Tenchu: Stealth Assassins Creator wants to make a new game for PS5 [Updated]

Tenchu: Stealth Assassins creator and president of Acquire Takuma Endo has said he wants to create a new Tenchu ​​game for the PlayStation 5 – but nothing is currently formally underway. In an interview with Weekly Famitsu (translated by Gematsu), Takuma Endo said he wants to create a new Tenchu ​​from the ground up for the PlayStation 5 generation if the possibility exists’, but also acknowledges that it currently difficult.

The difficulty probably stems from the fact that the Tenchu ​​IP is currently owned by FromSoftware, which released Sekiro: Shadows The Twice in 2019. In the early stages, Sekiro was developed as a Tenchu ​​successor, but From Software eventually decided to take the development. in another direction. It is not clear if the developer has any plans for the Tenchu ​​franchise at this stage.

In August last year, Acquire registered a trademark for ‘Stealth Assassins’ in Japan, which caused the rumor mill to declare that a remake or spiritual successor was underway. In the same interview with Famitsu, Endo mentions that it was merely a formality as the brand expired.

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Elsewhere, Endo mentioned that Acquire plans to launch an “Indian brand” of their main production, with the first title “by the end of 2021”. Here is our review of Sekiro from 2019, which we achieved a 9.5, with praise for the “focused stealth action take on the FromSoftware formula”.

Back in 1998, we awarded Tenchu: Stealth Assassins a 9/10 review, calling it ‘the most important PlayStation game. Hard-core, smart, bloody and fun. ‘

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