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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a dark fantasy action-adventure where you play as Senua, a traumatized warrior from the Pict tribe. Driven by the brutal murder of her lover, Dillion, by Vikings, she embarks on a harrowing journey to the Norse underworld to save his soul. You'll navigate the Orkey Islands, battling creepily masked enemies and solving environmental puzzles, all while experiencing Senua's psychosis through constant voices and unsettling visions. The game is best experienced with a headset to fully immerse yourself in its atmospheric world and lore, drawing heavily from Scandinavian and Celtic folklore.

This guide will help you conquer the challenges Senua faces. We'll provide a step-by-step walkthrough to navigate the game's progression, offer strategies for defeating formidable bosses, and detail the locations of all lore stones scattered throughout the world. We'll also clarify the game's unique 'rot' system and how it impacts your progress, ensuring you can overcome every obstacle on Senua's quest for redemption.

ᚹᚨᛚᚲ ᚦᚱᛟᚢᚷᚺ

A spoiler-free walkthrough for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, detailing objectives, puzzles, lorestones, and boss fights with optional video guides and timestamps.

This walkthrough will be generally SPOILER FREE. Each section will contain an optional video walkthrough. These walkthroughs have expert gameplay. They will display expert combat techniques, and move through the game in a well planned manner to show you all the puzzles and lorestones. However, the videos are not spoiler free. WALKTHROUGH VIDEOS CONTAIN SPOILERS, so watch them at your own risk. I will include lists of timestamps of when I reach important objectives in the videos. If you use these timestamps to skip to those spots in the video, you can generally skip any story spoilers that you don't want to see while still watching the video to see how to complete an objective.

I will also include videos of the boss fights. Boss fight videos come directly from the walkthroughs, but BOSS FIGHT VIDEOS CONTAIN NO STORY SPOILERS.

Conventions used in this Walkthrough

Points of no return will be marked in the guide with a double horizontal rule, like this.

After you pass a point of no return, you cannot return to the area you are leaving to collect Lorestones. In rare instances, you may be able to return later after you complete another objective. These instances will be specifically explained.

Sections of the guide where I explain new game mechanics and provide relevant tips will be highlighted in blocks like this.

Specific objectives will be placed between two horizonal rules, so that you can easily see where they begin and where they end. They will also contain some sort of graphic to indicate the beginning, and a smaller version of that same graphic to indicate their end.

Note that objectives can be nested inside each other. A Lorestone could be found while you're attempting to complete another objective. Nested objectives such as this will be indented to indicate that they are nested within another objective.

This explains the need for objective graphics to show the beginning and end of a specific objective, so that you can tell when an objective actually ends, as opposed to when a nested objective appears within the original objective.

Guide and Walkthrough (PS4) by burqawitz

Complete Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice walkthrough covering all trials, gods, and secrets. Updated 09/18/2017.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    The Land of Mist and Fog - ᛋᛖᛖᚲ
  2. 2
    Valravn - The God of Illusion - ᚺᛖᛚᚨᛋ
  3. 3
    Surt - The God of Fire - ᛏᚱᚢᛏᚺ
  4. 4
    Bridge to Helheim (Gjallarbrú) - ᛁᚾ
  5. 5
    Gramr and the Odin Trials - ᛗᛁᚱᚱᛟᚱ
  6. 6
    Blindness Trial (ᛟᛞᛁᚾ ᛏᚱᛁᚨᛚᛋ)
  7. 7
    Labyrinth Trial with Map (ᛟᛞᛁᚾ ᛏᚱᛁᚨᛚᛋ) - ᚷᛟᛞᛋ
  8. 8
    Tower Trial (ᛟᛞᛁᚾ ᛏᚱᛁᚨᛚᛋ) - ᛒᛖᛏᚱᚨᛃ
  9. 9
    Plague Trial (ᛟᛞᛁᚾ ᛏᚱᛁᚨᛚᛋ) - ᚢᛋ
  10. 10
    The Sea of Corpses (ᚷᚱᚨᛗᚱ ᛏᚱᛁᚨᛚ)
  11. 11
    Fenrir (ᚷᚨᚱᛗ) - the Guardian of Hel - ᚢᚾᛗᚨᛋᚲ
  12. 12
    The Final Confrontation - ᚠᛖᚨᚱ
Tips
  • Refer to the Combat Move List for combat strategies.
  • Familiarize yourself with Enemy Types to prepare for encounters.
  • Understand the Dark Rot and Save Files (SPOILERS!) to manage your game progress.
  • Discover all Lorestones scattered throughout the world.
  • Explore the secrets of the runes (ᛋᛖᚲᚱᛖᛏᛋ ᛟᚠ ᛏᚺᛖ ᚱᚢᚾᛖᛋ).
  • Read the Story Explanation (SPOILERS) for deeper narrative understanding.

ᚹᚨᛚᚲ ᚦᚱᛟᚢᚷᚺ (2)

A spoiler-free walkthrough for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, detailing objectives, puzzles, and lorestones with optional video guides and timestamps. Learn conventions used in the guide.

This walkthrough will be generally SPOILER FREE. Each section will contain an optional video walkthrough. These walkthroughs have expert gameplay. They will display expert combat techniques, and move through the game in a well planned manner to show you all the puzzles and lorestones. However, the videos are not spoiler free. WALKTHROUGH VIDEOS CONTAIN SPOILERS, so watch them at your own risk. I will include lists of timestamps of when I reach important objectives in the videos. If you use these timestamps to skip to those spots in the video, you can generally skip any story spoilers that you don't want to see while still watching the video to see how to complete an objective.

I will also include videos of the boss fights. Boss fight videos come directly from the walkthroughs, but BOSS FIGHT VIDEOS CONTAIN NO STORY SPOILERS.

Conventions used in this Walkthrough

Points of no return will be marked in the guide with a double horizontal rule, like this.

* * *

* * *

After you pass a point of no return, you cannot return to the area you are leaving to collect Lorestones. In rare instances, you may be able to return later after you complete another objective. These instances will be specifically explained.

Sections of the guide where I explain new game mechanics and provide relevant tips will be highlighted in blocks like this.

* * *

Specific objectives will be placed between two horizonal rules, so that you can easily see where they begin and where they end. They will also contain some sort of graphic to indicate the beginning, and a smaller version of that same graphic to indicate their end.

* * *

Note that objectives can be nested inside each other. A Lorestone could be found while you're attempting to complete another objective. Nested objectives such as this will be indented to indicate that they are nested within another objective.

* * *

This explains the need for objective graphics to show the beginning and end of a specific objective, so that you can tell when an objective actually ends, as opposed to when a nested objective appears within the original objective.

* * *

- Next: The Land of Mist and Fog - ᛋᛖᛖᚲ

Guide and Walkthrough (PS4) by burqawitz (2)

Full walkthrough for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, covering the Land of Mist and Fog, Valravn, Surt, and more.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    The Land of Mist and Fog - ᛋᛖᛖᚲ
  2. 2
    Valravn - The God of Illusion - ᚺᛖᛚᚨᛋ
  3. 3
    Surt - The God of Fire - ᛏᚱᚢᛏᚺ
  4. 4
    Bridge to Helheim (Gjallarbrú) - ᛁᚾ
  5. 5
    Gramr and the Odin Trials - ᛗᛁᚱᚱᛟᚱ
  6. 6
    Blindness Trial (ᛟᛞᛁᚾ ᛏᚱᛁᚨᛚᛋ)
  7. 7
    Labyrinth Trial with Map (ᛟᛞᛁᚾ ᛏᚱᛁᚨᛚᛋ) - ᚷᛟᛞᛋ
  8. 8
    Tower Trial (ᛟᛞᛁᚾ ᛏᚱᛁᚨᛚᛋ) - ᛒᛖᛏᚱᚨᛃ
  9. 9
    Plague Trial (ᛟᛞᛁᚾ ᛏᚱᛁᚨᛚᛋ) - ᚢᛋ
  10. 10
    The Sea of Corpses (ᚷᚱᚨᛗᚱ ᛏᚱᛁᚨᛚ)
  11. 11
    Fenrir (ᚷᚨᚱᛗ) - the Guardian of Hel - ᚢᚾᛗᚨᛋᚲ
  12. 12
    The Final Confrontation - ᚠᛖᚨᚱ

This guide also includes sections on Combat Move List, Enemy Types, information about the Dark Rot and Save Files (SPOILERS!), Lorestones, Secrets of the Runes, Story Explanation (SPOILERS), and Legal and Contact Info.

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