WHY not "Hellblade II: Senua's Saga"??!

[talloyer]

The name of this franchise is Hellblade, yet it's second game has been sidelined to hightlight the protagonist Senua and I think this is just Wrong for being misleading. Imagine if Uncharted games were named after Nathan Drake, like "Drake's Deception: Uncharted 3" or Alan Wake 2 was called "2 Alan Wake"?? Ridiculous!
Hellblade is not supposed to be only about Senua.

[Synner]

I am pretty sure that the original Hellblade was entirely about Senua coming to terms with her mental illness, and the loss of her lover, despite knowing in the end she could never truly have him back.
She had to fight voices in her head constantly warring with her and each other to put her in a state of continued turmoil. Most of the best parts of Hellblade were entirely brought on by Senua's hallucinations and emotional journey, even the bosses she fought were reflections of herself and her struggles to overcome personal fears and hurdles.

Quite literally the entirety of the first game was about her overcoming herself, her doubts, her fears, and her guilt. It was about through sheer willpower she would better herself and move forward.

[talloyer]

Originally posted by Synner:

I am pretty sure that the original Hellblade was entirely about Senua coming to terms with her mental illness, and the loss of her lover, despite knowing in the end she could never truly have him back.
She had to fight voices in her head constantly warring with her and each other to put her in a state of continued turmoil. Most of the best parts of Hellblade were entirely brought on by Senua's hallucinations and emotional journey, even the bosses she fought were reflections of herself and her struggles to overcome personal fears and hurdles.

Quite literally the entirety of the first game was about her overcoming herself, her doubts, her fears, and her guilt. It was about through sheer willpower she would better herself and move forward.

Ahn, that's not the point of my topic, but cool analysis.

[-=Zemi Atral=-]

My theory is that "Hellblade" is not a fitting name as it conveys, in my opinion, more toward a combat-oriented game, like Action-RPGs (think of names like "Darksiders", "Remnant from the Ashes" or "Lords of the Fallen" for example), while it is an immersive story-driven adventure.

Renaming "Senua's Saga: Hellblade II" seems to be an attempt to correct that while still keeping "Hellblade" in the name to avoid misleading current owners of the first one.

I would even have hoped they took advantage of the last ray-tracing patch for "Hellblade" to rename it "Senua's Saga: Hellblade" for more uniformity.

[BIӨMΣCHΛПӨID69]

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[MisterBob]

Its nearly "Blood Omen naming Conventions" ..and that works for me
Basically first game was Blood Omen : Legacy of Kain , second was Legacy of Kain :SoulReaver ..although they abandonded it and went with Legacy of Kain as the main title after that .. (except for side game Blood Omen 2)

[Synner]

"Hellblade is not supposed to be only about Senua."
It quite literally was your topic.
Your argument was that the game isn't about Senua, thus the game shouldn't be named after her, so having it overshadow the IP (I.E Hellblade) name is misleading.

When the first game and presumably the franchise is entirely about Senua.
Not to mention your Alan Wake example wasn't even proper naming conventions, This still refers to it as Hellblade 2 not "Senua's Sacrifice 2: Hellblade"
Where as to be as ridiculous as possible to over-exaggerate your very pointless point. You put the number first as if it were a secondary title in of itself rather than a chronological symbol.

In all reality, the game doesn't even need Hellblade's IP title to actually make sense, the series of games could literally be "Senua's Sacrifice" then "Senua's Saga" Because "Hellblade" really has NOTHING to do with the story at all, or the game. Hell, there is nothing special about her blade, in fact its a trinket on Senua's hip that has any real power at all.

[talloyer]

Nah, Hellblade is more important than Senua.

[Cloudy]

i agree with the title, but not all the other points. i do think going from Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice to Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 feels strange. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifce and Hellblade 2: Senua's Saga just seems normal. But oh well its not that bad. Definitely don't know why OP is saying Senua is not important in the game though.. I mean as far as i remember Senua is insane and nothing we are experiencing is real, making the hellblade possibly not even exist and that potentially anyone Senua fights isn't real.. basically making her the only character in the game

[Hellspawn]

"Star Wars: Jedi Knight" says "Hi!"

[wolfinston85]

Exactly.

[shiv]

What does hellblade even mean. It's such a throwaway meaningless name that I suspect was a marketing decision to make the game sound more actiony and 'awesome'. Senua is what the franchise has always been about. Hellblade shouldn't even be in this games title, it's only there to make the franchise connection and it will be gone completely by the third game.

[HarambeVirgin]

i agree with you title, but not really you caption. I really don't like how the flopped it, it should be Hellblade II: Sanua's Saga. But the game is about sanua and not anyone else. It does get under my skin that the flopped the franchise name around, just seems like idiots are running game companies these days.