Ninja Theory gives update on Senua’s Sacrifice: Hellblade 2 development

Ninja Concept’s sequel to Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice didn’t make an look at Microsoft’s Xbox and Bethesda Video games Showcase at E3 2021 for what feels like an excellent purpose: The sport, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, seems to nonetheless be fairly early in growth, based mostly on a brand new replace from the developer.

Tameem Antoniades, “chief inventive ninja” at Ninja Concept, stated in a growth replace Thursday that the Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 staff is at present “constructing chunky slice of the sport earlier than we then transfer into full manufacturing to construct out the remainder.”

Antoniades stated that Ninja Concept “didn’t need to do a straight sequel — we needed to do one thing further particular, and so we’re making our lives as troublesome as attainable in that pursuit.”

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 shall be set in ninth-century Iceland, Antoniades stated, and to correctly seize that setting, Ninja Concept has despatched its “artwork and audio groups on the market doing pictures, photogrammetry, and mixing it with satellite tv for pc knowledge to recreate giant swathes of the panorama.”

“On the character entrance, we’re constructing actual costumes [and] scanning them in,” Antoniades stated. “We’re collaborating with Epic Video games to deliver you next-generation digital characters, [and] on the fight entrance, we wish it to be further actual and brutal, so Melina [Juergens], our primary actress, has been coaching for 2 years, and all of our animators have undergone fight coaching.”

Antoniades’ replace concluded with “not a trailer, not a gameplay reveal, however montage of the sort of work we’ve been as much as.”

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 was first introduced in December 2019, at The Recreation Awards, as one of many first Xbox Sequence X video games. The unique Hellblade was launched in 2017, and was praised for its narrative construction in addition to the efficiency of Melina Juergens. That recreation advised the story of Senua, a Pict warrior who travels to the Norse aircraft of Helheim.