Stellar Blade developer Shift Up has dropped a mysterious picture onto social media, main some followers to take a position it might be teasing a horror occasion and even crossover promotion with the upcoming launch of Konami’s horror, Silent Hill f.
Whereas there is not any cheeky copyright notices or any apparent indication that Stellar Blade is taking us to Silent Hill, Shift Up did share a picture of a really Silent Hill Otherworld-esque world onto Stellar Blade’s X/Twitter web page, full with crumbling partitions, a dilapidated ceiling, and a really acquainted rust-red hue. Hmm.
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The textual content – which reads “in a single week…” alongside a stars emoji and the hashtag Stellar Blade – equally does not give a lot away, however coincidentally sufficient, Silent Hill f – the primary mainline Silent Hill sport since 2012 – is because of launch subsequent week on twenty fifth September.
Picture credit score: Shift Up / X
As each franchises have partnered with different video games for promotional functions, it is definitely doable, but it surely may, after all, simply be a spooky-themed time-limited occasion or one other horror sport or film with Halloween just some quick weeks away. No matter it’s, hopefully we’ll discover out quickly.
Earlier this month, Shift Up introduced it intends to increase the Stellar Blade franchise with “numerous spinoff works”. A brand new monetary report explored the success of its completely different merchandise, together with Stellar Blade, highlighting the sport’s spectacular efficiency each at launch and with its port to PC.
The report added (by way of machine translation): “By this, [Stellar Blade] was in a position to successfully safe a brand new consumer base and additional strengthen its place as a worldwide AAA franchise IP. We plan to develop numerous spinoff works to increase the [Stellar Blade] IP in order that [Stellar Blade] can set up itself as a well-made IP.”
