Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, the recently announced sequel to developer Ninja Theory's hit 2017 game Xbox Series X, presumably next year to coincide with the debut of the new console.
The original Hellblade game was met with great critical acclaim. Ninja Theory employed the use of both historical and mental health consultants to ensure the game would as historically accurate to the Pict protagonist and Norse setting as possible, while still also providing one of the most true-to-life depictions of mental illness in major modern games. The titular Senua, portrayed through motion capture by actress Melina Juergens, is on a quest to bring her lover back from the realm of the dead, while also dealing with her own mental illness and trauma stemming from her loss.
When asked on Twitter whether Senua's Saga: Hellblade II would be an Xbox exclusive, Aaron Greenberg, General Manager of Xbox Games Marketing at Microsoft, confirmed the game was "being made exclusively for Xbox and PC." Whether it will be released for other consoles or platforms at a later point is yet to be announced, but fans looking to play Hellblade 2 as soon as possible will need to look to those two platforms when waiting for an official release date.
The original Hellblade began as a Windows and Ninja Theory was acquired by Microsoft last year along with several other studios to help bolster its first party selection of games.
Hopefully Xbox Series X's release date won't be until December 2020, so it will likely still be a while until Senua's Saga: Hellblade II and other new games give us a better perspective of where Microsoft is headed with future titles, across all of their platforms.
Source: Twitter
