Original Tenchu studio teases a potential spiritual successor for PS5

Tenchu: Stealth Assassins cover
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The ori🐷ginal developer💫 of the Tenchu stealth action games wants to make a spiritual successor to the long-dormant series.

Takuma Endo, the president of Japanese developer Acquire, spoke about his studio's upcoming plans with Weekly Famitsu in an interview translated by . Endo mentioned reports that recently ജpicked up on Acquire renewing the Japanese trademark for "Stealth Assassins", which was the subtitle for the original Tenchu game from 1998, but he explained that this was only to keep the trademওark from expiring - thankfully, that isn't the end of the story.

) and Dark Souls company 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:FromSoftware currently owns the rights to the Tenchu name. In fact, Sekiro was initially intended to be a Tenchu game before the studio decided to take it in a different direction, . Even if Acquire no longer has the rights to the franchise itself, Endo told Famitsu that he would like to "recreate a stealth ninja game from t𝕴he ground up for the PS5 generation."

Tenchu was an early pioneer of 3D stealth action; the first game hit PlayStation about half a year before Metal Gear Solid. Acquire started its own Tenchu rival series called Shinobido in 2006, though it's also been dormant since 2011. Whatever 🙈name its spiritual successor takes, it will be good to see Acquire get back into the ninja business.

It could be a while until we see what comes of Endo's ninja dreams, but you can see what's next with our games to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new games 2021 and beyond.

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