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My mother's mental illness was a tragedy, not a video game narrative device
I guess that’s why Hellblade’s narrative seems so vacuous to me. Dealing with mental illness isn’t throwing your ex-boyfriend’s skull over a cliff or fighting imaginary monsters against a Norse Mythology background and then being all better. It’s a lifelong war, and it’s one you have to fight knowing you’re going to eventually lose.