The three tenets of Hellblades development are ninja-class combat, strong character stories, and a unique art vision. In an Official PlayStation blog post, Ninja Theory goes on to make multiple mentionings of how uncompromising their combat is, which altogether sounds pretty uncompromising. Were not surprised, considering the pedigree. DMC: Devil May Cry. Enslaved. Most directly, Heavenly Sword. Just look at those Greeky red locks! Are you Greekin out right now? We are. Were talking about some of the slickest fighting systems around, some tastily tight controls and exceptional acting. Heavenly Swords main bad guy was played by Mr. Precious himself, the lord of the ring, Andy Serkis. Enslaved and DMC more than held their own with incredibly expressive characters, stellar voice-acting and lifelike animations. Ninja Theory has labeled Hellblade an independent AAA game. Its a solo endeavor, developed and published independently but with all the quality and production values of any AAA game on the market. Set in a Hellish Underworld full of blades, no doubt Hellblade will be a welcome slasher, button-masher beat-em-up to the PS4s wide open list of genres to fill. If we had to take a wack at cracking the teaser trailers code, wed say the protagonist, Senua, is summoning some kind of change in reality. Kneeling or praying with her sword firmly staked in the center of a simple, stone shrine, every shadow crawls rapidly across the screen as the daylight rushes above. A corpse-y body hangs before her, tethered between two pillars. As it breathes a wakening breath, the twisted black clouds swirl behind it . Are they another dimension? A -- Hellish dimension? With blades? Wed bet her Greeky locks!