Whatever happened to Monster: Ancient Cline?

Last time I heard anything about it was like a year ago when Aya quit since Shok was completely failing with his deadlines.

Still in “coming soon” status…

It’s an unwritten rule here not to make a thread about this game. :wink:

they’re keeping quiet about it cause of daemon bride

This is Partially true. Shok has trouble with commitments in general. Not just making deadlines. Because of this, I quit

Coming soon as in. Maybe in your life time

I love when people take personal jabs at me thinking im not going to respond to them. Always funny…

This^

I went through alot of trouble for this game when i worked on it. I could go into a long list of things i did to make this game happen and all of it went down the drain. The dumbest thing i could have did was go to japan and help. I wasted not only alot of money, but alot of time as well. Either way, It was a good experience for the most part asside from my work with him. Working on the game was one of the best things i ever did. Working with him however…

Lets run down a list of times this game was supposed to be released.

July 2008: The game was supposed to be finished by my birthday being july 25… never happened.

August 2008: The game was supposed to be released August 16th. Never happened because shok thought it was a good idea to release the ORIGINAL GAME. A game of which even I couldnt stand because it was so fucking broken and bad. Potential to be good yes, but was it bad? Yes it was.

September 2008: Supposed to come out september 15th because he missed the original date. Of course never happened because he pulled a disappearing act and no one could find him. Huge waste of time for me

October 2008: PC version was supposed to be released around this time, I had my copy of the THEN PC game and I was contemplating releasing the game against the wishes of the company but ultimately decided against it. Either way, Once again, ShoK falls through with his commitments.

November: Probably my favorite one yet. Game was supposed to come out toward the end of the month. Of course like all other times. never happened and THEN later found out that the PC version was going to be cancelled until the arcade release happened. Now i know what your thinking “its never going to come out” Oh how close to correct you all are.

December-January: Read the above

Feburary: Ah, Funny times ahead. Arcade version was to be released on valentines day according to the information i had from examu. But of course because they were so focused and the ammount of time and money they put into getting daemon’s bride up and going. Monster got the backburner for when it came to the arcade version of the game. Had Shok had the game finished like he was fucking supposed to. That wouldnt have happened. Examu put alot of time into shok and he didnt live up to his commitments. Thus, biting him right in the ass because now he was to take the backburner to a potentially MUCH better game.

March-May: According to Shok the game was supposed to come out sometime in march(lol i know) But OF COURSE that didnt happen because he didnt complete what he was supposed to do and yet again, The game took a back seat to daemon’s bride.

I havent spoken to him in months, nor do i know what is going on. But I personally wasted 2 years of my life going out of my way to help this game progress into what i believed would have been an excellent game. Such a pity and yet, That is the way it is. At least i got to play Fate UC in japan…

I thought that was Tournament Fighters? :stuck_out_tongue:

Chipp what do you think about the character designs personally?

Aside from balance issues, gameplay-wise and aesthetically there wasn’t really anything wrong. Nothing tweaks couldn’t fix. Of course the game system itself is a different story. Keeps changing and who knows where the hell it’s gonna end up. Stuff kept getting added, changed and removed without much reasoning as to why in some cases. People should probably just forget about the game now, just like most of the old community have decided to.

Personally, All jokes asside, I didnt really like most of the character designs asside from Orju. And maybe othello. As a whole? They were pretty bad I admit. I dont really care for designs though. Gameplay was far more important to me

You meant KEPT changing. The rest of what you said though is correct. Even though I worked on the game personally. I gave up on it over a year ago…

My bad if that offended you. That was only meant as a joke, hence the smiley face.

Shok actually still posts art and stuff about this game on FA, which leads me to beleive that he’s still intending to get it published somehow.

But I’ve lost interest for the moment.

Wow. Really sorry all that kinda crap happened to ya when you got involved in this project. :tdown:

Whoa, Chipp that was a really sick post. Didn’t know someone from here was working on it!

Yeah. I tried asking him (shok) about the game but still no replies. Still, it seems like kemono artists (or at least some) are still thinking that it’s gonna come out.

I still remember when Aya promised that if the game wasn’t released by a certain time, he’d give us his test version. And we believed it. Ha ha ha.

Today I learned Japanese for furfag!

Actually, I did get it to select people. You just wasnt one of them.

He is supposedly “keeping the game under wraps” due to daemons bride. So when people ask him about it, he doesnt say anything. Do you have ANY idea how many times this game was supposed to be released? I lost count over the 2 years I helped with this fucking game. It especially makes me look bad when he tells me a date, I tell everyone else the dates and then viola! It never happens. Talk about frustration…

There should be a manga about this game ^_^;;;
…but I really liked Othelleo and the dragon’s design and gameplay style.

Monster died a long time ago, but it was fun while it lasted.

R.I.P. Orjuice, Frail, Faily, and the Underworld Bitch :sad:

Yeah, It was fun beating up on everyone. especially you ace… Such a sad day indeed. Orjuice shall rise again!