Yesterday was a rather odd evening for Square Enix, who had just publically revealed their fiscal year data. The moment their earnings report went live, all social media accounts, websites, and videos relating to Square's spinoff studio, Studio Istolia, had disappeared. This left the fate of the company's upcoming title, Project Prelude Rune, up in the air, as things looked bleak. The game was announced in early 2017, and was a high-budget AAA JRPG that was being led by Tales series producer Hideo Baba. A year and a half later, we received a very short teaser trailer, being the first look at gameplay and minor details about the game, outside of magazine screenshots and concept art. In March 2019, six months after no news, Hideo Baba had announced that he would be leaving Studio Istolia, putting the development of Project Prelude Rune into question. That brings us to today, where Square Enix revealed that the disappearance of any and all information relating to Studio Istolia and Project Prelude Rune was because the game had been canceled, and the studio behind it would be disbanded.

Following evaluation of various aspects of Project Prelude Rune, development of the title has been canceled. Studio Istolia is no longer in operation and we have been taking appropriate steps to assign studio staff to other projects within the Square Enix Group.

Thankfully, the team that was working on the project will not lose their jobs, and will instead be redistributed to various other Square Enix development studios.

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SQEX has became a mobile centered game company since like 100 years ago. It'll cancel anything that's not on mobile for any reason it can find. Good thing is no one got fired this time around.

 

[regnad]

The game name sounded a bit shit anyway

It’s not any dumber than a lot of other Square titles. Dissidia 012 [duodecim]? Dream Drop Distance? Who thought those were a good idea?

 

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They shot themselves in the foot when Hideo Baba was one of the last good jrpg creators. Square Enix these days only care about games that are catered to the west. The only games they seem to be interested in now these days are hack and slash games, Tomb raider, hitman like games etc. FF15 was a Final fantasy game catered to the west and so is the new final fantasy 7 remake, taking everything what made that game great and turning it in to a generic hack and slash game

But hack and slash is japanese like the katana sword