Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 is sure for PlayStation 5 this summer season, developer Ninja Principle introduced Wednesday (the one-year anniversary of the sport’s launch on Xbox Collection X and Home windows PC, by the way in which). The PS5 model will embrace “new options that will even be coming to Xbox and PC similtaneously an replace,” stated Dom Matthews, studio head of Ninja Principle, in a video asserting the most recent Xbox-to-PlayStation port.
Ninja Principle’s studio head factors out that the developer has an extended historical past with PlayStation; it launched action-adventure sport Heavenly Sword as a PlayStation 3 unique in 2007. The unique Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice was additionally launched as a PlayStation 4 console unique in 2017 earlier than being ported over to Xbox One and Nintendo Change.
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 is an action-adventure darkish fantasy a few warrior girl affected by psychosis in Ninth-century Northern Europe. In our assessment of Hellblade 2, we lauded the sport for its filmic, one-shot presentation, however famous that its epic scale detracted from the extra private expertise of its predecessor.
“The place the primary sport felt like a journey of self-discovery, each for Senua and for the participant, Hellblade 2 feels extra invested in creating the parable of Senua: Senua as legendary large slayer, as mystical seer touched by the underworld,” critic Yussef Cole wrote. “There are moments the place we do get glimpses at her precise humanity — in early chapters, the place she continues to be struggling to outlive and discover her footing on this unusual land, and within the denouements after later battles, the place she falls to her ft, diminished, and mourns for these she was unable to avoid wasting. However these moments are marginal to the central thrust of the narrative…”
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 is the most recent former Xbox platform unique to make the soar to PlayStation. Over the previous yr, Microsoft has launched titles like Forza Horizon 5, Sea of Thieves, and Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle on Sony’s current-gen console. Earlier this month, Microsoft introduced Gears of Struggle: Reloaded, an upgraded port of the unique Gears for an August launch on PS5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Collection X.
