Senua’s Legend: Hellblade II will follow in the footsteps of its predecessor Numbers only, less experience. Ninja Theory’s sequel to 2017’s psychological horror action game will run about eight hours and cost just $50, compared to the $70 most AAA games on Xbox Series X/S cost. If you prefer a longer experience, this might be too much money for too few games.For some, this is as black and white as whether or not the game is completed. Dollars per hour metric, i.e. you should be able to get as much time out of the game as the money you paid. However, Ninja Theory said it believes fans are becoming more open to shorter games.
during an interview IGNsaid Dom Matthews, head of studio at Ninja Theory Hellblade 2The shorter runtime was an intentional choice, as a lighter game fit the story the developers wanted to tell, and it was part of the development of the sequel’s storyline surrounding protagonist Senua.
“So it’s not really a case of starting to make shorter experiences,” Matthews told us IGN. “I think…we want to tell a story here that has a beginning, a middle and an end, and what is the right form and scale of experience to tell that story? So that’s where we started.”
original hell bladeThis is demonstrated by the success of Working hours are about seven to eight hours.Matthews told IGN The studio has built an audience for shorter games. He also believes that digital storefronts and alternative pricing for typically more expensive boxed copies “open the door to games of all shapes and sizes for the industry.”
“I think people are under a lot of time pressure right now and I think our fans, from what we’re hearing from them, they like shorter games and our intention is to make every step of the journey count,” Matthews said. “There’s a group of people who want focused games.”
Personally, I like a game that I can beat in a minute or two.I’ve been preaching that everyone should play GoodbyeWorld Games’ eye-tracking adventure game before your eyes, emphasizing that it’s only 90 minutes long, a metric alone that has already turned some people off to the game.modern video games excess tendency This is what keeps me from investing in many open world games. Sometimes it feels like developers are conflating time spent doing things with time spent essentially being time well spent, which makes me see studios like Ninja Theory advocating for keeping games going for as long as they need to. This gives me a little hope.
Senua’s Legend: Hellblade II It will be available on PC and Xbox Series X/S on May 21, and will be available to Game Pass subscribers on day one.