Kaio: King of Pirates
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| Kaio: King of Pirates | |
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| Developer(s) | Comcept Intercept |
| Publisher(s) | Marvelous |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo 3DS |
| Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
Kaio: King of Pirates (海王, Kaiō) is a cancelled video game that was in development for the Nintendo 3DS handheld video game console. Announced in 2011, it featured over three years of development before being officially cancelled on March 13, 2015. The game was being developed by Keiji Inafune and his companies Comcept and Intercept, and was to be published by Marvelous.
The game was to be a retelling of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms story.[1] 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.[1] The game was to star main character Sangokushi, a penguin, and was to feature over 300 animal characters.[2] 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?"[3]