Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II sees its titular protagonist in a really totally different headspace in comparison with the primary recreation, when the Pict warrior was largely on the mercy of the antagonistic, psychosis-induced voices in her head. She’s extra assured in herself in Hellblade II and on this new-found company, she’s in a position to join with individuals once more. Ahead of Hellblade II’s May 21 launch, I spoke to steer actor and Ninja Theory video editor Melina Juergens, Ninja Theory scriptwriter and efficiency seize director Lara Derham, and Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience Paul Fletcher (a key collaborator on each Hellblade video games) about Senua’s evolving notion of her psychosis and the way that can inform her narrative arc.”At the end of the first game, [Senua] was really confronting a lot of new things, and that’s a very difficult part of the journey,” Derham informed me. “I think at the end of the game, she came to a sense of–I wouldn’t say complete peace, but more peace and more acceptance. And she had started to question and put aside her father’s teachings: that this difference that she had that she shares with her mother is evil and wrong.”
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She continued: “So I think [Senua is] at a point now where she’s prepared to move forward and look at what comes next. And for her, what comes next is this mission that she feels very strongly that she’s destined to do, that she’s chosen for. And this is to do with the promise that she made to Dillion about not letting anyone suffer as he did. So I think I like to see it as a step out into the world because it’s not just about her and her pain, it’s about other people. And there’s a real selflessness to this decision that she makes, especially since she’s putting herself at such great risk.”In Hellblade II, Senua travels to Iceland to take care of the Viking risk nonetheless entrenched there. Unlike the primary recreation, which noticed her take care of the legendary monstrosities of Helheim all on her personal, Hellblade II sees Senua struggle in a setting based mostly extra firmly on actuality and work together with different individuals. And a few of these individuals will see Senua as an aspirational chief, not the cursed outcast from the primary recreation.”We’ve got a cast now for the new game,” Juergens informed me. “There are people that appreciate [Senua’s] perspective, her unique perspective on the world, and there are other people who reject it. I think she comes across a little bit more confident now. When I was acting, I made sure that for the second game, my posture is a little bit more confident and upright because she is a leader in the second game. She’s not a victim of psychosis anymore. She hasn’t overcome it, but she’s in control of it.””When we look at Hellblade 1, [Senua] was totally enthralled to and enveloped by this darkness,” Fletcher mentioned. “And as she emerges from that, she acquires more power and self-reliance and is able to challenge and resist the voices and visions even though they’re still there. So she has more power. And that’s what enables her to look outside and to think in terms of the bigger picture beyond herself.”That’s a extremely vital level that she is [no longer] being always buffeted by the voices and buffeted by her experiences,” Derham added. “They nonetheless have an effect on her, they’re nonetheless there, however she has the power now to push again on them a bit bit and to acknowledge that she has company.”For Ninja Theory, it was important to showcase that living with psychosis is a journey. There’s no ending to Hellblade II where Senua walks away completely “mounted” of her mental illness. “I feel some individuals can consider her trajectory of restoration in quite simple phrases of leaving the previous behind,” Fletcher said. “And I feel, echoing what Lara mentioned, [Senua] does not go away her previous behind, however the previous really grinds and shapes the lens by which we see the current and predict the longer term. And that is there the entire time. In assembly with different individuals, she positive factors new views. And for me, that is actually thrilling that [Ninja Theory is] taking the narrative this manner. Because so typically in scientific follow, what permits individuals to recuperate is to achieve a that means and a goal that is past themselves.””The place that we’re taking [Hellblade II], which is absolutely new, is as an alternative of analyzing how totally different Senua is from different individuals, we’re how related a few of her experiences are to what we’d name ‘regular’ individuals’s responses,” Derham said. “It goes again to what Paul was saying this morning about how all of us assemble our personal realities ultimately or one other. And we’ll see Senua’s world by Senua’s eyes however additionally, you will see how different individuals, [people without psychosis] are additionally doing the identical sorts of processes that Senua is–creatively setting up her world, [is something] that different individuals do as effectively.”Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II is about to launch for Xbox Series X|S and PC, and can launch day one on Xbox Game Pass.