Full story from Polygon, an interview with Akihiro Hino from Level-5.
I'm a huge fan of the prior games, and I consider Dark Cloud 2 to be one of the best titles to Playstation 2. Since its release in 2002 I've been waiting for news regarding a sequel, and hearing Hino saying there's interest at Level-5 to make it is really frustrating since it seems the bottleneck is Sony. I think many of us were hoping that the releases of the PS2 games to PS4 meant a possible sequel, but it sounds like there's just no interest in it at Sony.
”There has been a lot of requests and voices to create a Dark Cloud 3 or some form of Dark Cloud," Hino told Polygon. ”That IP is co-owned or managed by Sony Computer Entertainment, so it's not something that we can do or act upon on our own."
Consider those dreams dashed, then, although Hino did hint that Level-5 and Sony had entered ”negotiations" over Dark Cloud in the past. (”I'm not sure if that's happening now," he was quick to add, after telling us of his own personal interest in a revival.)
I'm a huge fan of the prior games, and I consider Dark Cloud 2 to be one of the best titles to Playstation 2. Since its release in 2002 I've been waiting for news regarding a sequel, and hearing Hino saying there's interest at Level-5 to make it is really frustrating since it seems the bottleneck is Sony. I think many of us were hoping that the releases of the PS2 games to PS4 meant a possible sequel, but it sounds like there's just no interest in it at Sony.