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Ninja Theory, Ltd. is a video game developer based in Cambridge, England. Originally founded as Just Add Monsters in March 2000, the company was purchased by former Argonaut Games CEO Jez San in late 2004. The team is known for such titles as Kung Fu Chaos, Heavenly Sword and Enslaved.
Development of DmC: Devil May Cry
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At the Capcom Tokyo Games Show conference on September 15th 2010, it was announced that Ninja Theory is currently developing a reboot of the Devil May Cry franchise, simply called DmC. It was said that even though there was a great distance between the British and Japanese studios, there were regular meetings to discuss the project. Ninja Theory were speculated to be developing the title since April 2010.
Games developed
| Year | Title | Platform(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Kung Fu Chaos | Xbox |
| 2007 | Heavenly Sword | PlayStation 3 |
| 2010 | Enslaved: Odyssey to the West | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 |
| 2013 | DmC: Devil May Cry | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 |
| Fightback | iOS, Android | |
| 2014 | Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes[1] | iOS, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One |
| 2015 | DmC: Devil May Cry Definitive Edition | PlayStation 4, Xbox One |
| Disney Infinity 3.0[2][3] | Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One | |
| 2017 | Dexed | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 |
| Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S | |
| 2018 | Nicodemus: Demon of Evanishment[4] | Location-based VR experience |
| Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice VR | Microsoft Windows | |
| 2019 | A Star Wars VR Series: Vader Immortal – Episode I[5] | Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift |
| 2020 | Bleeding Edge | Microsoft Windows, Xbox One |
| 2024 | Senua's Saga: Hellblade II | Microsoft Windows, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5 |
| TBA | Project: Mara | TBA |
DmC references in other Ninja Theory games
Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes
- Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes (aka Disney Infinity 2.0) includes a few references to Ninja Theory's previous action games, including DmC: Devil May Cry. Ninja Theory is credited with having created the combat for the characters Loki, Green Goblin, Ronan, and Princess Jasmine.[1]
- Loki shares a few similarities to Vergil from DmC: Devil May Cry
- Loki's evade is Vergil's Trick evade. Loki's evade uses a similar blue trail effect and provides Loki with an invincible, long range evasive manuever.
- Loki's Air Slam is Vergil's Stomp. Loki descends downwards, stabbing the ground with his scepter in his right hand, creating a shockwave that blasts back enemies and creates a rupture in the ground.
- Loki's Trickster Trouble contains the animation for Vergil's Upperslash.
- Loki's Master of Mischief/Attack and Decoy ability is Vergil's Doppelganger ability. Loki summons a clone to attack alongside him, leaving Loki himself able to attack simultaneously until the ability eventually wears off.
- Green Goblin shares a few similarities to Dante from DmC: Devil May Cry.
- Green Goblin's Air Slam is Dante's Eryx Stomp. Green Goblin's Air Slam is a quick descending punch with a charge animation similar to Eryx Stomp, where upon landing creates a ground shockwave leaving a ruptured effect on the ground.
- Green Goblin's Backhanded Insult uses the animations of both Dante's Eryx Uppercut and Eryx Showdown.
Disney Infinity 3.0
- Disney Infinity 3.0 includes many references to Ninja Theory's previous action games, including DmC: Devil May Cry. Ninja Theory is credited with having created the combat for the new Star Wars characters added to the game, as well as overhauling the existing combat system carried over from the previous game.[6]
- The pause combo system NT developed for DmC: Devil May Cry returns in Disney Infinity 3.0. After performing a few attacks in an attack string, a character's weapon will flash white, indicating an opportunity to execute a pause combo, where the player now has access to a different combo tree of moves.
- Darth Maul shares a few similarities to Dante from DmC: Devil May Cry
- Darth Maul's Darth Dash Attack is Dante's Stinger from DmC. The animation and enemy reaction is identical to DmC's Stinger.
- Darth Maul's Air Assault combo is Dante's Aerial Rave->Roulette air combo from DmC.
- Darth Maul's Air of Superiority and Air Slam attacks are both Dante's Eryx Stomp.
- Darth Maul's Breaking Defenses is Dante's Osiris Cleaver.
- Darth Maul's Air Force Dash is Dante's Angel Boost.
- Darth Maul's Double Jump has the same animation as Dante's Double Jump.
- Several other Star Wars characters have moves inspired by the twins' movesets from DmC: Devil May Cry
- Obi-Wan Kenobi's Launcher is Dante's Hightime. The animation is identical and the move launches nearby enemies into the air.
- Darth Vader's Launcher is Dante's Hightime.
- Anakin Skywalker's Air Slam is Dante's Helmbreaker
- Luke Skywalker's Air Slam is Dante's Helmbreaker.
- Darth Vader's Air Slam is Dante's Helmbreaker.
- Yoda's Air Slam is Vergil's Helmbreaker.
- Ahsoka Tano's Air Assault combo is Dante's Aerial Rave->Roulette air combo from DmC.
- Kylo Ren's Air Force Dash is Dante's Angel Boost.
- Ahsoka Tano's Air Force Dash is Dante's Angel Boost.
- Anakin Skywalker's Air Force Dash is Dante's Angel Boost.
- Sabine Wren's Air Assault is Dante's Rainstorm.
Bleeding Edge
- El Bastardo from Bleeding Edge shares a few similarities to Dante from DmC: Devil May Cry
El Bastardo's DmC Dante pose
- El Bastardo's Death Spiral Attack is Dante's Aquila Tornado attack. The description for Death Spiral is "Become a sword tornado!", where the attack uses the same animation and follow through as Aquila's Tornado, rapidly striking enemies who come in contact with the spinning vortex.
- El Bastardo's Leap of Faith attack is a homing version of Dante's Eryx Stomp. For Leap of Faith, El Bastardo jumps into the air towards an opponent, slaming his fist into the ground near them causing a damaging shockwave, with cracks appearing around the point of impact.
- El Bastardo's character-profile picture's pose is inspired by Dante's iconic pose from DmC's promotional material.
Trivia
- The control scheme used for the Angel & Demon mode-switching in DmC: Devil May Cry was partly inspired by the control scheme used in Ninja Theory's previous work, Heavenly Sword. In Heavenly Sword, the main character Nariko has a similar mechanic called stance-switching which gives the player access to different movesets depending on which shoulder button they hold down.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.polygon.com/2014/8/31/6089529/heavenly-sword-studio-ninja-theory-is-working-on-disney-infinity-2-0 Ninja Theory was a supporting developer for Disney Infinity 2.0, and helped shape the game's combat system. Ninja Theory also designed Loki, the Green Goblin, Ronan the Accuser, and Princess Jasmine with her tornado powers.
- ↑ https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2015/05/13/twilight-of-the-republic-ninja-theory-brings-devil-may-cry-lessons-to-star-wars-and-disney-infinity.aspx Ninja Theory was a supporting developer for Disney Infinity 3.0, and helped shape the game's combat system. Team Lucas specifically reached out to NT to ask them to help design the game's lightsaber combat.
- ↑ https://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/05/05/june-cover-revealed-disney-infinity-3-0.aspx Ninja Theory is also credited with having created the Star Wars: Twilight of the Republic expansion to Disney Infinity 3.0
- ↑ https://twitter.com/NinjaTheory/status/1014457684089851904 Ninja Theory helped as a collaboration partner to VoidVR to create Nicodemus: Demon of Evanishment
- ↑ https://www.uploadvr.com/hellblade-vr-developer-ninja-theory-is-working-on-star-wars-vader-immortal Ninja Theory was a supporting developer for Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR series
- ↑ https://youtu.be/nPg6zyu6ccs?si=ihm1sv2m-RGZtkzw&t=155 Ninja Theory was a supporting developer for Disney Infinity 3.0, and shaped the game's new combat system. At the linked timestamp, a NT dev mentions that pause combos were added to the new combat system.