Hello everybody, Dom Matthews right here, Studio Head at Ninja Concept. On Could 21 we launch Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II on Xbox Collection X|S and on PC. It will likely be a proud second for our group and people who have contributed to our growth journey. As we speak, I’d prefer to rejoice the contribution of our psychological well being consultants, with the discharge of ‘Senua’s Psychosis’, a function video that particulars how, by means of collaboration, Senua’s experiences of psychosis in Hellblade II are rooted each in neuroscience and in actual lived expertise.
When the concept for telling the story of a personality who experiences psychosis was first considered, we knew immediately that we had a duty to know the topic totally. With this intent in-hand, we began a collaboration with Professor Paul Fletcher, Professor of Well being Neuroscience at College of Cambridge, which in-turn led to us constructing a partnership with Restoration Faculty East and different teams of people that, like Senua, have had actual lived expertise of seeing and listening to issues that others don’t and having distinctive beliefs concerning the world. What began off as an train in hoping to study, shortly transitioned right into a artistic collaboration the place the openness, honesty and enthusiasm of our collaborators gave us the prospect to not solely painting Senua’s experiences honestly – however improve our character, her world and her story.
In Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, we have been so honored to listen to from followers that Senua’s journey had helped them perceive psychosis a bit extra. For some, it helped them to know their very own experiences. For others, it helped them to know the experiences of family members. And for a lot of, it helped them to construct empathy for the hundreds of thousands of people that wrestle day by day with psychological well being challenges.
As we method the launch of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II my hope is that when once more we will, for some, give a style of what it may be like to listen to voices, to see issues that solely you’ll be able to see and to be pushed by beliefs that could be uncommon to others. A number of weeks in the past, I used to be excited to share the stage with our collaborators at Hellblade: A Journey of the thoughts, a convention, hosted in partnership with Cambridge Neuroscience, devoted to exploring the theme of how Senua’s psychosis has come to life in Hellblade. For these , you’ll be able to watch the full conference here. The convention was a reminder to me of how lucky we now have been to work with our psychological well being collaborators, a particular group of folks that have, all through our growth, devoted themselves to serving to us inform Senua’s story as somebody who’s experiences may very nicely be these of an actual individual.
In at the moment’s video, I’m proud to introduce you to Paul, Eddy and Kathy and I thank them, and all our collaborators, for his or her immense contribution to Hellblade.
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