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Vodacixi on 19 February 2020
Leynos said:
Vodacixi said:

We don't know what happened with Retro Studios those years. I refuse to believe that they just couldn't build up a game. At worst, they would have made another DKC... and they are more than capable of doing that.

I just have the feeling that they were working on something, was almost finished, but Nintendo shut it down (most likely Star Fox Grand Prix. And after that, the morale just... dropped.

Grand Prix was never real. It was always a joke that got out of hand into a bad rumor. Starlink had Starfox racing anyway. If any game was canned it was probably the unidentified robot arm from the goodbye Reggie picture Retro sent to him but Reggies covered up minus one arm.

A rumour that everyone believed at the time. I think even Eurogamer and Kotaku were saying the announcement could be inminent because the game was almost finished.

I'm not saying it should be considered true nowadays. I only say that I believe it. And it would explain the entire recent Retro Studios story.



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Leynos on 20 February 2020
CaptainExplosion said:
Leynos said:

Games get canned all the time. Some near finished often. It just happens. Near finished doesn't mean they were satisfied with it. May as well consider Pikmin 4 canned at this point. It was supposedly near finished 5 years ago. Project Robot was canned tho we don't know how far along it was.

Don't forget Star Fox 2, which would've been released for 1996 on the Super NES, but wouldn't see an actual release until 2017 on the SNES Classics, as a sort of lost episode for Star Fox.
Leynos said:
curl-6 said:

It's true we don't know exactly what happened, but the end result is the same; the last time they released a new game was 6 years ago. I find it hard to imagine Nintendo canning an almost finished game for no good reason. Something at Retro clearly went horribly wrong and we just don't know if the Retro of today and recent years is even capable of what they once were.

Starfox 2.


Bite my shiny metal cockpit!