Two basic Workforce Ninja franchises might be receiving a brand new lease on life, in keeping with a translated developer speak.
Reboots of each Ninja Gaiden and Lifeless or Alive are reportedly within the works, seemingly confirmed by Workforce Ninja’s president at a panel at South Korea’s G-Star convention this weekend. As reported by VGC (opens in new tab) (through Ruliweb (opens in new tab)), Fumihikio Yasuda did not present any particulars on both resurrection however primarily confirmed that they have been taking place.
The ultimate slide of Yasuda’s presentation on the occasion reveals screenshots that includes Ryu and Kasumi respectively. In Japanese, the textual content reads: “The way forward for Workforce Ninja—reboot of common collection.” The developer stated that whereas he could not say rather more than that, he hoped that extra information might be shared “as quickly as attainable.”
With Workforce Ninja having two video games within the pipeline proper now, there’s an opportunity we cannot hear something for some time. Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty (opens in new tab) is due out in 2023, whereas fellow motion sport Rise of the Ronin (opens in new tab) is slated for launch in 2024. We’ve not seen a Lifeless or Alive sport since Lifeless or Alive 6 in 2019, with it being even longer since a brand-new Ninja Gaiden sport. We did get the Ninja Gaiden Grasp Assortment final yr, nevertheless it was a barebones PC port (opens in new tab).
Yasuda beforehand instructed VGC (opens in new tab) that he want to work on a brand new Ninja Gaiden, however “all of the items would wish to suit, and it will should be the precise workforce… both a youthful workforce internally or one other firm that will really want to suit the Ninja Gaiden pedigree.” With the reboot information, rumours have begun circulating that Platinum (of Nier and Babylon’s Fall fame) is about to helm the event, although take that with a pinch of salt.
The creator of each franchises, Tobmonobu Itagaki, left Workforce Ninja again in 2008. He began up brand-new firm Apex Recreation Studios final yr and is presently knee-deep in some NFT bullshittery (opens in new tab) touted as a “3A” fantasy MMO expertise (opens in new tab).
