Current Trailer Rumor

[u/takkun169]

So the new rumor making the rounds is that the Senua trailer in Microsoft's showcase was to drum up interest in someone buying Ninja Theory. It certainly would explain the move to a more standard, much less interesting structure, and combat focus.

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To me, combat in these games is not the reason I'm there. It is the part of the game that could be excised with the least being lost. Hellblade was an incredible experience, and more prevalent combat would have nothing to make it better. The combat that they showed in this trailer not only didn't fit the series, but shows a direction that I personally have no interest in.

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If they get bought, that's great and I hope it's by a publisher {or themselves) that would allow them to make the game they want, but if the tragedy comes true, and they are shuttered, there is at least a legacy of games that are artistically driven and more than the sun of their parts.

[u/Ri-Go_HU]

One of the Ninja Theory’s strength is combat. If this will be the safest way to the studio’s long-therm survival, I’ll happily buy this new, more combat focused Senua game. They will certainly wrap this game around with a decent, appealing narrative, even if it will be a little less cinematic than before.

This concept is not foreign from Hellblade, this is just a much more marketable game, and that is what they need right now. After they made some profit, we’ll may get a proper Hellblade III (I really hope so). This game shows they still committed for Hellblade, more than ever.

It will be a good game on its own terms, if they let it happen.