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Mistwalker cancels Cry On

By Tom Magrino, GameSpotPosted Jan 5, 2009 11:22 am PT

Final Fantasy creator's studio and AQ Interactive pull plug on Xbox 360-exclusive action RPG due to economic viability, market conditions.

Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi came out swinging in 2004 when his newly formed studio Mistwalker announced a trio of new games: Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon for the Xbox 360, and Ash: Archaic Sealed Heat for the Nintendo DS. By the end of 2005, that list had grown to four, with the role-playing-game-oriented studio revealing a partnership with AQ Interactive to create the Xbox 360-exclusive action RPG Cry On.

Unfortunately, Cry On has dried its tears for good. On Christmas Day, AQ Interactive announced via its official Web site that its collaboration with Mistwalker has been canceled. The game maker attributed its decision to shelve the project to the property's uncertain franchise potential as well as current global economic conditions, which caused many game-industry casualties last year.

"To everyone who is looking forward to the release, we deeply regret that we're experiencing so much trouble," AQ Interactive said in a statement.

Blue Dragon Plus, a DS edition of Mistwalker and AQ's underwhelming Xbox 360 RPG released in August 2007, is currently in development at Ignition Entertainment. The portable game is expected to arrive on Nintendo's handheld next month.

101 Comments

  • Spider-Jim

    Posted Apr 28, 2009 6:55 pm PT

    Sob

  • UnRelentingAlly

    Posted Apr 2, 2009 2:43 pm PT

    360 doesnt have enough RPGs, now we have one less

  • Kai0nTheMoon

    Posted Mar 31, 2009 6:35 pm PT

    And so the harsh tidings of the economic reality crawl into the fantasmic world of video games

  • Amnesiac23

    Posted Feb 21, 2009 12:18 pm PT

    Wow. That sucks. I was looking forward to another Mistwalker game. Wish the econamy would get better soon because life has been horrible job wise and now its affecting my video games!

  • Shadow_Fire41

    Posted Feb 19, 2009 1:30 pm PT

    oh wtf!? why the hell do we RPG fans get screwed more than any other genre fan?

  • CoRiNi

    Posted Feb 2, 2009 5:03 am PT

    Mistwalker is like the good old days of Sqaure-Soft .. this is so sad .. Hopefully .. Lost Odyssey would become a sequel and continue on to future installments.

  • ffviiifreak

    Posted Jan 21, 2009 8:32 pm PT

    I think its only temp canceled cause mistwalker seems very attached to the property.

  • KennyKB

    Posted Jan 21, 2009 10:13 am PT

    This news was very upsetting to me when I heard through text message from a friend. Lost Odyssey was fantastic. One of the most under-rated games of last year. Thankfully, traditional RPG fans have generally come out of the woodwork to support this title. Sad day for us when a Mistwalker title gets cancelled.

  • doombot11

    Posted Jan 19, 2009 9:42 pm PT

    That really is too bad. I absolutely loved Lost Odyssey. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer the traditional turn-based system to the new ones.

  • anmvamp

    Posted Jan 16, 2009 8:22 pm PT

    well, god damn it. there aren't many companyies making solid traditional rpgs out there anymore... and now my main man Sakaguchi is goin down. this sucks. you know its a dark day in videogaming when the FF godfather cant keep up. sorry if you all like flashy lights and booms and bams, but i for one love blue dragon simple yet gripping story and game play. i guess im just old school.

  • Zerabp

    Posted Jan 7, 2009 2:23 pm PT

    Exclusives should be a thing of the past unless it's developed by the hardware company, it's simple economics.

  • Media_Mind

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 8:03 pm PT

    whatever

  • Simple_malk

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 11:26 am PT

    They should have went multi-platform RPGs aren't big enough sellers to really stay on a single console any more.

  • Lestat_1_basic

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 11:25 am PT

    arc_salvo, you are incredibly misinformed about gaming. You say, "The gaming world can only take so much of the "same old, same old" before it gets tired of it." But why is it that the best selling games are sequels of sequels? For every Bioshock, there are a million 50cent Bulletproof. When has innovation worked in the best interest of a game? Dead Space? Mirror's Edge? Ico? Shadow of the colossus? Most importantly Little Big Planet...Many games use innovation as a sales point, and many get recognition but little in terms of return. So NO, it has nothing to do with innovation, Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey would have not fared any "better" if they had been innovative. They would have been better games, but that does not correlate into better SALES.

  • lokey013

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 10:33 am PT

    Darn I really wanted to see what the game is about =/

  • makemeweak

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 9:29 am PT

    That's a shame - both Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey were fun, although strictly traditional JRPGs.

  • arc_salvo

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 9:25 am PT

    Well, I'm not surprised, it's a smart move, financially speaking. I wish they'd made Blue Dragon more innovative and less stereotypical and cliche-ish. That would've gotten more sales for it, very likely.

    In fact, I wish they'd tried a more innovative idea to begin with than the concept of Blue Dragon. The gaming world can only take so much of the "same old, same old" before it gets tired of it.

  • ttheodoris

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 9:18 am PT

    square-enix did not have anything to do with blue dragon

  • Kail_Reborn posted Jan 6, 2009 8:19 am PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    Kail_Reborn

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 8:19 am PT (hide)

    Frankly I think Blue Dragon would have sold alot more if it didn't have that damned Dragon Ball Z art style to it. Square Enix really needs to stop making those kind of games, and stick to their own unique style of detail, it's much better.

  • Ovirew

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 8:13 am PT

    Personally I prefer turn-based games over real-time ones, so I don't feel that they are in any way inferior to action-rpgs. I will say, though, that Lost Odyssey's battle system moves pretty slow to the point where it can become boring at times, and the game didn't give players much control or customization. But, it would be nice to see just what Mistwalker can do - they have improved a lot since Blue Dragon.

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