Cancelled Mother-Like RPG, Dinosaur MMORPG (Patreon)

Keeping up with our merciful-summer queue of lost games waiting to be remembered, we added 2 cancelled games to the Unseen64 archive:

Blade Land [PC Engine]: cancelled RPG that was in development by Nihon Soft Hanbai / Manjuydo for the PC Engine around 1990. For its time it looked quite original: with quirky characters and enemies moving around a modern-day city setting it reminds us of Shigesato Itoi’s Mother / Earthbound series https://www.unseen64.net/2021/08/14/blade-land-pc-engine-cancelled/

LandFall [PC]: cancelled MMORPG that was in development by Paragon Studios between 2011 and 2012, planned to become their “Next-Gen MMO” after their classic games City of Heroes and City of Villains. The game was quite ambitious for its time, taking inspiration from the “new wave” of survival / crafting indies such as Minecraft and Terraria, while letting thousands (?) of players explore procedurally generated islands to gather materials and craft new tools, weapons and buildings https://www.unseen64.net/2021/08/14/landfall-paragon-studios-pc-cancelled/