AQ Interactive cans Xbox 360 RPG 'Cry On'

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Dec 26th 2008 at 1:00PM }

Fans of Blue Dragon's Mistwalker / Artoon dream team may have to hold back some bitter tears following the news that AQ Interactive will hold back the release of Cry On. According to 1UP, the action RPG, meant to be the third of Hironobu Sakaguchi's Xbox efforts, has been canceled due to "the current market environment and forecasts for the future." The company added, "We deeply apologize for troubling those who were awaiting its release."

Whether you consider it a cryin' shame or prefer fans to cry in shame, you can expect Sakaguchi and Friends to unveil more titles in the future. Old habits die hard.

Tags: AQ-Interactive, Artoon, Canceled, Cavia, Cry-On, CryOn, Hironobu-Sakaguchi, Mistwalker

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Gehodra @ Dec 26th 2008 1:11PM

There were fans of Blue Dragon?

Eggman @ Dec 26th 2008 2:19PM

Why yes. The game was a very good classic RPG. So sad you couldn't enjoy it. Better luck next time!

Bleu @ Dec 26th 2008 2:45PM

I dont know bro I agree i didnt know that their were fans of this game is was ok. It wasnt a must play game in my opinion.

Snowblind @ Dec 26th 2008 5:15PM

Definitely not a "must play" game, but also not as bad as most of these haters would leave you to believe. If you're a fan of JRPG's, it's worth playing, and you'll get a lot of enjoyment out of it.

J.Goodwin @ Dec 26th 2008 7:15PM

It was excellent. The character designs are classic Toriyama, the job system was fun (if derivative of the team's previous projects), and the story was alright.

Not sure what else you want from a JRPG.

Alien Lord @ Dec 26th 2008 11:50PM

"Not sure what else you want from a JRPG" Gameplay that doesn't suck.

LordVesper007 @ Dec 26th 2008 1:15PM

I didn't even know this existed so I'm not exactly shedding tears.

But it's not good news to be sure. Considering the market it definitely isn't the greatest of times to release new fresh original games. Especially RPGs.

syrik zero @ Dec 26th 2008 1:19PM

Always so many puns! You never cease to amaze

Noshino @ Dec 26th 2008 1:19PM

Unfortunate for the people that were looking forward to this title :(

On the bright side, this raises my hopes for Drakengard 3 :D

Moptimus Slime @ Dec 26th 2008 2:10PM

lets be honest, nobody was looking forward to this game

Einhanderkiller @ Dec 26th 2008 2:00PM

KiraXD @ Dec 26th 2008 2:05PM

oh well... no big loss.
BD and LO were not that awesome.

Looks like Sakaguchi cant keep relying on the Title: "Godfather of Final Fantasy" to sell his mediocre games.

deaftly @ Dec 26th 2008 2:09PM

LO sold pretty well and was quite awesome at the same time

Eggman @ Dec 26th 2008 2:19PM

Lost Odyssey is better than Persona 3 or 4. There, I said it.

KiraXD @ Dec 26th 2008 2:28PM

i know LO sold well... thats why he cant KEEP relying on his moniker. it was good... just not awesome (opinion)

Mindkiller @ Dec 26th 2008 4:38PM

Say what you want about Blue Dragon... Lost Odyssey blew me away. Character customization was deep. Combat actually consisted of more than just: Buff, attack, heal, repeat. The XP cap in every area made the boss fights actually difficult.
It looked stunning as well.I don't mind that LO was slow, I want more of the same from Sakaguchi.

Also, kind of strange so many people critisise LO when FFX is so similar, yet people love that.

Snowblind @ Dec 26th 2008 6:14PM

Again, Lost Odyssey was anything but mediocre. It played like a classic JRPG, without relying on tired, cliché story elements. It was very original, interesting and moving.

Anyone who thinks Aerith's death scene was sad, will be in tears by the end of LO's first disc. (not exagerating either :P)

Cerpin Taxt @ Dec 26th 2008 2:10PM

A Sakaguchi RPG canceled? They're taking the credit crisis seriously.

Cyro @ Dec 26th 2008 2:11PM

Well, I am really hoping they will focus all their time on Lost Odyssey 2. LO was awesome.

Purple Haze @ Dec 26th 2008 10:46PM

Playing through it at the moment, almost at the end. It's probably my favorite or second favorite game of the year, behind or in front of MGS 4.

zygote55 @ Dec 26th 2008 2:24PM

I thought LO was as good as FFX. Blue Dragon, on the other hand, was as bad as a game can get before stepping into "shovelware" territory.

Cyro @ Dec 26th 2008 5:00PM

Blue dragon is not a bad game. Its just kinda of very slow at the beginning. But after the 2nd DVD it picks up.

mindshed @ Dec 26th 2008 2:28PM

I dunno about all these "LO was awesome" comments. I'm on disk 4 and I'm struggling to force myself to finish it. It's the first next-gen jrpg I've played so the graphics made me go "wow" in the beginning, the gameplay was good for a little while, I thought the dreams were enjoyable and unique, but the story just seems so drab. It has definitely failed to pull me in. Now that I'm finally in the "open" part of the game I find myself incredibly bored with it.

mindshed @ Dec 26th 2008 2:30PM

In fact, the only reason I went back to it this winter was because NXE drastically reduced loading times.

Eggman @ Dec 26th 2008 2:38PM

The story may be a bit bland but the characterization is some of the strongest in all of gaming. I don't know what your problem is but I found almost the entire game perfect for RPGs.

ikiryou @ Dec 26th 2008 3:15PM

@Eggman
"Lost Odyssey is better than Persona 3 or 4."

So you've played and completed P3 and P4 then? I should hope you can assert some quality supporting evidence for this statement. Opinions are only as good as the toilet they're dropping into.

Eggman @ Dec 26th 2008 3:25PM

I've played pretty much any and every RPG that's come out in the past decade I would guess? I even purchased and finished Last Remnant. Bought both Persona 3 and Persona 3 FES, finished both, played Persona 4 JP, bought and then played Persona 4 US. RPGs are by far my favorite genre.

And yeah, I would still say Lost Odyssey is a better RPG to me than Persona 4. P4's cast is extremely likable and the story is enjoyable and I really enjoy the simulation parts but LO really captured that feeling of an immense adventure that made me truly love the genre in the first place. It was excellently-acted with unbelievable characterization. The soundtrack only enhanced it further.

Markez (Anti-Panda Death Murder Squadron) @ Dec 26th 2008 9:31PM

Whoa this dude is intense.

joshua @ Dec 26th 2008 3:21PM

"current market environment and forecasts" = move everybody over to DS and Wii development.

Wiinterfang @ Dec 26th 2008 4:01PM

Cry whut?

nutman @ Dec 26th 2008 4:10PM

Ah too bad. I don't care though. I never got excited because I didn't see videos or screenshots.

I'm looking forward to whatever else they got cooking. I know there will be more since Lost Odyssey sold 200,000+ copies in the US in its first month and made it into the NPD top 10.

Spartacus @ Dec 26th 2008 4:33PM

Not a JPRG fan, but it is sad to see so many cancellations and closings on Joystiq today. Hopefully we only see the wheat separated from the chaff in these times rather than great games getting the axe.

Alien Lord @ Dec 26th 2008 8:42PM

I for one am glad to hear another shitty JRPG wont be wasting store shelf space. I tried the demo and it was really repetitive an boring, fuck it wasn't even an enjoyable story line.

Blah @ Dec 26th 2008 10:02PM

a demo? all that was released was some concept art. Even if you had a time machine you couldn't have played a demo because according to this news, it just got canceled.

Alien Lord @ Dec 26th 2008 11:44PM

I was talking about the Blue Dragon demo.

Blah @ Dec 27th 2008 8:18PM

ya that game sucked. LO is one of my favorite rpgs tho.

caserb @ Dec 26th 2008 9:47PM

I love the titular irony of news stories like this.

In other news, Duke Nukem Forever has been delayed again.

Velsar @ Dec 27th 2008 12:59AM

My LO story is that I was excited about it at E3 because at the scene where they showed a wizard like character fighting the worm, I immediately thought "Elementalist Class, YAY".

Sadly, that was not to be when I finally bought the game right when it came out, however when I first bought it I couldn't play it for more than 30 minutes because it was a horrible navigation system for those not initiated into that type of rpg (big fan of rpg's myself) and some other issues.

6 months later, I put it in, and BOOM I can't stop playing and go from disc 1 to 4, and do every bonus thing I can find.

Yeah... it was a good game, though they played on that one sad scene a bit too much in my opinion, of course if I had something like that happen to me, I might think about it all the time too.

Good scene, great screen writing for the dreams... EXCELLENT game.

- Cere.