Incube8 Video games has introduced that they’re going to be those to stamping AgeOfGames unreleased Recreation Boy Advance recreation, Kien, to cartridge this yr. It is going to be launched in Q2 2024 on GBA.

Kien was initially set to launch throughout the GBA’s heyday in 2002. Because the story goes, the sport made it so far as being despatched to assessment publications on the time, solely to be canceled earlier than launch. It bought picked up and canceled once more by different publishers however was by no means launched. Nevertheless, a prototype ROM did get leaked and made its rounds.

It’s a mixture of action-platformer and RPG. The story includes two apprentices preventing evil within the wake of the disappearance of the 7 Masters of the Absolute.

One factor to remember right here is that Kien is perhaps not nice. Nintendo Energy was among the many publications on the time that reviewed it (problem 173, November 2003), and the 5 workers members who checked out it gave it a median of three out of 5 stars. That makes it barely higher than Energy Rangers: Ninja Rescue by their sizing of it, however inferior to Final Seaside Soccer. Nintendo Energy critiques had been bizarre at the moment.

In any case, the Incube8 launch will include a cartridge, protector, field, handbook, and stickers. It’s nice to see a recreation that by no means bought an opportunity again within the day being given some life, and I’ve been having fun with the age of retro reproductions we’re at present residing in.

Kien might be accessible for GBA someday within the second quarter of 2024. Although, it might present actual dedication in the event that they canceled it on the final minute.