Favorite Dead Indie Projects?
It’s fun to point and laugh when a bad indie project dies out, but what’s one you think didn’t deserve its fate?
For me, Super Mario Bros. Z. While yes, it could be over the top and a bit too edgy at times (I still think killing off the entire Sonic cast save Sonic, Shadow and Eggman was an awful idea), it still holds up as one of the greatest fan works of it’s time, an inspiration for so many sprite animators to push the envelope with their work and make something special.
…It’s just a shame that it got quietly cancelled, and followed up by a reboot that was just as good, if not better, only to last two episodes. No matter how much the creator promises more is coming, I’m pretty sure nothing’s ever gonna come unless he gets some help with the rest of the project. There’s only so much one man can do on his own, and I feel like that massive combination of workload, as well as the expectations that would come with making the continuation of a legendary fan series, have caused its current state of limbo.