The PS1 and PS2 are home to many of the industry’s finest RPGs on consoles. There was Final Fantasy VII, Vagrant Story, Star Ocean 2, Wild Arms 2, and the list goes on and ♈on. And that was ju🌟st PS1.
Sony really cleaned up shop after Nintendo was the king for so long on the NES and Super Nintendo. This is thanks in part to Square leaving Nintendo’s side in favor for the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation family starting with the PS1 for almost𝔉 an exclusive decade on consoles. There were, of course, many c🌊anceled RPGs in this timeframe too. From the PS1 and beyond, let’s dig through the archives to find out what could have been.
10 The Legend of Dragoon 2
The Legend of Dragoon originally launched for the PS1 in 2000. When it was announced that it would be hittin🔯g 🐲the PS3 and PSP digitally in 2012, Shuhei Yoshida, the game’s producer at the time, shared a little bit about development on the official
“LOD2 was put ꦓinto preproduction after I left the Japan Studio, but was eventually cancelled for some unknown reason, and the team members moved on to different projects." That is unfortunate news and worse yet there are no assets out there to look at.
9 Warrior's Lair
Warrior's Lair, which first was shown off at E3 2011 as Ruin, was in development by Idol Minds. That company, founded in 1997, and helped put out Cool Boarders 3 in 1998 as one of their bigger games. They have now been rebranded as Deck Nine, who some may know as the developer of the Life is Strange spinoff prequel, Before the Storm. With that backstory filled out, a year later is when this Diablo-like RPG for PS3 and PS Vita was rebranded. At this time Idol Minds was taken off the project followed by its cancelatio🍒n in 2013. has quite a bit of screenshots and gameplay videos archived.
8 Ushiro
Ushiro, not to be confused with the Manga Ushio and Tora, was a so-called horror RPG from Level-5. It wold have been a PSP exclusive about a supernatural spirit able to posses people in order to see into their lives. Oh, and he'd also fight monsters too. There is a trailer archived on that shows some anime cutscenes and little gameplay along with with art and screenshots. While the game was canceled, Level-5 actually created a tie-in Manga, Ushiro: Fukigen na Shinigami. It wa🦄s never localized, but there are fan translations out the🎃re for those curious.
7 Ascendant
Ascendant was originally announced by THQ in 2007 for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. This action RPG was in the hands of Ken Rolston, who previously worked at Bethesda on The Elder Scrolls series before moving on to Big Huge Games to develop this. Development hit a snag in 2009 with THQ pulling funding, but 38 Studios bouꦏght Big Huge Games shortly after with the promise 💯of work continuing on this project.
Based on the and screenshots, one could make the deduction that this eventually evolved into Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, which launched in 2012. Ken Rolston, to m🔴ake this clearer, was also the lea𝓀d designer on that.
6 TwinBee Miracle
The TwinBee series, which began in 1985 in arcades, is mostly known for being a good set of Konami made shoot 'em ups. There were attempts, however, at creating spinoffs in other genres. TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventure was a platformer for the Super Nintendo, which was closely followed by a puzzle game. The next genre experiment was this, a RPG, which had a showcasing a lot of the game's mechanics. While the anime inspired TwinBee Miracle was canceled, a new RPG took its place simply titled, TwinBee RPG, which was a 1998 PS1 release in Japan.
5 The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf
The first Witcher game by CD Projekt Red released on PCs in 2007. The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf 🍌then was like half port, half remake for PS3 and Xbox 360. Due to some financial troubles the port was canceled in favor of r🐻eleasing an enhanced version on PC instead with more continuing instead on an actual sequel. has a few blurry screenshots and one remaining video of three, the other two presumably were taken down by CD Projekt Red.
4 Chronos Materia
While no video presence of Chronos Materia was ever shown, developer Gust, and publisher Koei Tecmo, did talk a bit about it after its 2013 reveal. This time traveling PS Vita RP🐈G even had a release date for September 26, 2013. That was a Japanese date, sure, but a date is a date. , a site that specializes in covering Japanese gaming news, has the bulk of archived information on the game. Once the date passed, Koei Tecmo never gave a new release window, or shared any new information until it was canceled in 2016.
3 Animal Wars
Factor 5 was developing Animal Wars as a PS3 exclusive. It would have taken place in an alternate version of WWI starring animals in a tactical RPG. It was canceled due to problems with Sony in regard to their poorly reviewed other PS3 exclusive, Lair. There are no videos, but there is plenty of a🔯rtwork on .
Interestingly there are two games with this similar concept. One, Hogs of War for the PS1 and PC came out in 2000. It was also a war themed strategy game, but just about pigs. Then there was Tooth and Tail, which launched in 2017 for a variety of platforms and was an alternate 19th century RTS 🍸also with warring animals.
2 Aliens: Crucible
Like Factor 5, Obsidian Entertainment has a number of canceled games under their belt. One of the cooler properties they would have worked on was Aliens via Aliens: Crucible. It was an RPG in proper Obsidian fashion with a heavy theme of survival and horror thrown in to make proper use of the license. It was in development for PS3 and Xbox 360 before getting shut down. There is a statement from someone who worked on the game along w𓆏ith some concept art archived on , but no gameplay exists.
1 Skies of Arcadia 2
Let's end this with a sequel as much in demand as The Legend of Dragoon, Skies of Arcadia 2. The🌊re is no concept art of this game. It was barely even announced as testimony would indicate gathered by IGN and GameSpy, among other sources, which are gathered on . It didn't even have a set platform, but it was tentatively a GameCube and PS2 game🌳 although the latter of the two could be questioned as the port of the original game only made it to GameCube. The PS2 port was eventually canceled.