“We’re developing it with the idea of restarting at the beginning, saying ‘We’d like to make the action game that’s most interesting for the current era,'” Hayashi said in an interview with Famitsu.com (via Andriasang). “With this meaning, it’s going to be a game that’s not bound by the past more than necessary. Of course, we will be valuing the past, but in a good meaning we’d like to make it into a game that’s not tied down by the past.”
There’s almost something cosmically fitting about that fact that both the next Ninja Gaiden and the next Devil May Cry games will act as reboots for their respective franchises, considering they’ve often been cast as rivals in the past. As for what Ninja Gaiden 3 will actually be about, though, Hayashi would only offer vague hints regarding the promotional image (shown here) released at the Tokyo Game Show back in September.
