Ghost_Messiah
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Myself and another Monster Boy fan asked Thomas from FDG Entertainment about the release date or release window on the development blog. The response was basically that it's too early to talk about it yet meaning this game still might be quite a few months away. Here's the responses:
You have to respect them to a certain extent, the continuous delays are primarily down to quality as they want to deliver a fantastic game that has expanded far beyond the scope of their original design and intention - so in that sense it's hard to blame them. They're just echoing the ethos of great developers like Nintendo (and now Sega too actually as they've recently adopted a similar policy company wide).
It can be a little disheartening though, given the game was originally set to drop 2015 and then that became November 2016, which then became January 2017 and now we're looking at TBD 2017.
For what it's worth Thomas confirmed the game is definitely 2017 still so hopefully it's not that far off. My guess is the Summer, possibly early Autumn.
FDG, Thomas on Monday, March 13. 2017:
Hi Ghost_Messiah, thanks a lot! About the release date: There's really no further information I can give now. I understand that some are eagerly waiting for an announcement or even disappointed that there's no firm release date available. Sorry about that! I admit that we underestimated the game production time early on which gave a wrong impression. 'See you in 2016' became 2017. The thing is - while making games many surprising things can happen, sometimes we can share those details, sometimes it's under NDA. Please stay tuned!
FDG, Thomas on Monday, March 13. 2017:
Hi Matthew, polishing is essential as the quality standards in games is going through the roof! We like this development as we all like to play good games Please know that any delay has a reason. We don't do that to disappoint fans, it's quite the opposite. We respect the fans so we try to deliver the best possible experience. The trailers you see don't depict the game in its entirety. Monster Boy has many things and content we didn't reveal yet.
You have to respect them to a certain extent, the continuous delays are primarily down to quality as they want to deliver a fantastic game that has expanded far beyond the scope of their original design and intention - so in that sense it's hard to blame them. They're just echoing the ethos of great developers like Nintendo (and now Sega too actually as they've recently adopted a similar policy company wide).
It can be a little disheartening though, given the game was originally set to drop 2015 and then that became November 2016, which then became January 2017 and now we're looking at TBD 2017.
For what it's worth Thomas confirmed the game is definitely 2017 still so hopefully it's not that far off. My guess is the Summer, possibly early Autumn.