A UK gaming magazine, PlayGamer, is claiming that Heavenly Sword 2 is currently in development, and will set the game 10 years after the first one as an open-world sandbox title. Players will start out with basic hand-to-hand combat and slowly develop onto other physical combat before wielding the Heavenly Sword. Missions will be replayable this time around.

“The second game is expected to be an open world sandbox affair set 10 years after the events of the original game. Missions are said to be replayable within an interactive environment (presumably deformable scenery and pickup and play makeshift weapons?). The titular ‘Heavenly Sword’ will not be with you from the outset of the game, this time around you are required to earn the sword by mastering a number of martial arts.

Our guess is that you will start with the basic hand to hand style arts such as Karate and Jujitsu and move up to sword based skills like Kendo before earning the Heavenly Sword. We’re visualising this as a cross between God of War 3 and Skyrim. Currently no news has been announced regarding a release date, nor has any media been released. Expect to hear more at E3.”

More details will be released at E3.