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Cry On is no more.

AQ Interactive has announced that Xbox 360 title Cry On has been thrown in the bin.

This was to be the next RPG from Mistwalker, the studio behind Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey. Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi was producing the game, with Kimihiko Fujisaka designing the characters and Nobuo Uematsu signed up to provide the music.

Or not. In a statement issued to 1UP, AQI said it decided to cancel development "after analysing the current market environment and forecasts for the future".

The statement concluded, "We deeply apologise for troubling those who were awaiting its release."

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wayneh #1 3 years ago

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Never heard about Cry On anyway. Still disappointed though.
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actionfitz #2 3 years ago

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"after analysing the current market environment and forecasts for the future... we have decided to make a shoot'em-football-world war 2-hero-em up. As thats all our market research says you fiends will pay for"

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JohnnyWashnGo #3 3 years ago

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Sounds like it may have been rather interesting... shame.
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The-Bodybuilder #4 3 years ago

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I suspect this will happen to a lot of games this year.
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Retroid #5 3 years ago

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"Money hat was a bowler rather than a top hat."
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menage #6 3 years ago

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So, now they have no games coming up? Apart from DS titles.

That's money iun the bank right there

I thought LO did pretty well.
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PearOfAnguish #7 3 years ago

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Just play any Final Fantasy game and pretend it's called 'Cry On'. Problem solved.
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menage #8 3 years ago

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Cry On was definitely not a FF clone, but whatever.
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dominalien #9 3 years ago

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Did the two previous games not sell the way they expected them to?
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peasoup #10 3 years ago

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I guess in a time when a poorley selling title can bury a studio we might be seeing more of this as they play it safe? Shame though did sound cool.
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Brogan #11 3 years ago

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But this game would've had the best tag line ever.

Cry On

emo boy.

(i know but it still makes me laugh, guess i'm just getting old)
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menage #12 3 years ago

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Apart from FF I'm hard pressed to think of a million selling JRPG. Especially in the West.

Edited by 1 at 05/01/09 @ 11:31
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Moz #13 3 years ago

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this could also translate to:

"We've seen FFXIII, and there's no way we stand a chance of compeating"
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Doctor_What #14 3 years ago

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More likely they see how much these games cost compared to how much they sell and decided there are bigger profits in other genres. It's a damn shame because Lost Od is a very good JRPG, but I can't blame them for it. It's the equivalent of saying to a developer 'do you want to earn �10 an hour or �50?' It's a no brainer.
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Xerx3s #15 3 years ago

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"Translation:
"Anything other than the Wii is a waste of development time unless MS or Sony ponie up for an exclusive". "

Yes because 3rd party wii titles sell a megaton. Oh wait... �_�
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Caimbeul #16 3 years ago

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blue dragon unfortunately complete pants, the first JRPG i hav had to put down. Never got to play lost odessey but it didnt review all that well....then again most of the JRPG's are not reviewing too well, maybe they ought to ort out frame rates and general innovation n order to avoid stagnation.

Shame
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