Cancelled Games

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Originally Posted by kedawa

Another fighter that looked promising is Psikyo's fighter Daraku Tenshi: The Fallen Angel's. It was supposed to come out in 1998, so I doubt it would have gotten much attention given the competition at the time (3rd Strike, Garou, KoF 98, SFA3), but it had a lot of potential.
The graphics were some of the best in a 2D fighter at the time, with big sprites and detailed backgrounds, and the character designs were okay too. The character designer actually went on to develop character's for KoF, which explains why K' looks so much like Cool.
The gameplay doesn't stray too far from SF, but it's different enough to justify playing.

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I googled this up and it seems interesting. Saw that there's a rom on the net, too... Is that some sort of unfinished beta or did it actually come out?

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Originally Posted by Mikhal

Is that some sort of unfinished beta or did it actually come out?

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I'm wondering that myself now, I've played it once or twice, and it seemed pretty interesting. From what I recall, it looked and played as if it were complete.

AFAIK, the english version was nearly finished, but never released to arcades. It may simply be super rare though, as I recall reading a forum post somewhere about a guy who was looking to buy the english PCB.
The game did see a limited release in japanese arcades, although I think the version released there was incomplete (loke test, maybe?).

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Originally Posted by JesusC

because if you and four of your friends bought it, they would have a total of six sales. (had to count morphix, he buys everything)

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I'd buy it too. I had the import and loved it, but some of the later levels were really long. I'd love to know what was happening in the plot.

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Originally Posted by CRV

MD Tetris has a box and everything, too. It would seem it was ready to go on store shelves, but was pulled due to legal problems.

http://vgrebirth.org/games/game.asp?id=20163
http://www.guardiana.net/database/?id=122

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Yep. Sega never really had the rights (they bought them from Atari Games - owned then by Namco - who in turn didn't have them, since the rights it had bought from Mirrorsoft were eventually proven worthless by Nintendo's litigation), so the game had to be pulled when Nintendo and the Soviets finally cleared up the legal mess and Nintendo was awarded the sole rights to the home version. Tengen had to pull its version from store shelves, and Sega's never got off the ground. Mirrorsoft got the PC rights and the Russians kept the arcade rights, but the handheld arena is where all the profits were. We all know who won out there.

Garou 2's cancellation was bad news. I'd like to see this project resurrected as one of SNK's Taito Type X2 games. This system would have enough RAM to do SFIII animation and HD graphics (at least 480p).

I'd like to believe that they're not going to use Maximum Impact 3 to replace Garou 2. KOF MI will never be Mark of the Wolves in my book. After reading the below from Neo-Geo.com however, I'm not getting my hopes up.

I didn't really care for SVC Chaos that much after trying it at Chicago GameWorks. The control in it seems off.

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Originally Posted by kedawa

The cancellation that I'm most disappointed about is Garou 2.
It was over 90% done, supposedly, which makes it all the more baffling that it got axed, especially considering the fact that the 33% complete SVC Chaos actually got published. Stupid playmore.

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From something at Neo-Geo.com

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Originally Posted by Planet-SNK
What happened to the sequel to Garou: Mark of the Wolfes? The games' story isn't finished yet.

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Originally Posted by Mr. Hosoya
This question is often asked by japanese fans, too. Let aside the question how far we are still concentrating on the 2D sector, we sure know that we can't just leave the storyline like that. As you know, Rock from Mark of the Wolves is featured in King of Fighters: Maximum Impact. So i intend to connect the Story, the remaining mysteries and the question about what's happening with Rock with the King of Fighters: Maximum Impact story and continue it. Until 2008 we want to clarify these questions within King of Fighters: Maximum Impact. Now I already said too much (laughs)

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They just screwed us over.

Remember Geist Force?

Yeah it looked promising.

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Originally Posted by Daitokuji

Remember Geist Force?

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I was looking forward to having a successor of starfox/galaxyforce in this game and it's a shame they decided to drop it like the way they did.

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Originally Posted by Daitokuji

So glad this was canceled...

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Oh god that was horrible. He couldn't even bounce off anybody.