what kind of mechanics and other parts of gameplay didn't make the cut? i'm curious as to what else this game may have held, or may hold in the future 👀
#what kind of interesting things got scrapped?
rich summit
mild flicker
A lot of our cut content can be found in the artbook -- lots of cut Spirits (which we'd love to add back in some day!), alternative outfits/designs for the main character, and concept art that didn't quite match the final product. And some of it got cut so long ago we don't even remember it1 For the writing, I tried to reuse stuff where possible, but I have a document somewhere with all the cut lines in it. It actually wasn't all that many.
Our development time was relatively short compared to some games, (three years active development, plus two years of concepting), so there's not a huuuuge pile of cut stuff -- we had to be somewhat economical from start to finish to make it a viable game! However, there are still a few things that got cut for time, budget, or design reasons. But I don't want to spill all oour secrets, because as you said, they might return some day 😈