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Just wish the story was better. I LOVED Hellblade 1 but Hellblade 2 was easily forgotten. First class graphics but some how the world felt smaller than the 1st cause it wasn't connected, the combat felt like a downgrade in terms of gameplay, and the puzzles while not worst were not better. However it all depends on the story and while HB1 was Senua's journey, HB2 was a mess leaving the gamer to guess well if this is in her head, then it makes no sense what these other people are doing...

I absolutely loved this game! .. yes maybe its not really a 'game' move of a interactive movie :P but I thought it was really enjoyable

Great video. I enjoyed senuas saga for its storytelling and combat much more. Sacrifice had better mythology and flash backs that enhanced the story.

I personally like both forms of the RPG genre, but kudos to sucker punch who have always kind of done this thing where they always thought it was a little scummy when something became a bullet sponge, but didn’t look too different from everything else, it’s a big reason why in insomniacs, Spider-Man, and ratchet and clank franchises if something has more health and does more damage, it’s going to look scarier and be more heavily armored, but it’s still gonna be gone in a decent amount of time. And that was the whole thing with sucker punch, naughty dog, and insomniac games they all made it to wear combat, and their games are fun. It’s the biggest reason why they are the three heavy hitters of Sony, When it comes to games. I a lot of this was talk to text so I apologize in advance if something looks wrong, but I am lazy and don’t want to go back and fix it. Hope y’all have a wonderful day.

In some games leveling is so pointless. Like Assassins Creed. As your level grows higher your enemies level grows higher at the exact same rate. So technically you and your enemies are always the same level. And they always take and do the same damage through the entire game.

The game is amazing . 55 hours in and still haven’t beat it ahahaha I’ve been doing a lot of the side missions

Well, I'm convinced. lol. Hats off to Sucker Punch for their approach to balancing.

I really like such musical analysis. Great video!

Corpos gonna corp

1:00:00 Not only did Charlotte an outstanding performance for Amicia, it is carried by an astonishing motion capture performance by actress Robyn Wolf. When you watch the cutscenes with sound off, Robyn's performance delivers every detail of Amicia's thoughts and emotions. Which also highlights the high quality of Amicia's CGI model, which is able to project all these details - it is incredible how alive her eyes appear. According to IMDB a live action series is in the works, but I personally would be much more interested in a full CGI rendered movie with Amicia's character model driven by Robyn's and Charlotte's performances; James Cameron's "Avatar" shows, that it is possible.

Great video

3:40 I take it as a sign that the story of Amicia and Hugo was the one they needed to get "out of their system" and when they had learned the tools and the technology was there, they started working on it. I think it shows, because the story telling is of such high integrity. As a consumer of art you know if an art work was "just a job" or a true labour of love, and the two APT games communicate that in abundance. The attention to detail put into the music and how it integrates into the story telling is just one example of that. The celebration of such detail as with your essay video is much appreciated!

Big merci for this great video!

Great deep dive. I caught some of these leitmotifs, but I appreciate having the ones I missed pointed out. Cute to mention "keeping it relatively brief" at the one hour mark. ;) Love the joke at 1:09:39 too. The work is of high quality, I hope this gets the engagement you want.

While we are, one more time, getting our anual dose of the modern sacred cow of "female oppression and victimism by the patriarchy", its actually very difficult to see nowadays movies which display the sufferings of "normal" men. There are some movies that touch slightly on that issue, in a true peripheral and almost accidental way, but as they do not adress those manhood problems in a really deliberate and conscious way, they always remain in the realm of the caricature like Patrick Bateman or Joaquin Phoenix's Joker, characters to be repudiated or laughed at. Sad to see that modern cinema is so one-sighted.

Beautifully filmed and artistically designed, this "edgy" film (at least its "Dogtooth" director is) was essentially an empty exercise in exploitative "furious jumping" that took over 3/4 of the audience's time with a pointless absurdist pseudo-agenda that bored rather than inspired. An absurdist pointless and subhuman story that reminds one of John Water's Pink Flamingos "cult movies".

This is the worst movie I've ever seen. And it's a reflection of the minds of the director, the people who liked it and praised it that left me disgusted. It's what men THINK women want but actually in reality is what MEN want and think. And what do they think women's freedom is? Whoring themselves??!? Soo half-assed a disguise about some ideology. All I could see is how they like their women- retarded in a full grown woman's body wanting sex?!?! What a fucked up sick perverted male fantasy. It's not true at all for women. That's what most men liking and approving of this movie want to women. All what the men liking this movie can see for women's freedom is sexual freedom?! In the form of degrading to whoring? Is this the peak of most men's porn fantasies getting Oscar nominations and awards? Sure it is when most people voting are old white men. Oscars are fucked for nominating this in directing and acting over Barbie . Barbie looks like heaven standing next to this. This is NOT feminism. It's the opposite. To say it is feminist is an insult. Big insult. I cannot believe it's praised. I cannot believe it has Oscar nominations. Society is fucked. Poor Things is a shallow shallow, pathetic, dumb ideology where men get off on each other. To see Barbie getting so much hate and bad reviews, meanwhile THIS bullshit is what's praised and what actually wins??!!!???Pathetic. What a loss.

great analysis. i so agree and i haven't seen many people share the same take. i love yorgos lanthimos' other films, i'd say dogtooth does the misogyny commentary So much better than poor things. poor things could have had way more potential but falls flat like you said.

You've expressed in thorough detailed analysis all that I've been trying to say about why I was disappointed and unmoved by the film & her experiences and antics! The story's narrative played out through Bella sabotages it's own social / moral messaging! There are gaps in the father and daughter relationship and Bella's cold nature makes her acting seem forced as she "somewhat" transitions from a cruel AI robot-child-sex FrankenHooker to a wise book reading, creator of a daddy-husband slave goat & dominating wife to a Weasel whimpering Scientist! It's a dumb-down film that's easy for the masses to fawn over! FIRST OFF, THEY KILL THE BABY! but whatever this fairytale was about, the message was ruined by the woman-child sex abuse and the boredom of everything else thereafter! Her Dad should have given her some money and taught her self-respect before she left!! And why his his face reconstructed? LOL!! And using "GOD" as a pun for him was weak along with her tiresome journey. All of it to simply ending with her going back home to a feeble doddering companion! Dorothy & Toto had way much more fun, joy, excitement and adventure than Bella. Glad she didn't need money at the end because isn't that why she was prostituting herself only to discover that most men are misogynists. WELL I'LL BE! She'd already learnt that! People got lost in the bling and hype but "POOR THINGs" isn't really that deep, intricate, complex or dramatic of an experience for 2:20 mins. It's SHALLOW and HALLOW! It wasn't even a good psychological Dark Comedy let alone a well developed surreal fantasy Horror movie!! Give me The Shape of Water, Amelie or even The Wizard of OZ anyday for something of true surreal substance. THANK YOU FOR YOUR REVIEW!!! I didn't realize anyone understood the problems with this film, in the way that I did!!! Reply

Overrated, chliche and anti-feminst movie actually.

A perspective coming from someone that agrees more with radical feminism, I don't get how liberal feminist Hollywood portrays prostitution and self sexualization as better than getting married to one person and giving birth to their children. Has anyone else noticed this or am I exaggerating? I haven't seen the movie yet but I spoiled myself on accident and that's the vibe I got.

First movie I’ve ever walked out of

The main content of the film is sex, mainly copulation, but we also have onanising, biting, choking and lesbian licking. In short, it's a perverse gore in a colourful setting, as empty and toxic as all so-called pop-culture made in USA.

You didn't get it and miss the point. The Film is not about feminism (or socialism), but the protagonist is female so unavoidably, there will be some element of that, if your premise and expectation was wrong, of course you won't get it.

Godwin doesnt get a pass from me. He took away a woman's autonomy by experimenting on her body without her consent and contemplated molesting his "daughter." Max also sucks, but not for the reason you stated. He lusted after a " pretty retard" and agreed to marry the mental child in order to keep her at home.

Unbelievably conceited. Worse, REN thinks they're accurate in their observations, a tragic belief. But that mirror he tells us is compelling. This addiction imho won't release REN to observe objectively. It's painful to feel the need to nowe let this travesty bang our ears. There's no statement in the move as to whether or not Bella's mother was alive when taken out of the Thames, I assume. We all know the Thames is COLD. When the body falls from such a height, given what we see of the event, the body hit the water flat on or in a way to result in shock, both the impact and the temperature. But REN fabricates a self serving story that the body was alive when it floated into the river or was pulled to the shore. She died; she didn't moan and be in refrigerated condition. But REN of course can explain in more details their posit. Ouch. There are more, but this is an ad nauseum series of RENs. So many others with erudite, intellectually accurate reviews.

If you enjoy reading books, give the original novel by Alasdair Gray a go. It tackles the same topics as the movie in greater depth. I watched the movie, read the book and watched the movie again. I find them both very enjoyable and thought-provoking. Your observations are great as well!

you brought up some excellent points i haven't encountered in other reviews. thanks!

Just finished the video, 10/10. Makes me so hyped up to play cyberpunk from the beginning again when phantom liberty drops!

perfect essay. been wanting someone to talk about these things with this clarity now.

Regarding choices, i agree there is way more then people realise especially peeps that play it just once. Pawel Sasko said that they will most likely change their tactic in the future, since more numerous subtle changes that happen dont seem to registre with some people, that they will have to hammer down those differences in a more obvious way to point them out since, clearly, they went under the radar with some "gamers"

Going to check this video out tomorrow. Seems like a really good watch!

A very well put one! Subbed!