Ninja Theory has released a new developer diary video for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice which reveals that Daisy Ridley's Star Wars stunt double was drafted in to help tighten up the game's more "grounded" combat.
Ninja Theory reached out to Chloé Bruce, who performed as Daisy Ridley's stunt double on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. In the motion capture studio, Bruce was able to test in-game combo strings in real life, and the developers were then able to translate her movements back into the game.
The developer wanted to create a combat system that's "more immediate and more grounded" than in its previous games.
Compared to Ninja Theory's Heavenly Sword and DmC: Devil May Cry, in Hellblade the camera is a lot closer to the character. The original plan was to have directional combat, where the character could attack and block in four different directions. However the plan has now changed as this was "limiting gameplay."
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Ninja Theory reached out to Chloé Bruce, who performed as Daisy Ridley's stunt double on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. In the motion capture studio, Bruce was able to test in-game combo strings in real life, and the developers were then able to translate her movements back into the game.
The developer wanted to create a combat system that's "more immediate and more grounded" than in its previous games.
Compared to Ninja Theory's Heavenly Sword and DmC: Devil May Cry, in Hellblade the camera is a lot closer to the character. The original plan was to have directional combat, where the character could attack and block in four different directions. However the plan has now changed as this was "limiting gameplay."
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