Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice Review l Bagogames
"To say mental health representation in games has been rocky is to describe WW2 as “a minor kerfuffle that ended when America gave Japan a little bit of a slap”. Even if you only stick to representations of schizophrenia, games will usually take the Hollywood “homicidal schizophrenic” approach despite research suggesting schizophrenics are more a danger to themselves than others. I can take a bit of pop-culture representation, but when that’s all there is then it becomes frustrating, like a pub selling only one brand of beer. Hellblade takes the bold route to try to represent schizophrenia as realistically as possible. While it does a good job on focusing in on a realistic depiction of schizophrenia, its tunnel vision and quest for “independent AAA” leaves it unfortunately vulnerable to other tripping points." – Kailan May
