Housemarque kalder Returnal-udviklingen "incredibly challenging"

Studiet bag Returnal, Hoursemarque, har ikke lagt skjul på at spillet er studiets største projekt nogensinde, og det har da også krævet en at bevæge sig udenfor de traditionelle arkaderammer, og lave en vaskeægte blockbuster.

Men selve tilblivelsen har åbenbart været sværere end det, for i et interview med IGN siger instruktør Harry Krueger, at udviklingen var utrolig udfordrende.

"It was really just adapting all the time, and that was a real challenge as well. Everyone was underestimating the complexity of the project."

Åbenbart var en af de primære udfordringer skiftet til Unreal Engine 4, som Krueger beskriver således:

"It's not an exaggeration to say that for half of the game's development time it was unplayable. We were learning how to use the engine, we were breaking things, creating dependencies that we didn't understand [...] we were just learning as we went."

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