Just How Celtic Is It?

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I've been wanting to play a game that reflects my ethnic culture for a VERY long time, and I'm also a practicing Druid IRL (the historical kind, not the video game kind, people), so you can imagine how important this is to me. To elaborate on the question: does the Celtic element stop with the character? Is she just a Celt stuck in an Asatru ethos, or do the devs actually take time to give us (or rather you guys) a Celtic history lesson? Are there any other Celtic characters in the game? Are any of the Celtic Divines present in the game?

It's kind of a make-or-break deal for me.

[OceloT]

I think i only saw 2 or 3 references to Celtic culture trought the whole game, they went all in with the Asatru myth tho

[Visuwyg]

I think Senua is supposed to be a Pikt. Her village got destroyed by invading vikings.

There are "audiologs" that tell old myths, they had a professor who advised them on historical things, and overall it felt really authentic. I can't say for sure if it is celtic, though, since I don't know what that means exactly :)

[Eris Lietus]

Much more viking stuff then celtic

[McShave07]

Like Chrono said it's almost all Viking mythology based. It's about a Pictish woman in Viking hell.

[Puppet Pal Clem]

It's a game (not real and exaggerated)... and only 8 hours long... instead of dwelling in the past why not focus on the present?


You seriously practice being a druid?

[Puppet Pal Clem]

Originally posted by Tearjerker:

Giving Senua an English accent is an insult to Celts everywhere. If they wanted to give her an English accent why didn't they make her an Anglo-Saxon from the Kingdom of Northumbria, it's in the same time period and general vicinity.

Who cares honestly. It's a game! Accents change, dna change, mentality change. People really need to understand that the people who lived in the past, in the same land, are different from the people living in the present both on a mental and physical level. When the anglo saxons invaded britain everything changed, just like how the romans changed west europe from an "uncivilized" society to a civilized one when they invaded.

Live in the present and not the past or you are part of the problem with our decaying humanity.

[Drifta]

I'm willing to bet 50bucks that this game authentically represents celts to a greater degree than you authentically represent Druids.

[Eris Lietus]

its not impossible for them to be around at the same time, Pits in scoland- First viking raid we know of was lindsfarm... ( cant spell) or should i say the first recorded.. I would say this game is slightly pushing it, but the vikings where known to have raided the islands in scotland. "The Northern Isles were "Pictish in culture and speech"[50] prior to the Norse incursions, and although it is recorded that Orkney was "destroyed" by King Bridei in 682 it is not likely that the Pictish kings exerted a significant degree of ongoing control over island affairs" from Wiki so take is as you want

[telamiina]

Originally posted by Tearjerker:

This dev is obviously discriminating against celtic voice actors. They are an English company who are Anti-Irish, Anti-Scottish and Anti-Welsh.

Yeah, thahs why they make a game about celts....

[☠Kerkenbush☠]

This TearJerker guy is a level 10 troll. So the best to steer clear of the discussions section of this game a couple of days.

[Visuwyg]

You can always count on SOMEBODY to be offended on the internet... lol.

P.s.: The actress is originally german, does that make the cultural theft better or worse?

[Sustain]

Originally posted by Kaffeebohnson:

I think Senua is supposed to be a Pikt. Her village got destroyed by invading vikings.

There are "audiologs" that tell old myths, they had a professor who advised them on historical things, and overall it felt really authentic. I can't say for sure if it is celtic, though, since I don't know what that means exactly :)

She's definitely a Pict, she's from Orkney as the first runestone we inspect clearly says, her clothes and the blue face paint are also undeniable pictish, Vikings made the islands the headquarters of their pirate expeditions carried out against Norway and the coasts of mainland Scotland so it's probably set somewhere in that period they probably killed and enslaved the local population as they always did, which fit's everything we see from her past.

The Pict's where not really Celts btw but simply the descendents of the indigenous Iron Age people of northern Scotland.

[Eris Lietus]

I will admit if they going to have a Pict, they could have at least made her have a Scotish accent

[[Shinbuikai]]

tear shut the ♥♥♥♥ up and enjoy the game, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ kid.

[JD.Horx]

Well, I learned that the celts migrated from western Germany, (from Swabia to be exact) to west Europe and to the British isles. But who am I to question this.

As for the language. I myself am german and I think this game is created for an international audience. That's why they chose to use an english accent, I too am thankful that I can clearly understand her (there is no german audio for this game). While I still agree that a Scottish or Celtic accent would be clearly more immersive and historically correct, it seems to be the priority for Ninja Theory to adress an international audience without any problems.