Nibris has finally locked down a release date for Wii-exclusive Sadness. According to the game's website, the "planned delivery date" is now autumn 2009.
For those who aren't familiar, it's a survival horror game with a film noire feel. Nibris has taken inspiration from Planescape: Torment and Eternal Darkness, and the emphasis is on suspense and atmosphere rather than blood and guts.
8CN: Games get canceled all the time, but rarely do we ever hear very much about them. Usually, they're canned well before the public is aware of their existence, with the studios quietly pushing the project under the rug (or recycling the work into new games entirely). These games however, failed pretty spectacularly.
Prey 2 sure looked interesting. The first one gave me motion sickness with the sudden inversions.
The first one's concept sounds amazing! I hope they, or someone gets back to it. The outlook should be different now with the new gen consoles...
CCC Says: "Sadness has been resurrected. Remember it? You're forgiven if you don't. It was originally Wii Vaporware. NIBRIS was going to make it for the Wii way, way back when the console was first announced in 2006, but it didn't happen. Instead, it officially drifted away into ephemeral vaporware in 2010. It came back to our attention on May 20, 2014, when HullBreach and Cthulhi said they wanted to revive the Sadness IP as a 2D RPG with puzzle elements in a NintendoLife interview. Except a day later, on May 21, it was revealed that there are four studios trying to call dibs on Sadness and that HullBreach and Cthulhi don't have the rights or access to the concept."
The Sadness IP is in the hands of a consortium with 4 studios currently fighting for the bid, and that while we at HullBreach and Cthulhi would like to make a competing bid and secure rights to Sadness, unfortunately we cannot at this time. Sorry to fans for any inconvenience.
So 4 studios out of nowhere are now fighting over this game that has never gotten attention, nor any info? It just seems like they came to claim it from the hype the internet had because people heard it's returning. Maybe because of these four studios fighting over the game, maybe eventually someone will actually make the dang thing.
I thought it was already released in Nov 2006? It was known as ps3.
Good to see it finally has a released date - they were showing this off at the Wii's launch, if I remember... Hahaha! Anyway... I admittedly wonder how they intend to pull the game off - is it all similar to an interactive movie, whereby you tell the character to do X or go to Y? If so, then I'm afraid I'd rather miss out. While concentrating on the suspense and stuff is all well and good, I can't see how this'll tickle anyone's fancy...
Anyone care to prove me wrong and give me hope that this game is worth buying?
Nice to see this one isn't vaporware like a lot of ppl were claiming.
Okay slowly it's coming to light. We still have to wait a bit more to know if it's really happening ;)
You gotta be kidding me. Q3 2009??? sigh... oh well. I guess it can't be helped.