Good day, Dom right here, Studio Head at Ninja Idea. As I write this, we are actually within the closing few months of growth on Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, getting ready for our launch Day One on Xbox Recreation Go and throughout Xbox Collection X|S, Home windows and Steam on Could 21. It was a pleasure to offer you all a deeper perception into Senua’s subsequent journey, our studio and our proficient staff in Developer Direct.
For the reason that launch of Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Ninja Idea has transitioned from being an unbiased staff to at least one that sits inside Xbox Recreation Studios. Though this has seen change for Ninja Idea, notably when it comes to the help now accessible to us for striving in direction of our ambitions, what has not modified is our ardour and dedication to our studio mission – to craft life-changing artwork with recreation altering tech.
This would possibly sound like a lofty mission, however it’s one thing we’re proud to have achieved earlier than in Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice – a recreation inbuilt an area we known as ‘Impartial AAA’, the place we labored with the inventive spirit and freedom of unbiased growth however strove for the sorts of high-end manufacturing values typically solely related to AAA video games. We additionally took benefit of the liberty that digital-only distribution provided us to create a recreation of the size that match completely with our meant expertise however might be offered at a lower cost to replicate the shorter size of our story. This framework allowed us to give attention to the issues we actually care about – taking our followers on an unforgettable journey into Senua’s distinctive world.
In Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, our strategy is identical. Though we’re now not an unbiased studio, our inventive spirit has in truth been emboldened by our becoming a member of of Xbox Recreation Studios, and on this new chapter of Senua’s life we now have been in a position to push our manufacturing values approach past what we have been in a position to obtain beforehand. So, my message to gamers is that should you liked Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, or should you take pleasure in narrative-led experiences of cinematic immersion, we’re constructing Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II for you.
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II can be a recreation crafted from the guts – a recreation related in size to the primary Hellblade, with a targeted narrative, and offered digital-only at a value of $49.99 USD. And you may as soon as once more count on to affix Senua in understanding her world via notion puzzles led by her experiences of psychosis, in brutal and visceral fight and in traversal gameplay, this time throughout the tough however lovely landscapes of tenth Century Iceland. Crucially, all these parts are intertwined in a singular visible and audio expertise, the place all the things is in service of Senua’s story. So, you possibly can count on extra of the identical, however this time with the help to push our ambitions for immersion, constancy and richness far additional than earlier than.
I’d wish to take this chance to say thanks to all our followers the world over. Your effectively needs and help is what drives us on. In Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II we need to make it as simple as potential for you all to take pleasure in Senua’s journey and so we now have elevated the breadth of our localization to 26 subtitled languages – together with Arabic, Ukrainian and, after all, the language of the land of our journey: Icelandic!
Know that right here at Ninja Idea, our companions and collaborators throughout music, psychological well being, artwork and expertise are working exhausting to carry you, as soon as once more, a particular expertise. We stay up for you becoming a member of Senua’s new journey on Could 21.
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II is accessible to pre-install on Xbox Recreation Go and wishlist on Steam now.
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
Xbox Video games Studios
The sequel to the award successful Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Senua returns in a brutal journey of survival via the parable and torment of Viking Iceland. Intent on saving those that have fallen sufferer to the horrors of tyranny, Senua faces a battle of overcoming the darkness inside and with out.
Sink deep into the following chapter of Senua’s story, a crafted expertise instructed via cinematic immersion, fantastically realised visuals and encapsulating sound.
