Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 is less of a PC hardware killer than it seems

While I’ve always felt that the race towards graphical hyper-realism isn’t as widespread as it’s often perceived, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 is definitely one of these games. The kind that probably has twelve artists dedicated to recreating visible pores, that sort of thing. He’s so focused on looking pretty that he didn’t even notice that the title and subtitle got mixed up.

Of course, Hellblade 2 is a heavy test on older hardware, with a heavy reliance on DLSS or FSR scaling to maintain good performance. However, it’s no Dragons Dogma 2-style technical horror show either. A happy balance between visuals and smoothness is achievable on both plush PCs and low-end laptops, while DLSS 3 frame generation can deliver an effective punch in the frame rate pants of RTX 40 series GPUs.

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