JB2 is the unreleased sequel of Jelly boy, a platform known in west as Smart Ball. Like the prequel, the game’s main character is a jelly, but this time (after killing the boss who captured them) we can use his friends too, each one with his unique ability. Jelly Boy 2 was finished, but never released, and a rom eventually leaked on the net.
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‘Icarus’ was the working title an attempted Kid Icarus revival project in development at Factor 5, Inc. for Nintendo Wii. The game was a third person shooter with flight combat elements. It was developed between March 2007 – March 2008, when Nintendo eventually decided not to move forward with development on a full game.
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GlitterBerri & KWhazit have translate more unused text from the Chrono Trigger Prerelease ROM, some of wich is still present, and unused, in the released version. Huge props to them! You can read the full article at the Chrono Compendium website or at GlitterBerri’s blog. Here are some of the most interesting parts:
Script obtained by RyogaMasaki & Vehek
Translation by GlitterBerri & KWhazit
Editing and speculations by ZeaLitY
Lucca: Th, this is…
10 years ago…… back when I didn’t
know anything about mechanics……Lara: Somebody stop it–!!
Taban: Lucca!!
Put in the passcode 366 and
pull the lever!!It seems that it was impossible to save Lara’s legs, and this was used to teach a lesson to Lucca (more is described later in this article). The text of the incident is accordingly different; Taban is present, and the passcode is certainly one that can’t be entered with buttons.
Chief: If only we had the Mirror Mail, we could
prevent the murderous heatwave of the demons
and protect this village.The Rainbow Shell was originally planned to be Mirror Mail in the Prerelease. There are lines referring to it as the Rainbow Shell, suggesting that the Mirror Mail lines were leftovers from an earlier stage of development. Later on, we find out that the Mirror Mail was stolen by Magus’s henchmen after the fall of the lair
The Queen calls.
She would like to have you descend
to the Ocean Floor Temple immediately……Dalton is meant to retrieve Schala for the Ocean Palace from her bedroom in the Prerelease. This was probably changed since Dalton would have recognized the party.
[Octorider]
Human filth! Lavos’s sleeping ground will not
be hurt by scum like you!The Octorider enemy greets you harshly in Heckran Cave with these lines. The Octorider was removed from this area in the final version of the game, but still existed as a functional enemy.
Old Man: Oi, you there.
Did you see it too?
Just now, a dark silhouette, aimlessly
drifting by……I wonder what it could be?
I feel as though I’ve seen it before……
Zeal’s Ocean Floor Palace……?
No, something different……The meaning of this line is a total mystery, as it does not appear in the End of Time’s events. It sounds like it could be referring to the appearance of the Gate leading to 990 A.D. for the Lucca sidequest, but then again, how is that related to Zeal’s Ocean Palace except for temporal distortions?
Lair is a PS3 action / flying game developed by Factor 5 in which the player controls a knight named Rohn who rides a dragon. The original Lair 3D engine was downgraded to make it run on the Wii hardware, to develope new games for the Nintendo console. This Lair Engine for the Wii could have been used as a basic engine for the prototype of Kid Icarus Wii, a project that Factor 5 tried to propose to Nintendo.
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Robert Seddon made us to notice about an article on Kotaku, in which we can read that some stuff that was previusly cut from Warhammer Online, was later released with the December update:
Two of the classes cut from the game back in July are set to make their triumphant return in December, and your races shall soon have tanks! In his first State of the Game post, Mythic’s Mark Jacobs announced that the Dark Elf Black Guard and Empire Knight of the Blazing Sun are both returning in a big way.
Still, it seems that the removed parts were more than these:
In an interview with MMORPG.com, Mythic Entertainment VP and General Manager Mark Jacobs explains that in order for the game to be ready for launch, certain sacrifices had to be made, including nixing four of the six staring racial capital cities in favor of one for each faction, and getting rid of four of the classes that they just couldn’t make work. On the cutting board are the Choppa (Greenskin), the Hammerer (Dwarf), the Blackguard (Dark Elf), and the Knight of the Blazing Sun (Empire)…two DPS classes and two tank classes.
..maybe for the next expansion?