Raji: Kaliyuga Announced as a Cosmic Sequel to Raji: An Ancient Epic

Today's Xbox Partner Presents concluded with a earnestly epic cinematic trailer for a caller crippled that caught maine wholly disconnected guard. It's called Raji: Kaliyuga, and it's a sequel to Raji: An Ancient Epic.

If you're not acquainted with the archetypal Raji, it's a 2020 action-adventure crippled made by India-based Nodding Heads Games. It follows Raji, an orphan connected a quest to retrieve her brother, who's been kidnapped by a demon army. As she goes, she's watched and astatine times supported by the goddess Durga and Lord Vishnu. The communicative delves heavy into Indian and Hindu mythologies, and ends connected 1 heck of a cliffhanger, implying that a sequel was ever connected the mind. The crippled received mixed reviews, but was nominated for champion debut crippled astatine The Game Awards that year.

Raji: Kaliyuga seems to beryllium a nonstop follow-up, with the trailer seemingly depicting Raji and her younger member warring unneurotic against the encroaching demon army. It looks similar the brace volition beryllium dual protagonists that you'll power during antithetic parts of the story. But what's truly astonishing present is that portion the archetypal Raji crippled was successful an isometric view, this sequel is simply a full-blown third-person action-adventure game. Though we've lone seen a cinematic truthful acold and nary gameplay, this looks beauteous promising.

In an Xbox Wire station pursuing the announcement, we learned that Kaliyuga volition beryllium acceptable six years aft An Ancient Epic, and volition represent Raji and her member Darsh traveling to the Eternal Summit done a fig of antithetic mystical realms. As dual protagonists, you tin swap betwixt Raji, a warrior, and Darsh, a dreamwalker, who each person unsocial abilities. The 2 are abstracted for overmuch of the crippled aft the events of An Ancient Epic, and the communicative is astir their separation and eventual reunion. "Kaliyuga explores the coexistence of religion and illusion, wherever the communicative tone, art, music, and gameplay systems indispensable reflector this duality, shifting to bespeak the position and information of the quality presently being played."

Raji: Kaliyuga is presently planned for merchandise connected Xbox, PC, and PS5, and volition beryllium day-one connected Game Pass. It doesn't person a merchandise model yet.

You tin drawback up connected everything announced astatine today's Partner Showcase close here.

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