Title Defense is a cancelled boxing game that quietly cancelled in early 2001 for unknown reasons by Climax Studios. Once underway, players can match their abilities against a CPU or human opponent in an Exhibition Match, practice their face-thumping skills in Sparring, replay an already-fought two-player game in Shadow Mode, or fight for the championship belt in over an entire Career. An advanced AI system offers different boxing styles and the ability to adapt to user reactions, while their trainers offer legitimate real-time tips and hints on how to defeat their opponents. Other features include a realistic broadcast-style presentation, a full-on facial damage system, and motion-captured boxing animations that are supported by 5000-polygon models.
Pocky & Rocky is a scrolling shooter video game with action elements licensed by Taito to Natsume, who developed and published the game for release in Japan in 1992 and the rest of the world in 1993. It is the sequel to the 1986 arcade game KiKi KaiKai (unofficiallly released in North America as Knight Boy) and follows the continued adventures of a young Shinto shrine maiden named Pocky (called “Sayo-chan” in the Japanese version) and her new companion, Rocky the Raccoon (“Manuke” in the original). Pocky & Rocky became popular enough to spawn two official sequels and one spiritual successor, though none are well recognized.
Heavenly Guardian is the successor to the cult favorite Kiki KaiKai. It is not precisely the Kiki KaiKai 2 sequel that had previously been announced and canceled – however it is developed by the same company, Starfish SD, and has been described as a “spiritual successor” and is allegedly “very similar” to the cancelled game according to Kiki Kai World’s publisher, UFO Entertainment.
When UFO Interactive Games Inc. released Kiki Kai World / Kiki Kai Kai 2, it was renamed to Heavenly Guardian. So, they had a Pocky & Rocky sequel, know as Kiki Kai World / Kiki Kai Kai 2 (that could have been a remake of the SNES version), in developement for PS2, but then they had some problems (probably copyright problems), so they just “cancelled” Kiki Kai World / Kiki Kai Kai 2, but they changed the main character of the game, changed the name, and released it for PS2 & Wii under the name of Heavenly Guardian. Did this make any sense to you? We are not sure.
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Xenosaga is a rpg trilogy for the Ps2 that was developed by Monolith Software. Originally, however, it was meant to be a saga of six episodes, but after the poor sales of Xenosaga II Namco decided to close the series in 2006 with the third installment. In the trailer of the first Xenosaga, embedded below, we can see that some cutscenes were slightly changed in the final version or removed and later inserted in the sequel. Also, the game was supposed to be released on two dvds, but at the end the producers opted for a dual-layer.
Xenosaga II was instead heavily cut after the original script, created by the scenario writer Soraya and the director Tetsuya Takahashi,was completely rewritten. In 2005, Soraya listed in her website what got removed:
Ziggy’s past history (as seen in The Pied Piper)
U.R.T.V.’s past history (as seen in the Episode II)
Shion’s past history with Febronia
Jr’s rapid growing
Both juvenile and grown-up Jr. switching available in the battle
The ghost of the old Miltia
The death of Sakura
Brief reunion with grown-up Citrine
Gaignun vs Zohar emulators
Jr.’s transformation/overdrive
Jr. & Albedo vs U-DO vs KOS-MOS 3rd armament
Shion’s spiritual seeking/witnessing/awakening
The truth about KOS-MOS
Conversation between chaos and the red cloak man
Conversation between Nephilim and the boy with the blocks
An antimatter annihilation of Albedo
Almost all the story sequences were later restored in Episode III and in Xenosaga I+II for DS.
Two other games related to Xenosaga, Xenosaga: Frontier and Xenosaga: Exceed, of which we know nothing, were also cancelled.
CODE:Inferno is a cancelled action RPG that was in development for the Playstation 2. In mid 2001 From Software announced its software lineup for all the major consoles of the time. Among the titles cited there were some that never seen a commercial release like Gold Star Mountain and Gaia Blade.
Another game that would be cancelled soon was CODE:Inferno for PS2, an action-RPG where players assume the role of a masked warrior named White Demon, who wields a giant cross called the Holy Key as his weapon. Little else is known about this mysterious project but you can see some artworks that appeared back then in a japanese magazine.
Thanks to Susumu for the translation of a Famitsu article.
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