setting and the atmosphere is much darker with Senua not only battling hell but humans too" (A random user Review) I get the same vibes from Alan Wake 2. The game is unanimously praised, but I just don't see it.

[@lukew6725]

Alan Wake 2 sold very poorly, it seems like only the pretentious journos liked it.

[@hariman7727]

Also: Yay! Spyro! Actual fun is happening. :) Edit: Bright Memory was fun at least once. :)

[@caseytrelka0]

Maybe we can get Wolf on a surprise Efap Hellblade review

[@-Azure.EXE-]

41:59 to help with grip.

[@countD8852]

4:03:35 - Oh hey, I can hear Wolf all of a sudden! Imagine having a Biden moment last for 4 hours. Take THAT Rag'""'"'s"''""""''''""'

[@badman5852]

Somebody turned off the gravity? PHYSICS?

[@nhagan001]

This is definitely a game that is too much up its own ass.

[@looinrims]

The fuck does this mean? No seriously what kind of criticism is this?

[@nhagan001]

@@looinrims take all the positive aspects from your first game, go the opposite direction, and then amplify the negative aspects of the game. 1. Combat is worse. The fights don’t encourage the same “back up/ charge in” of the first game. 2. The dialogue of the voices, both your own and God. They are now laughably stupid, and will even spoil things about environments and puzzles. 2a. The voices now have cliche levels of dialogue. They change their minds(?) constantly. God will constantly tell you to give up. Then constantly tell you to give up. Then tell you you are lost. Then tell you you are lost. The female voices will ping pong between thoughts and feelings to the point that you just want to mute them. They’re no longer an interesting aspect of the game, but an annoyance. 3. The story is absolute nonsense. Before the “unreliable narrator” aspect ENHANCED the story of the first game… Now in the second game, it is saying IN ITS SUMMARY that we actually did go to hell and kill a god? So then what did we actually do in the second game? Did we get on a slave ship? Did we set out to save our people? Did we actually encounter giants? Did we encounter and defeat druager? 3a. Or are we just elbow deep in some drugs? You may think this is ridiculous, but again, I want you to prove to me that we actually did what we did. You can say “it happened in the game, are you not paying attention?”, and I would say “what am I supposed to take as real and in the FMC’s head?” 4. The white paint. I didn’t realize the fans of HB1 were so bad at navigating that they needed handholding? 5. The “movie” keeps getting in the way of the game. How many times in this play through was control ripped away from Wolf, or he was only allowed to WALK FORWARD. Make a GAME, not a MOVIE. 6. This good enough explanation for “up its own ass”? Or did you even read this reply when you got the explanation you wanted?

[@looinrims]

@@nhagan001 ok thank you some actual criticism let’s take a look Combat is worse? I tend to agree I prefer the first game’s combat, I would need to play the game another six times to accurately say if it’s worse but it’s definitely slower and seems to want to be harder. The voice’s dialogue? I’m not sure how they’re stupid I’d need some examples, and who is god exactly? Are you talking about Zynbel Olefnir or the Hidden folk? Those are very different characters, I’m slightly concerned about the lack of distinction here between them. Cliche dialogue? Well they’re supposed to change what they say, psychosis is a sense of voices, tending to be different perspectives normal people hold silently speaking aloud, it’s not like normal people have self doubt or anything. I’m gonna assume God is meant to be Zynbel because there’s nothing else for me to go on, again a little alarming because that’s a core aspect of Senua’s character and her motivations, though the streamer won’t know this since he didn’t even finish the game and doesn’t remember the first game. Again the internal voices are not going to be consistent in thoughts because of the nature of the disease. The whole point of this franchise in a meta sense is to share the experience of suffering from psychosis.

[@looinrims]

@@nhagan001 I have to make my reply in multiple parts because mobile doesn’t let you scroll, anyway The story is nonsense? I have to say no, you didn’t pay attention to the game, within the first THIRTY SECONDS they explain why she’s on a slave ship, who the Bjarg are, etc, like this is all explained, there’s no ambiguity to these things I’m sorry you just didn’t pay attention and yes the recap, recaps the first game, it was pretty obvious we killed a god because A senua says it verbatim, B the sword we pulled was meant to kill gods if you listened to the lore stones in the first game, or just listen to Dillion. And C most importantly the first game ends on a shot of senua walking over Hela’s corpse

[@looinrims]

@@nhagan001 continued part again, fuck mobile KZbin comment system I already proved it, or rather exposed the fact you weren’t listening to either game so we’ll skip 3a, what you should take as real is what literally everyone is talking about, I’m sure you’ll ignore this part though too Oh god paint, it’s not like rocks could ever be white! It’s not like game designers have used color to draw the player’s eye before! Never! The most nonsensical criticism in human history, but no one talks about the stupid videos in training debug rooms of abilities in games they fellate, regardless, this isn’t a criticism, not having ‘paint’ or having ‘paint’ doesn’t make the game good or bad. I sincerely hope you will not argue that at least

[@sunny113866]

Mad lady simulator...oh how fun

[@TonyTama]

My kinda clickbait. Also Spyro or at least 2 has the blue fauns.

[@deeraptor5123]

Wolf is still around?! What's his account???

[@TurboPikachu]

This EFAP highlights channel that Wolf runs is his only public online account.

[@jackalcoyote8777]

Return of wolf?

[@ceilingfanenthusiast6041]

I don't tend to watch streams, is Hellblade 2 bad? I had really high hopes :(

[@looinrims]

It’s not, it’s really not

[@nhagan001]

It’s a downgrade from the first. A The Last of Us 2 kinda game. Learned the wrong lessons from its success.

[@looinrims]

@@nhagan001 I definitely agree the combat is worse through its scripting and forced 1v1 things, the combos got simpler too since enemies are weaker and faster to defend

[@mr.harmuzad4201]

Its so bad that Wolf couldn't finish its 5 hour campaign.

[@looinrims]

@@mr.harmuzad4201 wow, deep insight, ‘wolf couldn’t finish it therefore bad’ (its not). it’s insane to me a community of people who clown on other’s arguments can’t produce a single factual coherent argument.

[@shiggydiggy6847]

These "movie games" are a bizarre phenomena since they are super cutscene heavy, but the writing and cinematography is godawful compared to actual films. Like would people play any of these if they didn't have graphic fidelity as a draw-in?

[@chuckb6782]

Steam numbers mean very little when a game is released on game pass

[@berreth3]

where does wolf stream

[@blakty2]

Why the heck did he even install this?

[@Doomchild2XL]

I only lasted about half an hour longer than you. Just uninstalled it. What a drab fucking experience.

[@Lauren007E]

Is it just me, or are those voices more invasive and redundant than last time? The voices acted as a HUD in the last game. This one is acting more like game hints but they dont even let you get a chance to try without telling you whats up

[@sirthicc1908]

Its not just you. They won't shut the fudgemuffins up. The oices literally tell you what to do and what I am already looking at. "You must beat him!" well no shit he has an axe and is swinging it. "You must find a way to the light" Oh really? You mean the only bright thing I can see on the only path I can move on? Yeah I think Majora's Mask told me all about that when I was 9, with Tatl. At least you can choose to listen to Tatl, now its Tatl in each ear talking over herself.

[@jonathankabasele985]

This is the type of game that should be pumped into gamepass. Scrap this game and use the engine to make an action adventure game or open world. It is way more profitable

[@TheBlackAdder1964]

Play Alan Wake II next Wolf I want to see your breaking point in that game lol

[@3BigChins]

The screaming every time she swings would be enough for me to quit and play Spyro too.

[@robo-nidai4236]

Just when you thought David Cage was the worst example of trying to turn video games into playable movies...he still is. But this is a close second. And trust me, saying "I'm at least better than a David Cage game" is not something you should be proud of bragging about. This is The Order: 1886 all over again.

[@zekromfan1]

Seeing Wolf’s desktop screen, I’m noticing a disturbing lack of Gollum representation. It’s the best Gollum game we’ve ever gotten, it has serious competition with Skull Island Rise of Kong when it comes to quality, but I feel it edges it out. More and more I’m starting to feel like GamePass is for Microsoft to just dump whatever they have that won’t make money otherwise onto it, same goes for third party publishers, they probably get some money out of it. I’d personally rather own the game rather than pay a monthly fee, even if it’s cheap. But given what’s currently happening when it comes to owning games, maybe even that mindset is due for a change. Ahoy me mateys, I feel a cool breeze bringing in the fresh air of a new era. Yet more of us shall sail these seven seas.

[@Astroman10]

There is only one good game developer currently out there and it’s a man name Greg who obsessed over charcoal!

[@robovinefilms1811]

The price and dev changes expectations. If this was 25 dollars and framed next to something like "Inside" the divisiveness goes away. Needs a deep discount.

[@BlueKunai]

I didn't particularly care for the first Hellblade all that much, but my fiance really liked it and I know you and Rag'ssss were big fans so I was stoked on your behalf that a sequel got greenlit. It's usually pretty nice when something with relatively niche appeal gets more love. But man, I am so sorry things turned out like this.

[@carried9130]

I'm here for Spyro! Lol but seriously, I got the remastered Spyro games last year because I loved the original games. I hate the changes. I know the original games are 20-25 years old, but the upgrades' camera angles, animation, character and voice changes put me off. I still have my ps2 and as of last year it still worked but I moved to the UK and the plug converter to play it keeps blowing its fuse. I'm bummed PS5 won't play older games. I am a FFX fan and glad that remaster stayed pretty true.

[@TurboPikachu]

Interesting perspective. I think it really does have a lot to do with nostalgia. I was a Nintendo 64 kid; by the time I got a PlayStation in 2003 I found that PS1 games already aged far too poorly compared to N64 for me to commit to playing the original Crash/Spyro games. So in not experiencing the originals, I’ve absolutely loved the Crash/Spyro remakes However, I feel like I’d be in your situation if MS was to have Rareware do remakes of Banjo Kazooie/Banjo-Tooie, as I’d probably experience exactly the same frustrations over changes/modernization to games I grew up with as you did. Now PS2 franchises like Ratchet & Clank/Jak & Daxter/Sly Cooper, on the other hand, have aged phenomenally over the years and remakes would probably do them a disservice (Ratchet & Clank’s first remake was already a major fumble in storywriting/dialogue).

[@carried9130]

I was an Atari kid, so everything after that was amazing lol. Nintendo was so fun and immersive, and I thought the graphics for SuperNES were awesome. I didn't play much for a long time- I got horses and worked full-time. I was dating someone who got PS1 and I played when I could. I loved the Spyro games, Crash Bandicoot, Ratchet and Clank. A few years later my cousin got a PS2 for his birthday and he got Final Fantasy X. I was amazed by it, enough to save up and get my own console and game, along with the Spyro games. I didn't have a lot of time to play but did sometimes at bight and binged the odd weekend. Lol and it was a nobody bother me unless it's an emegency situation- sometimes I took the phone off the hook and later turned off my cell phone. And like I said, I brought it with me when I moved but haven't been able to play a lot the last few years. Last year I got a PS5, a couple new and old games including the Spyro games and FFX / X-2. I played the original games for a lot of years. Spyro's new voice acting, the dragons being in costumes and the camera movements are extremely distracting rather than enjoyable. If I never played before trying the remaster, I'd probably be fine with it.

[@GalacticArchive0]

Why is INDIKA better than this??

[@ventkatczinsky]

the way the furies are talking reminds me of footnotes in a script. this game is kinda cringe and reminds me of a haunted house attraction. "oooo, don't look at that, it's too spoOoOoOoky!"

[@RedStar_N7]

I read that as "furries" and had to wonder if I was having a Biden moment over Rags showing up in the stream at some point

[@ventkatczinsky]

@@RedStar_N7 rags is a good little burpy boy.

[@jrtalkin5558]

To me it was the equivalent of someone talking during a movie every time something interesting happens.

[@StandInTheFire]

Alternative title, “Crybaby cries for several hours”

[@ventkatczinsky]

bear in mind, snyder made dawn of the dead and watchmen. ninja theory made one good game and that's all.

[@ksk9984]

I'd Rather Play An SNES Game Than Play Hellblade 2...😒

[@dannyd464]

Mmmm not much of a gamer are you......🔥🤣🔥

[@michaelhixson6939]

Whelp that five minute replay was just bout the lamest take I'd ever heard on Norse mythology. Extremely girlboss-carrie defies fate. Not very Norse if I say so myself, especially god-killing weapons.

[@billmcdermott9647]

To be fair it’s a blending of mythologies and it’s more her take on it than being accurate

[@kyoumaVII]

Lmao yep xbox sure showed us ponies what a great game looks like 😏

[@harryhazza626]

That wasnt the point . Thats not the game's goal . Or anyone's tbh. This is just your imaginary conflict in your head. No ones out to get you cos you like playstation. Grow a pair .

[@kyoumaVII]

@@harryhazza626 hypocritical of you to say that because all xbox players do is talk absolute trash about Playstation xD "ponies are jealous of this" "ponies are salty about that" i swear it's every xbox KZbinr's topic of discussion, how about xbox players worry about their own console instead of bashing playstation players? And they expect playstation players aren't going to say something back. Microsoft is over here shutting studios down left and right they should focus on that instead.

[@harryhazza626]

@@kyoumaVII yeah i know , fuck mircrosoft , im talking about this game and how some "ponies", see it as retaliation to their 1st party movie games. Its dumb. Btw most xbox players and gamers in general are just ....normal. Not fanboys. Im dont own an xbox newer than the 360. The newest console i have is a ps4.

[@badman5852]

@@kyoumaVII you're still salty about Starfield aren't you. Yeah, remember that one? Redfall? Halo Infinite? Yeah, you're jealous you bought the wrong overpriced box.

[@kyoumaVII]

@@badman5852 lmao why would i be salty about starfield? I could just play mass effect andromeda if i wanted to play a bland space game, redfall? lol no thank you as for halo way too many shooters out there i could play instead.

[@TheGreatToki]

Eww they made the adult dragons anthropomorphic?

[@ksk9984]

I'd Even Rather Play Spyro Enter The Dragonfly At Least It Got Gameplay Unlike Hellblade 2...😒👎

[@MaliAljek117]

Wolf, in the Assassin's Creed discussion you didn't mention Black Flag at any point. I think you should give it a shot since, despite having a bland modern day, it has an amazing ancestor story and the cities are better than AC3. The soundtrack is literal cocaine and the game blends assassin and pirate gameplay very well. Unity was trash though....

[@RegularGillian]

Maybe now people will finally come to terms that the first game is just as bad as this pile of shit. Horrible meandering story, puzzles designed to be completed by a 2 year old and the dullest most barebones melee combat since the earliest beat em ups of the 80s that appears once every 20 to 30 minutes to try and distract you from the boredom. And these pretentious pieces of shit were comparing the first game's combat to God Hand in their devlogs when it's more like an even more braindead version of Infinity Blade. Can't wait for Ninja Theory to be next on the Microsoft chopping block, and hopefully MachineGames and Arkane Lyon will follow and we won't get another Wolfenstein abortion.

[@looinrims]

Contrarian detected I guess you never learned a combo in the game either, did you even play the game I’m not sure you did that much

[@bazzy5644]

Also Not to forget Arkane Lyon was resposable for Deathloop, which was intself embaressing and filled with horrible writing to boot. Pretty sure it only got praised by critics, becasue it had none of the porotags being white.

[@RegularGillian]

@@looinrims how is giving concrete reasons why the game sucks being a contrarian? I 100% the game in 5 hours, wish I got them back in all honesty. Where in my sentence did I say the game didn't have combos? I said the game had worse combat than Infinity Blade which itself has combos. Maybe you should play a game with actual good combat and actual skill to finish like God Hand or Ninja Gaiden before you reflexively defend what even people who like this shitstain concede is the worst aspect of it.

[@kpsk8031]

Most people agree that Hellblade has always been a shitty game. Only a loud minority praises it, I call it the Shen Mue-phenomenon .

[@looinrims]

@@kpsk8031 ‘most people’ who is most people? You yourself and yours?

[@jackalx2154]

Oh no. The obvious movie-game was a boring, never ending cutscene and walking simulator.

[@NirNiobis]

With all respect - 4:26 is not a highlight.

[@JustAboutTime]

This game’s story can be summed up as women going “Waaaaaaaahh” in your ears. You could use this game for mental torture in Guantanamo. 5 minutes of this crap anyone would do anything to make it stop! Jesus this was boring and pretentious as hell.

[@GarosGaming]

the narrator of the game is very bigoted , assuming senuas pronouns

[@0oORealOo0]

I give up after 30 minutes, literally sleeping. Hellblade is the sum of everything that is wrong in modern gaming industry. Maxed out graphic, one finger straight forward "playing". Just awful.

[@Haruspex528]

Hellblade 2 is boring but it's not worse than scorn come on

[@samwellcheck562]

well scorn didn't bombard you with pointless crazy-person dialogue every 0.2 seconds, so it could very easily be a more tolerable experience.

[@Loathsome_Lynx]

​@@samwellcheck562scorn at least has more artistic merit. Not a good game, but a great piece of audio/visual art.

[@looinrims]

Yeah that’s entirely dishonest It’s the equivalent of calling a shooter bad because it has guns, like if the base thing is something you’re particularly not interested in, then yeah who would’ve guessed.

[@RedStar_N7]

Scorn can at least be beaten within a couple hours. The two hours I watched Wolf stream this felt like 5

[@looinrims]

@@RedStar_N7 then I guess it isn’t for you, if you have no empathy then yeah a game focused on empathy isn’t gonna do much for you