cry on

You may remember that in the mid-2000’s Hironobu Sakaguchi, the man behind the greatest Final Fantasy titles the series ever had, was inexplicably stuck making games for XBox. Only one game of his came out for the system before his contract was cancelled, and he went on to make The Last Story for Wii. But if Blue Dragon hadn’t been the lone JRPG fish in the bro-dude shooter market and sold more copies, he might have made Cry On instead. The project was cancelled in 2008, but Sakaguchi uploaded the trailer to his own YouTube account this week. No actual gameplay footage is shown, because development never really got that far. Half of the trailer is concept art and the other half is a cutscene created by the game engine. We can see it would have used the nifty seventh-gen cel-shading technique. And for once, the title is not abstract: everything really cries. The drawing of the girl cries, the Japanese letters cry, the English letters cry, EVERYTHING cries. Compare