Irem updated the official website for Steambot Chronicles(Bumpy Trot in Japan) 2 recently, indicating that the title is still very much alive and in development. The site was updated with some new screenshots, though information outside of that is still slim. The sequel to the PS2 2005 sandbox action title, Steambot Chronicles 2 was first announced at E3 2006, though the title went MIA for nearly the last 2 years.
Andriasang: Just in case you were holding out that Famitsu had made an error regarding Bumpy Trot 2's cancelation, here's total confirmation.
Andriasang: Some of the usual sources for magazine leaks are reporting that this week's Famitsu lists Irem's Bumpy Trot 2 as being cancelled.
SCRAWL: "We haven't heard from Irem's Steambot Chronicles 2 (Bumpy Trot 2 in Japan) for some time now. It was almost a year ago we last saw the game in a magazine scan. So I contacted Irem to see what they had to say on the game's development status (take no mind to some of the choppy English; this is a Japanese developer responding). "
Oh my god! Thank you for finally giving us an update on this! This was one of the games that had me excited for PS3 years ago and encouraged me to buy the system. Loved the original, and I was finally starting to give up hope that this would ever come out. Hopefully more news comes soon, and also lets hope Atlus announces they'll do the English localization.
Good job SCRAWL. Loved the first Steamboat Chronicles. I was pimping up my trotmobile for a long time.
At least with HD consoles. Not that I'm taking it as a good sign, as far as turnaround is concerned, that its taking them so long to show anything.
Oh, sh!t!! Irem is still around?!
\m/
I want Spelunker HD so bad...
Steambot Chronicles was a great game.
Steambot Chronicles was a FANTASTIC game, and SBC2 is the RPG I'm looking forward to the most on the PS3.
Well, maybe WKC, too... but it's certainly the only game I KNOW will be awesome.
Wasn't there some story about this over Xmas -culled from Famitsu? I can't find where I saw it but I recall it being pretty positive about both the game and a 2009/early2010 release.
I do hope I'm not going mad as I'd love to see if they can pull it off again.