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Rumour: Heavenly Sword 2 canned

June 17th, 2008 @ 15:44
By Patrick Garratt

According to this Kotaku rumour, Heavenly Sword 2’s been canned after an emergency meeting at Sony Cambridge.

More through the link, including stuff about Ninja Theory and “bitterness”.

Posted in: Action, Development, PS3, Rumour, Sony, Trade, UK

CommentsViewing 30 responses

  1. Blerk said:

    June 17, 2008 at 3:45 pm

    Heh heh – beat you by two minutes. ;-)

    I doubt anyone will care too much about no more Heavenly Sword, tbh.

  2. Psychotext said:

    June 17, 2008 at 3:46 pm

    I thought this was cancelled ages ago. I know NT moved on to working on a multi platform release and figured that Sony weren’t going to bother with it.

  3. Killerbee said:

    June 17, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    Hang on, I though Ninja Theory poured water on the flames of any Heavenly Sword rumour as long time ago….?

  4. patlike said:

    June 17, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    It was someone else working on it, innit.

  5. Psychotext said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    Is this another one of your filthy whore deepthroat sources Pat?

  6. morriss said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    According to the EG massive, HS was great. Demo put me right off, tbh.

  7. scuz said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    sighs

  8. pjmaybe said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:01 pm

    The EG massive are talking out of their arseholes. It was one of the worst games of last year.

  9. Blerk said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    @morriss: what? Everyone thought it was shit, surely? I don’t think I’ve seen anyone say they thought it was good. Well.. nobody who isn’t an obvious fanboy, anyway.

  10. patlike said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    Ninja Theory had a bit of a scuffle with Sony over the brand, I think. IIRC GamesIndustry did some “proper” reporting on this a few months back.

  11. morriss said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:03 pm

    blerk: read the thread: disc, Charm et al really liked it iirc.

  12. pjmaybe said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:04 pm

    Nah Moz is right, a couple of staunch EG PS3 apologists apparently thought the heady mix of busted-ass two pass animation, tearing and fucking hat throwing was “sublime”

    For me, the only good bit was Kai – oh and Andy Serkis’ over the top acting as Bohan. The rest sucked donkey biscuits through a glass of rancid milk

  13. Psychotext said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:04 pm

    Original was too short and even though it was it somehow managed to become repetitive. More than that it was technically shonky with tearing and framerate drops.

  14. ecu said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    “@morriss: what? Everyone thought it was shit, surely? I don’t think I’ve seen anyone say they thought it was good. Well.. nobody who isn’t an obvious fanboy, anyway.”

    I thought it was reasonably well received? Most people said it was good, but not as good as GoW, and way too short. It wasn’t really shit in the way that Lair and Haze are.

  15. Blerk said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:07 pm

    Oh. I got the impression it *was* really shit in the way that Lair and Haze are.

  16. ecu said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:09 pm

    Ah well, I haven’t played it myself, although I thought the demo was alright. The main complaint seemed to be about the length of the game.

  17. pjmaybe said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:09 pm

    typo in the first line of the story btw. Yes I know, I really am that picky.

  18. TJ said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:12 pm

    Does anyone actually *play* games here?

  19. Psychotext said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    TJ: Only the good ones.

  20. Blerk said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    Where’s the fun in that?

  21. TJ said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:18 pm

    Yep, common mistake. If you only play the good ones, what do you have to compare them to?

    Look at me, I’m playing Mass Effect right now – it’s killing me, but at least the next time I play a decent RPG I’ll know about it.

  22. Psychotext said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:21 pm

    Congratulations. Maybe start a blog to keep us updated?

  23. Blerk said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:23 pm

    Actually I was replying to you, not Psycho, TJ. :-D

  24. klanger13 said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:32 pm

    I liked it. So officially its an ok game.

  25. Tiger Walts said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    The spirit of Dreamcast has a new home.

  26. TJ said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    I just kinda miss the dialogue complexity of old style Black Isle / Bioware RPGs. Now it really just boils down to four default choices: good, neutral, bad, or more info.

    Apparently Obsidian’s Alpha Protocol is going a similar direction, which upsets me no end.

  27. pjmaybe said:

    June 17, 2008 at 4:55 pm

    I don’t just play good games. Now and again I like to play the really bad ones just to balance things out. And I’ve played some corkingly bad stuff over the last few weeks. There’s actually something quite satisfying about reviewing really shitty games.

  28. phatb0y said:

    June 17, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    No great loss. The original was a crock of shit.

    I never understood the whole ‘flawed genius’ comments attributed to it. I used my head (for once) on this one and rented a copy, and while it had some nice touches (mainly the character design and dialogue) the tearing was so jarring it just destroyed whatever atmosphere the game was trying to conjour up. If it was a ‘What the butler saw’ sim then maybe it would have got away with it. The fact that it was so criminally short as well didn’t do it any favours.

    Spunk the money into something more worthwhile Sony.

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