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Hellblade II: headphones on, heart rate up

The game’s sound takes you for a helluva ride.

The team at Ninja Theory made it a point to explain that they consulted with mental health experts — including a professor of psychiatry at Cambridge University and people who live with the disorder — in order to portray psychosis respectfully and accurately. Early on, there’s an encounter where it all combines — music, sound effects, and voices — to create a goose bump-inducing moment that I won’t spoil. The tempo of the music combined with the on-screen action created a beat that I could physically feel reverberating in my chest as I played.

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