What’s the best game that is hated by its publisher?

Sometimes the black sheep just happens to be a banger.

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Sometimes a game comes along that is, for reasons, a bit a of a black sheep as far as its parent company is concerned. It could be a passion project that doesn’t tick any zeigeisty boxes, a legacy IP that the current owners have no clue what to do with, sometimes even a perfectly decent game that the court of public opinion has turned sour on and therefore must be canned. Video games are big, unwieldy projects that only ever release in a working state through a combination of talent, grit, and extraordinary good luck, and it’s the latter that often pushes one into precarious waters.

Special thanks to David Bulmer for performing “Jim’s Theme”.

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