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Remedy says Control Resonant will be the biggest, most ambitious game yet—a non-safe sequel moving the story beyond the Oldest House with Jesse Faden’s brother Dylan, expanding to the wider city and prioritizing melee combat, signaling a bold push after Alan Wake 2.
The Last of Us Part II originally began as an open-world, melee-focused game heavily inspired by Bloodborne, according to insights from the release of Grounded II: Making The Last of Us Part II. The game's co-directors revealed that the initial vision was to create a purely melee open-world game with a labyrinthine layout structure similar to Bloodborne, but this direction didn't align with the story Naughty Dog wanted to tell, leading to the game's eventual cinematic adventure format.
The English dub for Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name will not be available at launch, but will be added via a post-launch update. The game features two fighting styles and fills in the gap of why Kiryu appeared in the seventh mainline entry. It will launch on November 9, 2023, for multiple platforms.
Naraka: Bladepoint is a melee-focused, momentum-based martial arts battle royale game that features combo-laden melee combat and a focus on movement as a core pillar of its design. The game has a thriving player base and offers a PvE story mode called Showdown in addition to its standard battle royale mode. With its unique combat mechanics and grappling hook movement, Naraka: Bladepoint stands out as one of the coolest games in the battle royale genre.