Bloodstained: Ritual of the Evening is getting a sequel

It took longer than anticipated for Koji Igarashi’s Bloodstained: Ritual of the Evening to reach, however the delays proved to be worthwhile: We known as it “an image good homage” to Igarashi’s previous video games in our 77% assessment, making it “a feast for followers of [that] very particular expertise.” It additionally impressed an 8-bit-style spinoff, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, which considerably sarcastically got here out forward of Ritual of the Evening and scored a good larger 80%—not unhealthy for what was initially conceived as a stretch objective bonus.
A Curse of the Moon sequel got here out final July, and the Ritual of the Evening group has been including DLC to the larger recreation persistently since launch. However there wasn’t any signal of a sequel till this Could, when a quarterly monetary report from 505 Video games mum or dad firm Digital Bros stated that Bloodstained had a “second model in improvement.”
The wording is obscure—a “second model” may imply a next-gen version, a cell launch, or one thing for Stadia, perhaps—however the widespread hope was that it meant a full and correct sequel to Ritual of the Evening is within the works.
At this time, the official Bloodstained Twitter account confirmed that it’s.
Relating to latest experiences, @505_Games and @ArtplayEN are in very early planning levels for a #Bloodstained sequel. Nonetheless, present improvement sources are targeted on finishing Bloodstained: Ritual of the Evening’s upcoming content material. Now we have rather a lot deliberate for you. pic.twitter.com/yPV0n31gBXJune 4, 2021
“Relating to latest experiences, @505_Games and @ArtplayEN are in very early planning levels for a #Bloodstained sequel. Nonetheless, present improvement sources are targeted on finishing Bloodstained: Ritual of the Evening’s upcoming content material. Now we have rather a lot deliberate for you.”
Igarashi himself confirmed that for now, the studio is “specializing in the remainder of the contents for Ritual of the Evening.”
At present at ArtPlay, we’re within the levels of engaged on the plot centered round our earlier title’s Director Shutaro.Proper now, we’re specializing in the remainder of the contents for Ritual of the Evening so please sit up for the upcoming data.#Bloodstained https://t.co/a4MHMW6p2zJune 4, 2021
There is no different data at this level, like what the brand new recreation might be about or after we may lay eyes on it, however at this early stage the mere incontrovertible fact that it is occurring is sufficient for a lot of followers, who reacted to the information with what may pretty be known as unbridled enthusiasm.
SEQUEL?!???!?!LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO pic.twitter.com/ttUR8GLpTnJune 4, 2021
Please preserve Miriam and Johannes within the sequel! I like them! Trying ahead to the sequel and the brand new content material within the first recreation pic.twitter.com/NyeI7uAsTuJune 4, 2021
WHAT?! Very excite! pic.twitter.com/evHLR1Srd0June 4, 2021
Yeaaah child!!! Please make one other dope collector’s version for this sequel and preserve us knowledgeable 🙂 pic.twitter.com/KpC6csjuu8June 4, 2021