Ninja Theory: Hellblade “Not Tied to Heavenly Sword at All”

Ninja Theory, developer of killer action games like Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and DmC: Devil May Cry, doesn't want you to think of its upcoming game Hellblade as a sequel to its PS3 exclusive Heavenly Sword.

When asked by Eurogamer whether or not Hellblade is a sequel of sorts to Heavenly Sword, Ninja Theory's Dominic Matthews replied by saying, "No, it's not. It's a brand new IP. Senua is a new character. It's not tied to Heavenly Sword at all."

Matthews elaborated, adding:

I saw someone describe the name as someone just putting Heavenly Sword into Thesaurus.com and going, oh it's Hellblade. It's not something where we've gone, yeah, let's make people think it is this. We really like Heavenly Sword. We loved making that game. So it's actually more just we like making female protagonists that look in a certain style. And we like swords. And we like hell. It's more that.

Hellblade was announced during Sony's gamescom press conference last week. You can check out the announcement trailer right here.

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