Kaio: King of Pirates

The game was to be a retelling of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms story. While the premise had been covered by other Japanese video game series, like Dynasty Warriors, the twist with Kaio was that it would be told through anthropomorphic animal pirate characters, analogous to how Dragon Ball retold the story of Journey to the West in a cartoonish style. Inafune referred to the setting as "the adventurous great ocean where heroes fight for their ambition, justice, and their lives" and described the game's thematically as being about "human appeal... beyond the 'right and wrong' or the 'good and bad'? What is waiting in the end?" ==Development==

Game development was led by Keiji Inafune, who was an artist and then later producer at Capcom before leaving in 2010. After leaving he then formed his own companies Comcept and Intercept. Kaio was one of the first titles the companies would work on. and a multi-media franchise. The game had not technically ever outright been announced for English language release, though journalists noted it to be likely due to trailers featuring English subtitles. and was planned to be the company's first game. The game was originally slated for release in 2012, but was later delayed into 2014. By March 2015, publisher Marvelous announced it had been cancelled. They cited "a shifting marketplace" as the reason, leaving the company with less incentive to push forward on development. ==References==