9 Terrible Video Games With AWESOME Stories

7. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Gorgeous visuals and arguably the best lead performance of the generation it may have, but interacting with Hellblade is a slog, plain and simple.

Coming from the fact that developers Ninja Theory wanted to create a 'triple-A game on an indie budget', all that money went into motion capture tech and research as to how Senua deals with her psychosis, rather than the game itself.

Sadly, gameplay boils down to two strands. Either you're engaging in super simplistic, repetitive combat where the same combos get trotted out again and again, or you're searching lovingly-rendered environments, looking for a number of hidden runes to progress.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Again, Hellblade shines so brightly as a brave exploration of mental health struggles and as an educative light shone on the rituals of certain ancient Nordic tribes. Maybe repetitive gameplay accentuates the former, but here's hoping the sequel fleshes everything out way more purposefully.