'Every Limb Can Be Removed': Lords of the Fallen II Publisher Discusses Dismemberment, Lore and Learnings for the Sequel | The Game Awards 2025 - IGN

Lords of the Fallen II steadfast CI Games has shown gameplay footage of its Soulslike sequel during The Game Awards 2025, featuring caller quality Omeuras and force limbs flying everywhere.

Ahead of tonight's showing, IGN asked CI Games for much item connected what we'd conscionable seen, keen for much item up of the game's motorboat astatine immoderate constituent successful 2026.

Most salient successful the trailer is Omeuras, who CI Games originative strategist Ryan Hill told IGN is 1 of the sequel's cardinal characters. She's brought to beingness by Hannah Melbourne, who antecedently played Agrias Oaks successful Final Fantasy Tactics, and The Sorceress successful Path of Exile 2.

"With the sequel, we wanted to trade a communicative that's much accessible and character-driven, portion inactive honouring the biology storytelling that Soulslike fans love," Hill said. "Players who privation to dive heavy into the lore perfectly can, but we besides privation each subordinate to scope the extremity of the crippled knowing the travel they've taken and the pivotal relation they've played successful shaping this world."

Another cardinal absorption successful the trailer is Lords of the Fallen II's caller dismemberment feature, which allows you to lop limbs disconnected enemies similar nobody's business. Lords of the Fallen has ne'er been squeamish with its humor and guts, but its developers accidental they person heard the telephone from fans for adjacent more.

"When we asked our assemblage conscionable however acold we should propulsion the gore successful the adjacent Lords of the Fallen, the reply was large and unanimous: 'go each in'," Hill noted. "This is simply a crippled made by adults for adults, and we didn't privation to dilute the brutality oregon strength of that experience. Soulslikes thrive connected challenge, and that unreserved you get erstwhile defeating an force is dissimilar thing else. Enhancing that infinitesimal with a dynamic dismemberment strategy takes the restitution to different level - alternatively of enemies simply ragdolling to the floor, players tin virtually teardrop them apart."

So, tin each limb beryllium removed? "Yes - each limb tin beryllium removed."

Tonight's showing for Lords of the Fallen 2 comes conscionable hours aft CI Games launched a last astonishment update for its predecessor, capping disconnected astir 2 years' of post-launch enactment that has helped crook subordinate sentiment around. While those updates person been welcomed, CI Games said it had learnt from the experience, and been listening to instrumentality feedback "from time one."

"The travel from motorboat to Lords of the Fallen Version 2.5 (released yesterday) was transformative for our team. Over 70 updates later, the crippled evolved substantially, and that improvement was driven straight by our narration with the community. Those learnings shaped not lone however we build, but however we listen," Hill concluded.

"For the sequel, we’ve been actively engaging our fast-growing assemblage from time one, knowing precisely what they privation from the adjacent chapter. You tin already spot immoderate of those requests reflected successful our caller gameplay uncover trailer: a much varied crippled world, much distinctive and memorable brag encounters, and a deeper, much meaningful Umbral realm experience."

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