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Based on Norse mythology, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is pure psychological horror disguised as dark fantasy. Its suffocating atmosphere is the consequence of dealing with themes such as depression, grief, and death while diving into the mind of a character whose mental illnesses infuse the game with hopelessness and despair. The game feels incredibly claustrophobic because it doesn’t observe those issues at a safe distance, but inside the very mind where these feelings thrive.
In the story, Senua is traveling to a “land of mist and fog. The place the Northmen call Hel” to get back the soul of her dead boyfriend, Dillion. Like in the myth of Baldr, here the goddess Hela holds [...]