A sequel to Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is at the moment in growth, it’s been introduced.
The unique sport, developed by Chinese language studio Leenzee, was launched final yr to a typically optimistic reception, with a Metacritic rating of 74 throughout all codecs.
An report from Chinese language publication Gamersky in April, nevertheless, claimed that the sport’s director and producer Xia Siyuan had been fired from Leenzee, and that a big proportion of the event workforce had been laid off after refusing to change to an outsourcing mannequin. The identical report claimed that Xia had fashioned a brand new studio so as to proceed making video games.
A few weeks after the report, Italian firm Digital Bros – the guardian of 505 Video games – introduced that it had acquired the Wuchang: Fallen Feathers IP from Leenzee for round €4 million.
Now Digital Bros has introduced {that a} sequel to Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is within the works, with 505 Video games publishing it and Xia and his new studio Indolphinity on growth duties.
“Via this partnership, 505 Video games and Indolphinity reaffirm their shared perception within the long-term potential of the Wuchang franchise and their joint dedication to preserving the authenticity and cultural identification of the IP,” a press release from each firms learn.
“All future inventive growth will stay firmly rooted in China by way of the shut collaboration between the unique creator and 505 Video games, making certain continuity of imaginative and prescient, high quality, and execution.”
“Wuchang’s story is much from over”, director says
In his personal assertion, Xia mentioned 505 Video games understood the significance of creating positive builders’ inventive values had been accounted for.
“We’re delighted to embark as soon as once more on a deep collaboration with 505 Video games underneath our new studio banner, Indolphinity,” he mentioned. “As a homegrown growth workforce made up of Chinese language creators, we have now all the time believed {that a} wealthy cultural heritage is the essence of our video games and their aggressive power.
“505 Video games’s respect for the inventive course of and its real understanding of builders’ wants are completely in tune with our personal values, and this shared imaginative and prescient offers us confidence within the long-term way forward for the sequence.
“We hear carefully to the true voices of gamers and the neighborhood, and we stay firmly dedicated to our authentic inventive aspirations and cultural foundations, striving to reply everybody’s long-standing expectations with extra polished high quality and a extra full expertise.
“Wuchang’s story is much from over. Collectively, Indolphinity and 505 Video games are set out on a brand new journey, unfolding a wholly new chapter of Wuchang’s story that’s deeply rooted within the Jap soil.”
The primary sport acquired criticism and accusations of censorship from some gamers after it acquired a patch which prevented sure historic Chinese language figures from being killed, and added new dialogue to make sure the story nonetheless made sense now they had been not useless.
