OneChanbara Reboot (Darkworks) [Cancelled Pitch – PS3, Xbox 360]

OneChanbara Reboot (Darkworks) [Cancelled Pitch – PS3, Xbox 360]

Darkworks was an independent French studio not widely known by the average gamer, but they released a couple of fan favorite games as Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (Playstation, Dreamcast and PC) and Cold Fear (PS2, PC and Xbox). The company was founded in 1998 and unfortunately was closed down in 2012, because of economic issues and difficulties in founding new publishers for their titles. In about 15 years of activity, Darkworks were able to successfully complete and release only 2 games, while all their other projects were either cancelled or moved to different developers. There are already a good number of interesting lost Darkworks games in the Unseen64 archive, but many more still remain unseen and even if we tried multiple times to get in contact with people that worked at the studio, it seems almost impossible to know more about what happened to them or to their cancelled games.

Between all those unfinished projects once in development at Darkworks, there was what it looks like a reboot of the OneChanbara series originally created by Tamsoft, the games in which to play as a girl in bikini and cowboy hat, slashing down enemies with double katanas. In the images archived below, you can see that they created a concept art for a western version of Aya (the “clothes” are identical to the original character), one of the main protagonist of OneChanbara. We can speculate that Darkworks tried to pitch to D3 Publisher a new OneChanbara game for PS3 and Xbox 360, during the same time in which D3 also tested a western version of their popular Earth Defense Force series by letting Vicious Cycle Software to develop EDF: Insect Armageddon. Unfortunately for Darkworks, this project was not greenlighted and we’ll never know how good a French OneChanbara could have been. Only a few concept arts remain, to preserve the existence of this lost pitch.

Thanks to Dorwaks for the contribution!

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One thought on “OneChanbara Reboot (Darkworks) [Cancelled Pitch – PS3, Xbox 360]

  1. Maik Thiele

    Interesting! I just have this games in my DB:
    Onechanbara Z2:Chaos PS4 XSEED Games Summer 2015
    Onechanbara Z2: Chaos PS4 Reef Entertainment 28/8/2015
    Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers Wii D3 Go! 27/2/2009
    OneChanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad Xb D3Publisher 27/2/2009

    now I have one more.

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