FDG Entertainment has revealed that Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom has been delayed once again, having to scrap its newly-planned November release and instead launching in December. Originally, the title was aiming for a summer 2018 release.
The news comes from a blog post shared by the developer, in which the production of the physical card and disc packages are said to be the problem. With the physical and digital releases being "tightly linked to each other", this physical delay will unfortunately impact the digital version on the Switch eShop, too.
"It turned out that the physical goods manufacturing takes longer than initially planned and we could only choose between rushing out in time or complete the Day-1 edition properly with keeping our promises of its content.
There was no question: we're now reaching a 5 year production cycle of Monster Boy and it didn't make sense to us to have an incomplete physical release so we decided to give the manufacturing process more time so the physical release can shine as the game itself. So much polishing, so much work - we don't want to see a half-baked physical release."
As always, while delays are never great from a consumer point of view, we'd much rather the team take the time they need to provide the best quality product in the long run. We know a lot of you lovely readers have been looking forward to Monster Boy's upcoming Switch appearance, so hopefully this unforeseen hiccup won't cause too much trouble.
The game is now scheduled to launch across all platforms on 4th December, both physically and digitally.
Will you be picking up a copy of the game when it arrives? Were you looking forward to it arriving in November? Tell us below.
[source monsterboy.com]
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It's okay.
Better late than Premature released.
Please, take your time and do it right. No gripes here.
Wait, they delayed it to Smash week? Are they purposely shooting themselves in the foot? What good is a non-half-baked physical release when there's no one to get it? I really want the game, mostly because of the all-star composer team, but I also want it to succeed. I'd be ok with pushing it even further (it doesn't seem like a game that has Christmas season legs anyway).
Is this gonna be a hard to find game in the future or what?
And this is one of the problems with Nintendo doing their propriety discs/cartridges. Oh well, at least Monster boy is going to a simultaneous release with physical and digital.
Better to do it once and get it right.
Since I'm planning to get this physical for the Switch, I don't mind as long as they take the time to get this one right.
This Delay works out in my favor, since the original release was too close to Diablo 3
Sweet lord - this was among the titles listed at the Switch's launch, a year and a half ago. Still, at least it will beat Dragon Quest XI, Fire Emblem Switch and Shin Megami Tensei to the punch.
No problem here. My backlog will take me some time to go trough.
This games cover makes me think of Breath of Fire.
As long as they can afford it, delay as much as you like.
I bought the physical release of Dragons Trap, with the nice feelies included.
I'd be interested in getting this one also, I hope the in game music is closer to dragons trap remaster (wonderful) and not like the video above.
@kozaihod I am but one man, but I am far more excited about this than Smash. They are also very different games and lots of people these days seem to buy multiple games a month and build up huge backlogs.
@kozaihod I will be getting both, it will be an expensive week.
Hats off to them for making sure something called "day-one edition" really is the game everyone alike will receive on release date.
This Wonder Boy sequel looks fantastic. Seems like there's one more game to buy before the end of the year.
|sf>By my count this will be its fourth date change this year (Aug. 28th, Oct. 30th, and Nov.6 being the previous dates). Like other posters, I'll continue to keep it on my radar. At least December has fewer Switch games to compete against than October (although it will be competing against Smash, Katamari, and the Sega Genesis collection). Thank goodness for a December birthday.
@kozaihod It should be noted that Monster Boy is a multi-platform game, with the PC version coming later. The only sales they will lose will be Switch sales
The 'physical' brigade now causing games to be delayed. Well done you mob.
I waited out the physical edition of Dragon’s Trap so I think I can manage to wait till December
@Pazuzu666
Your welcome.
Ah well, I'll wait for it to be ready
Sounds good. Greatness takes time.
I'll wait for it. Tons of stuff to play.
This is also a guarantee buy on Switch. Perfect game for it.
One month isnt too bad a wait. If it were any longer though i would have been gutted.
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