In 2009, Five gaming companies banded together to make a game. This game was a love letter to the Japanese Role Playing Game genre, a collection of various elements that make said genre stand out in all of gaming. Item crafting, world map battles, a long story, deep dungeons, hundreds of unique skills, several characters with their own personalities and individual skills, menu driven game play, a mix of two dimensional sprites with three dimensional backgrounds, skills that could combine together to create highly cinematic attacks, the works. The cast was a combination of original characters, and characters from several well regarded game franchises. The game was called Cross Edge, and it failed miserably, selling less than fifty thousand copies. What happened?
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