Sadness

With the demise of Sadness for the Wii, some of Polish music composer Arkadiusz Reikowski's unfinished work has seen the light of day for game music fans to appreciate in its incomplete glory.

LiveWii : As we were looking for some news from Nibris and its ambitious Sadness - considered as a vaporware -, we contacted FOG Studios, the agency for interactive rights who represents the developpers. And when we asked if the game still exists, here is a quote of what Ed Dille, FOG's Chairman & CEO, said to us : The game exists, but it is not moving forward absent a publisher, so there is nothing to discuss that would be new. If my client finds a publisher, a press release will be made at an appropriate time by that publisher. Until then, we appreciate your interest but there is nothing to report. Alright, so Nibris needs to find funds and a publisher ? It seems that Winter was in that case and that an online petition had worked to make it better for this game. Should that be a solution ? Or do we just consider Sadness as past ? The time will say it to us...

The Wii Game long-rumoured to have become 'Vapour water' has just been confirmed to appear at E3 2009...

Nibris has finally locked down a release date for Wii-exclusive Sadness. According to the game's website, the planned delivery date is now autumn 2009. For those who aren't familiar, it's a survival horror game with a film noire feel. Nibris has taken inspiration from Planescape: Torment and Eternal Darkness, and the emphasis is on suspense and atmosphere rather than blood and guts.

Will Sadness finally be revealed? Nibris's business development partner Fog studios seem to think so. Sadness is one of the Wii's longest running projects that has seen scraps of information At the end of May a single image filtered into our inbox, yet still seeming to be a concept artwork of some kind.

Yes, it's back, in IGN-forum-rumor form: Sadness, the game that ain't, or may be eventually. Back in April, after an appearance by poster nibris in the IGN Wii Lobby when a screenshot surfaced, we were expecting more media and a trailer by the end of May. Well, Twilight_Prince recently returned, with an all-new possible screenshot (seen above), and a statement that the website was supposed to go live by the end of May. A third of the way into June, it's nowhere to be seen ... but should we expect more from a company that apparently has some dude on the internet doing their PR?

Nibris has revealed it is still looking for a publisher for its atmospheric black and white Wii thriller, Sadness. The developer told Eurogamer that because of this the game remains without a release date - despite having been unveiled to the press more than two years ago.

Emergent Game Technologies have today announced that the much discussed Wii horror title, Sadness, is being built on the Gamebryo game development platform. Without a doubt, Gamebryo is the most powerful engine available for the Wii. After getting familiar with the engine several months ago we made the decision to choose Gamebryo. Since then, our team has been working on Sadness and we are quite impressed, said Tomasz Wisniowski, Project Manager of Nibris. We will have quite a few graphical effects in our game, which some believe are impossible to attain on the Wii. Gamebryo helped make it possible. We are firmly convinced we made the right choice.

Since it was announced, one publisher has jumped ship, the game has been delayed on more than one occasion, and people have been dripped information and media (none of which hints at there being any real content) at a painfully slow pace. NIBRIS has been monumentally unlucky, work on the game has ground to an ignominious halt for the time being, or Sadness -- gulp -- doesn't actually exist. Things aren't about to get any rosier, either. In an email received by a NeoGAF poster, NIBRIS revealed that Sadness wouldn't be on shop shelves before 2009.

Sadness is a horror game made for the Wii. The game plays in black and white and the style goes towards photorealism which is to increase the realism of the game atmosphere.