![]() The main character Senua is cursed with something called “the dark rot” which grows higher the more time she dies. Something else that I think is important to mention is that Hellblade threatens a sort of perma–death if you die too often. ![]() The “Focus” button helps greatly because it also slows down time for a few brief moments. You’ll sometimes be fighting waves of enemies with no end in sight and things can quickly become overwhelming. Where I think some disabled gamers will have trouble is when there are more than two enemies onscreen at once. I found that once I got a good rhythm down with the combat (Dodge, Attack, Attack, Dodge) things became more manageable. Utilizing all of these moves is required in order to defeat enemies, although I rarely had to press the block button. The combat moves consist of dodge, block, heavy attack, light attack, and melee attack. Technically there’s another difficulty mode you can choose called “Auto” which chooses the difficulty for you depending on how well you’re proceeding in the game. There are three difficulty modes to choose from in Hellblade: easy, normal, and hard mode. One good thing I noticed was that the game saves frequently and checkpoints are plentiful, so you won’t have to travel too far back if you get killed. I definitely recommend disabled gamers with fine motor skill impairments choose easy mode because combat can be pretty harsh at times. It would’ve been nice if the camera followed you as you moved, but during combat the camera does automatically lock on to the nearest enemy which makes things easier. You move the main character with the left control stick and aim the camera with the right control stick. The options menu in Hellblade also allows you to toggle the run button so you don’t have to hold it down. ![]() Still most of the other buttons are customizable including the run feature, which is the left trigger. By the halfway point of the game this button becomes very important in winning battles, so being able to customize it would’ve been helpful. The right trigger button is used for something called “Focus”, which allows you to zoom in on certain objects and is used later in the game as a supernatural ability that exposes enemies’ weaknesses. I can slightly understand why being able to change the interact button could cause complications in other menus, but locking the right trigger button seems like a strange choice. The interact button and the right trigger can’t be altered in the options menu. Unfortunately, Hellblade is not technically fully customizable. The options menu even categorizes the controls, separating them by two convenient types: general controls and combat controls. Hellblade has customizable controls available which include being able to modify the symbol buttons and the left trigger buttons. However, sound is very important in Hellblade so deaf players may have more obstacles to deal with as they play the game. This game has an impressive amount of control options available for disabled gamers with fine motor skill impairments including customizable controls and difficulty modes. ![]() Hellblade is an action hack and slash game with psychological horror elements and was released on the PlayStation 4. Hellblade has Celtic warrior Senua deal with her inner demons as she travels to the depths of hell to try and save her boyfriend’s lost soul. They say the hardest battles are fought in the mind.
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